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)
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BREAKING: Judge Charles Breyer finds that the Trump administration violated the Posse Comitatus Act by using the military for domestic law enforcement purpose in Los Angeles. He enjoins further violations of the Posse Comitatus Act ⬇️ storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Usually when I kick my shoes off and leave them it is half me feeling de-stressed and happy to be free of them, and half my hands being full of stuff. That said, I didn't leave them until I started frequenting a spot where others left theirs. & I don't do this at beaches without a path entrance.
The problem isn’t refugees on boats. The problem is oligarchs hoarding obscene amounts of wealth while most people fight to stay afloat. Wages aren't tied to inflation, so the working class keeps falling behind no matter how hard they work.
Happy Labor Day! Join a union. Stand with a union. #WorkersOverBillionaires, always
🙄 Enjoying the fruits of someone else's labor doesn't make you a part of the movement. Solidarity does.
at their core, trans rights, abortion rights, and vaccine rights are actually all the same issue: they’re all about bodily autonomy, and the willingness to concede any of them puts the others at risk.
My thoughts exactly! Fr tho, next time Imma still make s'mores with peeps...they just won't be leftover from Easter 🤣
🤣🤣 Bless you. Kid didn't want to interrupt our fun to go to the store, so we got creative
That's what I thought too until I tried it 🤣🤣🤣
For real tho, hear me out--the sugar on the outside of the peep caramelizes perfectly, and the melted sugar is so hot the chocolate melts better too. It seems so wrong, but tastes so right 🤣
I looked at my son like he was crazy when he suggested it today, but then I tried it 😬 The sugar on the outside caramelizes perfectly. I was stunned.
I murdered them peeps 🤣🤣🤣
Guilty af. If loving this is wrong, I don't wanna be right 🤣
Breaking: Stale marshmallow peep smores are the BEST SMORES
New Mexico is overriding the federal government on the topic of COVID19 vaccines to ensure their residents can access them. States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it.
This latest illegal Trump EO is also setting the stage so that even more folks are ready to believe that votes are rigged in states that don't comply.
Right?!
And I'm just gonna leave this here rain.works/products/inv...
remember when they showed us pics of trump “working” at walter reed and if you zoomed in, he was just signing his name on blank pieces of paper
Literally all of us rn
Well I'm glad you're with us in spirit! 🤣🥴
Instead of banging pots and pans at 8pm, let's all go to our porches, stoops, and windows to collectively yell DIE! DIE! DIE! If the wishing doesn't work, his furor at us just might push him over the line...
My money is on Trump being very ill with COVID. It's just too politically inconvenient for them to admit it this time. Thoughts and prayers. 🥴
My favorite evergreen Molly Ivins quote: "I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag."
Ok but Australia has only 27 million people. The ratio is astounding!
I'll never forget when Trump got COVID the first time. What a moment! But I'll also never forget his recovery...
NEW figures show that 61,226 people are currently in ICE detention — the highest number ever in US history. According to ICE data, 70% of these people have no criminal conviction.
Two innocent children are dead and the far right are racing to use it as pretext to further eradicate trans people. This mass shooting had nothing to do with the shooter being trans and everything to do with them being radicalized online by a nihilistic murder cult that worships mass shooters.
I said this months ago but I really need a BLUE STATE COMPACT IMMEDIATELY. Bring together all health depts, all education depts, etc... under one umbrella. Collectivize guidance, ensure that disabled students get what they need, etc... An emergency meeting of all Blue State Governors is overdue.
My heart is breaking over the loss of the CDC. The toll this will take on Americans is incalculable.
Omfg you've gotta be kidding me
The limitations on vaccines are a travesty, but it is super important to remind folks that the CDC list of high risk conditions includes a ton of people! If you're over 65, overweight, used to smoke, have diabetes, depression or ADHD, you should be able to get the shot!
Just sitting here crying over being able to get the Novavax COVID vaccine this year! (Just FDA re-approved for high risk folks) I never would've imagined being this grateful for a shot--but this is what it is like to be disabled during the age of "MAHA"
GRAND JURY NULLIFICATION! Prosecutors Fail to Secure Indictment Against Man Who Threw Sandwich at Federal Agent www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
Philly keeps it 💯
Yeah, really grasping just how old he is thanks to this picture. Everything he's done feels even more icky...
US veterans staging a sit in at union station in dc until the military occupation of the district ends. but no news coverage whatsoever.
Yikes. Thanks.
VETERANS, Family & Friends: Want to participate in organizing Veteran led peace patrols to reassure & remind our National Guardsmen that they have sworn an Oath to the Constitution? It’s forming on every city. JOIN HERE : rememberyouroath.org
Any news on Novavax? I was hoping since it isn't mRNA it might still be available this fall
Do you have a source re: Novovax? I'm having a hard time finding news about it
This. This. And more THIS!
A man, near the White House, who describes himself as a "retired disabled combat veteran," after burning an American flag tells bystanders "I am being detained because I expressed my First Amendment rights."
It’s wild, absolutely wild, how for EVERY. SINGLE. CITY. Trump wants to militarize I can post data showing how crime is plummeting in all of them without any federal invasion… … and the press KEEPS stenographing the naked bad-faith claims about “fighting crime!” in the headlines. Infuriating.
I'm seriously concerned that this "TACO Trump" rhetoric is gonna get us killed. It is conditioning us to assume he'll just change his mind. It isn't Trump flip flopping that changes his mind, it's the fight. It is us.
Did people adopt a "if we don't rebel maybe they'll just go away" approach to the occupation of DC?
Florida bans the Diary of Anne Frank. A literary classic that serves as a cautionary tale about the rise of fascism and the importance of documenting atrocities as they’re occurring. We all must document this time in history. Keep copies. Write everything down. Make sure that the truth will out.
And Miss Celie's curse will stay on America until this is reckoned with.
Fox 17 Nashville reports that Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released from criminal detention in Tennessee and is on his way home to Maryland. “Today, Kilmar Abrego Garcia is free,” his attorney, @sean-hecker.bsky.social, said in a statement. fox17.com/news/local/k...
John Bolton refused to testify at Trump's impeachment, preferring to sacrifice national security to make money with his book. He could have helped bring accountability and erode the mafia state, enduring that Trump and his cohort could not return. He did not, so now the mafia state comes for him.
From the ACLU Washington, DC Chapter in case there are still laws:
I always saw physical being used in that way as meaning forceful? Like, not the "physicality" it takes to be nimble and run complex plays, but physical brute force to advance yard by yard? Still wack.
This can't be allowed to happen.
Worth a listen
The more illegal and offensive the operation, the more necessary to have their own fleet. I'd take any concrete steps toward ICE owned deportation airplanes as a huge escalation in the threat they pose to all of us.
The national guard patrolling the streets, military officers put in charge of prosecuting civilians, mandatory checkpoints demanding ID at subway stations, DHS raids, and curfews in certain neighborhoods. DC is effectively under martial law.
If you want to put back statues and memorials and names of Confederate traitors while tearing down museum exhibitions on slavery because they don't show the greatness of the nation... the nation whose history you're celebrating is whiteness. The kind of nationalist you are is a white nationalist.
The Independent has identified Eric Lendrum as the DHS PR officer responsible for a relentless flood of social media posts on DHS pages using Nazis memes, slogans and images. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
At (another) Hampton’s fundraiser with Republican donors on Saturday, Andrew Cuomo said it plainly: he’s expecting Trump’s help to defeat us in November. “I feel good about that,” Cuomo said. New Yorkers won’t.
Tell everyone. EVERYONE. We aren't "on the brink" of fascism, it's here now.
All them to free TX Rep. Collier, who they're currently holding against her will.
You got the date wrong, pal. Please post again!
“With less they beat slavery. With less they beat Jim Crow… Harriet Tubman didn’t have email, Twitter, Texts, TikTok…”
We are outraged and deeply distressed that armed federal agents came onto our campus—making arrests on the very ground where, in 1942, Japanese American families were forced to board buses bound for concentration camps. It was a deliberate act of provocation and intimidation.
Holy shit.
Mood.
So if a group of men -- all of them wearing masks, with no uniforms or badges visible, driving unmarked cars -- approach anyone on the streets of DC, they're just supposed to submit?
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This kid is all of us.
Let's switch that up: "They'll never have FEMAs help unless we fight for them."
No agency insignia at all on their uniforms, so this is likely not DEA or ATF or FBI or Border Patrol. So probably it’s DHS, most likely ICE. And yeah, the comment about “liberal” is really telling. These guys are wildly unprofessional.
A present and lunch in the honor of a wanted war criminal. Ugh. www.npr.org/2025/08/16/n...
Good morning, fam
(Also its a mosque! Would you go to a mass and say people are oppressed because they aren't in bathing suits on a hot day? There are clothing norms in many houses of worship. Don't like it--don't pray there.)
Yuck. Stop using fake concerns for Muslim women to cover your Islamophobia.
As a former constituent from one of those Brooklyn neighborhoods...ick. Jeffries can keep his endorsement.
Name names!!! I need deets! Is that Walmart???
The White House’s official X account has a long thread in which they’ve posted pictures of people arrested during the feds’ occupation of the city. Every single person in the thread is a person of color.
Hey DC! Pass it on!
A recent large deportation flight to Southeast Asia likely cost around $1.5 million to operate, to give you some sense of how expensive these are.
Heathrow is attractive and the service is decent but their practice of not telling you the gate until just before your flight makes the experience trash. It causes overcrowding in the main hall and doesn't allow travelers to feel at ease. That's way below peers.
Situation on 14th St and W St. NW, with federal agents -- no specific agency identified -- pulling cars over for checks. They arrested a Black woman in this car. BIG crowd of people shouting at police. "Fuck you!" "What is wrong with you!" "You don't need to terrorize people like this!"
Quick: everyone tell a friend about jury nullification.
Also arresting these people makes it possible for them to say "hey! We're not racist! We torture white kids and their parents, too!" 🤦🏽♀️🔥
This is Heritage Foundation Chief Economist EJ Antoni, Trump's new nominee for Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner. And THAT is his Nazi battleship wall art/Zoom background.
Justice for sandwich bro!
In urban policy, it is considered bad for someone to be rent-burdened (spending at least 30% of their income on rent). But Cuomo's newly proposed law would *require* that people be rent-burdened. Absolutely insane.
FREE SUB GUY!!!!!
This is coming through loud and clear. Smdh. FDT.
You should also use *your* leverage.
🤔Seems like every US city with a significant Black population will get its own very expensive and completely unnecessary martial law occupation under this administration. LA was first. DC is next. I'm not even going to do another thread about how this doesn't decrease crime. You already know.
Someone forgot to take down this webpage: www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...
Reposted w/correct numbers! Whatever you’ve been doing, STOP & LISTEN (read). This is happening on our soil in our name paid for with our tax dollars. Every one of us should call our House members & Senators. 202-224-3121 And flood the call lines to Gov. DeSantis’ office: 850-717-9337
LEFT: Where our government incarcerates a person who has a tattoo in honor of a family member. RIGHT: Where our government incarcerates a person who has facilitated and/or engaged in the sexual assault of over a thousand children.
Can you even imagine talking this much smack to a man WHO ALREADY BEAT YOU?!?!
They spread the lie for years that public health professionals are enemies. Now, a policeman is dead, and the lives of CDC personnel and their kids were at risk. There'll be "deep concern" and thoughts & prayers. But architects of that lie will celebrate privately because this has been the goal.
Can we get together and listen to the dial up just one last time??