Leslie Jones, Esq.
@lesliejones25.bsky.social
EP Lawyer in NC, passionate about politics & staying far from any authoritarian regimes. Proud dog mom to my Pittie, Indiana Jones. When I'm not doom scrolling, you'll find me gardening, playing tennis, or experimenting in the kitchen
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Organization SiembraNC sent messages
Durham, 9:20 a.m.: ICE agent presence confirmed at the Durham courthouse at 510 S Dillard St. Remember your rights: 🤐 remain silent, 🚪 do not open your car or house door, 📃 ask for a court order signed by a judge. Any reports, please call us at 336-543-0353.
Durham, 9:20 a.m.: ICE agent presence confirmed at the Durham courthouse at 510 S Dillard St. Remember your rights: 🤐 remain silent, 🚪 do not open your car or house door, 📃 ask for a court order signed by a judge. Any reports, please call us at 336-543-0353.
July 23, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Organization SiembraNC sent messages
Durham, 9:20 a.m.: ICE agent presence confirmed at the Durham courthouse at 510 S Dillard St. Remember your rights: 🤐 remain silent, 🚪 do not open your car or house door, 📃 ask for a court order signed by a judge. Any reports, please call us at 336-543-0353.
Durham, 9:20 a.m.: ICE agent presence confirmed at the Durham courthouse at 510 S Dillard St. Remember your rights: 🤐 remain silent, 🚪 do not open your car or house door, 📃 ask for a court order signed by a judge. Any reports, please call us at 336-543-0353.
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Do you know if you're voting this year? Many cities and towns have local elections in 2025. Read our latest blog post to find out when your next election is: www.youcanvote.org/latest-news/... #ncpol #ncvoting #vote2025
July 18, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Do you know if you're voting this year? Many cities and towns have local elections in 2025. Read our latest blog post to find out when your next election is: www.youcanvote.org/latest-news/... #ncpol #ncvoting #vote2025
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Now THAT's a cease and desist letter
July 14, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Now THAT's a cease and desist letter
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it's been said before but worth repeating: drastic cuts to medicaid don't only hurt medicaid recipients, but also kneecap healthcare infrastructure that relies on medicaid spending to provide services to everyone
this admin is taking a wrecking ball to the entire US economy
this admin is taking a wrecking ball to the entire US economy
May 19, 2025 at 4:23 PM
it's been said before but worth repeating: drastic cuts to medicaid don't only hurt medicaid recipients, but also kneecap healthcare infrastructure that relies on medicaid spending to provide services to everyone
this admin is taking a wrecking ball to the entire US economy
this admin is taking a wrecking ball to the entire US economy
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What you need to know from Stein's latest Helene spending proposal and how it compares to what lawmakers are putting forward. #ncpol
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andersonalerts.substack.com/p/stein-supp...
Stein requests $891M for ongoing Helene relief
On Monday, Gov. Josh Stein put forward a supplemental budget request, asking lawmakers for an additional $891 million to address Hurricane Helene.
andersonalerts.substack.com
May 19, 2025 at 4:29 PM
What you need to know from Stein's latest Helene spending proposal and how it compares to what lawmakers are putting forward. #ncpol
andersonalerts.substack.com/p/stein-supp...
andersonalerts.substack.com/p/stein-supp...
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To every woman carrying the weight, the hope, the memory, the role...You are seen.
This Mother’s Day, we honor all the ways motherhood lives and breathes among us.
Happy Mother’s Day—to your heart, your healing, and the legacy you’re building.
#MomOwned #LegacyReady #MothersDay
This Mother’s Day, we honor all the ways motherhood lives and breathes among us.
Happy Mother’s Day—to your heart, your healing, and the legacy you’re building.
#MomOwned #LegacyReady #MothersDay
May 11, 2025 at 5:48 PM
To every woman carrying the weight, the hope, the memory, the role...You are seen.
This Mother’s Day, we honor all the ways motherhood lives and breathes among us.
Happy Mother’s Day—to your heart, your healing, and the legacy you’re building.
#MomOwned #LegacyReady #MothersDay
This Mother’s Day, we honor all the ways motherhood lives and breathes among us.
Happy Mother’s Day—to your heart, your healing, and the legacy you’re building.
#MomOwned #LegacyReady #MothersDay
I’ve started a new space here for the heart-felt work I do through my law practice in the Triangle and across North Carolina. 💛
If you're parenting, caregiving, or thinking more about legacy and peace of mind, I’d love to connect with you there too.
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If you're parenting, caregiving, or thinking more about legacy and peace of mind, I’d love to connect with you there too.
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Hi, I’m Leslie Jones, founder of Jones Legacy Planning! 💛 I help families protect what matters most—your kids, your peace, your legacy. Whether you're raising little ones or building something bigger than yourself, I’m here to help you plan with love, not fear. You don’t have to do it alone.
May 10, 2025 at 10:05 PM
I’ve started a new space here for the heart-felt work I do through my law practice in the Triangle and across North Carolina. 💛
If you're parenting, caregiving, or thinking more about legacy and peace of mind, I’d love to connect with you there too.
🧵 [Intro below]
If you're parenting, caregiving, or thinking more about legacy and peace of mind, I’d love to connect with you there too.
🧵 [Intro below]
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Oh my god this is insane - I’m struggling to find a comparison but it’s something like “the Navy cancelled all submarines”
Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history
It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women
Unreal
www.science.org/content/arti...
It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women
Unreal
www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women
The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings
www.science.org
April 23, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Oh my god this is insane - I’m struggling to find a comparison but it’s something like “the Navy cancelled all submarines”
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Re-creating Elon Musk's "DOGE" project on the state level is a centerpiece of the Republican policy agenda in North Carolina this year. But wait, whose waste and fraud are they trying to cut?
April 23, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Re-creating Elon Musk's "DOGE" project on the state level is a centerpiece of the Republican policy agenda in North Carolina this year. But wait, whose waste and fraud are they trying to cut?
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ICYMI, this was today: 16- and 17-year olds in Newark voted in local school board elections.
Why? City lowered voting age for school board races last month, to help teenagers get involved in matters that concern them AND develop habit of civic engagement. boltsmag.org/newark-teens...
Why? City lowered voting age for school board races last month, to help teenagers get involved in matters that concern them AND develop habit of civic engagement. boltsmag.org/newark-teens...
Newark Teens Gear Up for School Board Elections After Voting Age Extended to 16 - Bolts
This month for the first time, 16- and 17-year olds will help decide Newark’s school board members thanks to a measure passed last year, just the third reform of its kind in the nation.
boltsmag.org
April 16, 2025 at 2:33 AM
ICYMI, this was today: 16- and 17-year olds in Newark voted in local school board elections.
Why? City lowered voting age for school board races last month, to help teenagers get involved in matters that concern them AND develop habit of civic engagement. boltsmag.org/newark-teens...
Why? City lowered voting age for school board races last month, to help teenagers get involved in matters that concern them AND develop habit of civic engagement. boltsmag.org/newark-teens...
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Man our failure to do any productive public investment during an entire decade of negative real interest rates is going to look awfully foolish in hindsight.
April 11, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Man our failure to do any productive public investment during an entire decade of negative real interest rates is going to look awfully foolish in hindsight.
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I don’t believe in divinities but Jesus was a just man and if you do believe he’s coming back…he sure is going to be *pissed* at those perverting his teachings
"The idea that caring about others could end civilization may seem extreme, but it comes amid a growing wave of opposition to empathy from across the American right."
(Not a comfortable read in places.)
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
(Not a comfortable read in places.)
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Loathe thy neighbor: Elon Musk and the Christian right are waging war on empathy
Trump’s actions are irreconcilable with Christian compassion. But an unholy alliance seeks to cast empathy as a parasitic plague
www.theguardian.com
April 11, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I don’t believe in divinities but Jesus was a just man and if you do believe he’s coming back…he sure is going to be *pissed* at those perverting his teachings
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4. We did not get desperately needed voting rights reform because the Senate wanted to retain the filibuster. We did not get desperately needed court reform because the Senate wanted to retain the filibuster. Repeat for any number of very good programs we gave up on because of the Senate filibuster.
April 11, 2025 at 2:58 PM
4. We did not get desperately needed voting rights reform because the Senate wanted to retain the filibuster. We did not get desperately needed court reform because the Senate wanted to retain the filibuster. Repeat for any number of very good programs we gave up on because of the Senate filibuster.
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The number of people who respond to this with “filibusters do nothing” or “they have to vote no!” makes me think that way too many people do not understand current Senate rules.
Calling my senators and telling them to filibuster the SAVE act.
April 11, 2025 at 2:51 PM
The number of people who respond to this with “filibusters do nothing” or “they have to vote no!” makes me think that way too many people do not understand current Senate rules.
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liberals must learn to *weaponize the truth*. we cant just leave it to "the people" to decide. that does not work.
March 25, 2025 at 12:35 PM
liberals must learn to *weaponize the truth*. we cant just leave it to "the people" to decide. that does not work.
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This is why due process is necessary in and of itself
NEW! Sworn declarations filed last night confirm the Trump admin sent INNOCENT people to rot in prison El Salvador, including a professional soccer player jailed and tortured by the Maduro regime, who entered this country LEGALLY to seek asylum, and who has NO CRIMINAL RECORD in either country.
March 20, 2025 at 12:43 PM
This is why due process is necessary in and of itself
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Today is the day postal workers stand up together with our allies all across the nation to say: the US Mail is NOT for Sale!
We need you in our fight! Find events near you (and ways you can take action from your phone) at apwu.org/action
We need you in our fight! Find events near you (and ways you can take action from your phone) at apwu.org/action
March 20, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Today is the day postal workers stand up together with our allies all across the nation to say: the US Mail is NOT for Sale!
We need you in our fight! Find events near you (and ways you can take action from your phone) at apwu.org/action
We need you in our fight! Find events near you (and ways you can take action from your phone) at apwu.org/action
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Deporting people to destinations where they face substantial risk of #torture or serious harm is flatly against the law, write @becingber.bsky.social & @scott-roehm.bsky.social
www.justsecurity.org/109284/non-r...
www.justsecurity.org/109284/non-r...
Non-Refoulement Obligations Under the Alien Enemies Act
Non-refoulement prohibits states from removing from their jurisdiction any person who could be at risk of human rights violations.
www.justsecurity.org
March 20, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Deporting people to destinations where they face substantial risk of #torture or serious harm is flatly against the law, write @becingber.bsky.social & @scott-roehm.bsky.social
www.justsecurity.org/109284/non-r...
www.justsecurity.org/109284/non-r...
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What horseshit from DOD that they "mistakenly" deleted pages on the Navajo Code Talkers, black Medal of Honor recipients, Jackie Robinson, and more. They labeled them DEI and deleted them and then got caught and now they're scrambling. Nobody changes a URL by mistake. Constant lies.
March 19, 2025 at 2:37 PM
What horseshit from DOD that they "mistakenly" deleted pages on the Navajo Code Talkers, black Medal of Honor recipients, Jackie Robinson, and more. They labeled them DEI and deleted them and then got caught and now they're scrambling. Nobody changes a URL by mistake. Constant lies.
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…anti-immigration crackdown.
And yes, while true that awful things like this happen while others are president, what Trump and his officials are doing right now is in fact different and darker, in substance and style.
And it’s definitely showing in who is getting rounded up
And yes, while true that awful things like this happen while others are president, what Trump and his officials are doing right now is in fact different and darker, in substance and style.
And it’s definitely showing in who is getting rounded up
March 19, 2025 at 2:51 PM
…anti-immigration crackdown.
And yes, while true that awful things like this happen while others are president, what Trump and his officials are doing right now is in fact different and darker, in substance and style.
And it’s definitely showing in who is getting rounded up
And yes, while true that awful things like this happen while others are president, what Trump and his officials are doing right now is in fact different and darker, in substance and style.
And it’s definitely showing in who is getting rounded up