Bella Donna

I've been trying to swear less online. Long time since I've posted "motherfuckers"

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the most important state election of early 2026 is right around the corner… though you’d never know it by the attention it’s receiving.

here’s hoping this bolts article helps jumpstart a little more chat!

A newspaper headline from over a century ago, reading: WOMEN ANARCHISTS HAVE BECOME THE TERROR OF WORLDS POLICE Their Daring Crimes Are Said to Have Out- stripped the Deeds of Brothers of the Red Search for the Woman is Becoming a Safe Rule in Crimes Proceeding From Anarchistic Violence—The Guardians of the World Nearly Always Finda Woman Implicated When a Ruler is Stricken Down—Emotional Women Lose Sense of Fear.

Happy International Women's Day. 🏴

for fuck’s sake

A "Humanitarian Response" Firm With No Federal Contract History Is Staffing Planned Immigration Detention Center in Maryland Anovaeon LLC, which has never won a federal contract, is recruiting for a 1,500-bed facility outside Hagerstown amid unresolved infrastructure concerns.

The first job postings for the Williamsport, Md. ICE detention warehouse appeared online.

The “humanitarian response” firm behind them has never held a federal contract.

a checkered car parked in front of the jazz club "Le Tabou". A group of young people, sometimes referred to as the "Zazous" counterculture, are sat in the car.

Robert Doisneau,, 1947

”Flera av mina patienter har blivit gravt handikappade i väntan på operation.” De kortare köerna gäller inte alla patientgrupper, skriver Niclas Ramberg, överläkare inom ortopedi vid Helsingborgs…

Lurendrejeriet: lägg skattepengar på att ”korta köerna” inom sjukvården - genom att köpa dyrt av privata företag som bara opererar lönsamma patienter. Kvar hos den offentliga sjukvården blir de icke lönsamma patienterna. Köerna blir då längre för dem - för till dem räcker inte skattepengarna. Läs.👇

Today, on International Women’s Day, Georgian protesters have gathered outside Rustavi Women’s Prison in solidarity with female political prisoners — many of whom report degrading treatment, untreated chronic pain, and threats in detention.

My suffragette-era great-aunt caused raised eyebrows and mutterings when seen 'riding astride a bicycle' in Cramond.

We have come so far.
We can achieve so much more.

#Women #Cycle
#InternationalWomensDay

Yes, I think this is an important point and why trans folks feel particularly more betrayed and angry about Labour than they would the Tories or Reform. As with immigrants, it's an attack Labour are choosing to collaborate in rather than oppose.

It is absolutely insane that the US appears to have targeted desalination plants first – putting them onto the board. Iran seems to have already retaliated against one in Bahrain. This is one of the most obvious ways this could spiral.

Photos of Sylvia Rivera, Hattie Wiener, Christine Jorgensen and Judy Garland Captions: Sylvia Rivera 1951 - 2002 Revolutionary who led the charge of the modern LGBTQ+ liberation movement Hattie Wiener 1936 - 2024 Sex-positive therapist known as the world’s “Oldest Cougar” Christine Jorgensen 1926 - 1989 First transgender woman to have sex reassignment surgery Judy Garland 1922 - 1969 Singer and star of “The Wizard of Oz” and other Hollywood classics

Smallest amount of credit possible to the NYT (but much more to obituaries editor Amisha Padnani) for actually having 2% trans women in this "100 Years of Women Who Made Headlines" (Sylvia Rivera & Christine Jorgensen are the picks).
Gift link that I don't pay for:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I get that nothing matters until the NY Times reports it, but some of us more independent outlets had this story a month ago...

www.techdirt.com/2026/02/19/d...

LEDARE: Försäkringskassan ska jaga – och du är bytet Tidö vill göra Försäkringskassan till bidragspolis.

Regeringen vill göra Försäkringskassan till bidragspolis. Jag hoppas du inte var så naiv att du trodde att de skulle nöja sig med att attackera asylsökande och invandrare?

blew all my daylight savings down at the tracks. now it's dark all the time.

Jfc 😔

Thanks, Ben. Oxford moved the publication date to March 24 but readers can preorder and read an Author’s Q&A here www.annaolaw.com/book-migrati...

I remember back when memes were just funny jokes we sent between friends. Now they are used as propaganda for murdering children.

Man måste hata den hatiska krigiska högern, det primitiva barbariska djur de är.

Oh no…

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

This is what having a President of the United States who isn’t working for the United States looks like.

#RemoveTrump

Child’s Play, by Sam Kriss Tech’s new generation and the end of thinking

This is the most Thomas Pynchon esque nightmare shit. We've got 3-5 more years of this nonsense at most

Mother & child

Masa&Maha® The war is over, but now I stand on land I no longer recognize, caught between two feelings: the joy of survival and the unbearable bitterness of loss. I search for my daughter's hands, but I can't find them. My tears today are neither pure sadness nor pure joy. They are an acknowledgment that life has won over us, and that the price was my soul.

Her remaining son

“I buried Maha&Masa with my own hands.Now,I watch the cold & hunger slowly stealing Ibrahim, my last heartbeat.I lost my home & my daughters; l refuse to watch my only son freeze to death in this tent. Please, don’t look away.Help me keep him alive.”😭🙏💔
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✅️ @mommunism.bsky.social

100,000 Homes: Housing the homeless saves money? Giving apartments to the chronically homeless can save taxpayer dollars, advocates say

Anderson Cooper: “So it's more expensive to have a chronically homeless person living on the streets than it is to actually subsidize an apartment for them?”

Answer: “Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing.” #HousingFirst #UrbanTruth

In Manila, Keisha Mayuga met a mother on the bus commuting over two hours in traffic each way. Determined to act, she helped launch a bike-lending movement and pop-up lanes in the city.

Read more: buff.ly/Pcs8Ium

Who are the women in mobility that inspire you?

#IWD2026