Max Belle
@maxbelle.bsky.social
PNW-erner, Spherical Earther, YIMBY
Follows Sounder at Heart, Ride of the Valkyries and folks who make music
A-F AF (Anti-Fascist As Fuck)
Follows Sounder at Heart, Ride of the Valkyries and folks who make music
A-F AF (Anti-Fascist As Fuck)
I don’t think this is any better than
“Baby, you are gonna miss that plane”
“I know”
“Baby, you are gonna miss that plane”
“I know”
oh my god you have to read this until the end www.telos.news/p/part-1-how...
Part 1: How I Found Out
Olivia had just returned from a reporting trip—at least that’s what she told me it was—and her Herschel backpack, the one with the flap that never quite closed properly, was tossed beside our bed, its...
www.telos.news
November 18, 2025 at 5:51 AM
I don’t think this is any better than
“Baby, you are gonna miss that plane”
“I know”
“Baby, you are gonna miss that plane”
“I know”
Me too
I’m grossed out by everybody and going to bed
November 18, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Me too
The establishment is afraid and for good reason. Read Megan Burbank. She’s good. (She reported on my Neko Case / Phoebe Bridgers skeleton pajamas)
Hi if you’d like to hear about the mayoral race from people actually in Seattle I can help with that. We aren’t panicking 🙂
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
November 17, 2025 at 10:29 PM
The establishment is afraid and for good reason. Read Megan Burbank. She’s good. (She reported on my Neko Case / Phoebe Bridgers skeleton pajamas)
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If he has nothing to hide he doesn’t need a House vote. He can just release everything.
Trump now says House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files “because we have nothing to hide”
November 17, 2025 at 2:40 AM
If he has nothing to hide he doesn’t need a House vote. He can just release everything.
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Congressman Massie:
“I think [Trump is] trying to protect a bunch of rich and powerful friends, billionaires, donors to his campaign, friends in his social circles. That’s my operating theory on why he’s trying so hard to keep these files closed.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
“I think [Trump is] trying to protect a bunch of rich and powerful friends, billionaires, donors to his campaign, friends in his social circles. That’s my operating theory on why he’s trying so hard to keep these files closed.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump’s investigation into Epstein ties to political foes might be ‘smokescreen’, Republican says
Thomas Massie says move could be Trump’s ‘last-ditch effort’ to keep Epstein files from becoming public
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Congressman Massie:
“I think [Trump is] trying to protect a bunch of rich and powerful friends, billionaires, donors to his campaign, friends in his social circles. That’s my operating theory on why he’s trying so hard to keep these files closed.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
“I think [Trump is] trying to protect a bunch of rich and powerful friends, billionaires, donors to his campaign, friends in his social circles. That’s my operating theory on why he’s trying so hard to keep these files closed.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
@emilyrandallwa.bsky.social @murray.senate.gov @cantwell.senate.gov if this isn’t already against WA state law, make it so that it is. Get religion out of healthcare
The bishops' decision formalizes a yearslong process for the U.S. church to address transgender health care. They also approved a special message on immigration, expressing concern over enforcement and conditions in detention centers. n.pr/4hTblhM
U.S. bishops officially ban gender-affirming care at Catholic hospitals
The bishops' decision formalizes a yearslong process for the U.S. church to address transgender health care. They also approved a special message on immigration, expressing concern over enforcement and conditions in detention centers.
n.pr
November 13, 2025 at 11:15 PM
@emilyrandallwa.bsky.social @murray.senate.gov @cantwell.senate.gov if this isn’t already against WA state law, make it so that it is. Get religion out of healthcare
[NYT’s] revenue stream has flipped them into being a mobile game company that happens to run a newspaper. As long as people subscribe for Wordle, their accounting department couldn't care less if the front page were six columns of lorem ipsum
I think there are a number of people employed at the New York Times -- certainly not all of them, but many! -- who simply do not grasp how badly the paper's credibility has been shaken over the past few years, along several different axes, and for multiple different reasons
November 13, 2025 at 8:13 PM
[NYT’s] revenue stream has flipped them into being a mobile game company that happens to run a newspaper. As long as people subscribe for Wordle, their accounting department couldn't care less if the front page were six columns of lorem ipsum
Oh but Hillary’s e-mails
To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
“would you like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?” -Jeffrey Epstein
November 13, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Oh but Hillary’s e-mails
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Alt: a cartoon of a duck behind a desk that says breaking news on it
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November 8, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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I am *very* glad that we covered WA voters’ complete rejection of anti-trans attacks by conservative candidates.
In fact, standing against anti-trans attacks is correlated with Dem over-performance in swing districts!
In fact, standing against anti-trans attacks is correlated with Dem over-performance in swing districts!
Going live now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb_e...
November 12, 2025 at 7:35 AM
I am *very* glad that we covered WA voters’ complete rejection of anti-trans attacks by conservative candidates.
In fact, standing against anti-trans attacks is correlated with Dem over-performance in swing districts!
In fact, standing against anti-trans attacks is correlated with Dem over-performance in swing districts!
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Tonight was a very bad night.
November 10, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Tonight was a very bad night.
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
so currently defectors are:
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
November 10, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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Just a reminder that after the “Schumer Surrender” in March, 82% of our group leaders in New York (and 91% of our group leaders nationwide) voted to call for Schumer to step aside as Senate Minority Leader. 👇
🧵 The passage of this dangerous Republican funding bill is a travesty. The ongoing administrative coup led by Donald Trump and Elon Musk is a constitutional crisis. The authoritarians stripping away our rights and trying to loot the government to enrich the billionaires are a five-alarm fire.
Indivisible Calls on Schumer to Step Aside
indivisible.org
November 9, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Just a reminder that after the “Schumer Surrender” in March, 82% of our group leaders in New York (and 91% of our group leaders nationwide) voted to call for Schumer to step aside as Senate Minority Leader. 👇
He’s gonna tell us something good
Mamdani is going to implement Chaka Khan law. Think about it, there must be higher love.
Mamdani is going to implement Shams Charania law. Basketball coverage will never be the same.
November 9, 2025 at 2:51 PM
He’s gonna tell us something good
Fun seeing another pro women’s sports team in Seattle stretching the theme. Wondering if we’ll eventually get one named Atmospheric River, maybe with a pineapple mascot
youtu.be/4I3c5qNN2z0?...
youtu.be/4I3c5qNN2z0?...
We are the Seattle Torrent.
YouTube video by Seattle Torrent
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November 7, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Fun seeing another pro women’s sports team in Seattle stretching the theme. Wondering if we’ll eventually get one named Atmospheric River, maybe with a pineapple mascot
youtu.be/4I3c5qNN2z0?...
youtu.be/4I3c5qNN2z0?...
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I'm here outside Speaker Johnson’s office because he is starving families and gutting health care to cover up the Epstein Files.
Change my mind.
Change my mind.
November 6, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Mayor Mamdami
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November 5, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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It's the exact same ideology embraced by the elite enslavers before the Civil War: some people are better than others, and have the right-- and maybe the duty-- to rule. It was the Mudsill Theory then, and it's the Mudsill Theory today, dress it up in whatever elegant language you may.
When Hillary said there was a vast right wing conspiracy, she was, as usual, correct. It's become more entrenched, secretive, organized, & scary.
Armed w knowledge, we will #PushBack 🐸
#WeAreDemocracy
#DemocracyNotAutocracy
Gifted article. wapo.st/3Jsvgrl
#Voices4Victory
#USDemoctacy
Armed w knowledge, we will #PushBack 🐸
#WeAreDemocracy
#DemocracyNotAutocracy
Gifted article. wapo.st/3Jsvgrl
#Voices4Victory
#USDemoctacy
The secretive donor circle that lifted JD Vance is now re-writing MAGA’s future
Chris Buskirk put tech elites in power in Trump’s Washington. His efforts are grounded in a controversial theory — an ‘aristocracy’ is needed to move the country forward.
wapo.st
November 4, 2025 at 5:43 PM
It's the exact same ideology embraced by the elite enslavers before the Civil War: some people are better than others, and have the right-- and maybe the duty-- to rule. It was the Mudsill Theory then, and it's the Mudsill Theory today, dress it up in whatever elegant language you may.
Quote of the times:
“Don’t get lost in the facts”
- Mike Johnson,
Speaker of The US House of
Representatives, R, Louisiana
“Don’t get lost in the facts”
- Mike Johnson,
Speaker of The US House of
Representatives, R, Louisiana
November 2, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Quote of the times:
“Don’t get lost in the facts”
- Mike Johnson,
Speaker of The US House of
Representatives, R, Louisiana
“Don’t get lost in the facts”
- Mike Johnson,
Speaker of The US House of
Representatives, R, Louisiana
This makes me sad, very sad. I’ve seen some great shows at Madame Lou’s, like @thewitchfingers.bsky.social and @ratboysband.bsky.social and saw @mtfog.bsky.social at Here-Afer
November 1, 2025 at 3:20 PM
This makes me sad, very sad. I’ve seen some great shows at Madame Lou’s, like @thewitchfingers.bsky.social and @ratboysband.bsky.social and saw @mtfog.bsky.social at Here-Afer