Alison Bell
@abellvt.bsky.social
Lawyer, mother, Vermonter, committed to social justice, mutual aid, and maple syrup. #weprotectus she/her
You go into the bathroom American, you come out of the bathroom American, but what are you in the bathroom?
You’re a-peeing! My kids’ favorite joke.
You’re a-peeing! My kids’ favorite joke.
December 16, 2025 at 1:02 AM
You go into the bathroom American, you come out of the bathroom American, but what are you in the bathroom?
You’re a-peeing! My kids’ favorite joke.
You’re a-peeing! My kids’ favorite joke.
Postal banking is the answer! And totally already authorized by statute.
December 10, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Postal banking is the answer! And totally already authorized by statute.
Reposted by Alison Bell
🇺🇸 trifectas get shot at doing something
Obama chose policy (ACA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem
Biden chose policy (ARP/IRA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem
The platform must be institutional reform next time. Right from the start, as @dhnexon.bsky.social said
Obama chose policy (ACA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem
Biden chose policy (ARP/IRA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem
The platform must be
If we want to actually be a representative democracy, then the platform needs to be institutional reform. All the Popularism and all the policies follow from that, not the other way around.
- DC/PR/USVI statehood
- Enlarging the House
- MMDs
- New VRA
- Totally revamping SCOTUS: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
- Automatic universal voter registration
- Rewriting the "national emergency" laws: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
- Subordinating the Senate: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Etc.
- Enlarging the House
- MMDs
- New VRA
- Totally revamping SCOTUS: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
- Automatic universal voter registration
- Rewriting
- Subordinating the Senate: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Etc.
December 7, 2025 at 4:16 PM
🇺🇸 trifectas get shot at doing something
Obama chose policy (ACA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem
Biden chose policy (ARP/IRA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem
The platform must be institutional reform next time. Right from the start, as @dhnexon.bsky.social said
Obama chose policy (ACA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem
Biden chose policy (ARP/IRA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem
The platform must be
Reposted by Alison Bell
👇🎯
- DC/PR/USVI statehood
- Enlarging the House
- MMDs
- New VRA
- Totally revamping SCOTUS: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
- Automatic universal voter registration
- Rewriting the "national emergency" laws: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
- Subordinating the Senate: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Etc.
- Enlarging the House
- MMDs
- New VRA
- Totally revamping SCOTUS: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
- Automatic universal voter registration
- Rewriting
- Subordinating the Senate: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Etc.
👇🎯💯
Again, the needs to be & all the committees & commissions that want to Do A Popularism & focus on Kitchen Table Issues are engaged in a category mistake about What Democrats Must Do the next time they ever have power.
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Again, the
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
December 7, 2025 at 4:16 PM
👇🎯
Simplest (no amendment needed) is make all appellate (already life-tenured) judges a “panel” of SCOTUS justices and draw random assignments. Let the current justices die in office and never appoint any more.
December 6, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Simplest (no amendment needed) is make all appellate (already life-tenured) judges a “panel” of SCOTUS justices and draw random assignments. Let the current justices die in office and never appoint any more.
You’re welcome. It’s not much 😩
November 26, 2025 at 1:49 AM
You’re welcome. It’s not much 😩
Honestly thought I was already following you it maybe that was on the hellsite. I am a labor history nerd.
November 26, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Honestly thought I was already following you it maybe that was on the hellsite. I am a labor history nerd.
The argument is well made in Vladek’s book The Shadow Docket.
November 19, 2025 at 5:07 PM
The argument is well made in Vladek’s book The Shadow Docket.