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Jessie Losch

@jessielosch.bsky.social

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MPH. Rescue dog owner, caffeine-relier-oner, fútbol watcher, vegan stress baker. Mostly yelling about abortion access. She/her/ella 🇺🇾💚

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Jessie Losch @jessielosch.bsky.social · Jul 9

So uh…I had a baby, and wrote a thing about it.

www.huffpost.com/entry/pregna...

I Felt Terrified To Raise A Baby Girl In This World. Then, 5 Words From My OB-GYN Gave Me Hope.

“She left the room as I lay on the table, absorbing the surprising power of that sentence.”

www.huffpost.com

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Jessie Losch @jessielosch.bsky.social · 1h

I wouldn’t wish him on dogs.

Jessie Losch @jessielosch.bsky.social · 1h

This is feeling like one of those days where they’re blowing up so many things in an attempt to overwhelm, exhaust, throw us into despair. It could work- or we could gather together and fight back.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 2h

The Supreme Court’s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the “I love Hitler” guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 2h

The Voting Rights Act has done more than perhaps any other statute to build a multiracial democracy

which is precisely why the Supreme Court’s conservative justices have spent decades casting the law as constitutionally unsound

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/calla...

The Conservative Justices Have So Many Ideas For How to Kill the Voting Rights Act

The Republican justices already know where they’re going. They just have to figure out which route they’re going to take to get there.

ballsandstrikes.org

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 6h

“white people who claim they’re being persecuted” is pretty much the entire GOP brand (gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...)

Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People
The proposals would transform a program aimed at helping the most vulnerable people in the world into one that gives preference to mostly white people who say they are being persecuted.

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Jessie Losch @jessielosch.bsky.social · 6h

This is the same administration who just revoked the visas of six people for speaking about Charlie Kirk. The same administration calling No Kings a “hate march.” But when their own talk about Hitler, rape, racism, misogyny, and antisemitism? Well. We’re back to “locker room banter.”

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Jessie Losch @jessielosch.bsky.social · 9h

I will not say what I want to say….

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Jessie Losch @jessielosch.bsky.social · 9h

This is the office in charge of, among many other vital functions, teen pregnancy prevention. Now ask yourselves, how is ANY of this, “pro life”? How is any of this good for the country?
www.notus.org/health-scien...

HHS Appears to be Cutting Its Entire Family Planning Office

Almost every member of the Office of Population Affairs lost email access and is unable to tell if they were laid off, workers told NOTUS.

www.notus.org

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Jessie Losch @jessielosch.bsky.social · 10h

Great job, John Roberts.
When JOE ARPAIO, who basically made “Sheriff” a euphemism for “pure, unadulterated evil,” applauds you, you know you’re the bad guys.

Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 11h

for @slate.com I wrote about Joe Arpaio's view on the SCOTUS shadow docket decision in Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo, the case in which Kavanaugh said it was okay to racially profile people.
“I was vindicated by the Supreme Court of all this shit.”
slate.com/news-and-pol...

He Was the Most Notorious Sheriff in America. He Says the Supreme Court Vindicated Him.

Thanks, SCOTUS.

slate.com

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Jessie Losch @jessielosch.bsky.social · 10h

I did a jump scare at Joe Arpaio’s name. I can’t believe he’s still evil-ing.

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Jessie Losch @jessielosch.bsky.social · 10h

That group is for people up to 40 years old! Not exactly naive children.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 1d

10 out of 1,000 means ICE is wrong 99% of the time, and they just got $170 billion to expand while food for starving children got cut

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

Trump claims ICE’s reign of terror in Chicago is targeting the “worst of the worst.”

But out of the 1,000 undocumented immigrants that have swept up, the agency has only cited 10 men with a criminal background.

Don’t believe his lies for a second.
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Trump says migrants drive violent crime in Illinois. But ICE can’t find many violent criminals.

Masked ICE agents and other federal forces showed up in Chicago to go after gangsters. Instead, they keep catching people who are just living their lives.

www.msnbc.com

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T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel (Retired)" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 1d

This is yet another reminder that the "you can just walk around with your papers and be fine!" is a lie: the cops routinely claim whatever documentation you provide is invalid

It's racism all the way down

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

"During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she 'doesn’t look like' a Greeley."

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Chicago Tribune: Greeley, who was born at Illinois Masonic hospital and is adopted, carries a copy of her passport just in case she runs into federal agents.

“I am Latina and I am a service worker,” Greeley said. “I fit the description of what they’re looking for now.”

During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she “doesn’t look like” a Greeley.

“They said this isn’t real, they kept telling me I’m lying, I’m a liar,” Greeley recalled. “I told them to look in the rest of my wallet, I have my credit cards, my insurance.”

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Patt Morrison @pattmlatimes.bsky.social · 2d

The obsessive relentlessness of their devotion to cruelty has to be some diagnosable pathology.

Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 3d

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

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Rory Roberge @roryroberge.bsky.social · 1d

The only entity on Earth that may be more corrupt than the Trump Regime is FIFA

Jessie Losch @jessielosch.bsky.social · 1d

Oh my god I love them.

Jessie Losch @jessielosch.bsky.social · 1d

What FIFA should do is pull the World Cup from the States. What they will do, because Infantino is a corrupt stooge, is probably do whatever Trump wants.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump on moving World Cup games from Boston: "We could take them away. Your mayor is not good."

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Jessie Losch @jessielosch.bsky.social · 1d

Wait wait I got another one!
When you can’t afford your midfielder from Temu, you order one from:

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Jessie Losch @jessielosch.bsky.social · 1d

There are only two genders (World Cup qualifier version):

Photo of a blonde man with the last name “Shein “

Photo of a brunette man with the last name “Hein”

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Jessie Losch @jessielosch.bsky.social · 1d

Someone took the theatre kid game of “name your dream cast, dead or alive” wayyyyy too far. This is so gross.

Jessie Losch @jessielosch.bsky.social · 1d

New York, important voting deadlines:

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 16d

Hey New Yorkers!

October 20: Last day to change or update your address for the election

October 25: Last day your application to register to vote can be received meaning it needs to be sent in earlier

Also October 25: Early voting begins!

Check your registration now: voterlookup.elections.ny.gov

Voter Search Screen for VoterLookUp

voterlookup.elections.ny.gov

Jessie Losch @jessielosch.bsky.social · 1d

New Jersey! Today is your last day to register to vote!

nj.gov/state/electi...

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ANSIRH @ansirh.bsky.social · 2d

ICE is targeting people in hospitals and clinics, deterring people from accessing essential pregnancy care.

Many patients — nervous about encountering immigration officials — are skipping virtually all of their pregnancy-related health care.

ICE fears put pregnant immigrants and their babies at risk

Fear of deportation is deterring people without permanent legal status from critical care. Doctors are worried for their health — and the health of their pregnancies.

19thnews.org

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Jessie Losch @jessielosch.bsky.social · 2d

This is an INCREDIBLE insult. Top notch work!

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 2d

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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