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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1h

lmao ima tell him that

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

Losing my mind at the dude wearing a transparent poncho with nothing underneath lmao

Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 5h

Portland’s Emergency World Naked Bike Ride arrives at ICE

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 3h

As we all know, real activists who achieve real things talk about doing federal crimes on public social media all the time

(do not trust anyone who talks about how cool doing federal crimes is on public social media)

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 3h

At first I thought this reply was in response to the post below and I was like omg 😭 lmao

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 3h

I was just curious how old Zohran is and googled and apparently his birthday is a month after mine to the day and The Husband goes 'you're gonna be older than the mayor of New York' and now I'm just....staring off into the distance. I've always been young! This hasn't happened to me yet! I'm shook!

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 3h

I was just curious how old Zohran is and googled and apparently his birthday is a month after mine to the day and The Husband goes 'you're gonna be older than the mayor of New York' and now I'm just....staring off into the distance. I've always been young! This hasn't happened to me yet! I'm shook!

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4h

This morning I ran the NYC Gaza 5K in Prospect Park for the third time, alongside the Harlem Run Club, to raise money for @unrwausa.bsky.social, which delivers critical humanitarian aid and services to Palestinians in Gaza.

I hope you'll join me in donating: unrwausa.org

Zohran jogging alongside a member of the Harlem Run Club in Prospect Park.

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David Noll @david.noll.org · 4h

interesting that justice barrett thinks it's appropriate for a judge to appear on a transparently partisan propaganda network like FNC

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 5h

The faux feminism at work here is exactly the kind of shit that @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social was writing about when he wrote Elite Capture, the essay and book!

www.bostonreview.net/articles/olu...

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 5h

Ok so he can definitely see the reaper in the rearview mirror, right? And knows nothing good is waiting for him on the other side? That's the takeaway here, right?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

Walked by Kramer Books on my way home and signed a copy of my book We’re Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation. Go pick it up if you don’t have a copy. The staff is also great too.

The same man holding up the book, which is white and says “We’re Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation.”

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

the Constitution obviously has a lot of room for improvement (which shouldn't be a controversial statement imo but that's a conversation for another day), but there are a lot of lines that Trump has illegally crossed where it's like...THAT LINE IS THERE FOR A PRETTY GOOD REASON, ACTUALLY

Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 1d

Dems floated a narrow bill to fund the military, which can’t move because the House isn’t in session. Meanwhile, DoD is now going to spend funds not appropriated by Congress to ensure military paychecks continue.

POTUS now both commands and provisions the military. Unconstitutional and SO dangerous

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.
A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC
News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1d

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

there we go

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Rep. Dan Goldman @repdangoldman.bsky.social · 1d

No “clean CR” exists when Trump defies Congress and unilaterally guts programs—from law enforcement to pediatric cancer research to clean energy projects.

Republicans want Democratic cover to keep breaking the law. Democrats won’t play along.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

just constantly enriching themselves via in-your-face corruption

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

If you work in the Office of Special Education for the Department of Education and have been RIF'ed or if you work in a school that has been notified about it, please message me. My Signal is emgarcia.85. I'll protect your identity.

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 1d

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 1d

In addition to destroying ICE and DHS, we should probably start thinking about a reparations framework. If they keep records on which officers conduct arrests, we could make individual officers liable to pay damages to their victims.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 1d

What drives me nuts about this dialogue: diversity and inclusion training was a corporate response to the statutory requirements civil rights laws. None of these laws have been repealed by Congress. Congress can pass the laws under Section 5 of the 14th Amendment, which has also not been repealed.

Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 1d

lol gentle reminder that DEI is not illegal. Supporting marginalized groups is not illegal. Anyone reneging on support is making a CHOICE to do so.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1d

This is it. Very glad to see this full-throated welcome to queer people — and recognition of trans people’s history — from Zohran Mamdani in the closing month of his campaign and on National Coming Out Day.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · 1d

Roberts is presiding over, and driving, a stunning collapse in faith in the U.S. Supreme Court, not just among the public, but among federal judges.

What a failure. The Titanic captain of chief justices.

Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 1d

“More than three dozen federal judges have told The New York Times that the Supreme Court’s flurry of brief, opaque emergency orders in cases related to the Trump administration have left them confused about how to proceed in those matters and are hurting the judiciary’s image with the public.”

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 1d

“Trump administration officials have expressed confidence that they will continue to win at the Supreme Court — where the president has racked up multiple victories this year. That might make them less concerned with activities in the lower courts.”

They believe they own John Roberts …

Skeptical judges increasingly question administration’s veracity

Judges have increasingly shown exasperation with Trump administration court tactics. The White House has shot back, raising tensions to previously unseen levels.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 1d

“More than three dozen federal judges have told The New York Times that the Supreme Court’s flurry of brief, opaque emergency orders in cases related to the Trump administration have left them confused about how to proceed in those matters and are hurting the judiciary’s image with the public.”

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 1d

an affirmative case for trans rights as a pillar of good democratic governance

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

I know not everyone is who they thought they would be under a fascist, authoritarian regime. That's okay. But it's time to do more than react and post about it. It's time to get organized—including mapping or creating lines of support and defense in your community.

Mapping Community Defense and Care in Our Neighborhoods

This worksheet can help us prepare for Trump's military interventions at the neighborhood level.

organizingmythoughts.org

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