Jess Lee
@jesslee.bsky.social
Human rights attorney working for equity in education and the workplace. Black, Muslim, feminist, disabled, queer, golden ear. The one who always makes it weird.
(Formerly JessLeeEsq)
(Formerly JessLeeEsq)
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Your worth is not determined by your job, your bank account or your ability to produce for capitalism.
Disabled people have worth.
Children have worth.
The elderly have worth.
The homeless have worth.
Those in power want you to de-value others so you will accept atrocities.
Disabled people have worth.
Children have worth.
The elderly have worth.
The homeless have worth.
Those in power want you to de-value others so you will accept atrocities.
November 30, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Your worth is not determined by your job, your bank account or your ability to produce for capitalism.
Disabled people have worth.
Children have worth.
The elderly have worth.
The homeless have worth.
Those in power want you to de-value others so you will accept atrocities.
Disabled people have worth.
Children have worth.
The elderly have worth.
The homeless have worth.
Those in power want you to de-value others so you will accept atrocities.
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‘Remigration’ is a term that comes out of the European far right. Its use by the DHS account is a sign of democratic and epistemic collapse
November 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
‘Remigration’ is a term that comes out of the European far right. Its use by the DHS account is a sign of democratic and epistemic collapse
Accurate...and heartbreaking
Ordering no quarter, as Hegseth effectively did, isn't a newfangled modern war crime. It was understood as a crime as far back as the Revolutionary War. Washington threatened to do reprisals over it. The bad guy in 'The Patriot' is (very loosely) based off a British officer who was notorious for it.
November 28, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Accurate...and heartbreaking
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Every time someone jumps on socials and says there is no point to mass protest days and visible reaction in the streets, share this chart with them. The approval ratings are tanking not just because they're doing bad things but also because protestors won't let people forget it either.
Gallup poll | 11/3-11/25
President Trump approval
Disapprove 60% (+6)
Approve 36% (-5)
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
President Trump approval
Disapprove 60% (+6)
Approve 36% (-5)
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
November 28, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Every time someone jumps on socials and says there is no point to mass protest days and visible reaction in the streets, share this chart with them. The approval ratings are tanking not just because they're doing bad things but also because protestors won't let people forget it either.
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“Biden Asylum Cases” is NYT’s framing for a story pegged to a man who got asylum 3 months into the Trump administration
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
November 27, 2025 at 10:48 PM
“Biden Asylum Cases” is NYT’s framing for a story pegged to a man who got asylum 3 months into the Trump administration
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
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National Guard troops don't sign up to be used as political pawns. They sign up to serve their country, not needlessly deploy to American cities to pick up garbage. These two soldiers should be alive right now and at home with their families for Thanksgiving. I'm furious.
November 26, 2025 at 9:14 PM
National Guard troops don't sign up to be used as political pawns. They sign up to serve their country, not needlessly deploy to American cities to pick up garbage. These two soldiers should be alive right now and at home with their families for Thanksgiving. I'm furious.
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November 20, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Thanks to @merriam-webster.com I just learned that the word boycott was the name of an actual dude. Charles Boycott tried to evict farmers-and the community ostracized him in return.
It was so effective that his name became synonymous with the form of protest!
Anyway, boycotts work #WeAintBuyinIt
It was so effective that his name became synonymous with the form of protest!
Anyway, boycotts work #WeAintBuyinIt
November 24, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Thanks to @merriam-webster.com I just learned that the word boycott was the name of an actual dude. Charles Boycott tried to evict farmers-and the community ostracized him in return.
It was so effective that his name became synonymous with the form of protest!
Anyway, boycotts work #WeAintBuyinIt
It was so effective that his name became synonymous with the form of protest!
Anyway, boycotts work #WeAintBuyinIt
MAHA, amIrite?
The EPA has approved a new pesticide that contains PFAS, or 'forever chemicals', to be used on vegetables like lettuce, broccoli and potatoes.
November 24, 2025 at 4:52 PM
MAHA, amIrite?
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Emmanuel Garcia is an autistic 15 year old who went missing two months ago.
Houston PD found him the next day, contacted ICE who then sent him to Office of Refugee Resettlement.
His Mom didn’t know where he was for a week.
Wasn’t allowed to see him.
Today he’s finally home!
Houston PD found him the next day, contacted ICE who then sent him to Office of Refugee Resettlement.
His Mom didn’t know where he was for a week.
Wasn’t allowed to see him.
Today he’s finally home!
November 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Emmanuel Garcia is an autistic 15 year old who went missing two months ago.
Houston PD found him the next day, contacted ICE who then sent him to Office of Refugee Resettlement.
His Mom didn’t know where he was for a week.
Wasn’t allowed to see him.
Today he’s finally home!
Houston PD found him the next day, contacted ICE who then sent him to Office of Refugee Resettlement.
His Mom didn’t know where he was for a week.
Wasn’t allowed to see him.
Today he’s finally home!
Raking leaves is such an underrated, delightful, low-key exercise.
I'll truly never understand the BlowerBros™ who would trade this fall magic for a dusty cloud of ear-splitting noise.
I'll truly never understand the BlowerBros™ who would trade this fall magic for a dusty cloud of ear-splitting noise.
November 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Raking leaves is such an underrated, delightful, low-key exercise.
I'll truly never understand the BlowerBros™ who would trade this fall magic for a dusty cloud of ear-splitting noise.
I'll truly never understand the BlowerBros™ who would trade this fall magic for a dusty cloud of ear-splitting noise.
The true unemployment rate for Black women is 1 in 10!!!
This is a generational crisis, especially in light of the rising costs of... existence.
This is a generational crisis, especially in light of the rising costs of... existence.
Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
The exit economy is here. Black Women are paying the highest price | Fortune
This isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. And it's not a recovery, it's a redistribution of opportunity.
fortune.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:31 PM
The true unemployment rate for Black women is 1 in 10!!!
This is a generational crisis, especially in light of the rising costs of... existence.
This is a generational crisis, especially in light of the rising costs of... existence.
This math is mind blowing. Use it!
“If you go back a million minutes, you reach 2023. Go back a billion minutes, you reach the Roman Empire — that’s the scale of inequality we’re living with.”
Zack Polanski on #BBCLauraK discussing inequality and why a wealth tax should be in the budget
Zack Polanski on #BBCLauraK discussing inequality and why a wealth tax should be in the budget
November 23, 2025 at 3:05 PM
This math is mind blowing. Use it!
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In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
November 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
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Well, this is opportune. Not only do humans seek out experienced care during birth, even mice do. Don't pay any attention to grifters suggesting otherwise.
Of Mice And (Wo)men.
Of Mice And (Wo)men.
"Mice seem to assist pregnant females when they get into difficulty giving birth, with experienced mothers being the most helpful. This is thought to be the first official sighting of such assistance in non-primates, and so expands our knowledge of caregiving behaviours across the animal kingdom."
Mouse 'midwives' help their pregnant companions give birth
Scientists have observed mice helping each other when they encounter difficulties during birth, prompting a rethink of caregiving among rodents and other animals
www.newscientist.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Well, this is opportune. Not only do humans seek out experienced care during birth, even mice do. Don't pay any attention to grifters suggesting otherwise.
Of Mice And (Wo)men.
Of Mice And (Wo)men.
90 doctors!! 90!!!
NINETY COWARDS
NINETY COWARDS
While pregnant, Tierra Walker had a cascade of health complications that threatened her life.
Of more than 90 doctors who were involved in her care, not one offered her an abortion, according to medical records.
Of more than 90 doctors who were involved in her care, not one offered her an abortion, according to medical records.
“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
www.propublica.org
November 22, 2025 at 5:09 PM
90 doctors!! 90!!!
NINETY COWARDS
NINETY COWARDS
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This woman did one good thing in her entire public life and that was TOO MUCH for the Republican Party
BREAKING: Marjorie Taylor Greene says she's resigning from Congress — effective January 5, 2026.
November 22, 2025 at 1:36 AM
This woman did one good thing in her entire public life and that was TOO MUCH for the Republican Party
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Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.
November 21, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.
"Love your neighbor as yourself"
I know, I know. Too radical, right?
I know, I know. Too radical, right?
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 21, 2025 at 1:56 AM
"Love your neighbor as yourself"
I know, I know. Too radical, right?
I know, I know. Too radical, right?
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I want people to displace the imaginary depictions of *revolutions* that they have come to create in their heads with the actual small revolutionary acts that happen daily. We might get closer to revolution that way.
November 20, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I want people to displace the imaginary depictions of *revolutions* that they have come to create in their heads with the actual small revolutionary acts that happen daily. We might get closer to revolution that way.
They aren't just "saying the quiet part loud" they're putting it on paper.
This policy of white supremacy is written in ink. Next it will be in blood.
This policy of white supremacy is written in ink. Next it will be in blood.
Swastikas, nooses and the Confederate flag are reportedly no longer considered to be hate symbols by the U.S. Coast Guard
Swastika No Longer Hate Symbol Under New U.S. Coast Guard Policy: Report
www.huffpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:45 PM
They aren't just "saying the quiet part loud" they're putting it on paper.
This policy of white supremacy is written in ink. Next it will be in blood.
This policy of white supremacy is written in ink. Next it will be in blood.
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Read this interview with @peterthorne.bsky.social to understand how dire the situation is with respect to US science funding. The US has played an outsized role in Earth observations and global coordination, and even if other nations decide to step in, it would take at least a decade to recover.
Without US satellites, 'we go dark', climate monitor tells AFP
US budget cuts risk creating blind spots in Earth monitoring systems that would imperil weather forecasting and climate research for years to come, the deputy chair of a key UN-backed climate monitori...
www.france24.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Read this interview with @peterthorne.bsky.social to understand how dire the situation is with respect to US science funding. The US has played an outsized role in Earth observations and global coordination, and even if other nations decide to step in, it would take at least a decade to recover.
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Fifteen-year-old Miguel Vazquez was one of the people who took off running when federal agents arrived. “I thought, ‘Wait, why am I running? I’m a citizen,’” Vazquez said.
newrepublic.com/post/203321/...
newrepublic.com/post/203321/...
ICE Agents Raid a Church With No Explanation
Operation “Charlotte’s Web” continues.
newrepublic.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Fifteen-year-old Miguel Vazquez was one of the people who took off running when federal agents arrived. “I thought, ‘Wait, why am I running? I’m a citizen,’” Vazquez said.
newrepublic.com/post/203321/...
newrepublic.com/post/203321/...
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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...