Elizabeth 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦

I stand with Portland
I stand for due process for all
I stand for federal employees
I stand for the #Constitution

I stand against fascism
I stand against military takeover
I stand against kidnapping immigrants.

Time to use our voices #America

Land of the free—only if we remain #HomeOfTheBrave

that wsj story now feels like a culmination of anti-trans panic that should prompt a reckoning in the mainstream media. was totally bunk, false, peddled. it’s the kind of thing that has led to reconciliation before, and it should now. news editors should be looking at themselves in the mirror

The most important story of our time is not what Donald Trump wants to do, but what the people of this country allow him to do.

REAL IMAGES from today's peaceful protest in Los Angeles…there was even a musical performance! Legacy media needs to start covering the reality and not just the provocative bits.
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If I wanted to be sick with anger before 7am I’d watch Newsmax. I’ve been listening since the beginning and this might be it. Taking someone like this seriously is a disgrace.

Plymouth, MA followed by (bonus!) Hyannis drive through #handsoff

A photo of the Old South meeting house with a projection on it: Friends Brethren Countrymen! You are called to the Common April 5 to make united resistance to every destructive effort of this administration.

The Boston #HandsOff organizers are killing it. Handsoff2025.com

Rick Steves could have easily stayed apolitical in an effort to sell more books and tours. But I love that he hasn’t. Far more people in this country should be following his example

Attention Denver, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, Atlanta, Boston, Seattle, San Francisco, Philadelphia:

Dept of Education employees are clearing out their offices in these cities (details in comments). If you live nearby, please show up to clap them out and show your support!!!

Now I may just be a poor country lawyer, but where I come from, "collateral arrest" means "false imprisonment."

a woman is covering her mouth while holding a bow and arrow in a green field . ALT: a woman is covering her mouth while holding a bow and arrow in a green field .

Every night @maddow.msnbc.com has a first segment that runs through protests and town halls held in last 24 hrs and if you are feeling like nobody is feeling like you feel or you don’t know what to do: start by watching these and then find your people in your area. They are everywhere.

Spread the word: On April 5, we’re coming together to say Hands Off! and push back against Trump’s unprecedented power grab. Join us for a national day of action: handsoff2025.com/?SQ...

Left: government declaration filed yesterday in the Alien Enemies Act case.

Right: Lt General John DeWitt, Final Report: Japanese Evacuation from the West Coast 1942

Sometimes history rhymes damn near *perfectly*.

#LawSky #Skystorians

Lindsay Toczylowski @l-toczylowski.bsky.social Posting tonight ti shine a light on what the Alien Enemies Act looks like IRL. Our @immdef.bsky.social client fled Venezuela last year & came to US to seek asylum. He has a strong claim. He was detained upon entry because ICE alleged his tattoos are gang related. They are absolutely not. March 15, 2025 at 11:33 PM Lindsay Toczylowski @l-toczylowski... • 1d Our client worked in the arts in Venezuela. He is LGBTQ. His tattoos are benign. But ICE submitted photos of his tattoos as evidence he is Tren de Aragua. His @ImmDef attorney planned to present evidence he is not. But never got the chance because our client has been disappeared.

Solanyer said an ICE officer told her that her brother was detained because of a tattoo that linked him to Tren de Aragua, a violent gang with Venezuelan prison origins that has spread through the Americas. She said the tattoo depicted a rose and that he had gotten it in a tattoo parlor in Dallas. "He thought it looked cool, looked nice, it didn't have any other significance," she said, stressing that he is not a gang member.

Caraballo had multiple tattoos including ones of roses, a clock with this daughter's birth time, a lion and a shaving razor, said his wife. "I've never seen him without hair, so I haven't recognized him in the photos," she said. "I just suspect he's there because of the tattoos that he has and right now any Venezuelan man with tattoos is assumed to be a gang member", she added, citing also the fact that he has effectively gone missing. Sanchez said her husband has never been a member of Tren de Aragua.

taseenb @taseenb People have started identifying some of the 238 Venezuelan migrants deported to Bukele's torture dungeons by the U.S. fascist regime. The brother of one of them posted that his relative is a barber with no criminal record and no links to any criminal organisations. Anahi انائي @ANAHI1938-1d Sebastián García Casique publicó en Instagram que, es hermano de uno de los 238 venezolanos deportados a El Salvador señalado de pertenecer a la banda Tren de Aragua. "Nunca había estado preso, nunca ha cometido un delito, ni en Venezuela u otro país".

The men sent to do hard labor in a Salvadoran prison:

- A tattoo artist seeking asylum who entered legally.
- A teen who got a tattoo in Dallas because he thought it looked cool.
- A 26-year-old whose tattoos his wife says are unrelated to a gang.
- A barber whose family says he has no gang ties.

“There’s gonna be a big presence in DC, but it’s not just DC — I want to see this in rural areas, in suburban areas, in urban areas, in red states, purple states, blue states. It’s going to take all of us.” - @ezralevin.bsky.social

We’re taking to the streets nationwide on April 5: handsoff2025.com

ICE Arrests Pro-Palestinian Activist at Columbia Mahmoud Khalil, who recently completed a graduate program at Columbia, has legal permanent residency, his lawyer said.

Federal immigration authorities on Saturday detained a well-known activist who played a major role in Columbia University’s pro-Palestinian student movement last year, his lawyer said. The former Columbia graduate student is a legal permanent resident of the U.S.

The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025.

This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.

Generations of American patriots, from our revolution onward, have fought for the principles Zelenskyy is risking his life to defend. But today, Donald Trump and JD Vance attacked Zelenskyy and pressured him to surrender the freedom of his people to the KGB war criminal who invaded Ukraine.

The FAA is close to canceling a $2.4 billion contract with Verizon to overhaul the communications system that serves as the backbone of the nation’s air traffic control and is awarding the work to Musk’s Starlink. Follow the money and see where it goes.

National Park ranger fired from "dream job" on Valentine's Day pens emotional viral letter: "Things are not ok" "I am the defender of your public lands and waters ... I am the highlight of your child's school day ... I am tired of waking up every morning at 2am wondering how I am going to provide for my family ...

National Park ranger fired from "dream job" on Valentine's Day pens emotional viral letter: "Things are not ok"

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Froze our toes off to unfreeze funds at America’s hometown today with @indivisible.org Plymouth

If you have the capacity, it is time to start organizing and get out in the streets with a bunch of people, loudly, if at all possible.

Make signs. Find an Indivisible. Get some friends to come with you.

Don't worry about doing it perfectly.

Just do it. It's that time.

As our new president and his favorite broligarch move to dismantle US foreign aid in the name of making America “great again,” consider this:

Members of Congress going into the US Agency for International Development!

Paying the cat tax with help from my sweet Ron who is in end stage kidney disease but still up for snuggles and whatever the junkiest food in the cabinet may be.