Michelle Bell
@michellebell.bsky.social
When I was wee, the first movies I watched Shirley Temple movies at my grandparent’s house, the first book I read was Black Beauty, and the first time I read the Diary of Anne Frank at the same age she went into hiding
I knew that shit could happen here.
I knew that shit could happen here.
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1. The rich
Want to put out a show-stopping Christmas dinner? Here’s what add to the menu.
7 main dishes for an impressive Christmas feast
Make Christmas dinner feel extra special with these main dish recipes, including ham and lasagna.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 24, 2025 at 4:04 AM
1. The rich
A really good watch:
December 23, 2025 at 3:21 AM
A really good watch:
So beautiful (and funny and sweet) - I may have just fallen in love with Tom’s family- at the very least this lovely family would be welcome in my home any time.
Dose of lifebeauty.
THREAD.
My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments.
I've collected his work here...
My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments.
I've collected his work here...
December 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
So beautiful (and funny and sweet) - I may have just fallen in love with Tom’s family- at the very least this lovely family would be welcome in my home any time.
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Trump Still Polling Well With Working-Class American Pedophiles
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December 19, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Trump Still Polling Well With Working-Class American Pedophiles
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McDonald’s USA
— Employee: $15/hr, no benefits
— Big Mac: $5.79
McDonald’s Denmark
— Employee: $22/hr, 6 weeks vacation, 1 year paid maternity leave, life insurance, pension
— Big Mac: $5.49
Tell us more about how raising the minimum wage would affect the cost of hamburgers.
— Employee: $15/hr, no benefits
— Big Mac: $5.79
McDonald’s Denmark
— Employee: $22/hr, 6 weeks vacation, 1 year paid maternity leave, life insurance, pension
— Big Mac: $5.49
Tell us more about how raising the minimum wage would affect the cost of hamburgers.
December 17, 2025 at 8:59 PM
McDonald’s USA
— Employee: $15/hr, no benefits
— Big Mac: $5.79
McDonald’s Denmark
— Employee: $22/hr, 6 weeks vacation, 1 year paid maternity leave, life insurance, pension
— Big Mac: $5.49
Tell us more about how raising the minimum wage would affect the cost of hamburgers.
— Employee: $15/hr, no benefits
— Big Mac: $5.79
McDonald’s Denmark
— Employee: $22/hr, 6 weeks vacation, 1 year paid maternity leave, life insurance, pension
— Big Mac: $5.49
Tell us more about how raising the minimum wage would affect the cost of hamburgers.
🫡
New Christmas tree decoration just dropped.
This is metal
December 18, 2025 at 6:25 AM
🫡
Felt like I was living inside the movie “Vertigo” watching the fog roll in over the bay tonight and completely engulf us from almost the ground up (there’s a layer of fog around the streetlamps, lights are a little refracted, people walking in jackets)…I do love the Bay (and Hitchcock)
December 18, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Felt like I was living inside the movie “Vertigo” watching the fog roll in over the bay tonight and completely engulf us from almost the ground up (there’s a layer of fog around the streetlamps, lights are a little refracted, people walking in jackets)…I do love the Bay (and Hitchcock)
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This could have been an email.
December 18, 2025 at 2:18 AM
This could have been an email.
Uh, ok Target. (The replies to this give me SO MUCH hope 💗)
The chain unveiled its first-ever concept store in SoHo this week, adorned with stylish apparel, designer collaborations, and beauty products — all key areas that its incoming CEO hopes will revive its former "Tar-zhay" glory.
https://cnn.it/48W8CAk
https://cnn.it/48W8CAk
December 13, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Uh, ok Target. (The replies to this give me SO MUCH hope 💗)
Perfect:
Emma Lazarus's The New Colossus. 2025 edition.
Are you tired of the poor?
You muddle headed asses yearning to fellate me,
The wretched refuse of my golfing tours.
Send these, the home wreckers, Trumpist-dross to me,
My bucket for bribes sits outside the golden door!
Are you tired of the poor?
You muddle headed asses yearning to fellate me,
The wretched refuse of my golfing tours.
Send these, the home wreckers, Trumpist-dross to me,
My bucket for bribes sits outside the golden door!
If I didn’t see this myself on Truth Social I’d assume it was some phishing site
December 10, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Perfect:
finished up this up (work event yesterday), & now have a question: why TF/are albatrosses regularly seen inland on Attu?! Does this happen on the reg (I mean, natures gonna nature)? Not a birder, but a lover of birds and all things untamed ;) — the scenery in this movie is **beautiful** (& I ❤️ AK)
😆 I’m not a “birder” but I work with wild birds, and am just a bit horrified that I’m watching The Big Year for the first time and was (ugh, like a birder!) able to hear (and identify) kittiwakes (cuter than your average gull!) — oh my god what have I become?! 🤣🤓
December 8, 2025 at 1:19 AM
finished up this up (work event yesterday), & now have a question: why TF/are albatrosses regularly seen inland on Attu?! Does this happen on the reg (I mean, natures gonna nature)? Not a birder, but a lover of birds and all things untamed ;) — the scenery in this movie is **beautiful** (& I ❤️ AK)
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I’ve tried with this guy. I really have.
California Governor Gavin Newsom said on Thursday that the Democratic Party needed to be “more culturally normal” and “less judgmental.”
December 7, 2025 at 6:50 PM
I’ve tried with this guy. I really have.
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Tucker Carlson has hosted Hitler apologists on his show. Now he says Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a pastor who tried to kill Hitler, was not being Christian. He isn't making a theological argument. He's just morally inverting World War II and the Holocaust, to make space for their villains to rise again.
November 13, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Tucker Carlson has hosted Hitler apologists on his show. Now he says Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a pastor who tried to kill Hitler, was not being Christian. He isn't making a theological argument. He's just morally inverting World War II and the Holocaust, to make space for their villains to rise again.
Yes, please!
Here's an idea: Any Democrat who wants to be taken seriously as a presidential candidate in 2028 must pledge to rip this cabal of anti-democracy tech fascists out of our government.
Anyone who won't make that pledge is for the billionaires, not the people. This must be a deal-breaking litmus test.
Anyone who won't make that pledge is for the billionaires, not the people. This must be a deal-breaking litmus test.
A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
December 7, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Yes, please!
😆 I’m not a “birder” but I work with wild birds, and am just a bit horrified that I’m watching The Big Year for the first time and was (ugh, like a birder!) able to hear (and identify) kittiwakes (cuter than your average gull!) — oh my god what have I become?! 🤣🤓
December 7, 2025 at 6:13 AM
😆 I’m not a “birder” but I work with wild birds, and am just a bit horrified that I’m watching The Big Year for the first time and was (ugh, like a birder!) able to hear (and identify) kittiwakes (cuter than your average gull!) — oh my god what have I become?! 🤣🤓
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6 December 1921 | A Pole, Marian Kołodziej, was born in Raszków.
Deported to #Auschwitz from Tarnów on 14 June 1940 in the first transport of Poles to the camp.
No. 432
He survived.
After the war, he was a painter & stage designer.
Author of monumental „Negatives of Memory”.
Deported to #Auschwitz from Tarnów on 14 June 1940 in the first transport of Poles to the camp.
No. 432
He survived.
After the war, he was a painter & stage designer.
Author of monumental „Negatives of Memory”.
December 6, 2025 at 9:00 AM
6 December 1921 | A Pole, Marian Kołodziej, was born in Raszków.
Deported to #Auschwitz from Tarnów on 14 June 1940 in the first transport of Poles to the camp.
No. 432
He survived.
After the war, he was a painter & stage designer.
Author of monumental „Negatives of Memory”.
Deported to #Auschwitz from Tarnów on 14 June 1940 in the first transport of Poles to the camp.
No. 432
He survived.
After the war, he was a painter & stage designer.
Author of monumental „Negatives of Memory”.
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This is what Newsom should do, instead of staging photo opps to destroy homeless people’s belongings.
NEW: Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said Thursday he will not continue sweeps of homeless encampments — which city data shows have not yielded any permanent or supportive-housing referrals in more than a year.
www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/04/m...
www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/04/m...
Mamdani Vows to Sweep Out Crackdowns on Homeless Camps
City numbers show that sweeps started under Mayor Eric Adams have not delivered on referrals for housing in more than a year.
www.thecity.nyc
December 5, 2025 at 12:57 AM
This is what Newsom should do, instead of staging photo opps to destroy homeless people’s belongings.
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But this time... it's literally true!
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let's make this go viral!
But this time... it's literally true!
Russ has offered to donate to Bolts for each repost this ⬇️ gets or each follow @boltsmag.org gets—up to a sum way higher than we're at.
let's make this go viral!
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December 4, 2025 at 6:09 PM
So, you know how people say stuff like, "just repost this & you'll have supported journalism"?
But this time... it's literally true!
Russ has offered to donate to Bolts for each repost this ⬇️ gets or each follow @boltsmag.org gets—up to a sum way higher than we're at.
let's make this go viral!
But this time... it's literally true!
Russ has offered to donate to Bolts for each repost this ⬇️ gets or each follow @boltsmag.org gets—up to a sum way higher than we're at.
let's make this go viral!
I can’t believe it’s already the eve of the 4th of July, 2027 already*! 🙄
just to drive home the point. Texas created this map in August. the lower court rendered its decision November. So three months later, a year before the election in question.
The word "eve" is doing a lot of work here in the Court's 'decision'
December 4, 2025 at 11:46 PM
I can’t believe it’s already the eve of the 4th of July, 2027 already*! 🙄
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Owner of Whole Foods says food prices are a bargain
December 3, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Owner of Whole Foods says food prices are a bargain
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If you are a pediatrician it's ok to ignore recommendations that put your patients at risk. ACIP guidelines are not legally binding. You all swore on the Hippocratic Oath which states the following:
"I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure."
"I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure."
Breaking news: Federal vaccine advisers selected by Health Secretary RFK Jr. are planning to vote on ending the practice of vaccinating all newborns for hepatitis B and to examine whether shots are behind the rise of allergies and autoimmune disorders.
RFK Jr.'s vaccine advisers plan biggest change yet to childhood schedule
The new chair of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices said the panel plans to vote to end universal hepatitis B vaccination at birth and to scrutinize if childhood shots cause allergies.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:32 PM
If you are a pediatrician it's ok to ignore recommendations that put your patients at risk. ACIP guidelines are not legally binding. You all swore on the Hippocratic Oath which states the following:
"I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure."
"I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure."
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Pete Hagueseth. We should make it a thing.
Hagueseth
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
November 28, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Pete Hagueseth. We should make it a thing.
Little blue penguin
Polar bear
Musk ox
‘Bou
Ostrich
Polar bear
Musk ox
‘Bou
Ostrich
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Caribou
Ravens
Seals
Kea
Turkeys
Caribou
Ravens
Seals
Kea
Turkeys
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Moose
Humpback whales
Giraffes
African Elephants
West African or Nile monitor lizard
Moose
Humpback whales
Giraffes
African Elephants
West African or Nile monitor lizard
November 29, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Little blue penguin
Polar bear
Musk ox
‘Bou
Ostrich
Polar bear
Musk ox
‘Bou
Ostrich
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What a great headline
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What a great headline
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The headline needs to be that this happened on Trump's watch. Kash Patel, Kristi Noem and Donald Trump allowed this to happen.
Two West Virginia National Guardsmen who were shot in Washington, DC, are in critical condition, according to officials. CNN's Brian Todd reports.
Follow live updates: https://cnn.it/4pdYxpd
Follow live updates: https://cnn.it/4pdYxpd
November 27, 2025 at 2:16 AM
The headline needs to be that this happened on Trump's watch. Kash Patel, Kristi Noem and Donald Trump allowed this to happen.