Karen Skelton
@karenskelton.bsky.social
Reparative Genealogy, where Social History and Social Justice collide! Grassroots politics, voting rights. NH, VA, NC
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This is a great example that the US president is a lunatic. Listen carefully 🙈
December 16, 2025 at 9:25 AM
This is a great example that the US president is a lunatic. Listen carefully 🙈
I call them thugs and tyrants a lot. But always thinking about messaging, and this is something to consider.
I know they're inflicting real harm right now, but they're proud of that and they think it makes them look strong.
Hell, they're probably happy to be called "tyrants" and "thugs," but calling them weird dorks and uncool losers will absolutely drive them crazy.
Hell, they're probably happy to be called "tyrants" and "thugs," but calling them weird dorks and uncool losers will absolutely drive them crazy.
If Democrats got on a coordinated message about how Trump was a "big loser," it could deal the death blow to his public career
December 15, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I call them thugs and tyrants a lot. But always thinking about messaging, and this is something to consider.
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The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing.
All from his movies.
All from his movies.
December 15, 2025 at 3:51 AM
The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing.
All from his movies.
All from his movies.
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December 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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This is a textbook case of political asylum.
In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites.
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
ICE Holding Chinese Man Who Documented Uyghur Camps
Heng Guan is awaiting an immigration hearing on Monday that could lead to his removal from the U.S. and ultimately land him back in China, according to his lawyer and a New York-based activist group.
www.wsj.com
December 14, 2025 at 1:38 PM
This is a textbook case of political asylum.
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I mentioned this in my free newsletter last week but this seems to be a pattern. The fourth rooftop apprehension attempt I’ve heard of.
Masked men wearing ICE vests—but who refused to present a warrant or identify themselves—roped off a construction site, trapping two men on a roof for hours in subzero temps. Protesters gathered. Masked men eventually left, and one man on the roof was taken away by ambulance kstp.com/kstp-news/to...
December 14, 2025 at 3:21 PM
I mentioned this in my free newsletter last week but this seems to be a pattern. The fourth rooftop apprehension attempt I’ve heard of.
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Trump: you mean I can be racist and lie and the press will be too afraid to call me a racist or a liar?! Awesome!
December 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Trump: you mean I can be racist and lie and the press will be too afraid to call me a racist or a liar?! Awesome!
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We review Tim Wu's The Age of Extraction, about how everything online has been designed to take from us. From Rhoda Feng, who writes that "In the digital age, the tollbooth has been reborn in algorithmic form."
prospect.org/2025/12/10/i...
prospect.org/2025/12/10/i...
The Internet’s Tollbooth Operators - The American Prospect
Tim Wu’s The Age of Extraction chronicles the way Big Tech platforms have turned against their users.
prospect.org
December 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
We review Tim Wu's The Age of Extraction, about how everything online has been designed to take from us. From Rhoda Feng, who writes that "In the digital age, the tollbooth has been reborn in algorithmic form."
prospect.org/2025/12/10/i...
prospect.org/2025/12/10/i...
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CNN put together a supercut of Trump calling affordability a "Democrat hoax" and "con job"
December 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
CNN put together a supercut of Trump calling affordability a "Democrat hoax" and "con job"
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Elon Musk is against the European Union being the European Union —he posted this after X (fka Twitter) was fined for violations of the EU’s Digital Services Act.
December 6, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Elon Musk is against the European Union being the European Union —he posted this after X (fka Twitter) was fined for violations of the EU’s Digital Services Act.
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The Secretary of Defense taking extrajudicial killing requests from podcast hosts
December 5, 2025 at 3:27 AM
The Secretary of Defense taking extrajudicial killing requests from podcast hosts
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He was up posting over 150 deranged things on Truth Social last night, then started right back up again posting more at 5:48 AM this morning. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Trump looks to be unconscious as Linda McMahon winds down her remarks
December 2, 2025 at 7:15 PM
He was up posting over 150 deranged things on Truth Social last night, then started right back up again posting more at 5:48 AM this morning. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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It's great that reporting on the double tap has spotlighted the abject criminality of this Administration.
But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants.
The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.
But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants.
The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.
December 2, 2025 at 1:22 PM
It's great that reporting on the double tap has spotlighted the abject criminality of this Administration.
But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants.
The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.
But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants.
The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.
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And the justification of the extra-judicial killings in the Caribbean is that they're carrying drugs to the US.
This smells like a corrupt deal
This smells like a corrupt deal
Juan Orlando Hernandez was convicted by a jury of conspiring to traffic 400 tons of cocaine into the United States.
November 29, 2025 at 12:08 AM
And the justification of the extra-judicial killings in the Caribbean is that they're carrying drugs to the US.
This smells like a corrupt deal
This smells like a corrupt deal
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🚨Imagine ICE conducting a raid on your PRIVATE PROPERTY.🚨
Illegal, unconstitutional, and an elevation of ICE’s encroachment. This needs to have national attention. 1/2
Illegal, unconstitutional, and an elevation of ICE’s encroachment. This needs to have national attention. 1/2
November 26, 2025 at 12:12 AM
🚨Imagine ICE conducting a raid on your PRIVATE PROPERTY.🚨
Illegal, unconstitutional, and an elevation of ICE’s encroachment. This needs to have national attention. 1/2
Illegal, unconstitutional, and an elevation of ICE’s encroachment. This needs to have national attention. 1/2
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on the heels of the "piggy" incident. he's a piece of shit misogynist and sexual predator, and always has been. and people voted for him anyway.
Now we have the president calling a female New York Times reporter ugly because he's mad about a story she wrote.
November 26, 2025 at 2:23 PM
on the heels of the "piggy" incident. he's a piece of shit misogynist and sexual predator, and always has been. and people voted for him anyway.
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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. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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JD Vance and Peter Thiel are running a sustained operation out of the White House designed to acquire Greenland, either voluntarily or by force. Thiel has laid out plans for what he intends to do with the island nation in past writings. It doesn't entail the consent of the Greenlanders for anything.
November 23, 2025 at 8:52 PM
JD Vance and Peter Thiel are running a sustained operation out of the White House designed to acquire Greenland, either voluntarily or by force. Thiel has laid out plans for what he intends to do with the island nation in past writings. It doesn't entail the consent of the Greenlanders for anything.
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I’ve been in a room with Putin. He calls Ukrainians “Russians with accents.” His real fear isn’t NATO expansion, it’s democracy expansion. It shatters his entire argument for dictatorship at home. Because if Ukrainians embrace freedom, Russians may demand the same.
November 21, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I’ve been in a room with Putin. He calls Ukrainians “Russians with accents.” His real fear isn’t NATO expansion, it’s democracy expansion. It shatters his entire argument for dictatorship at home. Because if Ukrainians embrace freedom, Russians may demand the same.
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The New York Times' story about Trump calling for the execution of members of Congress ran on Page 16 today, with an itty-bitty promo on the front about halfway down the page.
No wonder Trump thinks he can get away with anything.
No wonder Trump thinks he can get away with anything.
November 21, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The New York Times' story about Trump calling for the execution of members of Congress ran on Page 16 today, with an itty-bitty promo on the front about halfway down the page.
No wonder Trump thinks he can get away with anything.
No wonder Trump thinks he can get away with anything.
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Found this 2019 clip from 100 days after Jamal Khashoggi was killed.
I was asked by @glamour.com’s Sam Barry what I would say to Mohammed Bin Salman if I had the chance to face him again (I have met him twice).
Here was my answer.
I was asked by @glamour.com’s Sam Barry what I would say to Mohammed Bin Salman if I had the chance to face him again (I have met him twice).
Here was my answer.
November 19, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Found this 2019 clip from 100 days after Jamal Khashoggi was killed.
I was asked by @glamour.com’s Sam Barry what I would say to Mohammed Bin Salman if I had the chance to face him again (I have met him twice).
Here was my answer.
I was asked by @glamour.com’s Sam Barry what I would say to Mohammed Bin Salman if I had the chance to face him again (I have met him twice).
Here was my answer.
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Will say again. If this was London or Paris, it would not be tolerated. But we expect Ukrainians to put up with this horror every night. Indeed, we in the west are getting inured to it. It should enrage us.
November 19, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Will say again. If this was London or Paris, it would not be tolerated. But we expect Ukrainians to put up with this horror every night. Indeed, we in the west are getting inured to it. It should enrage us.
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SOMEONE: Fuck you!
BOVINO: That’s not very nice.
THE MOST MOM VOICE YOU’VE EVER HEARD: Well, are you doing nice things?
BOVINO: That’s not very nice.
THE MOST MOM VOICE YOU’VE EVER HEARD: Well, are you doing nice things?
Bovino is taking part in CBP detentions in Charlotte. dickfc_w_l on TikTok.
November 16, 2025 at 2:10 AM
SOMEONE: Fuck you!
BOVINO: That’s not very nice.
THE MOST MOM VOICE YOU’VE EVER HEARD: Well, are you doing nice things?
BOVINO: That’s not very nice.
THE MOST MOM VOICE YOU’VE EVER HEARD: Well, are you doing nice things?
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Have you heard the good news? The preschool teacher⬇️ abducted & illegally detained by #ICE has been released.
A judge ordered that 614 people illegally detained be released unless they're high risk—only 42 were.
Judge McNally entered Broadview on Thursday with experts to document #ICELawlessness
A judge ordered that 614 people illegally detained be released unless they're high risk—only 42 were.
Judge McNally entered Broadview on Thursday with experts to document #ICELawlessness
November 16, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Have you heard the good news? The preschool teacher⬇️ abducted & illegally detained by #ICE has been released.
A judge ordered that 614 people illegally detained be released unless they're high risk—only 42 were.
Judge McNally entered Broadview on Thursday with experts to document #ICELawlessness
A judge ordered that 614 people illegally detained be released unless they're high risk—only 42 were.
Judge McNally entered Broadview on Thursday with experts to document #ICELawlessness