Aurora C
@theaurorac.bsky.social
Lawyer by day (but only for children), Muay Thai fighting fire eater by night, semi-southpaw Romany Gypsy curmudgeon all the time. Beginning fiddler, 9/11 first responder, retired aerialist, advanced flâneuse.
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Aurora C
@theaurorac.bsky.social
· Nov 14
“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.”
― Anatole France
― Anatole France
At a training on working w/deaf, Deaf, and deafblind clients, and TIL what home signs are and why having both ASL interpreters and Certified Deaf Interpreters are so crucial. And, like, better late than never, but this seems like something that everyone working w/the public should know?
December 16, 2025 at 6:35 PM
At a training on working w/deaf, Deaf, and deafblind clients, and TIL what home signs are and why having both ASL interpreters and Certified Deaf Interpreters are so crucial. And, like, better late than never, but this seems like something that everyone working w/the public should know?
Dear Mr. Case,
Some putz is signing your name to goofy demand letters. Thought you’d want to know.
Best,
Me
Some putz is signing your name to goofy demand letters. Thought you’d want to know.
Best,
Me
Tina Peters’ lawyer demands Colorado honor Trump’s pardon, threatens to take legal action
December 16, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Dear Mr. Case,
Some putz is signing your name to goofy demand letters. Thought you’d want to know.
Best,
Me
Some putz is signing your name to goofy demand letters. Thought you’d want to know.
Best,
Me
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He is irredeemably broken, morally and mentally. And so is everyone who continues to support him, because of ignorance, hatred, greed, or some combination.
Every day he is not impeached and removed is another grave stain on this country, and to Hell with those in any party who won't even try.
Every day he is not impeached and removed is another grave stain on this country, and to Hell with those in any party who won't even try.
December 15, 2025 at 6:31 PM
He is irredeemably broken, morally and mentally. And so is everyone who continues to support him, because of ignorance, hatred, greed, or some combination.
Every day he is not impeached and removed is another grave stain on this country, and to Hell with those in any party who won't even try.
Every day he is not impeached and removed is another grave stain on this country, and to Hell with those in any party who won't even try.
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Mass shootings in the US, per Gun Violence Archive:
2015: 332
2016: 383
2017: 347
2018: 335
2019: 414
2020: 611
2021: 689
2022: 644
2023: 659
2024: 503
So far in 2025...392 mass shootings in 349 days.
We do not have to keep living like this.
2015: 332
2016: 383
2017: 347
2018: 335
2019: 414
2020: 611
2021: 689
2022: 644
2023: 659
2024: 503
So far in 2025...392 mass shootings in 349 days.
We do not have to keep living like this.
December 15, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Mass shootings in the US, per Gun Violence Archive:
2015: 332
2016: 383
2017: 347
2018: 335
2019: 414
2020: 611
2021: 689
2022: 644
2023: 659
2024: 503
So far in 2025...392 mass shootings in 349 days.
We do not have to keep living like this.
2015: 332
2016: 383
2017: 347
2018: 335
2019: 414
2020: 611
2021: 689
2022: 644
2023: 659
2024: 503
So far in 2025...392 mass shootings in 349 days.
We do not have to keep living like this.
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WHAT IF GETTING MURDERED WASN'T AS BAD AS YOU THINK
- By people who think iconoclasm is just saying dumb stuff
- By people who think iconoclasm is just saying dumb stuff
The Washington Post, everyone
December 15, 2025 at 5:46 PM
WHAT IF GETTING MURDERED WASN'T AS BAD AS YOU THINK
- By people who think iconoclasm is just saying dumb stuff
- By people who think iconoclasm is just saying dumb stuff
May the world treat you the way you treat migrants.
A deep look at the comings and goings inside of Manhattan’s immigration courts, where individuals and sometimes whole families are, now notoriously, surrounded by ICE and removed from the halls, often with little notice. Observers then rush to set them free.
The Undocumented Underground Is Fighting Back Inside New York’s Notorious Immigration Court
One day last month, a Peruvian mother and her daughter went into...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 12, 2025 at 5:45 PM
May the world treat you the way you treat migrants.
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The idea of framing this vainglorious billionaire lot as modern day versions of the gritty, hard-bitten, working class, manual laborers who, for a pittance of wages, risked their lives and used their hands to make real the skyscraper dreams of the wealthy and middle classes is….lunacy.
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 12, 2025 at 4:33 PM
The idea of framing this vainglorious billionaire lot as modern day versions of the gritty, hard-bitten, working class, manual laborers who, for a pittance of wages, risked their lives and used their hands to make real the skyscraper dreams of the wealthy and middle classes is….lunacy.
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In a normal administration, this would be a career-ending, weeks-long scandal
MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
December 11, 2025 at 7:04 PM
In a normal administration, this would be a career-ending, weeks-long scandal
Every day I wake up and think “they cannot possibly get any more stupid” AND YET
According to a new court filing, the Trump administration has a six-page list of banned words that Head Start locations are forbidden from using when describing their programs.
Among the censored words: "disability," "race," "women," "trauma," "Gulf of Mexico." Short thread with the full list. 🧵
Among the censored words: "disability," "race," "women," "trauma," "Gulf of Mexico." Short thread with the full list. 🧵
December 11, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Every day I wake up and think “they cannot possibly get any more stupid” AND YET
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1/ One thing that I think is getting understandably overlooked in the coverage of immigration overenforcement is just how wasteful and inefficient ICE is being even when they aren't kidnapping and caging people who should be with their families.
Here's a quick example from my casefiles today:
Here's a quick example from my casefiles today:
December 10, 2025 at 2:49 AM
1/ One thing that I think is getting understandably overlooked in the coverage of immigration overenforcement is just how wasteful and inefficient ICE is being even when they aren't kidnapping and caging people who should be with their families.
Here's a quick example from my casefiles today:
Here's a quick example from my casefiles today:
Is the Yule Spooder anything?
December 10, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Is the Yule Spooder anything?
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I mean it just seems like a substantial portion of the country is taking their cues about masculinity from dudes who clearly used to be the universally disliked weird bully who smelled odd and ate his own boogers at recess
December 9, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I mean it just seems like a substantial portion of the country is taking their cues about masculinity from dudes who clearly used to be the universally disliked weird bully who smelled odd and ate his own boogers at recess
ICE going to Minneapolis in December to torment the Somali community has huge Napoleon invading Russia in winter energy
Anxiety grips Minneapolis’s Somali community as immigration agents zero in on the Twin Cities | CNN
Everything seemed normal at Minneapolis’s Somali markets: Men sat in barber chairs, women browsed colorful garments at the boutiques and patrons sampled fried sambusas and rice dishes at the eateries,...
www.cnn.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:14 PM
ICE going to Minneapolis in December to torment the Somali community has huge Napoleon invading Russia in winter energy
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All super rich guys sound the same now. It’s all “I sleep four hours a night and spend the other twenty hours a day developing a product that’s going to bring us the best widespread poverty anyone’s ever seen.”
December 3, 2025 at 9:53 PM
All super rich guys sound the same now. It’s all “I sleep four hours a night and spend the other twenty hours a day developing a product that’s going to bring us the best widespread poverty anyone’s ever seen.”
A back at work haiku:
At inbox zero
Beautiful inbox zero
Curses, a reply
At inbox zero
Beautiful inbox zero
Curses, a reply
December 3, 2025 at 6:45 PM
A back at work haiku:
At inbox zero
Beautiful inbox zero
Curses, a reply
At inbox zero
Beautiful inbox zero
Curses, a reply
“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality. “ — James Baldwin
A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say
The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.
www.thecity.nyc
December 3, 2025 at 4:49 AM
“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality. “ — James Baldwin
Dr John
Dead Can Dance
The Cult
Tinariwen
Killing Joke
Dead Can Dance
The Cult
Tinariwen
Killing Joke
Ralph Stanley
Iggy Pop
Fugazi
Nine Inch Nails
Son Volt
Iggy Pop
Fugazi
Nine Inch Nails
Son Volt
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts.
Dave Swabrick
Motörhead
Oysterband
Ben Caplan
Bob Dylan
Dave Swabrick
Motörhead
Oysterband
Ben Caplan
Bob Dylan
December 2, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Dr John
Dead Can Dance
The Cult
Tinariwen
Killing Joke
Dead Can Dance
The Cult
Tinariwen
Killing Joke
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Social media is fun because you basically just talk to yourself and sometimes a stranger replies to yell at you about why you’re wrong
February 26, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Social media is fun because you basically just talk to yourself and sometimes a stranger replies to yell at you about why you’re wrong
In a few hours, I return work after medical leave. I have a difficult case on all morning and my litigation strategy is to stroll into court like a cat at 3am: HI I’M BACK DID YOU MISS ME I WILL NOW WREAK HAVOC ON PURPOSE FOR FUN.
December 1, 2025 at 5:14 AM
In a few hours, I return work after medical leave. I have a difficult case on all morning and my litigation strategy is to stroll into court like a cat at 3am: HI I’M BACK DID YOU MISS ME I WILL NOW WREAK HAVOC ON PURPOSE FOR FUN.
Batvent day 1: 5-minute pencil sketch of a Mexican free-tailed bat for morale
November 30, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Batvent day 1: 5-minute pencil sketch of a Mexican free-tailed bat for morale
In the past 5 weeks, I have re-learned how to speak, chew, and drink from a glass, so I guess I will give myself grace in terms of not running the marathons I had planned to run. Neuroplasticity is amazing.
November 29, 2025 at 4:24 PM
In the past 5 weeks, I have re-learned how to speak, chew, and drink from a glass, so I guess I will give myself grace in terms of not running the marathons I had planned to run. Neuroplasticity is amazing.
Nothing but Patriot Act redux all the way down.
Hard to imagine a worse, less productive, more ill-conceived response to the shootings. It will cause much damage to the country, considerable human suffering and deliver no benefits of any sort to anyone.
The U.S. on Friday paused all asylum decisions and stopped issuing visas to people from Afghanistan as President Trump launched a major review of the country’s immigration system after the authorities said an Afghan man opened fire on two National Guard members.
November 29, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Nothing but Patriot Act redux all the way down.
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When the Senate confirmed Hegseth, it had good information that he was an emotionally dysregulated drunk who had committed a horrific sexual assault. The war crimes are on every member who voted for him knowing exactly who he is.
November 29, 2025 at 2:04 AM
When the Senate confirmed Hegseth, it had good information that he was an emotionally dysregulated drunk who had committed a horrific sexual assault. The war crimes are on every member who voted for him knowing exactly who he is.
Mountain lion
Humpback whale
Peregrine falcon
Iberian lynx
Coyote
Humpback whale
Peregrine falcon
Iberian lynx
Coyote
Introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild:
Piranha
Anaconda
Brazilian Wandering Spider
Capybara
Andean Condor
Piranha
Anaconda
Brazilian Wandering Spider
Capybara
Andean Condor
Humpback whale
Black bear
Cougar
Lemon shark
Osprey
Black bear
Cougar
Lemon shark
Osprey
November 29, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Mountain lion
Humpback whale
Peregrine falcon
Iberian lynx
Coyote
Humpback whale
Peregrine falcon
Iberian lynx
Coyote
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Always important to bear in mind that Truth Social posts do not have the force of law and sometimes Trump just says he’s doing things and nothing actually happens.
Trump claims “any document” signed by Joe Biden is “hereby terminated.”
He calls out executive orders later but obviously “any document” would be much broader and include legislation.
(He can’t legally do that but, as always, we get to watch how far he can push this without repercussions)
He calls out executive orders later but obviously “any document” would be much broader and include legislation.
(He can’t legally do that but, as always, we get to watch how far he can push this without repercussions)
November 28, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Always important to bear in mind that Truth Social posts do not have the force of law and sometimes Trump just says he’s doing things and nothing actually happens.