Lisa Ballard
basilleaf.bsky.social
Lisa Ballard
@basilleaf.bsky.social
Free Palestine 🇵🇸 she/her
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#ICE #Gestapo #Trump

People die when municipal cops do these things - but severely untrained Nazi feds with a lot of shiny, expensive, destructive toys?

It’s been a recipe for absolute disaster, & we see endless footage like this DAILY.

They pepper sprayed a 1 year old BABY near me.

End this.
ICE break down bedroom door—point guns at mother & 4 U.S. citizen children.

Agents drag mother by her hair & aim rifle at 13-year-old daughter—yell "Put your hands up, stupid!"

Didn't show any ID or warrant before breaking in—were looking for a cousin who hadn't lived there in 2 years
November 24, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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White *Christian nationalism, with the white Republican Jesus who hates poor people & sick people & brown people & women etc.

It’s a cult.

A really dumb, racist, destructive doomsday cult.
November 24, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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Amazing story, state legislator and Turning Points USA leader who crusaded against bogus voter fraud claims pleads guilty to attempted election fraud. azmirror.com/briefs/turni...
Turning Point leader, former GOP Rep pleads guilty to attempted election fraud | Arizona Mirror
Austin Smith election fraud guilty plea: Former GOP Rep admits forging 100+ signatures on ballot petitions in Arizona
azmirror.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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I don't know what even the point of arguing with these people is anymore, but the idea that "the crime gene" had been weeded out by 19th-20th century Europe is something you have to be a genuine imbecile to believe.
musk agreeing with an explicitly eugenicist post
November 24, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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It's really hard to defend government, vital services, or city councils using Facebook as their primary *or only* channel of communication with the people those institutions purport to serve.
It’s really hard to defend industry academic collaborations with meta as earnest, if they’re internally burying evidence of harm.

www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
November 23, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Happy Holidays! ALL Haymarket Books are 40% off through January 2nd!
November 21, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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these people basically just take luxury government jets and go to fancy events like make a wish kids while their minions flashbang your elderly neighbors
November 23, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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no one has even bothered trying to convince us there’s a threat from Venezuela. no weapons of mass destruction. nothing. just a war of choice because why not.
US operations against Venezuela to begin within days.

Covert ops the first move.
www.reuters.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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“AI workers said they distrust the models they work on because of a consistent emphasis on rapid turnaround time at the expense of quality.”
Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI
When the people making AI seem trustworthy are the ones who trust it the least, it shows that incentives for speed are overtaking safety, experts say
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Mission accomplished.
Trump in a room with a very charismatic person results in like half a day of Trump agreeing with everything that person said, so this has the potential to be very, very funny.
Trump says he’s meeting with “communist” Mamdani at the White House on Friday
November 21, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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one of the underrated factors for the rise in scamming across U.S. society is the death of local media.
It gets lost in the shuffle, but the Speaker of the House is someone who, by all rights, should’ve had his career ended a decade ago by a Shreveport TV news investigative team.
Fond memories of that time Mike Johnson was president of a local law school that never opened its doors, in part because it was attached to a Baptist college that was losing its accreditation, and in part because it was always a scam from the start
November 21, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Anyone still unconvinced that the US government is currently run by a bunch of white supremacists?
Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols.

The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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A world without transgender people has never existed and never will.

To all transgender people out there: You are not alone.
November 20, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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This shit is delightful
November 20, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Musk's Grokipedia is a cesspool of white supremacist and Neo Nazi garbage. Cornell researchers: xAI's Grokipedia cites neo-Nazi website Stormfront 42 times, Infowars 34 times, and white nationalist website VDare 107 times
Elon Musk’s Grokipedia cites Stormfront — a neo-Nazi forum — dozens of times, study finds
An analysis by researchers at Cornell University is the first comprehensive look at Grokipedia since Musk launched his project last month.
www.nbcnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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“For years, those on the radical left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis and the world's worst mass murderers and criminals. This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we're seeing in our country today, and it must stop right now.” —trump two months ago
Insanity
November 20, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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This is a real image of a real thing that exists in the universe! And because a bunch of humans decided to get together and build a space telescope, we get to see it! 🤯
November 20, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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These are shells of dust coming off a pair of tightly bound stars, newly imaged by #JWST.

There is such beauty in the universe.
November 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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A free and insubordinate press.
November 18, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Literally LOL'ed
BREAKING: In a 2-1 decision, the three-judge panel in Texas has blocked the state's new congressional map and ordered the state to use the 2021 map for next's year's midterms.

Opinion here:

drive.google.com/file/d/1Af-Q...

#txlege
November 18, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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New photos have shown the scale of destruction at the White House after Trump tore down the East Wing for his $300 million ballroom.
See Every Angle of Trump’s Jaw-Dropping White House Teardown
New photos emerge as Trump hints that more demolitions are on the way.
trib.al
November 14, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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I still can’t believe this motherfucker tore down the East Wing.
November 17, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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"Agencies within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including ICE, ERO, and CBP intend to implement a comprehensive plan to target Spanish-speaking churches across the country during the upcoming holiday season between Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, and Christmas, Dec. 25."
Exclusive: Trump DHS Plans Immigration Raids on Churches Over Holidays
The Trump Dept. of Homeland Security is briefing federal agencies on plans for immigration enforcement operations inside churches over holidays.
thisweekinworcester.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:12 AM