Meghan
JD. MPS. Indigenous policy. Internet addict. Dog and cat mom. Sugpiaq. OR-OH-OR-DC. Hilarious in my own mind. OWU/WUCL/GWU Grad. Oregonian ❤️
- Reposted by MeghanThe Wright Museums Instagram page is HILARIOUS. Think The Office but it's the staff at a Museum for Black History. Better believe this is on my list of places to visit. Gentle Spades "I'm a veteran"
- Reposted by MeghanThis pro-Trump nostalgia absolutely was confirmed over and over again by the Dems' own internal polling, in a truly horrifying way: newrepublic.com/article/1882...
- Reposted by Meghanokay, so we offered up the MILDEST list of requests (mostly like "can they please follow laws") and the GOP responded with "HOW FUCKING DARE YOU, WE WOULD RATHER SHUT THEM DOWN THAN NOT LET THEM DO MURDERS" it sure seems like there is no downside to just saying "sweet, go for it"
- Reposted by MeghanIn case you're curious what your DA is doing instead of standing with the community who got viciously tear gassed by ICE this weekend: 1. Covered trial call for a photo op; 2. Prosecuting a misdo resist claim against an ICE protester to run cover for the PPB cop who broke that protester's arm.
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- Reposted by MeghanThe GOP has offered nothing this century except for catastrophic wars. No healthcare plan; no re-industrialization. Now they're losing their only issue, immigration, as people see the violence and havoc that comes with mass deportations.
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- Reposted by MeghanThe CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...
- Reposted by Meghanwow -- with Trump standing behind him, a man (not sure who he is) offers this prayer: "We pray that he would be mindful of the poor and that he would be invested in the alleviation of suffering happening in the families preparing to bury their loved ones in Minneapolis."
- Reposted by MeghanIt is really infuriating to see how misogyny really does unite men across the sociopolitical spectrum. And, in so far as the Epstein files go, they sort women into two categories: fuckable or irrelevant. When they near a hint of accountability they complain about not being able to make women prey.
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- Reposted by Meghani will never stop thinking about the intersection of epstein and the shitty media men list
- Reposted by Meghanthe Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex
- Reposted by Meghani refuse to cede the em dash to ai. absolutely not you can pry that long thin line from my cold dead hands
- Reposted by MeghanAfter demanding ICE and other federal agents be banned from wearing face coverings, Schumer and Jeffries added caveats: "no masks, except in extraordinary and unusual circumstances.” trib.al/0fN3kmP
- Reposted by MeghanThere is a ton of literature on lawyers in Germany in the 1930s who thought they could handle it, maintain their morals, "assist from inside", or avoid blame while working for the Reich. They couldn't.
- Reposted by MeghanSir you are at a prayer breakfast
- Reposted by MeghanI encourage people to read through the transcript with this context in mind. A further thought. Even if (IF) she sincerely believed that she was resisting evil from within, the transcript makes clear why she was naive. The judge‘s responses to her efforts to blame the system are worth studying.
- A bizarre number of people have stepped up to defend Julie Le. What you see in that transcript is an attorney who chose to do evil work—deporting people for ICE then moving over to DOJ in early Jan. specifically to fight these habeas petitions—being called to the carpet. She's desperate, not heroic.
- Reposted by MeghanOh look, exactly what we said was going to happen when Schumer caved on the shutdown
- Top Senate negotiators say an effort to renew expired healthcare subsidies has effectively collapsed www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
- Reposted by MeghanIt feels worth saying that the thing that unifies men as disparate as Noam Chomsky, Deepak Chopra and Trump is patriarchy. Patriarchy, hatred of women, and the need to dominate them, persists across race and class status. Left movements refuse a robust analysis of persisting gender violence.
- Reposted by MeghanThis is how Sen. Ron Wyden clues the public into activity that he finds extremely alarming. He does a press release about a letter he sent to the director of the CIA that basically says, 'I want to make sure you saw the classified letter I sent early today.' www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
- Reposted by Meghan"By the end of the two-year period, 94% of participants reported they were housed." A million pilot programs show the same thing: when people are given enough money to afford housing, homelessness ends. Other supports matter, but housing comes first. Not policing. Not moralizing. Homes.
- Reposted by MeghanJournalism is a great industry to go into if you want to become speedrun becoming a Marxist.
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- It’s 36 out and I’m walking around without a jacket. Need a pool and an umbrella drink with this kind of heatwave.
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- Reposted by MeghanWe have no idea where Yglesias got his numbers but they’re wrong. This debate has for so long been plagued by numbers basically pulled out of thin air Right pic is from my and @adambonica.bsky.social’s response essay: www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
- What I learned in over a decade representing teens in delinquency court - never ever get in a fight with a mob of teens, especially teen girls. You will have a bad time. You will lose. You will have to slink back to your truck, broken, bruised, and humiliated.
- The reason why ICE stopped them - the day before the people were using finger guns at them. Finger guns. Not actual guns.
- Reposted by Meghanhappening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
- Reposted by MeghanRiffing off Brendan's method of juxtaposition in this awesome report, I'd like to offer another comparison: Food assistance cuts versus new funding for DHS in the "Big Beautiful Bill" Republicans cut food assistance by $187 billion while providing $191 billion in funding for DHS
- New 25-page @centeronbudget.bsky.social paper from me summarizing the distributional, fiscal, and economic effects of One Big Beautiful Bill's tax cuts and cuts to health care, food assistance, student loans, and climate investments. 🧵 www.cbpp.org/research/fed...
- Reposted by MeghanNew 25-page @centeronbudget.bsky.social paper from me summarizing the distributional, fiscal, and economic effects of One Big Beautiful Bill's tax cuts and cuts to health care, food assistance, student loans, and climate investments. 🧵 www.cbpp.org/research/fed...
- Reposted by MeghanI don't know if non-lawyers understand how insane this statement is. I honestly can't think of anything remotely comparable in non-lawyer speak. I guess the closest would be a surgeon saying "Imagine if I had to wash my HANDS before doing surgery!"
- Reposted by Meghanif you need proof that human beings will have incessant petty drama no matter the era, I would just like to remind you that The Reynolds' Pamphlet exists.
- Reposted by MeghanIf you're rich you get a tax cut, if you're not you have to work longer and harder. Populism! bsky.app/profile/atru...
- Reposted by MeghanAfter Border Patrol shot two people in Portland, DHS claimed they were "vicious gang members" tied to a past shooting. But records I obtained reveal a US prosecutor has since directly contradicted DHS, saying, "We're not suggesting he is a gang member." My dive into how DHS' claims have collapsed:
- He thinks DC is his personal sand box
- Reposted by MeghanI just gave $$ to @propublica.org to support their outstanding work. You can do that here if you’d like: give.propublica.org/campaign/748...
- Reposted by MeghanBad Bunny at the Grammys: "Before I say thanks to God, I want to say ICE out. We're not savage, we're not animals, we're not aliens, we are humans, and we are Americans."
- Reposted by Meghan4 federal agents pull over an elderly US citizen for the suspected crime of being brown, break her car window, throw her to the ground, then drive off after they find her US Passport in her purse. The Salem Police, when called, say there’s nothing they can do. www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u...
- Reposted by MeghanReal talk: if the environment is anything close to what yesterday’s special election implies in November, there need to be people working very hard on a serious agenda for a substantial Democratic majority in both houses of Congress, focused on voting rights, democracy, and court reform.
- Reposted by Meghan"Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency," the judge wrote. "And the rule of law be damned."
- Liam and his dad are finally free and on their way back home to Minnesota. They never should have been kidnapped in the first place. abcnews.go.com/amp/US/5-yea...
- Reposted by Meghanwe said all along that they wanted Gawker dead not because we embarrassed a pro wrestler but because the Epstein story is one Gawker was covering a decade before most other people caught up & was just one of many stories exposing powerful people and their misdeeds
- Among the batch of newly released emails from Jeffrey Epstein: Epstein telling Peter Thiel he would “gladly share…expenses for the Gawker suit.” This was sent the day after @rmac.bsky.social and @mattdrange.bsky.social reported in Forbes that Thiel was behind the lawsuit that would bankrupt Gawker
- Reposted by MeghanI saw it too:
- Reposted by MeghanThis was the scene at the ICE facility about 5 minutes before the federal government unleashed chemical weapons on Portland families
- Reposted by MeghanIt's hard to overstate how ell-organized the portland march that got gassed was... organizers made the crowd promise to be peaceful, said the march would slow in front of the ICE building but not stop, that we would stick to one chant (ICE Out). They did absolutely everything right and got gassed.
- Reposted by MeghanI've seen videos of the indiscriminate use of tear gas on a large crowd that was clearly peaceful and filled with Portlanders of all ages, and well off the macadam facility. We banned tear gas for a reason. I join Councilor Green in calling for enforcement of our laws.
- Reposted by MeghanI just got tear gassed along with thousands of union members, many of whom had their families with them. Federal agents at the ICE facility tear gassed children. We must abolish ICE, DHS, and we must have prosecutions. I expect to see enforcement of our city code prohibiting the use of tear gas.
- Reposted by MeghanJust experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com
- Binged Wonder Man and had a huge smile on my face as it ended. A delight.
- Reposted by MeghanTHREAD. ICE is in the news, and rightly so, but a lot of the commentary fails to see how the underlying surveillance tech, militarization, infrastructure, policies/practices/training, and corporate profiteers are shared by other domestic agencies and repressive bureaucracies in other countries.
- Reposted by MeghanThis is just insane. It’s only a matter of time before DHS kills another innocent person here. (clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)
- "MPR News has learned that the police chief in the small southern Minnesota city of St. Peter intervened Thursday afternoon to prevent federal immigration agents from arresting a local resident" who had been observing federal agents. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
- Reposted by MeghanCongrats to Cider Riot in #Portland, who recently won their civil lawsuit against violent far-Right attackers who beat and hospitalized community members on May Day in 2019. The incident famously exposed far-Right grifter Andy Ngo as working with attackers. www.portlandmercury.com/news/2019/08...
- Reposted by MeghanThere's 4, not 2. All Black. www.npr.org/2026/01/30/n...
