BellaTook
@btooksd.bsky.social
Special education paraprofessional. I love sci-fi (especially LOTR), I read voraciously, and I’m all for second breakfast. I’m actually a hobbit for social justice.
How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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
October 19, 2025 at 10:02 PM
How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Balance in all things.
Your feed can't be all doom and gloom, try and follow accounts that bring happiness as well as the current political reality. Stay informed, but stay sane. We need you.
Your feed can't be all doom and gloom, try and follow accounts that bring happiness as well as the current political reality. Stay informed, but stay sane. We need you.
October 7, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Balance in all things.
Your feed can't be all doom and gloom, try and follow accounts that bring happiness as well as the current political reality. Stay informed, but stay sane. We need you.
Your feed can't be all doom and gloom, try and follow accounts that bring happiness as well as the current political reality. Stay informed, but stay sane. We need you.
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It's only autism if it comes from the Tylenol region of France otherwise it's just sparkling persuadoscience
September 26, 2025 at 6:48 PM
It's only autism if it comes from the Tylenol region of France otherwise it's just sparkling persuadoscience
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A 79-year-old Van Nuys car wash owner — who is a U.S. citizen — has filed a federal civil rights claim seeking $50 million after he says he was violently body slammed and pinned by federal agents during an ICE immigration raid at his business on September 9.
ktla.com
September 25, 2025 at 9:27 PM
A 79-year-old Van Nuys car wash owner — who is a U.S. citizen — has filed a federal civil rights claim seeking $50 million after he says he was violently body slammed and pinned by federal agents during an ICE immigration raid at his business on September 9.
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September 22, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Hey, it’s a scary world out there.
If you’re feeling afraid, angry, or uncertain,
know that those feelings are real—and valid.
1/6
If you’re feeling afraid, angry, or uncertain,
know that those feelings are real—and valid.
1/6
July 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Hey, it’s a scary world out there.
If you’re feeling afraid, angry, or uncertain,
know that those feelings are real—and valid.
1/6
If you’re feeling afraid, angry, or uncertain,
know that those feelings are real—and valid.
1/6
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July 19, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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The thing about the Epstein disgustingness that strikes me hardest is that hundreds of rich old men raped underage girls and the only person currently in jail for that vile behavior is a woman.
July 16, 2025 at 7:17 PM
The thing about the Epstein disgustingness that strikes me hardest is that hundreds of rich old men raped underage girls and the only person currently in jail for that vile behavior is a woman.
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I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.
July 12, 2025 at 11:28 PM
I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.
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Hell YES! Y’all are flooding the Capitol Switchboard so hard it’s overwhelmed—this is people power in action! 💥
Here’s what to do next: Call your reps’ district offices instead. It’s easy—just Google their name + “district office number.”
Pass it on. Keep that pressure blazing.
#VoteHellNo
Here’s what to do next: Call your reps’ district offices instead. It’s easy—just Google their name + “district office number.”
Pass it on. Keep that pressure blazing.
#VoteHellNo
July 2, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Hell YES! Y’all are flooding the Capitol Switchboard so hard it’s overwhelmed—this is people power in action! 💥
Here’s what to do next: Call your reps’ district offices instead. It’s easy—just Google their name + “district office number.”
Pass it on. Keep that pressure blazing.
#VoteHellNo
Here’s what to do next: Call your reps’ district offices instead. It’s easy—just Google their name + “district office number.”
Pass it on. Keep that pressure blazing.
#VoteHellNo
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I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
July 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
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Fascism is theft.
The lawlessness. The cruelty. The brutality. It is a means of asserting power and providing a cover for the wealthy to steal everything they can.
This is an all-out robbery and there will be nothing left unless we stop them.
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/its-a-robb...
The lawlessness. The cruelty. The brutality. It is a means of asserting power and providing a cover for the wealthy to steal everything they can.
This is an all-out robbery and there will be nothing left unless we stop them.
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/its-a-robb...
It's A Robbery: Fascism as a Means for Plundering
Authoritarianism isn't just an ideology or political project. It's also an avenue for stealing your money
jaredyatessexton.substack.com
July 1, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Fascism is theft.
The lawlessness. The cruelty. The brutality. It is a means of asserting power and providing a cover for the wealthy to steal everything they can.
This is an all-out robbery and there will be nothing left unless we stop them.
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/its-a-robb...
The lawlessness. The cruelty. The brutality. It is a means of asserting power and providing a cover for the wealthy to steal everything they can.
This is an all-out robbery and there will be nothing left unless we stop them.
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/its-a-robb...
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This Big Ugly Bill will cut Medicaid. Families will lose health care. Rural hospitals will close.
It will drive energy prices up and incomes for working people down.
All to give billionaires a giant tax cut.
Call you Senators and tell them #VoteNo
It will drive energy prices up and incomes for working people down.
All to give billionaires a giant tax cut.
Call you Senators and tell them #VoteNo
June 30, 2025 at 6:16 PM
This Big Ugly Bill will cut Medicaid. Families will lose health care. Rural hospitals will close.
It will drive energy prices up and incomes for working people down.
All to give billionaires a giant tax cut.
Call you Senators and tell them #VoteNo
It will drive energy prices up and incomes for working people down.
All to give billionaires a giant tax cut.
Call you Senators and tell them #VoteNo
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BREAKING: Moments ago at the Russell Senate Office Building, Capitol Police arrested Medicaid activists in wheelchairs during a sit-in. Their banner was seized and their wrists secured with zip ties.
June 25, 2025 at 6:59 PM
BREAKING: Moments ago at the Russell Senate Office Building, Capitol Police arrested Medicaid activists in wheelchairs during a sit-in. Their banner was seized and their wrists secured with zip ties.
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“The Senate took a rotten bill and made it worse,” said @elenahung.bsky.social, co-founder and executive director of Little Lobbyists, a national group advocating for kids with disabilities.
#ProtectMedicaid
#Medicaid
#ProtectMedicaid
#Medicaid
Senate Seeks Deeper Cuts To Medicaid Amplifying Worries About Disability Services
Just weeks after the U.S. House approved billions in cuts to Medicaid, the Senate is considering chopping the program even more, a move that disability advocates say would have dire consequences.
www.disabilityscoop.com
June 23, 2025 at 9:47 PM
“The Senate took a rotten bill and made it worse,” said @elenahung.bsky.social, co-founder and executive director of Little Lobbyists, a national group advocating for kids with disabilities.
#ProtectMedicaid
#Medicaid
#ProtectMedicaid
#Medicaid
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They're not stopping.
Neither can we!
Neither can we!
June 20, 2025 at 2:20 AM
They're not stopping.
Neither can we!
Neither can we!
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NEW: Here’s the white nationalist who made the poster that DHS shared of Uncle Sam asking people to "Report All Foreign Invaders" to ICE
White House and DHS share image apparently created by white nationalist
The poster likes to use the N-word and share content from a neo-Nazi account, too.
www.motherjones.com
June 13, 2025 at 7:17 PM
NEW: Here’s the white nationalist who made the poster that DHS shared of Uncle Sam asking people to "Report All Foreign Invaders" to ICE
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Attention @senatedemocrats.bsky.social , @housedemocrats.bsky.social - investigate the private immigration detention centers!
Please meet thus moment!
Please meet thus moment!
June 11, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Attention @senatedemocrats.bsky.social , @housedemocrats.bsky.social - investigate the private immigration detention centers!
Please meet thus moment!
Please meet thus moment!
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Please take a moment and listen to Maxine Waters, Congresswoman from California 43rd district. .
Thank you for standing up Maxine, you're an 86 year young POWER HOUSE.!!
She's speaking to National Guard
This is a nonviolent protest allowed by the first amendment
ICE GESTAPO STOP
Thank you for standing up Maxine, you're an 86 year young POWER HOUSE.!!
She's speaking to National Guard
This is a nonviolent protest allowed by the first amendment
ICE GESTAPO STOP
June 9, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Please take a moment and listen to Maxine Waters, Congresswoman from California 43rd district. .
Thank you for standing up Maxine, you're an 86 year young POWER HOUSE.!!
She's speaking to National Guard
This is a nonviolent protest allowed by the first amendment
ICE GESTAPO STOP
Thank you for standing up Maxine, you're an 86 year young POWER HOUSE.!!
She's speaking to National Guard
This is a nonviolent protest allowed by the first amendment
ICE GESTAPO STOP
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Trump threatens LA protesters in overnight rant after sending in the troops
Trump threatens LA protesters in overnight rant after sending in the troops
Hours after sending in federalized National Guard troops into Los Angeles to support DHS and ICE agents who have been taking part in highly militarized raids on businesses in California and snatching up immigrants, Donald Trump threatened the pro-immigrant protesters.After days of raids, involving C...
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June 8, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Trump threatens LA protesters in overnight rant after sending in the troops
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Science publications got you covered 🧪
Didn’t expect this from Scientific American but here we are. (Article from 2020 but everything still relevant including COVID precautions)
June 7, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Science publications got you covered 🧪