Reposted by Dianne Belljamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/07/2026i had fun making this one youtu.be/3ifVbF29WlYyoutu.beA diarrhea outbreak is what happens when you elect RepublicansYouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie 651962442
Reposted by Dianne BellSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Again, please share. In every aspect of American history you will run smack dab into the critical contributions of Black people. It’s not Black history. It’s American history. Trying to erase it is a fool’s errand. We live it every day. time.com/5836444/blac...time.comThe Forgotten Black History of How Memorial Day StartedHistorians like the Pulitzer Prize winner David Blight have tried to raise awareness of freed slaves who decorated soldiers' graves in 1865 184126945870
Reposted by Dianne BellSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe. 16594010614969
Reposted by Dianne BellTPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 13/05/2026Black people saw the largest decline in financial stability for nearly every category compared to all other racial and ethnic groups, according to a new Federal Reserve survey.talkingpointsmemo.comBlack People Worse Off in Trump’s Economy Than Every Other Group, Per the FedBlack people in America did worse economically in 2025 than at any... 561605756
Reposted by Dianne BellSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 12/05/2026White Supremacy Is an Antidemocracy Movement open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...open.substack.comWhite Supremacy Is an Antidemocracy MovementIf You Want Democracy in this Country You Have to Fight White Supremacy 7539175
Reposted by Dianne BellPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Supreme Court Holds, 6-3, That Black People Voting Violates Rights Of White Voters 673665954
Reposted by Dianne BellSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Again. But we have to fight every inch of the way before November. Watch the full interview here: youtu.be/SCse1FFEKLM 401123357
Reposted by Dianne BellPema Levy @pemalevy.bsky.social · 07/05/2026The great flaw in Plessy is its refusal to see segregation for what it is. This willful naïveté animates Callais as well It pretends partisan gerrymandering is a reasonable, race- neutral prerogative of the state, the same justification Plessy used for Jim Crow www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.comThe Roberts Court Takes a Page from Plessy v. FergusonIn destroying the Voting Rights Act, the justices echo the court's darkest and most racist days. 27760236
Reposted by Dianne BellDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Re the Voting Rights Act: I've used this graph a lot to illustrate how the VRA largely ended the historic pattern of blocking and burdening Black voters in the south. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 18979408
Reposted by Dianne BellMark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 29/04/20268. So while I don't think Callais is *apocalyptic* for Democrats, it's still a hideous perversion of the Constitution that will undermine democracy and racial equality for years. The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead. The 15th Amendment has been repurposed to greenlight racism. It's a dark day. 101253381
Reposted by Dianne BellDavid Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 29/04/2026White Christian supremacist court. White Christian supremacist President. White Christian supremacist Congress. And the result is the most profound series of setbacks for the rights of people of color and women in over a century. It is a nauseating time to be alive in America. Fight back harder. 531489513
Dianne Bell @dbell0913.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Especially since Todd Blanche has been caught lying about SPLC. www.ksro.com/2026/04/28/s...ksro.comSouthern Poverty Law Center wants Todd Blanche to correct ‘false’ statements about organizationTodd Blanche, acting US attorney general, during a news conference at the Department of Justice in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, April 27, 2026. (Valerie Plesch/Bloomberg via Getty Images) (WASHINGTO... 000
Dianne Bell @dbell0913.bsky.social · 29/04/2026I am concerned that Fidelity would make a decision like this based only on flimsy accusations. “On its own terms, the indictment is frail and deficient.” – Andrew Weissmann - The Poverty of the DOJ Indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center at www.justsecurity.org/137171/indic...justsecurity.orgThe Poverty of the DOJ Indictment of the Southern Poverty Law CenterFormer head of the DOJ Fraud Section, Weissmann discusses conspicuous gaps in the indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center. 000
Reposted by Dianne BellDavid Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 12/04/2026All this because Donald Trump couldn't abide the idea of a Black president having a success. This war may have been triggered by his desire to distract from Epstein...but his tearing up the JCPOA (like his Nobel Prize obsession) is driven by his profound and unyielding racism. 1023137687
Reposted by Dianne BellAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/04/2026The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is. 14735699316896
Reposted by Dianne BellAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 03/04/2026Reactionary centrists and republicans spent years smearing, belittling, or dismissing anyone who properly described the Trumpism as a white supremacist project. bsky.app/profile/nbcn... 483252812
Reposted by Dianne BellDavid Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 03/04/2026It is time for more than one general to stand up and speak out. This is intolerable behavior ever much less in the middle of a war. Hegseth must go now. 16599203
Reposted by Dianne BellRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 03/04/2026The US Department of War Crimes. 1390169727197
Reposted by Dianne BellAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/04/2026Trump is committing war crimes in Iran and is threatening more and worse ones. His entire war strategy at this point is war crimes. A functional Congress would be far down the road of impeachment and removal. 39892782996
Reposted by Dianne BellJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 03/04/2026I hope this is driving home to folks that anti-DEI/anti-woke are functioning mostly as a way to make racism more palatable by framing it as a kind of defensive reaction to an imagined unfairness. 2148851394
Reposted by Dianne BellDavid Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 03/04/2026The Secretary of Defense fired the Army Chief of Staff in the middle of a war because he refused to follow a racist, sexist, probably illegal order. This should be the end of Hegseth and demands an investigation into whether, as likely, the President okayed the action. 14746259
Reposted by Dianne BellNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 03/04/2026I know it’s competing with an illegal war and 10,000 other major scandals but I feel like people should be making a bigger deal out of the DefSec systematically trying to resegregate the military 1348031301
Dianne Bell @dbell0913.bsky.social · 11/03/2026www.seattletimes.com/business/sta...media.tenor.coma cartoon of bugs bunny holding a fish in his pawALT: a cartoon of bugs bunny holding a fish in his paw 010
Reposted by Dianne BellEric Holder @ericholder.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Texas is close to not being a functioning democracy It’s the hardest place to vote because Republicans have put impediments in place based on totally bogus vote fraud concerns - that they just make up The courts have become complicit in this effort What we’re seeing in Texas now is a disgrace 812402799
Reposted by Dianne BellNPR @npr.org · 01/03/2026For the 2026 primary elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory.n.prHow to register to vote and check your registration statusFor the 2026 primary elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory. 4123791623
Reposted by Dianne BellArizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’” 16687663796
Reposted by Dianne BellAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/01/2026Any Democratic votes to fund DHS later this month as Minneapolis is being terrorized by DHS is going to be a major slap in the face to Americans living here. Demand major reforms or shut the government down. 583231186729
Reposted by Dianne BellKen Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 07/01/2026The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028. 15888640821173
Dianne Bell @dbell0913.bsky.social · 04/12/2025"That so many Americans chose to place in power a man who holds people in contempt on the basis of race, religion, and national origin; ...—well, that does say something about America, and Americans." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...theatlantic.comWhy Doesn’t Trump Pay a Political Price for His Racism?Immigration isn’t breaking our society. We are. 073
Reposted by Dianne BellAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 03/12/2025What does it say about this country that that the kind of open, rank bigotry Trump administration officials regularly express towards black immigrants apparently has no social cost because of the number of Americans who quietly agree or don't care. 15059721512
Reposted by Dianne BellHeather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 20/11/2025Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged. Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment. 5973250210518
Dianne Bell @dbell0913.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Hey @democrats.senate.gov and @housedemocrats.bsky.social remember you are there to fight for people like Laurel. No healthcare. No deal! 020
Dianne Bell @dbell0913.bsky.social · 08/11/2025gift link: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1... "Trump is saying, essentially, If you don’t want to get hurt, you’ll do what I say." -By Adam Serwertheatlantic.comThe Mafia PresidencyTrump is saying, essentially, If you don’t want to get hurt, you’ll do what I say. 144
Reposted by Dianne BellG Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 05/11/2025remember all those hot takes during the primary about how Mamdani was the candidate for rich white liberals? a "champagne socialist" ? yeah, about that 713373738
Reposted by Dianne BellKNinja @khrisnin.bsky.social · 31/10/2025I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question. 706172306941
Reposted by Dianne BellJoyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 07/10/2025Looking for one thing you can do right now to help protect the right to vote? It will only take a few minutes, and you can share it with all of your friends. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-thing-yo...joycevance.substack.comA Thing You Can Do Right Now To Help Protect The Right To VoteThe U.S. 621321778
Dianne Bell @dbell0913.bsky.social · 27/09/2025www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...theatlantic.comLower Than CowardsThe surrender of America’s elites 0130
Reposted by Dianne BellDave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 18/09/2025COMING THIS SUMMER TO ABC: the obeying-in-advance Olympics. Executives and owners of America’s largest corporations compete to see who can decipher the whims and musings of an aging, addled authoritarian and OBEY! IN! ADVANCE! Tune in this summer. It will be the only thing left on TV (or TikTok). 38715171
Reposted by Dianne BellClara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 14/09/2025Read this from @jamellebouie.net (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t Either. 12436122
Reposted by Dianne BellElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Here’s my write up on the most racist decision to come out of the Supreme Court in a while. The court approved of Trump’s racial profiling of Latinos with Brett Kavanaugh saying being harassed based on the color of your skin is “common sense.” My latest in @thenationthenation.comThe Supreme Court Just Gave the OK to Racial ProfilingThe court’s ruling allowing ICE to resume its indiscriminate round-ups of LA’s Latino residents can only be described as one thing. 11021601012
Reposted by Dianne BellAri Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Trump is using all the tricks in the authoritarian playbook to rig the midterms: -Extreme gerrymandering -Nationalizing voter suppression -Weaponizing law enforcement -Occupying Democratic cities Please read & share my new cover story in @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.comProject 2026: Trump's plan to rig the next electionFrom nationalizing voter suppression to flooding the streets with federal agents, the president and his allies are using all the tricks in the authoritarian playbook to tilt the midterms in their favo... 10317133
Dianne Bell @dbell0913.bsky.social · 22/08/2025www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...theatlantic.comActually, Slavery Was Very BadThe president’s latest criticism of museums is a thinly veiled attempt to erase Black history. 060
Reposted by Dianne Belljamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/08/2025one of the single best deals in streaming. i've been paying for PBS Passport for years. it rules 270130293831
