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Elizabeth Freitas

@efreitabeth.bsky.social
279 followers 616 following 184 posts

Writer, editor, teacher. Language and choir aficionada. Fundie survivor, now Church of Dog. Pro-human rights, pro-planet.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 28/08/2026
Climate change is a moral catastrophe because countries like Nepal who are least responsible for causing it suffer the most.
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Stephanie Kirchgaessner @skirchy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Exclusive: RFK Jr lied in Senate confirmation hearings, newly revealed documents indicate. Stellar reporting by @bymichellersmith.com based on documents obtained by @theguardian.com and @apnews.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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RFK Jr lied in Senate confirmation hearings, newly revealed documents indicate
Letters obtained by Guardian and AP contradict testimony that 2019 visit to Samoa had ‘nothing to do with vaccines’
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Elizabeth Freitas @efreitabeth.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Make no mistake; this is also an ICE murder.
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Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... The truth buried in the redacted Epstein files - a major DEA investigation into Epstein over drugs and prostitution was dropped by the first Trump administration. HUGE!
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March 18, 2026
I was intending to take tonight off, but there’s big news—I mean, aside from all the other big news—that I want to make sure gets attention.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
The Golden Age.
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Elizabeth Freitas @efreitabeth.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
The problem with being a teacher is that 20 years later you show up for medical imaging and the technician is a former student. 😳
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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Should just call this article "The Fascists are Succeeding in their Efforts to Muzzle Academia" www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/u...
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Professors Are Changing What They Teach, Even Far from Trump’s Gaze
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
What a paragraph. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Forest @theforesthermit.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Gee this can’t have anything to do with married women needing passports to vote under the SAVE act could it?
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Laurel Krahn @windowseat.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
“They were hellbent on not allowing anybody to help him until he was dead,” she said. “I was right there, and they — all of them — made the decision to deny me access to give him the best possible chance of survival.”
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
"The first person to be executed for treason in the US was not a spy or someone who sold secrets to a foreign government. It was not a Confederate general who took up arms against his government. It was an abolitionist named John Brown." from @nhannahjones.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/m...
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The Transformative Power of the White ‘Race Traitor’
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Imagine if even a fraction of what this administration plans to spend on cages went toward housing people.
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ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion turning warehouses into detention centers
ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion converting warehouses into detention centers, according to planning documents, more than the annual budgets of 22 states.
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Pete Davidson @petedavidsonny.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Pay no attention to the man behind the invitation to the sex trafficker.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
AOC on DHS Warehouses: I think every American should be alarmed. They are building—and have built—a black box system that disappears people, both immigrants and U.S. citizens alike.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
“Lying in feces, throw up, urine… like animals in a cage at the zoo.” A whistleblower recounts the horrific ICE detention center conditions in Baltimore — a similar story everywhere.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
The decision has been made to break an American city. It is an experiment. We must do all we can (legally) to help Minneapolis hold on.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 08/02/2026
NEW: Ghislaine Maxwell is set to invoke her Fifth Amendment rights and refuse to answer all questions related to Epstein, Trump, and more during tomorrow’s deposition. Rep. Ro Khanna has sent the following letter to Oversight Committee Chair James Comer in response:
Two-page image of a formal letter on U.S. House of Representatives letterhead, dated February 8, 2026, addressed to Chairman James Comer of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. The letter states that Ghislaine Maxwell plans to invoke her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination at an upcoming House Oversight deposition and criticizes her intent to do so on a blanket basis rather than question by question. It notes her prior meeting with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and requests clarity on whether she will invoke the Fifth Amendment in response to specific questions.

Page one lists six detailed questions concerning alleged co-conspirators in Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse of minors, the lack of indictments, Maxwell’s knowledge of prosecutorial decisions, any role involving President Donald Trump, discussions of a potential presidential pardon in exchange for silence, and any client lists or records maintained by Maxwell or Epstein.

Page two adds a seventh question asking Maxwell to identify any foreign governments or intelligence services, including those linked to Russia or Israel, with which Epstein allegedly shared information or acted on behalf of. The letter asks that this document be entered into the official record at the start of the deposition and closes with a formal sign-off and signature from Congressman Ro Khanna, Member of Congress, U.S. House of Representatives.
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
@cbsnews.com: Agents were pursuing an immigrant when they killed Alex Pretti. Now, he shares his story. By Cara Tabachnick, Camilo Montoya-Galvez
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Agents were pursuing an immigrant when they killed Alex Pretti. Now, he shares his story.
"I was there. I saw everything," Jose Huerta Chuma, who remains in hiding, told CBS News.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
They are grabbing and bursting testicles. That’s sexual assault. We already know women detainees have been raped, assaulted and in some cases sterilized. This is sick stuff. They want to inflict maximum pain. They’re abusers drunk on power. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Officers at Texas immigration detention facility accused of beatings and sexual abuse
Civil rights coalition calls for immediate closure of camp, where more than 2,700 detainees are being held
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
1/The law requires a judicial warrant based on probable cause signed by a judge to enter a home or private area in a biz (not an administrative one signed by an “immigration authority” ie a DHS employee). This is clearly unlawful conduct. ICE can’t change the law just because it doesn’t like it.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Yesterday, the coroner’s office in El Paso ruled that the death of Geraldo Lunas Campos while in ICE detention was a homicide. Read more about it here. joycevance.substack.com/p/dont-take-...
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Don’t Take the Bait
In the time of Trump, “Don’t take the bait” is a rule that’s almost as important as “Do not obey in advance.”
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
New from 404 Media: ICE's facial recognition app, which the agency is using to decide who to detain and deport, misidentified a woman. Twice. ICE says results of the app are definitive and override a birth certificate; obviously this case shows the app is inaccurate www.404media.co/ices-facial-...
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ICE’s Facial Recognition App Misidentified a Woman. Twice
In testimony from a CBP official obtained by 404 Media, the official described how Mobile Fortify returned two different names after scanning a woman's face during an immigration raid. ICE has said th...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/01/2026
BRENNAN: What percentage of those you have in custody have committed crimes? NOEM: 70% of them B: It's not 70% N: Yes it is. You guys pick and choose numbers B: Your agency says 47% have criminal convictions N: Wrong again. We'll get you the correct numbers B: Well, that's from your agency
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 19/01/2026
This isn’t immigration policy. It’s a business model. ICE keeps growing, not because it makes America safer, but because corporations are raking in billions off cages, bodies, and suffering. ICE’s existence is a massive revenue stream.
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 12/01/2026
🚨 In Nov., Trump's Labor Dept. lowered the minimum wage for foreign farmworkers. A month later, Trump's winery filed to hire 36 foreign, temporary workers. The rate? Almost $2/hour less than in 2025. 1/ me, for @forbes.com
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Trump Vineyard Seeks To Hire Foreign Workers At Lower Wages
Records show the Trump Organization has requested over 2,000 foreign workers since 2008. Its latest request seeks a $13.90 hourly wage—the lowest the winery has offered since 2021.
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🌞🌻🌙 @honeyp0t.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
There’s a GoFundMe for Jonathan Ross’s legal expenses for murdering Renee Good. This violates GoFundMe’s Terms of Service. Everyone must report it. A thread on how to do that 🧵
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Reading Black and Native histories will rip the scales from your eyes, about the lies White Americans tell themselves about themselves, and their country. Which is why this administration is so insistent on re-whitening media, academia and public history (museums, etc) But. Yeah. This thread.
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
ICE just quietly updated its hunger strike data. From July 1 to Sept 30, 106 people went on hunger strike. Two people in ICE custody were subjected to force-feeding or involuntary medical measures this summer As of Dec 2, ICE reports 14 ongoing hunger strikes www.ice.gov/doclib/deten...
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Elizabeth Freitas @efreitabeth.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Malala is enjoying her turkey coma. #dogsofbluesky #dogsofbsky #dogs #germanshepherd
Black and tan German shepherd passed out on a beige bed, half-covered with a brown plaid blanket, her head declining on the floor.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
The term "has historic roots, including Nazi ideology and, more recently, a violent conspiracy theory that’s inspired terrorist attacks in the US and abroad" www.cnn.com/2025/10/19/u...
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DHS issued a call to ‘remigrate.’ Here’s the history of the term often associated with far-right groups | CNN
A nine-letter social media post was all it took for the Department of Homeland Security to spark a torrent of backlash online this week, drawing the ire of politicians and prompting comparisons to Eur...
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Shy Tiger @shytiger.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
“How much do I need to BRIBE the U.S. population to stop them ALL FINALLY realizing I’m definitely a pedo & every accusation was a confession?” Also see: Gold & Bitcoin revaluing scam soon to come people -mark my words 2026/27 is likely when he’ll pull that rug & cause huge inflation & destroy usd.
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Elizabeth Freitas @efreitabeth.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
You can easily spend $2,000 on one emergency vet visit and you think a little pocket change is going to buy you health care?
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation www.propublica.org/article/andr...
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The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
"The international community, in particular the US and other western governments, allowed all of this to happen. This is what genocide looks like in the 21st century: not only in scale or method, but in how it’s normalized. " www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Israel needs to face accountability for our genocide. And so does the US | Yuli Novak
The international community allowed all of this to happen. We must not look away or move on
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism. Got it.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
This is an old formula used by authoritarian regimes. Stoke chaos and blame scapegoats to justify the use of force.
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Monica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since #SOS @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov
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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 27/09/2025
If you’re worried about losing your health care, apparently Trump has a message for you:
Politico: Democrats are demanding Republicans negotiate a bipartisan stopgap spending measure. Among their asks is for the GOP to extend certain Affordable Care Act subsidies, which were expanded by Congress in 2021 and are due to sunset at the end of the year.

President Donald Trump on Thursday blamed Democrats for making “unserious and ridiculous” demands, foreshadowing what is likely to be the go-to talking point should neither side blink ahead of the Tuesday night deadline.

“He read all the shit they’re asking for, and he said, ‘on second thought, go fuck yourself,’” the White House official said.
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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
"Practice being brave now, don’t wait for some special moment at the end to be a hero." This is excellent. open.substack.com/pub/peaceful...
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Defeating Fascism The Easy Way
Fighting fascism when peaceful means may still be a possibility
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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
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Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing - Wikipedia
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Do we say a man is sane when he calls in the military to fight a war when there is no war? If such a man is not sane, do we have a solution to stop the madness if he’s in the White House?
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 07/09/2025
“Florida is the first state to take the courageous step toward decluttering itself of excess children,” @petridishes.bsky.social writes on the state’s elimination of vaccine mandates. “No price is too high to pay in this pointless war.”
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Florida Decided There Were Too Many Children
The state’s elimination of vaccine mandates is a courageous first step toward decluttering itself of any excess kids.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
RFK Jr. ordered the NIH’s Integrated Research Facility in Frederick to stop all research on serious infectious diseases yesterday at 5:00 PM. They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone. www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...
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RFK Jr.'s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research
NIAID's Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s departm...
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
The top story of the moment is the one story that our most influential newsrooms won’t touch: That the United State has become an authoritarian state. presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...
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We have become an authoritarian state, and our top newsrooms are in denial | Press Watch
The frog in the proverbial pot is dead.
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Elizabeth Freitas @efreitabeth.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
We made it! 8 weeks post surgery and #Malala is allowed back on the couch. #germanshepherd #GSD #dogsofbluesky #dogs
Black and tan German shepherd staring out an open door from a brown leather sofa with a blue turtle pillow, a beige lamp, and a red surfboard
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Elizabeth Freitas @efreitabeth.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Not an hour after I washed my car, I went outside and found it covered in bird shit and berry juice. Damn blue jays. #birds #bluejays #carwash
Liquid green bird shit dripping down the side of freshly washed carMore bird shit and berry juice dripping down the side of freshly washed carBird shit and berry juice covering the roof of freshly washed car
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 23/08/2025
The US Administration is now deleting its internal communications, in brazen violation of the Federal Records Act, in order to conceal its other illegal acts. Those entrusted to enforce our Congress’s laws sit, simply watching this happen, flaccid and impotent.
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Homeland Security Dept. Says It Hasn’t Kept Text Message Data Since April
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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
another korean american has been detained by ICE, a violinist named john shin from utah. he was allowed one 30-second phone call to his wife and they haven’t heard from him since.
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Utah music community rallies behind violinist detained by ICE
The local music community in Salt Lake City is rallying around one of their own, after news that just this week, John Shin—a violinist who received Bachelor's a
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Extraordinary new detail about the FBI purge. *Senior officials were asked to fire lower level officials tagged by online right wingers as being anti-Trump. *When they asked for a reason - required by law - they were not given any. They refused. Then they were fired. www.cbsnews.com/news/politic...
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Politics may have spurred August purge of 5 veteran FBI agents
Details are emerging about the possible motivation behind the firing of five senior FBI agents.
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Elizabeth Freitas @efreitabeth.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
The Thinker #dogsofbluesky #germanshepherd #dogs #GSD
Black and tan German shepherd laying on a dog bed, staring thoughtfully ahead, chin resting on  one paw
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