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Karen Skelton

@karenskelton.bsky.social
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Reparative Genealogy, where Social History and Social Justice collide! Grassroots politics, voting rights. NH, VA, NC

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Of course the US would be the only country to vote against it.
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UN votes to adopt new world map to reflect Africa's true size
The Togo-sponsored resolution was backed by 164 nations - the US the only nation to vote against it.
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Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
New: Tony Lyons, an ally of RFK Jr. & the president of MAHA Action — an organization closely tied to RFK Jr. — told viewers on the organization's podcast that "anytime you hear the word measles, you should sort of think psyop, you know, think brainwashing." www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-...
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Mark Rodin @markrodin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
More absentee ballots in NC in danger of being tossed under new directives ncnewsline.com/2026/09/04/m... If you live in NC and vote by mail, follow instructions carefully or you will risk having your ballot discarded
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More absentee ballots in NC in danger of being tossed under new directives • NC Newsline
The NC board of elections decided in a party-line vote to add more reasons to toss absentee ballots when voters make mistakes.
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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Apropos of nothing has someone written about the effects on the national psyche when a country’s citizens are being embarrassed every single day for years
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Wow. Proponents of the ICE taser gloves are openly saying that one reason they love the gloves is that they doesn’t leave any marks or proof that they were used, making it harder for people to sue when they’re shocked excessively.
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"In today's society, you know, everybody's filming everything, everybody has a cell phone," Glueck said. If an officer punches someone on camera, that can go viral in an instant; even a standard taser leaves puncture wounds. But "the glove is low optic, and it looks better on camera, and it looks better to those witnesses. With a glove, there are no burn marks or scars."But local police across the country are still eagerly buying the gloves—in large part so that they can harm people and avoid being sued for it. It's been successful "from the patrolmen to the jailers," Lumpkin County Sheriff Stacy Jarrard said in a Compliant Technologies promotional video. "It's been a great tool as far as mitigating liability," according to Nelson County Jailer Justin Hall.
Bob Couey of the Floyd County Sheriff's Department sung the GLOVE's praises, too: "I highly recommend these gloves to anybody that's looking for a utility they can use that is conducive to not leading to lawsuits."
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Have not seen it pointed out enough that the Trump admin's targeting of the Smithsonian is being influenced by David Barton, the debunked amateur historian and Christian nationalist activist who has spent decades peddling claims that church-state separation is a myth.
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AwwDHD 🥹 @mightyani.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
"In a Heritage Foundation report that she co-wrote, there are proposals to give Americans financial incentives to marry by the age of 30 and a “large family bonus” for married parents with more than two children." It's ok to be on government assistance when you're a white Christian supremacist 👍
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Karen Skelton @karenskelton.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
apnews.com/video/electi... “Election worker says ICE officers confronted her at polling place over social media post.” A post from January! And while she was working at a voting site last week! This is downright chilling.
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Election worker says ICE officers confronted her at polling place over social media post
A poll worker said two federal officers visited her polling place during New York's party primaries to confront her about a social media post criticizing the ICE officer who fatally shot Renee Good in...
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 28/06/2026
🔥@RoKhanna campaigning for @AbdulElSayed: “The last people who have any right to lecture us about electability are the establishment who lost to Donald Trump twice. I don’t want to hear it. If you had anything to do with those campaigns, please sit down or exit stage left.”
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Trump seems to have taken Melania's jacket slogan--"I really don't care, do you?"--as his motto for his second term. But in his case, he keeps announcing that he doesn't care without bothering to inquire whether we do.
Melania's jacket says, "I really don't care, do you?"
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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Incredible. A+, 10/10, no notes
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
woah its almost like congress has the ability to influence the executive
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/04/2026
🚨 THIS SHOULD SET OFF EVERY ALARM: Louisiana is about to pull the rug mid-election. Let’s be clear what’s happening. 📌Absentee ballots already out 📌Early voting starts May 2 📌Election day is May 16 And just days before voting begins, Gov Landry is planning to suspend the primary entirely.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
I like how she had to toss in the thing about illegals lest she actually direct peoples irritation towards the correct source
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Karen Skelton @karenskelton.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Consistent, important, relentless message. Thank you, Fred Guttenberg.
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 14/04/2026
The worst of the worst. Turns out that’s ICE.
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
It's so funny to me that right-wingers love to pretend to love the Middle Ages and the Crusades and all that and then complain that the Pope shouldn't get involved in politics.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Pamela Jo should be testifying under oath today before House Oversight about the Epstein Files, but she is intentionally ignoring her subpoena. I mean, as far back as Feb. 2025, Pamela Jo was hellbent on getting justice per the below Facebook post. Let’s get the contempt process started, shall we?
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Karen Skelton @karenskelton.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
I had to play it twice, because my brain could not comprehend that this man thinks “females aged 15-19 not having enough babies” is a problem this country needs to fix. 😳
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Karen Skelton @karenskelton.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Trump's posts this week about opening the Strait of Hormuz went from telling allies "this is your problem/go take care of it yourself!" to telling Iran he will put their country in a living hell starting Tuesday -- in the foulest of language unbecoming a head of state!
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
The Chirodectes jellyfish, seen only twice, is a rare marvel of the ocean. This footage captures its stunning speed and unique markings. A gem for marine research.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Someone sent me this.
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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
The UN has officially adopted the resolution that slavery was the gravest crime against humanity. 178 countries voted. 123 voted for 52 abstained Only 3 countries voted against. You wanna guess who? Argentina, the United States, and Israel
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
This is as if Lt. Calley were president of the United States.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
From the people currently pretending to be concerned about TSA funding.
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Karen Skelton @karenskelton.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Pregnancy Surveillance. Because Ohio lawmakers must've read the Handmaid's Tale and said, yeah, we can do that. Yikes.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
This is stunning. @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social at one point looks like he’s thinking “it’s even worse than anyone could’ve expected.” Article I of the Constitution is not in effect.
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Bruce Wilson @brucewilson.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
The lie here is "Pluralism is a lie". IN 1900, the percent of Americans who were recent immigrants was only slightly lower than when Donald Trump began his 2nd term in office. Those immigrants, back in 1900, did not "destroy`" the country; they helped make America the 20th Century superpower.
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Neil Lewis @neil-lewis.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
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Nana Boricua 🇵🇷 💙🌴🌊 @nana-mary.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Here’s something to make you smile. Don’t worry, be happy. #Pinks #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue youtube.com/shorts/Dnkaw...
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When the TV turns off but the dance party isn’t over yet 😂❤️
YouTube video by Woof World
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Trump’s first-term Surgeon General speaks out against Trump’s current nominee for the job, Casey Means
Jerome Adams & @JeromeAdamsMD
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As a former U.S. Surgeon General who held an active medical license and practiced medicine while in the role (at Walter Reed and aboard the USS Comfort) it is incomprehensible that the Senate is even considering a nominee for this role who lacks any active license and has never practiced unsupervised.
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Calling it SAVE Act helps MAGA. It’s the Voter Elimination Act. They name everything deliberately; repetition breeds familiarity, increases comfort & approval. We should not parrot their talking points (“Citizens United” “Alligator Alcatraz” “immigration enforcement”.)
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
It remains astounding how unfaithfully the media covers Trump’s ramblings day to day. We’re a decade into this — and his rambling gets worse — and yet the coverage continues to portray his public appearances as if they’re coherent.
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Karen Skelton @karenskelton.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
@indivisiblegconc.bsky.social @wakencindivisible.bsky.social @indivistriangle.bsky.social @indivisiblechatham.bsky.social @indivisiblelh.bsky.social @camelcityunited.bsky.social
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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
This is extremely similar to Grok with non-consensual images despite knowing the Take It Down act would come into effect within a few months - the point isn’t creating a feature that will exist for the long hall, just one that exists long enough to justify the product in the short term.
In an internal memo last year, Meta said the political tumult in the United States would distract critics from the features release.
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
"In an authoritarian context, elections are not meant to be lost...When elections no longer pose any threat to the ruling regime—so thoroughly has it learned to control the process well before the actual voting day—their organization offers many advantages." politicsgeo.com/the-election...
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The Elections Trap: Why Authoritarians Always Want You to Vote - GEOpolitics
In my first year of studies at Sciences Po, among the many definitions of democracy, the one that struck me the most was Giovanni Sartori’s. He defined democracy as a political system in which politic...
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Karen Skelton @karenskelton.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Wow. What a calm, powerful message this man shares ~ ~
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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 05/02/2026
Oligarch buying up mainstream media was never about making money. Bezos running the Washington Post into the ground, Larry Ellison slicing up CBS, Soon-Shiong bleeding LAT is all about de-funding the few social institutions who could question power and report facts independently.
A circular diagram showing a self-reinforcing cycle titled 'How to Kill the Independent Media' in red text at the center. Four connected stages flow clockwise: 1) 'Lose More Subscribers; Income Drops' at top left, 2) 'Fire Independent Opinion Writers; Hire Right-Wing Ideologues' at top right, 3) 'Lose More Subscribers; Income Drops' at bottom right, and 4) 'Fire Reporters; Cut News Quality; Eliminate Major Sections' at bottom left. Blue arrows connect each stage in a continuous loop, illustrating a downward spiral that threatens independent media sustainability.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 05/02/2026
If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.
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Pam Spaulding @pamspaulding.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
2/2 Lolz. These suckers believed Trump & the fascist mission. Look what it got them... - One just learned he doesn't have the right to forcefully violate someone's 4A rights. - Another realized that his in-laws are not documented & it's pissing him off — it's holding him back.

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Currently in ICE ERO position awaiting my background to clear, I haven't spoke to an investigator anymore ever since my interview for the SF86, came to find out my in-laws are illegal and they are awaiting work permits. This is a F up situation because i cannot control nor is my responsibility to look after other people life or decisions but yeah yeah i know it fucks me up in my career because yeah i married my wife which she is a US citizen and bond with the family. But back in 2017 when I met her you don't ask hey do you have papers? are your parents here legally? Some BS man...... now I have the job i always wanted, I do what i always dream about but theres always a BUT in this F life man which pisses me off. anybody had a situation like this ??
https://x.com/girldrawsghosts/status/2018092789326655901?t=Cu2y9N2ZqjRkfa52mF6YnQ&s=19

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I just learned we do not have qualified immunity for violating someone's 4th amendment rights? Our FoD gave us a directive that general suspicion was reason to detain forcefully. Human rights attorneys are contacting anyone who has been detained. Especially citizens. Can we be charged criminally for violating someone's constitutional rights? Local and state police here in New Jersey are extremely hostile.
Any change President trump will grant everyone of us immunity?
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
🚨BREAKING: Federal Court DISMISSES Republican lawsuit challenging the U.S. Census Bureau’s statistical methods used for the 2020 Census. A big victory for my law firm's clients and everyone who cares about an accurate Census! www.democracydocket.com/cases/florid...
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🚨University of South Florida College Republicans et al v. Lutnick et al
Learn more here.
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Karen Skelton @karenskelton.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Listen to Jenny ~ ~ she knows of what she writes.
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𝗽𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗼𝗳𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗱 @photoframd.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
WSJ Ed Board states Trump is lying about Ice deportations. Analysis between 11/21/2025 and 1/7/2026, single-day ICE detentions were 11,296 but only 902 were convicted criminals. #ICEout www.wsj.com/opinion/mass...
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Opinion | Mass Deportation by the Numbers
ICE arrests are growing but fewer have a criminal history.
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JonZoidberg @jonzoidberg.xyz · 10/01/2026
The 40 million dollar bribe, aka the Melania movie, will premiere at the Kennedy Center because there is literally nothing else on the schedule until Spirit Halloween takes over in October. I wonder if they will pay Melania's appearance fee to have her show up. www.usmagazine.com/entertainmen...
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Melania Trump’s Doc to Premiere at Kennedy Center After Name Change
President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump are expected to attend the premiere of 'Melania' at the Kennedy Center in D.C.
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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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Jeanne @toomany2choose.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Enjoy your Caturday morning, everyone! 🥱🛌
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Excellent and persuasive work here from @asharangappa.bsky.social. Please read and share widely.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
A few thoughts on this important NYT analysis: First, the officer who killed Good is shown running up the *passenger* side of the car seconds before he killed her. He shot her first from the front, then the driver's side. This means he *put himself* in the path of the vehicle when he shot her.
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Video: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
An analysis of footage from three camera angles shows that the motorist was driving away from — not toward — a federal officer when he opened fire.
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 08/01/2026
It’s easy to think that schools in Minneapolis are closed because the Feds murdered someone in the street but no, the actual reason is that while that was happening, the Feds were busy doing other heinous shit across the city like tear-gassing a school
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
After ICE agents shot woman, a neighbor approached and said he was a doctor and wanted to help, witness tells @byaaroncdavis.bsky.social Instead, ICE agents kept him away from the scene, she says.
ICE agents kept neighbor who was doctor from shooting scene, witness says
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Video from Emily Heller's phone, which she shared with The Washington Post, shows the driver of the SUV slumped forward and not moving after the ICE shooting.Officers in camouflage and carrying weapons surround the vehicle and then keep anyone, even a neighbor who identifies himself as a doctor, from approaching the car to administer first aid, according to the video.
"Can I go check a pulse?" the neighbor says loudly, taking a step in the direction of the officers. "No, back up now," one of the agents says. "I'm a physician," the neighbor protests. "I don't care," the agent replies. "Give us a second, we have medics" on the way.
Heller estimated it took 15 minutes for paramedics to arrive, in part, it seemed, because their ambulance was blocked from advancing to the scene by the ICE vehicles.
Five or so first responders ultimately approached the car on foot, Heller said. They spent minutes with the woman who was shot and then carried her
"by her limbs" the length of two or three houses before they could get to an intersection where they could load the woman into an ambulance, Heller said.
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