Belinda Tan
@belindatan.bsky.social
Happy BTS Year! 💜 My feed, my myriad interests 🙏⚖️🌏🐈☕️🍚📚 badtanline on twt & ig
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So when you see fake influencer accounts from India, Nigeria, even Pakistan, it's still the usual suspects. They're just outsourcing to the most English-speaking countries with cheap, available labor.
Very clear when you go down this list.
Very clear when you go down this list.
November 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
So when you see fake influencer accounts from India, Nigeria, even Pakistan, it's still the usual suspects. They're just outsourcing to the most English-speaking countries with cheap, available labor.
Very clear when you go down this list.
Very clear when you go down this list.
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The reason we learned most X bots are Indian and Nigerian is not because Indians and Nigerians love impersonating Americans.
It's because India and Nigeria have the highest populations of native or near-native English speakers outside the U.S.
Russia and China know this. 🧵
It's because India and Nigeria have the highest populations of native or near-native English speakers outside the U.S.
Russia and China know this. 🧵
Meanwhile on Hellsite, who knew all the Elon bots were Nigerian? 🤡
November 23, 2025 at 3:32 PM
The reason we learned most X bots are Indian and Nigerian is not because Indians and Nigerians love impersonating Americans.
It's because India and Nigeria have the highest populations of native or near-native English speakers outside the U.S.
Russia and China know this. 🧵
It's because India and Nigeria have the highest populations of native or near-native English speakers outside the U.S.
Russia and China know this. 🧵
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Map of the most recent value (top) and long-term time series (bottom) of the 4-year Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) for this region. A devastating hydrological drought set the stage for these fires. #climate
November 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Map of the most recent value (top) and long-term time series (bottom) of the 4-year Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) for this region. A devastating hydrological drought set the stage for these fires. #climate
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By what authority does private citizen Jared Kushner negotiate on behalf of the United States with a sanctioned individual?
Reuters has confirmed that President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and his special envoy Steve Witkoff held a private meeting in Miami with a sanctioned Kremlin proxy to help shape the new "peace plan" for Ukraine. www.reuters.com/world/europe...
www.reuters.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:35 AM
By what authority does private citizen Jared Kushner negotiate on behalf of the United States with a sanctioned individual?
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hahaha i'm sure this isn't a potentially massive problem right hahaha
November 23, 2025 at 2:09 AM
hahaha i'm sure this isn't a potentially massive problem right hahaha
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Daniel Hannan: "No, this is not cost-cutting or isolationism. This is picking a side – Putin’s side. Any pretence at even-handedness has gone. The tragic truth is that, kompromat or no kompromat, Trump is behaving precisely as he would if he were a Russian asset." www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11...
November 23, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Daniel Hannan: "No, this is not cost-cutting or isolationism. This is picking a side – Putin’s side. Any pretence at even-handedness has gone. The tragic truth is that, kompromat or no kompromat, Trump is behaving precisely as he would if he were a Russian asset." www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11...
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The last few hours have proven 2 terrible things. First, the US and Russian governments are so close that the US government takes large parts of Russian proposals and passes them off as their own, and second that some people are so desperate to exonerate Trump that they act like this a good thing.
November 23, 2025 at 2:18 AM
The last few hours have proven 2 terrible things. First, the US and Russian governments are so close that the US government takes large parts of Russian proposals and passes them off as their own, and second that some people are so desperate to exonerate Trump that they act like this a good thing.
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Withholding our own tax dollars from us. Intolerable.
Trump refused to send disaster aid to Chicago after 2 devastating storms
The destruction caused by the summer storms was enough that past presidents likely would have approved requests for federal assistance, former FEMA officials said.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
The destruction caused by the summer storms was enough that past presidents likely would have approved requests for federal assistance, former FEMA officials said.
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Trump refused to send disaster aid to Chicago after 2 devastating storms
The destruction caused by the summer storms was enough that past presidents likely would have approved requests for federal assistance, former FEMA officials said.
www.politico.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Withholding our own tax dollars from us. Intolerable.
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The entire West comes together to reject the Dmiriev 28-point plan to which Trump affixed his name. This would appear to mark the absolute modern low point of US diplomatic influence on he world stage.
November 22, 2025 at 11:19 PM
The entire West comes together to reject the Dmiriev 28-point plan to which Trump affixed his name. This would appear to mark the absolute modern low point of US diplomatic influence on he world stage.
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Mark Zuckerberg, the world's leading human trafficker. He was aware that millions of adult strangers were contacting minors on FB sites; that FB products exacerbated mental health issues in teens; and that content related to eating disorders, suicide, and child sexual abuse was frequently detected.
7 Allegations Against Meta in Newly Unsealed Filings
Court filings allege Meta tolerated sex trafficking, hid harms to teens, and prioritized growth over user safety for years.
time.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Mark Zuckerberg, the world's leading human trafficker. He was aware that millions of adult strangers were contacting minors on FB sites; that FB products exacerbated mental health issues in teens; and that content related to eating disorders, suicide, and child sexual abuse was frequently detected.
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But I tell ya what: I've been speaking with some Ukrainians over the weekend who say that the US cutting off aid would be bad, but not the end of the world. "It's not 2023," they argue. Ukraine is significantly more self-sufficient than it was previously.
November 22, 2025 at 11:22 PM
But I tell ya what: I've been speaking with some Ukrainians over the weekend who say that the US cutting off aid would be bad, but not the end of the world. "It's not 2023," they argue. Ukraine is significantly more self-sufficient than it was previously.
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We're all left doing Kremlinology at a multilateral forum of the NATO alliance which the White House is boycotting, in protest of this supposedly evil globalism.
I have a sneaking suspicion this is the anti-Ukraine/'America First' crowd making a power play to squeeze Rubio into abandoning Kyiv.
I have a sneaking suspicion this is the anti-Ukraine/'America First' crowd making a power play to squeeze Rubio into abandoning Kyiv.
November 22, 2025 at 11:15 PM
We're all left doing Kremlinology at a multilateral forum of the NATO alliance which the White House is boycotting, in protest of this supposedly evil globalism.
I have a sneaking suspicion this is the anti-Ukraine/'America First' crowd making a power play to squeeze Rubio into abandoning Kyiv.
I have a sneaking suspicion this is the anti-Ukraine/'America First' crowd making a power play to squeeze Rubio into abandoning Kyiv.
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So, to recap, Ukraine and Europe understand that America has effectively endorsed a 28-point plan to force Kyiv to capitulate, set a Thursday deadline to accept it, and threatened to cut off all aid.
Now Marco Rubio says it's all wrong, that's not the plan, there's no deadline and no threat.
Now Marco Rubio says it's all wrong, that's not the plan, there's no deadline and no threat.
November 22, 2025 at 11:04 PM
So, to recap, Ukraine and Europe understand that America has effectively endorsed a 28-point plan to force Kyiv to capitulate, set a Thursday deadline to accept it, and threatened to cut off all aid.
Now Marco Rubio says it's all wrong, that's not the plan, there's no deadline and no threat.
Now Marco Rubio says it's all wrong, that's not the plan, there's no deadline and no threat.
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War is the ultimate reality check for people who insulate themselves inside of constructed, false realities of propaganda. Usually when they receive the reality check, very ugly results follow afterwards.
November 22, 2025 at 11:30 PM
War is the ultimate reality check for people who insulate themselves inside of constructed, false realities of propaganda. Usually when they receive the reality check, very ugly results follow afterwards.
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You have to wonder if the strikes on the "drug boats" were just a way to test which generals would follow illegal orders wrt an undeclared war with Venezuela and weed out those who wouldn't.
November 22, 2025 at 10:55 PM
You have to wonder if the strikes on the "drug boats" were just a way to test which generals would follow illegal orders wrt an undeclared war with Venezuela and weed out those who wouldn't.
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I don't think any of the Very Serious People in our society who helped Trump become President understand how dangerous he and his incompetent people will be to the entire world in an actual war
US operations against Venezuela to begin within days.
Covert ops the first move.
Covert ops the first move.
www.reuters.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:54 PM
I don't think any of the Very Serious People in our society who helped Trump become President understand how dangerous he and his incompetent people will be to the entire world in an actual war
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There was civilization in the Americas before the settlers arrived. The other work being performed here is to erase that and present settlement as the arrival of civilization instead of the annihilation of another
Neither Trump, nor half of his cabinet have “ancestors” who were in North America before the revolution. I’d guess that less than half of current US citizens do. “Your ancestors” is doing a lot of implicitly white Christian nationalist work here.
November 22, 2025 at 11:31 PM
There was civilization in the Americas before the settlers arrived. The other work being performed here is to erase that and present settlement as the arrival of civilization instead of the annihilation of another
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Over on X, they just rolled out the public feature that reveals where accounts are located. I've found several major Elon Musk fan accounts that are run out of Africa and two major MAGA accounts are run out of Europe
November 22, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Over on X, they just rolled out the public feature that reveals where accounts are located. I've found several major Elon Musk fan accounts that are run out of Africa and two major MAGA accounts are run out of Europe
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How Steve Witkoff pushed Ukraine sympathizers out of White House, and led the US into Russia's arms kyivindependent.com/exclusive-is...
How Steve Witkoff pushed Ukraine sympathizers out of White House, and led the US into Russia's arms
U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff is running a shadow operation inside the White House in an effort to sideline pro-Ukraine officials, the Kyiv Independent has learned.
Witkoff — a real estate mogul w...
kyivindependent.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:34 PM
How Steve Witkoff pushed Ukraine sympathizers out of White House, and led the US into Russia's arms kyivindependent.com/exclusive-is...
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As Lincoln said, an “electric cord” connects all our successive immigrant generations to the founding principles of human equality and republican government. Commitment to these principles, not blood and soil, make people Americans. www.uvu.edu/ccs/docs/lin...
November 22, 2025 at 11:36 PM
As Lincoln said, an “electric cord” connects all our successive immigrant generations to the founding principles of human equality and republican government. Commitment to these principles, not blood and soil, make people Americans. www.uvu.edu/ccs/docs/lin...
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As a historian, I have been torturing myself by watching some of the series that the White House in cooperation with Hillsdale College produced about American Independence (tellingly, they avoid the word "revolution").
There are so many errors that it is hard to know where to begin. But I'll try
There are so many errors that it is hard to know where to begin. But I'll try
November 22, 2025 at 11:33 PM
As a historian, I have been torturing myself by watching some of the series that the White House in cooperation with Hillsdale College produced about American Independence (tellingly, they avoid the word "revolution").
There are so many errors that it is hard to know where to begin. But I'll try
There are so many errors that it is hard to know where to begin. But I'll try
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Evil by ICE in Charlotte.👇
November 22, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Evil by ICE in Charlotte.👇
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On Tuesday, I was at Immigration Court in my clergy collar. The plainclothes agent on the left got in my face with his phone and snapped a photo I said, “would you like to know my name?” He responded, “no we’ve got facial recognition. We’ve got your name and address.” 🧵
November 22, 2025 at 2:03 AM
On Tuesday, I was at Immigration Court in my clergy collar. The plainclothes agent on the left got in my face with his phone and snapped a photo I said, “would you like to know my name?” He responded, “no we’ve got facial recognition. We’ve got your name and address.” 🧵
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My dispatch from the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv. Russia has destroyed the region's energy infrastructure, bombing sub-stations, and leaving people without heat and in the dark. a sad story, with beautiful chiaroscuro pictures by @alessiomamo.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
‘They decided to kill us with cold’: Ukrainians struggle against Russian assault on power network
Chernihiv residents say they are without power for 14 hours a day as they gather in ‘invincibility points’ to charge up and warm up
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:27 AM
My dispatch from the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv. Russia has destroyed the region's energy infrastructure, bombing sub-stations, and leaving people without heat and in the dark. a sad story, with beautiful chiaroscuro pictures by @alessiomamo.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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Today is Holodomor’s Remembrance Day. 🕯️
Learn a bit more about it and why it matters 👇🏻
Learn a bit more about it and why it matters 👇🏻
The Holodomor was a genocide—a calculated assault by Stalin’s Soviet regime, aimed at eradicating Ukraine’s national identity.
Today, russia’s war against Ukraine continues the same destructive mission. Recognizing this genocide is essential as a stand against ongoing aggression.
Today, russia’s war against Ukraine continues the same destructive mission. Recognizing this genocide is essential as a stand against ongoing aggression.
Holodomor: Stalin’s Genocidal Famine and the War on Ukraine’s Identity
Historical Roots of Anti-Ukrainian Hostility
europeanliberal.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Today is Holodomor’s Remembrance Day. 🕯️
Learn a bit more about it and why it matters 👇🏻
Learn a bit more about it and why it matters 👇🏻