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Kathleen Belew

@kathleenbelew.bsky.social

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Historian of the white power movement, gun violence, the apocalypse. Coloradan. kathleenbelew.com Book coming soon! Home, at the End of the World (Random House) Posts reflect my own views only.

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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · Dec 6

I am writing a book about mass shootings in Colorado in the 1990s and I have been working on it for years, and I just found a whole new mass shooting I hadn't known about before. There are so many that they can still pop out of the archive and surprise me

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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 17h

reposting from a fave vet friend of mine: theonion.com/bored-nation... spoiler: we don't have any order we need restored, thanks

Bored National Guard Goes Door To Door Asking If Chicagoans Have Any Order They Need Restored

CHICAGO—Unsure where to find the lawlessness and chaos they were told was overtaking the city, National Guard troops deployed to Chicago by President Donald Trump have begun aimlessly going door to do...

theonion.com

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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 20h

chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...

Federal immigration officers wear masks, no name tags — now some drive cars without license plates

The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 21h

Internet connectivity in this entire city is spotty, my friends

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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 21h

hahahaha Chicago is gonna Chicago

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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 22h

People who think this kind of thing will change college students have never met college students

Craig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social · 1d

Bill filed in #Florida Legislature would make every single college & university name one street after Charlie Kirk. And the bill even specifies WHICH street at each one. (But the governor doesn't want streets used for political messages, which is why no rainbows!) www.tallahassee.com/story/news/l...

Bill would make Florida colleges, universities name streets after Charlie Kirk

A new bill would make all of Florida's public state universities and colleges rename one roadway on their campuses after Charlie Kirk.

www.tallahassee.com

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 22h

These are terrible numbers for Trump (via @pewresearch.org)

www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

"Majorities say trump has used his office improperly; fewer say he has improved government, U.S. standing" (graphs via Pew Research)

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Elizabeth Joh @elizabethjoh.bsky.social · 1d

🚨A quarter of all FBI agents have been assigned to immigration enforcement www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

A quarter of FBI agents are assigned to immigration enforcement, per FBI data

Nearly a quarter of FBI agents are currently assigned to immigration enforcement, with the number climbing above 40 percent in the bureau’s largest field offices.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 1d

oh thank god people.com/dolly-parton...

Dolly Parton Says 'I Ain't Dead Yet' as She Gives Health Update After Sister Asked for Prayers: 'Do I Look Sick to You?'

Dolly Parton, 79, addressed concerns about her recent health issues in a video shared to social media on Wednesday, Oct. 8, just one day after her sister Freida told fans she’d been “up all night pray...

people.com

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 1d

Which praise and worship band would Mike Johnson prefer to do the Super Bowl halftime show, wrong answers only

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 1d

President Trump called for the jailing of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Governor JB Pritzker on Truth Social.

The threat comes after Illinois sued the administration on Monday in hopes of halting the troops’ deployment. The National Guard arrived this week nonetheless. trib.al/pXoPcwu

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Jessica Tarlov @jessicatarlov.bsky.social · 1d

Republicans will say he’s just joking. Media will say it’s just Trump. But if it was any other President, we’d taking him seriously, and we should here too.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 1d

name of lizard pls

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

i think it is cool that a government run by fanatical bigots is on track to plunge the economy into a mountain and cause a food crisis

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 2d

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

prospect.org

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 3d

slash pancake house

Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 3d

Oh, for sure.

Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks everybody. I'll explain in the book but basically it was Colorado Denny's

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Louis Römer @lromeranth.bsky.social · 5d

This is basically a sequel to @kathleenbelew.bsky.social "Bringing the War Home"

Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 5d

www.npr.org/2025/09/26/n...

Fired feds, Trump lovers and veterans: Meet the people applying for ICE jobs

At a recent DHS career expo in Provo, Utah, many attendees hoped to get hired to help with the Trump administration's deportation efforts.

www.npr.org

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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 3d

writing q: do people know what Village Inn is? Or do I need to explain

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Arkenor @arkenor.bsky.social · 8d

Coupled with the FBI declaring the ADL a terrorist organisation.

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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 8d

"Globalist" has long been used by the white power movement to signify a Jewish conspiracy to eliminate the white race. It sometimes means something less alarming, like opposing the UN, worrying about cosmopolitanism, etc, but that's not who this meme is for. This meme is bread & butter racism.

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 8d

Last night, the ADL took down its "Glossary of antisemitism" which included an entry for the term "globalist," describing it as a far-right codeword for Jews.

Hours later, the official DHS account authors a post with a common far-right meme, saying that "globalists" will be denied entry to the US.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 8d

I guarantee you there that there is a huge news story behind whoever is running this account, and whoever at the White House put them there. They know what they're doing.

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