Linda Belans

@maddow.bsky.social

Sign the Petition Tell Durham City Council to say NO to mass immigrant deportation

@nicollewallace.bsky.social Durham's, NC sheriff Clarence Birkhead, like Charlotte's, has publicly stated: his "obligations do not include detaining people without a criminal warrant; an immigration detainer is not a criminal warrant.” We are a “Fourth Amendment Workplace" w/ ongoing mobilizing.

Sign the Petition Tell Durham City Council to say NO to mass immigrant deportation

@nicollewallace.bsky.social Durham, NC is a blue progressive city that, like Charlotte, also has a Black mayor. Here is an unanswered petition to the Durham City Council. www.change.org/DurhamProtects

@msnbc.com To Rebecca Kutler.
It is incomprehensible that you fired @matthewjdowd.bsky.social for acknowledging the violent environment we live in. You can help rescue your network from irrelevance by getting out of the way of truth-telling & analysis by the commentators you hire to do so.
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@50501movement.bsky.social
Suggested strategy for the March.

@indivisible.org
Suggested strategy for the next March.

@maddow.msnbc.com

Strategy for Next Protest March. Let's make it happen.

Hundreds of thousands #handsoff protestors pack 1200+ sites in 50 states. All peaceful.

#TrumpTariffs are to the economy what #Trumpbleach was to COVID.

#TrumpTariffs are to the economy what #Trumpbleach was to COVID.

#TrumpTariffs are to the economy what #Trumpbleach was to COVID.

Wrestling with what I'm willing to risk...what I'm willing to do as a bystander to state sanctioned abductions.

#InternationalWomensDay #Women Dancing for our lives. In 1966, it meant that during a secretarial job interview at the University of Pittsburgh, the male personnel manager asked me what kind of birth control I used because he didn'...

"As I approach my 80th year on the planet, I’m reflecting on how the policies, laws, and rules – written and whispered – shaped the personal, political and economic power of my generation." (Photo credit: @Leah Sobsey, 2025) #InternationalWomensDay2025

And I am a regular #DemocracyDocket contributor.

When we use @Bluesky to repost the fascist felon's pronouncements, we amplify them and recreate everything that was wrong with twitter. Alternatively, we can keep each other informed without bringing his picture and screenshots into this space. We come here to find the energy to move forward.

When we use @Bluesky to repost the fascist felon's pronouncements, we amplify them and recreate everything that was wrong with twitter. Alternatively, we can keep each other informed without bringing his picture and screenshots into this space. We come here to find the energy to move forward.

We can change the American story when our personal moral decision aligns with a collective national strategy.

Trudeau: "There's not a snowball's chance in hell that Canada will ever be the 51st state"

O’er the ramparts

we watch
seam rippers tear
through one frayed stitch then
another, unraveling tattered stripes
faded remnants, scattering
stars across a sobbing landscape
under twilight’s last gleam.

–Linda Belans
February 1, 2025

🚨BREAKING: Federal judge BLOCKS Trump spending freeze. A big victory for @democracyforward.bsky.social and their clients. Also a win for democracy and the rule of law.

Follow @democracydocket.com for full details.
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Happy Birthday to the man who speaks truth to corrupt power.
I'm a subscriber.

There were HUNDREDS that showed up to an ICE watch training today in NC - so many that @siembranc.bsky.social had to turn people away since the venue was at capacity and schedule another session online. #werenotgoinganywhere

Hi Jenny

"Belans [book] thoughtfully integrates real examples...with theory and qualitative data… An innovative, holistic analysis of the coaching process will surely make an indelible impact on the future of educational leadership studies. —Daniel R. Porterfield, President and CEO, The Aspen Institute

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@mcuban.bsky.social I hope you can use the power of your voice to help guide the conversation away from the usual clicks & comments substituting for activism toward establishing a Vision that informs Strategies that guides Tactics. With gratitude. Linda Belans. www.statesofbeing.net