Roberta Paikoff Holzmueller
@birdyholz.bsky.social
Retired developmental psychologist. Current voting rights advocate, avid reader, walker, and lover of nature.
Please read this whole thread. It’s a very good depiction of how community care looks right now. Please be ready to show the same care.
Friendly Neighborhood Mouse@missmouse.bsky.social · 4d agoFriday morning, I was gardening when I checked my phone. A request had gone out for help. For 25+ hours, ICE had been laying siege to a quiet neighborhood in Frederick, MD. Community members were afraid, some didn’t want to leave their homes. ICE vehicles seemed to be lurking on every corner.
GOP Convention Googlers Sent to Info On the Epstein Files https://politicalwire.com/2026/09/04/gop-convention-googlers-sent-to-info-on-the-epstein-files/
Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours.
Y'all... the Band of the Coldstream Guards performed "9 to 5" in front of Buckingham Palace in honor of Dolly Parton.
"What did he do to deserve to be murdered, to be left cold, on the ground, dead, my child? What did he do? ... they don't care ... I expect an apology. Why shouldn't we get one?" -- Alex Pretti's mom
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/u... Seems bad.
Supreme Court Allows Trump Plan to Restrict Mail-In Voting, for Now (Gift Article)
The administration asked the court to clear the way for President Trump’s order that creates “state citizenship lists” and directs the Postal Service to decide who gets a mail-in ballot.
nytimes.com
you have to learn to live with the reality that you do not have privacy. especially when you are organizing. especially when you are challenging this regime. there is no place safe to disclose anything that might be construed as illegal by the worst actors.
U.S. Investigated Left-Leaning Groups During Minnesota Immigration Crackdown (Gift Article)
The government conducted expansive surveillance, infiltrated group chats and obtained financial records of organizations never accused of crimes.
nytimes.com
Happy White Sox Pope Hat giveaway to all who celebrate!
Great thread.
J. Offir, PhD@joffirphd.bsky.social · last mo.(Long) Commentrary🧵: Sydney Towle, who recently turned 26, has died of cholangiocarcinoma. 2 lessons to be learned from online responses to this TikTok influencer: 🔺️The public couldn't be worse at discerning fact from fiction. 🔺️Disabled & chronically ill folks... www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/s...
J Michael Luttig on MS NOW. What a time to be alive.
The Weekend on MS NOW@theweekendmsnow.bsky.social · last mo.“Todd Blanche now becomes the symbol of Donald Trump's corruption of the rule of law in America” Retired Judge J Michael Luttig minces no words over what it means that Todd Blanche has been confirmed as attorney general and the danger that poses to the upcoming midterm elections.
I'm not sorry to see Stevens go or to see AIPAC fail. American voters deserve an end to binary thinking on Israel-Palestine and a focus on democracy here. Without it, we are no help to anyone. Don't make this race about I-P or AES will lose. I hope he "mends fences," as he promised, and triumphs.
This actually explains something about how people talk about the Jewish community.
Grand Platner cannot be held responsible for things that he did while he was drunk by Pete Hegseth and Kash Patel
"In the squares of the city, in the shadow of the steeple, By the relief office I seen my people; As they stood there hungry, I stood there asking Is this land made for you and me?"
Eric Alterman@ericalterman.bsky.social · 2mo ago
I’ve always felt this James Baldwin truth, I feel it this year on our 250th anniversary more than ever.
This is my lane. I went through the 194 Trump v Barbara opinion from yesterday section by section, noting what they got right about US migration and citizenship history, and what the dissents get wrong. Please share if you think it is helpful to others.
I Read Trump v Barbara So You Don’t Have To — Anna O. Law
As someone who took 16 years to research and write a new book, Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship , a policy and legal history, I paid keen attention to the oral arguments (April 1) ...
annaolaw.com
Traveling as a temporarily physically disabled person is very eye opening. EVERYONE should be fighting to make places more accessible because it doesn’t take much for any of us to become disabled. Accessibility shouldn’t be an afterthought.
U.S. Supreme Court will hear challenge to Cook County assault weapons ban. And it could rule around the five-year anniversary of the Highland Park parade shooting. From @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/us-supreme-c...
U.S. Supreme Court will hear challenge to Cook County assault weapons ban
Cook County’s ordinance prohibits the possession, acquisition and transfer of the weapons in question. It applies to 125 prohibited rifles, such as AR-15s. But gun-rights advocates say only “dangerous...
chicago.suntimes.com
