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Lea [she/he/they]🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🫔🍂🍰
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I am not bound by society’s dictations of what makes a woman a woman or a man a man—
or a human a human.
I simply am.
I am simply beautiful for it.
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San Francisco Board of Supervisors 11/18/25

SFPD Postpone Reforms Update Again for 5 Yrs Now & Get Fed $$$ for Crime Lab. Are SF City & County Employees Losing Their Long-Term Disability Insurance? Housing First is Out + Performative Trans Resolution

leftylea.substack.com/p/sfpd-postp...
November 20, 2025 at 6:54 AM
San Francisco Board of Supervisors 11/18/25

SFPD Postpone Reforms Update Again for 5 Yrs Now & Get Fed $$$ for Crime Lab. Are SF City & County Employees Losing Their Long-Term Disability Insurance? Housing First is Out + Performative Trans Resolution

leftylea.substack.com/p/sfpd-postp...
November 20, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Whispers in the air “trans rights”…

Let’s see if anyone hears
November 11, 2025 at 10:11 PM
you know how we've been saying the police originated in slave patrols and cannot be reformed due to such violent, racist, horrific orgins?
now imagine it's ice that becomes the future police.
do you get it now?
November 11, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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ICE kidnap disabled folks in Spring Valley, California
July 14, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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July 11, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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Every immigrant worker in California has felt the impact of unconstitutional raids based on racial profiling.

This legal victory will help protect workers from being stopped, harassed, or detained simply for looking brown and working hard.
July 12, 2025 at 3:11 AM
July 11, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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Etsy refuses to remove Alligator Alcatraz merch from their website.

Flood them with emails and social media posts. Demand they take down the listings.

The disappearing, kidnapping and torturing of others is not a merchandising opportunity.

This is life and death.
July 6, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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Difficult to overstate what ICE will become. As a civil rights lawyer, I’m already struggling to find friends & journalists and activists picked up needlessly by ICE & essentially disappeared within the immigration system. It will get worse. We have to get in formation & I need funders to help.
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 6, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Think Gestapo
Think people disappearing because they didn’t salute the leader
Think it can happen here because

It is happening here
And it *is* going to be on a scale across populations that the US has never seen before
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 6, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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In his final hours, Keith Gavin’s request for a halal final meal was denied by Alabama officials. "I’m a Muslim, I’m supposed to be eating halal food,” he told Bolts shortly before his execution this summer. “There’s nothing else to eat but junk food.” boltsmag.org/alabama...
Before Executing a Muslim Man, Alabama Denied Many of His Final Religious Requests
Keith Gavin made a number of requests about his final moments, all stemming from his Islamic faith. But the prison largely ignored them, as it has with Muslim prisoners in the past.
boltsmag.org
July 6, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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Mosab Abu Toha’s Substack has been reinstated
July 6, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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Pulitzer Prize-winning Palestinian writer Mosab Abu Toha says he’s been suspended from Substack, a platform where white supremacists publish without issue. I can’t recall this happening to any prominent writers in the past.
July 6, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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I was the first person to file a restraining order against “JJ Smith” and lost. Glad Kevin won here.
missionlocal.org/2025/07/jj-s...
JJ Smith, S.F. street videographer and provocateur, hit with restraining order
A former reporter today won a restraining order against Omar Ward, a San Francisco man known for filming drug addicts in the streets.
missionlocal.org
July 3, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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this is super awesome and you should follow corinne and support her work !!!!
July 3, 2025 at 3:10 AM
I was the first person to file a restraining order against “JJ Smith” and lost. Glad Kevin won here.
missionlocal.org/2025/07/jj-s...
JJ Smith, S.F. street videographer and provocateur, hit with restraining order
A former reporter today won a restraining order against Omar Ward, a San Francisco man known for filming drug addicts in the streets.
missionlocal.org
July 3, 2025 at 2:09 AM
June 30, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Transgender medicaid ban and definition of sex are back in the federal bill - Dems can raise a point of order and force a vote, and as long as we don't lose 7 dems on this, Dems can keep it out.

Definitely worth some phone calls folks.

bsky.app/profile/eric...
This means that Democrats will have to raise a point of order on this part of the bill. This would force a vote on the amendment that would require 60 votes. Republicans have 53 Senate seats, so it means they would need to pick off 7 Democrats for this.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Democrats wrestle whether to kill ban on trans care in Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’
Democrats have an opportunity to protect transgender people’s health care. It also comes at a time when Republicans see anti-trans policies as a winning issue, Eric Garcia writes
www.independent.co.uk
June 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Proud Boy Enrique Tarrio is now apparently creating an ICE deportation support application with National File. The company is referring to Tarrio as the ICERAID Czar. This has the potential to add all kinds of bad to an already untenable situation.
June 28, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Her baby was delivered prematurely 2 weeks ago, weighing 1lb13oz about 6 months into the pregnancy and 4 months after Adriana collapsed and was deemed brain dead. Her family describes the ordeal as medical experimentation which they are now being forced to pay for.

www.gofundme.com/f/help-adria...
Donate to Help Adriana's Family During This Heartbreaking Journey, organized by April Newkirk
This journey has been deeply saddening and heartbreaking since F… April Newkirk needs your support for Help Adriana's Family During This Heartbreaking Journey
www.gofundme.com
June 28, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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"These aren’t just your usual, run-of-the-mill GOP tax cuts. They’re worse. They’re the most redistributive tax cuts in modern American history, and by redistributive, I don’t mean from the top down. I mean to the top from the rest of us." https://trib.al/sSKvoHg
How Can the Democrats Be Losing to These Cruel, Stupid, Inept People?
You may have noticed: While Republicans debate Medicaid and other cuts, there’s one aspect of Trump’s big ugly bill that absolutely cannot be discussed.
trib.al
June 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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We need answers—now. Where is our sister Hilary Rivers? ICE took her the morning after Pride with no warning, no due process, and no communication. This is not justice—this is kidnapping. We demand transparency, accountability, and her immediate release.
Read more: 48hills.org/2025/06/drag...
Drag performer taken by ICE, morning after Pride Week pageant - 48 hills
HIlary Rivers was detained during a scheduled immigration appointment in downtown SF after Miss & Mr. Safe Latino Pageant.
48hills.org
June 27, 2025 at 7:31 PM