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Jamie Mayerfeld

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political theorist, University of Washington, author of "The Promise of Human Rights," http://bit.ly/3ZQzYT3. Posts express personal views only.

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A 21-year-old Moroccan woman was beaten by her family when they found out she was a lesbian. She sought asylum in the US & Trump tried to deport her to Cameroon, where homosexuality is illegal.

Sometimes we get distracted by how incompetent our country has gotten, we forget how evil it has gotten.

22.02.2026 21:57 β€” πŸ‘ 4229    πŸ” 1591    πŸ’¬ 152    πŸ“Œ 73

The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...

22.02.2026 23:01 β€” πŸ‘ 18501    πŸ” 6558    πŸ’¬ 432    πŸ“Œ 174
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Prince Andrew's Arrest Across the pond in Britain, justice and accountability is a serious matter

Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647.
open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...

19.02.2026 14:32 β€” πŸ‘ 33785    πŸ” 7834    πŸ’¬ 1934    πŸ“Œ 786
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Analysis: Democrats wade into β€˜Epstein class’ warfare | CNN Politics Sen. Jon Ossoff injected the Epstein files into a potent new political argument during a rally in Atlanta over the weekend.

Sen. Jon Ossoff injected the Epstein files into a potent new political argument during a rally in Atlanta over the weekend. | Analysis

10.02.2026 05:01 β€” πŸ‘ 174    πŸ” 40    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 7

@housedemocrats.bsky.social @democrats.senate.gov You ALL need to read these & have them read allowed to congress.

03.02.2026 02:44 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Read these accounts of ICE in Camp East Montana. Severe beatings resulting in hospital visits, no sunlight for days-weeks, no rec, no phone calls, coercion, punishment in isolation for asking for medication, filthy sanitation, shredding documents. ICE is breaking laws and Congress must act!

03.02.2026 04:11 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

These testimonies are beyond horrifying. It is no exaggeration to say the US is committing crimes against humanity. People are beaten, deprived of medications for chronic conditions, deprived of medical care for acute illness, forced to live in filth, given food unfit for human consumption.

03.02.2026 14:01 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Read each of these! Pay Attention!
This is not who we are 🀬🀬

03.02.2026 15:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's very hard to read through the testimonies of the prisoners. What is going on is cruel, inhumane and sadistic. There is no way to stop this as far as I can tell until F47 and his entire admin are gone. Then we have much work to do to repair this damage.

03.02.2026 15:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Concentration camp prisoners are being beaten, tortured, and denied medical care. The government is concealing the full extent of what is being done and to whom.

The people responsible for these camps are committing capital crimes under US law (18 USC 241-242) and we must hold them accountable.

03.02.2026 16:14 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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No, I do not trust Tulsi Gabbard. She used to push lies for the "anti-imperialist" left, and now she pushes lies for the Trump administration. It is not a good idea to put political power in the hands of pathological liars.

02.02.2026 16:22 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 3

Here is a collection of sworn testimonies from detainees being held in ICE custody. Until reading these testimonies, I wasn't fully aware of what is happening. Please read them yourself. We need to know this. We need to understand the consequences of ICE/CBP arrests. assets.aclu.org/live/uploads...

02.02.2026 05:59 β€” πŸ‘ 968    πŸ” 691    πŸ’¬ 28    πŸ“Œ 57
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Ethnic Cleansing in Ohio? Nazi Lies in Vance's America

In Springfield, Ohio, people are preparing in advance of a β€œlarge deportation” promised by the president. To all appearances, the city is 2 or 3 days from a federal ethnic cleansing, grounded in a hate campaign organized by the vice-president and American Nazis.
snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-cle...

01.02.2026 15:55 β€” πŸ‘ 3640    πŸ” 1817    πŸ’¬ 115    πŸ“Œ 151

By all means dislike Chomsky for his Epstein Fan Club credentials but please remember to dislike him for his genocide denialism too.

31.01.2026 00:14 β€” πŸ‘ 125    πŸ” 21    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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WA laws must keep up to protect rights amid ICE enforcement | Op-Ed If we learn anything from Minnesota, we should understand that tolerating terror tactics against one segment of the population puts us all at risk.

By UW professor Angelina Godoy. www.seattletimes.com/opinion/wa-l...

27.01.2026 19:52 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Research update: ​​WA DOL continues its β€œroadside assists” to ICE/CBP immigration investigations. Since publishing the Jan 8, 2026 β€œRoadside Assist” report, UWCHR researchers have verified six additional cases where WA drivers were arrested by ICE/CBP while driving, following a search of their license plate number in the WA DOL’s database via Nlets.At least two of which are confirmed to have been civil immigration arrests.

Research update: ​​WA DOL continues its β€œroadside assists” to ICE/CBP immigration investigations. Since publishing the Jan 8, 2026 β€œRoadside Assist” report, UWCHR researchers have verified six additional cases where WA drivers were arrested by ICE/CBP while driving, following a search of their license plate number in the WA DOL’s database via Nlets.At least two of which are confirmed to have been civil immigration arrests.

Research update: WA DOL continues its "roadside assists" to ICE/CBP immigration investigations

UWCHR researchers have verified 6 additional cases where WA drivers were arrested by ICE/CBP following a search of WA DOL data, at least 2 of which are confirmed to have been civil immigration arrests.

26.01.2026 20:58 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

"It is never safe, it is never democratic, to empower any law enforcement agency to effectively become a secret policeβ€”and ICE has been doing that for a very long time."

UWCHR's Angelina Godoy joins @inthemeanwhile.bsky.social podcast, listen here:

27.01.2026 16:43 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
Screenshot of a TikTok video with error message at top saying β€œyour video is under review and can’t be shared right now.”

Screenshot of a TikTok video with error message at top saying β€œyour video is under review and can’t be shared right now.”

This morning, I recorded a video on TikTok about why DHS’s arguments for the power to enter homes without judicial warrants in immigration cases are bunk.

Nine hours later, TikTok still says my video is β€œunder review,” and can’t be shared.

Well, here’s a link:

georgetown.box.com/v/Vladeck-IC...

26.01.2026 02:00 β€” πŸ‘ 10211    πŸ” 4262    πŸ’¬ 462    πŸ“Œ 354
CONTRIBUTOR
GREG BROCKMAN
AMOUNT
ELECTION TO DAT
$25,000,000 $25,000,000

CONTRIBUTOR GREG BROCKMAN AMOUNT ELECTION TO DAT $25,000,000 $25,000,000

The largest Trump superPAC donor so far this cycle is the president of OpenAI

26.01.2026 00:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1803    πŸ” 699    πŸ’¬ 33    πŸ“Œ 94
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"Don't forget to add the bit about people only having rights if they agree with what the government is doing."

26.01.2026 00:57 β€” πŸ‘ 962    πŸ” 221    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 4

this is how it’s going to have to be, and how major movements have always been

25.01.2026 02:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1698    πŸ” 245    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 3

Worse than Kent State, really than any episode I can think of probably dating back to Reconstruc & earlier b/c

1. continuing, not 1 off.
2. organized, not individual ofcrs losing it
3. literally at hand of federal government, which is
4. immediately lying & circling the wagons to prevent inves.

24.01.2026 22:07 β€” πŸ‘ 7901    πŸ” 2315    πŸ’¬ 207    πŸ“Œ 102

an administration staffed to the top with degenerate liars

24.01.2026 23:13 β€” πŸ‘ 12530    πŸ” 2298    πŸ’¬ 389    πŸ“Œ 130

I grew up reading the Washington Post. I spent 12 years working for the Washington Post. I grieve for the Washington Post.

25.01.2026 02:42 β€” πŸ‘ 337    πŸ” 62    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 2

man the stuff i am seeing on IG from
the most normie, i don’t really talk about politics accounts suggests something different

25.01.2026 02:25 β€” πŸ‘ 9069    πŸ” 1007    πŸ’¬ 158    πŸ“Œ 225

Do you honestly think people in the civil rights movement and other nonviolent movements faced no violence themselves? They practiced nonviolence because it works, because the oppressor wants a shooting war, which is the war it will win

24.01.2026 19:11 β€” πŸ‘ 4762    πŸ” 741    πŸ’¬ 100    πŸ“Œ 87

Nonviolence is, in fact, working. This administration is weaker than it was a year ago. More and more of the public is becoming galvanized against it; its agents are being impeded.

24.01.2026 21:53 β€” πŸ‘ 8897    πŸ” 2098    πŸ’¬ 95    πŸ“Œ 63
ICE Kills Another American
YouTube video by Takesβ„’ by Jamelle Bouie ICE Kills Another American

The montage towards the end hits especially hard. www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_71...

24.01.2026 22:16 β€” πŸ‘ 119    πŸ” 60    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 7
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Independent autopsy in ICE shooting death of Renee Good released by law firm in civil investigation The results of an independent autopsy for Renee Good have been released as part of a law firm's civil investigation, two weeks after she was shot and killed by a federal agent in Minneapolis.

An independent autopsy of Renee Good reveals that she had 3 gunshot wounds: to the left arm, right lung, and left temple that exited the right side of her head. That means the third shot, the most unlawful one, from the side, likely killed her. abc7.com/post/minneap...

22.01.2026 04:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1223    πŸ” 636    πŸ’¬ 62    πŸ“Œ 61

Re ICE actrocities in MN, I’ve already said that lately I feel consistently angrier than I’ve ever felt in my long life.

But I also feel absolutely heartsick. That poor little 5-year old baby kidnapped, imagining how scared he was…

I know many of you feel the same. Love and solidarity to you.

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