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Amy Borror

@amyborror.bsky.social

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Policy, comms, youth rights, youth defense, racial justice, abolitionist. Sr. Youth Policy Strategist at The Gault Center (but this is my personal account). Evolving.

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The Gault Center

@gaultcenter.bsky.social

Thank you to @lastweektonight.com for focusing on the urgent need to transform the juvenile legal system and for highlighting that, "Kids should be provided access to legal counsel at every step of the system."
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Juvenile Justice: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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June 16, 2025 at 5:40 PM

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Puff the Magic Hater

@mskellymhayes.bsky.social

We must demand better. Not Gavin Newsom, who snatches the belongings of unhoused folks and plays paddy cake with Steve Fucking Bannon. Not Rahm Emanuel, who covered up a murder, closed 50 schools, and shuttered half of Chicago's publicly funded mental health clinics. We need new and better politics.

March 13, 2025 at 5:16 AM

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The Gault Center

@gaultcenter.bsky.social

Honoring the youth defense community today on the 20th anniversary of Roper v. Simmon #youthdefense #ropervsimmons #adolescentdevelopment #collectiveaction #collectivepower

20 years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court in Roper v. Simmons held that youth must be treated differently, recognizing the science behind adolescence. Declaring the death penalty unconstitutional for children, the highest court of our land spoke to the potential of growth inherent in every single child. This landmark decision not only marks the start of a developmental jurisprudence, but it is also a testament to the collective action of the youth defense community refusing to accept the status quo. In 1989, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the death penalty for youth in Stanford v. Kentucky, proclaiming that it was “absurd” to consider maturity and that “socioscientific, ethicoscientific, or even purely scientific evidence is not an available weapon.” Nonetheless, the youth defense community persisted. What held greater power than the Supreme Court’s dismissal of adolescent development was the collective action of youth defenders who kept fighting. And 16 years later, the Supreme Court ruled, “as any parent knows and as the scientific and sociological studies . . . confirm, a lack of maturity and an underdeveloped sense of responsibility are found in youth more often than in adults and are more understandable among the young.” As we honor the legacy of the youth defense community who fought relentlessly for courts to recognize the developmental potential of youth, we find assurance in our collective power. Now more than ever, we hold on to the words of Mariame Kaba who taught us, “So, how do we make change happen? You, as an individual, are only a tiny pebble in a vast sea. We can personally make ripples, but it takes collective action to make waves.” In this moment where uncertainty breeds fear, we remember how our once radical imaginations became reality, and we can do it again. As we look toward a new horizon, one filled with wholeness and dignity, we are committed to making waves, together, until the day every young person is free to thrive.

March 1, 2025 at 2:40 PM

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Katie Mack

@astrokatie.com

If you’re in the US and you’d like to know what projects and vital services federal grants currently fund in your state, you can search here: www.usaspending.gov

And you can find the contact information for your elected representatives here: www.usa.gov/elected-offi...

They need to hear from you.

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January 28, 2025 at 4:59 AM

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Andrea Junker

@strandjunker.com

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

January 24, 2025 at 8:08 PM

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Sherrilyn Ifill

@sifill.bsky.social

Heads up! The @aclu.org Immigrant Rights Project has an EXCELLENT online resource available in multiple languages to walk immigrants or advocates through various scenarios of encounters with immigration officials or police. It includes contact #s for local ACLU offices.

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Know Your Rights | Immigrants' Rights | ACLU

Regardless of your immigration status, you have guaranteed rights under the Constitution. Learn more here about your rights as an immigrant, and how to express them.

www.aclu.org

January 24, 2025 at 11:34 PM

Amy Borror

@amyborror.bsky.social

"King's dream was a demand--for justice and the dismantling of systems built on violence and exploitation."
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Martin Luther King’s work is not done. It was a blueprint and a battle cry • Missouri Independent

Today is a day of reckoning. Today, resurgent white supremacy takes the oath of office on a day meant to commemorate a Black man who, 61 years before, stood at the other end of the National Mall and d...

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January 20, 2025 at 3:29 PM

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Sherrilyn Ifill

@sifill.bsky.social

Well you inspired me to create a Black democracy starter pack. Cause those are also overwhelmingly white.

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January 12, 2025 at 3:09 PM

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Brenden Beck

@brendenbeck.bsky.social

When times are tight, do cities cut police or social service budgets more? In a 🚨new study🚨, I find revenue loss is associated with shallow, temporary cuts to policing and deep, enduring cuts to social services.

The article, in Criminology, is free, and I summarize it below.
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