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Sarah Szalavitz💡

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    That neither he nor any of the teenagers on his team have been arrested is impossible to unsee
.

    We don’t have a justice system; we have a corruption system.

    @stuartpstevens.bsky.social
    This amounts to the most significant data leak in cyber history. Private individuals in the data business now have access to your Social Security information. This violates privacy laws in every state. Hopefully, state AGs will file suit & pursue criminal charges. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
    Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Full Access to Treasury’s Payments System
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    Feb 2, 2025
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    F**k That’: Federal Workers Say They’re Scared But ‘Digging In’ Amid Trump’s Chaos

    “Whoever wrote that email really underestimated who they were sending it to”

    Bravo to our union brothers & sisters in the USG for holding the line for all of us! www.huffpost.com/entry/federa... #solidarity

    ‘F**k That’: Federal Workers Say They’re Scared But ‘Digging In’ Amid Trump’s Chaos
    “Ironically for the Trumpies, bringing us back to the office will make us stronger morale-wise,” said one EPA employee as Trump vowed to purge civil servants.
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    Feb 4, 2025
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    Gracie the Giraffe—who disappeared a day before the 5th game of the NBA finals—Is Found ‘Fat and Happy’ 2 Weeks After Escaping Texas Ranch www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/u... clearly she belongs in NY.

    Gracie the Giraffe Is Found ‘Fat and Happy’ 2 Weeks After Escaping Ranch
    3,722 531
    Jun 26, 2026
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    “ICE is currently in parks on the Westside separating caregivers from kids
Children are being left alone while nannies are being handcuffed” (From a friend who is a parent, who posted the message below on FB)

    ICE is not only kidnapping folks, they are creating opportunities for other kidnappers


    1,055 484
    Jun 13, 2025
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    ‘Like a horror movie’: ICE is detaining German tourist indefinitely
    www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... 26 yo German Jessica Brösche—a tourist who had a visa waiver & a return ticket to đŸ‡©đŸ‡Ș in her passport—has been in a detention center for a month+ after being denied entry from đŸ‡ČđŸ‡œ

    Adios đŸ‡ș🇾 tourism!

    ‘Like a horror movie’: Ice detaining German tourist in California indefinitely
    Jessica Brösche has spent more than a month in detention center after being denied entry at San Diego from Mexico
    748 401
    Mar 4, 2025
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    ICE leaves cars, ice cream carts abandoned when it arrests workers -
    www.latimes.com/california/s... Lawlessly terrorizing & arresting workers—not criminals—& destroying their property, leaving it to be taken or damaged & ensuring their loved ones can’t collect it.

    ICE leaves cars abandoned, lawn mowers running when it arrests workers: A new push to secure property
    Santa Ana police announced it would attempt to return abandoned property, such as vehicles and work equipment, to relatives of those detained by federal agents.
    687 360
    Jul 9, 2025
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    California & 17 states file lawsuit challenging 'suspicionless' stops by masked ICE agents in LA
    www.latimes.com/california/s... today is the next best day to all those that preceded


    California, 17 other states challenge 'suspicionless' stops by masked ICE agents in L.A.
    California and a coalition of 17 other states have backed a lawsuit calling for an end to unconstitutional immigration stops in Los Angeles.
    990 341
    Jul 8, 2025
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    Rutgers Professor @mark-bray.bsky.social, who studies & writes about Antifascism,Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats

    By the time he & his family reached the gate, their tickets were cancelled.
    www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n... flagrantly & appallingly lawless. Hope he & his family are ok.

    Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats
    641 333
    Oct 9, 2025
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    Reply to @dearsarah.bsky.social

    U.S. pauses Columbia River water-sharing negotiations with Canada amid Trump threats

    flip.it/KXH-uK curious how devoted we are to punching ourselves in the face. We are downstream from Canada—this literally can only harm the US.

    U.S. pauses Columbia River water-sharing negotiations with Canada amid Trump threats ‱ Idaho Capital Sun
    The U.S. has paused negotiations with Canada on a plan that governs flood control, water supply and hydropower in the Columbia River Basin.
    969 315
    Mar 15, 2025
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    No, Trump’s Win Wasn’t ‘Sweeping,’ ‘Commanding,’ or ‘Resounding’ -

    After all the ballots are counted, he’ll have received less than 50% of the vote. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

    Trump Won Less Than 50 Percent. Why Is Everyone Calling It a Landslide?
    Right and left have bought the narrative of a crushing triumph. They’re wrong.
    965 311
    Nov 23, 2024
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    US attorney Michele Beckwith was fired after telling Border Patrol chief Bovino not to stop people indiscriminately & emailing him that “compliance with court orders & the Constitution” was required. Shortly thereafter her work cell phone & computer stopped working.
    www.latimes.com/california/s...

    Veteran U.S. attorney in California insisted Border Patrol follow a court order. Then she was fired
    Michele Beckwith, U.S. attorney in Sacramento, said she was let go after warning the border patrol's Gregory Bovino not to violate a court injunction.
    451 301
    Sep 27, 2025
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    If this doesn’t prompt Musk’s expulsion from USG & revocation of security clearances (& um ffs arrest) will anything? bsky.app/profile/dear... Will Musk thank for Medvedev for his support of lawlessly shuttering USAID (& the deaths it’ll cause)? Or will he have Trump, Hegseth, Gabbard & Patel do it?

    Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social
    Dmitri Medvedev’s tweet applauding Musk’s plans to shutter USAID is a power move. So was Putin just publicly suggesting that what was already criminal is actually treasonous? How else can one read this than as an indication of who is calling the shots—& that it intentionally harms the US?
    Tweet from Dmitri Medvedev reading: Smart move by @elonmusk, trying to plug USAID's Deep Throat. Let's hope notorious Deep State doesn't swallow him whole... https://x.com/medvedevrussiae/status/1886330971160518961?s=46&t=_eCGsSFzev6cTHSoLq5hfQ
    631 288
    Feb 3, 2025
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    Reply to @dearsarah.bsky.social

    US citizen wrongfully arrested by border patrol held for nearly 10 days

    Official claimed Jose Hermosillo, a 19 year old American visiting Arizona from New Mexico, was ‘without the proper immigration documents’
    www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... these “agents” should be prosecuted.

    US citizen wrongfully arrested by border patrol in Arizona held for nearly 10 days
    Official claimed Jose Hermosillo, who was visiting Arizona, was ‘without the proper immigration documents’
    826 276
    Apr 21, 2025
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    Reply to @dearsarah.bsky.social

    German court orders X to hand over election data in legal blow to Musk’s platform
    www.politico.eu/article/berl... #solidarity

    German court orders X to hand over election data in legal blow to Musk’s platform
    Researchers win a legal battle against the platform formerly known as Twitter, securing crucial access to social media data to probe potential election interference.
    1,016 274
    Feb 8, 2025
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    No president has
    ever defunded more police, prosecutors, fire fighters, intel
    agents & all kinds of law enforcement than Trump—let alone so rapidly, chaotically & lawlessly.

    How wild it is that this is not even a data point, let alone a talking point?!

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    Feb 7, 2025
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    There are 5000 folks protesting peacefully in Palm Springs; it’s 99 degrees!!!! #NoKings

    1,442 256
    Jun 15, 2025
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    LAPD’s chief just said that the President may or may not have deployed the military in Los Angeles.

    In other words, the federal government and the military are not communicating—let alone coordinating—with the city, county or state


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    Jun 10, 2025
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    Following Trump’s unitary executive EO, USAID’s Pete Marocco filed declaration asserting that actually federal judges TROs don’t apply to him—sorry Congress & the Constitution, but Trump is law & he won’t resume payment of contracts.

    Article 3 judges, you ready to enforce? bsky.app/profile/beth...

    Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social
    Trump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential Powers: The president’s new executive order would give him control over independent agencies, testing a once-fringe legal theory. Lawsuits are sure to follow. www.thedailybeast.com/trump-signs-... Simply: a “unitary executive” is dictatorship.
    Trump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand Presidential Powers
    The president’s new executive order would give him control over independent agencies, testing a once-fringe legal theory. Lawsuits are sure to follow.
    430 228
    Feb 19, 2025
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    ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team

    Documents show that ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms (like this one) to target people for deportation.
    www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

    ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team
    Documents show that ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.
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    Oct 5, 2025
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    Reply to @dearsarah.bsky.social

    Elon Musk’s DOGE has swept into 15 federal agencies.
    flip.it/xrm_TY At Dept of Ed, Musk installed Alexandra Beynon, former(?) head of engineering at (Peter Thiel funded) Mindbloom, her husband’s ketamine company.

    Musk’s ketamine supplier now works for the USG.

    The disassociation IS contagious! đŸ« 

    Elon Musk’s DOGE has swept into 15 federal agencies. Here’s what to know.
    Internal email lists and other documents and interviews provide the widest view so far of who is working in DOGE — and officials inside other agencies with Musk connections.
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    Feb 8, 2025
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    State Department plan to deport ‘pro-Hamas’ students relies on a 1952 McCarthy-era antisemitic law that targeted Jews—& will use AI to scan social media & news reports of đŸ‡źđŸ‡± protests.
    flip.it/rqEItY yes this is prima facie unconstitutional. The 1st Amendment isn’t just for citizens!

    State Department plan to deport ‘pro-Hamas’ students relies on a 1952 law that targeted Jews
    Jewish Holocaust survivors suspected of being Soviet sympathizers were subject to the 1952 McCarran-Walter Act.
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    Mar 8, 2025
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    Trump cabinet billionaire insults Social Security seniors who need their checks

    Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick suggested that older Americans could be “fraudsters” if they complained about not receiving their Social Security checks.
    flip.it/leSD2Z 1/5 Americans receive social security benefits.

    Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick suggested that older Americans could be "fraudsters" if they complained about not receiving their Social Security checks. Lutnick, a wealthy financier who was CEO at the investment firm Cantor Fitzgerald, has been touting President Donald Trump's hardline trade policies for weeks. During an episode of the "All-in" podcast, he suggested that those complaining about not receiving their benefits could be committing fraud. "Let's say Social Security didn't send out their checks this month. My mother in law, who's 94, she wouldn't call and complain. She just wouldn't. She'd think something got messed up, and she'll get it next month," he said. "A fraudster always makes the loudest noise, screaming, yelling and complaining." "Anybody who's been in the payment system and the process system knows the easiest way to find the fraudster is to stop payments and listen, because whoever screams is the one stealing," he added. He said that older Americans would not complain because they "trust" the government. More than 72.5 million people in the U.S. receive benefits from the Social Security Administration. A recent survey from Bankrate found that 77% of retirees surveyed said they are relying on their Social Security to pay for necessary expenses, CNN reported last year.
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    Mar 22, 2025
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    👏A federal judge in MN just issued a Temporary Restraining Order preventing the Trump administration from arresting & detaining lawfully resettled refugees in Minnesota under Operation PARRIS while the case challenging the practice proceeds.
    refugeerights.org/news-resourc...

    Court Orders ICE To Stop Unlawful Arrest and Detention of Refugees | International Refugee Assistance Project
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    Jan 29, 2026
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    Biden stands by Newsom in fire response. Because that is what presidents do

    www.latimes.com/california/s... Leaving aside that California is the world’s 5th largest economy
.1/8 US residents live in California
& 1/33 live in Los Angeles County!

    Peter Gleick, a hydroclimatologist and senior fellow of the Oakland-based Pacific Institute, said Trump’s comments attempting to link California water policy with the water-supply problems facing firefighters in Southern California were “blatantly false, irresponsible and politically self-serving.” “There is no water shortage in Southern California — the state’s reservoirs are all at, or above, levels normally expected for this time of year. The problem with water supply for the fires is entirely the result of the massive immediate demands for firefighting water, broken or damaged pipes and pumps, and homeowners leaving hoses and sprinklers running in hopes of saving property.”
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    Jan 9, 2025
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    Reply to @dearsarah.bsky.social

    👊👏People are signing up in droves’: Federal workers' unions see a DOGE inspired surge

    The American Federation of Government Employees, added 5575 new members in the first 6 days of February alone. By comparison, the union gained 14,996 new members during all of 2024. #solidarity

    flip.it/wHdK3v

    ‘People are signing up in droves’: Federal workers' unions see DOGE-inspired surge - The Boston Globe
    As President Trump and Elon Musk move to upend the government, labor unions that represent federal workers have seen their membership rolls rapidly expand.
    570 174
    Feb 9, 2025