Liberty S.
@lstanavage.bsky.social
Geeky academic, scadian, gamer.
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If the president invokes the Insurrection Act, even more harm would descend on our communities.
Congress must rein in the Trump administration's already dangerous abuses in Minnesota.
Congress must rein in the Trump administration's already dangerous abuses in Minnesota.
Trump’s Threat to Invoke the Insurrection Act, Explained | ACLU
President Donald Trump is threatening to invoke the act, which is a rarely used power that Congress intended only for extreme emergencies. We break down what this means for our civil liberties.
www.aclu.org
January 20, 2026 at 12:29 AM
If the president invokes the Insurrection Act, even more harm would descend on our communities.
Congress must rein in the Trump administration's already dangerous abuses in Minnesota.
Congress must rein in the Trump administration's already dangerous abuses in Minnesota.
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Wow! Yay! The Senate just rejected Trump’s proposed science cuts, voting 82–15 to boost funding for NOAA, NASA, and the NSF. The bill already passed the House 397–28. Strong bipartisan support for science still exists.
US Senate passes bill to boost federal science spending after White House sought major cuts
The U.S. Senate voted on Thursday to approve billions of dollars in funding for federal science agencies, rejecting deep cuts proposed by President Donald Trump in space and other areas.
www.reuters.com
January 16, 2026 at 1:27 AM
Wow! Yay! The Senate just rejected Trump’s proposed science cuts, voting 82–15 to boost funding for NOAA, NASA, and the NSF. The bill already passed the House 397–28. Strong bipartisan support for science still exists.
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ICE agents ate at El Tapatio in Willmar, MN, then came back hours later and detained the workers who served them. Turning a meal into surveillance isn’t public safety it’s intimidation. Remember private businesses can refuse service to ICE agents!
ICE agents eat at small-town Mexican restaurant — then detain workers
“Would your mama be proud of you right now?” a bystander said as agents returned at closing time to nab the workers.
www.startribune.com
January 16, 2026 at 10:05 PM
ICE agents ate at El Tapatio in Willmar, MN, then came back hours later and detained the workers who served them. Turning a meal into surveillance isn’t public safety it’s intimidation. Remember private businesses can refuse service to ICE agents!
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Trump’s goal is to force the resistance into obedience. He has stated that beginning February 1, his administration will deny federal funding to any state that is home to local governments resisting his immigration crackdown carried out by ICE.
Trump threatens to halt federal money next month not only to sanctuary cities but also their states
President Donald Trump says that his administration is planning to halt federal payments to "sanctuary cities" and the states where they're located starting Feb. 1.
apnews.com
January 14, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Trump’s goal is to force the resistance into obedience. He has stated that beginning February 1, his administration will deny federal funding to any state that is home to local governments resisting his immigration crackdown carried out by ICE.
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This should alarm everyone. The FBI searched a journalist’s home and seized her work devices, despite no criminal charges. This is a direct threat to press freedom.
FBI executes search warrant at Washington Post reporter’s home
The search came as part of an investigation into a government contractor accused of illegally retaining classified government materials.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 14, 2026 at 7:03 PM
This should alarm everyone. The FBI searched a journalist’s home and seized her work devices, despite no criminal charges. This is a direct threat to press freedom.
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Politicians nationwide have introduced more bills targeting trans student athletes than there even are trans athletes.
Join us in telling the Supreme Court that freedom, families, and rights are more than a game.
Join us in telling the Supreme Court that freedom, families, and rights are more than a game.
Trans Kids at SCOTUS: Our Freedom Is More Than A Game
Politicians are targeting trans kids and their families for political points - now proposing school sports bans that would subject children to invasive sex testing and make all of us less safe. Join t...
aclu.org
January 14, 2026 at 8:20 PM
Politicians nationwide have introduced more bills targeting trans student athletes than there even are trans athletes.
Join us in telling the Supreme Court that freedom, families, and rights are more than a game.
Join us in telling the Supreme Court that freedom, families, and rights are more than a game.
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The Trump administration's suspension of immigrant visa processing is just the latest attempt to virtually gut our entire immigration system and turn it into one that's overtly racist and focused on harming communities, tearing apart families, and eliminating all legal pathways for immigration.
US suspending immigrant visa processing from 75 countries | CNN Politics
The United States is indefinitely suspending immigrant visa processing from 75 countries in another expansion of the Trump administration's crackdown on immigration.
www.cnn.com
January 14, 2026 at 9:59 PM
The Trump administration's suspension of immigrant visa processing is just the latest attempt to virtually gut our entire immigration system and turn it into one that's overtly racist and focused on harming communities, tearing apart families, and eliminating all legal pathways for immigration.
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Trump is threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act this is a dangerous escalation.
January 15, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Trump is threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act this is a dangerous escalation.
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Nexstar and Sinclair are sending a message — they want to give in to President Trump's anti-free speech demands.
Tell Nexstar and Sinclair: Don't give in to President Trump's anti-free speech demands and defend our right to joke.
Tell Nexstar and Sinclair: Don't give in to President Trump's anti-free speech demands and defend our right to joke.
Tell Nexstar and Sinclair: Protect our TV against Trump. Don't censor Jimmy Kimmel.
Jimmy Kimmel returned to air. But this fight isn't over – broadcasting giants Nexstar and Sinclair declared that they still won't air the show on their ABC affiliates.
action.aclu.org
September 24, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Nexstar and Sinclair are sending a message — they want to give in to President Trump's anti-free speech demands.
Tell Nexstar and Sinclair: Don't give in to President Trump's anti-free speech demands and defend our right to joke.
Tell Nexstar and Sinclair: Don't give in to President Trump's anti-free speech demands and defend our right to joke.
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After widespread public pressure, including from over 475 artists and 40,000 ACLU supporters, Jimmy Kimmel is back on air, but Nexstar and Sinclair, two of the biggest local TV station owners in the country, have announced that they won’t air the show on their ABC affiliates.
ABC bringing Kimmel back to air, but some station owners are boycotting him
Nexstar and Sinclair say they will continue to preempt the late-night show, a move that affects dozens of markets, including D.C., St. Louis and Nashville.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 24, 2025 at 2:43 PM
After widespread public pressure, including from over 475 artists and 40,000 ACLU supporters, Jimmy Kimmel is back on air, but Nexstar and Sinclair, two of the biggest local TV station owners in the country, have announced that they won’t air the show on their ABC affiliates.
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And this article by tech journalist
@alexreisner.bsky.social (who is worth following), in @theatlantic.com:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
#academicsky
#bookpirates
@alexreisner.bsky.social (who is worth following), in @theatlantic.com:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
#academicsky
#bookpirates
Judges Don’t Know What AI’s Book Piracy Means
Can AI companies keep stealing books to train their models?
www.theatlantic.com
September 9, 2025 at 11:51 PM
And this article by tech journalist
@alexreisner.bsky.social (who is worth following), in @theatlantic.com:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
#academicsky
#bookpirates
@alexreisner.bsky.social (who is worth following), in @theatlantic.com:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
#academicsky
#bookpirates
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with polling Americans on their views about vaccines. The move comes as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pushes a broader effort to scale back federal health agencies that oversee vaccine development and recommendations.
SAM.gov
https://sam.gov/opp/d711051424344e45b4a21e5abcc7be9f/view?cid=eml_nbcp_%7Bdate(‘yyyyMMdd’)%7D
September 5, 2025 at 11:54 AM
with polling Americans on their views about vaccines. The move comes as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pushes a broader effort to scale back federal health agencies that oversee vaccine development and recommendations.
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This ruling reaffirms that the Trump administration has no legal basis to deny us passports that reflect who we are.
We'll keep fighting to make sure this harmful policy stays blocked.
We'll keep fighting to make sure this harmful policy stays blocked.
US appeals court rejects Trump bid to restore passport policy targeting transgender people
A federal appeals court on Thursday declined to allow U.S. President Donald Trump's administration to refuse to issue passports to transgender and nonbinary Americans that reflect their gender identities.
www.reuters.com
September 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
This ruling reaffirms that the Trump administration has no legal basis to deny us passports that reflect who we are.
We'll keep fighting to make sure this harmful policy stays blocked.
We'll keep fighting to make sure this harmful policy stays blocked.
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Yesterday's ICE raid near Syracuse was a chilling and unnecessary show of force - officers descended upon the factory with crowbars and masks to detain people who were just doing their jobs.
Many of their kids came home from school to find their families torn apart. This is senseless and cruel.
Many of their kids came home from school to find their families torn apart. This is senseless and cruel.
More than 40 people detained in ICE raid at Central NY factory: Gov. Hochul ‘outraged’
More than 50 agents, some in masks and wearing bullet proof vests, raided the nutrition bar factory in Cato.
www.syracuse.com
September 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Yesterday's ICE raid near Syracuse was a chilling and unnecessary show of force - officers descended upon the factory with crowbars and masks to detain people who were just doing their jobs.
Many of their kids came home from school to find their families torn apart. This is senseless and cruel.
Many of their kids came home from school to find their families torn apart. This is senseless and cruel.
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The First Amendment is clear: Politicians like Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton have no business telling public school students or anyone else whether or how to pray.
Texas AG Ken Paxton encourages students to recite Lord’s Prayer in latest test of church-state separation
The endorsement comes as Texas elected officials push for more Christianity in public life and as Paxton’s office fights a legal challenge to religion in education.
www.texastribune.org
September 5, 2025 at 8:41 PM
The First Amendment is clear: Politicians like Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton have no business telling public school students or anyone else whether or how to pray.
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We're in court today challenging the Trump administration's targeting of people attending their mandated immigration court hearings.
Systematically arresting people carrying out their legal duty is unconstitutional.
Systematically arresting people carrying out their legal duty is unconstitutional.
September 2, 2025 at 5:51 PM
We're in court today challenging the Trump administration's targeting of people attending their mandated immigration court hearings.
Systematically arresting people carrying out their legal duty is unconstitutional.
Systematically arresting people carrying out their legal duty is unconstitutional.
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NEW: We filed a brief in support of federal workers targeted by President Trump's executive order eliminating their right to collectively bargain.
The administration is unconstitutionally retaliating against unions for their protected speech, including lawsuits they've filed against the government.
The administration is unconstitutionally retaliating against unions for their protected speech, including lawsuits they've filed against the government.
September 2, 2025 at 9:50 PM
NEW: We filed a brief in support of federal workers targeted by President Trump's executive order eliminating their right to collectively bargain.
The administration is unconstitutionally retaliating against unions for their protected speech, including lawsuits they've filed against the government.
The administration is unconstitutionally retaliating against unions for their protected speech, including lawsuits they've filed against the government.
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There is no cure for rabies
September 2, 2025 at 6:17 PM
There is no cure for rabies
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I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
September 2, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
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Late last night, a federal appeals court blocked President Trump from using the Alien Enemies Act to deport immigrants.
This is a huge win for the rule of law. Once again, a court ruled that Trump can't invoke a false emergency to grab power.
This is a huge win for the rule of law. Once again, a court ruled that Trump can't invoke a false emergency to grab power.
Appeals Court Blocks Trump’s Use of Alien Enemies Act to Deport Venezuelans
The case appears set to return to the Supreme Court in a decisive battle over President Trump’s use of the 18th-century law to deport migrants.
www.nytimes.com
September 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Late last night, a federal appeals court blocked President Trump from using the Alien Enemies Act to deport immigrants.
This is a huge win for the rule of law. Once again, a court ruled that Trump can't invoke a false emergency to grab power.
This is a huge win for the rule of law. Once again, a court ruled that Trump can't invoke a false emergency to grab power.
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NEW: We filed a public comment opposing the Department of Labor's plan to strip wage protections from millions of home care workers.
Most home care workers are women of color, and many already live in poverty. This change will push them further into hardship and worsen the home care labor shortage.
Most home care workers are women of color, and many already live in poverty. This change will push them further into hardship and worsen the home care labor shortage.
September 3, 2025 at 2:37 PM
NEW: We filed a public comment opposing the Department of Labor's plan to strip wage protections from millions of home care workers.
Most home care workers are women of color, and many already live in poverty. This change will push them further into hardship and worsen the home care labor shortage.
Most home care workers are women of color, and many already live in poverty. This change will push them further into hardship and worsen the home care labor shortage.
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The Trump administration thought they could scare Mohsen Mahdawi into silence by detaining him for his advocacy in support of Palestinian human rights.
But he is proof that the First Amendment is stronger than the government.
But he is proof that the First Amendment is stronger than the government.
Palestinian student Mohsen Mahdawi returns to Columbia University: ‘They have failed to silence me’
Mahdawi was targeted and arrested for deportation due to his activism but the permanent US resident is resuming postgraduate studies
www.theguardian.com
September 3, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The Trump administration thought they could scare Mohsen Mahdawi into silence by detaining him for his advocacy in support of Palestinian human rights.
But he is proof that the First Amendment is stronger than the government.
But he is proof that the First Amendment is stronger than the government.
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BREAKING: A court rejected the Trump administration's attempt to dismiss our lawsuit challenging government censorship of medical research that references the LGBTQ community.
This is great news, and our work to defend scientific research will continue in court.
This is great news, and our work to defend scientific research will continue in court.
September 3, 2025 at 7:01 PM
BREAKING: A court rejected the Trump administration's attempt to dismiss our lawsuit challenging government censorship of medical research that references the LGBTQ community.
This is great news, and our work to defend scientific research will continue in court.
This is great news, and our work to defend scientific research will continue in court.