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Alison Bell

@abellvt.bsky.social
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Lawyer, mother, Vermonter, committed to social justice, mutual aid, and maple syrup. #weprotectus she/her

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Joshua Failé @joshuafaile.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The President of the United States, in front of a crowd of his supporters, during a televised rally, admits to a Quid Pro Quo pardon, which is a felony and impeachable offence. And absolutely nothing will happen, because his party, which controls congress, are fascist collaborators and sycophants.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Protesters barricade road to Vermont ICE facility with ‘community gardens’ - The Boston Globe
About 40 protesters built flower boxes in the middle of a road to block access to ICE facilities in Williston on Tuesday.
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Then combine them on the floor and move them as an omnibus. Let Trump veto it. The point will have been made. This would be a case of "winning by losing."
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
In the next Congress, if Democrats obtain a majority in both chambers, they should have a dedicated Supreme Court Week where the different committees mark up bills in their respective jurisdiction aimed at overturning the most egregious Roberts Court decisions.
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Hunger Free Vermont @hungerfreevt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Do you have questions about Medicaid or 3SquaresVT? Don't worry — support is available! Just dial 211 or visit vermont211.org.
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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
the response should be immediate contempt proceedings all the way up the chain of command to the ICE/ERO directors including escalating fines and orders to personally appear in court. if that doesn't do the trick, criminal contempt, throw them in jail. play stupid games, win stupid prizes
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is not a thing judges have to write in free countries.
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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
What people want is not fixed.
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The wrong Alice @bethafus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Thank you for lifting up Aaron Swartz. The DOJ/FBI ruthlessly doused a very bright light - a brilliant, brave young man, using his voice, his skills and pointing to solutions we desperately need in this moment.
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Remember, they prosecuted Aaron Swartz and drove him to suicide for hacking one system with the goal of making academic articles freely available to the public. Sam Altman hacked 1000s of sites with the goal of being a trillionaire.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
PLEASE NOTE on the recent SCOTUS per curiam decision: existing law blocks most states from purging their voting rolls within 90 days of an election. This decision is not likely to impact the midterms, and also the use of the SAVE program (different from the SAVE act) is VOLUNTARY.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026
federal immigration agents beat up a US citizen in Evanston on Sunday morning and left him lying in the street or as Kavanaugh would put it, he experienced as "brief investigative stop" ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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Brett Kavanaugh’s Imaginary Immigration Stops Opinion Gets More Embarrassing Every Day
The fact that ICE officers do not allow wrongfully detained people to “promptly go free” is a surprise to only one man in America.
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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
You're in charge of a war that you're losing, the Houthi are on the march to Riyadh, you've run the Navy ragged, you've lost almost all your bases in the Middle East, you're out of missiles (mostly) that you need in case China steals a march on Taiwan...and you're at a fucking football game.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
STOP LISTENING TO THE DEMOCRATIC CONSULTANT CLASS
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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This Day in Labor History: September 17, 2011. A group of activists started protesting in Zucotti Park in Lower Manhattan. Soon gaining the nation’s attention and spawning similar groups across the country, Occupy Wall Street was the first grassroots protest against inequality in the New Gilded Age!
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026
He's SO good in Fleabag. That season is a perfect season of television. One of my favorites
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Hunger Free Vermont @hungerfreevt.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We're so excited to be a part of the Lawson's Finest Liquids Sunshine Fund. Over the next two weeks, add a donation to Hunger Free Vermont right from your check when you visit the Lawson's Finest taproom in Waitsfield. We'll definitely be swinging by for a pint or a snack. www.lawsonsfinest.com
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Spectrum News NY1 @spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The last speaker at the 9/11 remembrance ceremony lost his father to the attacks.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 11/09/2026
it’s wild that the heritage foundation wrote in text that the assault on trans woman particularly in sports is their first step in their efforts to completely abolish all Title IX protections and liberals still don’t believe it’s about more than trans women in sports
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🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
if you won’t listen to me, maybe you’ll listen to @lillywachowski.bsky.social because if you actually care about trans people you gotta drop Harry Potter
There is a big "Harry Potter" series coming out on HBO soon and there are many people opposed to it because of J.K.
Rowling's transphobia.
She is funding trans genocide. J.K. Rowling funds trans genocide, full stop. So, if you support "Harry Potter," you're supporting trans genocide. The money that goes into you enjoying these products, a portion of that money goes to J.K. Rowling and that money goes into her funding anti-trans legislation all over the world. In the same way that if you are against Elon Musk, you boycott or don't buy Tesla; and if you're against global warming/climate change, you try not to buy as much gas, you try to mitigate your use of these products. It's simple math. So, your enjoyment of these shows, and continued support of these shows, is supporting my eradication.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Omg. When you’ve lost Joe DiGenova….
diGenova just told me by phone when I asked about his abrupt exit:
"If you want indictments where there's no evidence, you have an ethical problem"
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/09/2026
the fact that the papers of supreme court justices are treated as their personal property is outrageous www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/u...
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How the Supreme Court Locks Away Its Own History (Gift Article)
After Justice Scalia died, the justices held private negotiations about locking away their papers. We may not see the ultimate record of the Roberts court for decades.
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I've never understood why we don't have a Presidential Records Act equivalent for the Supreme Court. The justices aren't so special. And their insistence on secrecy encourages people like Trump to resist transparency laws like the PRA.
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The inability to distinguish between what random people WITH NO INSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY OVER OTHERS post on social media or put on a sign and what the ruling party does on the daily to millions is what helps allow the latter to keep getting away with literal murder.
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Massachusettes "Millionaires Tax", which was targeted to fund transportation and education, has been a resounding success. It has funded FREE school lunch for ALL students, FREE buses in lowest income communities (people can get to work, etc.), and FREE community college. And "exodus" was minimal.
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Millionaires tax surges past expectations, once again
The voter-approved surtax has sailed past its $2 billion estimate for another year in a row.
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Hunger Free Vermont @hungerfreevt.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Are you ready to vote on Tuesday? Check out our 2026 primary election guide, where we asked candidates to share their thoughts on food and farm security. #vtpoli www.hungerfreevt.org/2026-vermont... (Note: This guide is not an exhaustive list nor an endorsement of any candidate or party.)
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Hunger Free Vermont @hungerfreevt.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Vermont's primary election is Tuesday, and we wanted to know where candidates stood on issues of food security, the root causes of hunger, Vermont farming, and more. So we asked them. Head to our candidate guide to read their responses. #vtpoli
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2026 Vermont Primary Election Candidate Guide to Food and Farm Security — Hunger Free Vermont
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Josh Turek @joshturek4iowa.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Great game, Mr. President. 🏀 Iowa, you heard President Obama. The ball is in your court. Join our campaign and help us Push For Change: Turek4Iowa.com
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Hunger Free Vermont @hungerfreevt.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Whether you visit a congregate (aka eat there) or non-congregate (aka pick up) site for summer meals, you can always expect to find fruits, vegetables, whole grains, protein, and fluid milk or milk alternative.
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Hunger Free Vermont @hungerfreevt.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Summer meals follow guidelines from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. They can be served hot or cold, and many Vermont sites feature local food. Remember, all children ages 0-18 eat for free at Vermont summer meal sites. Find a site near you: www.hungerfreevt.org/summer-meals
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Find a Vermont summer meal site near you — Hunger Free Vermont
Discover how Vermont's Summer Meals program combats child hunger during school breaks. Learn about sites, eligibility, and how to support summer nutrition for kids.
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Sami Schalk @drsamischalk.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Police murdered a Black man in the street in Madison WI today. Shot point blank in the head while on the ground, tased, and surrounded by four cops. It looks like an execution. Multiple videos circulating online. Things are about to get very bad here.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 14/07/2026
Merely abolishing ICE is the moderate, restrained position. The moral position is prosecutions, a truth commission, and fundamental constitutional reform so a rogue court run by extremists can never again approve secret police death saques occupying our cities.
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Officers shooting a man, running away from law enforcement, who is not a target of law enforcement, and who poses no threat to law enforcement, is murder. Federal officers do not have the power to commit summary executions because they are aggrieved.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Go Fund Me for the sister who was surrounded by white supremacists on the Metro in that viral photo. If you shared the photo, consider actually making a material donation.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026
This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
stop. if you think the existence of a warrant is part of the conversation in any way, you cannot, by definition, argue that it makes any difference whether the guy they killed had a warrant or not. because right guy or wrong guy, an arrest warrant isn't a death sentence.
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
More than words. We need every single Democrat running for a federal office in 2026 and 2028 - to commit to gutting and dismantling DHS/ICE - and bring justice and accountability. If we don't get that commitment that person shouldn't be on the ballot as a Democrat.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 13/07/2026
1. There are LOTS of blatantly anti-Catholic Chick tracts - I remember seeing these as a kid in Georgia in the mid-90s, and my parents were atheists/agnostics. 2. If you don’t know what a Chick tract is, you may be very sheltered from the reality of how insane most American evangelicals are.
Offensive chick tracts on Catholics and Muslims Offensive chick tracts on Catholics and Muslims Offensive chick tracts on Catholics and Muslims Offensive chick tracts on Catholics and Muslims
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Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I had a Jesuit professor at Fordham who made a hobby of collecting these tracts. A lot of them were distributed in the subways.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 09/07/2026
I wrote about Lorenzo Salgado Araujo—who is now the tenth person federal immigration agents have shot and killed during Trump's second term.
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ICE Is Hoping You Won’t Notice the Man Agents Killed In Texas
The administration may have changed its P.R. strategy for Trump’s mass deportation campaign. The violence hasn’t changed at all.
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
ICE claims that Araujo drove into one of their SUVs with his van and then tried to run over an agent. There were no marks on the van and KHOU11's Jeremy Rogalski found surveillance footage showing ICE chasing Araujo and cutting him off. Renee Good all over again.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
A government of the reality TV stars, by the reality TV stars, for the reality TV stars.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
With this ruling, the birthright issue is not going away. The right hasn't really begun *organizing* around getting rid of the citizenship clause. Like Roe, this will be their fight for a generation. And if the Democrats just say "we won" and ignore it, like Roe, the Republicans will eventually win.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
you are correct and the people yelling "take the win" do not understand the U.S. and the Right AT ALL.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I am stunned that the constitutional question was so close. I thought it would be 6–3 or 7–2. It is profoundly disturbing that four justices would allow either the president or Congress to rewrite the plain text of the 14th Amendment. This is obviously a good outcome, but the margin is alarming.
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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
We are one lunatic on the bench away from total mayhem. PACK THE COURT.
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Alison Bell @abellvt.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
denying a visa to the man who imitates a statue of a man we assassinated
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Uzza @uzzamodea.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I can't stress enough how congressional dems need to have Rashida Tlaib's back right fucking now, before this gets out of hand. They are testing the "there's a terrorist inside our government!" card.
Andy Ngo replies to Stephen Miller, saying, "Yes. She supports anti-US government violence from inside the government."
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Sage Deviant 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
this happened back in May. I don’t understand why more journalists aren’t mentioning it in their coverage of the president’s latest tantrum.
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Trump's Motorcade Drives Over the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool amid Efforts to ‘Make D.C. Beautiful Again’
President Donald Trump inspected the renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on Thursday, May 7. White House communications director Steven Cheung shared a video on X of the presidential mo...
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