Saralegal
@saralegal.bsky.social
Sara, 30+. AuDHD, queer, Jewish diasporist. Public sector paralegal by day, nerd by night.
“The worst place ever I’ve been in my life," Sakariye Abdi Mohamed, a Somali asylum seeker, told me over the phone from Guantanamo Bay last week. Sakariye is one of 7 or 8 Somalis who are being held at Gitmo. They say guards tell them the order to keep Somalis at the facility comes from DC.
The Trump administration is imprisoning Somali immigrants in Gitmo
“Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay.”
motherjones.com
Nearly three years ago, Alaska filed criminal charges against an American Samoan family for illegally voting. But late Friday, prosecutors who were fresh off a loss at the state Court of Appeals dropped the charges.
After a Yearslong Nightmare, Relief for American Samoans Punished for Voting - Bolts
Alaska officials for years accused American Samoans caught in a unique legal limbo of illegally voting, but finally dropped those charges this month.
boltsmag.org
The husband is being detained, and all I have is grief and rage.
bonque, ben (טריפה שאלות)@kwstzhaderbonch.bsky.social · 3w agoRefugee family my father has befriended has an ICE appointment shortly that *should* be uneventful, but who fucking knows these days, and it's a many hour drive from their home in a place they don't know. Contingency plans are in place, but I am *worried*.
any jewish institution that speaks out to oppose this is endorsing the years-long campaign of pogroms against palestinians by jewish extremists in the west bank
Alona Ferber@aloner.bsky.social · last wk.Haaretz reporting that France and Canada are set to ban trade with Israeli settlements alongside the UK, amid failed attempts at an EU ban: “The U.K. reportedly seeks to limit the measures' impact on its ties with Israel and manage a backlash from Washington” www.haaretz.com/west-bank/20...
My stint in a cosplay burlesque + variety show troupe. We didn't get paid much, but the fact I got paid to rip the pants off a cardboard cutout of Sebastian Michaelis on stage *at all* is a fever dream in retrospect.
SarahJSloat@sjane.bsky.social · 2w agoHappy labor day (USA). What's one of the oddest paid job you've had? Mine was probably as a reader for a medical professor at Rutgers, whose eyes were failing. I read him many academic texts, as well as Samuel Butler's "The Way of All Flesh."
Everyone else: prepping for Rosh Hashanah Me: just finished writing all the songs for the next Purimspiel I'm built different (theater kid)
Friday 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.
it brings me great pleasure to report that EGOT-winner rita moreno won an emmy for a 1977 episode of the muppet show
bart@bartsmith.bsky.social · 2w agowere Sabrina Carpenter to get an EGOT, would she be the first to do it with one of the four wins coming from a project with the muppets
Even from a purely national pride perspective, this requires you to think that the 100 year period from 1926 was a failure for the United States, instead of the zenith of its power, prosperity, and influence
One of these days we're going to have to bring up the awkward fact that the "status quo" everyone defends at the Temple Mount is one where Jewish presence at historically Jewish sites is considered an abominable provocation. We have enshrined supercession.
Shammai@shammaiintl.bsky.social · 2w agoThis is why I'm doing this. This article describes Jews praying to God at the holiest site in Judaism as an act of violence. Calling it by its Arabic name instead of the Kotel or the Western Wall is a deliberate choice, as is claiming that everyone there is a settler.
New moderation list! It's very simple. If you use the phrase "Talmudic rituals" unironically, or describe Jewish civilians as "storming" a place, you go on this list.
When I was in prepartum depression hell, I told my now-ex his unwillingness to hug me made me feel unloved and unwanted. He replied by showing me a random Tumblr post about how asking for even nonsexual touch from an ace person is "rapey." Weaponized badtakery is an every generation problem, sadly.
Sky Marchini@sky.skymarchini.net · 2w agoApparently she was in the lunchroom and heard one girl telling another girl that her boyfriend telling girl that she is pretty is not just objectifying her, but actually fetishizing her
My takeaway from watching The Odyssey last night is that it could have been quite good if Nolan had had to submit his screenplay to an editor first.
If you are starting a comment about MPS's heat closure with "back in my day" please don't
The parties of the Likud, "Jewish Power", Religious Zionism, and the new "People of Israel" party are all running on an explicit, unabashed platform of the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Gaza as the "solution". Rabbi Kahane's racist legacy is the Israeli government's policy.
a Black family dancing to korn with their astronaut relative who just got back from the moon is, quite frankly, the best thing the internet has ever produced
actually seems really bad that hegseth is de facto resegregating the military through purges and the remaining officer corps are increasingly complicit in that project
23 YEARS AGO TODAY, @mrweebl.bsky.social posted BADGERS to @Newgrounds.com
Jesus Christ, this. Platner was given the benefit of the doubt despite having a fucking Totenkopf tattoo on his own skin, while many of the same people are demanding El-Sayed answer for any random comment from anyone who supports him.
Lupita Nihongo@otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 2w agoThe value of Graham Platner is that right up until all his red flags came toppling down upon him is that he is the most naked example of the amount of grace & credibility Simply Being White grants you. Compared to Abdul El-Sayed, who has to re-earn every ounce of credibility he has on a daily basis.
Przewalski’s horses have been extinct in the wild since the 1960s, and gone from Kazakhastan much longer, kept alive only through zoo and reserve breeding programs. This is an incredible, hopeful milestone for them and us.
Anathema 🏳️🌈🏴☠️@anathemaweatherwax.bsky.social · 3w ago
If true, this is bad, but please understand it's about ballots being sent TO voters (to use to vote), not after a voter mails it back.
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 2w agoThis is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.
Awful. Just awful. A promising young man, a high school honors grad who joined JROTC and dreamed of becoming a doctor, killed himself because of the Trump admin’s obsession with hurting Haitians and the humiliating shame of an ICE ankle monitor. His blood is on their hands.
Tom Joscelyn@tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 2w ago“A Haitian immigrant who had grown increasingly distraught after losing his protection from deportation and being outfitted with an ankle monitor was run over and killed Monday in what his family believes was a suicide.” www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
The shooting at a Tucson gay bar last night that left 3 men dead has been confirmed as a hate crime by Mayor Romero. The killer was found with addresses of “multiple LGBTQ+ friendly venues”. To the friends and families of the victims and to the LGBTQ+ community, I send my deepest sympathy.
When you discriminate against disabled students because of a moral panic and everyone cheers you on for it.
well, yeah. gotta keep plausible deniability that they're not banning medication abortion going thru the midterms, and drop the hammer after. such a transparent bit of bullshit
Wisconsin Examiner@wisconsinexaminer.com · 3w agoFederal judge pauses case on mifepristone access until after midterm elections wisconsinexaminer.com/2026/08/31/r...
A 76-year-old green card holder with stage 4 cancer was arrested at his citizenship application interview and has been held by ICE for two months. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
This is work that needs to be done and Palestinians cannot and should not be asked to do it. Therefore, the Landers of the world are actually essential.
Jesse Myerson@jessemyerson.bsky.social · 3w agoWe should all be glad that Brad Lander categorizes himself as a pro-two-state liberal Zionist. So identifying is the price of admission to many spaces where audiences may be receptive to his views on apartheid/genocide/Palestinian freedom, but where they would be completely absent without him.