Leah
leahkblack.bsky.social
Leah
@leahkblack.bsky.social
Mom, writer, editor, tutor.
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BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families.

The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.
December 16, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth
December 17, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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December 15, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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The president is unwell. I’m so sorry to the Reiner family, and to Americans who just want their leaders to be kind and thoughtful and decent. We’ll get back to that kind of politics, I know it. 🙏🏻💙
December 15, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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🧵ICE cut off her wedding ring.

Sue Tincher is a 55-year-old US citizen, a grandmother, 5’4’, and white.

She walked to her neighbor’s house after getting alerts that ICE was nearby.

She stood across the street and asked an officer if they were ICE. They told her to “get back.” She didn’t move.
Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block
Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, appears to be the first observer arrested by federal immigration enforcement officers since the agency launched an immigration surge in the Twin Cities l...
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December 13, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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Mpls Mayor Jacob Frey: "What we are seeing again & again is discrimination only to the extent that it applies to certain groups. So they're discriminating only as it applies to Latinos and Somalis ... you can't do that. You can't do that in Minneapolis. You can't do there anywhere in this country."
December 11, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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Kavanaugh stop
MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”
December 11, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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“Hardly anyone does this well on cognitive tests” yeah bro they only give them to people with dementia
December 10, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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MTG says many Republicans aren’t criticizing Trump because they’re “terrified” of getting a “nasty Truth Social post on them.”

“I watched many of my Republican colleagues go from making fun of Trump…to when he won the primary in 2024, they all started kissing his ass,” MTG told 60 Minutes.
December 7, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Rand Paul tells me that he wants the full video of the Venezuelan boat strike released.

“And I think if the public sees images of people clinging to boat debris and being blown up, I think that there is a chance that finally, the public will get interested enough in this to stop this.”
December 4, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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All corporate CEOs should understand: If you agree to attend an event at the White House, you are very likely to be filmed nodding appreciatively at a delusional racist rant. If you're ok with that, go. If not, you probably should stay away.
December 3, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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can only imagine what this feels like for a Somali-American teen or grade schooler.
President Trump unleashed a xenophobic tirade against Somali immigrants on Tuesday during a publicly broadcast cabinet meeting, calling them “garbage” he does not want in the U.S. as he sought to refocus public attention on his anti-immigration rhetoric.
Trump Calls Somalis ‘Garbage’ He Doesn’t Want in the Country
The president delivered xenophobic comments during a publicly broadcast cabinet meeting.
nyti.ms
December 2, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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A producer at the pre show meeting was so proud of themselves for this question
CNN: What if there are more names connected to the Democratic Party that come out in the files?

CHRIS MURPHY: So what?
November 20, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Powerful.
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
November 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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I’ll keep pushing this line of analysis because I’m increasingly convinced the clearest path out of this mess is for Dems to adopt a relentless anti-corruption, anti-inequality, anti-oligarchy, pro-democracy platform. The Dem leadership hasn’t realized it yet, but they’re now a reform party.
November 6, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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AOC: I have to tell you, in my traveling across the country, I am hearing and have been seeing consistent things from everyday people. And it is that they are terrified, they are frustrated, they are angry, and they are shocked by a president violating the values that we hold dear
November 5, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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Really looking forward to the Speaker of the House claiming to be unaware of the election results.
November 5, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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Young people in NYC absolutely showed out and there should be 1000 articles and profiles about this. Because we have had to put up with 1000 MAGA diner stories for years now.
November 5, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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More people voted in New York City’s election this year than they have in 50 years.

That’s a win for democracy, and a testament to @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's inspiring campaign.

Congratulations to the next mayor of the greatest city in the world. 🗽
November 5, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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the one part of this awful video I found inspiring is the moment when the cam pans back and you see an array of upstanding Americans with their smartphones out filming these gutter thugs. that's really the symbol of the opposition. the smartphone and its embedded video cam.
Here’s a disturbing video from Evanston of a federal agent hitting a man on the ground as people yell that he can’t breathe.
November 1, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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The way he rubs his inhumanity in Americans” face never ceases to stun me.

He’s illegally refusing to pay food stamp benefits…

…while he throws a ridiculously over the top Gatsby party for his right wing millionaire and corporate friends.
November 1, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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its remarkable to see random suburbanites in their fucking PJs have more courage than the vast majority of america's political, social, and civil elites
More from the scene
October 25, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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NEW: NBC News confirms that the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, on the east side of the White House, has been destroyed as part of the demolition of the East Wing.

(📸 Getty Images)
October 24, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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wow, which common vaccine was it?
October 23, 2025 at 10:04 PM