Yael Grauer
yael@yaelwrites.com
#alwaysantifascist
opinions are mine, but you can have some
- Reposted by Yael GrauerMahmoud Khalil's legal team keeps sending Judge Farbiarz order after order from judges finding in favor of other international students targeted for deportation by the Trump admin. Maybe one day he'll issue his own! storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- From @consumerreports.org: CFPB withdraws proposed rule that would have prevented data brokers from selling or misusing consumers’ sensitive personal data advocacy.consumerreports.org/press_releas...
- 🧵 if you need a pep talk
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- Reposted by Yael GrauerLittle known fact that Grover Cleveland used to ride around the world in the Statue of Liberty and have sensitive national security discussions inside it, before taking possession of it himself after he left office.
- Reposted by Yael GrauerDEF CON legal update: Truth is a complete defense against defamation. The Hadnagy lawsuit against us is over. Summary judgement. Dismissed, with prejudice. You can read the judgment here storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... . Stay tuned for a more detailed report. #defcon #legalupdate
- Reposted by Yael GrauerWashington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi went to a consulate in Istanbul to get a document he needed to get married. Instead, he was murdered and dismembered on the orders of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, now a close pal of Donald Trump.
- Reposted by Yael GrauerExactly this. www.theverge.com/policy/66568...
- Reposted by Yael GrauerThe church said it's terminating a decades-long partnership with the federal government to help refugees arriving in the U.S., citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa.
- Reposted by Yael Grauer2. If knowing your rights didn't make a difference, they wouldn't be threatening and arresting people who told folks their rights. 3. Don't make it easier for ICE and harder for your lawyer to get you out. As we've seen with Mohsen Mohdawi, lawyers CAN fight even this system.
- Reposted by Yael GrauerFor everyone saying this doesn't matter because ICE doesn't follow the law: 1. They want you to think knowing your rights makes no difference when we know for a fact it does. How do we know that? Because Homan himself said people knowing their rights cost then hundreds of arrests in Chicago.
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- This sucks. It was such a pleasure freelancing for YES! in 2016 and 2017. www.yesmagazine.org/sunset-annou...
- Reposted by Yael GrauerWho's up for some petty kitchen-consumer snark?
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- Reposted by Yael Grauer“The firing of Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter came after Perlmutter and her office earlier this week issued part three of a lengthy report about artificial intelligence and expressed some concerns and questions about the usage of copyrighted materials by AI technology.”
- CBS News - The Trump administration has fired the head of the US Copyright Office. cbsnews.com/news/trump-fires-di…
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- People being more skilled than you at something or calling you out on something legitimate is just a thing that’s gonna happen so you may as well be gracious about it and try to learn something from it.
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- Curious what folks who use Chrome are using instead of uBlock Origin Lite (assuming you don't want to share that many permissions with a browser extension). NOT looking for a debate on which browser to use, I use all of them for different reasons/use cases I won't get into.
- Reposted by Yael GrauerHello new followers! I wrote a book--Police and the Empire City--which explores how the New York City police department's encounters with race, immigration, and empire shaped how modern police use technology, recruit, do violence, and operate generally. www.dukeupress.edu/police-and-t...
- Reposted by Yael GrauerBREAKING: A federal judge just blocked the Trump admin’s push to fast-track the Oak Flat land swap—halting the giveaway of sacred Apache land + rare desert ecosystems to a foreign mining giant until SCOTUS rules.
- Reposted by Yael Grauer@npr.org EXCLUSIVE: The Department of Agriculture is demanding states hand over personal data of food assistance recipients — including Social Security numbers, addresses and, in at least one state, citizenship status, according to emails shared with NPR.
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- All of the Democratic heads of the Consumer Product Safety Commission have just been abruptly fired by the White House. The commissioners say this is punishment for speaking out against staff cuts and threats to the agency's independence.
- Wow, I thought my REI protest vote was symbolic but it actually had an impact.
- Reposted by Yael GrauerTo recap, the head of FEMA was fired a few weeks before the start of hurricane season and replaced by someone with no emergency management experience.
- Reposted by Yael GrauerBREAKING: FEMA’s most senior official Cameron Hamilton has been FIRED and walked out of the building, an agency source confirms. He testified just yesterday that he didn’t think the agency should be eliminated, per Trump and DHS Sec. Kristi Noem’s wishes. Apparently the wrong answer.
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- Reposted by Yael GrauerQuite an exchange just now between Sen. Merkley and FBI Director Kash Patel over whether due process applies to people targeted by the Alien Enemies Act.
- Reposted by Yael GrauerNEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.
- Reposted by Yael GrauerEXCLUSIVE: A police officer questioned the legality of arresting peaceful student protesters without probable cause at a pro-Palestine demonstration at the University of Texas at Austin, audio from body camera footage provided to Rolling Stone shows.
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- Reposted by Yael GrauerIncreasingly Powerful Trans Person Capable Of Using Every Single Bathroom At Once
- Reposted by Yael Grauer“Your microphone works. Do you condemn this?” I asked my Republican colleagues — who say they care about antisemitism — if they condemn Trump pardoning neo-Nazis. Unfortunately, the party of “Jewish space lasers” doesn't give a damn about stopping antisemitism.
- Reposted by Yael GrauerUPDATE: Both Libyan governments have said that they will not accept deportations from the United States. So many questions! ICE on the ground was telling people in the last 48 hours they were going to be deported to Libya. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/w...
- I am quote skeeting my own skeet but this song is everything to me right now, so many layers
- @normative.bsky.social so i started listening to sofia isella and this song is my entire world right now; it's so good
- what if Shabbat but every day
- Y'all the other day I posted a bunch of Met Gala dresses I liked without being aware of the theme or context, and @sachie2018.bsky.social correctly pointed out that I missed the plot.
- Reposted by Yael GrauerVim is the original escape room
- Reposted by Yael GrauerThe politics of visibility and resilience were on display, as Whiteness was decentered and the intersectional excellence of those historically marginalized by their race, gender and sexuality was celebrated as part of the American story. The latest from @errinhaines.bsky.social
- Reposted by Yael GrauerAt which point she will have spent nearly two months behind bars for the crime of writing an op-ed.
- BREAKING: Second Circuit panel, one day after arguments, unanimously rejects government's arguments and orders that Rumeysa Ozturk be transferred to Vermont no later than May 14. ww3.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/is...
- Reposted by Yael GrauerTuring and Turing in the widening gyre The prompter cannot hear the prompt; Things fall apart; the algorithm cannot hold; Ransomware is loosed upon the world, The capitalism tide is high, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Buy memecoins
