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jennburrill.bsky.social
Defender of Justice 🔹️Criminal Defense, Poverty is not a Crime, Accountability Not Persecution, Anti-Genocide, & Supporter of Many Paths to Citizenship 🔹️Land of Enchantment 🌶🔆🌵 🔹️Brain moves faster than my fingers, expect typos 🔹️CWRU Law Alum
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Khan Yunis is burning this evening, missiles have been falling for hours without stopping This is known as a fire belt- OF HELL.

It's all a scam "to further enrich himself and a few powerful members of his circle while simultaneously destroying the social safety net" - @defector.bsky.social, @izdaramola.bsky.social

As of April 12, over 170 colleges & universities identified 950 international students & recent graduates who have had their student visas revoked by Marco Rudio's State Department Tracking by @insidehighered.com www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...

"The United States government intends to kill Mr. Mangione as a political stunt" Luigi Mangione's response to AG Bondi seeking the death penalty, asking to preclude the gov't from doing so because substituting a political agenda in place of seeking justice is a violation of Due Process

NEW 🧵 The number of people travelling from Europe to the US in recent weeks has plummeted by as much as 35%, as travellers have cancelled plans in response to Trump’s policies and rhetoric, and horror stories from the border. Story: www.ft.com/content/6dc1...

Social Security is gutting regional staff & shifting all of its public communications to Musk's X, however ... "SSA staff cannot sign up for social media on government computers without submitting a special security request" effectively muzzling employees Reporting by @zoeschiffer.bsky.social

Isn't this extortion? 🤔 EEOC agrees to drop pending enforcement letters against law firms that pledged major dollars to Trump "pro bono" fund.

By targeting prisoners and criminals first Trump is banking on the fact you won’t object... That will pave the way to disappearing anyone who speaks out against him

ICE agents trying to lie their way into Los Angeles schools ... “I’m so grateful to the brave LAUSD administrators who denied them entry. These are children who should be learning to read and write, not cowering in fear of being ripped away from their homes" Reporting by @theguardian.com

"we have done much of the work for Trump already. His plan to turn U.S. prisoners into stateless persons & disappear them from our country will challenge every American to revisit & reject the standard disdain & disregard for citizens who live behind the walls of our prisons" - @sifill.bsky.social

April 11, 2025, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services directed Medicaid agencies to stop funding any clinics providing Gender Affirming Care "Planned Parenthood Arizona is pausing Gender Affirming Care services" www.plannedparenthood.org/planned-pare...

MAGA still holding on to hope, but feeling the consequences... “You better be right with your tariffs,” this guy says. “You just cost the middle class trillions. And have added a couple of years of extra work for people like me in our late 50's before we can retire.” Reporting by @dailykos.com

The 287g agreements is the federal government paying Sheriff’s to act as immigration agents. States that allow law enforcement agencies to enter these agreements allow deputies to bypass due process requirements to incarcerate people

You can watch live the @sanders.senate.gov & @aoc.bsky.social rally in Los Angeles 👇 www.youtube.com/live/T2449Ua...

Stephen Miller strategizing to find ways to deport 1.4 million immigrants who cannot be deported because their home countries won’t take them back Negotiations are under way with 30 countries to take deportees who are not their citizens Reporting by @washingtonpost.com

Florida is setting up to be a fully fascist state. State universities have 287g agreements as do regulatory agencies like fish and wildlife. (Plus a new state law to criminalize “being an immigrant in Florida”)

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"If you do not believe in protections for everyone, then you, too, will lose those protections" Opinion by @chavezlaw.bsky.social In @organmountainnews.bsky.social

China's PR team has been busy ...

Oh @cwebbonline.com You mean this

Police car chases are a bigger threat to public safety than the "crimes" they are attempting to stop "Chicago taxpayers have spent $101.8 million since 2019 to resolve lawsuits brought by 26 people who were injured or on behalf of those killed during police pursuits"

Omg, they are going to put National Guard troops the Albuquerque's metro court Reporting by @citydesk.org.web.brid.gy citydesk.nm.news/2025/nationa...

ICE refuses to provide information on any of the 48 people they “disappeared” in New Mexico in March. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Despite being illegal, Trump likely to deport citizens anyway, attacking on all fronts and worrying later whether their actions are legal. So watch for "at least one plane load of incarcerated U.S. citizens being shipped off to El Salvador” Reporting by @rollingstone.com

Trump cancelled Social Security numbers for more than 6,000 living immigrants in the U.S. legally, effectively wiping out their ability to work or receive benefits in an effort to get them to leave the country.

Trump’s cohorts have begun wearing Trump pins rather than the US Flag. 🇺🇸 This is no longer the United States of America to them. It’s Trumpland. #MomSky #Voices4Victory

Don't know if "The Encampments" will come to Santa Fe, but... CCA has "Resist for Peace" showing April 27th sharing the intimate stories of Palestinians and Israelis fighting for co-existence & connection on divided, war-torn land ccasantafe.org/event/resist...

New documentary "The Encampments" details Mahmoud Khalil, then a grad student at @columbiauniversity.bsky.social, who was a negotiator for students during the protests, alongside grad student Sueda Polat who have both now been kidnapped by the U.S. gov't Reporting by @teenvogue.com

Hundreds of girls in the US are confined by the juvenile justice system for “status offenses,” like running away or truancy. Confinement for these offenses is particularly troubling because those behaviors tend to be responses to abuse. More care, less confinement.

Courts are not enough: “Take Guantánamo Bay. Even after the Supreme Court upheld habeas rights for the war on terror detainees, many of them languished at the offshore prison for more than another decade. Nine people died. Only a handful were ever convicted of a crime.”

Odd timing 🤔 Trump just put a 24% tariff on Japan & a 10% tariff on Signapore but @govmlg.bsky.social is going to Japan & Singapore for 2 weeks "to strengthen business ties, promote New Mexico's leadership in advanced energy technologies and computing, and explore natural gas export opportunities"

DOJ insists it can’t be expected to comply with Fed Dist Judge Paula Xinis’s order that it tell her, as directed by S.Ct.’s 9-0 ruling last night (4/10), how it plans to “facilitate” kidnapped Maryland resident Garcia’s return from El Salvador to the U.S.! storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...