AJ Mirabelle
@ajmirabelle.bsky.social
Dogs, politics, social issues. Good in small doses. LGBTQIA & BLM ally. There will be cussing. Blocks malicious ignorance.
Colorado blue. Don't have words big enough to express how much I loathe what's coming & the people who've enabled it.
Colorado blue. Don't have words big enough to express how much I loathe what's coming & the people who've enabled it.
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AJ Mirabelle
@ajmirabelle.bsky.social
· Feb 6
Gonna keep saying this over & over bc people need to soak this into their core...
Live your values.
Where you spend your money,
What you watch on TV,
What you wear,
Who you celebrate.
It's the greatest power you'll have for the foreseeable future.
Live your values, so you can live with yourself.
Live your values.
Where you spend your money,
What you watch on TV,
What you wear,
Who you celebrate.
It's the greatest power you'll have for the foreseeable future.
Live your values, so you can live with yourself.
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$937,989.39: That's the amount of the penalty owed by Trump and Alina Habba, according to a new appeals court decision, which upheld a 2023 ruling that Trump and Habba committed "sanctionable conduct" by filing a "frivolous" lawsuit against Hillary Clinton and James Comey.
November 27, 2025 at 12:05 AM
$937,989.39: That's the amount of the penalty owed by Trump and Alina Habba, according to a new appeals court decision, which upheld a 2023 ruling that Trump and Habba committed "sanctionable conduct" by filing a "frivolous" lawsuit against Hillary Clinton and James Comey.
I hate it when this happens 😭
ok it is time for me to hibernate for the season
i am thankful for all of u keeping me company here on the blue sky during this year
be well
i am thankful for all of u keeping me company here on the blue sky during this year
be well
November 27, 2025 at 3:37 AM
I hate it when this happens 😭
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Gotta love how Ryan Lizza is farming engagement and hustling for subscribers to his Substack by drip-drip-dripping his Olivia Nuzzi story, complete with cliffhangers.
I think we can all concur that there are no heroes in this entire saga, right?
I think we can all concur that there are no heroes in this entire saga, right?
November 27, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Gotta love how Ryan Lizza is farming engagement and hustling for subscribers to his Substack by drip-drip-dripping his Olivia Nuzzi story, complete with cliffhangers.
I think we can all concur that there are no heroes in this entire saga, right?
I think we can all concur that there are no heroes in this entire saga, right?
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The last few years have been an endless series of “somebody could have done something heroic yet did the exact opposite instead.”
yeah it’s bad that Lizza has been sitting on this for so long but also how cursory and inept was that Vox investigation that not only managed to miss the biggest scandal in the history of American political journalism but affirmatively exonerated her bsky.app/profile/bkel...
So the editor of New York Magazine said there was no bias or ethical problems with Olivia's articles?
Does he still think that?
They should retract all of her stories
Does he still think that?
They should retract all of her stories
November 26, 2025 at 10:59 PM
The last few years have been an endless series of “somebody could have done something heroic yet did the exact opposite instead.”
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Hey, congratulations to all of Olivia Nuzzi’s horny media critic defenders. Heckuva job!
November 26, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Hey, congratulations to all of Olivia Nuzzi’s horny media critic defenders. Heckuva job!
The first 4 decades of my life the top GOP platform item was the spread/defense of democracy globally.
Now its literally just Trump fealty.
Very weird.
Now its literally just Trump fealty.
Very weird.
It's not just that the United States has stopped trying to promote liberal democratic ideas internationally. It's that the United States is actively trying to promote the contrary. It's trying to turn more countries into Hungary.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
U.S. to Press Europe and Other Allies on ‘Mass Migration,’ Document Says
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:30 AM
The first 4 decades of my life the top GOP platform item was the spread/defense of democracy globally.
Now its literally just Trump fealty.
Very weird.
Now its literally just Trump fealty.
Very weird.
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Anyway, Nuzzi is going to milk this latest set of gross revelations for all it’s worth, parlaying it into more insipid fawning coverage on her I’m-not-sorry-but-this-is-a-redemption-tour gig.
She’s basically a less charming George Santos.
She’s basically a less charming George Santos.
Nuzzi is like Trump in this sense: the worst thing about America is not that someone that awful exists, the worst thing is that much of the press promotes and normalizes it for clicks.
November 27, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Anyway, Nuzzi is going to milk this latest set of gross revelations for all it’s worth, parlaying it into more insipid fawning coverage on her I’m-not-sorry-but-this-is-a-redemption-tour gig.
She’s basically a less charming George Santos.
She’s basically a less charming George Santos.
Me: w/ MS who spent a month sick & has hated fruit since I was a baby.
Mom: gourmet cook who went to urgent care YEST w/ a terrible respiratory infection- "Thanksgiving is still on, look at this massive, fancy fruit thing I've made for dessert. Don't you want to come?"
Somethings never change.😂
Mom: gourmet cook who went to urgent care YEST w/ a terrible respiratory infection- "Thanksgiving is still on, look at this massive, fancy fruit thing I've made for dessert. Don't you want to come?"
Somethings never change.😂
November 27, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Me: w/ MS who spent a month sick & has hated fruit since I was a baby.
Mom: gourmet cook who went to urgent care YEST w/ a terrible respiratory infection- "Thanksgiving is still on, look at this massive, fancy fruit thing I've made for dessert. Don't you want to come?"
Somethings never change.😂
Mom: gourmet cook who went to urgent care YEST w/ a terrible respiratory infection- "Thanksgiving is still on, look at this massive, fancy fruit thing I've made for dessert. Don't you want to come?"
Somethings never change.😂
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The judge mentions Trump‘s bizarre and subsequently deleted Truth Social post - an apparently mistaken attempt to direct message his Attorney General - but I can’t find any other reference to it.
November 24, 2025 at 6:12 PM
The judge mentions Trump‘s bizarre and subsequently deleted Truth Social post - an apparently mistaken attempt to direct message his Attorney General - but I can’t find any other reference to it.
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The place-based specificity of tactics matters for our analyses and we should be cataloguing it.When the history of current social movmts is written, it will be a major characteristic.How translocalization is a dominant tactic when the federal govt is the object of resistance rather than appeal.
Charlotte activists met the immigration crackdown with ‘bless your heart’ resistance
ICE and CBP’s North Carolina operation faced an early-warning system run by thousands of volunteers
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:21 PM
The place-based specificity of tactics matters for our analyses and we should be cataloguing it.When the history of current social movmts is written, it will be a major characteristic.How translocalization is a dominant tactic when the federal govt is the object of resistance rather than appeal.
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Every Democrat in Congress should put out a video saying troops have an obligation to refuse unlawful orders. Make them prosecute all of you. This isn't a close call.
I'd add Republicans too if I thought any of them had the courage to actually cross Trump on this.
I'd add Republicans too if I thought any of them had the courage to actually cross Trump on this.
Hegseth is now threatening to recall Sen. Mark Kelly to active duty in order to court martial him.
November 24, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Every Democrat in Congress should put out a video saying troops have an obligation to refuse unlawful orders. Make them prosecute all of you. This isn't a close call.
I'd add Republicans too if I thought any of them had the courage to actually cross Trump on this.
I'd add Republicans too if I thought any of them had the courage to actually cross Trump on this.
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This is very moving. Messages to a Pennsylvania congresswoman and former Air Force officer who is among the six Democrats being attacked by Trump and his henchmen for telling troops they should not obey illegal orders.
Fear is contagious, but so is courage. I remain steadfast in my oath to the Constitution and am grateful to those across the nation who stand with us. Don't give up the ship.
November 24, 2025 at 6:20 PM
This is very moving. Messages to a Pennsylvania congresswoman and former Air Force officer who is among the six Democrats being attacked by Trump and his henchmen for telling troops they should not obey illegal orders.
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Holy shit
The DOJ ordered US Marshals to the house of the pardon attorney who refused to sign off on a pardon to give Mel Gibson back his guns. Big law firms told her they supported her but did not want to be seen representing her.
This is the use of government-sponsored fear to silence dissent.
This is the use of government-sponsored fear to silence dissent.
November 17, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Holy shit
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Help Slate track the "Medicare isn't government" meme. share.google/uriimE9xT7eM...
Help Slate track the "Medicare isn't government" meme.
"Keep your government hands off my Medicare." It was funny the first two or three times this angry citizen's cry against health reform got...
share.google
November 11, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Help Slate track the "Medicare isn't government" meme. share.google/uriimE9xT7eM...
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According to the car wash owner, agents arrested employees before they could obtain their documentation from their work lockers. So many were likely here legally.
Here's hoping this article on Zac boasting about how he ruined some immigrants' lives follows him around for a very long time.
Here's hoping this article on Zac boasting about how he ruined some immigrants' lives follows him around for a very long time.
BU College Republicans president says he called ICE to ‘detain these criminals’ at Allston Car Wash
The president of Boston University College Republicans wrote on X he called the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement requesting it detain employees at Allston Car Wash, the site of a Nov. 4 raid w...
dailyfreepress.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:03 PM
According to the car wash owner, agents arrested employees before they could obtain their documentation from their work lockers. So many were likely here legally.
Here's hoping this article on Zac boasting about how he ruined some immigrants' lives follows him around for a very long time.
Here's hoping this article on Zac boasting about how he ruined some immigrants' lives follows him around for a very long time.
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The worst honeypot since that Madison Cawthorn lady from St. Petersburg.
November 10, 2025 at 11:19 PM
The worst honeypot since that Madison Cawthorn lady from St. Petersburg.
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Vance is an A+ student of Trump's dog whistling. And he's especially expert in what Ian Haney López calls "racial theater," where he uses racist provocations to label his critics "the real bigots."
His key Senate ad from 2022 was pretty much nothing but this.
His key Senate ad from 2022 was pretty much nothing but this.
November 11, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Vance is an A+ student of Trump's dog whistling. And he's especially expert in what Ian Haney López calls "racial theater," where he uses racist provocations to label his critics "the real bigots."
His key Senate ad from 2022 was pretty much nothing but this.
His key Senate ad from 2022 was pretty much nothing but this.
I haven't heard bs like this since the Reagan years. I mean Repubs always believed this crap but as far as just blurting out the total bigotry bs, I dont think its been this obnoxious 40 years.
Trump claims that food stamps "puts the country in jeopardy. People that are able-bodied can do a job, they leave their job because they figure they can pick this up, it's easier."
November 11, 2025 at 1:07 AM
I haven't heard bs like this since the Reagan years. I mean Repubs always believed this crap but as far as just blurting out the total bigotry bs, I dont think its been this obnoxious 40 years.
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Ok. To all of you who think those eight did a public service, bless your hearts. To the rest, my heart is with you. Good night.
November 10, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Ok. To all of you who think those eight did a public service, bless your hearts. To the rest, my heart is with you. Good night.
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The pardons are primarily symbolic: No one on the list has been charged with federal crimes, and Trump can't pardon those facing state charges in GA, AZ, NV and WI.
But it's another effort by Trump to recast the history of his bid to seize a second term in 2020. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
But it's another effort by Trump to recast the history of his bid to seize a second term in 2020. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 10, 2025 at 6:00 AM
The pardons are primarily symbolic: No one on the list has been charged with federal crimes, and Trump can't pardon those facing state charges in GA, AZ, NV and WI.
But it's another effort by Trump to recast the history of his bid to seize a second term in 2020. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
But it's another effort by Trump to recast the history of his bid to seize a second term in 2020. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Schumer: the most powerful and simultaneously the most disappointing Democrat in D.C.
November 10, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Schumer: the most powerful and simultaneously the most disappointing Democrat in D.C.
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Shaheen is retiring. Hassan, 67, is the other Senator from NH. King, 81, from Maine, is an independent who usually caucuses with Dems.
So, three Senators, two of which are so old as to be/should be retiring, from the whitest states in the country are defying the House...for what exactly?
So, three Senators, two of which are so old as to be/should be retiring, from the whitest states in the country are defying the House...for what exactly?
"More than enough" Senate Democratic Caucus members to pass shutdown deal led by Shaheen, King and Hassan, source familiar with deal says
- CR through Jan. 30
- ACA bill vote on bill of Dems' choosing in December
- Minibus has RIF reversals and "protections" against them in future
- CR through Jan. 30
- ACA bill vote on bill of Dems' choosing in December
- Minibus has RIF reversals and "protections" against them in future
November 10, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Shaheen is retiring. Hassan, 67, is the other Senator from NH. King, 81, from Maine, is an independent who usually caucuses with Dems.
So, three Senators, two of which are so old as to be/should be retiring, from the whitest states in the country are defying the House...for what exactly?
So, three Senators, two of which are so old as to be/should be retiring, from the whitest states in the country are defying the House...for what exactly?
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Fighting hard on a Sunday to take food from the poor, but you know, very strongly Christian.
November 9, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Fighting hard on a Sunday to take food from the poor, but you know, very strongly Christian.
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So having created the problem, they now want to pretend they give a damn about solving it by making sure millions go without any access to affordable healthcare at all. Between Medicaid cuts and refusal to extend enhances subsidies, they're killing Americans. Or starving them. Pick your poison.
November 9, 2025 at 6:35 PM
So having created the problem, they now want to pretend they give a damn about solving it by making sure millions go without any access to affordable healthcare at all. Between Medicaid cuts and refusal to extend enhances subsidies, they're killing Americans. Or starving them. Pick your poison.