Michael Simrak

Police Raid a Pittsburgh Gay Bar, Then Reportedly Ask for Photos With Amanda Lepore Officers reportedly ordered performers and all 133 patrons to wait outside while they conducted what they called a “compliance check.”

“Officers reportedly ordered performers and all 133 patrons to wait outside while they conducted what they called a ‘compliance check.’ “

Everything old is new again. History repeats itself. Etc.

In the wake of what Judge Dugan did (100% legal), now is a good time for everyone to know what she knows:

An immigration or administrative warrant is *not* a judicial warrant. You are not obliged to obey it. Indeed, you can let the person out the back door. docs.google.com/presentation...

😔 I am so sad that I never got to visit the National African American museum before now

It was always sold out by the time I looked for tickets…

A reminder to do all the things now

FBI agents have arrested a judge in Wisconsin on obstruction charges, claiming that she helped an undocumented immigrant evade arrest.

This country is in a full blown authoritarian crisis.

The prayer room at NYU — accessibly only via NYU ID — was vandalized with islamophobic graffiti and prayer mats were reportedly urinated on.

NYU didn’t address the incident for several hours. Elected officials quick to condemn antisemitism have said nothing.

Never forget that France made Haiti pay THEM to compensate slave owners who lost their slaves. It cost $30 billion and it took Haiti 122 years to pay off.

Every single university president should be asked, in public, why they are not speaking out this way to support all the students currently detained without due process, and all those terrified that they will be next, on every campus in this country. Yes, including Columbia's acting president.

Voters Reject Anti-Trans Ads And Elon Musk In Wisconsin Supreme Court Election Despite millions of dollars spent by Elon Musk and spent on anti-transgender advertisements, liberal judge Susan Crawford wins the Wisconsin Supreme Court election.

1. On Tuesday, voters rejected anti-trans ads, Elon Musk by electing Susan Crawford to the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

It was supposed to be close. She won by 10 points.

Dems do NOT need to throw trans people under the bus to win.

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A man slated for deportation has captured conditions inside the Krome Detention Center in Florida. He says some people have been confined like this for up to 30 days.

At least three men have died at Krome in the past five months.

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AAUP @aaup.bsky.social needs to put Columbia on the censure list.

Tyrants view educated citizens as their greatest enemy.

Slaveholders stopped the enslaved from learning to read. Nazis burned books. Dictators censor media.

That’s why Trump is attacking education, science, museums, and the arts – to prevent us from learning.

It's Fascism 101.

Trump admin moves to end federal HIV prevention programs. ‘Catastrophic’ consequences, experts say “This is a dangerous move,” Jirair Ratevosian, an associate research scientist at Yale University, told The Advocate.

This is genocidal.

www.advocate.com/news/hhs-rol...

The need to invent a Do Not Contact list but just for the Democratic Party.

GOP bill could ban hairdressers from giving gender-nonconforming haircuts to minors - LGBTQ Nation The bill would allow anyone to sue someone who affirms a young person's transition, and it specifically mentions hairstyles.

We reported on this a few days ago, but I want to point out this headline because this is where we are at.

A bill in Arkansas would ban gender affirming HAIRCUTS for transgender youth.

HAIRCUTS.

This is a straight up North Korea state sanctioned hairstyle proposed law for youth.

that transgender persons can have the warrior ethos

a court has officially ruled that transgender people can have warrior ethos

Letter from a Palestinian Political Prisoner in Louisiana March 18, 2025

“My name is Mahmoud Khalil and I am a political prisoner.” www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

And the icing on the cake is, they got free universal healthcare, thanks to us.

BREAKING: Texas Midwife Arrested on Felony Abortion Charges This is Texas’ first post-Dobbs criminal abortion case

A midwife has been arrested on felony abortion charges in Texas. She faces up to 20 years in prison. jessica.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

look at these headlines. we live in a dictatorship. it's not looming, it's not threatening, it's here.

Every person on Bluesky should know:
* Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever
* Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies
* Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured
* Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic

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One of the “gang members” that was disappeared and deported is a queer tattoo artist

I would like a Democratic leader who dislikes the Republican Party. Is that too much to ask?

So a forced labor concentration camp where brown people with the wrong tattoos will be held indefinitely and forced to make profits for those who are persecuting them?

Gee. Where have I heard this before…

Descriptive representation isn’t everything, but King’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail has been on my mind, and it’s impossible to ignore that so many of our institutions—universities, the Senate, news orgs—are led by white people whose liberalism so often wavers when it comes to race and justice.

OSU banned departments from considering race in admissions two years ago -- we aren't allowed to know applicants' races, and diversity (of any kind) was removed from all rubrics. So to come after us now shows how useless & futile it is to comply.

These are the senators who collaborated with the GOP.

Schumer
Fetterman
Cortez Masto
Durbin
King
Shaheen
Gillibrand
Schatz
Hassan
Peters

Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.