The Belfabulous

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. Blocking accounts with no information. 🚫

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“A new ICE facility for unaccompanied children”

Nancy Levine Stearns@nancylevinestearns.bsky.social

SCOOP: Spokesperson for Sen. Ron Wyden told me he is investigating 2 for-profit companies running new ICE facility for unaccompanied children set to open in Louisiana. LaSalle Corrections and 'humanitarian response' firm Anovaeon LLC are facing Wyden's scrutiny. www.thequeenzone.com/scoop-top-se...

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Trump's waiver of energy sanctions on Russia has an even darker, more corrupt, side that initially thought. Trump is planning to allow a Russian energy giant to control a big chunk of energy exports from Alaska. Trump and his cronies profit; America loses. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

nytimes.comIn U.S. Gas Talks With Kremlin, Hidden Financing for Alaska Project Emerges (Gift Article)Interviews and documents show a Russian energy giant secretly funded a U.S. firm. The deal has been discussed in talks to end the war in Ukraine.

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Courtney Milan@courtneymilan.com

Yeah, I feel like this captures a lot of my personal economic uncertainty. I wasn’t on Obamacare subsidies at all, but the uncertainty caused by stripping them from the market meant my health insurance went from $1000 to $1400 a month in one year.

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Finding that the evidence supports Lula's claims that Mark Zuckerberg is consciously attempting to rig the Brazilian elections in favor of Bolsonaro, a Brazilian court urgently requires Meta to undo its offending logarithms and insure equal access to Lula. www.nbcnews.com/world/south-...

nbcnews.comBrazil’s Lula wins electoral court challenge against Meta for alleged pro-Bolsonaro algorithm biasA judge ruled that the tech company must adopt measures to immediately secure equal treatment of the two presidential candidates ahead of an Oct. 25 runoff.

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🧊✈️ HEADS UP NEW JERSEY ‼️ ⚠️ ICE Air inbound to Newark GlobalX A319– Tail: N316NV ETA – 12:35pm 👀

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🧊✈️ HEADS UP SAN DIEGO ‼️ ⚠️ ICE removal flight to Mexico 🇲🇽 GlobalX jet inbound to SDIA Tail: N628VA – ETA 8:05am 👀

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I'm so proud of the remarkable work AFT members and Dr. Norma Bowe's clinic are doing at Delaney Hall detention center. Their support for immigrant families is an inspiring display of solidarity and a true example of what it means to be on team humanity. bsky.app/profile/aft....

AFT@aft.org

AFT members, in partnership w/Dr. Norma Bowe’s Global Grace Clinic, are providing healthcare, food and books outside Delaney Hall detention center in NJ. This is what worker power looks like: showing up for one another, defending human rights and standing in solidarity with our communities. Watch ⤵️

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Movies Silently@moviessilently.bsky.social

"I Noticed That You Mentioned Silent Films So I Wanted to Come Over and Explain a Film I am Sure You Have Never Seen Called METROPOLIS" by Berthold Woltze

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🧊✈️ MAURITANIA🚨⛓️ 🌍 A Talon Air G5 (tail: N50JE) prepares to depart Mesa, Arizona Tuesday afternoon, trafficking humans in chains (via Puerto Rico) to Nouakchott, Mauritania 🇲🇷 ⚠️ This is one of the last places on Earth where chattel slavery is still openly practiced 😲

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In the last few weeks, Elon Musk has dumped $300,000,000 into the Midterms in a desperate attempt to buy the election for Trump. Make sure everyone knows that Musk is behind that deluge of disgusting ads they are seeing and that Musk doesn't give one whit about them. He just wants more power.

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𝐈𝐂𝐄'𝐬 𝐀𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐇𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐞: 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐅𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲🚨 Niece of Miguel Parra-Hernandez who was run over by ICE thugs in a pursuit & severely injured speaks out & describes his ordeal.

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🧊✈️ HEADS UP SAN DIEGO ‼️ ⚠️ ICE removal flight to Mexico 🇲🇽 GlobalX jet inbound to SDIA Tail: N628VA – ETA 8:25am 👀

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Know much work it would be to find the actually good candidates for state boards of education even in your home state? A LOT. Charles has done that work for 15 states with these Act Blue slates. Now go give 💲to souls brave enough fight book-banning in Idaho and etc! Money direct to candidates-no cut

🚨 22 DAYS TO GO! 📣 EDUCATION OFFICES get overshadowed by higher-profile races, but they have a major impact on society. Help keep & flip STATE SUPERINTENDENT & SCHOOL BOARD seats blue! #Blue26 --Donations go to the candidates listed --Nothing goes to me secure.actblue.com/donate/educa...

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Tribuna | "Hace más de un siglo que España viene determinando que su “Fiesta Nacional” festeja un día con dos problemas básicos, uno moral y otro psicológico", por Martín Caparrós social.elpais.com/b7d…

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It’s simply unimaginable that CDC Director Dr. Erica Schwartz has just bowed to RFK Jr. and approved funding for an utterly unethical clinical trial that will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine in Guinea Bissau. It is to be conducted by researchers accused of academic misconduct.

rollingstone.comCDC Is Moving Forward With a Previously Shelved Controversial Hepatitis B Vaccine Study“It’s a wholly unethical trial, and it shouldn’t be allowed,” says Dr. Paul Offit of Guinea-Bissau study

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Thank you Mary Corcoran, Rev. Al Sharpton, and Steve Schmidt for having me on today’s organizing call to prepare for the midterms. Learn more about how you can volunteer to defend the vote and become a Democracy Defender here. aftvotes.org/democracy-de...

aftvotes.orgAFT Democracy DefendersEvery eligible voter should be able to cast a ballot and have it counted. But across the country, voters are facing confusion, intimidation, disinformation, registration problems and other attacks on ...

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#VoteYES on ballot questions 1, 2, and 3 this November: ✅ Protect your freedom to make your own decisions about reproductive healthcare. ✅ Protect every Virginian’s freedom to marry. ✅ Protect the right to vote for every eligible Virginian.

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North Carolinians are facing a confusing stream of letters warning voters they must update missing personal information by the Oct. 9 deadline. The mailers are another barrier to voting that makes some voters question whether they should bother casting a ballot at all: https://demdock.com/4rTwVrB

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A huge thank you to CNN, MS NOW, Politico, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, Fox News, PBS News, NPR, The New York Times, The Washington Post, HuffPost, the Associated Press, Reuters, Getty Images, and AFP for standing together in defense of a free press.

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🧊✈️ HEADS UP HOUSTON ‼️ ⚠️ ICE Air inbound to IAH Air Wisconsin CRJ-200 Tail: N465AW – ETA 7:30AM 👀

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one of the most fascinating articles we've gotten to publish this year icymi, don't!

Bolts@boltsmag.org

After the Civil War, Congress mandated that Southern states could only disenfranchise people over a handful of crimes. But these states quickly ignored those rules and manipulated the criminal legal system to prevent Black people from voting.

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🧊✈️ MEXICO 🌎⛓️ 😲 An Eastern 737 (tail: N917XA) departs El Paso, trafficking chained humans to Mexico City 🇲🇽