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Emily Raphael
@outragedcitizen61.bsky.social
Outraged citizen, dog lover🐕🐕, mother, Jew. Interested in words, disability issues, and general preservation of democracy
Good God. A child.
ICE detain yet another minor child—chase him down his own street and tackle him to pavement.

"I am legal! I am legal!" he cries over and over in Spanish.

Agent pins the boy down in snow—he desperately tries to keep his exposed hands from freezing at -25°F wind chill temperature.

Minneapolis, MN
January 23, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Reposted by Emily Raphael
In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
January 23, 2026 at 4:01 PM
“Tame”: that snarling beast, higher education. How about destroy or muzzle or corrupt or weaponize?
January 21, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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waking up to the Belgian PM quoting Gramsci at Davos re: Trump www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
January 20, 2026 at 1:09 PM
🐷🐷🐖🐽
Trump: "Somalia -- they turned out to be higher IQ than we thought. I always say, 'These are low IQ people.' How did they go into Minnesota and steal all that money?"
January 21, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Susan Collins has “concerns.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/u...
Penn Calls Government’s Demand for Lists of Jewish Staff ‘Disconcerting’
www.nytimes.com
January 21, 2026 at 1:40 AM
For those who look only to the left for anti-semitism: bsky.app/profile/dber...
You may be missing this (lucky you), but Matt Gaetz says that there is a global Jewish fire-setting conspiracy, and doesn’t think it’s anti-Semitic to say so because it’s true.
January 17, 2026 at 3:34 AM
Reposted by Emily Raphael
January 16, 2026 at 5:28 AM
Well, that was the endgame, right? Everybody who voted for him happy now, you dumb fuckers?

Trump Administration Live Updates: President Threatens to Invoke Insurrection Act After Minneapolis Protests www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
Trump Administration Live Updates: President Threatens to Invoke Insurrection Act After Minneapolis Protests
www.nytimes.com
January 15, 2026 at 2:17 PM
Reposted by Emily Raphael
The state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension says they've been informed by the FBI that US DOJ has said FBI will solely lead the investigation into Renee Nicole Good's killing by a federal officer. State investigators no longer have access to "case materials, scene evidence/investigative interviews"
January 8, 2026 at 4:03 PM
List of living American shondas, top 10:
Stephen Miller
Katie Miller
Jared Kushner
Harvey Weinstein
Howard Lutnick
Ben Shapiro
Lee Zeldin
Laura Loomer
Chaya Raichik
Bruce Blakeman

Biggest dead American shondas:
Jeffrey Epstein
Roy Cohn
January 5, 2026 at 12:56 AM
The late lamented Tom Lehrer: youtu.be/HHhZF66C1Dc?...
Tom Lehrer - Send the Marines
YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel
youtu.be
January 4, 2026 at 6:13 AM
Movie idea: Hannah, a big-city lawyer, comes home to help her mother prepare one last Seder for her Bubbie. When she meets her old flame, a kosher butcher whose business is going under, sparks fly! Hallmark, call me!
December 24, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Reposted by Emily Raphael
You can watch “Surviving CECOT” a ProPublica production for FRONTLINE on You Tube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lku5...
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
www.youtube.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Our elected president.
December 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Could Megyn Kelly be a bigger POS?
December 19, 2025 at 8:48 PM
These stupid, evil fanatics: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/c...
Trump Administration Plans to Break Up Premier Weather and Climate Research Center
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 9:47 PM
There is a Melania movie out.
December 17, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Heavily underwater in her attempt to become NY governor, Rep. Elise Stefanik is trying to erase her history with the NY Young Republican Club entirely, after they invited both overt racists AND German white supremacists to their annual party.

That's sweet. The internet, however, doesn't forget.
Elise Stefanik Tries to Scrub Ties to Org. That Invited Nazis to Party
The group recently hosted a gala chock full of white supremacists.
newrepublic.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The dream team.
This is a photo from the Vanity Fair article. Notice how they have to arrange it so Stephen Miller is on the end, so it isn’t obvious that there is no reflection of him on the mirrored table.🧛
December 17, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Credit where it's due: real journalism
Born Deaf and Blind, She’s Caught in Trump’s Anti-Diversity Crusade www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/u...
Born Deaf and Blind, She’s Caught in Trump’s Anti-Diversity Crusade
www.nytimes.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:53 PM