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Attorneys with three publicly funded legal services providers for low-income New Yorkers went on strike Friday morning after failing to reach an agreement with management on raises.
Bronx Defenders Join Growing Legal Services Worker Strike
Attorneys and legal staff at three groups walked out of negotiations on Thursday, marking the first time since 1994 that criminal defense lawyers for the poor have halted work.
buff.ly
July 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Attorneys with three publicly funded legal services providers for low-income New Yorkers went on strike Friday morning after failing to reach an agreement with management on raises.
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They mean to be as insulting to Black people, as dismissive of our lives, as resistance to our status as full citizens in this country as they can be.
There is no common ground to be had at the expense of our sisters & daughters’ lives and our dignity as a people.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/u...
There is no common ground to be had at the expense of our sisters & daughters’ lives and our dignity as a people.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/u...
Justice Dept. Asks for 1-Day Sentence for Ex-Officer Convicted in Breonna Taylor Raid
www.nytimes.com
July 17, 2025 at 9:52 PM
They mean to be as insulting to Black people, as dismissive of our lives, as resistance to our status as full citizens in this country as they can be.
There is no common ground to be had at the expense of our sisters & daughters’ lives and our dignity as a people.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/u...
There is no common ground to be had at the expense of our sisters & daughters’ lives and our dignity as a people.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/u...
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One of our earliest civil rights statutes was designed to protect us against masked gangs who violate our constitutional rights. This particular history makes the masked ICE gangs uniquely repugnant. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
Masked Terror
At this point, we have all seen the videos.
open.substack.com
June 24, 2025 at 9:11 PM
One of our earliest civil rights statutes was designed to protect us against masked gangs who violate our constitutional rights. This particular history makes the masked ICE gangs uniquely repugnant. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
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They're abducting people for the suspected views of their spouses in the middle of fucking Georgetown
SCOOP: Hooded ICE agents snatched Indian-born Georgetown postdoc Badar Suri from Rosslyn street Monday, per court filing. Like Khalil, linked to pro-Palestinian views & Rubio 'foreign policy' power, lawyer says. Then whisked to Louisiana. w/ @kyledcheney www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
Trump is seeking to deport another graduate student who is legally in the country, lawsuit says
Badar Khan Suri, a fellow at Georgetown, says he is being punished because of the suspected views of his wife, a U.S. citizen with Palestinian heritage.
www.politico.com
March 19, 2025 at 11:48 PM
They're abducting people for the suspected views of their spouses in the middle of fucking Georgetown
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They're destroying civil rights history because they want to repeal the Civil Rights Act
www.alreporter.com/2025/03/06/h...
www.alreporter.com/2025/03/06/h...
Historic Montgomery Bus Station, Freedom Riders Museum part of DOGE-ordered sell-off
The building housing the historic Freedom Riders Museum appears to be part of a DOGE-ordered sell-off of federal properties.
www.alreporter.com
March 7, 2025 at 4:03 PM
They're destroying civil rights history because they want to repeal the Civil Rights Act
www.alreporter.com/2025/03/06/h...
www.alreporter.com/2025/03/06/h...
“Members of the national guard stood by, looking on, the prisoners said. None intervened…after the beating, the prisoners said, the man, who had been handcuffed and shackled, was dragged down the hall and down a flight of stairs, his face bloodied and swollen.
The State Police are investigating the death of a prisoner over the weekend in a facility near the central New York prison where another inmate was fatally beaten by guards in December.
N.Y. State Police Investigate Death of Another Inmate at Upstate Prison
A 22-year-old inmate at Mid-State Correctional Facility in Marcy, N.Y., died Saturday. Nine inmates said he was viciously beaten by corrections officers.
www.nytimes.com
March 3, 2025 at 2:34 PM
“Members of the national guard stood by, looking on, the prisoners said. None intervened…after the beating, the prisoners said, the man, who had been handcuffed and shackled, was dragged down the hall and down a flight of stairs, his face bloodied and swollen.
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Maybe the most illustrative sentence about what’s going on that I’ve read in weeks.
February 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Maybe the most illustrative sentence about what’s going on that I’ve read in weeks.
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I always shock my students a bit when I tell them that quantitative data is just qualitative data that has already been interpreted numerically.
In case you need a teaching example of the social construction of quantitative data...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...
DOGE’s Only Public Ledger Is Riddled With Mistakes (Gift Article)
The figures from Elon Musk’s team of outsiders represent billions in government cuts. They are also full of accounting errors, outdated data and other miscalculations.
www.nytimes.com
February 22, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I always shock my students a bit when I tell them that quantitative data is just qualitative data that has already been interpreted numerically.
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Exactly why I've been writing, podcasting, and damn near screaming about using the right language.
The mainstream media is failing us SO badly right now.
Stop. Calling. This. Shit. DEI.
This is (re)segregation. This is racial purging. Cleansing Black people from positions of power.
The mainstream media is failing us SO badly right now.
Stop. Calling. This. Shit. DEI.
This is (re)segregation. This is racial purging. Cleansing Black people from positions of power.
By accepting Trump’s anti-Black premise and regurgitating the narrative that equates anything Black as DEI, the NY Times has become part of the propaganda machine
February 22, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Exactly why I've been writing, podcasting, and damn near screaming about using the right language.
The mainstream media is failing us SO badly right now.
Stop. Calling. This. Shit. DEI.
This is (re)segregation. This is racial purging. Cleansing Black people from positions of power.
The mainstream media is failing us SO badly right now.
Stop. Calling. This. Shit. DEI.
This is (re)segregation. This is racial purging. Cleansing Black people from positions of power.
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The Girl Scouts of Tropical Florida c. 1966. From the archival collection of The Black Archives History & Research Foundation of South Florida.
February 15, 2025 at 1:56 PM
The Girl Scouts of Tropical Florida c. 1966. From the archival collection of The Black Archives History & Research Foundation of South Florida.
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New York prison guard strike has Gov. Kathy Hochul threatening to send in National Guard
NY prison guard strike has Gov. Kathy Hochul threatening to send in National Guard
A New York prison guard strike is entering its third day, and Gov. Kathy Hochul is threatening to deploy the National Guard.
cbsn.ws
February 19, 2025 at 5:30 PM
New York prison guard strike has Gov. Kathy Hochul threatening to send in National Guard
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Look, call me a stickler for Judicial Ethics, but I am not sure a nonpartisan, apolitical judge who is likely to hear cases involving the Trump administration should be sitting down with a club for conservative law students to discuss "DOJ AND THE WHITE HOUSE: DEFENDING PRESIDENTIAL PRIORITIES"
February 18, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Look, call me a stickler for Judicial Ethics, but I am not sure a nonpartisan, apolitical judge who is likely to hear cases involving the Trump administration should be sitting down with a club for conservative law students to discuss "DOJ AND THE WHITE HOUSE: DEFENDING PRESIDENTIAL PRIORITIES"
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I don’t know what to call this but flamboyantly evil.
February 19, 2025 at 1:24 AM
I don’t know what to call this but flamboyantly evil.
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One enduring problem with the American electorate is how millions of people convinced themselves the government plays no role in their economic situation except to tax and to hinder them while giving money to undeserving people.
“Many farmers voted for Trump [b/c] he promised less regulation and greater prosperity for America’s farmers. The hard truth … like most of the folks who voted for Trump, farmers failed to do their homework about the reality” of the Trump regime.
What betting on the farm & losing looks like. 😬
What betting on the farm & losing looks like. 😬
With Trump and Musk driving U.S. policy, Kansas farmers have been played for suckers • Kansas Reflector
The hard truth is that, like most of the folks who voted for Trump, farmers failed to do their homework about the hard realities.
kansasreflector.com
February 15, 2025 at 4:16 PM
One enduring problem with the American electorate is how millions of people convinced themselves the government plays no role in their economic situation except to tax and to hinder them while giving money to undeserving people.
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Missouri's AG Andrew Bailey is suing Starbucks, arguing that its workforce is too "female" and "non-white" and as a result Missouri consumers “pay higher prices and wait longer for goods and services" because its workforce is "less qualified"
This is a brazenly racist and sexist lawsuit.
This is a brazenly racist and sexist lawsuit.
February 14, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Missouri's AG Andrew Bailey is suing Starbucks, arguing that its workforce is too "female" and "non-white" and as a result Missouri consumers “pay higher prices and wait longer for goods and services" because its workforce is "less qualified"
This is a brazenly racist and sexist lawsuit.
This is a brazenly racist and sexist lawsuit.
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I'm sad to share that the trans vet that took her life outside the VA last week was apparently Elisa Rae Shupe.
She's someone many of us know - she was responsible for the mass email leak that let us know how the ADF, Heritage, etc planned to enact trans eradication we see today.
RIP Elisa.
She's someone many of us know - she was responsible for the mass email leak that let us know how the ADF, Heritage, etc planned to enact trans eradication we see today.
RIP Elisa.
Vet found hanging draped in trans flag
The suicide letter they won't publish
zerodoesntsleep.substack.com
February 11, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I'm sad to share that the trans vet that took her life outside the VA last week was apparently Elisa Rae Shupe.
She's someone many of us know - she was responsible for the mass email leak that let us know how the ADF, Heritage, etc planned to enact trans eradication we see today.
RIP Elisa.
She's someone many of us know - she was responsible for the mass email leak that let us know how the ADF, Heritage, etc planned to enact trans eradication we see today.
RIP Elisa.
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I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
January 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
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January 28, 2025 at 2:12 PM