A win! A judge in Oregon ruled that the Trump administration may not withhold emergency preparedness funding from states that declined to submit updated population counts accounting for deportations, because population estimates are the responsibility of the U.S. Census Bureau; not the states.

It's time for the big finale of the Sapphic Book Advent Calendar! We're wrapping up our event with: 🎁 28 book giveaways 🎁 6 free ebooks 🎁 10 books on sale Plus there'll be more free & discounted books & giveaways tomorrow. Head over to my website and open door 24: jae-fiction.com/sapphic-book...

If you wanted to see the Inside CECOT segment from 60 Minutes, it aired in Canada 🇨🇦 Thank you, Canada, for sharing! 💚

Let’s be real, the DOJ isn’t going to prosecute itself. That’s why Congress is talking about using its own authority to step in using its own constitutional powers to enforce accountability.

Yesterday we were all waiting in the Epstein line. Today, the entire country has turned into investigators, tracking which files are disappearing. Sixteen gone so far. There’s been a remarkable amount of teamwork, with people working together to identify the missing documents.

NEW POLL FOR TLR CHAMPIONS Went live today Get exclusive content and support TLR. #TLRChampion #patreon #sapphicfiction www.patreon.com/posts/122117...

Rob Reiner either made your favorite movie, or made somebody you know’s favorite movie. If you’re a Californian, he’s also part of the reason you or your friends can get married. He has changed more lives for the better than this asshole commenting on him ever did.

Call your reps and tell them we don’t want to go to war with Venezuela!

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Still in a state of shock trying to process the tragic loss of one of the most gifted men in the entertainment industry & his wife when the Embarrassment-in-Chief disgraces common human decency with this repulsive, deranged statement. #NoWords 🤮

We need more of this across the USA! Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has approved a set of new laws designed to strengthen protections for immigrants and limit abusive immigration enforcement practices.

Don't forget to open door 4 of the Sapphic Book Advent Calendar! It contains a book that many readers loved this year. jae-fiction.com/sapphic-book...

A grand jury has declined to re-indict Letitia James. 👏

The Nodfather.

A win! A federal appeals court ruled that Alina Habba had been serving unlawfully as the U.S. Attorney in New Jersey.

The Defense Department opened an investigation into Senator Mark Kelly (a former Navy captain and astronaut) after he appeared in a video urging service members to reject unlawful commands.

Good news! Judge James E. Boasberg just issued a serious warning to the Justice Department, signaling that he may open a formal contempt investigation into whether the Trump administration violated his order to stop deportation flights of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador back in March.

An interesting observation from @ausconservation.bsky.social’s CEO on whether a regulator OR a politician should be the ultimate environmental approval decision maker - “it’s much harder to make a donation to a regulator than it is to make a donation to a politician”. #environment #auspol

We cannot be silent. Grateful to our brothers Bishops for this strong statement in support of human dignity and against the indiscriminate mass deportation of our immigrant kin. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

This is odd, it looks like the DOJ skipped suing Texas entirely. The Justice Department is now suing California over the new congressional district boundaries that voters approved just last week, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Thursday in a post on X. Who are they going to sue, the voters?

Almost routine news:

Several states (including California, Michigan, Oregon, and Wisconsin) have announced that they’ve begun processing full food stamp payments. Thank you to those states for stepping up to support families in need!

You can't make this up.

It's been 38 days since Adelita Grijalva was elected by the people of Arizona's seventh congressional district to represent them in Congress. Mike Johnson still refuses to swear her in.

It’s been really disheartening to see the things people say about those who use SNAP. Many seem to have little understanding of why the program exists in the first place.

Thank you, Senator Jeff Merkley, for your incredible 22-hour and 37-minute marathon speech on the Senate floor!

As part of Trump’s planned Reduction in Force (RIF) during the government shutdown, the Interior Department said it plans to lay off about 2,050 employees, including 272 from the National Park Service (NPS), 335 from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS),

When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.

My god. “Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

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For this Bi Visibility Day, pick up a sapphic historical romance by a bi author, with a bi heroine! Lady’s Guide is science vs art bi awakening, Waspish Widows is small town bees and bi/pan, and Hellion’s Waltz is bi4bi enemies to lovers with a heist element! #Romancelandia

Something to remind you It's a world worth saving

Trump had a tantrum tonight over ABC bringing Jimmy Kimmel back, even threatening to sue the network.

Just a reminder that #NBC and #MSNBC fired numerous Black women to placate the far right, including @joyannreid.bsky.social @joy.msnbc.com, and before that @tiffanydcross.bsky.social and Melissa Harris Perry for, effectively, speaking truths that offended their white overlords.

I hate it when my autistic child has to hear ‘news’ stories and rumors about how autism is some sort of plague or how it ought to be cured. He has a hard enough time with his self image. There’s so much he wants to do that he either can’t (yet) or does with massive effort. This bs just hurts.

Idk who needs to hear this but autism isn't evil and people with autism are delightful little gems and beloved children of God. Anyone telling u otherwise is selling something!

We all said this would happen. We knew it would happen. And really no one in power gave a flying fuck. This is a feature, not a bug. www.teenvogue.com/story/men-dr...

I'm gonna need dems to get out there and be like "RFK and the republicans who enable him want your children to die" bc that is what is happening. Like, it's not just RFK, he is being supported and enabled by the rest of that death panel ass cult of a party

Listen up, folx! I’m closing Sapphics with the T on 8/15/25 so we can make a grand donation. Please order what you want before then. They have good deals right now so you can save a bunch! ALL PROFITS ARE DONATED. We have $284.40 online and $287 cash from sales at GCLS. Zazzle.com/store/sapphi...

NH, you can still stop this. This bill isn’t law yet. “If you agree that there’s no room for book bans in the Live Free or Die state, please call Governor Ayotte’s office and leave a message urging her to veto HB 324.” #bannedbooks