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Jessica Pieklo @hegemommy.bsky.social · 1d

The Supreme Court is back and -- I regret to inform you-- already on their nonsense. Here's a preview of a trifecta of Alliance Defending Freedom cases on the docket so far this term

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Supreme Court Could Gut Abortion, LGBTQ Protections With These 3 Cases—Analysis

SCOTUS will hear three cases on anti-abortion centers and LGBTQ+ rights—all from the Alliance Defending Freedom.

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Andrea González-Ramírez @andreagonram.bsky.social · 1d

It's also insane that police even considered the possibility of bringing charges when Texas law *explicitly exempts* abortion seekers from being prosecuted, but it's not like this fact has stopped law enforcement and prosecutors before:

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Woman Charged With Murder After Abortion Sues Prosecutor

The murder charges “irrevocably changed the course of Lizelle Gonzalez’s life,” her attorney says.

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Andrea González-Ramírez @andreagonram.bsky.social · 1d

What a horror story. Also let this be your semi-regular reminder that most pregnancy criminalization cases involve someone snitching to law enforcement.

Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 1d

Cops misled journalists about using a powerful surveillance tool to track a woman across state lines because she had an abortion, then tried to cover it up when we found out the truth. Huge story from @jasonkoebler.bsky.social and @josephcox.bsky.social this morning: www.404media.co/police-said-...

Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime

Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.

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Andrea González-Ramírez @andreagonram.bsky.social · 4d

But I guess it’s terribly inconvenient to challenge your own understanding of this country. It’s way easier to ignore the harm the U.S. has inflicted on its colonies for over a century and pretend fascism began this year.

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Andrea González-Ramírez @andreagonram.bsky.social · 4d

Like it’s so funny that this week the main takeaway from Bad Bunny’s politics has been that he is anti-ICE and “woke” while commentators pointedly ignore his anti-colonial and pro-independence views. He has been quite explicit about that, my friends!

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Andrea González-Ramírez @andreagonram.bsky.social · 4d

“Bad Bunny is more American than the first lady!” “Here’s what Chuck Schumer can learn from Bad Bunny!” “Puerto Rico is the U.S!”

My kingdom for liberals to stop using Puerto Ricans as a rhetorical device and actually engage with the uncomfortable fact that we are colonized subjects.

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Risa Brooks @risabrooks12.bsky.social · 8d

It's easy to see this speech as just weirdly performative, but there's a lot more—and a lot worse—going on here.

The meeting & speeches are part of a larger project aimed at promoting the military leadership’s partisan alignment with the administration.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Hegseth: "If the words I'm speaking today are making your heart sink, they you should do the honorable thing and resign."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9d

yeah they're just murdering random people on these boats

Michael Paarlberg @mpaarlberg.bsky.social · 9d

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

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Andrea González-Ramírez @andreagonram.bsky.social · 12d

I spoke with historian @mark-bray.bsky.social about what’s behind Trump's executive order declaring antifa a “domestic terrorist organization” and his memorandum ordering federal probes into “organized political violence.”

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Trump Doesn’t Care if You’re Actually “Antifa”

Have you protested his policies? His administration’s elastic definition of left-wing violence could eventually ensnare you.

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Andrea González-Ramírez @andreagonram.bsky.social · 12d

I spoke with historian @mark-bray.bsky.social about what’s behind Trump's executive order declaring antifa a “domestic terrorist organization” and his memorandum ordering federal probes into “organized political violence.”

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Trump Doesn’t Care if You’re Actually “Antifa”

Have you protested his policies? His administration’s elastic definition of left-wing violence could eventually ensnare you.

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Ej Dickson @ejdickson.bsky.social · 13d

Karolina spent years idolizing raw vegan influencers on Instagram. She went to Bali to meet them — and never came home.

My deep dive on fruitarianism — a group of wellness influencers who exclusively eat raw fruit — is up on @nymag.com @thecut.com today. www.thecut.com/article/karo...

The Woman Who Ate Only Fruit

Karolina Krzyzak went to Bali to meet the raw-vegan influencers she’d followed for years. She never made it back home.

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Andrea González-Ramírez @andreagonram.bsky.social · 13d

El talento de Puerto Rico es incomparable, ñeta 🇵🇷❤️

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Chuwi: Tiny Desk Concert

YouTube video by NPR Music

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 16d

hate to say I told you so www.theverge.com/policy/69730...

The Republican legal mind nickels and dimes the People on their rights, and then goes, “Is this what the founders wanted?” Conveniently, and completely coincidentally, this thinking often works against women, racial minorities, immigrants, and other undesirables. Meanwhile, when the birthright citizenship EO contradicts the plain text of the Constitution, the textualists are nowhere to be found. Kinda gives the whole game away, doesn’t it?

As a result of Donald Trump’s first term in office, the right wing of the Supreme Court gained a supermajority, one it will have for the foreseeable future. The moment this happened, the fig leaf of textualism and respect for the law fell away, and the true objective became clear: to allow the most powerful people in the country to do whatever they wanted.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18d

a few thoughts (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

Opinion | The MAGA Movement Is Not a Debating Society

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Andrea González-Ramírez @andreagonram.bsky.social · 20d

I spoke with @kimlanelaw.bsky.social and Jason Stanley about Jimmy Kimmel, Trump, and how does this moment compare to other authoritarian takeovers.

The TL;DR? "This is how dictatorships behave."

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Exactly How Much Should I Be Freaking Out Over This Jimmy Kimmel News?

Two authoritarianism experts break down the Jimmy Kimmel Live! suspension and Trump’s media crackdown.

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Andrea González-Ramírez @andreagonram.bsky.social · 20d

I spoke with @kimlanelaw.bsky.social and Jason Stanley about Jimmy Kimmel, Trump, and how does this moment compare to other authoritarian takeovers.

The TL;DR? "This is how dictatorships behave."

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Exactly How Much Should I Be Freaking Out Over This Jimmy Kimmel News?

Two authoritarianism experts break down the Jimmy Kimmel Live! suspension and Trump’s media crackdown.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 20d

The Republican reaction to Kirk’s murder has been a campaign of state repression that ends with Trumpist toadies deciding what Americans are allowed to think, do and say. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

What happened to Jimmy Kimmel is not about one comedian who said something he should not have said. The Trump administration and its enforcers want to control your speech, your behavior, even your public expressions of mourning. You are not allowed to criticize the president’s associates. You do not even retain the right to remain silent; you must make public expressions of emotions demanded by the administration and its allies or incur its disfavor, which can threaten your livelihood. This is the road to totalitarianism, and it does not end with one man losing his television show.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 20d

As we’ve reported before at @rollingstone.com, trump and his gang plotted to use the federal government against his enemies in late night tv even before he was reelected.

Now….

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'Jimmy Kimmel Live' Pulled 'Indefinitely' By ABC Over Charlie Kirk Comments

'Jimmy Kimmel Live' has been pulled 'indefinitely' by ABC.

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Andrea González-Ramírez @andreagonram.bsky.social · 21d

A must-read by Ta-Nehisi Coates:

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Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause

By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.

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Andrea González-Ramírez @andreagonram.bsky.social · 22d

ICYMI here’s my interview with @qabila.bsky.social:

Andrea González-Ramírez @andreagonram.bsky.social · 23d

I spoke with Amanda Heffernan, a nurse-midwife based in Seattle, about what's like to currently work with pregnant migrants in ICE custody. What she has witnessed in Washington state mirrors other recent cases of mistreatment in detention centers across the country:

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What I See As a Midwife for Pregnant Women in ICE Detention

“One pregnant woman in detention recently told me that she’d lost 25 pounds in just a month.”

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The Cut @thecut.com · 23d

The right was so quick to blame “trans ideology’ for Charlie Kirk’s assassination last week that no facts will be enough to convince them otherwise.

They Want Charlie Kirk’s Killer to Be Trans

The right was so quick to blame “trans ideology’ for Charlie Kirk’s assassination last week that no facts will be enough to convince them otherwise.

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Andrea González-Ramírez @andreagonram.bsky.social · 23d

Heffernan is worried about how pregnant women are vulnerable to a lot of harm as well as how they are not being given bonds, therefore extending their time in custody.

"Maybe this is the beginning of seeing people detained a lot longer in pregnancy," she says.

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What I See As a Midwife for Pregnant Women in ICE Detention

“One pregnant woman in detention recently told me that she’d lost 25 pounds in just a month.”

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Andrea González-Ramírez @andreagonram.bsky.social · 23d

Two separate reports by Democratic senators Jon Ossoff and Dick Durbin have found cases of pregnant people being unable to access health care, denied adequate meals, and forced to sleep on the floor due to overcrowding.

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Andrea González-Ramírez @andreagonram.bsky.social · 23d

In April, a Guatemalan immigrant at a detention center in Louisiana had a stillbirth after reportedly being denied medical care for three days.

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Detained immigrant's pregnancy fails while in ICE custody - Nashville Banner

ICE's treatment of undocumented immigrants raises concerns as a woman's experience highlights what she described as inadequate medical care while in detention.

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Andrea González-Ramírez @andreagonram.bsky.social · 23d

I spoke with Amanda Heffernan, a nurse-midwife based in Seattle, about what's like to currently work with pregnant migrants in ICE custody. What she has witnessed in Washington state mirrors other recent cases of mistreatment in detention centers across the country:

www.thecut.com/article/preg...

What I See As a Midwife for Pregnant Women in ICE Detention

“One pregnant woman in detention recently told me that she’d lost 25 pounds in just a month.”

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