Shel B ⚓
@morevertmorefun.bsky.social
~Trying to praise the mutilated world
~Autism mom
~Travel, art, & nature lover
~Quote Accumulator
~Chaser of beauty
~Photos mine
~Autism mom
~Travel, art, & nature lover
~Quote Accumulator
~Chaser of beauty
~Photos mine
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Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
December 4, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
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The Sunflowers (August–September 1888) were painted to brighten Gauguin’s bedroom.
The painting was both a welcome gift and a test of the expressive potential of the color yellow.
The painting was both a welcome gift and a test of the expressive potential of the color yellow.
December 3, 2025 at 6:47 AM
The Sunflowers (August–September 1888) were painted to brighten Gauguin’s bedroom.
The painting was both a welcome gift and a test of the expressive potential of the color yellow.
The painting was both a welcome gift and a test of the expressive potential of the color yellow.
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“If they can do this to George, they can do this to anyone.”
ICE brutally arrested and illegally detained George Retes, an American citizen and Army veteran.
Learn more about how we are elevating his story here:
ICE brutally arrested and illegally detained George Retes, an American citizen and Army veteran.
Learn more about how we are elevating his story here:
WATCH: The Veteran Who ICE Abducted — and Is Fighting Back
Here’s how we’re counter-programming DHS’s propaganda ads.
newsletter.ofthebrave.org
December 3, 2025 at 2:01 PM
“If they can do this to George, they can do this to anyone.”
ICE brutally arrested and illegally detained George Retes, an American citizen and Army veteran.
Learn more about how we are elevating his story here:
ICE brutally arrested and illegally detained George Retes, an American citizen and Army veteran.
Learn more about how we are elevating his story here:
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“A recent lawsuit claims leaders of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California, ignored repeated warnings about child sexual abuse and domestic violence and pressured a mother to keep her children in harm’s way.”
The details are so disturbing.
julieroys.com/grace-commun...
The details are so disturbing.
julieroys.com/grace-commun...
Lawsuit: Grace Community Church Pressured Mother to Return Children to Alleged Abuser and Rebuked Her for Reporting to Police
A lawsuit claims Grace Community Church ignored warnings of child sexual abuse, pressuring a mother to keep children with an abusive father.
julieroys.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:11 PM
“A recent lawsuit claims leaders of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California, ignored repeated warnings about child sexual abuse and domestic violence and pressured a mother to keep her children in harm’s way.”
The details are so disturbing.
julieroys.com/grace-commun...
The details are so disturbing.
julieroys.com/grace-commun...
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Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
November 23, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
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NEW: ICE has finally released post-shutdown detention data. The latest data reveals that a full 40%(!) of people arrested in the interior and held in ICE detention have no criminal record; no criminal charges or prior convictions. That is up from just 4% when Trump took office.
November 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
NEW: ICE has finally released post-shutdown detention data. The latest data reveals that a full 40%(!) of people arrested in the interior and held in ICE detention have no criminal record; no criminal charges or prior convictions. That is up from just 4% when Trump took office.
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After Fox News’ pollsters found that Trump’s job approval had plummeted, the network buried the results while puffing up the president as the “ultimate dealmaker” who is doing “incredible things” and promising that “the whole world” will soon “come kiss the ring of the king.”
Fox News hid its brutal Trump job approval number from viewers — while showering him with praise
www.mediamatters.org
November 20, 2025 at 6:01 PM
After Fox News’ pollsters found that Trump’s job approval had plummeted, the network buried the results while puffing up the president as the “ultimate dealmaker” who is doing “incredible things” and promising that “the whole world” will soon “come kiss the ring of the king.”
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Trump trying to change the conversation about his relationship with a notorious pedophile by suggesting a group of Democrats should be hung is next level disgraceful.
November 20, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Trump trying to change the conversation about his relationship with a notorious pedophile by suggesting a group of Democrats should be hung is next level disgraceful.
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NEWS: During a hearing in federal court in VA, prosecutors confirmed that the operative indictment in the case against James Comey was never shown to or voted on by the entire grand jury before it was presented in open court.
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
November 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM
NEWS: During a hearing in federal court in VA, prosecutors confirmed that the operative indictment in the case against James Comey was never shown to or voted on by the entire grand jury before it was presented in open court.
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
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Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
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NEW: President Trump mentioned over 1,000 times in Epstein files, more than anyone else. (gift) www.miamiherald.com/article31290...
Epstein files reveal his obsession with Trump
The president is mentioned over a thousand times in sex trafficker’s emails
www.miamiherald.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:15 PM
NEW: President Trump mentioned over 1,000 times in Epstein files, more than anyone else. (gift) www.miamiherald.com/article31290...
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Newly-released Jeffrey Epstein emails have prompted Donald Trump and his allies to update their defense of the president—but their new narrative makes no more sense than their old one did, @jonathanbchait.bsky.social argues.
Wait, Are the Epstein Files Real Now?
The White House’s responses get curiouser and curiouser.
bit.ly
November 13, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Newly-released Jeffrey Epstein emails have prompted Donald Trump and his allies to update their defense of the president—but their new narrative makes no more sense than their old one did, @jonathanbchait.bsky.social argues.
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Yes there's a lot of denial, but I've seen it: when it snaps, it snaps hard.
"Powerful men covered up child sex abuse" isn't outlandish when you've seen that happen in church, boy scouts, school athletics, and every other social pillar of your conservative middle-class life in the past few decades.
"Powerful men covered up child sex abuse" isn't outlandish when you've seen that happen in church, boy scouts, school athletics, and every other social pillar of your conservative middle-class life in the past few decades.
November 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Yes there's a lot of denial, but I've seen it: when it snaps, it snaps hard.
"Powerful men covered up child sex abuse" isn't outlandish when you've seen that happen in church, boy scouts, school athletics, and every other social pillar of your conservative middle-class life in the past few decades.
"Powerful men covered up child sex abuse" isn't outlandish when you've seen that happen in church, boy scouts, school athletics, and every other social pillar of your conservative middle-class life in the past few decades.
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Van Gogh sometimes painted halos of light.
They weren’t religious symbols but expressions of intensity—his way of showing the eternal through color.
They weren’t religious symbols but expressions of intensity—his way of showing the eternal through color.
November 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Van Gogh sometimes painted halos of light.
They weren’t religious symbols but expressions of intensity—his way of showing the eternal through color.
They weren’t religious symbols but expressions of intensity—his way of showing the eternal through color.
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Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
November 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
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The AP tracked down details of some of the people killed in President Trump's military strikes on drug smugglers he describes as narco-terrorists.
They were, with one exception, not high-level criminals. One was a fisherman. One was a bus driver; another a taxi driver.
apnews.com/article/trum...
They were, with one exception, not high-level criminals. One was a fisherman. One was a bus driver; another a taxi driver.
apnews.com/article/trum...
November 7, 2025 at 3:18 PM
The AP tracked down details of some of the people killed in President Trump's military strikes on drug smugglers he describes as narco-terrorists.
They were, with one exception, not high-level criminals. One was a fisherman. One was a bus driver; another a taxi driver.
apnews.com/article/trum...
They were, with one exception, not high-level criminals. One was a fisherman. One was a bus driver; another a taxi driver.
apnews.com/article/trum...
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The Trump administration has abandoned its commitment to an equitable education for all children, Pepper Stetler argues. But this attack isn’t new—Congress has been weakening the transformative law that governs education for disabled students for decades:
The Slow Death of Special Education
The government has abandoned its commitment to an equitable education for all children—if it ever had one.
bit.ly
November 3, 2025 at 12:15 AM
The Trump administration has abandoned its commitment to an equitable education for all children, Pepper Stetler argues. But this attack isn’t new—Congress has been weakening the transformative law that governs education for disabled students for decades:
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Due to the ongoing government shutdown, SNAP is set to run out of money for the first time in its history. “It’s not that the administration can’t pay up” to fill the gap—“it’s that it has chosen not to,” @willgottsegen.com argues in The Atlantic Daily.
The Deadline for a Major Shutdown Casualty
Roughly 42 million Americans may not get their SNAP benefits on Saturday.
bit.ly
October 29, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Due to the ongoing government shutdown, SNAP is set to run out of money for the first time in its history. “It’s not that the administration can’t pay up” to fill the gap—“it’s that it has chosen not to,” @willgottsegen.com argues in The Atlantic Daily.
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A male Wood Duck with the light bringing out the colors in his fancy mullet. These ducks are my favorite waterfowl to photograph.
September 30, 2025 at 11:09 PM
A male Wood Duck with the light bringing out the colors in his fancy mullet. These ducks are my favorite waterfowl to photograph.
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Two months before Calvin Alexander’s parole hearing date, he was told he was no longer eligible.
Why? An algorithm had deemed the nearly blind 70-year-old, who uses a wheelchair, a “moderate risk,” barring him from speaking to the parole board.
(Published April w/ @veritenews.org)
Why? An algorithm had deemed the nearly blind 70-year-old, who uses a wheelchair, a “moderate risk,” barring him from speaking to the parole board.
(Published April w/ @veritenews.org)
An Algorithm Deemed This Nearly Blind 70-Year-Old Prisoner a “Moderate Risk.” Now He’s No Longer Eligible for Parole.
A Louisiana law cedes much of the power of the parole board to an algorithm that bars thousands of prisoners from a shot at early release. Civil rights attorneys say it could disproportionately harm B...
www.propublica.org
October 1, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Two months before Calvin Alexander’s parole hearing date, he was told he was no longer eligible.
Why? An algorithm had deemed the nearly blind 70-year-old, who uses a wheelchair, a “moderate risk,” barring him from speaking to the parole board.
(Published April w/ @veritenews.org)
Why? An algorithm had deemed the nearly blind 70-year-old, who uses a wheelchair, a “moderate risk,” barring him from speaking to the parole board.
(Published April w/ @veritenews.org)
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What a line from the Pope! I am so pleased he is carrying on Pope Francis’ advocacy for immigrants.
October 1, 2025 at 3:04 AM
What a line from the Pope! I am so pleased he is carrying on Pope Francis’ advocacy for immigrants.
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“Now that President Donald Trump is perverting the Justice Department into an instrument of political persecution, jury nullification may be one of the only mechanisms that everyday Americans have to protect the rule of law,” Adam Serwer argues:
How Ordinary Americans Can Stop Trump’s Revenge Spree
The Founders intended jury nullification to be a tool to resist tyranny.
bit.ly
September 29, 2025 at 8:30 PM
“Now that President Donald Trump is perverting the Justice Department into an instrument of political persecution, jury nullification may be one of the only mechanisms that everyday Americans have to protect the rule of law,” Adam Serwer argues:
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A Red-winged Blackbird wearing a small stick on his noggin. Very fashion forward.
September 23, 2025 at 8:40 PM
A Red-winged Blackbird wearing a small stick on his noggin. Very fashion forward.
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The VA is down 600 doctors and about 1,900 nurses so far this year, the first time the agency has seen net losses in years.
At several facilities, more than a third of the positions for doctors are unfilled.
By @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social @vernalcoleman.bsky.social @ericumansky.bsky.social
At several facilities, more than a third of the positions for doctors are unfilled.
By @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social @vernalcoleman.bsky.social @ericumansky.bsky.social
Veterans’ Care at Risk Under Trump as Hundreds of Doctors and Nurses Reject Working at VA Hospitals
Amid concerns about the stability of the agency, records show nearly 40% of the doctors offered jobs at the VA from January through March of this year turned them down — quadruple the rate of rejectio...
www.propublica.org
September 19, 2025 at 1:30 AM
The VA is down 600 doctors and about 1,900 nurses so far this year, the first time the agency has seen net losses in years.
At several facilities, more than a third of the positions for doctors are unfilled.
By @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social @vernalcoleman.bsky.social @ericumansky.bsky.social
At several facilities, more than a third of the positions for doctors are unfilled.
By @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social @vernalcoleman.bsky.social @ericumansky.bsky.social
"...professional medical organizations are among the most trustworthy sources for vaccine information right now... Medical organizations form their recommendations based on their review of the scientific evidence, not the CDC’s"...
www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/...
www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/...
Who to Trust If You Can’t Trust the CDC
No American institution is equipped to replace the agency. But a few trusted resources can help.
www.theatlantic.com
September 18, 2025 at 4:35 AM
"...professional medical organizations are among the most trustworthy sources for vaccine information right now... Medical organizations form their recommendations based on their review of the scientific evidence, not the CDC’s"...
www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/...
www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/...