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into my plants, vhs, kicking it with my kid, and us politics. scientist teaching defense attorneys about faulty forensics. questionable music taste. new england coded. if you know me irl, no you don’t. 🇵🇸🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🤙

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legal cat 🐾👻 @legalcat.bsky.social · 10d

this tool lets you report ice and other law enforcement when you see them. it also displays a heat map of where law enforcement currently is, with fairly granular detail.

even better, no app for install tracking. use a vpn. stay safe and smart.

ICE Tea Watch

Report and track ICE and law enforcement presence anonymously.

watch.alwaysreadytools.org

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I slapped SCOTUS and Ouiser Boudreaux, Spooky Version @nwayne66.bsky.social · 33m

Isn’t there a show called Nobody Wants This?

I slapped SCOTUS and Ouiser Boudreaux, Spooky Version @nwayne66.bsky.social · 1h

Today in Not Able to Read the Room:

Rep. Seth Moulton to challenge Sen. Edward Markey for Mass. seat

The announcement makes the race one of the most anticipated primary contests in the country and pits two of the heavily Democratic state’s top politicians against one another.

wcvb.com

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legal cat 🐾👻 @legalcat.bsky.social · 11h

we can ask qatar for the funds lol

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legal cat 🐾👻 @legalcat.bsky.social · 11h

hey so everything that’s being done is illegal!!!

legal cat 🐾👻 @legalcat.bsky.social · 16h

what if liberal states redistricted so that every person is a district?

one person = one electoral vote, a sort of de facto abolishment of the ec

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legal cat 🐾👻 @legalcat.bsky.social · 16h

I just brought my snake plant in and no snakes, but lots and lots of spiders 😭

legal cat 🐾👻 @legalcat.bsky.social · 16h

you were prob nakey

legal cat 🐾👻 @legalcat.bsky.social · 17h

when mom is busy so the pets are being rationed

A cat laying on her side with her paws held up but floppy like a bunny. She stares into the distance. It has been so long since she has felt love.

The same cat extends a paw. It is a cry for help. Someone please think of the cats.

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legal cat 🐾👻 @legalcat.bsky.social · 18h

if you loop the same twenty seconds of hold music, you hate your customers

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🎃Tom Wambsgans’ Second Wife, PhD @drwambsgans.bsky.social · 1d

I should’ve done this with my dissertation.

Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 1d

books should have an anti-acknowledgements section where the author talks shit about all the people who fucked them over while they were trying to write the thing. not bc I personally want to write one but bc I love gossip

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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legal cat 🐾👻 @legalcat.bsky.social · 1d

I’m actually surprised by this one, despite thinking nothing else could surprise me by this admin.

legal cat 🐾👻 @legalcat.bsky.social · 1d

ICE waited outside of a prison for a man who was exonerated of his crimes after spending 43 years in prison.

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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legal cat 🐾👻 @legalcat.bsky.social · 1d

trying to internet stalk someone when it opens linkedin

who cursed me

legal cat 🐾👻 @legalcat.bsky.social · 3d

and not including the pictured table 😩😩

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 3d

Population: roughly 4,500. So nearly 1/1000 of the town was killed in single incident

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 3d

Four dead, 12 injured after a mass shooting in Leland, Mississippi, following a homecoming football game. (NYP)

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legal cat 🐾👻 @legalcat.bsky.social · 3d

i actually don’t even need all of the purple… just vermont, maine, and mass. we can call it vermaineachusetts.

Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 3d

New electoral college just dropped - do we win this one?

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legal cat 🐾👻 @legalcat.bsky.social · 3d

dynamic pricing in the worst way

legal cat 🐾👻 @legalcat.bsky.social · 3d

“Get back,” troopers scream, as they surge on the crowd:

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3d

Troopers just violently attacked protesters, tackled several, several arrests, shoving activists and press with batons.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3d

One man on the megaphone pleading with police to stop advancing on protesters.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3d

Some protesters in bloc squeak little pigs at the cops.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 3d

It's utterly devastating to see decades of progress for the disability community being wiped out in just a few months.

There was of course much work to be done, but now that effort will have to be devoted to clawing back the gains now being ripped away.

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 3d

The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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legal cat 🐾👻 @legalcat.bsky.social · 3d

sometimes i put it on 0.7 speed to trick my brain into thinking it’s sleepier than it is

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legal cat 🐾👻 @legalcat.bsky.social · 3d

and now i’m watching a spotify podcast episode she did about it lolol (laughing bc otherwise i would do violence)

legal cat 🐾👻 @legalcat.bsky.social · 3d

saturday morning gossip

a man in the park told my mother randomly that our dead relatives died so she could write a book. then she went and saw the long island medium.

now, she’s quitting her job and telling everyone she’s been writing a book for two years about our estrangement.

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legal cat 🐾👻 @legalcat.bsky.social · 4d

god they’re foaming so hard for violence and they’re not even trying to hide it anymore

legal cat 🐾👻 @legalcat.bsky.social · 4d

you might be on to something here