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Jewish mother of three, government lawyer, runner, gardener, anti-racist. UC Berkeley & Harvard Law School alum. Big fan of the rule of law & multicultural democracy.
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The pre-vaccine era was HELL for kids. We have already failed them on gun safety, we cannot fail them on the issue of vaccines. #VACCINES cause Adults!
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My senator! ššŖšŗšø
Have you talked about the amicus briefs? I have been wondering why people arenāt filing them, and apparently they are!
Sending a little $ support from the DMV! Yāall come on down! ššŖšŗšø
These are my patients. Kids dying of brain cancer. Kids and families desperate for treatment and hoping to find a cure through experimental therapies. Trump is dismantling science and children with brain tumor are the victims. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
How does the House do those things alone?
White supremacy is at the foundation of all of it, and white supremacy is a lie. You canāt have science, education, history, accurate reporting because all of those things make clear that white supremacy is a lie.
White supremacy is at the foundation of all of it, and white supremacy is a lie. You canāt have science, education, history, accurate reporting because all of those things make clear that white supremacy is a lie.
This is the scariest thing about climate change to me. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Oh Iām so sorry. š
Paging @govwesmoore.bsky.social
Mark Knopfler is a poet.
Awesome. I was born in Livonia but donāt think Iāve been on it! (Moved when I was 6) I think almost every city has a Telegraph Road. š
Omg one of my faves since the 80s
I wonder how many people calling Dems weak are going to keep their head down when hanging with MAGA friends and family this holiday weekend and say nothing.
Prioritize joy. Take up space. Organize. Go-go.
3 mph is not slow!
Thank you for the reminder. ššŖšŗšø
62 years ago, Dr. King led the March on Washington with giants like John Lewis, Mahalia Jackson, A. Philip Randolph, and so many others. If youāve ever wondered what youād be doing during the Civil Rights Movement, this is your test. (1/2)
Because of Native American advocacy. Donāt forget.
Not a subscriber; hopefully MD is on there?
You need to embrace it. Race is a reality now. You canāt change that. Ignoring the reality doesnāt help. It actually makes things much worse.
Also where did your sex even get mentioned?
You have BLM in your bio but you are insisting you know more about race and racism than a Black man. If you really think Black lives matter ā stop it.
Sorry yes esp white america did.
Um. Transgender men play MENāS sports lol
I wrote about how Imelda Padilla accidentally told the truth about what "local control" over land use policy actually means in practice: replacing actual planning with capricious, case-by-case decision making by elected officials. www.maxdubler.com/blog/2025/8/...
āDo not offer thoughts and prayers as you systemically enable such tragedies. Do not claim prayers are sufficient when children die as they pray. Do not pretend you do not understand.ā ā Lydia, 16, Minneapolis
We don't have to live like this.
I assume the latter. But what do I know. Iām glad they found the pills before they ate them.
Wow
If only you were wrong.
Thank you governor ššš
So much is going on that children were killed while at church today and I donāt even see any posts about it any more. Itās so fucking heartbreaking. š
We are women. Women belong in women's sports. Every sport has had trans women playing it for years before you let right-wing lies turn you against us. Your opposition to trans women in sports is used to take away all the rights you claim to care about. Wise up. You are being used.
Please stop being so naive and chill. You are part of the problem.
You are NOT an ally because you are here fighting for THE WRONG SIDE. Thus not an ally.
If youāre not ok w trans women doing sports, youāre not ok w trans women. I shouldnāt be surprised someone with your profile takes this position but I am. Just gross.
Did you actually read the screenshot? Because it literally says thatās the plan.
OMG thatās so disgusting.
Sorry to hear that has been your experience! Itās not mine but I donāt post much.
Saying - āI donāt think the President of the United States should turn the US military against US citizensā is not admitting crime is not a problem we need to work on. Trump has some of you so spooked you canāt just say a bad thing is a bad thing. And thatās dangerous and bad politics. Wake up.
š Be the one calling them out. History has itās eyes on us.
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She was brought to the US as an 8yo, worked hard, studied, earned a scholarship, planned to become a nurse. ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.
It's called fascism. Fascist regimes, like Mussolini's Italy, directly nationalized some businesses. American journalists need reminding that this isn't necessarily a 'socialist' thing. Articles like this don't help the public interpret what's happening in the US. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
They ruled that the president can't be held criminally liable for official acts while in office. Meantime they also held that the student loan forgiveness program Biden tried to do violated the law governing student loans.
Itās much harder to build housing in Blue states than it is in Red states. So yes people are moving away from Blue states. One more reason that addressing the housing shortage in NY and elsewhere must be an urgent priority.
āIn short, many communities across the U.S. have adopted a form of legal housing discrimination that ensures cheap places to live for financially stable Gen Xers and Boomers, while leaving families with children nowhere to turn.ā š¤¬
Many politicians donāt think on that time scale.
Really donāt know what that would have looked like. What he tried to do they stymied.
But you said āthe sitting president did nothingā like he had some leeway he just didnāt have.
Pritzker: This is not about fighting crime. This is about the President and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.
They didnāt give a Dem president those powers. They wouldnāt let him forgive student debt! They have a side.
Unfollowed.
āThank GOD the National Guard is here while I EAT MY PIZZA,ā shouts a woman at Red Light on 14th in DC as yet another trio of guardsmen walk by.
Outstanding! My fiancĆ©ās nephew is making our wedding cake and Iām so excited. š„°
Thatās just horrible.
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Yes. Great @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social take. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/more-dei-l...
I didnāt follow a lot of that so thanks for the summary tweet! Also, how do you talk about the patriarchy without saying patriarchy? You donāt. Which is the goal.
all of this a longwinded way of saying: while I don't pretend to know what the intentions of Third Way or Nichols are, what they're saying is *functionally* reliant on overt right wing propaganda in a straightforward way. Best, imo, to read it as an active extension of said right wing propaganda
Just please seriously examine the role you are playing in ushering in fascism.
Idk what that word means, but agree they would hate it!
Or patriarchy!! š³
100 percent. āPatriarchyā is on there. Also ācisgenderā and āintersectionality.ā Those are important concepts that you canāt discuss easily without using the words themselves, which I agree is the point.
That thread is the most infuriating thing Iāve read in a while. Why must they act so brand new?
Truly! Stop acting brand new and like weāre dealing with a good faith actor!! š¤¬ So many lives depend on it.
How about all the things he says about Democrats not being people and hating the country? Or are those debatable propositions in your mind as well?!
Thatās not implicitly accepting the premise!! These are cities, of course there is *some* crime! But that does not justify the invasion!
I still cannot get over the fact that Rufo is associated with IM-1776āan internet magazine that publishes self-identified fascists who worship people like Leon Degrelleāand nobody cares in the slightest. Everyone just continues to act like Rufo is just some guy off the street.
This is so moving. Community organizers from @ndlon.bsky.social, @casaforall.bsky.social, and @tnimmigrant.bsky.social have posted a video of Kilmar Ćbrego GarcĆa reuniting with his family. He shares a message of gratitude to God and everyone who supported him. www.instagram.com/reel/DNrjPQH...
No matter what you think about Mr. Abrego Garcia, if you believe in due process you should be infuriated by this. The Trump admin is threatening to dump him in Africa as punishment for not pleading guilty to criminal charges they brought to avoid complying with a court order.
Never ever
If he was going around saying 25 year old women are too young to make decisions about abortion, I wonder if heād have such diehard lib support. Bodily autonomy is bodily autonomy.
The University of Chicago is no longer accepting PhD students in Humanities subjects. Full stop. This should be grounds for loss of accreditation.
Necessary but not sufficient
Oh brother. Charlie Kirk agrees with you I guess.
What?
A coalition of more than 30 privacy and civil rights groups called on U.S. universities to dismantle campus surveillance and data collection, to protect student protesters and others from government retaliation apnews.com/article/coll...
Luttig is communicating vastly more clearly and honestly about Roberts and Scotus than most Democratic officials are. Itās absolutely flabbergasting.
Chattel slavery was so bad that when we tell you how bad it in fact was most of y'all shut down and tell us we're making it up and pass laws against us ever telling you how bad it was again because your brains literally cannot handle how bad it in fact was.
My people ā āmiddle-agedā white folks ā itās working! We need to keep at it!
āIt is inconceivable that the United States is once again building concentration camps, denying the lessons learned 80 years ago,ā Ann Burroughs, president and CEO of the Japanese American National Museum, said in a statement to HuffPost. www.huffpost.com/entry/former...
Excellent. Hang in there.
You guys. The Lisa Cook story isnāt about her mortgages. Please please please stop being so credulous.
It works immediately. Opted out, refreshed my profile, and it was gone. nationalpublicdata.com/optout.html
āSomeone in the DNC needs to organize a general strikeā is a wild phrase.
What happens if you say no?
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I used to buy a fair amount of household items and some clothing there. If they really pivoted I would be back, but I donāt see that happening.
Turns out that when your business model is"Walmart quality+good vibes=higher prices" and you take all the good vibes away, the model falls apart lol.
They always think Black people are lying or making shit up. This is why they're trying to whitewash the museums and history books. We don't have to lie about the horrible things they've done. The evidence is everywhere.
What movement and what developer?
āIf dense, multi-ethnic, socially inclusive communities are capable of functioning reasonably well, then the whole MAGA edifice is built on a lie. ā¦They have to be war zones. And if they arenāt war zones now, they need to be turned into them.ā publiccomment.blog/p/notes-on-a...
Texas Republicans are holding a Black woman, a Democratic state rep, hostage in the legislative chamber. They have locked the doors and have banned her from leaving.
Don't take it for granted.
I will never get over that shooting. Never. š