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Joan
@belleofliberty.bsky.social
870 followers 1.8K following 4.5K posts
Former editor, proud mom of a trans kid, Democrat, Harris-Walz supporter, drama-avoidant, sober 2.5 years
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Joan @belleofliberty.bsky.social · Nov 26
Bottom line, this isn't Facebook. The asymmetrical nature of follows is a plus, not a negative. I will never pressure someone to follow me back. If they want to they will. Great. If not, they won't. That's perfectly fine also. We aren't all joined at the hip, for cryin' out loud.
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Repugs R Stinky @artfulscribe.bsky.social · 1d
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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 1d
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 22h
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 5h
@BFreidmanDC on X: If you want to be horrified, just poll Americans on whether there were positive aspects to slavery and the Holocaust 23 Feb 2016
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Joan @belleofliberty.bsky.social · 6h
Violence at Portland’s ICE facility is coming from one side: the officers

therealnews.com/violence-at-...
Violence at Portland’s ICE facility is coming from one side: the officers
“People of all ages showed up on Sunday, some of which had a small picket line going, others blowing bubbles and using their voices to condemn [law enforcement’s] behavior. But it doesn’t matter what ...
therealnews.com
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 19h
Last Sunday, @demiforillinois.bsky.social, @raygunsite.com and I hosted a No Kings protest sign-making party with the best problem:

So many people showed up, we ran out of table space.

This is what community care looks like.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 17h
"Operating from their base in Jakarta, where permissive export laws have allowed their surveillance business to flourish, First Wap’s European founders and executives have quietly built a phone-tracking empire, with a footprint extending from the Vatican to the Middle East to Silicon Valley."
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 17h
1/Stop everything and read/watch/bookmark this massive investigation between @motherjones.com @lighthousereports.com Le Monde, Der Spiegel, Paper Trail Media a vast global surveillance empire used to target politicians, journalists, tech CEOs, and... Jared Leto.
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The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you
We uncovered a massive data trove. It revealed the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h
Tim Walz: "It's almost unimaginable that he's got Milei in there, giving him $20 billion, so that they can undercut us and China can buy their soybeans from them. And now China has learned they can replace our markets."
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Joan @belleofliberty.bsky.social · 6h
As Americans white-knuckle through a shutdown, Trump’s corruption takes center stage

www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
Rachel Maddow: As Americans white-knuckle through a shutdown, Trump's corruption takes center stage
There’s a reason why every opposition movement to every authoritarian government focuses on the self-dealing and self-enrichment of the strongman leader.
www.msnbc.com
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LESams @lsam22.bsky.social · 1d
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Jon M. Sweeney @jonmsweeney.bsky.social · 20h
A reminder.

From 'Meister Eckhart’s Book of Secrets'
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Joan @belleofliberty.bsky.social · 8h
How could you not mock it?
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Joan @belleofliberty.bsky.social · 8h
They're kinda awesome.
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Joan @belleofliberty.bsky.social · 8h
On the future of the Affordable Care Act, Republican leaders are proving Democrats’ point

www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
On the future of the Affordable Care Act, Republican leaders are proving Democrats’ point
Democrats are effectively saying, “We need to protect Obamacare from Republicans who oppose the system,” and GOP leaders are effectively replying, “Yep.”
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Joan @belleofliberty.bsky.social · 9h
Saaaaaame.
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SeaTea @tierno158.bsky.social · 12h
It is simply not possible to make me feel sorry for John Bolton.
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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 14h
That's twenty-seven flat-out murders. That's twenty-seven lives taken without even a semblance of a legal justification under domestic or international law.
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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 10h
U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 11h
"A key aspect of the way we lived with each other before these self-styled epochal developments [post-2020] involved exactly the “social shame and cultural pressure” that Klein and other influential voices now come to condemn"

tapping the 'bring back shame' sign
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10h
🔥 COUNTRY SINGER @bryanandrewsmusic.bsky.social : "You don't get to call yourself a Christian and laugh when families are torn apart — and think it's okay that the highest court in the land just gave a green light to ICE agents to target people because they’re brown or speaking Spanish.”
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Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 11h
Federal immigration agents reportedly detained the parents of a U.S. Marine during a visit to Camp Pendleton, California, leading to the father's subsequent deportation.

www.newsweek.com/us-marines-i...
US Marine’s Parents Detained by ICE While Visiting Military Base
The parents were initially taken into custody on base and later released with ankle monitors, before being detained again.
www.newsweek.com
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Churlayla 86.47 @churlayla.bsky.social · 17h
Only 79 yr old in history to have ear cartilage grow back.
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 19h
"Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass" by Tom Bowman of NPR. www.npr.org/2025/10/14/g... Recommended.

A thing frequently forgotten or ignored is that journalism is one of the few professions people will die for. [Via @brianstelter.bsky.social ]
Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass
Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scen...
www.npr.org
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20h
It’s amazing how all the reporting is just memory-holing this part
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h
Q: We've seen images out of Chicago of federal agents shooting faith leaders with pepper balls and arresting journalists. Where's the limit for you on what's acceptable conduct by federal agents?

MIKE JOHNSON: I've not seen them cross the line yet.
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