Alyssa Marie Bethancourt

No lawmaker in Congress should be able to buy, own, and sell individual stocks. Period. Let's make Congressional stock trading illegal.

My guy, material prosperity is inextricably linked to the environment.

Sure, conservatives are in the middle of a gleeful orgy of corruption, kidnapping, rape, and murder, but the real problem is when liberals say it's bad.

It's the other way around: that if the government were responsible for everyone's health and took that seriously, we'd live in healthier environments.

We should NOT be selling weapons to one of the worst human rights abusers in the world.

This should be a no-brainer.

MBS should be held responsible for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi — not welcomed at the White House to celebrate a multibillion-dollar arms package deal.

I remember a time (not too long ago) that we had the collective moral decency to agree, that if a politician spoke this way to a female reporter, that would be the end of their political career.

I can no longer abide the people around me who pretend not to see his core indecency. It’s indecent of them.

trump's core indecency, esp his comments about MBS' murder of Jamal Khashoggi, has really set me off today.

It's not a foolproof plan but every political debate from now on should be a Normal Guy competition. Ask them to describe grocery shopping in detail. Talk about what it's like to have a friend

Really irritated with all of you for making me know who Olivia Nuzzi is.

Capitalism shits up everything.

Trump's ICE Raids & His International Escalation Threaten Us All It's more critical than ever we overcome culture wars and stand united against Trump's actual wars

Trump's DOJ confirmed 97.4% of people ICE has been arresting in Chicago have no criminal record whatsoever.

The state is using its power to terrorize a community. Worst of all, Chicago is not an isolated example and these abuses are not stopping at U.S. borders.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/trumps-ice...

Absolutely cannot wait to bust down the doors for a drink made by a company whose unionized workers are on strike in a store that doesn’t want to hire minorities anymore.

I’m gonna need you guys to exercise some critical thinking skills.

People should buy @meganpiont.bsky.social a drink or 100 for all of the work that she has put in over the past few months. She has created and as a result disseminated 10s of thousands of zines helping folks to know how to report ICE in their cities. This is a Megan appreciation post. Thank you.

Wow, they go all the way up!

If someone wants me to define “police state” I’ll just show them this

A few weeks ago I was talking politics with a local, highly straight, bartender.

All the sudden he said: “Well, I think a big part of the problem is that so many of the people who would’ve been our progressive leaders died of AIDS & can’t help us now.”

And I’ve thought about that every day since.

I'll end by saying this: America hates women, but really hates Black women.This is #TheDoubleTax.

Which is the future of gender equality HINGES on the wellbeing of Black women. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

We need kindness so much right now and I just am exhausted by how many people are ACTIVELY looking to be shitty

sometimes it will just hit me that over a million americans died from covid in a short period of time and we never had a national mourning. we never collectively grieved. we never honored the dead. this feels like a failure

I am begging America to not be stupid enough to embrace a racist and an antisemite because Donald Trump thinks she's a meanie. Just grab some popcorn and watch the Nazis fight.

It just feels like everything is being flattened. Rape, genocide, wildfires, etc etc is all just fodder for internet discourse rather than turning points that lead to… something, anything better or different.

Over a MILLION americans dead, and people are obsessed with saying we did too much to mitigate the damage.
America turned the f**king world upside down when we lost 3000 people on 9/11.
But we did "too much" to combat covid, which killed a MILLION?
WTF?
Where is the proportionality?

Every time Covid and learning loss hits the news, people act like the only factor is folk staying home and learning online, rather than… Living through a global mass death event.

I guess I'll have to add a section to my will to keep from being made into a smartphone homunculus.

Experts Are Sounding The Alarm On This Winter Virus — Here’s What You Should Know It's currently starting to hit the United Kingdom and is also popping up in Canada and Japan.

A mutation in the flu virus means this year’s flu season is expected to be a bad one, potentially even worse than last year’s record-breaking season. www.huffpost.com/entry/severe...

I see the “technically it’s ephebophelia” crowd is out today, so just a reminder that A) this is NOT a case where technically correct is the best kind of correct and B) the minute you say this, the gods dump you in the “irredeemable creeper” basket and wash their hands thoroughly after touching you.

“It’s just the flu”

Mask up, get vaxxed.

We (the world at large) are making enough fucking babies. We're cool on the babies. We need to start FEEDING the babies and VACCINATING the babies and WELCOMING the babies to various places, but we have babies out the wazoo. They just might have different melanin levels