Bellmora
@bellmora.bsky.social
Despise evil orange clowns and their billionaire handlers.
Three kids. Three cats. A horse and 5 chickens.
Deep friendships, family and animals will keep me afloat for next 4 years. 🏳️🌈
Software 20 yrs. Climate/energy 10.
We’re not going back.
no dm.
Three kids. Three cats. A horse and 5 chickens.
Deep friendships, family and animals will keep me afloat for next 4 years. 🏳️🌈
Software 20 yrs. Climate/energy 10.
We’re not going back.
no dm.
“DC district judge Amy Berman Jackson said that this novel workaround by the Trump administration to “starve” the agency of funding was “manufactured by the defendants” and based solely on an office of legal counsel memo…”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Judge says Trump administration must continue funding consumer watchdog
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is at risk after Donald Trump vowed to shutter it since his return to office
www.theguardian.com
December 30, 2025 at 9:20 PM
“DC district judge Amy Berman Jackson said that this novel workaround by the Trump administration to “starve” the agency of funding was “manufactured by the defendants” and based solely on an office of legal counsel memo…”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
😞 brutal
“We learned first-hand how the Trump administration’s decision to withhold funding for the World Food Program’s operations in Kenya led children to starve and forced thousands of families to make impossible decisions. One of the groups hit hardest by the cuts was pregnant women.”
“We learned first-hand how the Trump administration’s decision to withhold funding for the World Food Program’s operations in Kenya led children to starve and forced thousands of families to make impossible decisions. One of the groups hit hardest by the cuts was pregnant women.”
What I Saw at a Maternity Ward in Kenya After the U.S. Cut Off Food and Foreign Aid
www.propublica.org/article/kaku...
www.propublica.org/article/kaku...
What I Saw at a Maternity Ward in Kenya After the U.S. Cut Off Food and Foreign Aid
Photographs tell a story of two mothers determined to help their babies gain enough weight to leave the hospital — only to face little to no food again.
www.propublica.org
December 30, 2025 at 9:17 PM
😞 brutal
“We learned first-hand how the Trump administration’s decision to withhold funding for the World Food Program’s operations in Kenya led children to starve and forced thousands of families to make impossible decisions. One of the groups hit hardest by the cuts was pregnant women.”
“We learned first-hand how the Trump administration’s decision to withhold funding for the World Food Program’s operations in Kenya led children to starve and forced thousands of families to make impossible decisions. One of the groups hit hardest by the cuts was pregnant women.”
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BREAKING: A Russian newspaper today — “America no longer sees our country as a threat… The US leader’s philosophy is closer to the values of Russia’s president, not the politicians of the Old World… he sees Europe as a liberal stronghold that must be destroyed…”
Read that again.
Read that again.
December 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
BREAKING: A Russian newspaper today — “America no longer sees our country as a threat… The US leader’s philosophy is closer to the values of Russia’s president, not the politicians of the Old World… he sees Europe as a liberal stronghold that must be destroyed…”
Read that again.
Read that again.
“In the future, historians will struggle to describe that feeling, particular to this Trump era, of being prepared for the bad, crazy, and disruptive things that he would do, and yet also totally, utterly shocked by them.”
www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
Donald Trump’s Golden Age of Awful
A damage assessment of the President’s first year back in the White House.
www.newyorker.com
December 30, 2025 at 9:15 PM
“In the future, historians will struggle to describe that feeling, particular to this Trump era, of being prepared for the bad, crazy, and disruptive things that he would do, and yet also totally, utterly shocked by them.”
www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
“A diminished workforce has struggled to respond to up to 6M pending cases in its processing centers and 12M transactions in its field offices — record backlogs have delayed basic services to millions of customers, according to internal agency documents and interviews.”
Gift
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How Social Security has gotten worse under Trump
Customer service deteriorated by key measures as the agency enacted sweeping cuts in Trump’s second term, internal data and interviews show.
wapo.st
December 30, 2025 at 9:13 PM
“A diminished workforce has struggled to respond to up to 6M pending cases in its processing centers and 12M transactions in its field offices — record backlogs have delayed basic services to millions of customers, according to internal agency documents and interviews.”
Gift
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Gift
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202.224.3121 Call your senators and representative - leave your message!
Loser Mike Johnson hopes we forgot about extending ACA tax credits while he was on Christmas vacation.
Let’s make it very clear how wrong he is:
Let’s make it very clear how wrong he is:
Tell Congress: Demand Speaker Johnson hold a vote IMMEDIATELY on the ACA tax credit extension
Contact Congress today!
actionnetwork.org
December 30, 2025 at 1:04 AM
202.224.3121 Call your senators and representative - leave your message!
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A retired Tennessee policeman who spent more than a month in jail over an anti-Trump Facebook post is suing the authorities responsible for his arrest.
Attorneys for Larry Bushart, 61, allege in the lawsuit that those responsible violated Bushart's First and Fourth Amendment rights.
Attorneys for Larry Bushart, 61, allege in the lawsuit that those responsible violated Bushart's First and Fourth Amendment rights.
A retired policeman was jailed over an anti-Trump meme. Now he’s suing.
Attorneys for 61-year-old Larry Bushart say a Tennessee sheriff violated the First Amendment: “In America, we do not jail people for political speech.”
www.washingtonpost.com
December 30, 2025 at 12:11 AM
A retired Tennessee policeman who spent more than a month in jail over an anti-Trump Facebook post is suing the authorities responsible for his arrest.
Attorneys for Larry Bushart, 61, allege in the lawsuit that those responsible violated Bushart's First and Fourth Amendment rights.
Attorneys for Larry Bushart, 61, allege in the lawsuit that those responsible violated Bushart's First and Fourth Amendment rights.
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This is as close as they can get to Nuremberg Laws. They can't (yet) forbid the hiring of people of color but they prosecute any attempts at equity. It is fascism.
Justice Department Using Fraud Law to Target Companies on DEI
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Justice Department Using Fraud Law to Target Companies on DEI
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Exclusive | Justice Department Using Fraud Law to Target Companies on DEI
Google and Verizon are among those being investigated under the novel interpretation of a law applying to government contractors.
www.wsj.com
December 29, 2025 at 1:55 PM
This is as close as they can get to Nuremberg Laws. They can't (yet) forbid the hiring of people of color but they prosecute any attempts at equity. It is fascism.
Justice Department Using Fraud Law to Target Companies on DEI
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Justice Department Using Fraud Law to Target Companies on DEI
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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The Trump administration on Monday doled out billions to states from a fund Congress created to “transform” rural health care. The funds, however, will be lavished more generously on small states and states that adopt administration friendly policies.
Trump admin doles out billions for rural health
Montana and California will receive near equal amounts in 2026, despite their massive size disparity.
www.politico.com
December 30, 2025 at 1:04 AM
The Trump administration on Monday doled out billions to states from a fund Congress created to “transform” rural health care. The funds, however, will be lavished more generously on small states and states that adopt administration friendly policies.
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I’ve had a lot of people reach out over the last few weeks and ask if Gabby and I are ok. I’m good, and Gabby’s even better. She’s the toughest person I know.
December 29, 2025 at 5:08 AM
I’ve had a lot of people reach out over the last few weeks and ask if Gabby and I are ok. I’m good, and Gabby’s even better. She’s the toughest person I know.
What a weird mess we’re in. The incompetence is hard to stomach
www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-legal...
www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-legal...
Trump’s Legal Goon in NSFW Online Rant at MAGA Influencers
The Trump ally unleashed on conservatives using two separate social media accounts.
www.thedailybeast.com
December 29, 2025 at 8:10 AM
What a weird mess we’re in. The incompetence is hard to stomach
www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-legal...
www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-legal...
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The tacky "dictator chic" gold decor is far from the most embarrassing thing about this, but it's still tacky and embarrassing.
December 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
The tacky "dictator chic" gold decor is far from the most embarrassing thing about this, but it's still tacky and embarrassing.
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Sure. Of course it’s just a coincidence that Donald Trump’s Justice Department was spying on a top Epstein reporter during the weeks before Espstein’s death.
December 29, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Sure. Of course it’s just a coincidence that Donald Trump’s Justice Department was spying on a top Epstein reporter during the weeks before Espstein’s death.
Omg
Here's what to know about the Texas attorney, salon owner appointed to oversee visas and passports www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
What to know about the Texas attorney, entrepreneur overseeing visa programs
Mora Namdar, a 39-year-old Iranian-American, was sworn in earlier this week as the assistant secretary of state for the Bureau of Consular Affairs.
www.houstonchronicle.com
December 29, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Omg
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It has been 395 days of continuous demonstrations in Georgia’s capital, Tbilisi. Our citizens demand the resignation of Georgia's mostly illegitimate and pro-Russian government, the release of political prisoners, and the return to a pro-European course.
December 27, 2025 at 6:06 PM
It has been 395 days of continuous demonstrations in Georgia’s capital, Tbilisi. Our citizens demand the resignation of Georgia's mostly illegitimate and pro-Russian government, the release of political prisoners, and the return to a pro-European course.
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1991: The United States thinks it has decisively won the Cold War against Russia.
2025: The United States' foreign policy is being dictated by Russia.
2025: The United States' foreign policy is being dictated by Russia.
December 28, 2025 at 10:58 PM
1991: The United States thinks it has decisively won the Cold War against Russia.
2025: The United States' foreign policy is being dictated by Russia.
2025: The United States' foreign policy is being dictated by Russia.
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For those who care about healthcare , this Substack is one of the best
Arkansas -- yes, Arkansas-- has partially mitigated ACA premium hikes for the subsidy-eligible. New Jersey should take notes
xpostfactoid.substack.com/p/tale-of-tw...
xpostfactoid.substack.com/p/tale-of-tw...
Tale of two states: Effects of strict silver loading or the lack thereof in the 2026 ACA marketplace
Arkansas took extreme action to offset the likely expiration of ePTC in 2026.
xpostfactoid.substack.com
December 27, 2025 at 4:27 AM
For those who care about healthcare , this Substack is one of the best
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“You guys, Hitler wants to see Poland succeed”
Trump: "Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed. It sounds a little strange but President Putin was very generous in his feeling toward Ukraine succeeding, including supplying energy, electricity and other things at very low prices."
December 28, 2025 at 11:31 PM
“You guys, Hitler wants to see Poland succeed”
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One of the things about Zelenskyy being an actor is he knows how to say something without saying something.
December 28, 2025 at 6:59 PM
One of the things about Zelenskyy being an actor is he knows how to say something without saying something.
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Trump invites the press into the meeting in violation of the agreed protocol. Then he kicks them out. Pure chaos, as usual.
Trump tells the press as he meets with Zelenskyy, "I think you could sit outside and have some food. Would you like to have food or do you consider that a bribe, and therefore you cannot write honestly? ... Margo, take them outside and tell the chef to serve them good lunch."
December 28, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Trump invites the press into the meeting in violation of the agreed protocol. Then he kicks them out. Pure chaos, as usual.
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It's always a smart idea to check in with your boss after a strategy meeting
Trump says he's going to talk to Putin on the phone *again* after he meets with Zelenskyy
December 28, 2025 at 7:32 PM
It's always a smart idea to check in with your boss after a strategy meeting