dellaquella
@dellaquella.bsky.social
orbiting the sun with you
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Muting a Black woman to claim the vote was unanimous is so incredibly on the nose
The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.
December 18, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Muting a Black woman to claim the vote was unanimous is so incredibly on the nose
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NEW: Humanitarian officials staged a last-minute plea to Trump officials at their fancy hotel to re-start food aid $ for a huge refugee camp in Kenya.
The Trumpers blew it off and babies starved.
@annamaria.bsky.social & Brett Murphy
www.propublica.org/article/keny...
The Trumpers blew it off and babies starved.
@annamaria.bsky.social & Brett Murphy
www.propublica.org/article/keny...
December 17, 2025 at 12:36 PM
NEW: Humanitarian officials staged a last-minute plea to Trump officials at their fancy hotel to re-start food aid $ for a huge refugee camp in Kenya.
The Trumpers blew it off and babies starved.
@annamaria.bsky.social & Brett Murphy
www.propublica.org/article/keny...
The Trumpers blew it off and babies starved.
@annamaria.bsky.social & Brett Murphy
www.propublica.org/article/keny...
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An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth
December 17, 2025 at 2:52 AM
An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth
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We are parents of a trans kid and our family takes this very, very personally. If you intentionally make life harder for our beloved daughter, it’s EXTREMELY hard to think of you as an ally, to say the least. @amyklobuchar.com - you still send us requests for money, while hurting our kid. Disgusted.
Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
By a vote of 76-23, S 1071 passes the motion to proceed to the motion to concur. Won't know who voted for this until the roll call is uploaded, but safe to say it passed with the support of at least 24 members of the Democratic caucus. (Rand Paul probably voted nay and Steve Daines has been absent).
December 16, 2025 at 2:33 PM
We are parents of a trans kid and our family takes this very, very personally. If you intentionally make life harder for our beloved daughter, it’s EXTREMELY hard to think of you as an ally, to say the least. @amyklobuchar.com - you still send us requests for money, while hurting our kid. Disgusted.
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I know many things are awful but here is one genuinely useful and helpful thing you can do. No matter their party, your representative needs to hear that trans people and our families are not alone and this bill is an unjustifiable and extreme threat to criminalize the health care we need to live.
Tomorrow, the House of Representatives will vote on a bill that bans gender-affirming medical care for any transgender person under 18, and threatens any medical professional providing this care to youth with 10 years in prison.
Tell Congress to protect trans youth and vote NO.
Tell Congress to protect trans youth and vote NO.
Protect Trans Care Now
As wave after wave of extreme measures to criminalize and strip trans people of rights and safety continue, tell Congress to act.
action.aclu.org
December 16, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I know many things are awful but here is one genuinely useful and helpful thing you can do. No matter their party, your representative needs to hear that trans people and our families are not alone and this bill is an unjustifiable and extreme threat to criminalize the health care we need to live.
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I will NEVER vote for a politician who votes for anti-trans legislation. Never. I don't care who it is, it's a dead issue. Move on. If my vote is so important to the future of democracy they should have thought of that before they voted to exterminate my child.
December 16, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I will NEVER vote for a politician who votes for anti-trans legislation. Never. I don't care who it is, it's a dead issue. Move on. If my vote is so important to the future of democracy they should have thought of that before they voted to exterminate my child.
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This also happened during Trump’s first term. That 2024 dip? That’s when Democrats went on the defensive, and let Trump and MAGA dictate the immigration narrative.
Why, it’s almost as if political leadership (good and bad) can actually drive public opinion, instead of always following it.
Why, it’s almost as if political leadership (good and bad) can actually drive public opinion, instead of always following it.
December 16, 2025 at 3:30 PM
This also happened during Trump’s first term. That 2024 dip? That’s when Democrats went on the defensive, and let Trump and MAGA dictate the immigration narrative.
Why, it’s almost as if political leadership (good and bad) can actually drive public opinion, instead of always following it.
Why, it’s almost as if political leadership (good and bad) can actually drive public opinion, instead of always following it.
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Primary them all and block anybody who comes with the “at this crucial juncture the most important thing is that we win.” if they believed that they wouldn’t do this and with friends like them nobody needs enemies
Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
By a vote of 76-23, S 1071 passes the motion to proceed to the motion to concur. Won't know who voted for this until the roll call is uploaded, but safe to say it passed with the support of at least 24 members of the Democratic caucus. (Rand Paul probably voted nay and Steve Daines has been absent).
December 16, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Primary them all and block anybody who comes with the “at this crucial juncture the most important thing is that we win.” if they believed that they wouldn’t do this and with friends like them nobody needs enemies
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Nobody asked but Meathead meant a lot to me as a powerless little kid. He showed us that you can and should stand up and call out bigotry in your home, especially from those who should know better. Thank you Rob.
December 16, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Nobody asked but Meathead meant a lot to me as a powerless little kid. He showed us that you can and should stand up and call out bigotry in your home, especially from those who should know better. Thank you Rob.
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Iowa friends, if any of you might be up for a little post-Christmas road trip, we're trying to help Cheri at American Black & Tan Coonhound Rescue pull off a minor miracle here:
December 16, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Iowa friends, if any of you might be up for a little post-Christmas road trip, we're trying to help Cheri at American Black & Tan Coonhound Rescue pull off a minor miracle here:
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Losing Rob Reiner is like losing a family member. He has been there my entire life, making me laugh and cry and showing me that a strong man is sensitive, caring and stands up for what's right.
December 15, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Losing Rob Reiner is like losing a family member. He has been there my entire life, making me laugh and cry and showing me that a strong man is sensitive, caring and stands up for what's right.
It’s not funny anymore.
December 15, 2025 at 12:48 PM
It’s not funny anymore.
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They drive among us.
tesla owners admitting without shame they don’t know how to drive anymore
December 15, 2025 at 12:07 PM
They drive among us.
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Sleep as well as you can ♥️ 🪶 🐣
August 19, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Sleep as well as you can ♥️ 🪶 🐣
I looked in the mirror and I’d aged twenty years.
December 15, 2025 at 4:50 AM
I looked in the mirror and I’d aged twenty years.
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The CIA couldn't get me to admit I was this incompetent and these guys are just tweeting it out for the world to see
tesla owners admitting without shame they don’t know how to drive anymore
December 15, 2025 at 2:56 AM
The CIA couldn't get me to admit I was this incompetent and these guys are just tweeting it out for the world to see
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Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.
Happy Hanukkah to our friends who celebrate. Rachel Posner, a rabbi’s wife in Kiel, Germany, took this photograph in 1931 -- a potent reminder that fascism must be fought in every generation, even if it's wrapped in an American flag and a red hat.
December 14, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.
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Just for those who may be a little confused: “Pro-life” would be 20 Sandy Hook students being college sophomores this year.
December 14, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Just for those who may be a little confused: “Pro-life” would be 20 Sandy Hook students being college sophomores this year.
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The Japanese Bridge (The Water-Lily Pond) - 1899
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10748
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10748
December 14, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The Japanese Bridge (The Water-Lily Pond) - 1899
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10748
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10748
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A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: As it's Dick Van Dyke's 100th birthday, here's Coldplay's "All My Love"—the music video version that celebrated Van Dyke's 99th birthday last year, with the old guy dancing, chatting, and hanging out with his family. See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSea...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSea...
Coldplay - ALL MY LOVE (Official Video)
YouTube video by Coldplay
www.youtube.com
December 14, 2025 at 4:59 AM
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: As it's Dick Van Dyke's 100th birthday, here's Coldplay's "All My Love"—the music video version that celebrated Van Dyke's 99th birthday last year, with the old guy dancing, chatting, and hanging out with his family. See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSea...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSea...
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Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.
December 13, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.
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WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.