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jasmine mithani 🧿

@jazzmyth.bsky.social

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gender, tech & data @19thnews.org, reporting fellow @techpolicypress.bsky.social, occasionally newslettering @ data+feelings • queer, mixed race, disabled • reads a lot • she/her signal: jsmn.01 subscribe: jazzmyth.substack.com

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jasmine mithani 🧿 @jazzmyth.bsky.social · Aug 4

Always open to tips. Use the link if you can't find me as jsmn.01 on Signal.
signal.me#eu/JZB2sQF4r...

Signal Messenger Contact

Follow this link to message on Signal.

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meat stains @petegain.es · 21h

The rare situation where both of those offices are held by people who SHOULDN'T be jailed

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 21h

The President of the United States is calling for the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois to be jailed.

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Sedat Kapanoğlu @ssg.dev · 1d

bluesky decentralization in action:

- bluesky the corp bans a user
- user’s data is alive on their blacksky PDS, an indie server
- blacksky will deploy their own API server which will bring back the user to everyone else
- user keeps their data, identity, followers. nothing is lost

Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 1d

TL; DR
In the next 5 business days you should be able to go to Link's page on blacksky.community and see his posts and he'll be able to post but people using the bsky mobile apps won't see it.
After that we'll get Blacksky-only posts up.
After that we can talk about purging bsky mod tools
fin/11

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tuck woodstock @tuck.bsky.social · 2d

The 11th(!) Gender Reveal grant cycle is now open for applications. We're particularly interested in TPOC-led collectives engaged in ongoing community work.

Apply 💫 genderpodcast.com/grant 💫

If you'd like to help fund one of our no-strings-attached grants, visit genderpodcast.com/donate, tysm!

graphic that says: are you a trans person of color doing rad organizing, art, or community work? we want to give you $1000! applications for the gender reveal podcast's 2025 grant program are open now thru October 31. apply and learn more at genderpodcast.com/grant.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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jasmine mithani 🧿 @jazzmyth.bsky.social · 1d

Across the country, medical providers who serve immigrant communities said fewer patients are coming in for prenatal or other pregnancy-related care. As a result, patients are experiencing dangerous complications @mellbarclay.bsky.social @shefali.bsky.social 19thnews.org/2025/10/preg...

ICE fears put pregnant immigrants and their babies at risk

Fear of deportation is deterring people without permanent legal status from critical care. Doctors are worried for their health — and the health of their pregnancies.

19thnews.org

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Sara Luterman @slooterman.bsky.social · 1d

Are rising prices and inflation eating into your or a loved one’s Social Security payments? Want to talk about it with a reporter for a news article? DM or email sluterman at 19thnews dot org.

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19thnews @19thnews.org · 5d

2/ That landmark legislation built a web of federal policies and funding to address domestic and intimate partner violence, a pervasive health and safety crisis. In eight months, the Trump administration has put that safety net in jeopardy.

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19thnews @19thnews.org · 5d

1/ October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, first observed by activists nearly four decades ago. It took more years of advocacy to pass the Violence Against Women Act for the first time in 1994.

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jasmine mithani 🧿 @jazzmyth.bsky.social · 1d

Such a good opportunity to learn from the best!

Sam Stecklow @samstecklow.bsky.social · 1d

Learn about using police employment and misconduct data housed in the National Police Index and Police Records Access Project, two new databases for use by journalists, attorneys, researchers, and members of the public.

We'll be presenting at @ire.org's AccessFest this weekend.

Session card for an IRE AccessFest panel on "Utilizing new police misconduct and employment databases"

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2d

Sending fake crimes to a company for training data. What could go wrong?

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 3d

You can go through pdsls.dev/at://did:plc... because the PDS data was not taken down, to see if @spacelawshitpost.me did anything against ToS. You wouldn't have the ability to do that if his PDS were bsky pbllc hosted. The community can form its own opinions about Link's posts & whether ban merited.

PDSls

Browse the public data on atproto

pdsls.dev

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jasmine mithani 🧿 @jazzmyth.bsky.social · 3d

Most worrying part is that some DV orgs can't access money. How long can nonprofits on a shoestring budget operate without making payroll?

In many cases, accessing funds involves DOJ’s separate automated system, JustGrants, interacting with the Treasury system. And grantees were informed this week that JustGrants isn’t currently operational. On top of that, some grant awards that were supposed to have gone out in September did not, leaving organizations that rely on them without funding for the new fiscal year starting on Oct. 1.

jasmine mithani 🧿 @jazzmyth.bsky.social · 3d

Staff say furloughs didn't happen during shutdowns in 2013, 2018 or 2019.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

DOJ furloughs could impact domestic violence grants. Some fear that's the point.

The grant managers sent home this week have typically worked through past government shutdowns.

www.politico.com

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jasmine mithani 🧿 @jazzmyth.bsky.social · 5d

juwan........thank u

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jasmine mithani 🧿 @jazzmyth.bsky.social · 5d

is there a succinct summary of the bsky discourse right now i have no idea what is going on. waffles?

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 6d

“Fuck them kids.”

That’s literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other.

abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

bangs.

"They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other," Watson said. "That's all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where's the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, 'f*** them kids.'"

Watson said trucks and military-style vans were used to separate parents from their children. Other neighbors said agents destroyed property to get in the building.

"They had a big, 15-inch chainsaw with round blade on it, cutting this fence down," said witness Darrell Ballard. "We're under siege. We're being invaded by our own military."

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jasmine mithani 🧿 @jazzmyth.bsky.social · 5d

getting through new momma and ribbon skirt before attempting showgirl

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 5d

"Our nation is incredibly divided right now, and the last thing we need is someone standing up and further dividing us with statements based on facts."

It’s Extremely Divisive of You to Tell the Truth

Our nation is incredibly divided right now, and the last thing we need is someone standing up and further dividing us with statements based in fact...

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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jasmine mithani 🧿 @jazzmyth.bsky.social · 7d

I keep thinking about something an advocate told me earlier this year, that to be free from violence is a basic human right.

The Trump administration is trying to make safety from abuse contingent on immigration status. But advocates said they should be helping anyone in danger, full stop.

jasmine mithani 🧿 @jazzmyth.bsky.social · 7d

Some organizations are fighting back, and so far they have been winning in court. But temporary orders are now going to appellate courts, and might work their way higher up the chain.

19thnews.org/2025/06/dome...

Domestic violence nonprofits sue over Trump administration’s anti-DEI funding rules

Domestic violence grant restrictions conflict with requirements in the Violence Against Women Act, the lawsuit argues.

19thnews.org

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jasmine mithani 🧿 @jazzmyth.bsky.social · 7d

An administration that professes to defend women and protect children is making decisions that will lead to abuse, violence and death.

19thnews.org/2025/05/dome...

The Trump administration is making the country less safe for domestic violence victims

Slashed and paused funding, mass firings and information purges have destabilized an infrastructure that took 40 years to build.

19thnews.org

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jasmine mithani 🧿 @jazzmyth.bsky.social · 7d

Funding for hotlines and shelters for those fleeing abuse is at risk. Science-backed prevention efforts have been gutted and may be eliminated wholesale. Information about sexual violence in the country is being removed and edited to erase trans people.
19thnews.org/2025/05/dome...

The Trump administration is making the country less safe for domestic violence victims

Slashed and paused funding, mass firings and information purges have destabilized an infrastructure that took 40 years to build.

19thnews.org

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jasmine mithani 🧿 @jazzmyth.bsky.social · 7d

It's Domestic Violence Awareness Month.

Over the last eight months, the first administration led by a man found liable for sexual abuse in federal court has endangered survivors even as it professes to "protect women."

19thnews.org/2025/05/dome... #DVAM

The Trump administration is making the country less safe for domestic violence victims

Slashed and paused funding, mass firings and information purges have destabilized an infrastructure that took 40 years to build.

19thnews.org

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Amanda Becker @amandabecker.bsky.social · 9d

Happy that @jessicavalenti.bsky.social responded to this because she's right: Ezra Klein is Wrong About Abortion open.substack.com/pub/jessica/...

Ezra Klein is Wrong About Abortion

Abortion *is* a big tent issue

open.substack.com

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