Becky Brooks 😷 📚🐱🗳📬🐌🦋🌊
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Chronic Illness, Disability, Social Justice, Sustainability, Politics, Books, Art, Collage, Snail Mail #pwme #mecfs #chroniclyme #PostcardsToVoters she/her
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If only the Speaker put half as much energy into governing as he does into avoiding work.
He still hasn’t sworn in Representative-elect Grijalva, people are hungry, planes are grounded, and Republicans are on vacation.
They’re showing you exactly who they are. Believe them.
He still hasn’t sworn in Representative-elect Grijalva, people are hungry, planes are grounded, and Republicans are on vacation.
They’re showing you exactly who they are. Believe them.
November 8, 2025 at 3:48 AM
If only the Speaker put half as much energy into governing as he does into avoiding work.
He still hasn’t sworn in Representative-elect Grijalva, people are hungry, planes are grounded, and Republicans are on vacation.
They’re showing you exactly who they are. Believe them.
He still hasn’t sworn in Representative-elect Grijalva, people are hungry, planes are grounded, and Republicans are on vacation.
They’re showing you exactly who they are. Believe them.
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This win should light a fire under Democratic governors everywhere. When leaders in states like Virginia, Maryland, and Illinois look at the win in California, their takeaways should be clear: Be bold. Be ambitious. Follow California’s lead.
November 5, 2025 at 4:10 AM
This win should light a fire under Democratic governors everywhere. When leaders in states like Virginia, Maryland, and Illinois look at the win in California, their takeaways should be clear: Be bold. Be ambitious. Follow California’s lead.
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LOL
Maybe dumping poop on voters from an airplane is not a surefire electoral strategy
November 5, 2025 at 4:10 AM
LOL
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Maybe don't start destroying the White House right before an election. Things the consultants don't tell you.
November 5, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Maybe don't start destroying the White House right before an election. Things the consultants don't tell you.
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I can’t believe they called prop 50 the moment polls closed. That tells you something. Most of these races were called within 45 minutes. It’s a BLOWOUT, y’all. THAT is what we call a MANDATE.
November 5, 2025 at 4:12 AM
I can’t believe they called prop 50 the moment polls closed. That tells you something. Most of these races were called within 45 minutes. It’s a BLOWOUT, y’all. THAT is what we call a MANDATE.
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Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
November 5, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
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WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger.
Gen Z women aren't playing around.
Gen Z women aren't playing around.
November 5, 2025 at 4:07 AM
WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger.
Gen Z women aren't playing around.
Gen Z women aren't playing around.
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Mamdani cracks 1M votes, the first NYC mayor to do so since John Lindsay in 1969
November 5, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Mamdani cracks 1M votes, the first NYC mayor to do so since John Lindsay in 1969
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✨MAMDATE✨
Mamdani—with 97% of the vote in—
has more votes
than all the other candidates combined.
Mamdani—with 97% of the vote in—
has more votes
than all the other candidates combined.
Mamdani, with 97% of the vote in, has more votes than all the other candidates combined
November 5, 2025 at 4:15 AM
✨MAMDATE✨
Mamdani—with 97% of the vote in—
has more votes
than all the other candidates combined.
Mamdani—with 97% of the vote in—
has more votes
than all the other candidates combined.
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Halloo Tennesseans in District 7! Your vote for AFTYN BEHN in the Special Election can help flip the U.S. House. Be a voter!!! #postcardstovoters @aftynbehn.bsky.social
November 1, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Halloo Tennesseans in District 7! Your vote for AFTYN BEHN in the Special Election can help flip the U.S. House. Be a voter!!! #postcardstovoters @aftynbehn.bsky.social
#KeepFairJudges in Pennsylvania! See @tovoters.bsky.social to join us in writing #PostcardsToVoters for the PA judicial retention campaign!
Writing #PostcardsToVoters to retain Democratic judges in PA that protect reproductive freedom and follow the Constitution. Vote YES to #KeepFairJudges on your ballots! #VoteBlue 💙
October 3, 2025 at 12:46 AM
#KeepFairJudges in Pennsylvania! See @tovoters.bsky.social to join us in writing #PostcardsToVoters for the PA judicial retention campaign!
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Sorry to all those stuck working today. The best way to honor them is by staying home and relaxing so we don’t encourage businesses to stay open. To those in jobs that are always necessary and rarely get a break: thank you for your sacrifice and service. We know many don’t get the day off.
September 1, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Sorry to all those stuck working today. The best way to honor them is by staying home and relaxing so we don’t encourage businesses to stay open. To those in jobs that are always necessary and rarely get a break: thank you for your sacrifice and service. We know many don’t get the day off.
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“The government should be run like a business.”
It was dumb the first time someone said it, and it’s aged like cyanide-laced milk.
It was dumb the first time someone said it, and it’s aged like cyanide-laced milk.
August 20, 2025 at 3:44 AM
“The government should be run like a business.”
It was dumb the first time someone said it, and it’s aged like cyanide-laced milk.
It was dumb the first time someone said it, and it’s aged like cyanide-laced milk.
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Groundwater is drying out, heating up, and causing sea level rise.
Overuse has created zones of “mega-drying” around the world — and caused more sea level rise than Greenland’s ice sheet.
grist.org/science/grou...
#Groundwater #Water #Greenland #Nuuk #Climate #Heat #Warming
Overuse has created zones of “mega-drying” around the world — and caused more sea level rise than Greenland’s ice sheet.
grist.org/science/grou...
#Groundwater #Water #Greenland #Nuuk #Climate #Heat #Warming
August 7, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Groundwater is drying out, heating up, and causing sea level rise.
Overuse has created zones of “mega-drying” around the world — and caused more sea level rise than Greenland’s ice sheet.
grist.org/science/grou...
#Groundwater #Water #Greenland #Nuuk #Climate #Heat #Warming
Overuse has created zones of “mega-drying” around the world — and caused more sea level rise than Greenland’s ice sheet.
grist.org/science/grou...
#Groundwater #Water #Greenland #Nuuk #Climate #Heat #Warming
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It shouldn't take 10 years for a disabled person's income to match one single person's annual salary.
It shouldn't take 10 years for anyone's income to match one single person's annual salary,
But/and, the system is deliberately designed to keep disabled people in rigid, fixed, forced poverty.
It shouldn't take 10 years for anyone's income to match one single person's annual salary,
But/and, the system is deliberately designed to keep disabled people in rigid, fixed, forced poverty.
August 8, 2025 at 5:44 PM
It shouldn't take 10 years for a disabled person's income to match one single person's annual salary.
It shouldn't take 10 years for anyone's income to match one single person's annual salary,
But/and, the system is deliberately designed to keep disabled people in rigid, fixed, forced poverty.
It shouldn't take 10 years for anyone's income to match one single person's annual salary,
But/and, the system is deliberately designed to keep disabled people in rigid, fixed, forced poverty.
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In English a cat’s paw pads can be called “toe beans.” In German, I’ve heard them referred to as Zehenbeere, or “toe berries.” In Japanese they are 肉球 (“flesh buns”). Norwegian has tredeputer, or “stepping pillows.” And a colloquial Korean name for them is 냥젤리. It essentially means “meow-gummies.”
August 8, 2025 at 3:11 PM
In English a cat’s paw pads can be called “toe beans.” In German, I’ve heard them referred to as Zehenbeere, or “toe berries.” In Japanese they are 肉球 (“flesh buns”). Norwegian has tredeputer, or “stepping pillows.” And a colloquial Korean name for them is 냥젤리. It essentially means “meow-gummies.”
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For all those rightwingers crying about how “DeMoCrAtS GerRyMaNdEr ToO,” just ask them if they support a nationwide ban on gerrymandering. We do. They don’t. They’re not mad at the concept of gerrymandering, they’re mad that they don’t get to be the only party wielding it anymore.
August 5, 2025 at 3:43 AM
For all those rightwingers crying about how “DeMoCrAtS GerRyMaNdEr ToO,” just ask them if they support a nationwide ban on gerrymandering. We do. They don’t. They’re not mad at the concept of gerrymandering, they’re mad that they don’t get to be the only party wielding it anymore.
EVERY ELECTION MATTERS! Please vote in the Washington State Primary. Ballots due tomorrow, Tuesday, August 5th. Local races are so important.
Many other states have primaries tomorrow, too. VOTE!
#primaryelection2025 #everyelectionmatters
Many other states have primaries tomorrow, too. VOTE!
#primaryelection2025 #everyelectionmatters
August 4, 2025 at 9:50 PM
EVERY ELECTION MATTERS! Please vote in the Washington State Primary. Ballots due tomorrow, Tuesday, August 5th. Local races are so important.
Many other states have primaries tomorrow, too. VOTE!
#primaryelection2025 #everyelectionmatters
Many other states have primaries tomorrow, too. VOTE!
#primaryelection2025 #everyelectionmatters
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Thank you to Scotland 🏴 for showing up and taking a stand this weekend. We loved the signs, so many of them made us laugh. This weekend showed that the resistance is growing and that we have friends everywhere! Scotland the Brave!
July 27, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Thank you to Scotland 🏴 for showing up and taking a stand this weekend. We loved the signs, so many of them made us laugh. This weekend showed that the resistance is growing and that we have friends everywhere! Scotland the Brave!
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FEMA is using our taxes—intended for disaster relief—to build concentration camps.
While they shift focus towards creating “more facilities like Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz,’” they’re failing to support Texas and are intentionally withholding critical relief from states with Democratic governors.
While they shift focus towards creating “more facilities like Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz,’” they’re failing to support Texas and are intentionally withholding critical relief from states with Democratic governors.
FEMA giving out $600M to states so they can build migrant detention facilities
Administration has leaned on local partners in GOP-led states to rapidly scale up immigration detention system
www.independent.co.uk
July 27, 2025 at 9:12 PM
FEMA is using our taxes—intended for disaster relief—to build concentration camps.
While they shift focus towards creating “more facilities like Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz,’” they’re failing to support Texas and are intentionally withholding critical relief from states with Democratic governors.
While they shift focus towards creating “more facilities like Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz,’” they’re failing to support Texas and are intentionally withholding critical relief from states with Democratic governors.
What a thread. Lots of books moved up on my TBR list, and lots of new ones as well. Maybe even a few I might re-read.
Let's do this. One like, one book we love.
One like, one thing I hate
July 27, 2025 at 11:00 PM
What a thread. Lots of books moved up on my TBR list, and lots of new ones as well. Maybe even a few I might re-read.
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Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) is run by Trump evangelicals who are openly killing Palestinians and shouldn’t receive a dime from our government.
Senate Democrats urge U.S. to stop funding GHF, resume support for UN food distribution in Gaza as more starve
Senate Democrats told the secretary of state they have "grave concerns" about the U.S. role in financing GHF, the main group distributing aid in Gaza.
www.cbsnews.com
July 27, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) is run by Trump evangelicals who are openly killing Palestinians and shouldn’t receive a dime from our government.
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In my latest for Democracy Docket, I break down why Republicans are doubling down on their attacks on elections — and how the GOP is already laying the groundwork.
But there’s good news, too. I outline exactly how — and why now is the time for bold action.
Get my full analysis. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0
But there’s good news, too. I outline exactly how — and why now is the time for bold action.
Get my full analysis. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0
July 27, 2025 at 3:41 PM
In my latest for Democracy Docket, I break down why Republicans are doubling down on their attacks on elections — and how the GOP is already laying the groundwork.
But there’s good news, too. I outline exactly how — and why now is the time for bold action.
Get my full analysis. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0
But there’s good news, too. I outline exactly how — and why now is the time for bold action.
Get my full analysis. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0