Sue Apfelbaum

Sue Apfelbaum

@sueapfe.bsky.social

writing, editing, UXing | pro democracy, anti fascist | ❤️ rescue dogs she/her

379 Followers 420 Following 116 Posts Joined Jul 2023
3 days ago
There’s also often a devil’s bargain buried in all this, that you flatter and, yeah, respect these white people who think this country is theirs by throwing other people under the bus—by disrespecting immigrants and queer people and feminists and their rights and views. And you reinforce that constituency’s sense that they matter more than other people when you pander like this, and pretty much all the problems we’ve faced over the past four years, to say nothing of the last five hundred, come from this sense of white people being more important than nonwhites, Christians than non-Christians, native-born than immigrant, male than female, straight than queer, cis-gender than trans.

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito just complained that “you can’t say that marriage is a union between one man and one woman. Now it’s considered bigotry.” This is a standard complaint of the right: the real victim is the racist who has been called a racist, not the victim of his racism, the real oppression is to be impeded in your freedom to oppress. And of course Alito is disingenuous; you can say that stuff against marriage equality (and he did). Then other people can call you a bigot, because they get to have opinions too, but in his scheme such dissent is intolerable, which is fun coming from a member of the party whose devotees wore “fuck your feelings” shirts at its rallies and popularized the term “snowflake.”

When you call misogyny misogyny, you're allying with the victims of it and maybe rendering the misogynists uncomfortable, and you're also telling the truth. Whose comfort matters? Matters more than truth? The Times and a lot of the mainstream has been telling us conservative white men come first.

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4 days ago
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Soviet style problems

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3 days ago

This administration is committing Watergate level crimes multiple times per week—and those are the ones we know about. It’s crazy to think about what else will come out after.

It’s absolutely essential these criminals are held responsible for their crimes. We must end elite impunity.

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AOC: The Pentagon has not passed an audit, and they are out here trying to kick people with disabilities off of Medicaid. It is corruption that is stealing from the public coffers — and that is the actual waste, fraud, and abuse.

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1 week ago
Donald Trump Reassigns Kristi Noem As Special Envoy—Markwayne Mullin To Take Over As U.S. Secretary of DHS

Kristi Noem is reassigned as “Special Envoy for the Shield of the Americas,” which will hold its 1st meeting on March 7th with 12 right-wing Latin American leaders. Mullin will start as Secretary of DHS, where he’ll likely take on all of the U.S. in a fistfight.

Read: lataco.com/donald-trump...

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Sen. Whitehouse to uncover connections between Trump, Russia, and Epstein. YouTube video by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse

Good speech. Most US press got bamboozled by Bill Barr's scheme. Trump's collusion with Russia was always real, continues to be. www.youtube.com/live/ylvTFvJ...

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2 weeks ago
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No doubt Tulsi Gabbard is drafting her resignation letter as we speak.

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1 month ago

> Bailey, Kobach, and Labrador argued that mifepristone access would could cause “injuries” to their states because it is “depressing expected birth rates for teenaged mothers... further injuries as well: The [states’] subsequent ‘diminishment of political representation’ and ‘loss of federal funds'

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1 month ago

technically it’ll be Kitten Halftime but yes

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When Your Boss Compares Your Union Drive to 'A Clockwork Orange' Torture After some eye-opening emails came to light, the National Labor Relations Board charged Snøhetta Architecture with violating federal labor law for employing an illegal union-busting campaign.

Snø union, but yes NLRB charges... The NYC office of a Norwegian architecture firm has been accused of deploying illegal union-busting tactics like firing pro-union workers and grilling employees about their concerted activities during and after a 2023 union drive.

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1 month ago

They just blindly shot through the fucking door.

"Additional photographs show damage consistent with a bullet fragment lodged in a bedroom wall down the hallway — suggesting it traveled between a mattress and a portable crib in a room where several small children sleep."

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1 month ago

Remember the incident where DHS claimed officers shot a guy because he attacked them with a snow shovel?

Yeah. It didn't happen. They shot him through the door of his own home. And then arrested him. And then lied about it. Again.

And they almost shot some kids in the process.

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1 month ago
Article excerpt: In my few days in Minnesota, I’ve been witness to countless scenes that remind me of moments I’ve seen during previous trips covering conflicts around the world. I watched heavily armored federal units roll through quiet neighborhoods. In a grocery store parking lot, angry residents screamed at agents, demanding they leave the city. Masked and armed government agents pointed weapons toward me and some protesters during an encounter in the middle of the afternoon. Curious guests in a hotel elevator wondered why I was carrying around a medical pack and gas mask. Local residents thanked me for being there to witness the situation. A drunk man at a hotel bar cursed at me, saying the media was at fault. The wars we’ve carried out as a nation abroad have come home.

"In my few days in Minnesota, I’ve been witness to countless scenes that remind me of moments I’ve seen during previous trips covering conflicts around the world," photojournalist @cengizyar.com writes. "The wars we’ve carried out as a nation abroad have come home."

More: https://propub.li/4acxEeY

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1 month ago
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This made me weepy

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1 month ago

from the leader of the legislative branch 😡

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how can this not break your heart into pieces

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1 month ago

Americans live under a lawless regime that refuses to obey court orders

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Rep. Morrison details her oversight of the federal Whipple building YouTube video by Rep. Kelly Morrison

My office has been flooded with reports of the cruel, unsafe, unlawful conditions inside of the Whipple detention facility in Minneapolis.

This weekend, I was finally granted access to perform oversight of the facility. youtu.be/0SxPn8n2Bfg

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1 month ago

“Don’t let anyone tell you this isn’t your home. America became the most powerful, prosperous nation on earth because of immigrants not in spite of them.”

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Torched So LA doesn't get burned

Hello to everyone sharing this — I have a newsletter called Torched, it's all about LA and megaevents and Casey Wasserman, and you should *really* subscribe

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1 month ago
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Latest Epstein files include emails between Ghislaine Maxwell, LA28 Olympics head Casey Wasserman The latest cache of investigative files on Jeffrey Epstein includes personal emails exchanged between Casey Wasserman, chairman of the LA28 Olympics organizing committee, and convicted sex offender Gh...

The LA Times has published a story! Proud of them. They haven't previously reported on the connection between Wasserman and Epstein which, as is noted in this story, was first made in a 2003 Vanity Fair profile

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ICE Deportation Flights Are Getting Longer and Crueler A private equity-owned airline profits off Trump’s migrant crackdown.

NEW: Meet the private-equity firm -- and its billionaire immigrant CEO -- making millions off some of ICE's cruelest deportation flights.

After a five-month investigation, my story for @motherjones.com:

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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1 month ago
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Pro-ICE churches should be shamed Cities Church in St. Paul are the persecutors, not the persecuted

Why read past headlines: Far too many centrists and even liberals criticized protesters for peacefully disrupting a church service.

Fuck that. We need more actions like this.

Expose how these Christians reject the teachings of Christ.

www.salon.com/2026/01/26/p...

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1 month ago
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Jeffries Won’t Whip Vote Against ICE Funding - The American Prospect While the House Democratic leader announced personal opposition to a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security, he won’t pressure his colleagues to do the same.

Everyone should be furious at these Democrats for voting to fund ICE, but the real culprit is Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.

He refused to pressure his members to vote against ICE. He quite literally chose not to lead. Pathetic.

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1 month ago

Repeat after me - the institutions of this economy depend on the institutions of this democracy, among which is the rule of law

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1 month ago

One day, if we are lucky, the erasure of American history will itself be remembered as a shameful chapter in American history

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1 month ago

But when I asked an organizer what they wanted to see out of press coverage, they told me they wanted people to see the beautiful things they are building here, and not just the worst stories of the worst of ICE's crimes.

What people are doing here is beautiful. It's a tragic beauty, but a real one

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‘I’m Witnessing a Lot of Emptiness’: How ICE Uprooted Normal Life in Minneapolis WIRED talks to a postal worker, a teacher, two US citizens detained by federal agents, and six more Minnesota residents about life in an occupied American city.

WIRED spoke to 10 residents in Minneapolis about what life has been like for them since ICE seized the city. I know there's a lot of coverage out there, but spend time with this heart wrenching piece:

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Trump Family’s $6.8 Billion Fortune Is Increasingly Tied to Crypto Digital assets added $1.4 billion to the first family's wealth over the past year, making up about one-fifth of their fortune for the first time

“.. The Trumps have generated about $1.4 billion from crypto projects that are new to his second term, a Bloomberg analysis shows. These have gotten a boost from Trump’s own policies ..”

@bloomberg.com #Crypto
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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