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John Oakes

@johnghoakes.bsky.social

fan of Calibri and Tylenol, pro-algae. https://linktr.ee/jghoakes

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Anna Oakes@annaoakes.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Advocates have published a second letter written from inside the ICE detention facility at Delaney Hall, signed by 300 detained people. “Judges in this detention center…carry out deportations and mass expulsions without properly reviewing cases. We live with anguish and fear of appearing in court.”

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Mel Buer@melbuer.bsky.social · 5mo ago

NEW, FROM ME: The organizers with Community Solidarity Project, a local LA mutual aid group, organized from their main hub at Bernies Coffee Shop for years. Now, they've been asked to move, and are asking for the public's help. They've set up a online fundraiser and Goodbye Party tomorrow, April 19

They organized mutual aid in the same place for nearly a decade. Now they're being forced to move.

After nearly ten years at Bernie's Coffee Shop on Wilshire and Fairfax, the organizers with LA's Community Solidarity Project have to move—and are asking for the public's help.

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Billie Jean Sweeney@billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This exemplifies the underhanded tactics the nyt, and this particular writer, use all the time. They foist their political biases on unsuspecting readers who count of them to be honest brokers🧵

Joe Adalian@tvmojoe.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The NYT says today’s #NoKings protests had “no shortage of skeptics,” and then quoted exactly one of those skeptics: The chairman of the Ole Miss College Republicans (as of 2025.) But of course, the Times doesn’t ID him as such. He’s just a Concerned Youth.

The marches had no shortage of skeptics. In Oxford, Miss,, Cass Rutledge, a first-year law student at the University of Mississippi, walked through the No Kings protest and around the town square on Saturday and questioned why people thought Mr. Trump was acting like a king. "He is, you know, a duly elected president who won the popular vote and the electoral college in a landslide," Mr. Rutledge said. "And so I'm a little bit confused on how he's acting differently than any other president." He pointed to the stalemate in Congress over the SAVE America Act, the Republican-driven bill to tighten voter identification and registration rules, which Democrats have called an attempt to suppress turnout based on false claims of voting fraud. Mr. Rutledge said that Mr. Trump was "going through the process" to try to get the legislation passed.
John Oakes@johnghoakes.bsky.social · 5mo ago

So this Mamdani fellow goes after criminal landlords, strong focus on public transport, education, general well-being, etc., etc. BUT what about stinky weather? worst winter in decades, too much snow, rain, coldness imo. AND a lousy spring, if you can even call it that

Chalkbeat@chalkbeat.org · 6mo ago

There are multiple contracts between Newark Public Schools and Driscoll Foods authorizing the district to spend up to $12 million with the vendor, which also supplies the nearby Delaney Hall ICE facility.

Newark’s school meal contractor also feeds an ICE detention facility. Advocates want that to end.

There are multiple contracts between Newark Public Schools and Driscoll Foods authorizing the district to spend up to $12 million with the vendor, which also supplies the nearby Delaney Hall ICE facility.

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Rise and Resist@riseandresist.bsky.social · 6mo ago

NO KINGS, NYC 3.28.26 2:00 pm 7th Ave & Central Park South The president thinks his rule is absolute. But in America we don’t have kings, and we won’t back down against chaos, corruption,+ cruelty. Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger> Volunteer via the link below: nokingsnyc.com

NEW YORK CITI SAYS NO KINGS 3.29.2026 AI 2PM 7TH AVE & CENTRAL PARK SOUTH NOKINGSNYC.COM
Elizabeth Warren@elizabeth-warren.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Trump said he was working on something “desperately needed.” He meant the gold-encrusted ballroom for himself and his billionaire friends. Not affordable health care, not housing, not the high cost of groceries. Priorities.

End Citizens United@endcitizensunited.bsky.social · 7mo ago

96% of the funds in MAGA Inc. came from donors that gave $1 million or more. Trump is going to flood the midterms with millions so he can avoid accountability at the ballot box and continue advancing an agenda that keeps his Big Money donors rich at the expense of working people.

Shane Goldmacher@shanegoldmacher.bsky.social · 7mo ago

NEWS: Republican Cash Edge Threatens to Swamp Democrats in the Midterms www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...

Anna Oakes@annaoakes.bsky.social · 7mo ago

At Delaney Hall, the privately-run ICE detention facility in Newark, visitors are forced to wait for hours in life-threatening cold to see their loved ones. But those conditions, advocates say, are arbitrarily imposed. Latest for @documentedny.bsky.social: documentedny.com/2026/02/09/v...

Visitors to Delaney Hall Wait for Hours in an Unheated Tent to See Their Loved Ones - Documented

The tent, purchased by county officials, was installed after complaints about the lack of protection against cold temperatures.

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