Elena Smith
@heronelena.bsky.social
📚⚖️🦂🥂📸
Reader, Life-long Learner, Public Interest Lawyer, Amateur Photographer, Gardening, Raging Against a Fascist Takeover
Buffalo, New York
Interested in Philosophy, Real Housewives, Sunsets, Psychics, and everything between
Reader, Life-long Learner, Public Interest Lawyer, Amateur Photographer, Gardening, Raging Against a Fascist Takeover
Buffalo, New York
Interested in Philosophy, Real Housewives, Sunsets, Psychics, and everything between
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The thing about arresting an ICE agent or a police officer who kills somebody is that they get due process. They can plead not guilty. They can have a trial. They can face their accusers before an impartial judge, a jury, etc. It's mercy. It's our system of justice, such as it is.
January 10, 2026 at 8:05 PM
The thing about arresting an ICE agent or a police officer who kills somebody is that they get due process. They can plead not guilty. They can have a trial. They can face their accusers before an impartial judge, a jury, etc. It's mercy. It's our system of justice, such as it is.
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Minnesota today
January 10, 2026 at 11:41 PM
Minnesota today
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And despite it all, this is Tehran 🇮🇷
January 10, 2026 at 11:40 PM
And despite it all, this is Tehran 🇮🇷
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Fantastic.
I need to remind myself, too:
There's good news all around us.
I'm an academic, but I think this advice is universal:
Do what you to can realise your dreams.
Celebrate your creativity, and excellence in all of your own ways, however excellence is to you.
I need to remind myself, too:
There's good news all around us.
I'm an academic, but I think this advice is universal:
Do what you to can realise your dreams.
Celebrate your creativity, and excellence in all of your own ways, however excellence is to you.
January 11, 2026 at 1:12 AM
Fantastic.
I need to remind myself, too:
There's good news all around us.
I'm an academic, but I think this advice is universal:
Do what you to can realise your dreams.
Celebrate your creativity, and excellence in all of your own ways, however excellence is to you.
I need to remind myself, too:
There's good news all around us.
I'm an academic, but I think this advice is universal:
Do what you to can realise your dreams.
Celebrate your creativity, and excellence in all of your own ways, however excellence is to you.
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Renee Good should still be here.
She was a beloved child of God, with inherent value and infinite worth.
She was murdered by her own government in broad daylight in what is supposed to be the greatest democracy on the planet.
She was a beloved child of God, with inherent value and infinite worth.
She was murdered by her own government in broad daylight in what is supposed to be the greatest democracy on the planet.
January 10, 2026 at 9:14 PM
Renee Good should still be here.
She was a beloved child of God, with inherent value and infinite worth.
She was murdered by her own government in broad daylight in what is supposed to be the greatest democracy on the planet.
She was a beloved child of God, with inherent value and infinite worth.
She was murdered by her own government in broad daylight in what is supposed to be the greatest democracy on the planet.
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A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter.
I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.
I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.
January 10, 2026 at 3:24 PM
A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter.
I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.
I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.
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A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
January 10, 2026 at 2:52 PM
A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
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🚨 Native Americans, Indigenous people, harassed, beaten, detained by ICE in front of local police. This took place in northern Minnesota and was posted 11 hours ago. Fuck ICE. Fuck dirty police. Rise up against these criminals - We Are Our Only Hope 1/2
January 10, 2026 at 3:53 AM
🚨 Native Americans, Indigenous people, harassed, beaten, detained by ICE in front of local police. This took place in northern Minnesota and was posted 11 hours ago. Fuck ICE. Fuck dirty police. Rise up against these criminals - We Are Our Only Hope 1/2
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I think it is probably a bad idea to put clearly unhinged, angry psychopaths in federal law enforcement positions.
January 9, 2026 at 2:15 PM
I think it is probably a bad idea to put clearly unhinged, angry psychopaths in federal law enforcement positions.
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This is not the law.
January 8, 2026 at 6:59 PM
This is not the law.
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Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.
January 8, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.
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Hear me ICE: Stay the fuck out of California
January 9, 2026 at 12:04 AM
Hear me ICE: Stay the fuck out of California
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AOC: What we saw today was a criminal murder a woman while she was trying to flee for her life. What we saw today was a manifestation of every American’s worst nightmare: their government turning into a tyranny.
January 8, 2026 at 12:20 AM
AOC: What we saw today was a criminal murder a woman while she was trying to flee for her life. What we saw today was a manifestation of every American’s worst nightmare: their government turning into a tyranny.
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The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
January 7, 2026 at 8:26 PM
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
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Tim Walz is mobilizing the MN National Guard, and reminds Minnesotans that the guard "is OURS - our teachers and our neighbors." He asks Minnesotans to respect them. "They're there to protect you and your constitutional rights. They don't wear masks."
January 7, 2026 at 8:49 PM
Tim Walz is mobilizing the MN National Guard, and reminds Minnesotans that the guard "is OURS - our teachers and our neighbors." He asks Minnesotans to respect them. "They're there to protect you and your constitutional rights. They don't wear masks."
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Mayor Jacob Frey: "They are already trying to spin this as an action of self defense. Having seen the video myself, I want to tell everybody directly that is bullshit."
January 7, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Mayor Jacob Frey: "They are already trying to spin this as an action of self defense. Having seen the video myself, I want to tell everybody directly that is bullshit."
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This is what Republican lawmakers were doing on J6. Shitting their pants.
January 6, 2026 at 8:42 PM
This is what Republican lawmakers were doing on J6. Shitting their pants.
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Spotify is running ads to help recruit for the regime’s secret police. Don’t use Spotify until the ICE ads stop: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky
January 6, 2026 at 2:13 AM
Spotify is running ads to help recruit for the regime’s secret police. Don’t use Spotify until the ICE ads stop: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky
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Stephen Miller is describing an unhinged, imperialistic US foreign policy where the Trump Admin inflicts its will on the world with zero regard for international law or the sovereignty of other nations.
It’s the kind of worldview that leads to world wars. It’s dangerous & wrong.
It’s the kind of worldview that leads to world wars. It’s dangerous & wrong.
MILLER: The US is using its military to secure our interests unapologetically in our hemisphere. We're a superpower. It's absurd we'd allow a nation in our backyard to become a supplier of resources to our adversaries
TAPPER: Sovereign countries shouldn't be able to do what they want?
M: *yells*
TAPPER: Sovereign countries shouldn't be able to do what they want?
M: *yells*
January 6, 2026 at 1:10 AM
Stephen Miller is describing an unhinged, imperialistic US foreign policy where the Trump Admin inflicts its will on the world with zero regard for international law or the sovereignty of other nations.
It’s the kind of worldview that leads to world wars. It’s dangerous & wrong.
It’s the kind of worldview that leads to world wars. It’s dangerous & wrong.
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It’s official: RFK Jr has officially reduced recommended childhood vaccines from 17 to 11, removing universal vaccine recommendations for RSV, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, dengue and two types of bacterial meningitis.
This reckless contravention of science is going to kill people.
This reckless contravention of science is going to kill people.
January 5, 2026 at 7:36 PM
It’s official: RFK Jr has officially reduced recommended childhood vaccines from 17 to 11, removing universal vaccine recommendations for RSV, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, dengue and two types of bacterial meningitis.
This reckless contravention of science is going to kill people.
This reckless contravention of science is going to kill people.
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What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
January 5, 2026 at 4:12 PM
What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
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Trump voters have turned the most powerful country in the world - the longtime leader of the democratic West - into a violent rogue state.
In doing so, they have smashed any semblance of international law and order.
This ‘might is right’ world MAGA have inflicted upon us endangers all of humanity.
In doing so, they have smashed any semblance of international law and order.
This ‘might is right’ world MAGA have inflicted upon us endangers all of humanity.
January 3, 2026 at 8:28 AM
Trump voters have turned the most powerful country in the world - the longtime leader of the democratic West - into a violent rogue state.
In doing so, they have smashed any semblance of international law and order.
This ‘might is right’ world MAGA have inflicted upon us endangers all of humanity.
In doing so, they have smashed any semblance of international law and order.
This ‘might is right’ world MAGA have inflicted upon us endangers all of humanity.
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DHS now says it's aiming for 100 million deportations. In an amazing coincidence, there are 104 million Black and Hispanic people living in the U.S. right now.
![@DHSgov on X: The peace of a nation no longer besieged by the third world.
[Image of a beach] America after 100 million deportations](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eppsmw5nfmdzhfeymtzd3xbe/bafkreiccvipzc5mayvbrzoo3cxhkp2iayuhphh4grk6lziqajuk7d2leee@jpeg)
December 31, 2025 at 11:04 PM
DHS now says it's aiming for 100 million deportations. In an amazing coincidence, there are 104 million Black and Hispanic people living in the U.S. right now.