Bridget
@bewatts.bsky.social
Ancient crone. She/her. Having a hard time making it through another ROC gray winter and the long winter of the soul we all seem to have entered. Love Lake Ontario but still miss California.
Weds ICE murders woman, Trump admin unleashes barrage of lies and victim blaming. Thurs ICE shoots 2 in Portland. Friday @nytimes.com has already lost interest—barely a peep on their front page. This is why I have a paid subscription to @us.theguardian.com
January 9, 2026 at 2:52 PM
Weds ICE murders woman, Trump admin unleashes barrage of lies and victim blaming. Thurs ICE shoots 2 in Portland. Friday @nytimes.com has already lost interest—barely a peep on their front page. This is why I have a paid subscription to @us.theguardian.com
Wow. WHO is finally saying what they should have said in 2020.
Face masks ‘inadequate’ and should be swapped for respirators, WHO is advised
Face masks ‘inadequate’ and should be swapped for respirators, WHO is advised
Experts are urging guideline changes on what health professionals should wear to protect against flu-like illnesses including Covid
www.theguardian.com
January 9, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Wow. WHO is finally saying what they should have said in 2020.
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A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.
January 5, 2026 at 5:54 PM
A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.
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Jon Stewart and the pod saves guys mocking people who wear masks while talking about What Is To Be Done is exactly what Jon Stewart and the pod saves guys are, it's the most Jon Stewart and pod saves guys thing possible.
December 28, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Jon Stewart and the pod saves guys mocking people who wear masks while talking about What Is To Be Done is exactly what Jon Stewart and the pod saves guys are, it's the most Jon Stewart and pod saves guys thing possible.
Let CBS know how you feel about them becoming state-controlled media as Bari Weiss buries 60 Minutes story about CECOT (notorious El Salvador prison to which Trump admin is sending people disappeared by ICE). www.cbs.com/showfeedback/
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www.cbs.com
December 25, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Let CBS know how you feel about them becoming state-controlled media as Bari Weiss buries 60 Minutes story about CECOT (notorious El Salvador prison to which Trump admin is sending people disappeared by ICE). www.cbs.com/showfeedback/
Tried to buy more John Lewis stamps from USPS. No longer available. They do have stamps featuring Barbara Bush, she who said "Why should we hear about body bags and deaths? It's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?" as her son plunged us into war with Iraq.
December 23, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Tried to buy more John Lewis stamps from USPS. No longer available. They do have stamps featuring Barbara Bush, she who said "Why should we hear about body bags and deaths? It's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?" as her son plunged us into war with Iraq.
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The Christmas Eve service is mask-required and will be held at First Unitarian Church of Rochester (220 S Winton Rd) at 2pm. Should be a good time for folks across the left-leaning theistic and atheistic spectrum!🎄😷
December 20, 2025 at 2:38 AM
The Christmas Eve service is mask-required and will be held at First Unitarian Church of Rochester (220 S Winton Rd) at 2pm. Should be a good time for folks across the left-leaning theistic and atheistic spectrum!🎄😷
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#GVerse #FuckICE detain U.S. citizen for "looking" Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
The incident occurred at the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood in Minneapolis. #DemsUnited
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
The incident occurred at the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood in Minneapolis. #DemsUnited
December 10, 2025 at 10:50 PM
#GVerse #FuckICE detain U.S. citizen for "looking" Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
The incident occurred at the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood in Minneapolis. #DemsUnited
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
The incident occurred at the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood in Minneapolis. #DemsUnited
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Wearing an n95 in public is the single most intersectional act of solidarity you can take.
Every group of people under attack by the fascists in charge is at higher risk of illness wrecking their body, finances, family, & future.
Don’t let fascists turn you into a weapon. Give/get mutual aid:
Every group of people under attack by the fascists in charge is at higher risk of illness wrecking their body, finances, family, & future.
Don’t let fascists turn you into a weapon. Give/get mutual aid:
Worldwide Mask Bloc Directory – Find your local Mask Bloc
MaskBloc.org lists active Mask Blocs around the world. Free high-quality masks, COVID-19 tests and other equipment for your community. Mutual Aid & We Keep Us Safe.
Maskbloc.org
November 28, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Wearing an n95 in public is the single most intersectional act of solidarity you can take.
Every group of people under attack by the fascists in charge is at higher risk of illness wrecking their body, finances, family, & future.
Don’t let fascists turn you into a weapon. Give/get mutual aid:
Every group of people under attack by the fascists in charge is at higher risk of illness wrecking their body, finances, family, & future.
Don’t let fascists turn you into a weapon. Give/get mutual aid:
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FULL STORY: Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino, and the agents who led a series of increasingly aggressive raids across Chicago and its suburbs, falsely depicted ordinary Chicagoans as professional agitators determined to mount a violent resistance, a federal judge determined. @wttw.bsky.social
Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino, Federal Agents Repeatedly Lied About What They Did During Aggressive Immigration Raids: Judge
U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis used a blistering 233-page ruling to painstakingly detail how agents falsely asserted in court and in official reports that they had been confronted with unrelenti...
news.wttw.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
FULL STORY: Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino, and the agents who led a series of increasingly aggressive raids across Chicago and its suburbs, falsely depicted ordinary Chicagoans as professional agitators determined to mount a violent resistance, a federal judge determined. @wttw.bsky.social
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To everyone saying that people in our military already know not to follow unlawful orders, how do you explain almost 100 civilians murdered on fishing boats in the Caribbean so far?
November 20, 2025 at 5:42 PM
To everyone saying that people in our military already know not to follow unlawful orders, how do you explain almost 100 civilians murdered on fishing boats in the Caribbean so far?
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My first piece for @theguardian.com on MBS’s visit to the U.S., seven years after Jamal Khashoggi’s murder.
Trump’s America is beginning to look like MBS’s Saudi Arabia— which Jamal warned me about.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump’s America is beginning to look like MBS’s Saudi Arabia— which Jamal warned me about.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Saudification of America is under way | Karen Attiah
Jamal Khashoggi’s plight and murder was a warning sign for the US, of the impending loss of freedom and censorship that would sweep the country
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:58 PM
My first piece for @theguardian.com on MBS’s visit to the U.S., seven years after Jamal Khashoggi’s murder.
Trump’s America is beginning to look like MBS’s Saudi Arabia— which Jamal warned me about.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump’s America is beginning to look like MBS’s Saudi Arabia— which Jamal warned me about.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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"Please trust us now when we say that what is happening in the Chicago area is wrong *** It is not law enforcement; it is terror."
Letter from Chicago broadcast veterans: Federal immigration agents have traumatized us and eroded our rights
The fact that some federal immigration forces may be leaving soon is cold comfort given the damage they’ve done.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:05 PM
"Please trust us now when we say that what is happening in the Chicago area is wrong *** It is not law enforcement; it is terror."
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November 11, 2025 at 4:30 AM
child sex trafficker Ghislane Maxwell has access to a SERVICE PUPPY??!!! While the people randomly grabbed by ICE are kept in conditions that amount to torture, and idiots keep saying ICE’s victims deserve what they get because they BROKE THE LAW?
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/d...
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/d...
Democrats reveal whistleblower details of Ghislaine Maxwell prison ‘luxuries’
In a letter to the president, House Democrats say Maxwell’s treatment as she prepares a clemency request makes the convicted sex offender look like a “guest at a Trump hotel.”
www.msnbc.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:52 PM
child sex trafficker Ghislane Maxwell has access to a SERVICE PUPPY??!!! While the people randomly grabbed by ICE are kept in conditions that amount to torture, and idiots keep saying ICE’s victims deserve what they get because they BROKE THE LAW?
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/d...
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/d...
One last flash of glory before November grey sets in.
November 8, 2025 at 7:14 PM
One last flash of glory before November grey sets in.
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I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video.
I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.
But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.
But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school
November 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video.
I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.
But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.
But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
Horrifying. Workers kidnapped in Boston, taken to unknown location, those with legal work status can’t prove it because their wallets are in their lockers at work. Do you feel safer knowing these car-wash workers have been disappeared?
With all the excitement about the election I don’t want this story to get lost. This morning 8 car wash workers in Boston were kidnapped by federal agents in the largest workplace raid in the area in recent memory.
The details are horrifying.
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www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/04/m...
The details are horrifying.
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www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/04/m...
Immigration agents raid Allston car wash and detain several workers - The Boston Globe
Many of them held legal status but were unable to immediately produce their documentation to the agents, according to their manager.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Horrifying. Workers kidnapped in Boston, taken to unknown location, those with legal work status can’t prove it because their wallets are in their lockers at work. Do you feel safer knowing these car-wash workers have been disappeared?
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Six months after ICE apprehended 47 people, including nine kids, in Hays County, Tex., County Judge Ruben Becerra says DHS has ignored his attempts to get answers:
“We’re not told why they took them, and we’re not told where they took them. By definition, that’s a kidnapping.”
“We’re not told why they took them, and we’re not told where they took them. By definition, that’s a kidnapping.”
How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force
Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challeng...
www.propublica.org
November 4, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Six months after ICE apprehended 47 people, including nine kids, in Hays County, Tex., County Judge Ruben Becerra says DHS has ignored his attempts to get answers:
“We’re not told why they took them, and we’re not told where they took them. By definition, that’s a kidnapping.”
“We’re not told why they took them, and we’re not told where they took them. By definition, that’s a kidnapping.”
My local Gannett paper, Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, today, quoting unhinged statement (genital mutilation! aliens!) from Trump regime's USDA website as if it were a neutral source on the ending of SNAP benefits (& with no corresponding quote from a Democratic leader). #ROC
October 31, 2025 at 4:49 PM
My local Gannett paper, Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, today, quoting unhinged statement (genital mutilation! aliens!) from Trump regime's USDA website as if it were a neutral source on the ending of SNAP benefits (& with no corresponding quote from a Democratic leader). #ROC
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centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.
October 28, 2025 at 12:08 AM
centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.
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Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.
October 23, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.
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