@bessvanr.bsky.social
A Denver-area writer and editor. A lover of words, books, languages, and travel. A kid wrangler, dream chaser, and social justice advocate.
Food stamps are used overwhelming by people near the poverty line to feed young and old. When they end tomorrow, it will be devastating for millions of the most vulnerable in society.
So obviously far-right influencers are using this to push racist disinformation
www.wired.com/story/disinf...
So I guess if Tylenol causes autism then vaccines don't and we can all get Measles vaccinations again 🤷🏻♀️
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BREAKING: new racist Republican groupchat has been leaked to Politico featuring texts from Paul Ingrassia, Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel.
Ingrassia’s texts include vile pro-Nazi & racist messages targeting Black people, Chinese people, and Indian people.
Justice Department whistleblower says he witnessed the Department of Justice engaging in abuses of power.
Justice Department whistleblower Erez Reuveni says he was fired after refusing to lie to the court. He sits down with Scott Pelley in his first television interview. Tonight on 60 Minutes.
19.10.2025 22:00 — 👍 1058 🔁 285 💬 13 📌 9
Experts say that some effects of starvation in Gaza can be permanent. And for the severely malnourished, simply starting to eat normal meals again can cause sickness—even death. https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/what-comes-after-starvation-in-gaza
19.10.2025 00:00 — 👍 278 🔁 141 💬 23 📌 13
(around an image of the No Kings logo) IT’S OFFICIAL Nearly 7 million people have attended today's peaceful protests, which makes No Kings Day the biggest single-day protest against tyranny in American history! With more than 2,700 lawful and peaceful protests across all 50 states, No Kings Day was 14 times larger than both of Trump's presidential inaugurations (combined).
After a week of ridiculous Republican smears and Trump claiming that “very few people are going to be there,” you just made history. #NoKings
18.10.2025 21:57 — 👍 7446 🔁 2446 💬 161 📌 212
Photo of No Kings protest in Denver in from of Capitol Building from direct west viewpoint, trees at the border, shadows on sidewalk
Photo of No Kings protest in Denver in from of Capitol Building from southwest angle
#NOKINGS #Denver
18.10.2025 20:59 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.
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Everyone should watch this. Thanks to our friends in France for putting it in plain English in a way that seemingly no American broadcaster can. www.youtube.com/watch?v=k35P...
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Swear her in.
01.10.2025 19:39 — 👍 29979 🔁 10518 💬 1145 📌 617AOC: I think there's two things that are happening at once: One, there absolutely is an unprecedented abuse of power, destruction of norms, erosion of our government and our democracy in order to prop up an authoritarian style of governance
However, they are weaker than they look…
1/ DEVELOPING: A journalist was rushed to New York-Presbyterian Hospital following another incident with an ICE agent at 26 Federal Plaza, an immigration court in NYC. The last I heard, he was getting X-rays for his lower back.
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Five days ago, an ICE agent shoved a woman asking questions about the detention of her husband.
Today they attacked two journalists.
We cannot accept or normalize what has now become routine violence at 26 Federal Plaza. It has no place in our city.
Mass shootings in the US, per Gun Violence Archive:
2015: 332
2016: 383
2017: 347
2018: 335
2019: 414
2020: 611
2021: 689
2022: 644
2023: 659
2024: 503
So far in 2025...324 mass shootings in just 272 days.
We do not have to keep living like this.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...
29.09.2025 17:55 — 👍 11814 🔁 5594 💬 580 📌 321An ICE officer was “relieved of his duties” and is under investigation after he shoved an Ecuadorean woman whose husband had been arrested and pushed her to the floor at an immigration courthouse in Manhattan, the Department of Homeland Security said on Friday. nyti.ms/46EMKYP
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NEWS: Former FBI Director James Comey has been indicted by a grand jury, just days after Trump demanded the DOJ prosecute him “now” and fired the prosecutor who refused to bring the case
25.09.2025 22:48 — 👍 1942 🔁 591 💬 321 📌 84I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
25.09.2025 18:03 — 👍 28235 🔁 14147 💬 5779 📌 4078We have people in power making broad claims around certain drugs and autism that have been continuously disproven.
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As I was saying…
24.09.2025 04:27 — 👍 36282 🔁 7957 💬 1707 📌 808Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption.
Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow.
People have power. Ask Target
AP: Trump's attacks on media echo authoritarians who silence dissent apnews.com/article/trum...
19.09.2025 20:03 — 👍 133 🔁 23 💬 8 📌 1Right-wing Sinclair Broadcasting owns all these local media stations and many others all across America. This is not journalism, it is scripted propaganda.
18.09.2025 14:27 — 👍 22778 🔁 9446 💬 1559 📌 911
After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
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Let’s support the Evergreen community, where a school shooting last week didn’t get much notice outside Colorado due to the killing of Charlie Kirk. I’ll match the next fifty $5 donations to the Jefferson Center. Their team is helping the community process trauma. www.coloradogives.org/story/d3eafg
17.09.2025 17:50 — 👍 195 🔁 65 💬 4 📌 3I went onto ABC's website and submitted programming feedback that made it clear I will end my Disney Plus subscription and more of they don't put him back on air.
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Trump thinks his rule is absolute.
But in America, we don’t have kings and we won’t back down to chaos, cruelty, and corruption.
We’re taking to the streets again on October 18 to say NO KINGS. Make a plan to do your part to turn this into the largest show of defiance against Trump’s regime yet. 👇
