Joy Blakeslee
jblakeslee.bsky.social
Joy Blakeslee
@jblakeslee.bsky.social
Author of Ama Adhe, The Voice thar Remembers: the heroic story of a woman's fight to free Tibet. Researched Chinese labor camps for nearly a decade. Former teacher. animal/nature lover, butterfly and native plant gardener. PLEASE no DMs unless I know you.
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States Rights ?!? Senate Republicans want stricter rules pertaining to Hyde Amendment, in exchange for ACA funding.

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Congress faces yet another standoff, as Rat Republicans demand cuts to women’s health care in exchange for extending the ACA. They’re attempting to block blue states from using their OWN funds to sup...
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November 12, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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And as things fell apart, nobody paid much attention.- Talking Heads

Pic of the day

#photography
November 11, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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October 20, 2025 at 4:09 AM
These are the Young Republicàns who think gas chambers are cool.
November 11, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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November 5, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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November 5, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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November 8, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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November 10, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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November 10, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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This likely won’t be the last intelligence sharing suspension we see over this - based on the publicly available evidence, these strikes don’t come close to meeting the threshold for deadly force.
November 11, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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November 3, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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More than 100 nations were poised last month to approve a historic deal to slash pollution from cargo ships. That’s when the United States launched a pressure campaign that officials around the world have called extraordinary, even by the standards of the Trump administration
November 10, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Federal Judge Mark L. Wolf accused Trump of weaponizing the Justice Department against political opponents in an op-ed on Sunday.
Reagan-Appointed Judge Issues Brutal Condemnation of Donald Trump
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November 9, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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“I no longer can bear to be restrained by what judges can say publicly or do outside the courtroom,” Judge Mark L. Wolf writes on his decision to resign from the federal bench. “President Trump is using the law for partisan purposes”:
https://theatln.tc/MHDWR78I
November 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Judge Mark L. Wolf penned an op-ed explaining his decision.
Reagan-Appointed Judge Steps Down to Slam Trump’s ‘Assault on Rule of Law’
Judge Mark L. Wolf penned an op-ed explaining his decision.
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November 9, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Many in Trump’s administration now live on military bases, to shield themselves from the majority of Americans they are screwing over in favor of the oligarchs.

Many Republicans won’t do town halls.

They avoid the citizenry because they’ve stopped serving them.

We deserve much better.
November 8, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Trump the scammer has and is ripping America for all it can offer
Trump has attended his second extravagant party at Mar-a-Lago in a week as tens of thousands of federal employees go without pay, leaving some of them, and many more Americans, to turn to food banks amid the longest government shutdown in history.
Trump gorges while Americans starve.
November 9, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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If you step back and look, trump simply decided NOT to fund the SNAP program, which feeds millions of kids, seniors, and ENLISTED FAMILIES, just because he's a sadistic fucking asshole, and 219 gop Representatives and 53 gop Senators just...go along with it.

They're doing the same with the ACA.
November 9, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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Donald Trump's authoritarianism is happening in plain sight.
November 9, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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November 23, 2024 at 7:47 PM
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Thanks to Trump and the Supreme Court, no Latino is free from illegal harassment and arrest.
November 8, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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ICE should have to file a report every time they pull their guns and point them a persons.
November 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM