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Alejandra Caraballo
@esqueer.net
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🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇷 Clinical Instructor, Harvard Law Cyberlaw Clinic. Gender & Tech. Views = my own. She/Her. Read my work at thedissident.news
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · May 7
"The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil. When truth leaves us, when we let it slip away, when it is ripped from our hands, we become vulnerable to the appetite of whatever monster screams at us the loudest."

-Mon Mothma (Andor)
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2h
JD Vance when people makes jokes about Charlie Kirk: "call their employer."

JD Vance when Republican staffers say "I love Hitler" and fantasize about throwing political opponents in gas chambers: "that's what kids do...we're not canceling kids because they did something stupid."
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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 1h
John Roberts: Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it.

Brett Kavanaugh: Totes.

*immigrants being profiled by ICE enter the chat*

Roberts Court: Yeah but I didn't mean like that. The cops can definitely still arrest you because you're brown.

Kav: *chugs beer in agreement*
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1h
This shit just sucks. It's the worst watching incredibly hard working and talented journalists lose their jobs because their work makes the white supremacists in power uncomfortable while billionaire oligarch sycophants like Bari Weiss get 9 figure paydays and fail upwards. This is unsustainable.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1h
This is worse than just axing these verticals. They are eliminating the teams behind them but will push stories under these verticals by newsroom staff without the expertise or background to properly report. So we'll have NBC OUT stories reported by non-LGBTQ staff w/ no experience in the subject.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1h
It's the worst thing watching resegregation happen in real time to please a bunch of white supremacist nazis in power.

www.thewrap.com/nbc-news-lay...
NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams
The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2h
Suffice it to say, these are not kids. These are full grown ass adults, many of them in their late 20's and early 30's. At least one was a elected state senator in Vermont. And even if they were, it's never ok to make antisemitic and racist jokes like that.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2h
JD Vance when people makes jokes about Charlie Kirk: "call their employer."

JD Vance when Republican staffers say "I love Hitler" and fantasize about throwing political opponents in gas chambers: "that's what kids do...we're not canceling kids because they did something stupid."
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2h
You have to wonder if White House staffers are simply showing him AI videos at this point and he thinks it's reality.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h
Trump: "The people of Chicago are walking around with MAGA hats. You have women, beautiful Black women, walking around with MAGA hats. 'Please let the president in and we don't care how he does it ... bring in the Marines.'"
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2h
Photos by Anthony Vazquez at the Chicago Sun-Times.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2h
Photos by Anthony Vazquez at the Chicago Sun-Times.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 3h
This is Chicago, armed fascist thugs pointing guns at unarmed US citizens.

Photo by Anthony Vazquez at the Chicago Sun-Times.
Armed officers in military-style gear confront a group of civilians during a tense outdoor standoff; one officer points a rifle at a young man who raises his hands defensively while others shout in the background, with trees and houses visible behind them.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 3h
I can't stress enough how young staffers working for Republicans are basically all groyper Nazis now. The leaked texts yesterday saying "I love Hitler" and now swastikas on congressional offices.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
Capitol Police called to investigate swastika in GOP congressional office
An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 3h
The worst part is the typical reactionary centrist response to this is to blame the left by saying we were crying wolf so now it won't be taken seriously when there's actual nazis in the halls of power.

We tried to warn you! You just didn't want to listen.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 3h
I can't stress enough how young staffers working for Republicans are basically all groyper Nazis now. The leaked texts yesterday saying "I love Hitler" and now swastikas on congressional offices.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
Capitol Police called to investigate swastika in GOP congressional office
An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.
www.politico.com
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jenny_tightpants🪑 @jtp.bsky.social · 7h
everyone on here seems to think that there's just one feature you can add or remove from social media to make people not go insane on here. this belief, i think, is itself a form of madness
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onion person @junlper.beer · 7h
very annoying that we had to endure about a month of these people going “calling us nazis hurts our feelings” to then immediately be revealed saying nazi shit and going “yup, we want gas chambers. so what libs”
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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 8h
The EHRC has finally, five months after producing its wildly transphobic and, we believe, unlawful Interim Guidance now taken it down. Our judicial review challenge to that Interim Guidance will be heard in less than one month.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10h
It's very intentional. The Nazis online are celebrating it.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10h
A official Border patrol Instagram reel uses the controversial Michael Jackson song "They Don't Care About Us" with the lyrics:

Jew me, sue me...
Kick me, k*ke me

We have a nazi government.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10h
Don't get me wrong, we're doing ok and we'll be fine but if we're feeling this cut into our spending this deeply, I cannot imagine what lower income people must be feeling right now. If you're not making $500k/year for a household, you're basically living paycheck to paycheck.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10h
Harvard Law instructors didn't get a pay increase this year and our health insurance premiums are going up 30% this year along with major increases in deductibles and co-pays. Prices are out of control. Me and my partner have substantially cut back on eating out and we're shopping at Costco more.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11h
A grocery store clerk in Chicago says shoppers see prices “and say, ‘What the f—? .. It happens all the time.”

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www.wsj.com/economy/cons...
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 11h
I hate being right.
Alt text: Screenshot of a news article from The Times website. The headline reads: “Shabana Mahmood says rights watchdog undermines UK case to stay in ECHR.” The subheading says the Council of Europe criticised the government’s stance on transgender rights and warned that banning Palestine Action could breach freedom of peaceful assembly. The article is by Geraldine Scott, Oliver Wright, and Matt Dathan, dated Tuesday October 14, 2025 at 6:45pm BST. The first paragraph begins by stating that the home secretary accused Europe’s human rights watchdog of undermining the UK’s case to remain in the European Convention on Human Rights. The top of the page shows The Times logo, navigation links, and “Log in” and “Subscribe” buttons.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20h
This is what Matt Walsh is defending.
Alt text: Screenshot of two posts from the same verified social media account with a bearded man as the profile photo. Top post: The account says that if someone who is conservative has a problem with another person on the political right, they should address it privately. Publicly attacking people on the same side is described as a weak move. Engagement stats show hundreds of replies and shares, and over 13,000 likes. Bottom post: The account complains that people on the political right do not support each other and often criticize or abandon their allies, especially compared to people on the political left who are described as sticking together. The writer says they previously called for unity after someone named Charlie died but received rejection. They sarcastically conclude that continuing to divide will lead to losing. Engagement stats again show over a thousand replies and shares, and more than 11,000 likes.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 22h
Greg Bovino, Kristi Noem, and DHS need to answer for their unchecked attacks on Chicago residents.

ICE is an out-of-control danger to our peaceful communities.

The images from the Sun-Times today speak for themselves.
An ICE agent throws a tear gas canister at protesters at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side. Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times Federal immigration enforcement agents detain a protester during a skirmish at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side. Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent points a crowd control weapon at a protester Tuesday at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in the East Side neighborhood. Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times A Chicago Police Department officer washes his face after being exposed to tear gas during a protest at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side. Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times
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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 22h
Spent all day reading briefs in Louisiana v. Callais and watching white people argue that the 14th amendment is a race-neutral colorblind amendment and citing Plessy for that proposition has me so angry. Just.. come the fuck on.

The Reconstruction Amendments were not intended to be race-neutral.
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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 1d
Just so everyone is clear, the main issue in the Supreme Court voting rights case tomorrow is whether it's racist against white people to enforce the Voting Rights Act.

I'm dead serious. We live in incredibly stupid times.
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