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Celeste Headlee

@celesteheadlee.bsky.social

Writer, speaker, journalism prof Morgan State. She/her. Black, Jewish. Living on Piscataway land. Pre-order my book! https://tinyurl.com/bd96yt7z Press: ashley@triple7pr.com

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"Given the inherent dangerousness of chokeholds and carotid restraints, Dept law enforcement agents & correctional officers are hereby prohibited from using a chokehold or a carotid restraint unless that standard of necessity for use of deadly force is satisfied."

www.justice.gov/d9/pages/att...

02.03.2026 13:29 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank goodness I'm not rich or famous. I'm absolutely serious. It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to maintain their kindness, compassion, and humanity.

02.03.2026 13:22 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"The attempt by certain right-wing ideologues to reframe the public’s understanding of the past serves a ideological purpose: to appease the conscience, excuse injustice, glorify violence, & advance a romantic view of the nation as racially pure, morally untouchable, & worthy of patriotic devotion."

02.03.2026 13:01 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"In recent years, the public has grown impatient with stories of oppression. The Trump administration in particular has sought to cut funding for β€˜woke’ initiatives to remember these histories."

02.03.2026 13:00 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

"Some freedmen believed, not unreasonably one might add, that with honest work and diligence they would be left alone. If anything, some victims of terrorism could not shake the impression that in some ways things had gotten worse."

02.03.2026 12:59 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

JFC you guys β€” do better.

He literally shrugged and said β€œβ€¦that’s the way it is…”

01.03.2026 22:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1048    πŸ” 176    πŸ’¬ 67    πŸ“Œ 3
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πŸ‘‡πŸ½ 🎯 πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ πŸ˜•

01.03.2026 22:29 β€” πŸ‘ 3315    πŸ” 1009    πŸ’¬ 110    πŸ“Œ 39

Do I look like Boo Boo the fool?

01.03.2026 21:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Already regretting it and I didn't make it.

01.03.2026 15:51 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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They went to war with Iran (which nobody in America was asking for) so they could conjure an excuse to allow ICE to keep murdering Americans and teargassing schools here at home with impunity (which nobody in America was asking for).

01.03.2026 15:06 β€” πŸ‘ 18768    πŸ” 5865    πŸ’¬ 1611    πŸ“Œ 465

Are these posts generated by AI? Because that's the only thing that would make sense.

01.03.2026 15:49 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's painfully appropriate that the only person of color up there is Booker T. Washington.

01.03.2026 15:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
tweet from @RickyHale_ It's not okay to be an adult and fall for the exact same war propaganda they used in Iraq. It's just not.

tweet from @RickyHale_ It's not okay to be an adult and fall for the exact same war propaganda they used in Iraq. It's just not.

18.06.2025 20:47 β€” πŸ‘ 995    πŸ” 252    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 4

This is SPOT. FREAKING. ON.

01.03.2026 15:25 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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IDF accepts Gaza Health Ministry death toll of over 71,000 Palestinians killed in the war Although Many International Experts Have Accepted the Health Ministry's Data as Reliable, and Even Conservative Relative to the True Death Toll, Israel Had Refused to Accept the Health Ministry's Coun...

I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable.

Biden himself said they were fabricated!

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

29.01.2026 15:29 β€” πŸ‘ 6268    πŸ” 2192    πŸ’¬ 168    πŸ“Œ 208
This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

I can't fucking believe we're doing this again.

28.02.2026 15:50 β€” πŸ‘ 13705    πŸ” 3323    πŸ’¬ 111    πŸ“Œ 70

For a party that claims to hate socialism, they sure seem to enjoy getting publicly owned.

28.02.2026 17:07 β€” πŸ‘ 204    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 1

Real question - is the US still a nation of laws? Does the Constitution still matter? Sure doesn't seem like it does.

28.02.2026 15:07 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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DOJ’s Epstein Files Screwups Get Worse With Unredacted Nudes β€” The Daily Beast Close to 100 explicit photographs were reportedly found before they were removed and re-uploaded with redactions.

Nearly 100 explicit images involving minors were reportedly released unredacted in the DOJ’s Epstein files dump, despite the Epstein Files Transparency Act requiring victim protections. Abusers names were redacted and all of this seems intentional.

#USDemocracy
#Pinks

apple.news/AWg179DVsQpy...

26.02.2026 19:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1019    πŸ” 634    πŸ’¬ 95    πŸ“Œ 41

The same legislators who want to kill food assistance because a single mom bought Froot Loops for her kids are now saying the massive fraud in the ESA system "not fraud. Most of it is just mistakes."

28.02.2026 15:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That's the same name some 13-year-old boy chose for his Call of Duty team.

28.02.2026 15:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm already sick of "It's all a distraction from Epstein" replies. This regime is killing innocent people because our leaders are all power-hungry tyrants and war profiteers. When you say it's "just a distraction" you minimize the gravity of what's happening and the lives lost.

28.02.2026 13:25 β€” πŸ‘ 6597    πŸ” 1800    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 179

I promise you that the government that murdered Alex Pretti and Renee Good does not give a flying fuck about the protests in Iran.

28.02.2026 08:30 β€” πŸ‘ 19113    πŸ” 3914    πŸ’¬ 318    πŸ“Œ 114

ON A GIRLS' SCHOOL

28.02.2026 14:59 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Condoms, gift cards and wedding gifts: Arizona parents allegedly misspent $10 million in ESA funds The Arizona Department of Education records obtained by 12News show misspending could be 20% of all purchases in the $1 billion voucher program.

At least 18,000 ESA account holders used voucher funds intended for private and home schooling wedding gifts, bounce houses, condoms, dirt bikes, luxury hotel stays, a trampoline, a chicken coop, estrogen, and a pool, among other things. Thank GOD that money didn't go to public schools, right?

28.02.2026 14:58 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

People who are too incompetent to host an Olympic hockey team just kicked off world war 3 to make their boss feel better about himself. Awesome.

28.02.2026 13:19 β€” πŸ‘ 458    πŸ” 57    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 4
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Senator calls for DEA to provide info on "incredibly disturbing" Epstein drug investigation Federal drug enforcement investigators targeted Jeffrey Epstein and 14 others in a yearslong probe first reported by CBS News.

This is a big one. A newly uncovered document has revealed the existence of a mystery Epstein investigation. It was spearheaded by the DEA and involved drug trafficking and money laundering. Epstein was one of 15 targets. The other 14 names are redacted. I've got questions.

27.02.2026 15:15 β€” πŸ‘ 17089    πŸ” 7172    πŸ’¬ 556    πŸ“Œ 415

He did not have congressional approval to blow up boats in the Caribbean

He did not have congressional approval to kill the survivors of those strikes

He did not have congressional approval to invade Venezuela

He did not have congressional approval to bomb Iran

This is dictatorship. Impeach now

28.02.2026 08:32 β€” πŸ‘ 359    πŸ” 116    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 3
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Lawmakers renewed their push to pass the SAVE Act, which would block millions of Americans from voting. Act now to stop this attack on the freedom to vote: bit.ly/4srDVLB

28.02.2026 00:06 β€” πŸ‘ 45    πŸ” 34    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 4

"Since the end of WWII, the US has generally done an abysmal job of educating its children, much less its adults, about what fascism was, is, and could yet become. It’s deeply troubling that there had to be any debate as to whether Donald Trump’s MAGA movement was fascist in character."

27.02.2026 23:48 β€” πŸ‘ 93    πŸ” 26    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2