Violetta Bellocchio
@callgenova.bsky.social
STUDIO PRIVATO, 66th and 2nd, 2025
ELECTRA, il Saggiatore, 2024 / Emons Edizioni 2024
Active under the pen name "Barbara Genova", 2021 / 2024.
Linktr.ee/barbaragenova
ELECTRA, il Saggiatore, 2024 / Emons Edizioni 2024
Active under the pen name "Barbara Genova", 2021 / 2024.
Linktr.ee/barbaragenova
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Cosa facciamo insieme quest'anno?
Tornare nel mondo emerso dopo aver buttato fuori tre libri miei uno dietro l'altro è una grossa soddisfazione. Vediamo che posso fare con voi.
violettabellocchio.substack.com
Aver pubblicato due libri in un anno (e rivisto la nuova edizione del titolo che esce in primavera) mi mette nella posizione di aver "detto abbastanza" per un po' e ho un bisogno inumano di tornare a insegnare: eccoci.
violettabellocchio.substack.com/p/cosa-facci...
violettabellocchio.substack.com/p/cosa-facci...
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Alex Pretti grew up in Green Bay, Wisconsin, where he played football, baseball and ran track for Preble High School. He was a Boy Scout and sang in the Green Bay Boy Choir.
apnews.com/article/immi...
apnews.com/article/immi...
The man killed by a US Border Patrol officer in Minneapolis was an ICU nurse, family says
Family members say the man who was killed by a federal officer in Minneapolis was an intensive care nurse at a U.S.
apnews.com
January 25, 2026 at 12:57 AM
Alex Pretti grew up in Green Bay, Wisconsin, where he played football, baseball and ran track for Preble High School. He was a Boy Scout and sang in the Green Bay Boy Choir.
apnews.com/article/immi...
apnews.com/article/immi...
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I use this analogy all of the time, but it's like getting 10 installments deep into a Friday the 13th marathon and saying "I didn't realize Jason was so violent."
January 25, 2026 at 12:58 PM
I use this analogy all of the time, but it's like getting 10 installments deep into a Friday the 13th marathon and saying "I didn't realize Jason was so violent."
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Federal agents kill again; gunmen still at large: defector.com/federal-agen...
Federal Agents Kill Again; Gunmen Still At Large | Defector
On Saturday in Minneapolis, federal agents surrounded 37-year-old Veterans Affairs intensive care nurse Alex Jeffrey Pretti, who’d been filming them in the street with his phone camera as they conduct...
defector.com
January 25, 2026 at 1:24 PM
Federal agents kill again; gunmen still at large: defector.com/federal-agen...
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I know it’s controversial but I will always side with “why should we change the idealistic symbols, they’re the ones who suck.”
Minnesotans are showing the soul of the United States to the world.
January 25, 2026 at 12:25 AM
I know it’s controversial but I will always side with “why should we change the idealistic symbols, they’re the ones who suck.”
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I don’t know, I’m actually here and I strongly disagree? I talked to people personally who were thrilled at the notion of rioting. A tiny number, but that’s all it takes - one man with an umbrella, even. Rioting would be ruinous and the risk must be taken seriously. Meanwhile this is all ICE’s fault
Or that there wasn't a riot happening at all before the NG showed up. What was actually happening was a general strike and citizens actively and nonviolently resisting ICE thugs. There is no reason to send the NG at all unless it's to stop ICE, and that's not at all what they're here for.
January 25, 2026 at 1:49 PM
I don’t know, I’m actually here and I strongly disagree? I talked to people personally who were thrilled at the notion of rioting. A tiny number, but that’s all it takes - one man with an umbrella, even. Rioting would be ruinous and the risk must be taken seriously. Meanwhile this is all ICE’s fault
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If this is what they do when they're out on the street with people pointing cameras at them, what do you think is happening inside the ICE prison camps that they keep denying Members of Congress access to?
January 25, 2026 at 7:20 AM
If this is what they do when they're out on the street with people pointing cameras at them, what do you think is happening inside the ICE prison camps that they keep denying Members of Congress access to?
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The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.
January 25, 2026 at 4:26 AM
The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.
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Don't underestimate the vile, rank, racist lies of JD Vance. Remember, he was the one who amplified the blatantly false, hateful story about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio eating the pets of their neighbors-a canard tore the city apart
It's now very clear that JD Vance is consciously taking on the role of putting a softer face on Stephen Miller's fascism. Vance is becoming chief propagandist for ICE's violent paramilitary warfare against Americans.
Some thoughts on that in this piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2056...
Some thoughts on that in this piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2056...
January 24, 2026 at 2:04 PM
Don't underestimate the vile, rank, racist lies of JD Vance. Remember, he was the one who amplified the blatantly false, hateful story about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio eating the pets of their neighbors-a canard tore the city apart
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Matt Taibbi testified under oath about a government-funded academic cabal that censored millions using AI and secret portals, led by a "secret CIA agent." After subpoenaed emails and work products emerged, every claim collapsed.
@noupside.bsky.social
@noupside.bsky.social
No, There Never Was a Biden Censorship-Industrial Complex
The real threat to free speech is MAGA officials using this conspiracy to justify their own censorship
www.theunpopulist.net
January 21, 2026 at 3:00 AM
Matt Taibbi testified under oath about a government-funded academic cabal that censored millions using AI and secret portals, led by a "secret CIA agent." After subpoenaed emails and work products emerged, every claim collapsed.
@noupside.bsky.social
@noupside.bsky.social
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This man is talking about stealing a country at gunpoint from nations the US is allied with. Of course Europeans hate us. You would feel the same way if you were in their place. American voters put this man in power, he didn’t seize it this time.
January 21, 2026 at 2:10 PM
This man is talking about stealing a country at gunpoint from nations the US is allied with. Of course Europeans hate us. You would feel the same way if you were in their place. American voters put this man in power, he didn’t seize it this time.
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This is what they said about him then. This is what they say about us now. This is who they always have been.
January 19, 2026 at 6:09 PM
This is what they said about him then. This is what they say about us now. This is who they always have been.
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what a fucking time to be alive
Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell
YouTube video by Federal Reserve
www.youtube.com
January 12, 2026 at 12:48 AM
what a fucking time to be alive
Aver pubblicato due libri in un anno (e rivisto la nuova edizione del titolo che esce in primavera) mi mette nella posizione di aver "detto abbastanza" per un po' e ho un bisogno inumano di tornare a insegnare: eccoci.
violettabellocchio.substack.com/p/cosa-facci...
violettabellocchio.substack.com/p/cosa-facci...
Cosa facciamo insieme quest'anno?
Tornare nel mondo emerso dopo aver buttato fuori tre libri miei uno dietro l'altro è una grossa soddisfazione. Vediamo che posso fare con voi.
violettabellocchio.substack.com
January 7, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Aver pubblicato due libri in un anno (e rivisto la nuova edizione del titolo che esce in primavera) mi mette nella posizione di aver "detto abbastanza" per un po' e ho un bisogno inumano di tornare a insegnare: eccoci.
violettabellocchio.substack.com/p/cosa-facci...
violettabellocchio.substack.com/p/cosa-facci...
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i hate mike pence but i never thought he had sneering contempt for the responsibilities of his office or role
January 7, 2026 at 3:02 PM
i hate mike pence but i never thought he had sneering contempt for the responsibilities of his office or role
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You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain. Maybe, say, 250 years.
New from @monacharen.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/4qiHiUs
New from @monacharen.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/4qiHiUs
We’re the Bad Guys Now
America has become the kind of country it used to oppose.
lnk.thebulwark.com
January 7, 2026 at 3:00 PM
You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain. Maybe, say, 250 years.
New from @monacharen.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/4qiHiUs
New from @monacharen.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/4qiHiUs
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If you want to chart the lycanthropy of the Republican party, I'd offer this:
They now launch wars for oil without even checking with Big Oil.
www.thefarce.org/venezuela-is...
They now launch wars for oil without even checking with Big Oil.
www.thefarce.org/venezuela-is...
January 4, 2026 at 2:07 PM
If you want to chart the lycanthropy of the Republican party, I'd offer this:
They now launch wars for oil without even checking with Big Oil.
www.thefarce.org/venezuela-is...
They now launch wars for oil without even checking with Big Oil.
www.thefarce.org/venezuela-is...
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Trump is now likening his attack on Venezuela to his interventions in DC, Memphis, Chicago and LA
claiming he has eliminated crime in those places
he's truly lost his mind
claiming he has eliminated crime in those places
he's truly lost his mind
January 3, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Trump is now likening his attack on Venezuela to his interventions in DC, Memphis, Chicago and LA
claiming he has eliminated crime in those places
he's truly lost his mind
claiming he has eliminated crime in those places
he's truly lost his mind
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This is all to pay back some rich right wing Latin American exiles who bundle money in Florida
January 3, 2026 at 1:34 PM
This is all to pay back some rich right wing Latin American exiles who bundle money in Florida
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wondering how my dipshit fellow anarchist who used to email chomsky when we got into an argument, then wave his printed response email in my face has been doing the last few weeks.
December 23, 2025 at 8:05 AM
wondering how my dipshit fellow anarchist who used to email chomsky when we got into an argument, then wave his printed response email in my face has been doing the last few weeks.
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also, reason's using the word, CHECK IT OUT, GANG, IT'S SCHISM TIME! SCHISM SCHISM SCHISM SCHISM SCHISM
they've lost over 30 people in the last week, including 3 trustees with deep pockets
Heritage Foundation undergoes mass staff exodus as cracks open on the New Right
The divisions are no longer just between pro-Trump and anti-Trump conservatives.
reason.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:40 PM
also, reason's using the word, CHECK IT OUT, GANG, IT'S SCHISM TIME! SCHISM SCHISM SCHISM SCHISM SCHISM
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"New research from Democracy for Sale shows that three-quarters of all donations to Reform have come from just three men: Christopher Harborne, Jeremy Hosking and Richard Tice."
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo... via @petergeoghegan.bsky.social
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo... via @petergeoghegan.bsky.social
75% of Reform UK’s donations have come from just three rich men
Calls grow for donation caps as Democracy for Sale research reveals that three-quarters of Reform’s funding comes from a trio of wealthy donors
democracyforsale.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:47 AM
"New research from Democracy for Sale shows that three-quarters of all donations to Reform have come from just three men: Christopher Harborne, Jeremy Hosking and Richard Tice."
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo... via @petergeoghegan.bsky.social
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo... via @petergeoghegan.bsky.social
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NEW: DOGE isn’t dead, despite recent reports.
Operatives are still rolling out coding tests, leading software pilots, and more.
w/ @telliotter.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/what-i...
Operatives are still rolling out coding tests, leading software pilots, and more.
w/ @telliotter.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/what-i...
DOGE Isn’t Dead. Here’s What Its Operatives Are Doing Now
Contrary to popular reports, DOGE has “burrowed into the agencies like ticks,” government sources tell WIRED.
www.wired.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:01 PM
NEW: DOGE isn’t dead, despite recent reports.
Operatives are still rolling out coding tests, leading software pilots, and more.
w/ @telliotter.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/what-i...
Operatives are still rolling out coding tests, leading software pilots, and more.
w/ @telliotter.bsky.social
www.wired.com/story/what-i...
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In other words, Hegseth was outed as a war criminal by a fellow Iraq vet who got the story from presumably high-level military officials inside the Pentagon. In case you were wondering how the military feels about him.
Hegseth should know that he can't trust anyone around him in that building.
Hegseth should know that he can't trust anyone around him in that building.
November 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
In other words, Hegseth was outed as a war criminal by a fellow Iraq vet who got the story from presumably high-level military officials inside the Pentagon. In case you were wondering how the military feels about him.
Hegseth should know that he can't trust anyone around him in that building.
Hegseth should know that he can't trust anyone around him in that building.
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷