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Bellison22
@bellison22.bsky.social
NC Democrat News & politics.
BlueSky Resistance Contact
Fighting the hostile takeover.
I appreciate humor especially sarcasm.
Scrappy.

my page/former biz...
Re-Scape Inspired Recycling
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The Epstein files must be released. @frost.house.gov is working with his colleagues to ensure that happens. Watch his full interview with Jen Rubin on Substack
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/new-epstein-emails-air-traffic-jams
November 13, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Lady Gaga tells Rolling Stone that ‘Mayhem’ could not exist without the past versions of herself:

“What would 'Mayhem' sound like if I hadn’t become a jazz singer? What would it have sounded like if I hadn’t made 'Artpop'?”

Read the cover story: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
November 13, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Supporters of the decision say it "reaffirms" legal rights and precedent.
"Love won again": Supreme Court reject case seeking to overturn gay marriage ruling - Salon.com
SCOTUS denied a petition seeking to rehash the Obergefell v. Hodges decision.
www.salon.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Cool, challenge Schumer for his position then @chrismurphyct.bsky.social.
In response to this claim that the "strategy didn't work."

The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting.

And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.
November 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Ghislaine Maxwell's special treatment in her Club Fed prison is revealed; Dems cave on the shutdown; MAGA Mike won't commit to a vote on ACA subsidies; Trump's bizarre Oval Office moment; and more. Watch the MeidasTouch Podcast at 8p ET/5p PT!
LIVE: MeidasTouch RESPONDS to MAJOR BREAKING NEWS - 11/10/25
YouTube video by MeidasTouch
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November 11, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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DC federal judge blocks Trump administration from using furloughed employee email accounts to send partisan messages about government shutdown

Judge says administration “commandeered” email accounts of federal civil servants

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Memorandum & Opinion – #25 in AMERICAN FEDERATION OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES v. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION (D.D.C., 1:25-cv-03553) – CourtListener.com
MEMORANDUM OPINION regarding 24 Order granting Plaintiff's 9 Motion for Summary Judgment, denying Defendants' 15 Cross-Motion for Summary Judgment. See full Memorandum Opinion for details. Signed by J...
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November 7, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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he is just not into you buddy
 Canadian multimillionaire and Shark Tank guy Kevin O'Leary went on TV to say he's upset Zohran won't talk to him: "I and others who invest in real estate have tried to get a meeting to figure out what's rhetoric and what's policy. So far for me it's been crickets."
November 7, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Crockett: Why don't you at least try to look like you're serious about your job and look like you are doing the work of the people and not look like a petulant child and swear her in.
November 8, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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I described the entire GOP as vapor locked at this point. They've been conditioned to only do what Donald wants but Donald is pretty much non-functioning now.
So Trump and the GOP, fresh off a massive electoral rout, are digging in behind starving people and kicking millions off health care? Make it make sense
November 8, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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At this point, I only hope that I will live long enough to be partially fluent. But yeah, I’m keeping at it.

My October Portuguese Progress update. It ain't pretty. But it's not hopeless.

barbaragrassey.substack.com/p/october-up...
October Update Portuguese Progress
My progress has slowed down and that's partly on me. But I think it's also because I am swimming in deeper waters. That's my excuse anyway...
barbaragrassey.substack.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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I've started a SubStack publication for people who are interested in writing a memoir.

People think a memoir has to be this BIG THING. I say, start simply.

Memoir or Autobiography or Family History? No matter what, it starts with writing something down. writeamemoir.substack.com/p/what-is-a-...
November 5, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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For two decades, Paul Newby has pushed to make judicial elections in North Carolina explicitly partisan and consistently backed initiatives by Republican lawmakers to strip power away from North Carolina’s governor.

By @dougbockclark.bsky.social
“Biblical Justice, Equal Justice, for All”: How North Carolina’s Chief Justice Transformed His State and America
Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well be...
www.propublica.org
November 8, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Neil Gorsuch welcome to the resistance #crookedcon2025
November 7, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Trump confronted on his Thanksgiving prices lies, scolded reporters mid-tantrum with Orban looking on, and capped it off with more corrupt pardons. Meanwhile, Dems call the GOP's shutdown bluff, and much more. Full Bulletin out now.
Today in Politics, Bulletin 245. 11/7/25
… Trump FINALLY got confronted today by the FACT that the Walmart Thanksgiving dinner he keeps citing to prove prices are down is only because his comparison from last year contained FEWER items, of l...
www.meidasplus.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Rep. LaMonica McIver on being charged with “beating up” ICE officers almost 2 weeks after touring a facility. #crookedcon2025
November 7, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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How did President Obama’s surprise at #crookedcon2025 come about? It started with a quiet message from his team. It ended with 3,000 screaming libs and a front row one foot away from a former president.
November 7, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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The Flex Loan, a new type of payday loan pioneered by Advance Financial in Tennessee, allows residents to borrow up to $4,000 at a 279.5% interest rate.

It has burdened low-income borrowers while generating huge profits for lenders.

(Published May with @tennesseelookout.com)
This Lender Said Its Loans Would Help Tennesseans. It Has Sued More Than 110,000 of Them.
The Flex Loan, a type of payday loan pioneered by Advance Financial, has burdened low-income borrowers while generating huge profits for lenders. Tennessee lawmakers declined to rein in the lending bu...
www.propublica.org
November 8, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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Trump to Americans right now
November 8, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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And that’s a wrap on Crooked Con! We’re simultaneously exhausted AND energized??? Thanks to everyone who came out!

Catch up on everything you missed at #crookedcon2025 at crookedcon.com/program
November 8, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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Judge Immergut rules against the administration in the Portland Nat’l Guard case, granting a permanent injunction even after giving Trump’s decision “great deference.”
November 8, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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BREAKING: Federal Judge Immergut in Portland rules Trump admin CANNOT deploy National Guard to Oregon. Grants state & city a PERMANENT injunction, barring troops indefinitely.
November 8, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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Have a sudden Spicy Italian craving...
November 7, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Heritage president Kevin Roberts is on the board of a nonprofit (SLI) led by Nate Fischer who separately launched a venture in 2023 w/ Raw Egg Nationalist who “has a history of posting swastikas & other Nazi imagery,” which Fischer has called “ironic trolling” rather than “genuine Nazi belief” 1/
November 7, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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🚨BREAKING: Arizona Court of Appeals AFFIRMS dismissal of a lawsuit by Mohave County Supervisor Ron Gould seeking to force full hand counts. Court holds that Gould lacked standing.

Another big victory for my law firm, its clients and the voters of Arizona. www.democracydocket.com/cases/arizon...
🚨 Gould v. Mayes
Read about the latest voting rights victory in Gould v. Mayes.
www.democracydocket.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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“.. I don’t want to hear about the affordability.”

- 11/06/25
November 7, 2025 at 1:18 AM