Bex (she/her)

Tragically, another child died of measles in Texas

In 2 months of RFK Jr’s ‘leadership’

we’ve had more measles deaths than over the last 2 decades.

This isn’t a coincidence.

We will regret this.

Trump executive order boosts proof of citizenship requirements for voting in federal elections | CNN Politics President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday seeking to boost proof of citizenship requirements for voter registration, which critics say could disenfranchise poor and older voters who don...

This is the biggest news of the last 24 hours—not the Signal Scandal.

Trump watchers have long said that early in his presidency he would begin a push to utterly destroy the U.S. voting system and disenfranchise millions and millions of voters.

Here we go.

In fairness to Pete Hegseth nobody asked him *specifically* at his confirmation hearings if he would get drunk and text the editor in chief of the Atlantic his war plans.

We find ourselves in a real “gotcha” moment!

The hope I’m clinging to today. We have to keep spreading the message. We have to keep asking the questions. We have to keep fighting back. #hopecore

USDA cancels $1B in local food purchasing for schools, food banks States have been notified that they will not receive 2025 funding for schools to buy food from nearby farms.

The Agriculture Department has axed two programs that gave schools and food banks money to buy food from local farms and ranchers, halting more than $1 billion in federal spending.

www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

There will be increasing US propaganda aimed at Canada. Media will be complicit in normalizing it.

Secret fentanyl labs, porous border that threatens security, etc.

Bet on it. And a lot of Americans will eat it up. This has been the American playbook for decades.

March 9, 2025 Lately, political writers have called attention to the tendency of billionaire Elon Musk to refer to his political opponents as “NPCs.” This term comes from the gaming world and refers to a nonplayer ...

March 9, 2025

What a photo.

Green must be the start of something, not the end.

can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book

Death by idiocy & ignorance is coming.

Uganda has an Ebola outbreak. 12 Americans were exposed to it.

Uganda tried informing the US but its staff had gone.

There was no-one to answer the phone. No-one to set up border screening. No-one to liaise with WHO.

Madness.

Go back to your people, Elon. Mess up their planet please.

Different styles. I have one physical one audio and one kindle going. All different genres too.

Sen Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) letter to chair of Senate Judiciary Cmte, which is poised to vote on confirmation of Kash Patel:

“We regret that you have rejected our efforts to inquire into the first-ever invocation of Fifth Amendment protection by a nominee seeking to lead the FBI”

lol, "vetting"

If you’re interested in supporting an aspiring Black nonbinary writer this Black History Month, here are some books that I want to study:

Amos Tutuola’s, Jamaica Kincaid’s, James Baldwin’s and Frantz Fanon’s entire catalogues. As well as the African Writer Series.

The hits just keep on coming. List of clubs officially disbanded at West Point

This is why local elections matter 😩 #seattle #wa

Before Rosa Parks made history, 15-year-old Claudette refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She was young, bold, and way ahead of her time, standing up when it was dangerous but necessary 🤎 #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackSky

Don’t let others gaslight you into “it’s not THAT bad” nonsense. It is THAT bad. It will be life or death for millions of Americans. This is the dismantling of our government. We must not obey in advance. #resist #wemustact #mutualaid

Text of letter available here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SMkdyaeJWOHN4y-DC5RPY1ZGk9B_SIIk5Tv_Yz5zQRw/edit?tab=t.0

I am hearing that PEPFAR programs are still being stalled, and medication appointments cancelled, despite a waiver in place to allow life-saving programs to continue. Thus,
@belindaarch.bsky.social
and I are sharing the letter we wrote, signed by 110 economists, urging its continuation. 1/4

Will repeat this forever, but if there's a US foreign policy program that deserves unambiguous support from a global health/humanitarian/economic/political/every angle you can think of perspective, it's PEPFAR. Sharing the economists letter of support here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #Econsky

My people have never required executive orders to celebrate and honor the incredible legacies of the Black people who helped shape this country, so we won't be stopping now.

All month long, I'll be featuring Black History facts. Because of them, we can, and we will. 🤎 #BlackHistoryMonth

1,100 EPA employees have been notified of imminent termination.

I have free time.

Know your rights

Know your rights💪⚖️🔥