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Joan

@belleofliberty.bsky.social
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Former editor, proud mom of a trans kid, Democrat, drama-avoidant, sober 4 years

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 2h
NEW FROM PP The Trump admin keeps denying immigration agents are grabbing Americans, so we tracked it 500+ Americans detained 70+ kids, some cuffed or zip-tied 60+ held after filming 36+ held for day+ w/o access to lawyer ~12 deported (yes, deported) projects.propublica.org/american-cit....
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Arizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social · 15h
“The cottonwood tree enabling protesters”
Tayler Hansen @TaylerUSA on X.com

The Cottonwood Tree enabling protesters to shut down the continuation of the double border wall in Lochiel, AZ, has been cut down by Border Patrol.

Hansen is quote tweeting his video for FRONTLINES TPUSA that had been posted an hour previously.

Text of the TPUSA Frontlines post reads:
Border Patrol has officially felled the Lochiel cottonwood tree that activists have been sleeping in and under since July 27th to block further construction of the double border wall…

As the tree came down, activists screamed and howled, then tried to rush past Border Patrol agents to stop the removal.
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Arizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social · 17h
Turning Point USA’s production team joined alongside dozens of Border Patrol agents as they entered onto private property in Lochiel. Activists have been detained and the last standing grandmother tree in the area was destroyed. Here they are gleefully filming as people scream and the tree falls.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 16h
I understand that paywalls are annoying, but the grim reality for everything right now, is if you want something to exist, you have to put money towards it. Every creative person is having their life's work hoovered up by AI companies. Layoffs never end. Private equity keeps making things worse.
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 15h
The FBI pushed out the executive over its cyber division. Reassigned up to half its cyber agents to immigration raids. Then got robbed through its own help-wanted page. Today: how to build the perfect victim, one pink slip at a time. www.jackhopkinsnow.com
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Joan @belleofliberty.bsky.social · 10h
Hegseth’s One Percent flip.it/xAEJkJ
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Hegseth’s One Percent
A cult of military superiority over civilians is not only unwarranted, but actively dangerous.
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Joan @belleofliberty.bsky.social · 10h
Supreme Court rejects Roy Moore's push to restore $8.2 million defamation verdict awarded to him flip.it/VRCRR1
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Supreme Court rejects Roy Moore's push to restore $8.2 million defamation verdict awarded to him
Justices declined to hear Moore's appeal of a lower court decision that vacated the verdict.
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Bill Madden @maddenifico.bsky.social · 15h
This is how you do it. 🔥🔥🔥👇
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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 16h
ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists’ signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons buff.ly/YJ1mAiP
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ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists’ signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons
OpenAI's chatbot isn't just imitating the magazine's style. It's also falsely attributing AI-generated images to real artists.
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 15h
The coin has features a small emblem with a horse’s head emblazoned over crossed swords and the phrase “NE QUIS EFFUGIAT,” which is Latin for “So that no one will escape.”
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Chilling ICE Challenge Coin Features a Slogan About ‘Hunting’ Humans
Editor’s note: Nicole is taking some much-deserved time off around her birthday...
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C. Bukowski @thishurt.bsky.social · 22h
Crying because Chewy just refunded me $200 for Loki’s veterinary diet food that was delivered the day before he died with their deepest condolences for losing him. They aren’t even making me return it. Going to donate it to a cat who needs it. 🥺
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 18h
ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them “unaccompanied.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 15h
Secretary of State Marco Rubio rolled out America's next passport last week, and the internet was left scratching its head. "[W]hy does it look like Claude designed it?"
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 16h
"I can't let you filibuster," says MacCallum, as El-Sayed ticks off gas prices, food prices, service members killed or stationed overseas for long assignments...
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Neon Chinchilla @neonchinchilla.bsky.social · 15h
FUCK YEAH!!! GIVE ME THOSE KNOBS!!!!!!
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Angry Donkey News @angrydonkeynews.bsky.social · 15h
El-Sayed on Fox: "There is this argument you try to make often is that the best way to take this problem on is more war. How has that worked out for us? The war in Iraq which this channel spent years and years pressing x.com/atrupar/stat...
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El-Sayed on Fox: "There is this argument you try to make often is that the best way to take this problem on is more war. How has that worked out for us? The war in Iraq which this channel spent years ...
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 17h
Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.
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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’
Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.
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Lawrence @ldog562.bsky.social · 18h
'Worse than if she had just said nothing': REACTION to Paxton's estranged wife's ad backing him. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rK06...
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'Worse than if she had just said nothing': REACTION to Paxton's estranged wife's ad backing him
YouTube video by MS NOW
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Good morning! Friendly reminder that politicians are supposed to work for YOU! YOU pay them with your tax dollars to run the country in a way that serves YOU. If they don't do their jobs, fire them by voting them out.
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 18h
At Ohio Campaign Rally, Trump Threatens to Withhold Aid If Democrats Get Elected #TruthOut
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At Ohio Campaign Rally, Trump Threatens to Withhold Aid If Democrats Get Elected
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Kat Benjamin @katskib.bsky.social · 23h
This is beyond embarrassing.
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 18h
Trump White House escalates media war with move that threatens to backfire in court #RawStory
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Trump White House escalates media war with move that threatens to backfire in court
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Ilya Somin @ilyasomin.bsky.social · 19h
New new @lawfaremedia.org article on why the president doesn't have unlimited power to impose import bans. Most of the same constitutional and other legal constraints apply, as with tariffs: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
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The President Doesn’t Have Unlimited Power to Impose Import Bans
Contrary to Trump’s claims, executive power to impose import bans is constrained by most of the same legal restrictions as the power to impose tariffs.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19h
NYC COMPTROLLER MARK LEVINE: “.. Early warning signs are mounting that AI is already impacting the job market in NYC. .. New data just out show entry-level job postings in the city are way down in the careers most exposed to AI. .. This is coming fast and we are doing almost nothing about it.”
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 20h
Memories of the Hastert Years … and the Ironies of History talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/memor...
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Memories of the Hastert Years … and the Ironies of History
It’s hard to know what to say about former Republican Speaker of...
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 18h
OMG it’s like @snellarthur.bsky.social is in my head, answering all the questions I have. This time on undersea cables and how much of a global shitshow a big attack on them would be.
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 19h
Just to add onto this, even if they had gone this route, it still wouldn't be ethical. Think about who is doing all that data training - for basically no money. Think about the data centers that are processing all that data - and dumping pollution into local communities.
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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 22h
Some days, I really wish I could believe in the existence of hell, because some people really deserve to end up there.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 04/10/2026
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Allison Gill has obtained descriptions of NINE FBI training videos showing agents were instructed to flag Epstein documents containing Donald Trump’s name for supervisory review. The DOJ is still refusing to release the actual videos. 👉 www.youtube.com/live/dYiQOhP...
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London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine @lshtm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Health misinformation is a problem we can no longer ignore. In @theguardian.com, Liam Smeeth warns about those looking to "profit out of people’s understandable fears and confusion when it comes to serious health issues." Read more 👉 www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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‘Self-healing’ coach who was banned from working in Australia to speak in UK
Barbara O’Neill has previously claimed that cancer is a fungus that can be treated with bicarbonate soda
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Joan @belleofliberty.bsky.social · 15h
Republican unease with Trump spreads to places it was never supposed to reach: report flip.it/1FGI9h
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Republican unease with Trump spreads to places it was never supposed to reach: report
Republican unease with President Donald Trump has spread beyond swing-district lawmakers fighting for their political lives. Senators from some of the country's most reliably red states are now openly...
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 19h
And now we find that Russia is cultivating pneumonic plague in test tubes.
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Putin warns West that Russia is ready to use every weapon to protect Kaliningrad
The Russian leader insists Moscow is "not threatening anyone" and is merely responding to statements by Western leaders.
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Olena Halushka @halushka.bsky.social · 18h
I still can't think of the russian horrific war crime in the Hroza village without tears. 3yrs ago today. The monsters shelled a memorial lunch for the Ukrainian serviceman, killing one third of the village, incl children, in one attack. Never again? And again. And again.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 19h
This morning goons entered a private property through the gate and forcibly removed a man from his home. The incident reportedly occurred in front of his wife and children.The goons allegedly entered aggressively and did not present a signed warrant to enter the property.
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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 18h
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 19h
One person was taken this morning outside of LAPD's metropolitan detention center jail near the corner of Los Angeles & Temple; goon is seen pepper spraying a legal observer and the driver of another vehicle.
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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 19h
Scoop: The White House is refusing to allow Politico on Air Force One today, which means the news outlet cannot fulfill its pool responsibilities. There's another show of solidarity in the works >>> www.cnn.com/2026/10/05/m...
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White House blocks Politico from Air Force One amid press access lawsuit | CNN Business
The White House is refusing to allow Politico on Air Force One on Monday, which means the news organization cannot fulfill its press corps pool responsibilities.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 19h
If you're in these states, *TODAY* is deadline to register to vote. Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas. Even if you think you've registered: doesn't hurt to check! And there's a lot happening across them. A thread with stakes on each. ⬇️
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🌮 Old Salt @exile57.bsky.social · 19h
A new Trump Barbie for the Murdoch collection.
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Rev. Angela Denker @angeladenker.bsky.social · 18h
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Transphobic Ballot Questions Reveal the Right's Anti-Girl, Anti-Kid Agenda
Seven initiatives in five states would exploit trans people to promote a gender-policing surveillance state.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 20h
Exactly this. And in fact, many models *have* been created this way, and decades of prior machine learning systems *were* created this way, consensually. These things are choices! People are STILL working this way! It’s not just that a better world is possible — it already EXISTS. We can nurture it.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 18h
It turns out that it’s a lot easier to proof-text whatever outcome you want into the 18th century historical record (or, failing that, British common law) than it is to upend a series of judicial precedents directly on point.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 18h
The irony of course is that Originalism’s big selling point was supposed to be constraining the discretion or judges to impose their own political preferences as law. In practice the effect has been very much the reverse: Liberating justices from the constraints of stare decisis.
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jazzrat2000 AKA Bonsai anonymous @jazzrat2000.bsky.social · 18h
They didn't get Hastert on the child sexual abuse they got him on banking. That's why Trump needed immunity to save him from that kind of shit. Can you say Capital One?
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 20h
Three U.S. citizens arrested and detained by immigration agents are the first Californians to sue federal officers under the No Kings Act, hours after it was signed by Gov. Newsom last week.
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democracy4u.bsky.social @democracy4u.bsky.social · 19h
An AI 'agent' does the same anything to win "by any means necessary" damage all along the route
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ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 18h
trump once again confusing antarctica with greenland (no penguins in greenland unless he’s shippin ‘em in)
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J Montgomery @jaymontgomery.bsky.social · 19h
ALASKA YOU'LL NEVER SEE IT.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18h
Texas Republican State Rep.
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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 19h
never the wrong time for this classic
Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?" 
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”
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