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Joanne Freeman

@jbf1755.bsky.social

Historian of early US politics & culture; howl re: democracy—a lot. Last book: The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress & the Road to Civil War. Owned by Newbie the History Bird & Rosie the Resistance Bird. https://www.youtube.com/@joannefreeman1755

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Latest posts by jbf1755.bsky.social on Bluesky

This is a breathtaking abuse of the law and power by the President of the United States.

America is on the brink of martial law.

Do not be silent.

06.10.2025 02:03 — 👍 6606    🔁 2377    💬 240    📌 106

Things to consider:

Document the violence & violations--on camera, w/photos, saving images--any way you can. Speaking as a historian- it will matter

Point out violations--w/images & text--even if you think it won't matter. It will. It needs to be called out & exposed

You are a witness.
Expose it.

05.10.2025 23:34 — 👍 3822    🔁 1353    💬 68    📌 49

She does!

05.10.2025 23:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Same for me. ❤️🦜

05.10.2025 23:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Some Rosie the Peep therapy—with a new toy.

05.10.2025 22:51 — 👍 234    🔁 12    💬 18    📌 2

It's bad enough if President Trump is demanding authoritarian powers in violation of the Constitution ...

But if his unelected aides are manipulating him to get their own authoritarian policies in place, that's sort of a bigger deal.

05.10.2025 17:35 — 👍 2614    🔁 743    💬 88    📌 29

👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
Document it!

05.10.2025 14:44 — 👍 222    🔁 62    💬 0    📌 1

Authoritarian theater

04.10.2025 18:41 — 👍 170    🔁 42    💬 2    📌 0
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Miller’s apparent elevation to shadow president and his seeming intent to declare an end to the constitutional order would, in any other administration, be treated as a executive branch meltdown that was immensely embarrassing for the president and requiring Miller’s immediate removal

05.10.2025 04:03 — 👍 6862    🔁 2075    💬 354    📌 169

Trump says the US is in "armed conflict" with drug cartels.

Meanwhile, his DOJ is disbanding a task force that took on cartels.

Trump doesn't care about stopping drug trafficking — he wants to be able to declare war on anyone he labels an enemy.

This is a power grab.

03.10.2025 21:30 — 👍 2940    🔁 870    💬 123    📌 31
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TERRORISM EXPERT HERE:

This statement is a clear example of what is known as “State Terrorism”: When the dictatorship will order all instruments of its state security & intelligence apparatus against its own citizens to terrorize the population.

05.10.2025 04:37 — 👍 13487    🔁 5802    💬 829    📌 327
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I can’t get over this. Trump bailed out Argentina farmers with $20 billion of our tax dollars, then China turned around and bought soybeans from them instead of US farmers.

Not AMERICA FIRST, America got played.

05.10.2025 04:58 — 👍 3975    🔁 1724    💬 183    📌 81

“Untethered to the facts” is putting it nicely…

05.10.2025 06:12 — 👍 198    🔁 36    💬 6    📌 2

Goodnight folks.

See you tomorrow.

Sheesh.

05.10.2025 01:59 — 👍 190    🔁 3    💬 13    📌 0

If you like yelling about misuse of the passive voice, THIS IS IT.

04.10.2025 18:58 — 👍 8156    🔁 2261    💬 66    📌 8
Image of an X post from @realDonaldTrump
 (Donald J. Trump) at 7:26 PM on October 3, 2025, with 2.54K ReTruths and 8.83K Likes. The post reads: "To ICE, Border Patrol, Law Enforcement, and all U.S. Military: As per my August 25, 2025 Executive Order, please be advised that, from this point forward, anybody burning the American Flag will be subject to one year in prison. You will be immediately arrested. Thank you for your attention to this matter!"

Image of an X post from @realDonaldTrump (Donald J. Trump) at 7:26 PM on October 3, 2025, with 2.54K ReTruths and 8.83K Likes. The post reads: "To ICE, Border Patrol, Law Enforcement, and all U.S. Military: As per my August 25, 2025 Executive Order, please be advised that, from this point forward, anybody burning the American Flag will be subject to one year in prison. You will be immediately arrested. Thank you for your attention to this matter!"

Last I checked, Congress makes the laws, not the White House.

05.10.2025 01:45 — 👍 5215    🔁 850    💬 407    📌 67

The same holds for me.

Any account on TikTok asking for money is NOT ME.

Someone is posting the audio from our Saturday morning conversations, and pretending to be us.

05.10.2025 01:42 — 👍 199    🔁 46    💬 3    📌 1

I used to have an account -- but I don't think it exists anymore. I don't think I've ever used it.

05.10.2025 01:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

This is the fake TikTok account using my name -- and asking for money.

Please report it.

05.10.2025 01:34 — 👍 98    🔁 35    💬 5    📌 0

Yup. That's it.

05.10.2025 01:32 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

I just used this to report my impersonation account:
joannebfreeman

I do not have an account on TikTok under this name.

support.tiktok.com/en/safety-hc...

05.10.2025 01:20 — 👍 102    🔁 22    💬 1    📌 0
Getting started

All I can say is that the account "joannebfreeman" isn't me. I don't have a TikTok account.

I just used this:
support.tiktok.com/en/safety-hc...

05.10.2025 01:18 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yup.

05.10.2025 01:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

🤣

05.10.2025 00:54 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Shoes are tough right now…

05.10.2025 00:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

🤣

05.10.2025 00:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

❤️🦜

05.10.2025 00:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This makes me angrier than I can say.

PLEASE report these fuckers.

How dare they steal something public-minded to steal people’s money.

05.10.2025 00:50 — 👍 141    🔁 26    💬 1    📌 0

Hey -- folks:

If any of you are on TikTok, there's someone pretending to be me using "joannebfreeman" -- and supposedly, even asking for money.

IT'S NOT ME.

I've just reported them.
Please do the same.

05.10.2025 00:41 — 👍 513    🔁 127    💬 6    📌 4

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