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Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social · 18h

If you read one thing today, make it this piece by @nytimes.com's Kurt Streeter about the extraordinary Bryan Stevenson. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Civil Rights Lawyer Bryan Stevenson on How America’s Story Should Be Told

www.nytimes.com

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Jamie Abrams @jrabrams.bsky.social · 2d

Re-sharing a piece that preceded Bluesky. "A family law lens exposes profound dissonance in how the state interacts with immigrant families to harm instead of to protect. These conclusions [are] a call to action for family law . . . and [its] practitioners to engage in immigrant justice advocacy."

Why the Legal Strategy of Exploiting Immigrant Families Should Worry Us All

This article applies a family law lens to explore the systemic and traumatic effects of modern laws and policies on immigrant families. A family law lens widens the scope of individuals harmed by rece...

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Jamie Abrams @jrabrams.bsky.social · 4d

Congresswoman McClellan is delivering an amazing keynote address to the Arlington Branch of the NAACP tonight, reminding us of the power of community. “We the People is working, but we’ve got to be in it for the long haul.”

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Brian Soucek @brsoucek.bsky.social · 5d

Strong statement today from UC's Academic Senate:

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Jamie Abrams @jrabrams.bsky.social · 5d

@azizaahmed.bsky.social delivered an amazing talk today at @auwcl.bsky.social about her impactful book “Risk and Resistance: How Feminists Transformed the Law and Science of AIDS”. @michelebgoodwin.bsky.social beautifully summarized that Prof. Ahmed “practices her brilliance with grace.”

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Jamie Abrams @jrabrams.bsky.social · 6d

“The federal government should not, under any circumstances, dictate who goes to college, what can be researched,or learned, and what can or can’t be the subject of critical academic inquiry.”

Universities Must Reject Trump Admin "Loyalty Oath" Compacts

The AAUP and AFT warn that the Trump administration’s offer to give preferential treatment to colleges and universities in exchange for allegiance to a partisan ideological agenda is entirely corrupt.

www.aaup.org

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ACLU @aclu.org · 6d

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

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Jamie Abrams @jrabrams.bsky.social · 6d

“Trump is free to spout any partisan nonsense he wants from his giant bully pulpit. But he may not coerce federal employees into joining his choir. I am calling on every agency and Department head implicated in these forms of Orwellian miscommunication to remove them immediately.”

Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 6d

The Trump Admin is using government websites and the emails of civil servants to promote blatantly partisan propaganda about the government shutdown.

This is an intolerable abuse of power and a form of bureaucratic identity theft from federal workers.

Raskin Statement on Trump Administration’s Politicization of Federal Civil Service; Possible Violations of the Hatch Act

Washington, D.C. – Rep. Jamie Raskin (MD-08) released the following statement:

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Jamie Abrams @jrabrams.bsky.social · 6d

Higher Ed. must mobilize and organize. These is no limit on the political capture otherwise.

“Among other steps, universities would also be required to change their governance structures to prohibit anything that would “punish, belittle and even spark violence against conservative ideas.”

Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 7d

A moment that calls for collective action… to reject this transparent attack on academic freedom.

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 7d

Trump's higher ed ransom note is here - everyone would have to acquiesce to their unprecedented demands or not be "given priority for grants," plus they can demand "reimbursement" for "violations" www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

A mechanism to enforce fealty. An attack on academic freedom and democracy

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 7d

Medicare telehealth is bipartisan. It's wildly popular. But year after year, Congress has refused to permanently fund it—which could have protected it from the shutdown.

Another shutdown casualty: Medicare telehealth coverage

It's got bipartisan support—and millions of Americans need it. But Congress keeps failing to lock in telehealth funding.

www.motherjones.com

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 7d

Priorities.

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Jamie Abrams @jrabrams.bsky.social · 7d

Many great orgs co-hosting an organizing / mobilizing call tonight on the shutdown.

mobilize.us/s/CeAXNV

MASS CALL- Healthcare Not Authoritarianism: Shutdown Showdown · Healthcare Not Authoritarianism

Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans have spent the past nine months selling out working families in order to give tax breaks to their billionaire friends. Now they’re taking us into a governmen...

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Jamie Abrams @jrabrams.bsky.social · 13d

Great piece by @jessicalwaters.bsky.social

msmagazine.com/2025/09/25/t...

Texas' Newest Abortion Restriction Tells Us What We Already Knew: It Was Never About States’ Rights

Texas’ HB 7 shows that the fight over abortion has never truly been about states’ rights—it’s about controlling access nationwide.

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Jamie Abrams @jrabrams.bsky.social · 13d

Great tool!

ifwhenhow.org/resources/gu...

Guidance for Journalists: What to know when covering a pregnancy criminalization case

Learn how to navigate these complicated cases in a way that can reduce harm to the person being criminalized for normal reproductive outcomes, like abortion, miscarriage, and stillbirth.

ifwhenhow.org

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 15d

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site

As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

www.miamiherald.com

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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 16d

Everyone in academia should read this piece about our dear, brilliant colleague @durba.bsky.social

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

A Surprise Tenure Denial in Harvard’s Gender Studies Program Leaves Some Faculty Shaken | News | The Harvard Crimson

Durba Mitra’s colleagues thought she was a near-perfect tenure candidate. When her bid was shot down in June, they were left questioning the process.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 16d

These Project 2025 videos were intended to train a second Trump administration’s political appointees "to be ready on day one."

Last August, ProPublica & @documented.net obtained 14 hours of the videos, which covered everything from passing new regulations to rooting out left-wing language:

Watch: 14 Hours of Never-Before-Published Videos From Project 2025’s Presidential Administration Academy

The videos are part of an ongoing effort to recruit and train thousands of future conservative appointees. Despite Donald Trump’s efforts to disavow Project 2025, most of the speakers in the videos ha...

www.propublica.org

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18d

Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban.

Here’s how we did our analysis.

(Published Feb. 2025)

Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did

Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...

www.propublica.org

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Bec Hamilton @bechamilton.bsky.social · 18d

“ … it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Pentagon demands journalists pledge to not obtain unauthorized material

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is imposing strict new rules that would severely limit the ability of journalists to report on the Pentagon.

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Michele Okoh |🖤🩶🤍💜|🔺🐘 @okohlaw.bsky.social · 25d

Advocacy groups are concerned that
Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez, who was shot by ICE & died near a school after dropping of his kids, may have been targeted due to his involvement in a lawsuit against Home Depot & Chicago police officers alleging that they were assaulting & detaining immigrants.

Illinois lawmakers demand answers in Ice killing: ‘A traffic violation should never amount to a death sentence’

Governor JB Pritzker joins US representative Delia Ramirez in response to shooting death of Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez

www.theguardian.com

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ACOG @acog.org · Sep 8

Wondering how H.R. 1, also called the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, will affect ob-gyns and their patients? ACOG’s new guide breaks it down. Learn how the bill undermines Medicaid and threatens access to comprehensive, patient-centered care: bit.ly/45Z6EO2

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Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social · Sep 7

DC today

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Sep 6

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Aug 26

Cost of Trump's D.C. Occupation: $1.1M per day.

Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day.

It's not about what this country can or can’t afford.

It’s about priorities.

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