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J. Tins

@jtins.bsky.social

NYC public defender. Trying to do my part to make this world less awful. MC | HUSL

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The New York Times@nytimes.com · yesterday

Missouri voters on Tuesday rejected an attempt by the Republican-controlled Legislature to make it harder to pass citizen-sponsored amendments to the state’s constitution, preserving a tool that voters across the country have relied on to pass laws their legislatures would not. nyti.ms/3TCTELv

People are voting at tables in a large room. White privacy dividers read: "Vote here." A headline reads: "Missouri Voters Reject Measure to Limit Their Ballot Box Powers." Photo by Chase Castor for The New York Times
Jen Rice@jenrice.bsky.social · 3d ago

They're probably hoping you won't hear about this. But tomorrow in TX, Tarrant County officials meet to vote on a GOP plan to cut almost HALF of Election Day voting locations, plus 8 early voting locations, some of them on campuses. Not hard to guess why. fortworthreport.org/2026/07/30/t...

Tarrant County considers cutting 140 Election Day polling sites for November

County commissioners vote Aug. 4 on proposed reductions to the number of early voting and day-of sites for the midterms.

fortworthreport.org

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2d ago

ANOTHER death in ICE custody, this time at the controversial Delaney Hall facility. This makes 54 deaths since Trump took office; 1 every 8 days in 2026. His mother says he was denied adequate medical care for chronic conditions, a common accusation ICE has strenuously denied.

Luca Migo@victinibcn.bsky.social · 3d ago

Breaking: Another victim, Edwin Jovanny Lopez Cornejo, has died in ICE custody at Delaney Hall prison after being denied vital medication and family visits. Depriving sick detainees of care until they die is murder by neglect. We demand complete transparency and justice for Edwin! 🎥 Statuscoup

Carlos Noreña@carlosfnorena.bsky.social · 5d ago

This is an important story, beyond the world of sports. There were BIG MONEY interests at stake here. But *organized opposition* to a cartoonishly corrupt sell-off torpedoed the plan. Almost immediately. There is a lesson here.

Infantino scraps FIFA World Cup sell-off plan after backlash

FIFA president Gianni Infantino has scrapped his proposal to sell stakes in the World Cup after widespread backlash, including from within global soccer's governing body, and a threatened boycott by European Nations.

espn.com

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg@theradr.bsky.social · last wk.

hey do you remember when we all found out about the horrors of the Muslim Ban under Trump 1.0 and fucking went to the airports to protest the horrors done to our fellow humans and pro bono lawyers were all over and stuff? the olden days of January 2017? when the overton window was over there?

ACLU of Northern California@aclu-norcal.bsky.social · last wk.

TSA is alerting ICE about travelers with expired visas. An Oakland woman was detained recently before her flight home from Denver. ICE is targeting spouses of US citizens and people with pending asylum, green card, and visa extension applications. Airports are now potential deportation traps.

J. Tins@jtins.bsky.social · 2w ago

We’re literally in contract bargaining with our management right now and haven’t agreed because they want to retain the right to switch our insurance if it becomes “too costly” for them

ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · 2w ago

re: polls showing that Americans want to keep their employer provided insurance, the key thing to emphasize is that nobody gets to decide that already. fired or switch jobs, or your boss decides to change plans, which can and does happen all the time, poof