Kelsey Beltz
@kelseybeltz.bsky.social
American in the EU, working on democratizing access to power. Basically all the things that guy from that other platform is working to reverse. All opinions here are my own.
Sorry but why the hell does Bret Stephens still write for The New York Times? There’s a difference between an opinion piece and complete, dangerous idiocy. A line all American media is treading thinly at this point.
July 23, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Sorry but why the hell does Bret Stephens still write for The New York Times? There’s a difference between an opinion piece and complete, dangerous idiocy. A line all American media is treading thinly at this point.
I would ban AI and never use DeepL again simply to get the White House Instagram account images down
July 12, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I would ban AI and never use DeepL again simply to get the White House Instagram account images down
Home for the first time in two years. As we were landing, the French woman next to me asked “why is the sky orange?”
Wildfires are burning the national park near my hometown with 0% contained
We have fires every year but lack of snowfall is amplifying them
Climate change is real, everyone
Wildfires are burning the national park near my hometown with 0% contained
We have fires every year but lack of snowfall is amplifying them
Climate change is real, everyone
July 11, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Home for the first time in two years. As we were landing, the French woman next to me asked “why is the sky orange?”
Wildfires are burning the national park near my hometown with 0% contained
We have fires every year but lack of snowfall is amplifying them
Climate change is real, everyone
Wildfires are burning the national park near my hometown with 0% contained
We have fires every year but lack of snowfall is amplifying them
Climate change is real, everyone
For a second I thought we
might have a few with a spine, but alas
might have a few with a spine, but alas
July 3, 2025 at 8:16 AM
For a second I thought we
might have a few with a spine, but alas
might have a few with a spine, but alas
This article is a masterclass in what’s happening with American politics re: migration
Demonizing the “other” until you realize it’s someone you care about and it’s too late
No GoFundMe or t shirt is going to solve this. You voted to deport your neighbor.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/u...
Demonizing the “other” until you realize it’s someone you care about and it’s too late
No GoFundMe or t shirt is going to solve this. You voted to deport your neighbor.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/u...
A Missouri Town Was Solidly Behind Trump. Then Carol Was Detained.
www.nytimes.com
May 29, 2025 at 7:38 AM
This article is a masterclass in what’s happening with American politics re: migration
Demonizing the “other” until you realize it’s someone you care about and it’s too late
No GoFundMe or t shirt is going to solve this. You voted to deport your neighbor.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/u...
Demonizing the “other” until you realize it’s someone you care about and it’s too late
No GoFundMe or t shirt is going to solve this. You voted to deport your neighbor.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/u...
This is horrific. So many migrants I have worked with who came through Libya had clear signs of torture and assault. We cannot just detain people in third countries, where are the judges?
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/u...
Trump Administration Plans to Send Migrants to Libya on a Military Flight
www.nytimes.com
May 7, 2025 at 7:05 AM
This is horrific. So many migrants I have worked with who came through Libya had clear signs of torture and assault. We cannot just detain people in third countries, where are the judges?
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/u...
I would rather have dirty streets than have the world’s loudest street cleaning van go by my window at 7 am every Sunday and Monday. Because once your cat is up, you are up.
April 21, 2025 at 5:16 AM
I would rather have dirty streets than have the world’s loudest street cleaning van go by my window at 7 am every Sunday and Monday. Because once your cat is up, you are up.
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I started excerpting this harrowing ProPublica article, but I couldn’t do it justice. It deserves to be read from start to finish.
Please take the time.
This is a national scandal.
www.propublica.org/article/rume...
Please take the time.
This is a national scandal.
www.propublica.org/article/rume...
American Rendition: Rümeysa Öztürk’s Journey From Ph.D. Scholar to Trump Target Languishing in Louisiana Cell
“So horrifying and so heartbreaking”: Öztürk’s close friend provides an intimate look into one of the hundreds of foreign students who have had their visas revoked — and in dozens of instances have be...
www.propublica.org
April 14, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I started excerpting this harrowing ProPublica article, but I couldn’t do it justice. It deserves to be read from start to finish.
Please take the time.
This is a national scandal.
www.propublica.org/article/rume...
Please take the time.
This is a national scandal.
www.propublica.org/article/rume...
Reposted by Kelsey Beltz
Fighting Back: A Citizen’s Guide to Resistance newrepublic.com/article/1931... via @newrepublic.com
Fighting Back: A Citizen’s Guide to Resistance
Ordinary people have more power than they know.
newrepublic.com
April 4, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Fighting Back: A Citizen’s Guide to Resistance newrepublic.com/article/1931... via @newrepublic.com
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Lemme know when the stock market hits 1929!
(rimshot)
(cow moo)
(old-timey car horn)
(boooooing! noise)
(edge of the sky cracking open to let in spectral ice-spiders)
(rimshot)
(cow moo)
(old-timey car horn)
(boooooing! noise)
(edge of the sky cracking open to let in spectral ice-spiders)
April 4, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Lemme know when the stock market hits 1929!
(rimshot)
(cow moo)
(old-timey car horn)
(boooooing! noise)
(edge of the sky cracking open to let in spectral ice-spiders)
(rimshot)
(cow moo)
(old-timey car horn)
(boooooing! noise)
(edge of the sky cracking open to let in spectral ice-spiders)
Everything I’ve learned about the stock market has been against my own will yet still I could have told you this would happen
April 4, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Everything I’ve learned about the stock market has been against my own will yet still I could have told you this would happen
Filibustering is so uniquely American and the only reason I would ever want to run for office (I don’t). I can yap all day, all night. I would drive them insane.
April 2, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Filibustering is so uniquely American and the only reason I would ever want to run for office (I don’t). I can yap all day, all night. I would drive them insane.
It absolutely does. Especially when you can use tools to turn the protest into concrete demands and action.
Does protesting make a difference? A pep talk for the weary.
Does protesting make a difference?
We owe the next generation a willingness to stand up for their rights as those before us stood up for ours.
melissatuckey.substack.com
April 2, 2025 at 5:42 AM
It absolutely does. Especially when you can use tools to turn the protest into concrete demands and action.
Thank you Cory Booker for speaking up (for 19 hours!!)
I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.
April 2, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Thank you Cory Booker for speaking up (for 19 hours!!)
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So on brand for The Times to help whip up the victimhood of the right, rather than calling it what it is…
Criminal abuse of power. A corrupt politician being found guilty in a court of law.
Judges did their job. Le Pen muzzled herself. She is responsible for her own demise. Democracy is safer today.
Criminal abuse of power. A corrupt politician being found guilty in a court of law.
Judges did their job. Le Pen muzzled herself. She is responsible for her own demise. Democracy is safer today.
April 1, 2025 at 6:50 AM
So on brand for The Times to help whip up the victimhood of the right, rather than calling it what it is…
Criminal abuse of power. A corrupt politician being found guilty in a court of law.
Judges did their job. Le Pen muzzled herself. She is responsible for her own demise. Democracy is safer today.
Criminal abuse of power. A corrupt politician being found guilty in a court of law.
Judges did their job. Le Pen muzzled herself. She is responsible for her own demise. Democracy is safer today.
Outraged at what is happening to students in America but grateful at the community leadership we’ve been building as Fletcher
We, members of the Tufts community, are appalled and enraged by the unlawful abduction on Tufts PhD Fulbright student Rümeysa Öztürk by federal authorities. We call on the Tufts administration to commit to defending our community against continued targeted attacks.
Read: tinyurl.com/LetterTufts
Read: tinyurl.com/LetterTufts
Tufts community calls the Tufts administration to action
Circulated on March 27, 2025 at 10:55am EST. This petition was written by a network of Tufts alumni spanning over a decade of graduating classes, including both international and US domestic individua...
tinyurl.com
April 1, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Outraged at what is happening to students in America but grateful at the community leadership we’ve been building as Fletcher
Remember that no matter how badly you mess up at work this week, at least you did not accidentally leak a war plan to a leading journalist
March 25, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Remember that no matter how badly you mess up at work this week, at least you did not accidentally leak a war plan to a leading journalist
The weight of the world on federal judges right now, I hope someone is at least buying them dinners
March 21, 2025 at 7:49 AM
The weight of the world on federal judges right now, I hope someone is at least buying them dinners
Imagine if this man was our VP. Imagine how much better my sleep schedule would be.
Walz: "I think we have to assume the very worst in everything this administration does, and we need to prepare for it."
March 21, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Imagine if this man was our VP. Imagine how much better my sleep schedule would be.
I need the tech bros to calm down with fascism because if I have to download one more app to discuss things confidentially I’m going to explode.
Or start penning letters and throwing them at pigeons, who definitely won’t deliver them safely.
Or start penning letters and throwing them at pigeons, who definitely won’t deliver them safely.
March 14, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I need the tech bros to calm down with fascism because if I have to download one more app to discuss things confidentially I’m going to explode.
Or start penning letters and throwing them at pigeons, who definitely won’t deliver them safely.
Or start penning letters and throwing them at pigeons, who definitely won’t deliver them safely.
Can we put Musk in the next rocket please.
March 7, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Can we put Musk in the next rocket please.
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We are all in the debris field of a SpaceX mishap
March 7, 2025 at 12:32 AM
We are all in the debris field of a SpaceX mishap
Reposted by Kelsey Beltz
I feel like making art is a form of resistance.
Because as long as you’re making something beautiful, you’re not letting the regime steal your joy.
Because as long as you’re making something beautiful, you’re not letting the regime steal your joy.
March 3, 2025 at 2:42 AM
I feel like making art is a form of resistance.
Because as long as you’re making something beautiful, you’re not letting the regime steal your joy.
Because as long as you’re making something beautiful, you’re not letting the regime steal your joy.
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I’m still processing what we saw in the Oval Office and it’s difficult to put into words how disgusted and ashamed I am.
This was a coordinated assault on an ally to benefit a dictator and authoritarian regime. Trump and Vance aren’t just Putin’s puppets, they’re his assets.
This was a coordinated assault on an ally to benefit a dictator and authoritarian regime. Trump and Vance aren’t just Putin’s puppets, they’re his assets.
February 28, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I’m still processing what we saw in the Oval Office and it’s difficult to put into words how disgusted and ashamed I am.
This was a coordinated assault on an ally to benefit a dictator and authoritarian regime. Trump and Vance aren’t just Putin’s puppets, they’re his assets.
This was a coordinated assault on an ally to benefit a dictator and authoritarian regime. Trump and Vance aren’t just Putin’s puppets, they’re his assets.