bellamoss
@bellamoss77.bsky.social
Social science and political junkie. Aspiring digital artiste. Sometimes baker. Pro labor. Pro equity. <3
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i really think there is legit political space for running on "we are going to dismantle ICE"
How it started vs. How it’s going NOW 👀
LA tow truck driver who towed ICE’s car found NOT GUILTY 🦸🏽♂️
LA tow truck driver who towed ICE’s car found NOT GUILTY 🦸🏽♂️
December 21, 2025 at 12:41 AM
i really think there is legit political space for running on "we are going to dismantle ICE"
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"The Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts" doesn't even make sense. Why have the extra "the" in the name? He just slapped his name up there like it means something. Anyway, it'll be in the trash next to all the other gold leaf crap in three years.
December 20, 2025 at 10:54 PM
"The Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts" doesn't even make sense. Why have the extra "the" in the name? He just slapped his name up there like it means something. Anyway, it'll be in the trash next to all the other gold leaf crap in three years.
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also, these "WAR" values (a) are derived from a statistical model that produces ideologically convenient results that no other open-source model replicates, (b) lack controls for important factors like fundraising and candidate experience, and (c) completely ignore uncertainty in the data. not good!
it is one thing to say "here is what our measurements tell us about the playing field," it is something very different to leap from that to "and here is why we have a better understanding of your specific circumstance and your particular electorate than you, the person who represents the district"
December 20, 2025 at 10:56 PM
also, these "WAR" values (a) are derived from a statistical model that produces ideologically convenient results that no other open-source model replicates, (b) lack controls for important factors like fundraising and candidate experience, and (c) completely ignore uncertainty in the data. not good!
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Every news org: We want to make it very clear that the extensive documentation of Donald Trump’s intimate friendship with the world’s most notorious pedophile shows no evidence of wrongdoing.
December 20, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Every news org: We want to make it very clear that the extensive documentation of Donald Trump’s intimate friendship with the world’s most notorious pedophile shows no evidence of wrongdoing.
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More than 41% air traffic of controllers work 10-hour weekdays, six days a week, while their pay stagnates and morale crashes -- all reasons the U.S. has a shortage of 3,800 of them.
So a bunch of them are moving to Australia.
www.wsj.com/business/air...
So a bunch of them are moving to Australia.
www.wsj.com/business/air...
These Air-Traffic Controllers Are Leaving Their Jobs—and Heading to Australia
Dozens of controllers have departed the U.S. to take jobs overseeing air-traffic in Australia; ‘everybody knows about it.’
www.wsj.com
December 20, 2025 at 10:08 PM
More than 41% air traffic of controllers work 10-hour weekdays, six days a week, while their pay stagnates and morale crashes -- all reasons the U.S. has a shortage of 3,800 of them.
So a bunch of them are moving to Australia.
www.wsj.com/business/air...
So a bunch of them are moving to Australia.
www.wsj.com/business/air...
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People hear this once and think it’s endemic. In 2020/2021 while still presenting as a white dude, I was told occasionally for certain jobs that they just weren’t gonna hire white men right now. But also I was getting interviews, plugged into opportunities, everyone would take my call. /1
December 20, 2025 at 9:43 PM
People hear this once and think it’s endemic. In 2020/2021 while still presenting as a white dude, I was told occasionally for certain jobs that they just weren’t gonna hire white men right now. But also I was getting interviews, plugged into opportunities, everyone would take my call. /1
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Also? Every single time--EVERY TIME--an advisor or pundit or commentator or politician says "Democrats should abandon [X], it's not a winning issue," your very first job as a voter is to look into how that person's interests are served by drawing attention away from [X].
December 20, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Also? Every single time--EVERY TIME--an advisor or pundit or commentator or politician says "Democrats should abandon [X], it's not a winning issue," your very first job as a voter is to look into how that person's interests are served by drawing attention away from [X].
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They held a four day trial to try to convict this guy. The jury took three hours to deliberate before they returned a not guilty.
How it started vs. How it’s going NOW 👀
LA tow truck driver who towed ICE’s car found NOT GUILTY 🦸🏽♂️
LA tow truck driver who towed ICE’s car found NOT GUILTY 🦸🏽♂️
December 20, 2025 at 10:12 PM
They held a four day trial to try to convict this guy. The jury took three hours to deliberate before they returned a not guilty.
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Can we swap RFK for this Danish health official?
December 20, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Can we swap RFK for this Danish health official?
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It truly is the Donald J. Trump Department of Justice
BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.
At least 16 files have disappeared from the DOJ webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein
The Justice Department’s webpage for documents related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is missing at least 16 of its files a day after they were released.
bit.ly
December 20, 2025 at 10:12 PM
It truly is the Donald J. Trump Department of Justice
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The lack of empirical evidence in the “anti-conservative bias in higher education” panic is really striking.
We’ve had more than a decade of elite consternation about this so-called crisis based on a handful of anecdotes.
We’ve had more than a decade of elite consternation about this so-called crisis based on a handful of anecdotes.
Clear evidence that at universities conservatives don't face higher obstacles than liberals to establish student groups + invite outside speakers.
"These results fail to offer support for the view that conservative students encounter more difficulty in efforts to access campus resources."
"These results fail to offer support for the view that conservative students encounter more difficulty in efforts to access campus resources."
December 20, 2025 at 10:07 PM
The lack of empirical evidence in the “anti-conservative bias in higher education” panic is really striking.
We’ve had more than a decade of elite consternation about this so-called crisis based on a handful of anecdotes.
We’ve had more than a decade of elite consternation about this so-called crisis based on a handful of anecdotes.
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personally getting very irritated by the unbelievable arrogance of the data boys
when we said “defer electoral strategy to the actual politicians running for actual offices” we meant “after calculating wins above replacement somehow”
December 20, 2025 at 10:18 PM
personally getting very irritated by the unbelievable arrogance of the data boys
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ICYMI: Racial harassment of Black students ignored under Trump, by @jsmithrichards.bsky.social @megomatz.bsky.social @jodiscohen.bsky.social
Monkey Sounds, “White Power” and the N-Word: Racial Harassment Against Black Students Ignored Under Trump
Since Trump returned to office, the Education Department’s civil rights office has not resolved a single racial harassment investigation. It sends a message that “people impacted by racial discriminat...
www.propublica.org
December 20, 2025 at 10:18 PM
ICYMI: Racial harassment of Black students ignored under Trump, by @jsmithrichards.bsky.social @megomatz.bsky.social @jodiscohen.bsky.social
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“Politicians should do what wins elections” is asinine for moral reasons but also, no one knows what will win an election! Yglesias et al keep acting like there’s some obvious set of policies or words that will guarantee victory but Harris basically did what they wanted and she lost.
4. Yglesias instead seems to implicitly argue that politicians should only do what wins elections, virtue be damned. One wonders what he thinks of those foolish 1850s abolitionists. As Condleeza Rice once said, politics is the art of making the impossible inevitable. That ain't this.
December 20, 2025 at 4:26 PM
“Politicians should do what wins elections” is asinine for moral reasons but also, no one knows what will win an election! Yglesias et al keep acting like there’s some obvious set of policies or words that will guarantee victory but Harris basically did what they wanted and she lost.
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The plan he describes is commercialization of Gaza with no place for Palestinians. It has been confirmed by UN and a variety of NGOs.
December 20, 2025 at 10:05 PM
The plan he describes is commercialization of Gaza with no place for Palestinians. It has been confirmed by UN and a variety of NGOs.
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I am quoted in this wild story about the man who leveled USAID.
Inside the 17-year lawsuit between a Trump official and his interior designers
A lawsuit between former Trump official Pete Marocco and a Florida design firm has gone on for over a decade, involving complex legal maneuvers and accusations.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 20, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I am quoted in this wild story about the man who leveled USAID.
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REVEALED: Picture of Bill Clinton hanging out with a serial sex offender.
December 20, 2025 at 10:01 PM
REVEALED: Picture of Bill Clinton hanging out with a serial sex offender.
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sean casten dragging yglesias for 35 posts and counting is a great sign for dems, honestly
we need these sorts of dipshit arguments not to be taken seriously by the party and if there’s one thing the thread makes very clear it is that he does not consider yglesias a serious person
we need these sorts of dipshit arguments not to be taken seriously by the party and if there’s one thing the thread makes very clear it is that he does not consider yglesias a serious person
December 20, 2025 at 5:16 PM
sean casten dragging yglesias for 35 posts and counting is a great sign for dems, honestly
we need these sorts of dipshit arguments not to be taken seriously by the party and if there’s one thing the thread makes very clear it is that he does not consider yglesias a serious person
we need these sorts of dipshit arguments not to be taken seriously by the party and if there’s one thing the thread makes very clear it is that he does not consider yglesias a serious person
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I'm sure they did, because they execute trans people there for existing. What a massive piece of shit.
December 20, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I'm sure they did, because they execute trans people there for existing. What a massive piece of shit.
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its not a nuclear option its just the law
WATCH-- Former AG Eric Holder says Congress should consider impeachment for the DOJ officials responsible for holding back the Epstein files: “That's a nuclear option that Congress has.”
December 20, 2025 at 3:29 PM
its not a nuclear option its just the law
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Just because everyone assumed this is what Bondi would do with the Epstein files isn’t a reason to not raise holy hell about it.
December 20, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Just because everyone assumed this is what Bondi would do with the Epstein files isn’t a reason to not raise holy hell about it.
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Much reporting re DOJ’s omissions and redactions…but whose decisions were they? Surely they went up the line to Blanche and Bondi? Did they overrule career staff? Did they consult with the White House? With Trump?
And if it’s a unitary executive, aren’t they all Trump’s decisions, redactions, etc?
And if it’s a unitary executive, aren’t they all Trump’s decisions, redactions, etc?
December 20, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Much reporting re DOJ’s omissions and redactions…but whose decisions were they? Surely they went up the line to Blanche and Bondi? Did they overrule career staff? Did they consult with the White House? With Trump?
And if it’s a unitary executive, aren’t they all Trump’s decisions, redactions, etc?
And if it’s a unitary executive, aren’t they all Trump’s decisions, redactions, etc?
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It has never been about immigration. it's racism, and it's intimidation. and profit for some. Allowing it to happen to any group means it's a possibility for everyone, and that's how fascism maintains power while being horrible.
December 20, 2025 at 9:14 PM
It has never been about immigration. it's racism, and it's intimidation. and profit for some. Allowing it to happen to any group means it's a possibility for everyone, and that's how fascism maintains power while being horrible.
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No document will protect you. All they have to do is take it from you and "lose" it; take it from you and say you never gave it to them; claim it's fake ⬇️; make a new rule that you need ANOTHER document. Citizenship is a made-up status that governments decide the rules for. No one is free until all.
Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales was born in Maryland. She has a valid U.S. birth certificate, medical and immunization records, and sworn affidavits.
Yet, ICE claims her documents are “not authentic” and has held her in immigration detention for days.
Yet, ICE claims her documents are “not authentic” and has held her in immigration detention for days.
Trump Administration Says Maryland Woman's Birth Certificate Is Fake In Dystopian Move
Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales was arrested on Sunday. ICE won’t release her despite extensive documentation of her citizenship, her attorneys told HuffPost.
www.huffpost.com
December 20, 2025 at 9:12 PM
No document will protect you. All they have to do is take it from you and "lose" it; take it from you and say you never gave it to them; claim it's fake ⬇️; make a new rule that you need ANOTHER document. Citizenship is a made-up status that governments decide the rules for. No one is free until all.
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This was my biggest tweet over in the bad place. It will live here now. 🧙♀️🎄
December 11, 2024 at 2:40 AM
This was my biggest tweet over in the bad place. It will live here now. 🧙♀️🎄