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Kate 🍾 @k8sterspeaks.bsky.social · 1d

“The court cited a line from a 2014 Supreme Court ruling that let Hobby Lobby continue to provide health insurance that didn’t cover contraception. “A corporation or business entity ‘is simply a form of organization used by human beings to achieve desired ends,’” the ruling said.” AHHHHHH

Big John @dcbigjohn.bsky.social · 1d

Fifth Circuit upholds much of New Orleans' short-term rental laws minus one key provision

www.nola.com/gambit/news/...

Fifth Circuit upholds much of New Orleans' short-term rental laws minus one key provision

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Oct. 7 upheld much of New Orleans’ short-term rental regulations but threw out a key provision barring corporate ownership of STRs.

www.nola.com

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Kristina Cooke @kristinacooke.bsky.social · 4d

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

Ted Hesson @tedhesson.bsky.social · 4d

US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies, w/ @reneehickman.bsky.social @kristinacooke.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies

U.S. Border Patrol agents deployed to Chicago led a late-night raid on an apartment building this week, rappelling from helicopters onto rooftops and breaking down doors in an operation authorities said targeted gang members but which swept up U.S. citizens and families.

www.reuters.com

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 5d

We are here because policing in the U.S. has been this way for generations. This is why ICE acts with impunity. They know they can act this way.

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Kate 🍾 @k8sterspeaks.bsky.social · 5d

I love having friends of all ages and some gen z but pls stop inviting me to things on “partiful”

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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 6d

My god.

“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

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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Kate 🍾 @k8sterspeaks.bsky.social · 10d

oh damn my secret work adjacent crush is gay, *sigh.* but of course

Kate 🍾 @k8sterspeaks.bsky.social · 11d

On a very serious mission to repeat tomorrow

Kate 🍾 @k8sterspeaks.bsky.social · 17d

Peach biscuit with honey butter and a fresh watermelon juice 🥹 I found hope at the Sunday farmers market

Kate 🍾 @k8sterspeaks.bsky.social · 11d

It’s a beautiful day in New Orleans, need to soak up all these peaceful moments

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 13d

So this is very bad.

Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence

NATIONAL SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM/NSPM-7 MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

www.whitehouse.gov

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 15d

"Tylenol causes autism" is bananas but easy to comprehend from a feminist perspective. They want women* to suffer without pain relief. They want to control pregnant women.

But just saw @robinmarty.com point out that it's also to counter the "medication abortion is safer that Tylenol"

And oooof.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 15d

I wrote about the Trump administration’s false claims about Tylenol, and the moral—not scientific—burdens they place on pregnant women’s bodies. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Pregnant women do not lack for judgmental, frightening and dubiously factual instructions about their health. Everywhere, they are told that they risk the health of their fetus by partaking in a series of banal everyday activities – be it jogging or having coffee or eating a certain cheese – that they are told will lead, by obscure mechanisms that are never quite explained, to impossible and devastating health outcomes for their children-to-be. The admonishments are multiple and often contradictory, but they all tend to agree on one thing: that it is always good for women to deprive themselves of joy and relief – and to suffer more – for the sake of their fetuses.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 15d

Miami Herald: Two-Thirds of Immigrants Held at “Alligator Alcatraz” in July Have Disappeared

In immigration news, hundreds of people who were once detained at the troubled immigration jail in the Florida Everglades dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” have disappeared.

www.democracynow.org

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Kate 🍾 @k8sterspeaks.bsky.social · 15d

I am really struggling with my vote for the New Orleans mayoral race, I want to early vote on Saturday but I’m not sure I’ll be readyyy

Kate 🍾 @k8sterspeaks.bsky.social · 15d

One of my managers years ago used to listen to this on repeat while counting money at the end of the night and it will always stick with me

Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 15d

Bring back cheesy love songs built around a repetitive drum machine beat.

When In Rome - The Promise (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by WhenInRomeVEVO

www.youtube.com

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Kate 🍾 @k8sterspeaks.bsky.social · 17d

Peach biscuit with honey butter and a fresh watermelon juice 🥹 I found hope at the Sunday farmers market

Kate 🍾 @k8sterspeaks.bsky.social · Sep 8

It’s the “having emotional stability”for me (in addition)

Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · Sep 8

"Gee, why won't liberal women date MAGA men?"

Female Harris voters: Having kids ranks 12th
Male Trump voters: Having kids ranks 1st

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Sep 3

Abuse like Epstein's proceeds w/ the premise that the victims are voiceless or can be shamed, intimidated, threatened, or discredited so iif they do try to speak up. Today they spoke up and were heard on national media. May their power continue, may accountability come for all the perpetrators.

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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · Sep 2

Here's the video Trump just posted to Truth Social, with the claim that 11 people aboard the boat were killed.

There is zero evidence of self-defense here. Looks like a massacre of civilians at sea.

Even if they had drugs aboard, that's not a capital offense.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · Sep 1

You guys see where this is going? Right?

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · Aug 31

Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be

A screenshot from the New York Time reads: nytimes #
Black women lost 319,000 jobs between February and July of this year, the only major female demographic to experience significant job losses during this five-month period.
White men saw the largest job increase - 365,000 - among groups.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Aug 31

The thing the mainstream media is not remembering about Hurricane Katrina is their own lethal, racist contribution to treating rumors as facts used to demonize the stranded in New Orleans, turning them from victims to be aided to enemies to be contained.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · Aug 31

“An unsettling Mad Max vibe coursed through the city. Pickup trucks with armed men of unclear authority cruised around ..

“.. I headed back to Union Street. That body could not possibly still be there. This was the United States. We collect our dead.

“Still there.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/i...

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Kate 🍾 @k8sterspeaks.bsky.social · Aug 29

🌙🌙🌙🌙

Currently Reading : The Rules of Fortune by Danielle Prescod on a balcony after the rain

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Kate 🍾 @k8sterspeaks.bsky.social · Aug 26

I really wish people had more respect when posting and making content around Katrina, these are some of the most painful and terrifying memories of peoples lives and not a moment to capitalize on followers.

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Kate 🍾 @k8sterspeaks.bsky.social · Aug 26

Ugh cast UGH

Kate 🍾 @k8sterspeaks.bsky.social · Aug 26

Its obviously so so so much worse and deeper than this, but being a supporter of the VIOLENT memes that are coming from this administration is absolutely vile and is a condemnation to the last level of hell