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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals

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Proudly trans and Jewish pay-whatever-you-can lawyer in IL. Happily gay married to the love of my life. No legal advice here; not your lawyer. Free Palestine. My memoir is out now! She/her.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 18d

In less than a month (10/22 at 1:00 pm), I will be celebrating yet another 29th birthday. And I want all of you to celebrate with me. I'm having a mutual aid themed Zoom party and you can all be at invited!

All you have to do to get an invitation is either:

Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · Sep 5

Hello Thriends! My birthday is coming up (October 22) and I want to celebrate getting old with all of you! I'm hosting a Zoom hangout on my birthday and I want you all to join me. All you have to do to get the Zoom login info is... (Cont)

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 1h

"If you really had Crohn's Disease, you couldn't be a lawyer. You'd be on disability."

- a different opposing counsel to me on a weekly basis

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 3h

I hope that a hundred years from now people talk about me as some kind of racist asshole. I don't want to be judged by the standards of my time. I want to be judged by a better world and found wanting, because that will require that better world.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 3h

If your descendants view you as a hero, as an impossible ideal to live up to, that means society has gone backwards.

That John Brown is still an aspirational goal and not the reality for most of us white people is an indictment, not praise.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 3h

We don't have to defeat Trump. We have to defeat the systems that nurtured, created, and empowered Trump.

Many of those systems are built around the comfort of white people, cis people, and abled people, at the expense of everyone else.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 4h

That horse drawing meme, but it's the writing in my head vs the words that make it to the page

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 4h

Then email your receipt to [email protected] and I will send you the Zoom login details. It's that easy!

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 4h

ICYMI: My birthday is ONE WEEK FROM TODAY! I'm having a Zoom birthday party at 1:00 pm on October 22, and you can be invited!

All you have to do is EITHER

- Donate to any Palestinian or Mutual Aid requestor;

OR

- Share, by reposting or quoting, any ten (10) Palestinians or Mutual Aid Requestors.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 4h

Overnight my wife got even more beautiful again. I still don't know how she does it, but admittedly I love this for me.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 4h

Normalize caring about other people.

They deserve to live and thrive. Everyone does.

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Timothy @landbeforetim.bsky.social · 19h

The homes Israeli hostages return to VS the homes Gazans return to

The is no going back to “normal” for them. They are now living in a rubble ridden hellscape while the western world moves on, pretending it didn’t fund and approve this.

On the left is a street in Tel Aviv, Israel. Pictured is beautiful green lush Mediterranean style cityscape.

On the right is an image of a young Palestinian girl walking the “streets” of Gaza City, now turned to rubble and ash. The buildings are demolished by bombs and war crimes while the streets are littered with debris, rubble, and broken concrete.

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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 19h

It gets worse

THE COURT: What is -- what are the defendants
willing to do in terms of advanced notice to Mr. Abrego's
counsel or to this court as to which fork in the road you
choose?
MR. KHOJASTEH: My understanding is Mr. Abrego Garcia
is going to have the ability to contact his counsel when he's
in the detention facility.
THE COURT: That means you're not willing to answer
my question. Have the ability, what does that mean? What specifically are you going to do?

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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 20h

Whooooooo.

MR. KHOJASTEH: Your Honor, with respect, do you
doubt the fact that a retainer [sic] is in place in -- a
detainer is in place?
THE COURT: I absolutely doubt the fact until I see
it. Because you know what? You all have taken a position over
and over again that you have done things lawfully, and then a
witness gets on the stand yesterday and admits you haven't done
it lawfully.
MR. KHOJASTEH: What did the witness say yesterday
that was unlawfully?
THE COURT: I'm not here to answer your questions,
sir. You're here to answer mine.

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☭Comrade Internet☭ @comradeinternet.bsky.social · 20h

Remember, for every person doing frontline work(anything involving active confrontation be it frog protests or anything spicier and more kinetic in nature), there is a critical need for something like seventeen people doing rear echelon work of every skill type.

Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 20h

"So what do you suggest we do to fight Trump?"

Find people in your community who need help, and help them. We all have skills. Maybe it's giving rides to people who don't have cars. Maybe it's going to the grocery store so your immigrant or racialized neighbors don't have to when ICE is around.

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👻 ZH0000GE LIANG 臥龍 / 伏龍 👻 @shuchancellor.online · 20h

Israel immediately broke the ceasefire so now it's outright lies anyways

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 19h

Posts about people returning to their homes are designed to elicit a sense of conclusion, of normality, that simply does not exist when Israel dropped the equivalent of multiple nuclear weapons on an area the size of Seattle.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 20h

I think what's bothering me about all these statements I'm seeing from politicians that are variations of "Israeli hostages and Palestinians are returning to their homes, yay" is that Israelis are returning to their homes and Palestinians are returning to uninhabitable post apocalyptic rubble.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 20h

The answer to "is Benjamin Netanyahu a war criminal?" is "yes, but he's also a genocider," and this should not be controversial.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 20h

Way too many people still think that whatever happens to people as a result of American imperialism abroad *cough Palestine Sudan Congo cough* is acceptable, fine even, not our problem, as long as the lesser evil wins in the United States.

And it's not. I'm sorry. It's just not.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 20h

Maybe it's providing childcare they can't afford. Maybe it's money. Maybe it's protesting. We all have our things we can do, and it starts in our communities.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 20h

Maybe it's picking up prescriptions for your disabled or trans neighbors. Maybe it's being a buddy so a marginalized person doesn't have to go somewhere alone. Maybe it's being an escort at an abortion or gender affirming care clinic. Maybe it's making food for neighbors who can't make their own.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 20h

Yes, this is about all those memes everyone shares about abandoning red states or having blue states join Canada, and I. Hate. It.

1. No, "fuck gerrymandered Black people and queer people and pregnant people" is not an acceptable "solution."

2. Why do we get to just carve up stolen land some more?

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 20h

by just divvying up the stolen land differently.

Slicing the stolen pie in different pieces isn't returning the pie.

Sincerely,
Sheryl

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 20h

Dear Everyone:

We don't solve the problems in the United States, a colonial imperial power that still refuses to give political representation to Indigenous nations or Puerto Rico or Guam or the Virgin Islands or DC and disenfranchises Black people and immigrants by the tens of thousands,

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Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com · 22h

If able, please consider donating to help care for baby Asiah: fundly.com/missmajor

Please at least share this post if unable to contribute! 🫂

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