Ilona V Bell
@ivbell.bsky.social
Accountant, reader, oh shit Knitter, Jesus follower, feeder of birds, generally devoted parent, grandparent and spouse and love living in the PNW. She/her
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I simultaneously go back and forth between thinking "these brave women" and "Those poor girls." They had to be the adults because actual adults failed them.
Maria Farmer cont'd: "I'm crying for two reasons. I want everyone to know that I am shedding tears of joy for myself, but also tears of sorrow for all the other victims that the FBI failed."
December 20, 2025 at 5:54 AM
I simultaneously go back and forth between thinking "these brave women" and "Those poor girls." They had to be the adults because actual adults failed them.
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Daily Dems Doing the Work, Making Noise and Fighting Back Day 326
Doomerella seems to have forgotten, but I hope you don’t. Fighting doesn’t only matter when we win. We are in the minority, we are not always going to win, no matter how hard we fight, but sometimes we will, and when we do,
1/
Doomerella seems to have forgotten, but I hope you don’t. Fighting doesn’t only matter when we win. We are in the minority, we are not always going to win, no matter how hard we fight, but sometimes we will, and when we do,
1/
December 20, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Daily Dems Doing the Work, Making Noise and Fighting Back Day 326
Doomerella seems to have forgotten, but I hope you don’t. Fighting doesn’t only matter when we win. We are in the minority, we are not always going to win, no matter how hard we fight, but sometimes we will, and when we do,
1/
Doomerella seems to have forgotten, but I hope you don’t. Fighting doesn’t only matter when we win. We are in the minority, we are not always going to win, no matter how hard we fight, but sometimes we will, and when we do,
1/
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I'm looking forward to 2029 when we remove and destroy every aspect of Trump's name on federal property like US forces taking down everything with Saddam Hussein on it.
That's the bare minimum any Dem should do. Leave no trace of his existence.
That's the bare minimum any Dem should do. Leave no trace of his existence.
December 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I'm looking forward to 2029 when we remove and destroy every aspect of Trump's name on federal property like US forces taking down everything with Saddam Hussein on it.
That's the bare minimum any Dem should do. Leave no trace of his existence.
That's the bare minimum any Dem should do. Leave no trace of his existence.
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Learned today that a dose of Skyrizi without insurance is $20-22K. I assume the drug is effective, but guys, that commercial is on every five minutes. Maybe funnel some of that advertising budget into reducing the medicine's cost. People who need it it will find it without hearing the song.
December 19, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Learned today that a dose of Skyrizi without insurance is $20-22K. I assume the drug is effective, but guys, that commercial is on every five minutes. Maybe funnel some of that advertising budget into reducing the medicine's cost. People who need it it will find it without hearing the song.
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Hey, please take a deep breath. There is a lot of really bad news today and it seems like that’s all there is and it’s suffocating.
When he’s this angry and doing this much that means we’re doing something right. So just breathe and don’t forget that. I’m sorry I wasn’t here to help you through it.
When he’s this angry and doing this much that means we’re doing something right. So just breathe and don’t forget that. I’m sorry I wasn’t here to help you through it.
December 19, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Hey, please take a deep breath. There is a lot of really bad news today and it seems like that’s all there is and it’s suffocating.
When he’s this angry and doing this much that means we’re doing something right. So just breathe and don’t forget that. I’m sorry I wasn’t here to help you through it.
When he’s this angry and doing this much that means we’re doing something right. So just breathe and don’t forget that. I’m sorry I wasn’t here to help you through it.
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Reminding everyone for no particular reason that Section 230 is one of the last things standing between free speech online and Trump having control over everything you see and say on the internet
December 18, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Reminding everyone for no particular reason that Section 230 is one of the last things standing between free speech online and Trump having control over everything you see and say on the internet
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Think about this. Did you hear trans panic headlines in the 2000s? No.
Conservatives weren’t “worried” about trans people until the day they lost on Marriage Equality.
Once they realized most of us are just fine with gay marriage, they needed a new wedge issue and started attacking trans people.
Conservatives weren’t “worried” about trans people until the day they lost on Marriage Equality.
Once they realized most of us are just fine with gay marriage, they needed a new wedge issue and started attacking trans people.
I’m rewatching Mad About You & theres a joke where Ursula the ditzy waitress mistakes a recurring character for a post-op trans woman and immediately talks about how great she looks now, then deadnames her as part of a running joke at Ursula’s expense. In 1995. The great trans scare is manufactured.
December 18, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Think about this. Did you hear trans panic headlines in the 2000s? No.
Conservatives weren’t “worried” about trans people until the day they lost on Marriage Equality.
Once they realized most of us are just fine with gay marriage, they needed a new wedge issue and started attacking trans people.
Conservatives weren’t “worried” about trans people until the day they lost on Marriage Equality.
Once they realized most of us are just fine with gay marriage, they needed a new wedge issue and started attacking trans people.
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If Trump announces a new and illegal regime change war against Venezuela tonight pay attention to which elected Democrats stay silent and don’t vociferously oppose and condemn him for it - and then make sure those Dems are subjected to primary challenges next year.
December 18, 2025 at 12:12 AM
If Trump announces a new and illegal regime change war against Venezuela tonight pay attention to which elected Democrats stay silent and don’t vociferously oppose and condemn him for it - and then make sure those Dems are subjected to primary challenges next year.
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The Oregon MAGA activist who has been trying to end the state’s wildly popular and successful vote by mail system thinks elected Republicans hate the idea because…they also use it to cheat on elections? BTW, there is no evidence of systemic voter fraud in Oregon.
December 18, 2025 at 12:17 AM
The Oregon MAGA activist who has been trying to end the state’s wildly popular and successful vote by mail system thinks elected Republicans hate the idea because…they also use it to cheat on elections? BTW, there is no evidence of systemic voter fraud in Oregon.
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Everything is vindictiveness and revenge for these people. Everything.
Human beings cannot sustain decent societies based on retribution and cruelty.
Human beings cannot sustain decent societies based on retribution and cruelty.
SCOOP: American Academy of Pediatrics loses HHS funding after criticizing RFK Jr. Research included reducing sudden infant deaths and identifying autism early. Me and @Paigecunningham.Bsky.Social
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
American Academy of Pediatrics loses HHS funding after criticizing RFK Jr.
HHS cuts key AAP grants, citing concerns about “identity-based language” and insufficient focus on agency priorities. The organization said the cuts could harm child health.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 17, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Everything is vindictiveness and revenge for these people. Everything.
Human beings cannot sustain decent societies based on retribution and cruelty.
Human beings cannot sustain decent societies based on retribution and cruelty.
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This is my cyclical reminder that there's really only one consistently reliable source of info in the public record that isn't owned by right wing billionaires, who really want to put an end to it.
Please give at least the $2.75 minimum they request if you can.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Please give at least the $2.75 minimum they request if you can.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 17, 2025 at 5:05 AM
This is my cyclical reminder that there's really only one consistently reliable source of info in the public record that isn't owned by right wing billionaires, who really want to put an end to it.
Please give at least the $2.75 minimum they request if you can.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Please give at least the $2.75 minimum they request if you can.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
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this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.
December 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.
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Any time you encounter a river you should throw the biggest stick you can find into it to appease the beaver spirit.
December 16, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Any time you encounter a river you should throw the biggest stick you can find into it to appease the beaver spirit.
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Remembering Rob and Michele Reiner. People who knew them. Hear us 9a to Noon ET on outlets like:
Radio: SiriusXM Progress 127
TV: Free Speech TV on Roku / #AppleTV / #AmazonFireTV / #SlingTV
Streaming: WCPT 820 - Chicago's Progressive Talk on TuneIn
Video Stream: www.politicalvoicesnetwork.com
Radio: SiriusXM Progress 127
TV: Free Speech TV on Roku / #AppleTV / #AmazonFireTV / #SlingTV
Streaming: WCPT 820 - Chicago's Progressive Talk on TuneIn
Video Stream: www.politicalvoicesnetwork.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Remembering Rob and Michele Reiner. People who knew them. Hear us 9a to Noon ET on outlets like:
Radio: SiriusXM Progress 127
TV: Free Speech TV on Roku / #AppleTV / #AmazonFireTV / #SlingTV
Streaming: WCPT 820 - Chicago's Progressive Talk on TuneIn
Video Stream: www.politicalvoicesnetwork.com
Radio: SiriusXM Progress 127
TV: Free Speech TV on Roku / #AppleTV / #AmazonFireTV / #SlingTV
Streaming: WCPT 820 - Chicago's Progressive Talk on TuneIn
Video Stream: www.politicalvoicesnetwork.com
What is Podesta talking about? It’s not TEACHERS it’s people like HIM.
i am once again asking who the "leftist extremists in the faculty lounge" shaping democratic party priorities are, and what policies it is that they are instituting
December 14, 2025 at 8:37 PM
What is Podesta talking about? It’s not TEACHERS it’s people like HIM.
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This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
December 14, 2025 at 8:02 PM
This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
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No honest, non-corrupt
explanation
why Trump pardoned
former Honduran
president, Hernandez,
even though he was
convicted for shipping
500 TONS of cocaine
to the USA.
Paid for the pardon?
Republicans are responsible
since none have tried
to stop it.
Crime promoters.
explanation
why Trump pardoned
former Honduran
president, Hernandez,
even though he was
convicted for shipping
500 TONS of cocaine
to the USA.
Paid for the pardon?
Republicans are responsible
since none have tried
to stop it.
Crime promoters.
December 14, 2025 at 8:23 PM
No honest, non-corrupt
explanation
why Trump pardoned
former Honduran
president, Hernandez,
even though he was
convicted for shipping
500 TONS of cocaine
to the USA.
Paid for the pardon?
Republicans are responsible
since none have tried
to stop it.
Crime promoters.
explanation
why Trump pardoned
former Honduran
president, Hernandez,
even though he was
convicted for shipping
500 TONS of cocaine
to the USA.
Paid for the pardon?
Republicans are responsible
since none have tried
to stop it.
Crime promoters.
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i am fascinated by how nate silver turns everything he doesn’t like into a bespoke ideology. it’s not that he is annoyed by HCR, it is that she is a dreaded “ism” responsible for everything he doesn’t like about the democratic party. same with bluesky.
December 13, 2025 at 11:01 PM
i am fascinated by how nate silver turns everything he doesn’t like into a bespoke ideology. it’s not that he is annoyed by HCR, it is that she is a dreaded “ism” responsible for everything he doesn’t like about the democratic party. same with bluesky.
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Congratulations to TIME Magazine’s Person of the Year: The Box of Miscellaneous USB and Firewire Cables You Started Collecting in 2007
December 11, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Congratulations to TIME Magazine’s Person of the Year: The Box of Miscellaneous USB and Firewire Cables You Started Collecting in 2007
Quid pro quo - again. For trump everything is transactional.
We now learn that Fifa had a very specific "ask" in exchange for its "Peace Award" to Trump, with loads of gold trinkets, and that was dismissal of a criminal corruption case against senior Fifa officials. And Trump granted it. Another corrupt bargain, barely noticed (and ignored by US media).
December 11, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Quid pro quo - again. For trump everything is transactional.
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Paramount launches hostile $78-billion bid for Warner Bros with backing from Jared Kushner
$11.8 B - Larry Ellison's family
$24 B - Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth funds
$1 B - Chinese firm Tencent
$ - RedBird Capital & Affinity Partners
www.latimes.com/business/sto...
$11.8 B - Larry Ellison's family
$24 B - Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth funds
$1 B - Chinese firm Tencent
$ - RedBird Capital & Affinity Partners
www.latimes.com/business/sto...
Paramount launches hostile $78-billion bid for Warner Bros., with backing from Trump's son-in-law
Paramount said it offered $30 a share in the final hours of last week's auction. 'We never heard back,' says Paramount Chair David Ellison.
www.latimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Paramount launches hostile $78-billion bid for Warner Bros with backing from Jared Kushner
$11.8 B - Larry Ellison's family
$24 B - Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth funds
$1 B - Chinese firm Tencent
$ - RedBird Capital & Affinity Partners
www.latimes.com/business/sto...
$11.8 B - Larry Ellison's family
$24 B - Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth funds
$1 B - Chinese firm Tencent
$ - RedBird Capital & Affinity Partners
www.latimes.com/business/sto...
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Tonight's Low Quality Ad is for this "You Just Yee'd Your Last Haw" air freshener. This town is big enough for the both of you (because he is smol) but he still doesn't want you in it.
collabs.shop/vaom44
collabs.shop/vaom44
December 9, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Tonight's Low Quality Ad is for this "You Just Yee'd Your Last Haw" air freshener. This town is big enough for the both of you (because he is smol) but he still doesn't want you in it.
collabs.shop/vaom44
collabs.shop/vaom44
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"there's a new serif in town"
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:06 AM
"there's a new serif in town"
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In which Sam Altman reveals that he’s a ninny
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 10, 2025 at 2:27 AM
In which Sam Altman reveals that he’s a ninny
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14/ Today, Phoebe has a 2-star rating, placing it in the bottom 30% of all CMS-rated hospitals in the U.S.
For more on how Phoebe’s poor grades and poor outcomes came to be — and what it tells us about the story of U.S. healthcare, read Part 3 of "Sick in a Hospital Town":
For more on how Phoebe’s poor grades and poor outcomes came to be — and what it tells us about the story of U.S. healthcare, read Part 3 of "Sick in a Hospital Town":
Sick in a Hospital Town, Part 3: Poor Grades, Poor Outcomes
Phoebe paid an exorbitant sum to acquire its crosstown rival and became Albany’s only hospital. But as the company’s debt increased, patients suffered.
projects.propublica.org
December 10, 2025 at 2:27 AM
14/ Today, Phoebe has a 2-star rating, placing it in the bottom 30% of all CMS-rated hospitals in the U.S.
For more on how Phoebe’s poor grades and poor outcomes came to be — and what it tells us about the story of U.S. healthcare, read Part 3 of "Sick in a Hospital Town":
For more on how Phoebe’s poor grades and poor outcomes came to be — and what it tells us about the story of U.S. healthcare, read Part 3 of "Sick in a Hospital Town":