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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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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 10h

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 · 12h

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 · 13h

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 · 2d

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 · 13h

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

Jessie Losch @jessielosch.bsky.social · 13h

Oh my god I love them.

Jessie Losch @jessielosch.bsky.social · 13h

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 · 14h

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 · 15h

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 · 15h

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 · 18h

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 · 18h

New York, important voting deadlines:

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 15d

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 · 18h

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

nj.gov/state/electi...

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ANSIRH @ansirh.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

This is an INCREDIBLE insult. Top notch work!

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 1d

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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Jessie Losch @jessielosch.bsky.social · 1d

Unlike some other Dems (ahem) @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social centers trans people. His ad featuring Sylvia Rivera perfectly sums up how he includes all New Yorkers.

Ginny Hogan @ginnyhogan.bsky.social · 6d

Andrew Cuomo is the Gavin Newsom of Rudy Giulianis. Do NOT vote for him.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 1d

Good Place:

Fun fact: Columbus is in the Bad Place
because of all the raping, slave trade, and genocide.

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Jessie Losch @jessielosch.bsky.social · 1d

I did grocery shopping in yoga pants, that was my cardio. For the week.

Jessie Losch @jessielosch.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote my thesis on abortion in Argentina- and somehow managed to get in a paragraph on fútbol.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 1d

Obviously we need a permanent end to the genocide and a new, more just, more free future for all Palestinians in the Land.

This is what happens when bad faith actors are in charge, these questions remain open.

Very worried about next steps.

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Jessie Losch @jessielosch.bsky.social · 1d

Today and every day, stack your bookshelves with indigenous stories. A great list for young readers here (including one of my faves by @ziibiing.com):

ideaexchange.bibliocommons.com/v2/list/disp...

Indigenous Children's Books We Love! — a staff-created list from Idea Exchange

Celebrate Indigenous History Month with this list of children's books by Indigenous authors. From funny and heartwarming to powerful and thought-provoking, these stories share First Nations, Métis and...

ideaexchange.bibliocommons.com

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Jessie Losch @jessielosch.bsky.social · 1d

I hug them? Please?

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 1d

You don't have to judge Columbus by the standards of today. His tenure as governor of Hispaniola was so horrific that he was dragged back to Spain in chains to answer for his many crimes.

Plus he never set foot on any land that would ever be a part of the United States of America.

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 1d

For all that I'm happy to say I love & respect @govpritzker.illinois.gov, this thread, up & down, is some real bullshit + state troopers have been doing this for a couple of wks. I'm calling JB's office today; if you're in IL, I hope you will too:

217-782-6830
217-782-6831
312-814-2121
312-814-2122

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3d

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

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Catholics for Choice @catholic4choice.bsky.social · 1d

Please take a moment today to donate to or learn more about Indigenous Women Rising, an organization and abortion fund led by and for Indigenous people.

@indigenouswomenrising on Instagram

Donate | iwrising

HOME

www.iwrising.org

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 3d

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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