Michael Lee, Ph.D he/him/his

The elected officials who rep a majority of the city have to beg Jacob Frey to not veto an extension in eviction notices. @Jacob_Frey who rode the wave of our collective suffering on his national PR tour, the most vulnerable in our city have to beg Jacob Frey to not impede help.

Trump just rolled out a cruel anti-trans prison policy doctors are calling ‘dangerous’ A new Bureau of Prisons move requiring that transgender inmates be tapered off their hormones could bring serious health consequences, physicians and advocates warn.

NEWS: The Trump administration is forcing transgender inmates to detransition by implementing a new policy that would withhold their medical treatment in a way that puts clinicians in conflict with ethics and patients in danger.

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By analyzing records obtained by @deportationdata.org, I found that the total number of people who have experienced ICE detention in the first 9 months of the Trump admin amounts to the population of a mid-sized city.

‘Klingons Can’t Be Gay?’: We’ve Actually Only Seen Narrow Slice of Their Society The truth is that so much diversity of Star Trek’s societies remains unknown

‘Klingons Can’t Be Gay?’: We’ve Actually Only Seen Narrow Slice of Their Society

The truth is that so much diversity of Star Trek’s societies remains unknown

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'One year of failure.' The Lancet slams RFK Jr.'s first year as health chief In a scathing review, the top US medical journal's editorial board warned that the "destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 in office might take generations to repair."

In a scathing review, the top US medical journal's editorial board warned that the "destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 in office might take generations to repair."
#ProudBlue www.npr.org/2026/02/28/n...

Rep. Eric Swalwell gives update on deaf Hayward boy, family deported to Colombia On Monday, East Bay Congressman Eric Swalwell plans to provide an update on one Hayward family deported to Colombia.

ICE deported a Hayward family to Colombia, including a six year old deaf boy without his hearing.

@ericswalwell.bsky.social sent staff to Colombia with hearing aids for the boy, and they're working to find a way to bring the family back under humanitarian parole.
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Courtesy ONE Archives at USC

On a drizzly March day in 1970, Morris Kight took the lead spot at a Gay Liberation Front protest over securing permits for L.A.’s first Gay Pride March. Unlike most of his fellow activists, he was not young: he was already a veteran of multiple political and social movements.

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This is an escalation by DHS.

Six US Citizens and permanent residents are now home after being held over 30 hours at O’Hare, transferred to Broadview, and moved across state lines.

Community pressure got them home. So many more do not have that support.

Pictures of ICE agents in Minnesota in Iran, he should deploy these guys. They've spent months in.American cities cosplaying elite military forces. Let's see how brave and courageous they really are. They can even wear their masks! Now is the time.

Send ICE to Iran.

The moms risking arrest to protect gender-affirming care for trans youth The government wants to ban the care nationwide. Hospitals are shutting down treatment. Parents just want it all to stop.

Larissa, a therapist from D.C., recently spent 12 hours in a jail cell with five other people. There was no running water, since the sink wasn’t working. They were all fed once: a baloney sandwich per person.

She was there for her trans patients. They're being hurt by this administration, she said.

With evictions looming, city leaders take a stab at solutions - MinnPost Lacking the dollars to address rent relief in the wake of Operation Metro Surge, advocates hope hard for a financial boost from the state.

Eviction researchers and tenant advocacy organizations say that while it’s hard to predict what could happen months from now, families’ needs are immediate. www.minnpost.com/metro/2026/0...

RFK Jr.’s HHS proposes scrapping protections for LGBTQ+ kids in foster care The policy change was announced in a notice of proposed rulemaking.

Do you know how wicked a person has to be to *punch down* on CHILDREN IN FOSTER CARE?????

Get this man out of office, NOW.

@housedemocrats.bsky.social CO-SPONSOR THE ARTICLES.
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"[M]oderate Democratic voters are fully in line with the growing economic populism in the party and actually want more of it. And on social issues, they aren’t as worried about a Democratic Party that strongly defends transgender people and abortion rights as many centrist pundits are."

How Minnesota’s Voter ID Amendment Was Defeated Minnesota voters defeated a ballot initiative that would have required voters to present a photo ID in order to vote. This was the latest in a string of victories for voting rights, and the final verd...

Minnesotans rejected strict voter ID requirements back in 2012 at the same time our state rejected a ban on same-sex marriage equality.

We should be proud of our state’s election systems and voter participation; not working to undermine them.

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It's so infuriating that the party that is moving to prevent SNAP from buying birthday cakes is just fine with this level of grift from one of history's dumbest assholes.

True…and depressing

Tell your Members of Congress to take action immediately and call for the release of Leqaa Kordia from ICE detention - email/call tool: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

Women at a protest holding a sign that says THE ENEMY DOESN'T ARRiVE BY BOAT HE ARRIVES BY LiMOUSiNE

A study by the Center for American Progress has noted that the daily cost of the war on Iran could provide SNAP food benefits for two million Americans for a year.

I don't understand why we aren't connecting narcissistic personality disorders to being impaired. It is impairment. He can't process shame, pathologically. That's REALLY bad. It means he is incapable of effective leadership, pathologically.

This quote from Mayor Her broke my heart.

ICE has spun a massive surveillance web. We talked to people caught in it The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE and Border Patrol, is using a broad web of surveillance tools — purchased as its budget has ballooned under this administration — to monitor, apprehend and intimidate the people it seeks to deport and the U.S. citizens critical of its policies.

The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE and Border Patrol, is using a broad web of surveillance tools — purchased as its budget has ballooned under this administration — to monitor, apprehend and intimidate the people it seeks to deport and the U.S. citizens critical of its policies.

DHS deports deaf boy, 6, after preventing him receiving his hearing aid, lawyer says The child, his younger brother and mother, asylum seekers from Colombia, were detained in California earlier this week

Every person who works for DHS that had any involvement in deporting anyone WITHOUT due process should be deported to a country they've never been to, with no money, no phone, no shoes, and with no knowledge of the language spoken in that country.

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They're putting anti trans slogans on the trans flag so that they can say their anti trans messaging while making it like trans rights supporters are doing the violence here. It's intentional.

"All the President's Men" was a warning Nearly 50 years later, the film feels less like a triumphant ode to journalism than a warning about media decay.

“All the President’s Men” was a warning

Nearly 50 years later, the film feels less like a triumphant ode to journalism than a warning about media decay
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Billionaireism is the disease we are all suffering from.

Harper to the judge: "Your driver's license doesn't list your height and weight at birth. It doesn't list where you used to live. It identifies who you are now."