The Belfabulous
@belfebe.bsky.social
Account of Laura Martinez-Ortega. Border town girl in the US Capital. Retired anti-corruption lawyer, unknown author. Writes weird stories. Sometimes with ducks. #NetworkNova #WritingCommunity #SistersinCrime.
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The boat wasn’t headed to the U.S., which we would have learned with a little due process instead of murder. www.cnn.com/2025/12/05/p...
Exclusive: Boat at center of double-tap strike controversy was meeting vessel headed to Suriname, admiral told lawmakers | CNN Politics
The alleged drug traffickers killed by the US military in a strike on September 2 were heading to link up with another, larger vessel that was bound for Suriname — a small South American country east ...
www.cnn.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:48 PM
The boat wasn’t headed to the U.S., which we would have learned with a little due process instead of murder. www.cnn.com/2025/12/05/p...
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Solidarity is at the heart of our union. When our co-workers are being targeted by ICE simply for our race, languages we speak, or where we work, we’re all speaking out! Racial profiling has no place in our communities.
December 6, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Solidarity is at the heart of our union. When our co-workers are being targeted by ICE simply for our race, languages we speak, or where we work, we’re all speaking out! Racial profiling has no place in our communities.
West Virginians question National Guard deployments after attack on 2 of their own - NPR
December 6, 2025 at 7:21 PM
West Virginians question National Guard deployments after attack on 2 of their own - NPR
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NEW: The IG report on SignalGate is out. Hegseth sent classified information out on an unclassified Signal chat and put our troops in harms way. Hegseth says he retroactively "declassified" it so it doesn't count. You can read the findings here: media.defense.gov/2025/Dec/04/...
media.defense.gov
December 4, 2025 at 4:53 PM
NEW: The IG report on SignalGate is out. Hegseth sent classified information out on an unclassified Signal chat and put our troops in harms way. Hegseth says he retroactively "declassified" it so it doesn't count. You can read the findings here: media.defense.gov/2025/Dec/04/...
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🧊🛩️ HEADS UP MARYLAND‼️
ICE Air inbound to BWI
🔸 Coast Guard C-27J
Tail: 2706 – ETA 12:20pm 👀
ICE Air inbound to BWI
🔸 Coast Guard C-27J
Tail: 2706 – ETA 12:20pm 👀
December 4, 2025 at 3:18 PM
🧊🛩️ HEADS UP MARYLAND‼️
ICE Air inbound to BWI
🔸 Coast Guard C-27J
Tail: 2706 – ETA 12:20pm 👀
ICE Air inbound to BWI
🔸 Coast Guard C-27J
Tail: 2706 – ETA 12:20pm 👀
It’s a barrage of news and outrage every day, every waking moment. But it’s good to stop a bit and ask questions.
The DC Shooting: A Fiction Writer Has Questions
You can't make this stuff up
open.substack.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:09 PM
It’s a barrage of news and outrage every day, every waking moment. But it’s good to stop a bit and ask questions.
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You’re surprised that a page called “Gen Z’s Guide to Project 2025” just outlines what Project 2025 says?
If you want to know what we stand for, look at our policy platform. It’s not hard to find.
votersoftomorrow.org/issues
If you want to know what we stand for, look at our policy platform. It’s not hard to find.
votersoftomorrow.org/issues
votersoftomorrow.org/issue/projec...
Notice that the page on trans issues is just listing project 2025's goals and then asking for a donation. From before the election
It does not actually propose anything in response, and it doesn't list any accomplishments such as "we fought to defend ____" etc.
Notice that the page on trans issues is just listing project 2025's goals and then asking for a donation. From before the election
It does not actually propose anything in response, and it doesn't list any accomplishments such as "we fought to defend ____" etc.
December 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
You’re surprised that a page called “Gen Z’s Guide to Project 2025” just outlines what Project 2025 says?
If you want to know what we stand for, look at our policy platform. It’s not hard to find.
votersoftomorrow.org/issues
If you want to know what we stand for, look at our policy platform. It’s not hard to find.
votersoftomorrow.org/issues
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While we were sleeping, a huge ruling:
Federal judge blocks the Trump administration from warrantless immigration arrests in Washington, D.C. “without a pre-arrest individualized determination … of probable cause.”
She addresses Kavanaugh stops head on.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Federal judge blocks the Trump administration from warrantless immigration arrests in Washington, D.C. “without a pre-arrest individualized determination … of probable cause.”
She addresses Kavanaugh stops head on.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
![Excerpt from ruling:
“Bluntly put, why the Court ruled as it did remains unclear-and without reasoning,
this order cannot even be considered as persuasive. Second, Justice Kavanaugh's conclusion that the plaintiffs lacked standing in Perdomo rested on the claims asserted in that case specifically, plaintiffs there sought to enjoin defendants from targeting individuals for immigration stops based on certain factors, such as race or ethnicity, their accent, and the type of work they did. Id. Justice Kavanaugh reasoned that plaintiffs in Perdomo likely lacked standing under Lyons, as defendants may "stop suspected illegal immigrants based on a variety of factors," and thus "plaintiffs ha[d] no good basis to believe that law enforcement will unlawfully stop them in the future" based "only on [prohibited] factors." Id. at *3 (emphases in original). In contrast, this case concerns an entirely different context, namely, civil immigration arrests rather than immigration stops, which were at issue in Perdomo, and a different type of challenge. Specifically, plaintiffs are not arguing which factors defendants may consider in their application of a legal standard, but rather contend that defendants have abandoned the proper legal standard entirely. See Pls.' Reply at 8. Thus, Justice Kavanaugh's concurrence in Perdomo, to the extent it has persuasive, let alone controlling, authority, is inapposite.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jech7rem6vijss4euf4fijao/bafkreidy2tm2mkrt4kkxcnhlmc6uess22cabrg7b5juyauqoolvoqd7teu@jpeg)
December 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM
While we were sleeping, a huge ruling:
Federal judge blocks the Trump administration from warrantless immigration arrests in Washington, D.C. “without a pre-arrest individualized determination … of probable cause.”
She addresses Kavanaugh stops head on.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Federal judge blocks the Trump administration from warrantless immigration arrests in Washington, D.C. “without a pre-arrest individualized determination … of probable cause.”
She addresses Kavanaugh stops head on.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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MN folk, beware -- ICE is now impersonating Uber drivers, according to Minneapolis city council member Jason Chavez in a Facebook post.
if yall see something, call the monarca hotline. you can find it, along with legal observer trainings, here - monarcamn.org/training
if yall see something, call the monarca hotline. you can find it, along with legal observer trainings, here - monarcamn.org/training
December 2, 2025 at 5:35 PM
MN folk, beware -- ICE is now impersonating Uber drivers, according to Minneapolis city council member Jason Chavez in a Facebook post.
if yall see something, call the monarca hotline. you can find it, along with legal observer trainings, here - monarcamn.org/training
if yall see something, call the monarca hotline. you can find it, along with legal observer trainings, here - monarcamn.org/training
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Spotted today in DC 😢
December 1, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Spotted today in DC 😢
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Look at the crowd of volunteers! Go get those votes! @aftynbehn.bsky.social
Meet new people & help ensure a fighter like @aftynbehn.bsky.social gets to DC? Love it!
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Anyone, anywhere can help , 1 conversation at a time - that's the power of WE THE PEOPLE‼️
More ways to volunteer in #TN07 like @engageyall.bsky.social & virtually
🤳🏽 tinyurl.com/TNVolunteerhub
LFG & #FlipTN07!
Anyone, anywhere can help , 1 conversation at a time - that's the power of WE THE PEOPLE‼️
November 29, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Look at the crowd of volunteers! Go get those votes! @aftynbehn.bsky.social
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NYC: ICE is staging at Centre and Howard St. Get down there if you can.
Happening now near Canal Street, federal agents had been staging inside a fed owned parking garage, now being confronted by a group of protesters. masked agents are looking on from above.
November 29, 2025 at 5:08 PM
NYC: ICE is staging at Centre and Howard St. Get down there if you can.
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New Yorkers BLOCK ICE from leaving their parking garage ahead of a flopped mass raid attempt on Canal Street
November 29, 2025 at 4:39 PM
New Yorkers BLOCK ICE from leaving their parking garage ahead of a flopped mass raid attempt on Canal Street
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An ICE deportation flight (EAL8280) that departed Phoenix, AZ is en route to Venezuela today—the 73rd flight since February of this year. U.S. deportation flights to Venezuela continue at a biweekly pace despite escalating tensions.
November 28, 2025 at 9:22 AM
An ICE deportation flight (EAL8280) that departed Phoenix, AZ is en route to Venezuela today—the 73rd flight since February of this year. U.S. deportation flights to Venezuela continue at a biweekly pace despite escalating tensions.
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ICE garage blockaded in lower Manhattan with dozens of agents stuck inside as more and more New Yorkers gather.
NYPD observed staging on Canal & Broadway, expected come over for crowd control.
NYPD observed staging on Canal & Broadway, expected come over for crowd control.
November 29, 2025 at 4:49 PM
ICE garage blockaded in lower Manhattan with dozens of agents stuck inside as more and more New Yorkers gather.
NYPD observed staging on Canal & Broadway, expected come over for crowd control.
NYPD observed staging on Canal & Broadway, expected come over for crowd control.
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Watch this video before you do your Black Friday shopping on Amazon.
November 28, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Watch this video before you do your Black Friday shopping on Amazon.
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November 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Stephen Miller’s ancestors were Jewish refugees from the pogroms in czarist Russia. They came to the U.S. in the early twentieth century, even as racists said this same stuff about them.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Stephen Miller’s ancestors were Jewish refugees from the pogroms in czarist Russia. They came to the U.S. in the early twentieth century, even as racists said this same stuff about them.
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November 25, 2025
November 25, 2025
Last week, a poll conducted for Global EV Alliance, made up of electric vehicle driver associations around the world, found that 52% of Americans would avoid buying a Tesla for political reasons.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:59 AM
November 25, 2025
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What are your favorites?
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What are your favorites?
Drop your favorite local shops below—let’s boost the folks who actually show up for us. I’m skipping Target, Amazon, and Home Depot and putting my cash where community lives. Our dollars are leverage. Let’s use them like it. #WeAintBuyingIt
November 28, 2025 at 12:26 PM
The Folded Leaf, Cedar, MI
The Cherry Republic, Glen Arbor, MI
Dana Fear Jewelry, Cedar, MI
What are your favorites?
The Cherry Republic, Glen Arbor, MI
Dana Fear Jewelry, Cedar, MI
What are your favorites?
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A reminder: Trump 1.0 ordered the Afghanistan withdrawal, and Trump 2.0 granted the shooter asylum this past April. Trump 2.0 also dismantled the joint terrorism task force, and gutted our national security apparatus.
CIA statement about the Afghan man identified as the gunman who shot two National Guardsmen in Washington
November 27, 2025 at 6:59 PM
A reminder: Trump 1.0 ordered the Afghanistan withdrawal, and Trump 2.0 granted the shooter asylum this past April. Trump 2.0 also dismantled the joint terrorism task force, and gutted our national security apparatus.
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As holiday travel picks up, we have heard reports of travelers being detained by DHS.
If you are a NY-14 constituent worried about detention, consider filling out an ICE privacy release form. This form allows my office to contact ICE on your behalf ⬇️
bit.ly/dhsprivacyform
If you are a NY-14 constituent worried about detention, consider filling out an ICE privacy release form. This form allows my office to contact ICE on your behalf ⬇️
bit.ly/dhsprivacyform
DHS Privacy Release Form
If you or a loved one has an open order of removal or are worried about getting picked up by ICE, consider filling out this
bit.ly
November 26, 2025 at 6:08 PM
As holiday travel picks up, we have heard reports of travelers being detained by DHS.
If you are a NY-14 constituent worried about detention, consider filling out an ICE privacy release form. This form allows my office to contact ICE on your behalf ⬇️
bit.ly/dhsprivacyform
If you are a NY-14 constituent worried about detention, consider filling out an ICE privacy release form. This form allows my office to contact ICE on your behalf ⬇️
bit.ly/dhsprivacyform
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🧊✈️ ECUADOR ⛓️😲
👉 A GlobalX jet (tail: N277GX) departs Louisiana to transport chained humans to Guayaquil 🇪🇨
👉 A GlobalX jet (tail: N277GX) departs Louisiana to transport chained humans to Guayaquil 🇪🇨
November 25, 2025 at 1:08 PM
🧊✈️ ECUADOR ⛓️😲
👉 A GlobalX jet (tail: N277GX) departs Louisiana to transport chained humans to Guayaquil 🇪🇨
👉 A GlobalX jet (tail: N277GX) departs Louisiana to transport chained humans to Guayaquil 🇪🇨
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I’m done funding cruelty. Target cuts DEI, Amazon bankrolls this administration, and Home Depot lets ICE terrorize workers on their lots.
My money stays with small shops and people-first businesses. How about you? #WeAintBuyingIt
My money stays with small shops and people-first businesses. How about you? #WeAintBuyingIt
November 24, 2025 at 9:44 PM
I’m done funding cruelty. Target cuts DEI, Amazon bankrolls this administration, and Home Depot lets ICE terrorize workers on their lots.
My money stays with small shops and people-first businesses. How about you? #WeAintBuyingIt
My money stays with small shops and people-first businesses. How about you? #WeAintBuyingIt
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Since Bovino left it seems every day or every other day I hear of someone abducted by ICE agents. It’s slower, less flashy, but still happening.
“Rey Wences, senior director of deportation defense at the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, noted that “abductions” continue happening “every day in both the city and the suburbs.”
November 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Since Bovino left it seems every day or every other day I hear of someone abducted by ICE agents. It’s slower, less flashy, but still happening.