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Eryn
@erynstar.bsky.social
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I'm a lot of things - an artist and a musician, a computer science and neuroscience student, but most of all, I'm someone who wants nothing more than to bring love, joy, and hope to others.

And now more than ever, it's what we need the most.
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
NEW from @nytimes.com: A bone-chilling account. A Venezuelan man detained alongside the 238 sent to El Salvador on March 15 seems to have disappeared off the face of the earth. His name isn't among the names of those sent to CECOT that day and no one spotted him among those men. He's just... gone.
Miriam Jordan By Miriam Jordan Miriam Jordan is a national immigration correspondent. April 22, 2025, 5:04 a.m. ET In late January, Ricardo Prada Vásquez, a Venezuelan immigrant working in a delivery job in Detroit, picked up an order at a McDonald’s. He was heading to the address when he erroneously turned onto the Ambassador Bridge, which leads to Canada. It is a common mistake even for those who live in the Michigan border city. But for Mr. Prada, 32, it proved fateful. The U.S. authorities took Mr. Prada into custody when he attempted to re-enter the country; he was put in detention and ordered deported. On March 15, he told a friend in Chicago that he was among a number of detainees housed in Texas who expected to be repatriated to Venezuela. That evening, the Trump administration flew three planes carrying Venezuelan migrants from the Texas facility to El Salvador, where they have been ever since, locked up in a maximum-security prison and denied contact with the outside world. But Mr. Prada has not been heard from or seen. He is not on the list of 238 people who were deported to El Salvador that day. He does not appear in the photos and videos released by the authorities of shackled men with shaved heads.
April 22, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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cmonstah.bsky.social
“Deputies are stopping Hispanic drivers for minor, unprovable traffic violations like veering left of center, then handing them over to Border Patrol agents who are sometimes already at the scene.”

www.syracuse.com/news/2025/04...
Inside Trump’s Upstate NY migrant hunt: Border Patrol’s meaner tactics snare workers and families
“It’s scary,” said a woman whose relatives have disappeared. “You can be followed just for being Hispanic.”
www.syracuse.com
April 20, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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cvilletgr.bsky.social
Or, Frengel. Bring them all back. Do not trust the Trump Administration at all.
April 20, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
Your friendly reminder that it is literally a federal felony punishable by up to five years in prison for the President, Vice President, or any employee of the White House to directly or indirectly ask the IRS to open an investigation into any specific taxpayer.
26 U.S. Code § 7217 - Prohibition on executive branch influence over taxpayer audits and other investigations U.S. Code Notes prey | next (a) PROMIsITION It shall be unlawful for any applicable person to request, directly or indirectly, any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service to conduct or terminate an audit or other investigation of any particular taxpayer with respect to the tax liability of such taxpayer. (b) REPORTING REQUIREmeNT Any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service receiving any request prohibited by subsection (a) shall report the receipt of such request to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration. … (d) PENALTY Any person who willfully violates subsection (a) or fails to report under subsection (b) shall be punished upon conviction by a fine in any amount not exceeding $5,000, or imprisonment of not more than 5 years, or both, together with the costs of prosecution. (e) APPLICABLE PERSON For purposes of this section, the term "applicable person" means— (1) the President, the Vice President, any employee of the executive office of the President, and any employee of the executive office of the Vice President; and (2) any individual (other than the Attorney General of the United States) serving in a position specified in section 5312 of title 5, United States Code.
April 20, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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nkalamb.bsky.social
A Border Patrol official arrested a 19 yo citizen from Albuquerque in Arizona who didn’t have ID on him, claimed he ‘admitted’ to illegally crossing the border, abducted + ICE imprisoned him for 10 days, and would have deported him to Mexico if his family hadn’t tracked him down and provided his ID.
His girlfriend’s aunt Grace Layva says she and her family made numerous calls looking for him before they found out he was being detained in the Florence Correctional Center, which Immigration and Customs Enforcement uses to detain people. Another family member drove to the detention center, about 70 miles northwest of Tucson, but said officials wouldn’t provide any information or release him. ICE did not respond to a request for comment about the wrongful detention. The family later provided officials with his birth certificate and social security card. “He did say he was a U.S. citizen, but they didn't believe him,” Layva said. “I think they would have kept him. I think they would have if they would have not got that information yesterday in the court and gave that to ICE and the Border Patrol. He probably would have been deported already to Mexico.”
April 20, 2025 at 3:41 PM
erynstar.bsky.social
On Sunday, I got the opportunity to volunteer for Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Fighting Oligarchy tour in Salt Lake City, and it looks like the photo we took together finally came! 🩵💙🩵 It was honestly *such* an incredible experience!
April 18, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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annabower.bsky.social
Sounds like Bondi needs to read @rparloff.bsky.social, who explains why it’s utterly dubious to claim that Abrego Garcia is a member of MS-13, much less a “top” member.

The allegation stems from double hearsay in a doc authored by a later suspended policeman.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/abre...
Abrego Garcia and MS-13: What Do We Know?
The allegation seems to stem from double hearsay in a document authored by a later suspended police detective.
www.lawfaremedia.org
April 17, 2025 at 2:56 AM
erynstar.bsky.social
See you there!
April 16, 2025 at 6:32 PM
erynstar.bsky.social
3.5% everyone, just a few weeks in and we’ve already got 1%
strictlychristo.bsky.social StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻🚫👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · Apr 6
The current figure I'm seeing is that as many as 3.3 million Americans protested today. #HandsOff #Resist
April 6, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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strictlychristo.bsky.social
The current figure I'm seeing is that as many as 3.3 million Americans protested today. #HandsOff #Resist
April 6, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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sonar706.bsky.social
This is awesome! #HandsOff
April 6, 2025 at 1:34 AM
erynstar.bsky.social
(At least) 10,000 people showed up for today’s Hands Off protest in Utah.

For context, the previous largest protest in Utah (against the Vietnam War) got 4,000 people.

Today was the largest protest in Utah’s history.

By 250%

Let that sink in.
April 5, 2025 at 10:02 PM
erynstar.bsky.social
BERNIE FIGHTING OLIGARCHY TOUR IN SALT LAKE CITY LETS GOOOOOO

RSVP Here:
act.berniesanders.com/signup/rsvp-...
Fighting Oligarchy: Where We Go From Here with Bernie Sanders in Salt Lake City RSVP today to say you’ll join Bernie in Salt Lake City on Sunday, April 13th! 3:30 PM MDT Doors Open 5:15 PM MDT Music by I DON’T KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME 6:00 PM MDT Speaking Program Starts Jon M Huntsman Center, University of Utah 1857 E. South Campus Drive, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 Please note: no bags, signs, or firearms are allowed. Parking: there is free parking around the campus on the weekend. Public transit: There is a UTA bus stop and a TRAX stop right outside the arena.
April 4, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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rivet-em.bsky.social
Yup.
April 3, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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suzyqfit4u.bsky.social
This 👇
March 31, 2025 at 8:53 AM
erynstar.bsky.social
#50501movement #ImpeachTrump #NoKings
I was absolutely blown away by how well-researched and well-taught this video was. It covers so many issues that I’d never even heard about before, and they’re honestly issues EVERYONE should know about.
youtube.com/watch?v=riX2...
The Man Behind The American Oligarchy
YouTube video by Riverwand
youtube.com
March 16, 2025 at 4:03 AM
erynstar.bsky.social
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These are the heroes that fought and bled to defend our country, and the families they left behind. These are the heroes that billionaires are calling the “Parasite Class”. They fought for us - and now, it’s our turn to fight for them.
#VA #Veterans #LoveVets #50501movement
March 15, 2025 at 3:15 PM
erynstar.bsky.social
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I met a man who served for decades, only to come home and hold a gun to his head - and when his wife tried to get him help, she found that the nearest VA psychiatrist was a hundred miles away, because the VA is already underpaid and understaffed.
#VA #Veterans #LoveVets #50501movement
March 15, 2025 at 3:14 PM
erynstar.bsky.social
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I met a man who was drafted into the Vietnam War at the age of 20, and was only sent home when he was too disabled to continue. And even though he never asked to be a soldier, even though it cost a young man his future, he still didn’t regret his service.
#VA #Veterans #LoveVets #50501movement
March 15, 2025 at 3:14 PM
erynstar.bsky.social
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I met a woman who served in the Air Force, and was sent home half-paralyzed. Since then, she fought like hell to recover, and even became a doctor - because apparently, being crippled in service to others wasn’t enough for her.
#VA #Veterans #LoveVets #50501movement
March 15, 2025 at 3:13 PM
erynstar.bsky.social
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I met a man that served for 20 years, and a friend of his who came to ensure that his sacrifices wouldn’t be spat on.
#VA #Veterans #LoveVets #50501movement
March 15, 2025 at 3:12 PM
erynstar.bsky.social
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I met two older women, one who’d lost two brothers in combat, and one whose entire family tree was full of soldiers, from her grandfather to her nieces and nephews.
#VA #Veterans #LoveVets #50501movement
March 15, 2025 at 3:12 PM
erynstar.bsky.social
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I met a man who gave up a 1600 dollar job to come support his father, who served in the National Guard
#VA #Veterans #LoveVets #50501movement
March 15, 2025 at 3:12 PM
erynstar.bsky.social
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I met a Marine woman who worked as a mechanic in the Vietnam war, who put her life on the line to support our soldiers. The entire time I talked to her, she tried to redirect all the praise to the soldiers she worked alongside.
#VA #Veterans #LoveVets #50501movement
March 15, 2025 at 3:12 PM
erynstar.bsky.social
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Yesterday, I attended the Utah Veteran’s Protest at the state capitol, and I wanted to share a few stories about the people I met, and the stories they shared about those real-life superheroes that fought and bled to defend us.
#VA #Veterans #LoveVets #50501movement
March 15, 2025 at 3:11 PM