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Bella Chu

@isabellachu.bsky.social
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John Snow and safe street stan. Lover of 17th to 19th century cities but with more trees and less cholera. Not official record.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I don’t think it’s sufficient for Democratic officials to treat these rulings like partisan acts from an out of control activist court. They should be regarded as part of a criminal conspiracy against the republic.
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Bella Chu @isabellachu.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
The Confederacy is the party of losers, luddites and racists. More American blood was shed defeating their cruelty, stupidity and malice than any American war before or since. We must defeat them again. America *does* have a manifest destiny. It's to be be a nation of liberty and justice for ALL.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I tried to warn everyone what the Roberts Court was about almost ten years ago www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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The Supreme Court Is Headed Back to the 19th Century
The justices again appear poised to pursue a purely theoretical liberty at the expense of the lives of people of color.
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Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
sometimes, if you’re up early enough, you can hear them turn the birds on
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/02/2026
Bloomington police announce arrests in sex trafficking bust: "Rashad Johnson out of Maple Grove. This is the most disturbing arrest that we've had here. He is a backgrounder for ICE, Homeland Security, and federal agencies."
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
"Geo" shared this vid from where he's picking oranges. "Our sacks weigh 60 pounds when full. We start at 11am - after after the dew dries and work to 5. We earn $24 per 900 lb bin. It's hard to pay our bills with this pay and reduced hours because of the morning dew." #WeFeedYou
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Sometimes very hard not to feel like the rest of the country has abandoned Minnesota. We STILL have ICE everywhere. Our schools, businesses, and economy are in profound crisis. But without Bovino here throwing tear gas, much of the country seems to not care at all what’s being done to us.
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Bella Chu @isabellachu.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
The eyes are the lamp of the body. People usually see and judge others by their own intentions and actions. People of good will working to repair the world will assume the best about others. People who are lying, cheating and scheming for power and pleasure will see malice and bad faith everywhere.
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
They say phones only make us miserable but I just got this news alert and laughed for a solid minute so who is to say
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A close adviser to Mayor Eric Adams was suspended from his campaign after trying to give a journalist cash inside a potato chip bag.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
There is no moral equivalence between bullies and the bullied, between tyranny and democracy, or between brutality and decency. No individual can be free in a society devoid of justice. There can be no liberty where brutality reigns.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/08/2025
it is incredible to see the extent to which the Sensible Centrists are simply incapable of grasping the very simple and obvious fact that the president's concern with crime is a pretext, and that to deny claims of a sudden epidemic in crime is not to say that crime is nonexistent.
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
federally armed occupation of american cities, as the founders intended
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/08/2025
that summit could've been an email
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SpryOldLorax @spryoldlorax.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
At this point, taxes are just a subscription to a
country that keeps removing features.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
LEFT: Where our government incarcerates a person who has a tattoo in honor of a family member. RIGHT: Where our government incarcerates a person who has facilitated and/or engaged in the sexual assault of over a thousand children.
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Bella Chu @isabellachu.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
The core tenet of motordom is that the convenience of the driver must be prioritized over all other considerations including the health, prosperity, safety and even lives of other people; especially those traveling outside of a car. This hegemony is baked into policies and engineering standards.
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Bella Chu @isabellachu.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Just my luck that Derek Guy starts to weigh in on something other than menswear and it’s not women’s wear. 😭 Anyways, he’s as good at architecture as he is at fashion.
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Bella Chu @isabellachu.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
There are so few places in the United States, even in older cities well served by transit, where it is possible to walk without continual exposure to noise, pollution and risk of blunt force trauma from automobiles. Pedestrian/bike only infrastructure is the best way to protect people from cars.
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Dan Devine @yourmandevine.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
"We're all throwing dildos at women athletes to promote our memecoin" really puts a fine point on not just how sexist, mean and stupid so much of right now is, but also the grim degree to which we're just inundated with Stuff a 15-Year-Old Dipshit Would Think is Cool. A confederacy of Beavises.
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Bella Chu @isabellachu.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
In the US we can’t even rationalize agricultural water policy so I don’t see this happening. As an alternative, discouraging lawns and encouraging pollinator plants (or human habitats such as ADUs and apartments) would go far in supporting local bee populations and preserving their habitats.
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 06/08/2025
We should have the House right now. Let me say it again: we should have the House. This ain’t just a Texas problem, it’s a national problem. They’re stealing seats to keep power, and that’s how we ended up with Speaker Johnson instead of Speaker Jeffries. They can’t win fair, so they cheat.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
More of this, please.
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Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Cadillac Desert is my top recommended book for anyone in California because it quickly brings two profound realizations: 1. Everything around you is an amazing and rickety engineering marvel 2. All of the seemingly unfixable problems with it evaporate if we simply stop massively subsidizing ag water
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Think about what the GOP is revealing with their attempt to suddenly change the Congressional maps: they know their agenda is so unpopular that they're going to lose unless something changes. Of course, what they should be changing is their policies, not the maps.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 30/07/2025
NEW: We now know what Bove lied to Congress about according to the 3rd whistleblower. He lied when he said he didn’t offer promotions for DoJ lawyers who helped him dismiss the Eric Adams case and consequences for those who didn’t. There is audio evidence. Gift link: wapo.st/4fdVVmX
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Bove misled lawmakers about his actions in NYC mayor case, evidence suggests
The details from a whistleblower complaint emerged hours before a final vote on Bove’s nomination to a federal judgeship.
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Bella Chu @isabellachu.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
This take is correct. In California, the true third rail of politics is rationalizing agricultural water policy.
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Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
I’m not an activist, but as someone who reports on people who are, I see some activists sneering at people who are late to a cause they’ve fought hard for. Surely the point of activism is pitching to the centre to make change? Not alienating or mocking those whose minds you surely wanted to change?
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Capt. Jack Sharrow @sharrows.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Without street parking and car traffic, Chinatown is more like a ghost town with people having no other way to access all the businesses. This is not a sustainable model.
Incredibly crowded street on Chinatown with tons of people in the street
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Yaneer Bar-Yam @yaneerbaryam.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
📢 Canada’s CSA Z94.4-25 standard calls for universal respirators in healthcare—a milestone in airborne protection Support it with your voice: ✅ Submit public comments (open to all) 🧾 Read WHN’s support + petition response #CleanAir #HealthcareSafety #N95 #CSA whn.global/whn-response...
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WHN Response to Canada's CSA Z94.4-25 Respirator Standard - WHN
CSA Z94.4-25 is a draft national standard proposing science-based airborne protection measures, including universal respirator use in healthcare. While broadly welcomed, it has also drawn a petition i...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/07/2025
trump is first and foremost a vehicle for delusional extremists — most of whom are total mediocrities — to impose their ideologies on the country, with vought as a paradigmatic example
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/07/2025
CNN put together a supercut of Pam Bondi being for releasing Epstein files before she suddenly turned against it
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
I can’t stop thinking about how the Access Hollywood tape came out before the election even happened, yet suddenly we have people concerned that the President might have lied about being a sexual predator who were totally fine with it when he told the truth about being a sexual predator very grim
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Sorry for the string of videos, but this is amazing and makes me wonder if this is what life could be like if we all just logged off the internet. IG risolve
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
hey you guys remember when the white house photoshopped gang tats on a pic of an innocent man? anyway, memories
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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Two things both true: The loved ones of Venezuelans are celebrating that they are no longer in CECOT; some are celebrating their return home. And. It is a violation of international law to cause someone to be returned where they’ll be persecuted. Most of them never got a chance to make that case.
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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
BREAKING: Six leading medical organizations filed a lawsuit on Monday against Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, and the health dept, charging that recent decisions limiting access to vaccines were unscientific and harmful to the public. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/h...
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Medical Societies Sue Kennedy and H.H.S. Over Vaccine Advice
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/07/2025
the singular message of this ad is "zohran loves new york city" and it is incredibly effective
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El Norte Recuerda @elnorterecuerda.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.
Laura Loomer‘s tweet: Alligator lives matter. The good news is, alligators are guaranteed at least 65 million meals if we get started now.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 26/06/2025
NO ONE who is freaking out about the possibility of a public grocery store has said word one about this, or shown any sign that they give a shit. "Spending public money" was never the real problem. "Showing voters that nice things are possible" is what scares these folks.
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Bella Chu @isabellachu.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
A frequent reason given whey we can’t have infrastructure for walking, wheelchairs, bicycles and scooters is funding: “it’s expensive.” NYC has created safe pedestrian spaces all over the city with large rocks. Rocks are cheap.
Bollards made of large rocks in NYC Wall Street district.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/06/2025
this wonderful piece from @profmsinha.bsky.social gets to what was truly great about lincoln — his open mind and great capacity for moral growth www.theunpopulist.net/p/abraham-li...
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Abraham Lincoln Wasn't Born an Abolitionist, He Became One
We live in polarized times when freedom is threatened but this Juneteenth we should remind ourselves that we have overcome far worse
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Bella Chu @isabellachu.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
🤯 This is a really good po t I do t think I’ve ever heard stayed so clearly and succinctly.
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Bella Chu @isabellachu.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
When discussing traffic violence it’s important to distinguish between imposing costs, risks, harms and bearing those harms. Between hurting or killing someone and *being* hurt and killed. Virtually *all* the costs, pollution and lethal force in our transportation system comes from one mode: cars.
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Bella Chu @isabellachu.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
The headways at Millbrae *the* major station between San Francisco and Silicon Valley and BART connection is 30 minutes at 7:50 on a Saturday night. The next train isn’t until 8:16. Our region has wealth, stated progressive values and perfect weather. There is no good reason we are so car centric.
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Bella Chu @isabellachu.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
On the train headed home and in front of me is a sweet, curious, wiggly little boy sitting next to his father. He is staring out the window, asking a steady stream of questions and identifying objects (train!) Children aren’t just much safer on transit, they can have so much more fun and freedom.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
BREAKING: Over 130 former federal & state judges have filed an amicus brief urging the court to drop charges against Judge Dugan in Wisconsin The charges seek to criminalize judicial discretion & set a dangerous precedent for executive overreach We MUST defend judicial independence👇
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
In San Antonio today, plainclothes ICE officers (not masked this time) arrested, handcuffed, and zip-tied a family of five (yes, ALL of them, including the little children) coming out of their immigration court hearing — which ICE had just had dismissed. www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/a...
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Agents zip-tie kids in new immigration crackdown in Texas
At least three children were taken into custody and zip-tied at the San Antonio Immigration Court.
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Dr. Annie Andrews @drannieandrews.com · 29/05/2025
I'm Dr. Annie Andrews. I’m a pediatrician, not a politician. But either way I know how to handle people who are full of sh*t. Today I am announcing my campaign for US Senate to replace Lindsey Graham. Share this if you're with me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8wM...
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Annie Andrews Launch Video: "Unafraid"
YouTube video by Annie Andrews
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