Linda Belans
@lindabelans.bsky.social
December 2, 2025 at 2:14 AM
@nicollewallace.bsky.social Durham's, NC sheriff Clarence Birkhead, like Charlotte's, has publicly stated: his "obligations do not include detaining people without a criminal warrant; an immigration detainer is not a criminal warrant.” We are a “Fourth Amendment Workplace" w/ ongoing mobilizing.
Sign the Petition
Tell Durham City Council to say NO to mass immigrant deportation
www.change.org
November 17, 2025 at 10:49 PM
@nicollewallace.bsky.social Durham's, NC sheriff Clarence Birkhead, like Charlotte's, has publicly stated: his "obligations do not include detaining people without a criminal warrant; an immigration detainer is not a criminal warrant.” We are a “Fourth Amendment Workplace" w/ ongoing mobilizing.
@nicollewallace.bsky.social Durham, NC is a blue progressive city that, like Charlotte, also has a Black mayor. Here is an unanswered petition to the Durham City Council. www.change.org/DurhamProtects
Sign the Petition
Tell Durham City Council to say NO to mass immigrant deportation
www.change.org
November 17, 2025 at 10:37 PM
@nicollewallace.bsky.social Durham, NC is a blue progressive city that, like Charlotte, also has a Black mayor. Here is an unanswered petition to the Durham City Council. www.change.org/DurhamProtects
@msnbc.com To Rebecca Kutler.
It is incomprehensible that you fired @matthewjdowd.bsky.social for acknowledging the violent environment we live in. You can help rescue your network from irrelevance by getting out of the way of truth-telling & analysis by the commentators you hire to do so.
It is incomprehensible that you fired @matthewjdowd.bsky.social for acknowledging the violent environment we live in. You can help rescue your network from irrelevance by getting out of the way of truth-telling & analysis by the commentators you hire to do so.
September 14, 2025 at 8:17 PM
@msnbc.com To Rebecca Kutler.
It is incomprehensible that you fired @matthewjdowd.bsky.social for acknowledging the violent environment we live in. You can help rescue your network from irrelevance by getting out of the way of truth-telling & analysis by the commentators you hire to do so.
It is incomprehensible that you fired @matthewjdowd.bsky.social for acknowledging the violent environment we live in. You can help rescue your network from irrelevance by getting out of the way of truth-telling & analysis by the commentators you hire to do so.
@50501movement.bsky.social
Suggested strategy for the March.
Suggested strategy for the March.
April 7, 2025 at 3:02 PM
@50501movement.bsky.social
Suggested strategy for the March.
Suggested strategy for the March.
@indivisible.org
Suggested strategy for the next March.
Suggested strategy for the next March.
April 7, 2025 at 3:02 PM
@indivisible.org
Suggested strategy for the next March.
Suggested strategy for the next March.
Strategy for Next Protest March. Let's make it happen.
April 7, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Strategy for Next Protest March. Let's make it happen.
#TrumpTariffs are to the economy what #Trumpbleach was to COVID.
April 4, 2025 at 3:18 AM
#TrumpTariffs are to the economy what #Trumpbleach was to COVID.
Wrestling with what I'm willing to risk...what I'm willing to do as a bystander to state sanctioned abductions.
March 29, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Wrestling with what I'm willing to risk...what I'm willing to do as a bystander to state sanctioned abductions.
"As I approach my 80th year on the planet, I’m reflecting on how the policies, laws, and rules – written and whispered – shaped the personal, political and economic power of my generation." (Photo credit: @Leah Sobsey, 2025) #InternationalWomensDay2025
#InternationalWomensDay #Women
Dancing for our lives. In 1966, it meant that during a secretarial job interview at the University of Pittsburgh, the male personnel manager asked me what kind of birth control I used because he didn'...
www.lindabelans.com
March 10, 2025 at 12:02 AM
"As I approach my 80th year on the planet, I’m reflecting on how the policies, laws, and rules – written and whispered – shaped the personal, political and economic power of my generation." (Photo credit: @Leah Sobsey, 2025) #InternationalWomensDay2025
🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump.
Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.
Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.
February 22, 2025 at 7:44 PM
When we use @Bluesky to repost the fascist felon's pronouncements, we amplify them and recreate everything that was wrong with twitter. Alternatively, we can keep each other informed without bringing his picture and screenshots into this space. We come here to find the energy to move forward.
February 15, 2025 at 6:45 PM
When we use @Bluesky to repost the fascist felon's pronouncements, we amplify them and recreate everything that was wrong with twitter. Alternatively, we can keep each other informed without bringing his picture and screenshots into this space. We come here to find the energy to move forward.
We can change the American story when our personal moral decision aligns with a collective national strategy.
February 15, 2025 at 6:40 PM
We can change the American story when our personal moral decision aligns with a collective national strategy.
Reposted by Linda Belans
Trudeau: "There's not a snowball's chance in hell that Canada will ever be the 51st state"
February 12, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Trudeau: "There's not a snowball's chance in hell that Canada will ever be the 51st state"
O’er the ramparts
we watch
seam rippers tear
through one frayed stitch then
another, unraveling tattered stripes
faded remnants, scattering
stars across a sobbing landscape
under twilight’s last gleam.
–Linda Belans
February 1, 2025
we watch
seam rippers tear
through one frayed stitch then
another, unraveling tattered stripes
faded remnants, scattering
stars across a sobbing landscape
under twilight’s last gleam.
–Linda Belans
February 1, 2025
February 7, 2025 at 1:41 AM
O’er the ramparts
we watch
seam rippers tear
through one frayed stitch then
another, unraveling tattered stripes
faded remnants, scattering
stars across a sobbing landscape
under twilight’s last gleam.
–Linda Belans
February 1, 2025
we watch
seam rippers tear
through one frayed stitch then
another, unraveling tattered stripes
faded remnants, scattering
stars across a sobbing landscape
under twilight’s last gleam.
–Linda Belans
February 1, 2025
Reposted by Linda Belans
🚨BREAKING: Federal judge BLOCKS Trump spending freeze. A big victory for @democracyforward.bsky.social and their clients. Also a win for democracy and the rule of law.
Follow @democracydocket.com for full details.
www.democracydocket.com
Follow @democracydocket.com for full details.
www.democracydocket.com
February 3, 2025 at 10:12 PM
🚨BREAKING: Federal judge BLOCKS Trump spending freeze. A big victory for @democracyforward.bsky.social and their clients. Also a win for democracy and the rule of law.
Follow @democracydocket.com for full details.
www.democracydocket.com
Follow @democracydocket.com for full details.
www.democracydocket.com
Reposted by Linda Belans
There were HUNDREDS that showed up to an ICE watch training today in NC - so many that @siembranc.bsky.social had to turn people away since the venue was at capacity and schedule another session online. #werenotgoinganywhere
January 26, 2025 at 2:08 AM
There were HUNDREDS that showed up to an ICE watch training today in NC - so many that @siembranc.bsky.social had to turn people away since the venue was at capacity and schedule another session online. #werenotgoinganywhere
@mcuban.bsky.social I hope you can use the power of your voice to help guide the conversation away from the usual clicks & comments substituting for activism toward establishing a Vision that informs Strategies that guides Tactics. With gratitude. Linda Belans. www.statesofbeing.net
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January 23, 2025 at 2:51 AM
@mcuban.bsky.social I hope you can use the power of your voice to help guide the conversation away from the usual clicks & comments substituting for activism toward establishing a Vision that informs Strategies that guides Tactics. With gratitude. Linda Belans. www.statesofbeing.net
January 23, 2025 at 2:15 AM