Tara  Bell

Tara Bell

@tarabellfirefox.bsky.social

Feminist witch; activist; happily married since 2007. Yoga nidra; dance; hiking and canoeing; foxes; literature; philosophy; gender studies.

188 Followers 262 Following 76 Posts Joined Nov 2024
3 months ago
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Malaysian Giant Katydid is one of the largest insects in the world and it knows how to get your attention (sound on).

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Food for thought.

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We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman.

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9 months ago

Lyft driver picked me up from UNC, turned out he was a medicinal chemistry post-doc in a building near mine, until his grant got cut last month.

Worked on novel antivirals.

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🚨🚨🚨 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x convicted felon & adjudicated rapist Trump did 🚨🚨🚨

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The Confederate flag is a symbol of white supremacy and support for slavery. Full stop.

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JFC

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Buddha Mantra

May this mantra bring you peace, happiness, and prosperity.

Om Muni Muni Maha Munaye Swaha ✨

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We don’t need Prayers, we need Medicaid and Medicare

Truth! Laguna Beach protest, May 24th, 2025.

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Republican Calls for Gaza to Be ‘Nuked’ Like Hiroshima and Nagasaki Rep. Randy Fine said “the Palestinian cause” is “evil” in stunning remarks on Fox News.

scheerpost.com/2025/05/24/r...

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9 months ago
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The gays and theys need to get our digital security together in this day and age so here’s version 2 of Pink Pony Club but it’s about why you should switch all your group chats to end to end encrypted Signal with disappearing messages turned on ;)

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No Warrant, No Constitution: Trump’s Shock Troops Seize Our Judiciary America is slipping into the authoritarian nightmare Putin dreamed of for us…

open.substack.com/pub/thomhart...
It didn’t happen in some shadowy back alley or under the cover of night.
It happened in broad daylight — in the heart of an American courthouse.

Federal agents, acting without even the decency of a signed warrant, stormed into Judge Hannah Dugan’s courtroom on

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all right, let’s go through this nonsense.

first of all, this is just a police state. that’s what he’s describing.

I don’t have anything clever to say. he wants cops to control your life, and aggressively and with “high impact”.

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Who says that animals have no feelings? ✨☺️✨

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all accurate. To my friends who keep saying “we’ll see how this plays out,” it played out.

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Veterans Affairs backtracked on his cancer treatment. He blames DOGE. The VA says it's not scaling back care—but it doesn't look that way to Army vet Mark Puhl.

One month after Trump returned to office, Army veteran Mark Puhl’s medical requests to the Department of Veterans Affairs—for surgery and a chemotherapy port, were abruptly denied.

He says DOGE is to blame.

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It's long past time to ban insider trading in Congress.

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Remember when environmental and Indigenous groups opposed building these pipelines because they could rupture and pollute waterways and habitats? And were brushed aside?

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Tim Walz: "You you claim to love freedom but want to restrict certain groups, you don’t love freedom. You love privilege." 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 #MomSky

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Senator Mark Warner GOES OFF on Jamieson Greer asking why we would tariff Australia: “Answer the question on Australia! We have a trade surplus with Australia! We have a free trade agreement! They are an incredibly important national security partner. Why were they whacked with a tariff?””

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Trump says nuclear talks with Iran start Saturday. His warning?
“Make a deal—or face a very bad day.”

Iran just fired back:
“We don’t negotiate with a gun to our head.”

No allies. No backchannels.
Just Trump, the bomb, and a countdown.

Saturday could be diplomacy
or detonation.

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“Queer Stories/Queer Spaces” Opens at the Sharp Museum This Friday (4/4) marked the opening reception of the installation, “Queer Stories/Queer Spaces: Southern Illinois Histories and Queertograp...

The “Queer Stories, Queer Spaces: Southern Illinois Histories and Cartographies” opened in SIU’s Sharp Museum yesterday. Info and images about the installation are available here:

isntitqueerwdbxsoil.blogspot.com/2025/04/quee...

#queer #lgbtq+ #illinois #SoIL #history

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I attended 2 Tesla Takedown protests. One generation showed up more than others. At Tesla Takedown protests in Michigan, hundreds of people gathered to voice their concerns about the new administration.

www.businessinsider.com/takeaways-te...

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11 months ago

#TransDayOfVisibility is tomorrow! be sure to uplift trans creators!

Let's start with trans authors and writers~ 🏳️‍⚧️✨

#booksky #authorsky #writersky #writingcommunity #TDOV

go.bsky.app/VamK3SD

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"The response to authoritarianism isn't acquiescence. Bullies respond to one thing and one thing only: a punch in the face." - @govpritzker.illinois.gov

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