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Tracy Wise

@frauwise.bsky.social

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Writer. Focused on the present moment in the US & around the world. Supporter of liberal democracy. Personal account. *opinions my own* re-posts=look at this (vs approval) She/her/ella

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Tracy Wise @frauwise.bsky.social · Mar 1

So grateful to #TheFriendsofSmileyPublicLibrary, @typeeighteenbooks.bsky.social (w/o a publisher, no book!), and @frugalfrigate.bsky.social for a wonderful book launch event on Feb. 26. Between 40-50 people came and books for sale sold out!
#community #reading #BookSky 💙📚📚💙
MADAME SOREL'S LODGER

Photo of event sign; photos of Tracy Wise speaking in a filled room; photo Tracy Wise with Type Eighteen Books founder MVWhite and publicist Elisabeth; photo of Tracy Wise and Frugal Frigate owner Erin

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 8h

Trump deported Iranian Christians with open asylum claims for religious persecution four weeks ago.

He expelled other Iranian Christians, including children, to Panama in February.

Reuters @reuters.com · 8h

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Trump threatens US military action in Nigeria over treatment of Christians

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he has asked the Defense Department to prepare for possible military action in Nigeria if the Nigerian government "continues to allow the killing of Christians."

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Minnesota Indivisible Alliance @mnindivisible.bsky.social · 1h

ICE is reviving the bounty system — cash bonuses for private contractors to hunt immigrants.

We've seen this before. They used to call them slave patrols.

theintercept.com/2025/10/31/i...

ICE Plans Cash Rewards for Private Bounty Hunters to Locate and Track Immigrants

Companies hired by ICE would be given bundles of information on 10,000 immigrants at a time to locate — and paid cash bonuses for performance.

theintercept.com

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 1h

LAPD Announces Street Closures in Effect for Dodgers World Series Win

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Tracy Wise @frauwise.bsky.social · 1h

Yep.

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 1h

👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

Juan Escalante @juansaaa.com · 1h

The mural features a masked ICE agent, in a Dodgers hat, escorting a handcuffed Fernando Valenzuela, the iconic Dodgers pitcher.

Below the painting, a vinyl sticker on the wall declares: “I LOVE THE #DODGERS. But I Love My Community More! Community Over Profit.”

#WorldSeries

Boyle Heights art shows Valenzuela arrested by ICE in Dodgers cap

At Distrito Catorce in Boyle Heights, a new painting replaces a beloved Dodgers tribute, capturing the disappointment and activism of longtime fans in response to the team’s silence on immigration rai...

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Tracy Wise @frauwise.bsky.social · 1h

Lol. 🙏🙏🙏

Tracy Wise @frauwise.bsky.social · 1h

All the way out in the IE!

Tracy Wise @frauwise.bsky.social · 1h

Yes! Hoping no palm trees are set alight.

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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 1h

Folks who say ordinary conservative Americans don't care about remodelling the White House need to come on my Facebook full of 60-year olds back home in West Virginia getting radicalized by Trump arbitrarily destroying a national symbol that shit is resonating

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Tracy Wise @frauwise.bsky.social · 2h

ExACTly.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6h

I wonder if the South American fishermen he's routinely killing would count as "innocent Christians" too, or nah?

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 6h

Confirmation from TV entertainer and inexplicably Secretary of War/Defense/whatevs Pete Hegseth.

Pete Hegseth * O
@PeteHegseth
Yes sir.
The killing of innocent Christians in Nigeria
— and anywhere — must end immediately.
The Department of War is preparing for action. Either the Nigerian Government protects Christians, or we will kill the Islamic Terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities.

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Reuters @reuters.com · 2h

US military kills three in strike on drug-trafficking vessel in Caribbean, Hegseth says reut.rs/4oPZmnD

US military kills three in strike on drug-trafficking vessel in Caribbean, Hegseth says

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Sunday that the U.S. military conducted a lethal strike on a vessel operated by a drug trafficking organization in the Caribbean, killing three men aboard.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 3h

Tucker Carlson's friendly interview with a Holocaust denier raises new questions about Zohran Mamdani's commitment to fighting antisemitism.

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stopdropendfascism.bsky.social @stopdropendfascism.bsky.social · 2h

You should see what he is doing to Americans

Do Not Obey. We are Democracy. @zangerliberia.bsky.social · 3h

The naked emperor, big peace prize nominee, saying we are going to intervene now in Nigeria? Wherever Christians across the world are "attacked" or what? I'm confused.
Also we make commitments like this while folks go without paychecks, food, healthcare? America first? What's that?

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Kastor @kastor.sh · 1d

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ChrisCatMom🐈📎 @christhecatmom.bsky.social · 4h

Sounds like all war decisions are only decided by the Republicans in Congress now.

Pat Jennings @veryrecent1.bsky.social · 8h

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Extraordinary times, indeed. This week, administration officials did brief senators on the bombings, which have now targeted 14 vessels, all under murky circumstances. But Democrats say this briefing was for GOP senators only, which may violate the legal requirement for bipartisan briefings.

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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 2h

This is a still from a David Lynch film, right?

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6h

This feels like the last thing a runaway sees

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 9h

“100% ANTI TRUMP, WHICH IS PROBABLY ILLEGAL.”

Donald J. Trump &
+
@realDonaldTrump
Seth Meyers of NBC may be the least talented person to "perform" live in the history of television.
In fact, he may be the WORST to perform, live or otherwise. I watched his show the other night for the first time in years. In it he talked endlessly about electric catapults on aircraft carriers which I complain about as not being as good as much less expensive steam catapults. On and on he went, a truly deranged lunatic. Why does NBC waste its time and money on a guy like this??? - NO TALENT, NO RATINGS, 100% ANTI TRUMP, WHICH IS PROBABLY ILLEGAL!!!

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H. John Tran @johnhtran.bsky.social · 2h

The White House has now forbidden reporters from parts of the West Wing. That’s not about space, it’s about story control. When power starts managing proximity, it’s already managing truth.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 4h

In any previous era, INCLUDING TRUMP’S FIRST TERM, this kind of overt corruption would have likely led to Patel being shown the door. But in Trump 2.0, the media and our institutions have decided none of this matters, so Trump and his friends have formed a pact for mutual plunder.

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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 3h

The word "clash" needs to be completed retired from the vocabulary in reporting on this. "Clash" implies force on both sides. The Feds, ISP, and other cops are wantonly attacking peaceful people.

T. L. @poemless.bsky.social · 12h

Schools went on lockdown, people stayed inside. It lasted the entire afternoon. A constant din of whistles, sirens, helicopters, people shouting. Or dead silence.

I see the NYT, New Yorker, commentariat frame it as "activists clashing with ICE."

No.

ICE/CBP/DHS are terrorizing US citizens.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 6h

media elites have talked themselves into a weird bind, where liberalism is so much the default that simultaneously a) it doesn't need defending but also b) any defeat no matter how marginal must refute it completely

Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 8h

Douthat writes that 2024, when Harris lost by 1.5% of the popular vote, was "an ideological referendum and progressivism lost." I wonder why he didn't view the 2020 election, when Trump lost by 4.5% of the popular vote, as a far more significant loss for conservatism.
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 7d

Comparing the relation between the presidential election results in 2020 and 2024 with the post-election commentary is a fascinating exercise.

2020
Biden 81,283,501 popular votes, 51.3%
Trump 74,223,975 popular votes 46.8%

2024
Trump 77,302,580 49.8%
Harris 75,017,613. 48.3%

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 4h

U.S. Citizen Shot by ICE in Ontario, CA Released From Custody With Bullet Still Lodged In Shoulder

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By Aisha Wallace-Palomares and @el_tragon_de_LA

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 6h

The crowd tonight in Norfolk, Virginia for Abigail Spanberger and Barack Obama. LET’S GO!!!

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