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Elizabeth de Bethune

@lizrdeb.bsky.social
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Artist and activist, retired teacher, UFT RTC-chapter. Painter of queer folk among other things to see my art: www.elizabethdebethuneart.com, @lizartdeb on Instagram see also @nycd16-indivisible.bsky.social

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𝙽𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝙸𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝙸𝚝 @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
This is how to speak to every single one of those sycophants.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Trump's embarrassing rant last night about an election he lost six years ago made two things very clear: 1. He's not focused on making life better for Americans. Not even close. 2. We should act now to counteract any efforts to undermine our elections. www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
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Hands Off Our Vote in 2026! · Indivisible
**We know that Trump and his Big Lie cronies are plotting to do everything they can to undermine our elections in 2026.** Whether it’s trying to end mail-in voting, targeting registration programs, bl...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Many of you are asking how you can help me. My only ask is this: Spread the word about the threats to democracy and how we can fight back. Tell everyone to subscribe to Democracy Docket and share its content. Thanks. bit.ly/4qmEiFz
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Let’s Go Knicks!!! 🏀
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Zohran Mamdani Celebrating
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Elizabeth de Bethune @lizrdeb.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Project 2025 is stripping science of its objectivity and putting legal power behind loyalist hacks. Read Don Moynihan’s substack, CAN WE STILL GOVERN? -- The Creep of Politicization substack.com/home/post/p-...
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The Creep of Politicization
A new assault on science highlights a broader pattern
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nycd16/15-indivisible @nycd16-indivisible.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
#NY4ALL Hey! Check out this reel on FB: www.facebook.com/reel/1890599... Lots of groups got in on the action, and it was a big (or as someone would say, "A bigly" success!
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 18/05/2026
Marc Elias has repeatedly said one thing since Trump took office: “It’s going to get worse.” What can we do to fight back? Marc explains 👇
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michnutrish.bsky.social @michnutrish.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
#VisibilityBrigade #minnesota #democracy #mayday #PeacefulProtest @maddow.bsky.social #saveact #rights @visibilitybrigade.bsky.social @rosaliewong.bsky.social @jesscraven101.bsky.social @emmatk.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social #epstein #ice #mn #impeach #war #boycott #fascism
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
#MayDay
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NPR @npr.org · 14/04/2026
Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is responsible for a huge share of intel collected by the U.S. Lawmakers and civil liberties advocates are worried it enables warrantless spying on U.S. citizens. n.pr/41wU5YA
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Why Congress is fighting over a central tool of American surveillance
Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is responsible for a huge share of intel collected by the U.S. Lawmakers and civil liberties advocates are worried it enables warrantless spying on U.S. citizens.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 19/03/2026
In April 2024, the SAVE Act was born as a political stunt to keep Mike Johnson from being booted as House speaker. Today, the legislation has become a very real threat, and it's critical for Americans to know what’s at stake, Marc Elias writes.
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The SAVE Act started as a political stunt. Now it's a real threat.
As we entered 2026, it became clear that Republicans were set up to lose control of Congress in the midterm elections. What followed was predictable.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
I wrote about the conservative quest to restore the "true" Constitution, the Antebellum Constitution, shorn of the egalitarian nonsense in the Reconstruction Amendments, a document that replaces equality with a society of dominators and the dominated. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
The Constitution of the Roberts Court is not color-blind. It is a Constitution that permits discrimination on the basis of race, but forbids alleviating discrimination on the basis of race. And over the next year, the Court will face more cases that could further erode both the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, pushing America back toward what some on the right believe is the true, Antebellum Constitution.
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nycd16/15-indivisible @nycd16-indivisible.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
It's time to learn about the new candidates who are working to change the equation in #Westchester and the #Bronx! This Thursday! Sign up to attend and share!!
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 12/12/2025
Republicans’ voter suppression tactics rarely make headlines, but it remains the greatest threat to democracy. This year, we’ve seen one of these tactics on full display through map-rigging efforts. But @marcelias.bsky.social warns this is only the tip of the iceberg.
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The Greatest Threat to Democracy
Read more here.
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nycd16/15-indivisible @nycd16-indivisible.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Urge #Hochul to Sign the Bills She's Been Holding Out On! 3 critical bills have passed to protect our communities but remain on Hochul’s Desk for months!!! No More Waiting!
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nycd16/15-indivisible @nycd16-indivisible.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Governor Hochul just signed S1804/A128A into law, making #NY the first state in the nation to eliminate cost-sharing for inhalers. We want to thank the Governor and the bill sponsors, Senator Rivera and Assemblymember González-Rojas, for their tremendous work in passing this bill.
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nycd16/15-indivisible @nycd16-indivisible.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
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nycd16/15-indivisible @nycd16-indivisible.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
#PrisonReform Please join us! RSVP!
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 07/11/2025
Spotify is running ads recruiting more ICE agents to infringe our rights and terrorize our communities, so we’re calling on users to stop paying for or using the app until Spotify stops streaming fascism: indivisible.org/cancel-spoti... #CancelSpotify
(between images of the Spotify logo that have been crossed out) DON’T STREAM FASCISM
Spotify is treating ICE recruitment like just another ad. But when you turn family separation into a marketing pitch, you're not a platform — you're spreading propaganda.
• Cancel your Spotify Premium subscription until Spotify removes all ICE ads
• Demand Spotify immediately terminate all
ICE and DHS advertising contracts.
• Urge artists and podcasters to speak out.
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Barry Graubart @graubart.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
This is another good time to remind folks that most SNAP recipients work, many of them full-time, yet are not paid a living wage. (source: CBPP.org using US Census Bureau data)
Bar Chart showing the percent of SNAP recipients working in a typical month of SNAP benefits receipt or in a given year. Breaks it down by non-disabled, non-elderly adults, households with a non-disabled, non-elderly adult, and households with children and a non-disabled, non-elderly adult.
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Elizabeth de Bethune @lizrdeb.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Just finished listening to “The Lincoln Highway” by Amor Towles. I had listened/read “Ordinary Grace” by William Kent Krueger only a month ago. Really struck by the similarities between the books. Wondering about this impulse towards a 20 th century Huck Finn/Odyssey narrative.
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 08/09/2025
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor condemned her conservative colleagues for allowing the Donald Trump administration to continue making immigration stops based on racial profiling.
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Justice Sonia Sotomayor slams Trump admin in searing dissent
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor condemned her conservative colleagues for allowing the Donald Trump administration to continue making immigration stops based on racial profiling.In a brief, unsigned order issued Monday, the high court lifted a federal judge's order that had prohibited federal ...
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nycd16/15-indivisible @nycd16-indivisible.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
You have to wonder why certain #Dems aren't behind her popularity....
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nycd16/15-indivisible @nycd16-indivisible.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
To all our friends and colleagues: #HappyLaborDay! Let's remember that working folks, not the 1 percent, made this country move forward. Alas, summer is pretty much over. It's back to #school, back to #Politics, back to saving #Democracy. It's hard, but we can do it. Hold on to #JOY & the Positive.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Trying to "align" the Smithsonian w/DJT's preferences is part of an attack on knowledge Universities The Park Service The Nat'l Endowment for the Humanities PBS & CPB & more. Why the attack? Knowledge is power It empowers people And empowerment & independent thought are NOT authoritarian friendly
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nycd16/15-indivisible @nycd16-indivisible.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
It may still be hot outside, but we need to get into #GoodTrouble!
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nycd16/15-indivisible @nycd16-indivisible.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
#WarPowersResolution in the #Senate. Indivisible is always ready with a call script to use. Here they are. #NoWarwithIran #TellYourRepresentative:NoWarwithIran Five Calls also provides great scripts: 5calls.
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Eioc @eioc.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Today’s the Day. Let’s get this bill passed! Rally in Yonkers today! @nycd16-indivisible.bsky.social @lizrdeb.bsky.social @msifry.bsky.social @cstern914.bsky.social @indivisible.org
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Elizabeth de Bethune @lizrdeb.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Come see all the people! “Out, In” —Yonkers Riverfront Library Art Gallery, just in time for Yonkers Pride. See you at the Artist’s Reception, Thursday June 5, 6-8pm! www.ypl.org/gallery/upco... May 31 — June 30
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Elizabeth de Bethune @lizrdeb.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Fight the Politicization of the Federal Workforce. Do not reinstate Schedule F. Your opposing comment really matters. Comment period until May 23. Do it now. Schedule F (politicization) is bad and the rule (protecting nonpartisan civil servants) is good donmoynihan.substack.com/p/here-is-a-...
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Here is a specific thing you can do to fight Trump's politicization of public services
Plus: what I wrote in Science about the revised Schedule F
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Eioc @eioc.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Yesterday in Yonkers! “I am Kilmar” #bringhimhome @msifry.bsky.social @lizrdeb.bsky.social @nycd16-indivisible.bsky.social
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Lt. Governor Antonio Delgado @delgadoforny.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Thank you to all the volunteers with @nycd16-indivisible.bsky.social for their commitment to this work. We are in it together.
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Eioc @eioc.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
@nycd16-indivisible.bsky.social @msifry.bsky.social @lizrdeb.bsky.social
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mgyerman.bsky.social @mgyerman.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
SEN. GUSTAVO RIVERA STATEMENT ON KIDNAPPING OF #BRONX RESIDENT MERWIL GUTIERREZ BY #ICE, IMPRISONMENT IN EL SALVADOR In response to the news of the unlawful detention, deportation, and imprisonment of Bronx resident Merwil Gutierrez, Rivera released the following statement.
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mgyerman.bsky.social @mgyerman.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
“The blatant racial profiling, the disrespect for due process, and the daylight kidnapping of Merwil by ICE is appalling and intolerable & should be a cause for alarm for all Americans.
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nycd16/15-indivisible @nycd16-indivisible.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Okay, folks. There's momentum around bringing #Kilmar home. It's a powerful case to challenge the broader authoritarian threat of #Trump. #WeAreKilmar It could happen to any of us. Call #Congress demanding your Reps go to #ElSalvador. Absent that, they need to speak out. TODAY: 6PM #Yonkers
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Elizabeth de Bethune @lizrdeb.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Some recent small paintings in #acrylicgouache 1. Construction on Liebig, 2. Gina Painting, 3. Lobby, 555 Taxter 4. Nile at Rawda Island, 5. Rietveldt Chairs, Wave Hill, 6. Stairs at 262 St. 7. Troster Mall 8. Uphill Fairfield Road
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Micah Sifry ❌👑 @msifry.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
500 at a “Stop the Cuts” rally in Tarrytown, NY, where the fury at Rep. Mike Lawler (R) is palpable. Cc @nycd16-indivisible.bsky.social
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Elizabeth de Bethune @lizrdeb.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Happy to celebrate #international_womens_day by participating in "Moving Forward Together! Women Educating and Inspiring Generations" at @isliparts. Exhibition is up from March 8-31. Reception is March 14, 5-7pm
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Sarah Ironside 💙 @sarahironside.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
A bunch of billionaires have convinced a large portion of the US that it is their patriotic duty to suffer economic hardship to make the country great. If that’s not evidence of how propaganda works, I don’t know what is.
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Elizabeth de Bethune @lizrdeb.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
A few miscellaneous portraits down with acrylic gouache. #portrait_painting #figurative_painting #paintings_of_people @yonkersarts_space @riverfrontag @artswestchester @pelhamartcenter @ryeartscenter @purchasepaintingdrawing @nyss_aa @yalepainting @garrisonartcenter @thecritlab
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Elizabeth de Bethune @lizrdeb.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
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Lisa Reyna Loe @lisaloe.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
MAGA Republicans just voted to harm my child. And yours. Never forget this day. 2026 is coming for these fuckers. 🗳️ Get engaged, America.
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Elizabeth de Bethune @lizrdeb.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Mike Johnson & votes for his budget. The speaker insists he’s not changing the budget resolution. If House Democrats show up, 2 GOP no votes will sink it. He and other GOP leaders are trying to flip holdouts. Rep. Nicole Malliotakis is leaning yes. Live in NYCD11? Tell Nicole to protect Medicaids.
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LunaLuvgood2020 @lunaluvgood2020.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
72 Million Americans are on Medicaid 2/3 of Nursing Homes are funded by Medicaid Cuts to Medicaid will affect 15,000 Nursing Homes Cuts will also affect seniors, the disabled and children’s health care Rural Hospitals would close and Healthcare Workers would be unemployed #SaveMedicaid
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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Republicans want to kill your grandparents. They want to cut Medicaid by nearly a trillion bucks so billionaires keep more money in their accounts. Medicaid pays for nursing home care.
Medicaid covers 6 in 10 nursing home residents. 

Cut Medicaid, Kill Granny
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19/02/2025
Baldwin: "Last night, the president said 'I'm not touching Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, VA, I'm not touching them.' By this morning, he endorsed the House budget resolution which paves the way for massive cuts to Medicaid."
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Elizabeth de Bethune @lizrdeb.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
@nytimes.com where is your coverage of the #50501 #No_Kings_Day protests? They were nation-wide and hundreds of thousands of people turned out. Not just in NYC and DC, but also in Columbus, Lincoln, Flagstaff, Boise, Billings and so many more. Report the news!
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Elizabeth de Bethune @lizrdeb.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Not My President protest in Union Square.
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