Beatrix P. Kiddo
@beatrixpotterkiddo.bsky.social
Anxious introvert. Mom to a Top Tier Gremlin, a sweet sweet grown boy, and three fur children. Music is my religion, Movies are my comfort.
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In today’s atmosphere, it’s obvious why a book warning of totalitarian censorship would be in the American Library Association’s list of most commonly challenged books
April 17, 2025 at 5:54 PM
In today’s atmosphere, it’s obvious why a book warning of totalitarian censorship would be in the American Library Association’s list of most commonly challenged books
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NEW: For months, @juliaangwin.com and I have been interviewing foreign dissidents and opposition leaders.
Today The New Yorker published our practical guide to courage in Trump's age of fear.
If you want to oppose authoritarianism, but fear for your job, freedom, or way of life, this is for you 🧵:
Today The New Yorker published our practical guide to courage in Trump's age of fear.
If you want to oppose authoritarianism, but fear for your job, freedom, or way of life, this is for you 🧵:
So You Want to Be a Dissident?
A practical guide to courage in Trump’s age of fear.
www.newyorker.com
April 12, 2025 at 4:09 PM
NEW: For months, @juliaangwin.com and I have been interviewing foreign dissidents and opposition leaders.
Today The New Yorker published our practical guide to courage in Trump's age of fear.
If you want to oppose authoritarianism, but fear for your job, freedom, or way of life, this is for you 🧵:
Today The New Yorker published our practical guide to courage in Trump's age of fear.
If you want to oppose authoritarianism, but fear for your job, freedom, or way of life, this is for you 🧵:
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The worst catastrophes of history are caused by men who are malevolent, ignorant, and have exceptional wills.
April 7, 2025 at 12:51 PM
The worst catastrophes of history are caused by men who are malevolent, ignorant, and have exceptional wills.
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This would be hard to explain if you had a time machine to visit 2010
April 7, 2025 at 3:51 AM
This would be hard to explain if you had a time machine to visit 2010
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the only person to serve more than two terms as U.S. president. Roosevelt’s violation of the two-term tradition prompted Congress and the states to turn the tradition into a formal matter of constitutional law. (via @us.theconversation.com)
Why does the U.S. have presidential term limits? The history of the 22nd Amendment
The rule that no president can serve more than two full terms became part of the U.S. Constitution in 1951, after President Franklin D. Roosevelt died.
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April 5, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the only person to serve more than two terms as U.S. president. Roosevelt’s violation of the two-term tradition prompted Congress and the states to turn the tradition into a formal matter of constitutional law. (via @us.theconversation.com)
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“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere.”
Elie Wiesel (1928-2016), writer and Auschwitz survivor
#HandsOff ‼️
Elie Wiesel (1928-2016), writer and Auschwitz survivor
#HandsOff ‼️
April 5, 2025 at 6:24 PM
“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere.”
Elie Wiesel (1928-2016), writer and Auschwitz survivor
#HandsOff ‼️
Elie Wiesel (1928-2016), writer and Auschwitz survivor
#HandsOff ‼️
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If you like what you've seen from Sen. Cory Booker and other Democratic lawmakers this week, call and email their offices and let them know that. Evidence of public support gives lawmakers more clout with their colleagues to keep doing what they're doing. Constituent encouragement becomes influence.
April 2, 2025 at 6:09 PM
If you like what you've seen from Sen. Cory Booker and other Democratic lawmakers this week, call and email their offices and let them know that. Evidence of public support gives lawmakers more clout with their colleagues to keep doing what they're doing. Constituent encouragement becomes influence.
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As he broke a record set when Thurmond stood against the Civil Rights Act, Booker said, "I'm not here, though, because of his speech. I'm here despite his speech. I'm here because, as powerful as he was, the people were more powerful."
See the moment Sen. Cory Booker broke Strom Thurmond's record
As he broke a record set when Thurmond stood against the Civil Rights Act, Booker said, "I'm not here, though, because of his speech. I'm here despite his speech. I'm here because, as powerful as he w...
www.npr.org
April 2, 2025 at 7:43 PM
As he broke a record set when Thurmond stood against the Civil Rights Act, Booker said, "I'm not here, though, because of his speech. I'm here despite his speech. I'm here because, as powerful as he was, the people were more powerful."
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So the administration ADMITS it mistakenly arrested and sent a father to El Salvador, but then can’t right the wrong because, well, he’s in El Salvador?
Is this right?
Is this right?
April 1, 2025 at 3:02 PM
So the administration ADMITS it mistakenly arrested and sent a father to El Salvador, but then can’t right the wrong because, well, he’s in El Salvador?
Is this right?
Is this right?
Use the 5 Call App to demand you representation from your representatives. Show up to Town Halls. Show up to their offices. We must be dissidents. We must refuse to accept being a unit lesson beside Germany in American History class. We have to be the ones that did not accept it.
March 27, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Use the 5 Call App to demand you representation from your representatives. Show up to Town Halls. Show up to their offices. We must be dissidents. We must refuse to accept being a unit lesson beside Germany in American History class. We have to be the ones that did not accept it.
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The power of on-screen representation 😻🐈⬛
March 22, 2025 at 3:03 PM
The power of on-screen representation 😻🐈⬛
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“Oh look at me, I’m successful actor Adrian Brody. I’m on the red carpet up to win another Oscar for my collection. Halle Berry kisses me for pranks.” Fuck off
Halle Berry found Adrien Brody on the Oscars red carpet and kissed him, 22 years after he kissed her in 2003
"I had to get some payback"
"I had to get some payback"
March 3, 2025 at 1:01 AM
“Oh look at me, I’m successful actor Adrian Brody. I’m on the red carpet up to win another Oscar for my collection. Halle Berry kisses me for pranks.” Fuck off
Not to overstate the obvious, but just need to bathe in the facts to combat being driven insane by the gaslighting.
"Democracy isn't just about getting elected and meeting promises," Kim Lane Scheppele, professor of sociology and international affairs at Princeton University, told @amnanawaz.bsky.social. "You have to fulfill the promises, if you're going to do them, in the proper, legal way."
How the start of Trump’s second term looks like some autocracies
President Trump’s social media post over the weekend that implied he is above the law triggered alarm bells from experts who were already concerned about the legal and constitutional boundaries…
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February 19, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Not to overstate the obvious, but just need to bathe in the facts to combat being driven insane by the gaslighting.
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🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨 Trump signs executive order declaring Chiefs won Superbowl, Mahomes played best game of his life! 🏆🏆
February 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨 Trump signs executive order declaring Chiefs won Superbowl, Mahomes played best game of his life! 🏆🏆
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An excellent piece by @timothysnyder.bsky.social and recommended strongly by @hcrichardson.bsky.social - Please read and spread the word!
The logic of the coup that is going on now. And how to resist it.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...
snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...
The Logic of Destruction
And how to resist it
snyder.substack.com
February 3, 2025 at 3:31 AM
An excellent piece by @timothysnyder.bsky.social and recommended strongly by @hcrichardson.bsky.social - Please read and spread the word!
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oh what could the salute has possibly been
Elon Musk: "race mixing is bad. Italy for Italians!"
*woman next to him moves as far away as possible*
*woman next to him moves as far away as possible*
January 26, 2025 at 11:58 PM
oh what could the salute has possibly been
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November 14, 2024 at 10:38 AM
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Goodreads is owned by Jeff Bezos. A better alternative is StoryGraph, a Black woman-owned platform. And before y’all start, you can transfer all your Goodreads data to Storygraph so you literally have no excuse.
November 13, 2024 at 9:38 PM
Goodreads is owned by Jeff Bezos. A better alternative is StoryGraph, a Black woman-owned platform. And before y’all start, you can transfer all your Goodreads data to Storygraph so you literally have no excuse.