Michelleybellin
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High School history teacher, proud union member, Disney Parks fan, and life long Mainer
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I wish journalists would stop framing political news as wins or losses for politicians or political parties. It’s an abrogation of our mission. Why do we keep doing this? Is the spending bill a win or loss for the American people? Who does it help? Who does it hurt? Is it sound policy? Fiscally?
May 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I wish journalists would stop framing political news as wins or losses for politicians or political parties. It’s an abrogation of our mission. Why do we keep doing this? Is the spending bill a win or loss for the American people? Who does it help? Who does it hurt? Is it sound policy? Fiscally?
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Now we know why he didn’t have his hand on the Bible when he took the Oath of Office.
May 4, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Now we know why he didn’t have his hand on the Bible when he took the Oath of Office.
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The final honor guard for Pope Francis included migrants, prisoners, transgender people, the homeless and others selected by the Vicariate of Rome as a symbol of the late pope’s mission of inclusion and outreach.
Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM
Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM
April 26, 2025 at 12:07 PM
The final honor guard for Pope Francis included migrants, prisoners, transgender people, the homeless and others selected by the Vicariate of Rome as a symbol of the late pope’s mission of inclusion and outreach.
Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM
Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM
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People spend a lot of time wondering why the left is worse at using independent media to control the national narrative.
A useful exercise is to ask why the left is also worse at selling snake oil and pyramid schemes, because I think the reasons are basically exactly the same.
A useful exercise is to ask why the left is also worse at selling snake oil and pyramid schemes, because I think the reasons are basically exactly the same.
April 21, 2025 at 1:31 AM
People spend a lot of time wondering why the left is worse at using independent media to control the national narrative.
A useful exercise is to ask why the left is also worse at selling snake oil and pyramid schemes, because I think the reasons are basically exactly the same.
A useful exercise is to ask why the left is also worse at selling snake oil and pyramid schemes, because I think the reasons are basically exactly the same.
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The dumbest cherry on the tariff sundae.
More in No, Other People:
New poll:
“America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.”
• 80% of Americans agree
• 20% disagree
“I would be better off if I worked in a factory.”
• 25% of Americans agree
• 73% disagree
• 2% currently work in a factory
New poll:
“America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.”
• 80% of Americans agree
• 20% disagree
“I would be better off if I worked in a factory.”
• 25% of Americans agree
• 73% disagree
• 2% currently work in a factory
April 13, 2025 at 6:56 PM
The dumbest cherry on the tariff sundae.
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"I didn't vote for" you did. Sorry. You did. Should have listened to the woke libtards instead of your roided out imaginary friends who told you kids were pooping in kitty litter at school
April 7, 2025 at 2:51 PM
"I didn't vote for" you did. Sorry. You did. Should have listened to the woke libtards instead of your roided out imaginary friends who told you kids were pooping in kitty litter at school
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For the better part of the last decade, a great many people have tried really hard to make Donald Trump make sense in some broader political and historical context. But at the end of the day he's exactly what he appears to be: a rich psycho who's failed at everything in life except self-promotion.
April 7, 2025 at 4:28 PM
For the better part of the last decade, a great many people have tried really hard to make Donald Trump make sense in some broader political and historical context. But at the end of the day he's exactly what he appears to be: a rich psycho who's failed at everything in life except self-promotion.
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The huge baby formula plant whose ’22 closure led to a shortage is failing to properly fix leaks and clean, workers told me.
“I can’t have this on my conscience,” said one, who worries a child will get sick.
Abbott called the workers’ accounts “untrue or misleading.” tinyurl.com/5ybj2k6e
“I can’t have this on my conscience,” said one, who worries a child will get sick.
Abbott called the workers’ accounts “untrue or misleading.” tinyurl.com/5ybj2k6e
Unsanitary Practices Persist at Baby Formula Factory Whose Shutdown Led to Mass Shortages, Workers Say
“Persistent leaks” and “unaddressed contamination issues” are among the problems workers say they witnessed at one of the nation’s largest baby formula plants. “I can’t have this on my conscience,” on...
www.propublica.org
April 4, 2025 at 1:22 PM
The huge baby formula plant whose ’22 closure led to a shortage is failing to properly fix leaks and clean, workers told me.
“I can’t have this on my conscience,” said one, who worries a child will get sick.
Abbott called the workers’ accounts “untrue or misleading.” tinyurl.com/5ybj2k6e
“I can’t have this on my conscience,” said one, who worries a child will get sick.
Abbott called the workers’ accounts “untrue or misleading.” tinyurl.com/5ybj2k6e
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THIS IS A KIDNAPPING. AN ABDUCTION. A DISAPPEARING.
Language matters more than ever.
Language matters more than ever.
Not sure if this has been shared here yet, but this is video of Rumeysa Ozturk's arrest posted by WCVB. It's terrifying.
March 26, 2025 at 5:53 PM
THIS IS A KIDNAPPING. AN ABDUCTION. A DISAPPEARING.
Language matters more than ever.
Language matters more than ever.
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the endgame here is him withholding federal tax dollars from blue states entirely unless they let him personally rewrite all their laws
it is the end of the “states’ rights” conservatives claimed to believe in so fervently in favor of absolute dictatorship
it is the end of the “states’ rights” conservatives claimed to believe in so fervently in favor of absolute dictatorship
Trump says he will withhold federal tax dollars to Maine colleges unless the Gov of Maine personally apologizes to him.
March 22, 2025 at 5:31 PM
the endgame here is him withholding federal tax dollars from blue states entirely unless they let him personally rewrite all their laws
it is the end of the “states’ rights” conservatives claimed to believe in so fervently in favor of absolute dictatorship
it is the end of the “states’ rights” conservatives claimed to believe in so fervently in favor of absolute dictatorship
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1/2 “Each time we show solidarity with others, or support those who are protecting the rule of law, helping the targeted, or exposing the lies and the corruption, we are standing up for democratic values of justice, accountability, equality, and more.”
— Ruth Ben-Ghiat
— Ruth Ben-Ghiat
Why I wrote my new Lucid essay on moral collapse: open.substack.com/pub/lucid/p/...
March 17, 2025 at 3:15 PM
1/2 “Each time we show solidarity with others, or support those who are protecting the rule of law, helping the targeted, or exposing the lies and the corruption, we are standing up for democratic values of justice, accountability, equality, and more.”
— Ruth Ben-Ghiat
— Ruth Ben-Ghiat
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DOGE/SSA marked this person dead and *removed his savings from his bank account,* cancelled his social security and Medicare. #seattle https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/heres-a-dead-person-on-social-security-in-seattle-with-plenty-to-say/
March 15, 2025 at 2:27 PM
DOGE/SSA marked this person dead and *removed his savings from his bank account,* cancelled his social security and Medicare. #seattle https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/heres-a-dead-person-on-social-security-in-seattle-with-plenty-to-say/
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If annexed, the Canadians would not be Democrats.
They would be insurgents.
They would be insurgents.
american journalists have a brain when framing recent us-canada relations challenge (impossible)
March 15, 2025 at 8:56 PM
If annexed, the Canadians would not be Democrats.
They would be insurgents.
They would be insurgents.
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It’s fitting that such a dystopian situation would be brought about by a movement taken with nostalgic fantasies about the joys of beef tallow & trad wives. Back in that imagined, bucolic past with little state or institutional capacity, if your kid got cancer they just died. This is now our future.
This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH
March 15, 2025 at 9:41 PM
It’s fitting that such a dystopian situation would be brought about by a movement taken with nostalgic fantasies about the joys of beef tallow & trad wives. Back in that imagined, bucolic past with little state or institutional capacity, if your kid got cancer they just died. This is now our future.
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Over the next four years, if these absolutely staggering numbers hold, Elon Musk would be responsible for roughly 13 million deaths, or two Holocausts and change. Genuinely monstrous actions
The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought:
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
Killing children is by design, I'm afraid. "Pro-natalists" like Musk claim they aren't racist, but their pressure to have children is solely focused on white women, while they back policies that literally kill of non-white children.
He's a eugenicist.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
He's a eugenicist.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
March 15, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Over the next four years, if these absolutely staggering numbers hold, Elon Musk would be responsible for roughly 13 million deaths, or two Holocausts and change. Genuinely monstrous actions
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I really like her
March 15, 2025 at 10:06 PM
I really like her
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Can’t know specifically why this happened. But the DOGE boys were leafing thru the files and canceling some individual accounts that didn’t look right to them and there have been daily computer crashes at SSA after DOGErs canceled a number of the computer servicing/maintenance contracts
Oklahoma man says Social Security benefits terminated without warning or explanation www.wkrn.com/news/nationa...
Oklahoma man says Social Security benefits terminated without warning or explanation
An Oklahoma City retiree said his Social Security benefits were suspended without warning — and with no explanation given when he reached out. He worries it may have to do with the place he was bor…
www.wkrn.com
March 15, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Can’t know specifically why this happened. But the DOGE boys were leafing thru the files and canceling some individual accounts that didn’t look right to them and there have been daily computer crashes at SSA after DOGErs canceled a number of the computer servicing/maintenance contracts
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American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
March 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
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Former 🇺🇸 ambassador to Russia 👇🏽
March 14, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Former 🇺🇸 ambassador to Russia 👇🏽
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
March 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
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PSA: When media reports on President Trump's expected invocation of Alien Enemies Act, it would be good to remind the reader/listener:
The Act also includes summary deportation of permanent legal residents and other immigrants who are lawfully present as well.
It's that extreme an emergency power.
The Act also includes summary deportation of permanent legal residents and other immigrants who are lawfully present as well.
It's that extreme an emergency power.
March 14, 2025 at 12:36 PM
PSA: When media reports on President Trump's expected invocation of Alien Enemies Act, it would be good to remind the reader/listener:
The Act also includes summary deportation of permanent legal residents and other immigrants who are lawfully present as well.
It's that extreme an emergency power.
The Act also includes summary deportation of permanent legal residents and other immigrants who are lawfully present as well.
It's that extreme an emergency power.
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Arlington National Cemetery has scrubbed information about prominent Black, Hispanic and female service members and topics such as the Civil War from its website, part of an effort across the Defense Department to remove all references to diversity, equity and inclusion from its online presence.
Arlington Cemetery website scrubs links about Black and female veterans
Pentagon leaders have ordered that their websites and social media pages remove articles and images that “promote” DEI.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Arlington National Cemetery has scrubbed information about prominent Black, Hispanic and female service members and topics such as the Civil War from its website, part of an effort across the Defense Department to remove all references to diversity, equity and inclusion from its online presence.