Michael Helquist

Author Marie Equi: Radical Politics & Outlaw Passions. LGBTQ history, US History, bicyclist, drawn to passionate pursuits

[Michael Helquist @MHelquistWriter]

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[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

In rural Yamhill County, Oregon, ICE agents seized a 17-year-old boy during his lunch break at McMinnville High School. They reportedly smashed a car window, with the broken glass injuring another student, dragged the boy out and took him to a detention center in Portland, an hour away -- and then discovered that he was a US citizen, as he had said all along. The family has started a fundraiser for legal expenses: https://t.co/80E7iAd0Nz

[Esta @TheOnlyEsta]

Kerry Kennedy has announced Late Night Show Host Stephen Colbert is the recipient of the 2025 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award for his advocacy for free speech and speaking truth to power.

RETWEET to show Stephen some love‼️

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 BREAKING: ICE secretly deported Luis Leon, an 82-year-old torture survivor and U.S. legal resident of nearly 40 years, after he walked into an immigration office to replace a lost green card.

Instead of processing the request, ICE handcuffed him, detained his wife for 10 hours, and later told the family; through a fake “lawyer,” that he was dead.

Turns out, ICE quietly transferred him through a Minnesota detention center and dumped him in Guatemala, a country he has zero ties to. There’s no deportation paperwork, no public record. His family only found him alive after relatives in Chile tracked him to a Guatemalan hospital.

Leon suffers from diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart issues. The DOJ is now under fire, but this is the Trump-era immigration machine still in motion—cruel, unaccountable, and lawless.

If they can disappear an elderly, law-abiding U.S. resident…

They can disappear anyone.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Rightfully, the cuts to Medicaid (over 10M people will lose their health care) and the tax cuts for the rich have been the story of the disastrous Republican budget bill.

But I read the whole thing. And there are some hidden rats in there you need to know about.

1/ A quick🧵

[scary lawyerguy @scarylawyerguy]

The media demanded Biden personally solve a shortage of baby food formula and kept after him for weeks about it while Trump's FDA isn't even bothering to warn people about E. coli outbreaks and it won't even be a story by tomorrow.

[Tom Malinowski @Malinowski]

They've gone from demanding work requirements for Medicaid recipients to saying low income Americans who ARE working should be kicked off.

(Note - this is code for getting rid of Medicaid expansion, which covers 25 million Americans making up to 138% of of poverty level wages.)

[VoteVets @votevets]

🔥Rep. Mikie Sherrill came in swinging:

“You don’t give targeting information. You don’t give time. You put people in danger!”

A Navy Vet and former Russian policy officer, she’s not mincing words—Trump’s team endangered American lives, and they know it.

[UNAIDS Global @UNAIDS]

New reports from countries show continuing disruptions in HIV responses due to US funding shiftNew reports from countries show continuing disruptions in HIV responses due to US funding shiftNew reports from countries show continuing disruptions in HIV responses due to US funding shiftNew reports from countries show continuing disruptions in HIV responses due to US funding shiftNew reports from countries show continuing disruptions in HIV responses due to US funding shiftNew reports from countries show continuing disruptions in HIV responses due to US funding shift.

[UNAIDS Global @UNAIDS]

Update on the status of UNAIDS agreement with the U.S. Government/USAID
https://t.co/6ytlfxhhoC

[Secretary Pete Buttigieg @SecretaryPete]

When we took office, roadway deaths had been going in the wrong direction for years and spiked during the pandemic. In December, we announced the 10th straight quarter of roadway deaths going down—steady progress that must continue.

[Conrad Parker @xxxconrad]

This guys about to explode

[Michael Helquist @MHelquistWriter]

@kylegriffin1 you made us all proud, good move and thank you

[Michael Helquist @MHelquistWriter]

SF Succulent Show

[Michael Helquist @MHelquistWriter]

40 years ago this month the Denver Principles, an epic proclamation of empowerment, was launched. It started in San Francisco and New York and carried its influence worldwide. It was a powerful moment; I was honored to be there. https://t.co/FyNsWgxdqX

[Michael Helquist @MHelquistWriter]

Sunshine still happens.

[Michael Helquist @MHelquistWriter]

photo: Oregon Historical Society

[Michael Helquist @MHelquistWriter]

NEW VIDEO JUST DROPPED. The Life of Remarkable, Passionate Activist & Lesbian Dr. Marie Equi. Oregon Public Broadcasting, 32 minute watch. Happy to be interviewed in this production. https://t.co/AiC97dPVeD

[Michael Helquist @MHelquistWriter]

The old Cafe Flore on Market Street on Saturday's preview of plans for reopening. Visiting here in the late 70's helped convinced me to relocate to SF the end of 1980

[Michael Helquist @MHelquistWriter]

Excited to get endorsement from America's popular historian for my bio of Dr. Marie Equi, an early woman and lesbian doctor who became a political radical.

[Michael Helquist @MHelquistWriter]

"Excellent biography."​
"It’s really a fine, careful book, and if you’ve read my recent American Midnight you’ll see that I rely on you for almost all the information I had about her. A fascinating woman, and you did her justice."

Adam Hochschild, American Midnight