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Shel B ⚓

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~Trying to praise the mutilated world ~Autism mom ~Travel, art, & nature lover ~Quote Accumulator ~Chaser of beauty ~Photos mine

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Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org · 23/05/2026
On this day in 1796, a newspaper ad was placed seeking the return of an enslaved Black woman, Ms. Judge, who fled George Washington's household while in Pennsylvania.
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May 23, 1796 | George Washington Offers Reward for Capture of Enslaved Black Woman
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
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Shel B ⚓ @morevertmorefun.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
"Minnesotans are insisting that their neighbors are their neighbors whether they were born in Minneapolis or Mogadishu. That is, arguably, a deeply Christian philosophy, one apparently loathed by some of the most powerful Christians in America."
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10/01/2026
Agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter in a massive show of force. Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. But after the cameras were gone, federal prosecutors did not charge anyone. (Pub. Nov. 2025 w/ @frontlinepbs.bsky.social @blockclubchi.bsky.social)
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“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime
Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
He very last act is to turn the wheels away from the ICE officer.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
In the video that the shooter took, which I believe was leaked to be exculpatory, he appears to yell “fucking bitch” after he shoots Renee Good.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Hard video to watch, but about as close as you can get to conclusively disproving the Trump admin's claims that she deliberately attempted to run down the officer. She even talks nicely with him moments before! Note also that the officer is focused more on filming her than on anything else.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 09/01/2026
PSA: There are few phrases that will make me instantly ignore you more quickly than “let that sink in.”
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BNO News @bnonews.com · 07/01/2026
NEW: Woman shot dead by ICE agent in Minneapolis identified as Renee Good, 37. According to her mom, Renee had 3 children and was not part of any ICE protest groups
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
With news of yet another DHS shooting breaking, a reminder that DHS’s initial statements should not be trusted without further verification, given previous post-shooting statements which crumbled under further investigation. In addition, be wary of short context-free video clips shared virally.
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Holy Post Media @holypostmedia.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
@skyejethani.bsky.social 🎙️Holy Post 663
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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Schoolhouse Rock never prepared us for this shit.
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Vincent van Gogh @vangogh.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
When Van Gogh painted Cypresses (1889), he said they were “like Egyptian obelisks.” Their flame-like forms rise through swirling skies, turning stillness into motion.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 04/01/2026
"The United States has now given Russia, China, and anyone else who wants to give it a try a road map for invading countries that displease them," argues Tom Nichols:
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Maybe Russia and China Should Sit This One Out
Putin and Xi are just shocked, shocked by the American attack on Venezuela.
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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 02/01/2026
"Tragically, America is still living in a political era that began on Jan. 6, 2021," the editorial board writes. "Recognizing as much is necessary to bring this era to an end before it has many more anniversaries."
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Opinion | Trump Is the Jan. 6 President
Tragically, America is still living in a political era that began on Jan. 6, 2021.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 29/12/2025
Both of the homes Trump claimed as principal residences in the ’90s were used as investment properties and rented out, according to an interview with his longtime real estate agent — exactly the sort of scenario he’s pointed to as evidence of fraud.
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Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing ...
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 21/12/2025
The 21st day of the annual Space Telescope Advent Calendar features galaxies of varying shapes and sizes, some appearing stretched and warped. Check back every day until December 25 for a new image of our universe:
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Day 21 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: Warped Space
The 21st day of the annual Space Telescope Advent Calendar features galaxies of varying shapes and sizes, some appearing stretched and warped.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Nobody works this hard for this long to cover up something this bad unless they are guilty.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
He is literally ranting and raving, and I am really really glad this is being carried by the networks
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 17/12/2025
Trump "showed a level of viciousness toward [Rob] Reiner in death that we rarely see in anyone, and have never before seen in an American president," Peter Wehner argues—and it's a mistake to dismiss his words.
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Trump’s Inferno of Hate Is Intensifying
When a man with the president’s personality feels besieged and abandoned, he becomes more desperate and more dangerous.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 16/12/2025
Donald Trump’s response to Rob Reiner’s death wasn’t just another example of norm-breaking rhetoric from the president—“it actively widened the breach,” John Dickerson argues: theatln.tc/v3ftkZJS
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Trump 0-3 on indicting Tish James and just had his ass handed to him by Indiana Republican legislators he threatened and bullied. Also new low in AP poll at 36% approval.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/12/2025
Read @nicolefoy.bsky.social's investigation that prompted the congressional probe. We found that agents had detained >170 Americans this year. More than 20 citizens said they were held for at least a day without being able to contact a lawyer or their loved ones.
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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 08/12/2025
Trump calling Somali immigrants “garbage” shows that he sees little risk in open expressions of racism, @adamserwer.bsky.social argues.
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Why Doesn’t Trump Pay a Political Price for His Racism?
Immigration isn’t breaking our society. We are.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/12/2025
Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
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Vincent van Gogh @vangogh.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
The Sunflowers (August–September 1888) were painted to brighten Gauguin’s bedroom. The painting was both a welcome gift and a test of the expressive potential of the color yellow.
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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
“If they can do this to George, they can do this to anyone.” ICE brutally arrested and illegally detained George Retes, an American citizen and Army veteran. Learn more about how we are elevating his story here:
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WATCH: The Veteran Who ICE Abducted — and Is Fighting Back
Here’s how we’re counter-programming DHS’s propaganda ads.
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Karen Swallow Prior @karenswallowprior.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
“A recent lawsuit claims leaders of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California, ignored repeated warnings about child sexual abuse and domestic violence and pressured a mother to keep her children in harm’s way.” The details are so disturbing. julieroys.com/grace-commun...
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Lawsuit: Grace Community Church Pressured Mother to Return Children to Alleged Abuser and Rebuked Her for Reporting to Police
A lawsuit claims Grace Community Church ignored warnings of child sexual abuse, pressuring a mother to keep children with an abusive father.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait. My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
A Twitter account called Ivanka News tweets an AI image of a young woman wearing Muslim garb. The woman is holding a sign that says "I came here illegally. Should I be deported?"

Ivanka News writes: What is your response to this person ??

In the "About this account" tab, it appears the account is based in NigeriaAn account called MAGA scope writes:

Who, in your view is the great enemy of the United States? Communism, Islam, Democratic Party, or Satan?

The account is based in Nigeria. An account called MAGA Nadine writes: You go to work and find this. What would you do? The attached pic is an AI image that shows a microwave. The microwave has a sign that says "For religious reasons, this microwave is now making halal food only." 

The account is based in Morocco.An account called America First posts an AI image of Tulsi Gabbard. They wrote: How would you rate your trust in Tulsi Gabbard on a scale of 1-10?
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
NEW: ICE has finally released post-shutdown detention data. The latest data reveals that a full 40%(!) of people arrested in the interior and held in ICE detention have no criminal record; no criminal charges or prior convictions. That is up from just 4% when Trump took office.
Chart showing detention population, among those arrested in the interior, by criminal record, May 2019 through present.

There are three lines shown. (1) Prior conviction (which rises from around 9,000 in January 2025 to just over 16,000 in November 2025), (2) Pending criminal charges (which rises from around 5,000 to 15,000), and (3) No criminal record (which rises from around 1,000 to 21,000).
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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
After Fox News’ pollsters found that Trump’s job approval had plummeted, the network buried the results while puffing up the president as the “ultimate dealmaker” who is doing “incredible things” and promising that “the whole world” will soon “come kiss the ring of the king.”
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Fox News hid its brutal Trump job approval number from viewers — while showering him with praise
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Sarah Longwell @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Trump trying to change the conversation about his relationship with a notorious pedophile by suggesting a group of Democrats should be hung is next level disgraceful.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
NEWS: During a hearing in federal court in VA, prosecutors confirmed that the operative indictment in the case against James Comey was never shown to or voted on by the entire grand jury before it was presented in open court. Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 14/11/2025
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
“Faith leader, Michael Woolf, minister at Lake Street Church of Evanston, is detained by Illinois State Police during a protest against immigration actions, outside the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., November 14, 2025. REUTERS/Jim Vondruska”
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Julie K. Brown @jkbjournalist.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
NEW: President Trump mentioned over 1,000 times in Epstein files, more than anyone else. (gift) www.miamiherald.com/article31290...
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Epstein files reveal his obsession with Trump
The president is mentioned over a thousand times in sex trafficker’s emails
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 13/11/2025
Newly-released Jeffrey Epstein emails have prompted Donald Trump and his allies to update their defense of the president—but their new narrative makes no more sense than their old one did, @jonathanbchait.bsky.social argues.
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Wait, Are the Epstein Files Real Now?
The White House’s responses get curiouser and curiouser.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Yes there's a lot of denial, but I've seen it: when it snaps, it snaps hard. "Powerful men covered up child sex abuse" isn't outlandish when you've seen that happen in church, boy scouts, school athletics, and every other social pillar of your conservative middle-class life in the past few decades.
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Vincent van Gogh @vangogh.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Van Gogh sometimes painted halos of light. They weren’t religious symbols but expressions of intensity—his way of showing the eternal through color.
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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
The AP tracked down details of some of the people killed in President Trump's military strikes on drug smugglers he describes as narco-terrorists. They were, with one exception, not high-level criminals. One was a fisherman. One was a bus driver; another a taxi driver. apnews.com/article/trum...
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 03/11/2025
The Trump administration has abandoned its commitment to an equitable education for all children, Pepper Stetler argues. But this attack isn’t new—Congress has been weakening the transformative law that governs education for disabled students for decades:
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The Slow Death of Special Education
The government has abandoned its commitment to an equitable education for all children—if it ever had one.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 29/10/2025
Due to the ongoing government shutdown, SNAP is set to run out of money for the first time in its history. “It’s not that the administration can’t pay up” to fill the gap—“it’s that it has chosen not to,” @willgottsegen.com argues in The Atlantic Daily.
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The Deadline for a Major Shutdown Casualty
Roughly 42 million Americans may not get their SNAP benefits on Saturday.
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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
A male Wood Duck with the light bringing out the colors in his fancy mullet. These ducks are my favorite waterfowl to photograph.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/10/2025
Two months before Calvin Alexander’s parole hearing date, he was told he was no longer eligible. Why? An algorithm had deemed the nearly blind 70-year-old, who uses a wheelchair, a “moderate risk,” barring him from speaking to the parole board. (Published April w/ @veritenews.org)
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An Algorithm Deemed This Nearly Blind 70-Year-Old Prisoner a “Moderate Risk.” Now He’s No Longer Eligible for Parole.
A Louisiana law cedes much of the power of the parole board to an algorithm that bars thousands of prisoners from a shot at early release. Civil rights attorneys say it could disproportionately harm B...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
What a line from the Pope! I am so pleased he is carrying on Pope Francis’ advocacy for immigrants.
More pointedly, the pope said, "Someone who says, I'm against abortion, but is in favor of the death penalty is not really pro-life. Someone who says, I'm against abortion but I'm in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States, I don't know if that's pro-life."
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 29/09/2025
“Now that President Donald Trump is perverting the Justice Department into an instrument of political persecution, jury nullification may be one of the only mechanisms that everyday Americans have to protect the rule of law,” Adam Serwer argues:
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How Ordinary Americans Can Stop Trump’s Revenge Spree
The Founders intended jury nullification to be a tool to resist tyranny.
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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
A Red-winged Blackbird wearing a small stick on his noggin. Very fashion forward.
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