Alison Bechdel @alisonbechdel.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Thank you, Lydia, for bringing Thucydides and Hannah Arendt into it. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Trump Has Done More Than Misjudge Iran 2150
Alison Bechdel @alisonbechdel.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Very excited for this panel I'm doing with Diane Dimassa and Jen Camper at the Brooklyn Book Festival on 9/21! @bkbookfest brooklynbookfestival.org/event/alison...brooklynbookfestival.orgAlison Bechdel & Diane DiMassa In Conversation - Brooklyn Book FestivalGiants of queer cartooning, Alison Bechdel and Diane DiMassa have lived through and responded to decades of warmongering, anti-feminist rhetoric, and oppression. Diane DiMassa’s Hothead Paisan: Homici... 4273
Alison Bechdel @alisonbechdel.bsky.social · 13/08/2025I'm getting amped for Sun Day. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...rollingstone.comSolar Is LiberationSolar is the only scalable way to slow down the climate crisis — and it will free us from the power of billionaires too. 1253
Alison Bechdel @alisonbechdel.bsky.social · 16/05/2025"...so what this really suggests is that people power isn’t just about a huge number of people being in the streets but about the building of pressure and momentum." www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTck...youtube.comErica Chenoweth - Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to KnowYouTube video by The Brainwaves Video Anthology 38021
Alison Bechdel @alisonbechdel.bsky.social · 14/05/2025Just had whiplash reading the NYT. First, a powerful Opinion Video featuring three professors leaving the country because of the fascist onslaught. And then, a little straight-up fascist onslaught in a Guest Essay by RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz about how welfare recipients must be forced to work. 3618
Alison Bechdel @alisonbechdel.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Heading out in a month on my book tour for SPENT. Check here for dates and links to events!dykestowatchoutfor.comDykes to Watch Out For » Blog Archive » SPENT book tour! 9539
Alison Bechdel @alisonbechdel.bsky.social · 16/04/2025If you haven't yet seen this doc about the remarkable lesbian activist Sally Gearhart, you must do so immediately! www.sallygearhartfilm.com?ss_source=ss...sallygearhartfilm.comSALLY! 16613
Alison Bechdel @alisonbechdel.bsky.social · 12/04/2025So great to see this amazing poem by Robin Becker in The New Yorker! 1447
Alison Bechdel @alisonbechdel.bsky.social · 12/04/2025Rümeysa Ozturk, the Tufts doctoral student abducted by ICE on March 25, will have her hearing at the Post Office building in Burlington at 9:30 this Monday. Come stand with, and witness for her. 9:30am Monday, April 14th, at 11 Elmwood Ave., Burlington. You can also donate to her legal defense here:chuffed.orgJustice for Rümeysa ÖztürkDear Friends, Allies, and Supporters, 0204
Reposted by Alison BechdelThe Century Foundation @tcfdotorg.bsky.social · 08/04/2025How would $880 billion in Medicaid cuts affect people with disabilities? That translates to a loss in home and community-based services (HCBS) for 4.5 million people. HCBS programs help people live independently, rather than be institutionalized. Learn more: bit.ly/BeyondHealth_Disability 28248
Alison Bechdel @alisonbechdel.bsky.social · 06/03/2025www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comWhile our eyes are on the welfare state’s destruction, Trump is building a police state | Judith LevineRepublicans aren’t simply shrinking the government. They’re investing billions in defense, border control and prisons 0144
Reposted by Alison BechdelBill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Move over Ethan Allen, here comes Lucy Welch billmckibben.substack.com/p/special-ve...billmckibben.substack.comSpecial Vermont Resistance editionLucy Welch, a hero for the moment. 511821405
Reposted by Alison BechdelThe_Lady_Red @theladyred.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Good Trouble: JD Vance Chastised by Vermont Snow Reporter JD Vance, fresh off of helping his boss ambush & insult a foreign leader in the White House yesterday afternoon, is on vacation in Vermont with his family this weekend and will be skiing at Sugarbush Resort... kottke.org/25/03/jd-van...kottke.orgGood Trouble: JD Vance Chastised by Vermont Snow ReporterJD Vance, fresh off of helping his boss ambush & insult a foreign leader in the White House yesterday afternoon, is on vacation in 739870
Reposted by Alison BechdelRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 26/02/2025These stories amount to "the left was so annoying about pronouns or liberals made people feel so guilty about plastic straws they had no choice but to get on board with the second coming of the Third Reich and the destruction of the planet."meditationsinanemergency.comThe She Made Him Do It Theory of EverythingThe rhetoric and logic of the abuse of power operates similarly at all scales, which is why I've found feminism such useful equipment for understanding authoritarians in public and political life. Bec... 10553271402
Alison Bechdel @alisonbechdel.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Protesters Display Upside-Down American Flag at Yosemite www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/u...nytimes.comProtesters Display Upside-Down American Flag at YosemiteOrganizers said the inverted flag, historically used as a sign of distress, was meant to draw attention to the Trump administration’s cuts to the National Park Service. 0150
Alison Bechdel @alisonbechdel.bsky.social · 12/02/2025God, I love First Dog on the Moon. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comCulture warriors assemble! Jordan Peterson is having a global conference with a who’s who of the hard right (many Australians) | First Dog on the MoonWoke DEI cancelled my childhood (sob) 2110
Reposted by Alison BechdelKatharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 09/01/2025I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️ 317318659160
