Elizabeth de Bethune
@lizrdeb.bsky.social
Artist and activist, retired teacher, UFT RTC-chapter. Painter of queer folk among other things
to see my art: www.elizabethdebethuneart.com, @lizartdeb on Instagram
see also @nycd16-indivisible.bsky.social
to see my art: www.elizabethdebethuneart.com, @lizartdeb on Instagram
see also @nycd16-indivisible.bsky.social
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Urge #Hochul to Sign the Bills She's Been Holding Out On!
3 critical bills have passed to protect our communities but remain on Hochul’s Desk for months!!! No More Waiting!
3 critical bills have passed to protect our communities but remain on Hochul’s Desk for months!!! No More Waiting!
November 17, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Urge #Hochul to Sign the Bills She's Been Holding Out On!
3 critical bills have passed to protect our communities but remain on Hochul’s Desk for months!!! No More Waiting!
3 critical bills have passed to protect our communities but remain on Hochul’s Desk for months!!! No More Waiting!
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Governor Hochul just signed S1804/A128A into law, making #NY the first state in the nation to eliminate cost-sharing for inhalers. We want to thank the Governor and the bill sponsors, Senator Rivera and Assemblymember González-Rojas, for their tremendous work in passing this bill.
November 23, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Governor Hochul just signed S1804/A128A into law, making #NY the first state in the nation to eliminate cost-sharing for inhalers. We want to thank the Governor and the bill sponsors, Senator Rivera and Assemblymember González-Rojas, for their tremendous work in passing this bill.
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December 1, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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#PrisonReform Please join us! RSVP!
December 2, 2025 at 12:02 AM
#PrisonReform Please join us! RSVP!
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Spotify is running ads recruiting more ICE agents to infringe our rights and terrorize our communities, so we’re calling on users to stop paying for or using the app until Spotify stops streaming fascism: indivisible.org/cancel-spoti... #CancelSpotify
November 7, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Spotify is running ads recruiting more ICE agents to infringe our rights and terrorize our communities, so we’re calling on users to stop paying for or using the app until Spotify stops streaming fascism: indivisible.org/cancel-spoti... #CancelSpotify
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This is another good time to remind folks that most SNAP recipients work, many of them full-time, yet are not paid a living wage.
(source: CBPP.org using US Census Bureau data)
(source: CBPP.org using US Census Bureau data)
October 27, 2025 at 7:42 PM
This is another good time to remind folks that most SNAP recipients work, many of them full-time, yet are not paid a living wage.
(source: CBPP.org using US Census Bureau data)
(source: CBPP.org using US Census Bureau data)
Just finished listening to “The Lincoln Highway” by Amor Towles. I had listened/read “Ordinary Grace” by William Kent Krueger only a month ago. Really struck by the similarities between the books. Wondering about this impulse towards a 20 th century Huck Finn/Odyssey narrative.
October 12, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Just finished listening to “The Lincoln Highway” by Amor Towles. I had listened/read “Ordinary Grace” by William Kent Krueger only a month ago. Really struck by the similarities between the books. Wondering about this impulse towards a 20 th century Huck Finn/Odyssey narrative.
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Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor condemned her conservative colleagues for allowing the Donald Trump administration to continue making immigration stops based on racial profiling.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor slams Trump admin in searing dissent
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor condemned her conservative colleagues for allowing the Donald Trump administration to continue making immigration stops based on racial profiling.In a brief, unsigned order issued Monday, the high court lifted a federal judge's order that had prohibited federal ...
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September 8, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor condemned her conservative colleagues for allowing the Donald Trump administration to continue making immigration stops based on racial profiling.
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To all our friends and colleagues: #HappyLaborDay! Let's remember that working folks, not the 1 percent, made this country move forward. Alas, summer is pretty much over. It's back to #school, back to #Politics, back to saving #Democracy.
It's hard, but we can do it. Hold on to #JOY & the Positive.
It's hard, but we can do it. Hold on to #JOY & the Positive.
September 1, 2025 at 9:34 PM
To all our friends and colleagues: #HappyLaborDay! Let's remember that working folks, not the 1 percent, made this country move forward. Alas, summer is pretty much over. It's back to #school, back to #Politics, back to saving #Democracy.
It's hard, but we can do it. Hold on to #JOY & the Positive.
It's hard, but we can do it. Hold on to #JOY & the Positive.
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Trying to "align" the Smithsonian w/DJT's preferences is part of an attack on knowledge
Universities
The Park Service
The Nat'l Endowment for the Humanities
PBS & CPB
& more.
Why the attack?
Knowledge is power
It empowers people
And empowerment & independent thought are NOT authoritarian friendly
Universities
The Park Service
The Nat'l Endowment for the Humanities
PBS & CPB
& more.
Why the attack?
Knowledge is power
It empowers people
And empowerment & independent thought are NOT authoritarian friendly
August 16, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Trying to "align" the Smithsonian w/DJT's preferences is part of an attack on knowledge
Universities
The Park Service
The Nat'l Endowment for the Humanities
PBS & CPB
& more.
Why the attack?
Knowledge is power
It empowers people
And empowerment & independent thought are NOT authoritarian friendly
Universities
The Park Service
The Nat'l Endowment for the Humanities
PBS & CPB
& more.
Why the attack?
Knowledge is power
It empowers people
And empowerment & independent thought are NOT authoritarian friendly
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It may still be hot outside, but we need to get into #GoodTrouble!
June 27, 2025 at 6:30 PM
It may still be hot outside, but we need to get into #GoodTrouble!
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#WarPowersResolution in the #Senate. Indivisible is always ready with a call script to use. Here they are.
#NoWarwithIran
#TellYourRepresentative:NoWarwithIran
Five Calls also provides great scripts: 5calls.
#NoWarwithIran
#TellYourRepresentative:NoWarwithIran
Five Calls also provides great scripts: 5calls.
June 27, 2025 at 6:59 PM
#WarPowersResolution in the #Senate. Indivisible is always ready with a call script to use. Here they are.
#NoWarwithIran
#TellYourRepresentative:NoWarwithIran
Five Calls also provides great scripts: 5calls.
#NoWarwithIran
#TellYourRepresentative:NoWarwithIran
Five Calls also provides great scripts: 5calls.
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Today’s the Day. Let’s get this bill passed! Rally in Yonkers today! @nycd16-indivisible.bsky.social @lizrdeb.bsky.social @msifry.bsky.social @cstern914.bsky.social @indivisible.org
June 2, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Today’s the Day. Let’s get this bill passed! Rally in Yonkers today! @nycd16-indivisible.bsky.social @lizrdeb.bsky.social @msifry.bsky.social @cstern914.bsky.social @indivisible.org
Come see all the people!
“Out, In” —Yonkers Riverfront Library Art Gallery, just in time for Yonkers Pride. See you at the Artist’s Reception, Thursday June 5, 6-8pm!
www.ypl.org/gallery/upco...
May 31 — June 30
“Out, In” —Yonkers Riverfront Library Art Gallery, just in time for Yonkers Pride. See you at the Artist’s Reception, Thursday June 5, 6-8pm!
www.ypl.org/gallery/upco...
May 31 — June 30
May 29, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Come see all the people!
“Out, In” —Yonkers Riverfront Library Art Gallery, just in time for Yonkers Pride. See you at the Artist’s Reception, Thursday June 5, 6-8pm!
www.ypl.org/gallery/upco...
May 31 — June 30
“Out, In” —Yonkers Riverfront Library Art Gallery, just in time for Yonkers Pride. See you at the Artist’s Reception, Thursday June 5, 6-8pm!
www.ypl.org/gallery/upco...
May 31 — June 30
Fight the Politicization of the Federal Workforce. Do not reinstate Schedule F. Your opposing comment really matters. Comment period until May 23. Do it now.
Schedule F (politicization) is bad and the rule (protecting nonpartisan civil servants) is good
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/here-is-a-...
Schedule F (politicization) is bad and the rule (protecting nonpartisan civil servants) is good
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/here-is-a-...
Here is a specific thing you can do to fight Trump's politicization of public services
Plus: what I wrote in Science about the revised Schedule F
donmoynihan.substack.com
May 10, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Fight the Politicization of the Federal Workforce. Do not reinstate Schedule F. Your opposing comment really matters. Comment period until May 23. Do it now.
Schedule F (politicization) is bad and the rule (protecting nonpartisan civil servants) is good
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/here-is-a-...
Schedule F (politicization) is bad and the rule (protecting nonpartisan civil servants) is good
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/here-is-a-...
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Yesterday in Yonkers! “I am Kilmar” #bringhimhome @msifry.bsky.social @lizrdeb.bsky.social @nycd16-indivisible.bsky.social
April 18, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Yesterday in Yonkers! “I am Kilmar” #bringhimhome @msifry.bsky.social @lizrdeb.bsky.social @nycd16-indivisible.bsky.social
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Thank you to all the volunteers with @nycd16-indivisible.bsky.social for their commitment to this work. We are in it together.
April 13, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Thank you to all the volunteers with @nycd16-indivisible.bsky.social for their commitment to this work. We are in it together.
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Your rights are not protected by the paper they are written on, they are protected by the strength of your resistance. Join a protest near you. #3E #fiftyfiftyone
April 12, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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SEN. GUSTAVO RIVERA STATEMENT ON KIDNAPPING OF #BRONX RESIDENT MERWIL GUTIERREZ BY #ICE, IMPRISONMENT IN EL SALVADOR
In response to the news of the unlawful detention, deportation, and imprisonment of Bronx resident Merwil Gutierrez, Rivera released the following statement.
In response to the news of the unlawful detention, deportation, and imprisonment of Bronx resident Merwil Gutierrez, Rivera released the following statement.
April 16, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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“The blatant racial profiling, the disrespect for due process, and the daylight kidnapping of Merwil by ICE is appalling and intolerable & should be a cause for alarm for all Americans.
April 16, 2025 at 11:49 PM
“The blatant racial profiling, the disrespect for due process, and the daylight kidnapping of Merwil by ICE is appalling and intolerable & should be a cause for alarm for all Americans.
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Okay, folks. There's momentum around bringing #Kilmar home. It's a powerful case to challenge the broader authoritarian threat of #Trump. #WeAreKilmar It could happen to any of us. Call #Congress demanding your Reps go to #ElSalvador. Absent that, they need to speak out.
TODAY: 6PM #Yonkers
TODAY: 6PM #Yonkers
April 17, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Okay, folks. There's momentum around bringing #Kilmar home. It's a powerful case to challenge the broader authoritarian threat of #Trump. #WeAreKilmar It could happen to any of us. Call #Congress demanding your Reps go to #ElSalvador. Absent that, they need to speak out.
TODAY: 6PM #Yonkers
TODAY: 6PM #Yonkers
Some recent small paintings in #acrylicgouache 1. Construction on Liebig, 2. Gina Painting, 3. Lobby, 555 Taxter 4. Nile at Rawda Island, 5. Rietveldt Chairs, Wave Hill, 6. Stairs at 262 St. 7. Troster Mall 8. Uphill Fairfield Road
March 28, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Some recent small paintings in #acrylicgouache 1. Construction on Liebig, 2. Gina Painting, 3. Lobby, 555 Taxter 4. Nile at Rawda Island, 5. Rietveldt Chairs, Wave Hill, 6. Stairs at 262 St. 7. Troster Mall 8. Uphill Fairfield Road
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500 at a “Stop the Cuts” rally in Tarrytown, NY, where the fury at Rep. Mike Lawler (R) is palpable. Cc @nycd16-indivisible.bsky.social
March 15, 2025 at 3:38 PM
500 at a “Stop the Cuts” rally in Tarrytown, NY, where the fury at Rep. Mike Lawler (R) is palpable. Cc @nycd16-indivisible.bsky.social
Happy to celebrate #international_womens_day by participating in "Moving Forward Together! Women Educating and Inspiring Generations" at @isliparts. Exhibition is up from March 8-31. Reception is March 14, 5-7pm
March 8, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Happy to celebrate #international_womens_day by participating in "Moving Forward Together! Women Educating and Inspiring Generations" at @isliparts. Exhibition is up from March 8-31. Reception is March 14, 5-7pm