Sheryl Weikal

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2026-05-10 01:59:14 UTC

Anyway it is an absolutely ahistorical, bonkers thing to put in a government document that white Christians "are the most persecuted people on earth" and put as evidence for this the fact that trans people and Muslims exist.

2026-05-10 01:59:14 UTC

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White Christians genuinely believe that anyone who chooses not to be Christian is oppressing them. They genuinely believe their religious liberty requires everyone to be just like them. They're like the Borg, but instead of "resistance is futile," it's "your resistance oppresses us."

2026-05-06 14:37:17 UTC

Apparently unpopular opinion: it is neither antisemitic nor inappropriate to protest a synagogue hosting a sale of land in illegal West Bank settlements.
And what bothers me most is the number of people who oppose these protests but say Israel bombing a mosque is okay because Hamas was inside.

2026-04-28 13:36:12 UTC

Periodic reminder that "the Jews" are not your enemy. Yes, fuck Israel and fuck Zionism. But:
1. It's a lie that all Jews are Israeli citizens or are in the IDF;
2. Most of us don't know anyone in the Israeli government; and
3. There are shitty people in every community, and that includes ours.

2026-04-26 15:29:25 UTC

"We can't be too upset about Trump killing thousands of people because that might make people want to kill Trump."
- Literally all "respectability politics" people right now

2026-04-23 00:33:08 UTC

I continue to believe that no two people have exactly the same gender identities so there are actually as many genders as there are people in the world.
(But I don't think people are ready for that conversation.)

2026-04-16 22:11:01 UTC

Please
I beg you
On my hands and knees, I beg you
STOP. USING. GENERATIVE. AI. TO. ANSWER. LEGAL. QUESTIONS. OR. GET. LEGAL. ADVICE.

2026-04-16 15:27:33 UTC

This crystallizes so perfectly the mythos that defines the state at the center of Zionism. The idea that Israel is a savior for Diaspora Jews who never fought persecution but just meekly let things happen to them is offensive, insulting, and ahistorical - and yet accepted as fact by Zionists.
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2026-04-11 23:27:11 UTC

I once represented a woman charged with obstruction and resisting because she slapped the hand of the officer groping her genitals. The ASA said she should have complied and sued the officer later.
Yes, we won. That's not the fucking point.

2026-04-09 16:40:09 UTC

The antebellum United States was an absolutely wretched, racist, and evil country.
Somehow, the Confederacy was even worse. And on this day in 1865, it died.
Happy Confederate Surrender Day. Rest in Piss to one of the most evil regimes in history.

2026-04-08 17:15:34 UTC

Israel took a quick break from bombing Lebanon in violation of the ceasefire to kill a Palestinian journalist in violation of a different ceasefire
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2026-04-08 12:58:33 UTC

Meanwhile, Israeli opposition politicians are saying Netanyahu and Trump are failures for not continuing the war, and some are already talking about the NEXT war with Iran.
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2026-04-08 11:48:27 UTC

Yes, famously, Iranian military commanders hang out in synagogues during Passover services /s
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2026-04-07 19:17:15 UTC

For people intending this evening to publicly petition our government for a redress of grievances:
AM I FREE TO LEAVE?
and
I INVOKE MY RIGHTS TO SILENCE AND COUNSEL AND WILL NOT ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS WITHOUT MY ATTORNEY PRESENT.
are the only things you say to police or law enforcement.

2026-04-07 13:16:28 UTC

If you're in Illinois and you are arrested protesting Trump's illegal war and threats of genocide, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.

2026-04-06 22:06:18 UTC

"You can't support abolition/universal healthcare/reparations/universal housing/etc without being able to answer every possible hypothetical question about its implementation" is, frankly, horseshit.
The Wright brothers didn't need to be able to design a 747 to build the first airplane.

2026-04-06 13:22:01 UTC

There's this bizarre myth that prison abolition is an ivory tower narrative led by privileged white people who have never interacted with the legal system.
Please, I beg you. Read Angela Davis. Read Mariame Kaba. Read Olayemi Olurin. Prison abolition is led by Black women.
And yes, I support it.

2026-04-06 01:40:46 UTC

Folks, I transed my gender. My whole gender! And here I am, running on estrogen with a whole vagina that's mine. Childhood me would think I am MAGIC. Childhood me would be AMAZED.
If that's possible, EVERYTHING is possible.
We will survive them. We will defeat them. We can do MIRACLES.

2026-04-05 19:53:14 UTC

In which Israel's most read daily paper unambiguously calls for the annexation of Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, and Egypt AND calls for the complete eradication of "any Palestinian life" from the entire region.
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2026-04-05 01:21:43 UTC

I have the solution to climate change. My hatred and loathing for Stephen Miller could power the world for a thousand years.

2026-04-04 16:31:50 UTC

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and much of the Diaspora either doesn't realize it or is in outright denial because that would mean losing what they see as a potential safe haven, whilst the Israeli right is already well aware of it and that's why they mock the Diaspora and cozy up to Christian Nationalists instead.

2026-04-04 16:31:49 UTC

I have an absolutely scalding take that the cultural schism between the largely pluralistic, overwhelmingly progressive Jewish Diaspora and largely conservative, reactionary Israeli Jewish population is so great that we're not even really practicing the same religious or cultural tradition anymore,

2026-04-04 01:31:12 UTC

A 1% annual wealth tax on billionaires in Illinois would, by itself, balance the budget.
A 2% wealth tax on billionaires would pay for universal single payer healthcare for everyone in Illinois.
Tax the billionaires.

2026-04-03 16:31:07 UTC

Apropos of nothing, it's fascinating how religious extremists of every stripe only ever insist that the harmful stuff has to be taken literally. No one ever says "I am a literalist for my Holy Text. I COMMAND WE FEED THE POOR IMMEDIATELY!"

2026-04-03 14:47:50 UTC

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We want the ability to control our own waterways, including through things like the Jones Act that would arguably violate that treaty.
So...we never signed it.
So now we're angry with Iran for violating a treaty neither of us is a party to.

2026-04-03 14:47:48 UTC

You're probably hearing a lot from Marco Rubio and the US State Department about international law and the Strait of Hormuz, and that Iran cannot legally close the Strait. Under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, that's true!
There's just one problem.
The US never ratified that treaty.

2026-04-03 01:27:39 UTC

You know how everyone says Israel is the size of New Jersey, a tiny country?
Compared to Lebanon, it's enormous.
Lebanon is smaller than Connecticut.
So imagine if Massachusetts took half of Connecticut as a "buffer zone" and said it was too small a state without it.

2026-04-02 18:50:19 UTC

In which the Jerusalem Post says that algorithms are the reason Israel's reputation is so bad through insufficient "emotional stimulation."
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2026-04-02 17:41:40 UTC

Believe it or not, there's already a mechanism in place for the federal government to seize and appropriate the assets of billionaires and redistribute them for the public good. SCOTUS accidentally created it with one of its worst decisions of the 21st century, Kelo v. New London.

2026-04-01 23:10:16 UTC

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(The reason we shouldn't spend a trillion dollars per year on the military isn't that we can't afford it or that we need the money for something else. It's that spending a trillion dollars per year on killing machines is unbelievably immoral and evil.)

2026-04-01 23:10:14 UTC

"I'd rather spend the money on" is a myth.
The United States has enough money to spend a trillion dollars per year on NASA *AND* have universal healthcare and housing and free education through college for everyone.
It's not either/or. It's both/and.

2026-04-01 21:13:31 UTC

I don't support the targeting of civilians in any conflict ever, but it is nonetheless infuriating watching hasbarists frame Israelis in bomb shelters (that Palestinians aren't allowed access to) as the victims of a war of choice that Israel started.

2026-04-01 18:44:06 UTC

Yes, famously, no country except Israel has ever had to defend its existence, says Israeli media, somehow with absolutely no irony
Brb going to go tell, say, Lebanon, Palestine, Ukraine, Sudan, Congo, Yemen, Syria, and every Indigenous nation that no one is threatening their existence
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2026-04-01 15:54:26 UTC

Birthright citizenship is not even remotely ambiguous in the Constitution.
The fact that suddenly conservatives are so obsessed with its drafters' "intent" being different from its plain language is proof textualism and originalism were always bad faith vehicles.

2026-03-31 19:02:29 UTC

I'm sorry, anyone who can be in a what now?
(This is Netanyahu's primary opponent, promising to fix Israel by [checks notes] forming a government out of the soldiers who just committed a genocide.)
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2026-03-31 13:41:11 UTC

I don't pretend to be a great lawyer. I'll never have a billboard on the side of the highway and I'll never be a household name.
But I've been representing protesters facing charges since 2018 and in that time I've had one conviction and zero time spent incarcerated. And I'm proud of that, I admit.

2026-03-31 12:22:40 UTC

It would be really cool if the "Netanyahu is the problem with Israel" people actually, you know, loudly opposed what Netanyahu did instead of defending it.

2026-03-31 11:27:34 UTC

Yesterday Mercy and I were talking about Israel's new death penalty law. She asked me to show her a picture of the noose pins. Then she was quiet for a minute and said, "wow, Zionism really is just garden variety racism, huh?"
And I can't stop thinking about that.

2026-03-30 21:58:38 UTC

Oh cool 😒
https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/03/30/kentucky-trans-bill-teachers-2026/

2026-03-30 21:11:06 UTC

The thing is that I don't actually *want* to be in a community or get along with thugs who are so gleeful to pass a modern lynching law lifted from Jim Crow that they walk around wearing noose pins. I don't think a state that does that has a right to exist. I don't want to share a seder with that.

2026-03-30 20:45:28 UTC

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Yes, Israel has always been an apartheid state. But it's also a sign of just how rightward and genocidal the Israeli state has become that Itamar ben-Gvir has gone from being charged with terrorism to passing laws executing other people as terrorists.
That's what's called impunity.

2026-03-30 20:45:28 UTC

I just want to point out that under the plain language of this bill, if it had been in effect at the time, Itamar ben-Gvir, its primary proponent, would have faced execution when HE was arrested for terrorism.
Ironic, that.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-diplomacy/article-891688

2026-03-30 19:07:06 UTC

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RWTB: Oh but surely Picard's Enterprise wasn't like this.
Average TNG Episode: Will Riker is falling for a trans person from an agender society. Meanwhile, the genius Black disabled chief engineer and his autism-coded android best friend just saved another planet through science education.

2026-03-30 19:07:05 UTC

Right wing tech bros: we love Star Trek but it's too woke nowadays. Too preachy. Kirk's show wasn't like this.
Average TOS episode: AI is bad and should never be allowed to run a society. Also, make peace because nationalism kills and every life form must be respected equally.

2026-03-30 13:52:56 UTC

Today's docket: representing pro bono members of a tenants' union being evicted for organizing for better maintenence downstate
Today's playlist: Vanessa Williams, greatest hits (look I'm an 80s baby, okay?)
Today's court look:
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2026-03-29 21:34:37 UTC

You cannot reform this.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/29/us/angela-lipps-ai-facial-recognition

2026-03-29 19:50:28 UTC

Hot take: I actually really hate comparing hatreds.
The "if JK Rowling hated Black people instead of trans people" or "if this antisemite hated immigrants instead" comparisons are toxic for multiple reasons.
First, lots of people are more than one thing. Communities aren't discrete entities.

2026-03-27 14:55:37 UTC

We're just saying the quiet part out loud now, I guess
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2026-03-27 14:51:23 UTC

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How shitty is your war when the chief imperialist mercenary says "nah, that's a bad plan"?

2026-03-27 14:51:21 UTC

Well I didn't have this on my bingo card
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-iran-war-rebuked-blackwater-founder-erik-prince-chaos-11604452

2026-03-26 20:58:42 UTC

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Everyone deserves human rights. Every person's fight for human rights deserves to be heard, platformed, and championed. There's no such thing as a struggle for equality that's a distraction. We can walk and chew gum at the same time. Not everything is a competition, and solidarity definitely isn't.

2026-03-26 20:58:41 UTC

Unpopular opinion: I really hate people's penchant on social media to create a hierarchy of causes. We start ranking human rights fights and attacking people who have different ranks than we do. And it's gross.

2026-03-26 20:58:41 UTC

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"Trans rights are distracting from Palestine," say some. "Palestine is distracting from institutional racism in the United States," say others. "Institutional racism is distracting from wealth inequality," says another group. But they're ALL wrong.
EVERY FIGHT IS JUST AS IMPORTANT.

2026-03-26 18:40:27 UTC

Literally for YEARS now I have had people arguing that me being a lawyer gives me an unfair advantage over cis women.
Transphobia - ALL transphobia - is just a belief that women are white, cis, skinny child bearing machines with no minds or agency.

2026-03-26 13:39:54 UTC

"Joy is resistance" (and I'm paraphrasing) was used by Emma Goldman to mean that we should live happily in spite of oppression, not as an excuse to do things that enrich and empower oppressors. The whole point was to dance at the revolution, not pay the oppressors to take dance classes.

2026-03-25 22:29:12 UTC

In which the Jerusalem Post - in a NEWS piece, mind you, not an opinion column - advocates for annexing ALL of Lebanon.
ALL. OF. IT.
Israel is going to "defend itself" into annexing the whole region.
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2026-03-25 17:08:21 UTC

The problem with creating legal protections for political ideologies like being Republican or being Zionist is that it effectively undermines protections for everyone else, because political ideology would be the only protected trait that denies the existence or validity of all the others.

2026-03-25 15:53:44 UTC

Oh wow, the lying imperialist liar who lies about the imperialist wars he starts didn't actually care about liberating Iran. This is truly a shocking development. /s
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-891120

2026-03-24 18:32:33 UTC

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A purpose is a reason for existence, and that requires it to actually DO that thing, even if it's not what it was designed to do. Because if it wasn't the purpose of the system, we would turn it off.
And when it comes to systems like the carceral state or military industrial complex, we don't.

2026-03-24 18:32:32 UTC

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Saying that a machine or system has a purpose other than what it actually does is nothing more than wishcasting. We can say that the purpose of a ceiling fan is to sing pretty songs, but unless it actually DOES that, that's not its purpose.

2026-03-24 18:32:32 UTC

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And at that point, my purpose and the machine's are both to kick puppies because regardless of what we WANTED, we accepted what it DID and allowed it to continue doing that. What we WANT its purpose to be and what its purpose actually is are two different things.

2026-03-24 18:32:31 UTC

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Maybe I can say that the machine isn't doing what it was supposed to do. But if I leave the machine on after I know all it does is kick puppies, at some point it becomes reasonably foreseeable it will continue to kick puppies, whether it was designed for that or not.

2026-03-24 18:32:31 UTC

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MY purpose may have been to pet puppies, but THE MACHINE's purpose is to kick them. Yes, it's not the purpose the machine was designed for, but the machine doesn't know this. It has no intelligence and no say in the matter. It's just a machine. And what I wanted the machine to do is irrelevant.

2026-03-24 18:32:29 UTC

Some people have reached out, saying my axiom that "the purpose of a system is what it does" is too simplistic as applied to systems like police or prisons or the military. Can't there just be unintended consequences?
No, actually. And here's why.

2026-03-24 18:32:29 UTC

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Let's say I build a puppy petting machine. I give a press conference saying my goal is to make all puppies happy. I write "I love puppies" on the machine, and write a million times in my notes that my purpose is to make puppies happy.
Then I turn on the machine, and it kicks the puppies instead.

2026-03-24 17:53:34 UTC

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you just can't self determine FOR OTHER PEOPLE. If I "self determine" that I want your house, it's not violating my right to self determination to fight back if I break in with an uzi.
So discrimination against people who seek to use the law to force harm to others is just self preservation.

2026-03-24 17:53:33 UTC

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And that's what Zionism is. Zionism is currently forcing Palestinian, Lebanese, and Iranian people (among others) to conform to a Zionist picture of Israel. And that's also why "Zionism is just Jewish self determination" is a red herring. You can self determine all you want:

2026-03-24 17:53:32 UTC

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if I'm a Republican, I'm supporting policies which impact the freedoms of OTHER PEOPLE. To paraphrase John Stuart Mill, my right to swing my fist ends with your nose. You are free to believe what you wish. You are not free to force other people to conform to those beliefs.

2026-03-24 17:53:31 UTC

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Why shouldn't political views be protected too, they ask?
Well, there's a fundamental difference between, say, being Jewish and being a Zionist. Let's say I'm an observant Jew and keep kosher. The only person that impacts is me and anyone who chooses to participate with me. By contrast,

2026-03-24 17:53:30 UTC

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If you discriminate against me on those bases, you are essentially "disagreeing" with an identity.
Now the counterpoint to this is often religious observance. Many people argue that religion is a choice, or miscegnation or intermarriage is a choice, and we protect those.

2026-03-24 17:53:29 UTC

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I just want to be clear on what we're talking about.
With that out of the way, let's talk about discrimination.
Zionism isn't an innate quality. It's a political ideology, like being a Republican. It's a choice, like being a Red Sox fan. It's entirely within the control of the person doing it.

2026-03-24 17:53:29 UTC

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That makes it inherently different from, say, race or gender identity or ethnicity or national origin. I don't choose to be trans or to have an Ashkenazi Jewish ethnicity or to be born in Maryland. I just am.

2026-03-24 17:53:28 UTC

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from the very best to the very worst, deserves housing, good food, clean water, healthcare, education, representation, reproductive services, bodily autonomy, due process, and dignity. I don't believe in torturing anyone, and I don't discriminate on who should get human rights.

2026-03-24 17:53:28 UTC

One question I get a lot is why I'm okay with discrimination against Zionists when I'm so ardently against discrimination against other groups. I thought I'd explain that here.
First, I want to emphasize that I believe in human rights for all humans. That means I think every human being,

2026-03-23 21:54:31 UTC

Let's talk about ad damnums. That's the part in the lawsuit that asks for a specific thing. Sometimes that's money. Sometimes that's what we call "equitable" or "non-monetary" relief, where what we're asking for is an order from the court requiring someone to do something.

2026-03-20 14:36:39 UTC

Let's talk a little about liberal Zionism - what it is, and why I'm not one. It's a question I get a lot. "You're Jewish, why don't you believe in Jewish self determination?"
But the question, in my mind, is both ahistorical and a faulty premise. To understand why, we need a little history lesson.

2026-03-16 22:05:19 UTC

I think ny problem with the Discourse about "what happens to the Israelis if you free Palestine?" is that it's really just concern trolling that what will hypothetically happen to Israelis is what is actually happening in real life to Palestinians.

2026-03-16 21:12:35 UTC

Palestinians are not antisemitic by existing. Arab and Muslim people aren't fungible. You don't protect Jews through Islamophobia, xenophobia, and racism.

2026-03-16 02:52:59 UTC

Not that the price of gas isn't important, but I do find it utterly depressing that CNN's website has a constant ticker showing how the Iran War has increased the price of gas and not the number of people killed or wounded.

2026-03-09 18:21:32 UTC

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
They're platforming an ACTUAL NAZI NOW
I'm laughing to keep from screaming
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2026-03-08 20:32:51 UTC

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These people want to force anyone with a uterus to give birth regardless of the physical or emotional cost and have no problem forcing women to breathe vaporized petroleum products but call themselves advocates for women because BuRqAs ArE bAd

2026-03-08 20:32:50 UTC

Call me a filthy commie but I really don't think wearing a burqa is in any way worse than, you know, DYING
https://newrepublic.com/post/207415/cpac-head-iranian-schoolgirls-better-dead-than-burqa

2026-03-08 20:12:12 UTC

Apparently saying human beings shouldn't have carcinogenic oil droplets fall from the sky to burn their lungs and skin is controversial now

2026-03-08 17:58:06 UTC

Updated the meme
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2026-03-08 15:56:07 UTC

Openly bragging about our war crimes now
https://www.timesofisrael.com/black-clouds-over-tehran-rain-down-oil-drops-after-israel-strikes-oil-facilities/

2026-03-06 22:37:09 UTC

I swear the next person who tells me "but they can't do that, that's illegal" is going to witness my head exploding.
"Illegal" DOES NOT mean "impossible."

2026-03-06 22:22:15 UTC

Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:squcwsoa45f5ibxykhzpnvnc/post/3mgg725tuzc2p
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2026-03-04 01:58:51 UTC

Six years ago a client came to me. His landlord was trying to evict him over the last payment of a rent to own contract. The client had remodeled the entire house himself with his own hands, a room at a time.
Today, client won the house.
Some days are good days.

2026-02-28 23:31:25 UTC

Iranian people aren't NPCs that we get to just trade for our own convenience.
The whole point of war as a LAST resort is that in war, innocent people die. So even if every civilian death is necessary to accomplish your military aims, even if "collateral damage" is minimal...THAT'S STILL MURDER.

2026-02-28 22:52:20 UTC

"How can you oppose war when Khamenei was evil?"
Simple. If you killed Donald Trump by nuking Washington DC, I would not mourn Trump but I'd still say you're an evil war criminal who belongs in the Hague. It's really not hard.

2026-02-28 18:35:27 UTC

"We have to side with our country during wartime!"
Actually no, we don't. That's just government imperialist propaganda.

2026-02-28 17:17:00 UTC

If you're arrested in Illinois protesting Trump's illegal war against Iran, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.

2026-02-28 14:33:39 UTC

Reminder that we're not doing this because Israel is making us.
We're doing this because Israel IS us, and who we are is imperialists with an economy based on death for profit.

2026-02-27 20:33:39 UTC

It's really fucked up actually that if you say "there's a country in SWANA that uses illegal weapons freely given by the US to commit genocide against children and even though they've killed US citizens we let them keep doing it," you could be describing any of THREE DIFFERENT COUNTRIES.

2026-02-27 20:33:39 UTC

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(Saudi Arabia uses US weapons to commit mass murder in Yemen. The UAE uses US weapons to commit mass murder in Sudan. Israel uses US weapons to commit mass murder in Occupied Palestine.)

2026-02-27 15:40:06 UTC

Most white people think the lesson of the OJ Simpson trial was that if you're rich enough, the system won't convict you even if you're guilty.
But the ACTUAL lesson was that the legal system is so racist that cops will just commit misconduct against EVERY Black defendant, no matter who they are.

2026-02-24 01:23:59 UTC

When Gavin Newsom says "the Democrats need to be more culturally normal" with "less focus on pronouns" what he's actually saying is "the trannies aren't normal and don't normalize them."

2026-02-23 19:48:57 UTC

I am BEGGING you.
Please, PLEASE, do not try to talk your way out of an arrest or detention. Do NOT talk to cops.
"I INVOKE MY RIGHTS TO SILENCE AND COUNSEL AND WILL NOT ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS WITHOUT MY ATTORNEY PRESENT."
Say that and SHUT UP.

2026-02-22 14:48:18 UTC

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There's a reason why we aren't taught about our genocides in the Philippines or Cambodia. There's a reason we're told to downplay the genocide that was chattel slavery and the genocide that was manifest destiny.
They want you to see Palestine as an aberration.

2026-02-22 14:48:18 UTC

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We send illegal cluster weapons to Saudi Arabia to kill Yemeni children. Everything Israel does is because it serves the interests of the United States. And saying Israel is coercing us is absolving us of our role as the imperial hegemon.