Allis Harkens
@allisharkens.bsky.social
Reluctant lawyer. Mom. Knitter and crocheter. 🧶 🏳️🌈⚧️♌ She/they (agender)
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Yeah, she's got two agents yelling contradictory (and unnecessary) instructions from her left, and third guy (the shooter) wandering counterclockwise around her car to the front. As you say, she likely didn't know the shooter was there when she put the car into gear.
January 8, 2026 at 9:45 PM
Yeah, she's got two agents yelling contradictory (and unnecessary) instructions from her left, and third guy (the shooter) wandering counterclockwise around her car to the front. As you say, she likely didn't know the shooter was there when she put the car into gear.
I can't help but think that, even if he reasonably thought she was trying to run him over, shooting her would not have prevented that harm to himself. The only reason he wasn't run over was because she had already started turning the wheel away from him and he was able to side-step.
We've analysed this video of the shooting of Renee Nicole Good yesterday in Minneapolis frame-by-frame to highlight the positioning of the gun and phone in the ICE agent's hands.
Video: @minnesotareformer.com with annotations by Bellingcat
Video: @minnesotareformer.com with annotations by Bellingcat
January 9, 2026 at 5:40 PM
I can't help but think that, even if he reasonably thought she was trying to run him over, shooting her would not have prevented that harm to himself. The only reason he wasn't run over was because she had already started turning the wheel away from him and he was able to side-step.
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"Quit demonstrating" is not something that a pro-democracy politician says. It's something that an authoritarian tool says.
Rep. Roger Williams: "People need to quit demonstrating, quit yelling at law enforcement, challenging law enforcement, and begin to get civil."
January 9, 2026 at 1:36 PM
"Quit demonstrating" is not something that a pro-democracy politician says. It's something that an authoritarian tool says.
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Weird to be commemorating the 250th anniversary of the Am Rev while living under a government that has a) sent armed troops to occupy cities perceived to be too rebellious, b) rendered largely irrelevant the representative branch of government, and c) claimed imperial right to rule other countries.
January 9, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Weird to be commemorating the 250th anniversary of the Am Rev while living under a government that has a) sent armed troops to occupy cities perceived to be too rebellious, b) rendered largely irrelevant the representative branch of government, and c) claimed imperial right to rule other countries.
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wow really helpful, thank you new york times
October 24, 2025 at 2:57 PM
wow really helpful, thank you new york times
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Oof. Hats off to the guy who took the video. That took some onions.
I think it is probably a bad idea to put clearly unhinged, angry psychopaths in federal law enforcement positions.
January 9, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Oof. Hats off to the guy who took the video. That took some onions.
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one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it
January 6, 2026 at 9:06 PM
one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it
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MURDER!!
Here's the ICE agent "defending himself" by shooting into the driver's side window of a car that's pulling *away* from him.
Put this photo on the front page of every newspaper in America.
Put this photo on the front page of every newspaper in America.
January 7, 2026 at 7:13 PM
MURDER!!
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The Spanish version is “the left liberates, the right oppresses” and once I learned that, both screws and politics made more sense
the single line that has saved me the most hassle in my life is "lefty loosey righty tighty"
January 7, 2026 at 3:47 PM
The Spanish version is “the left liberates, the right oppresses” and once I learned that, both screws and politics made more sense
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season 3 premiere tomorrow who's ready...🌭
December 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
season 3 premiere tomorrow who's ready...🌭
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As many have pointed out, Mamdani didn't stand apart from our trans brothers and sisters. He didn't play the "Gee, gosh, it sure is complicated," milquetoast moderate card. And he crushed.
The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.
The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.
November 5, 2025 at 2:52 AM
As many have pointed out, Mamdani didn't stand apart from our trans brothers and sisters. He didn't play the "Gee, gosh, it sure is complicated," milquetoast moderate card. And he crushed.
The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.
The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.
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Fox News, crushing it. 🫠 'as would be obvious to anyone who did even the most basic reporting, the video was entirely AI generated. The women did not exist... It was digital fiction presented as fact. Fox News fell for it completely.' - @mmasnick.bsky.social www.techdirt.com/2025/11/04/f...
Fox News Fell For AI-Generated Rage Bait, Rewrote Story To Pretend It Didn’t
Fox News has a problem: when you build your entire editorial model around feeding your audience’s biases, you stop asking whether the stories feeding those biases are actually true. Case in p…
www.techdirt.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Fox News, crushing it. 🫠 'as would be obvious to anyone who did even the most basic reporting, the video was entirely AI generated. The women did not exist... It was digital fiction presented as fact. Fox News fell for it completely.' - @mmasnick.bsky.social www.techdirt.com/2025/11/04/f...
Hastily made sign tells me there's some reason why they very quickly need to be able to tell someone who otherwise wouldn't know that this is the door to the Oval Office. Perhaps another indication of Trump's dementia?
dawg not the steakhouse wedding font
New sign outside the Oval Office..
November 5, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Hastily made sign tells me there's some reason why they very quickly need to be able to tell someone who otherwise wouldn't know that this is the door to the Oval Office. Perhaps another indication of Trump's dementia?
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There is no way that you can police gender that isn't fundamentally a way to police gender non conformity. And fucking/loving someone of the same gender is GNC behaviour. It's gender all the way down.
Fascist governments are undermining abortion access, trans health care, gay relationships, etc under the guise of “fighting gender ideology.” So, anyone who believes in women’s rights and gay rights should be showing solidarity to oppose their politics, not colluding with it to attack trans people.
September 28, 2025 at 7:44 AM
There is no way that you can police gender that isn't fundamentally a way to police gender non conformity. And fucking/loving someone of the same gender is GNC behaviour. It's gender all the way down.
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This is the same guy.
September 16, 2025 at 1:06 AM
This is the same guy.
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It needs to be said that by rebranding Charlie Kirk's views as moderate by both right wingers and liberal cowards resets the extremist views he held as normal and pushes the Overton window to the far right
September 15, 2025 at 10:26 PM
It needs to be said that by rebranding Charlie Kirk's views as moderate by both right wingers and liberal cowards resets the extremist views he held as normal and pushes the Overton window to the far right
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WHAT THE HELL
September 16, 2025 at 1:49 AM
WHAT THE HELL
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Fascism is, by its very nature, inherently self-destructive and prone to collapse. The problem is how much suffering they inflict on others on their way out. We will win in the end, but we must fight all the harder to limit the harm they can cause on their way out.
The more i see of how the fash are responding to everything, the more i think that they're actually more scared than they're letting on and are acting more like cornered predator trying to make itself look bigger.
There's a lot going wrong in trump World rn and they cant risk any infighting
There's a lot going wrong in trump World rn and they cant risk any infighting
September 16, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Fascism is, by its very nature, inherently self-destructive and prone to collapse. The problem is how much suffering they inflict on others on their way out. We will win in the end, but we must fight all the harder to limit the harm they can cause on their way out.
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Same thing with transgender and gender-expansive people.
There is no autism epidemic.
There is only better identification of existing autistic people.
Anyone claiming otherwise is either ignoring, denying—or does not understand—contemporary autism research, or is selling something.
#autism #neurodiversity
There is only better identification of existing autistic people.
Anyone claiming otherwise is either ignoring, denying—or does not understand—contemporary autism research, or is selling something.
#autism #neurodiversity
September 7, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Same thing with transgender and gender-expansive people.
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A) This is an interesting finding
B) It is from a June poll
C) Not linking to your sources when sharing poll data is profoundly annoying behavior
D) news.gallup.com/poll/692522/...
B) It is from a June poll
C) Not linking to your sources when sharing poll data is profoundly annoying behavior
D) news.gallup.com/poll/692522/...
New high of Americans saying immigration is good for the US
September 7, 2025 at 8:34 PM
A) This is an interesting finding
B) It is from a June poll
C) Not linking to your sources when sharing poll data is profoundly annoying behavior
D) news.gallup.com/poll/692522/...
B) It is from a June poll
C) Not linking to your sources when sharing poll data is profoundly annoying behavior
D) news.gallup.com/poll/692522/...
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I saw someone earnestly say they didn’t understand why a gay politician would be closeted “in this day and age”… do people not realize that due to the continued and arguably resurgent existence of homophobia some people never even come out to themselves.
September 3, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I saw someone earnestly say they didn’t understand why a gay politician would be closeted “in this day and age”… do people not realize that due to the continued and arguably resurgent existence of homophobia some people never even come out to themselves.