Hellebore @moyers.bsky.social · 22/04/2025“U.S. proposes recognizing Crimea as Russian as peace talks ramp up…..” NO FUCKING WAY! Crimea is Ukraine. 020
Hellebore @moyers.bsky.social · 19/04/2025Reality check Governor Newson is reading the room. The paparazzi on Bernie is why we lose elections. 020
Reposted by HelleboreTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Denounce thy neighbor www.politico.com/news/2025/04...politico.comState tells employees to report on one another for ‘anti-Christian bias’“It’s very ‘Handmaid’s Tale’-esque,” one official said. 32427341060
Hellebore @moyers.bsky.social · 07/04/2025First an insult. Now tariffs. Trump has made it a tough month for Lesotho. Lesotho 🇱🇸 is 1/3 sovereign enclaves on the planet — nations entirely surrounded by other nations. That and a long-standing friendship with the 🇺🇸 have made it an unlikely target for 🇺🇸 aggression. 220
Hellebore @moyers.bsky.social · 06/04/2025Ted Cruz warns of midterm ‘bloodbath’ if Trump tariffs cause a recession 3-2-1 - go ….. Republicans start blaming Democrats for the tariffs…… 🤦♀️ 152
Reposted by HelleboreCovie @covie93.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Just found out the owner of The Atlantic is a woman and now it makes sense why they are not afraid to stand up to trump! 21813139
Hellebore @moyers.bsky.social · 31/03/2025President says ‘there are methods’ for seeking third term in White House ☝🏻if this is true - bring back President Obama!!!! 🇺🇸 020
Reposted by HelleboreTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 30/03/2025Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century." snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...snyder.substack.comTwenty Lessons, read by John LithgowKey selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing 26691504384
Hellebore @moyers.bsky.social · 25/03/2025For Europeans, Signal chat gives unfiltered view of Trump team’s disdain “In the amazing story of the Signal group coordinating Yemen air strikes, Vice President JD Vance once again comes out as driven by deep anti-European resentment,” former Swedish prime minister Carl Bildt posted 141
Reposted by HelleboreAngry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 25/03/2025Goldberg said the level of detail in the targeting package that he received via Signal was down to the *names of individuals* to be killed. That’s the good stuff that includes all kinds of sources and methods and never should have been outside a SCIF. I’d be in prison if I fucked up that bad. 725301647414
Reposted by HelleboreAdam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 25/03/2025Any member of the military who did what they did on signal would be kicked out or arrested. 14754532910374
Reposted by HelleboreTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 23/03/2025Putin’s one and only route to victory is through Trump’s head. 1103397726
Hellebore @moyers.bsky.social · 23/03/2025Autocrats roll back rights and rule of law — and cite Trump’s example Orban noted Biden’s ambassador to 🇭🇺 David Pressman, a fierce Orban critic directly challenged the democratic backsliding — and made a point of participating in Budapest Pride, an event w/ 35K people to 🇭🇺 capital, to protect it. 031
Hellebore @moyers.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Amid ceasefire talks, Russian strike kills family in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine Never never trust Russia….. 021
Hellebore @moyers.bsky.social · 21/03/2025aje.io/cqpuyw “And then [she] crossed the line and said, ‘The 51st state’,” Bishop said, in reference to Trump’s continued push to make Canada into a US state. Then USA chair Debra Bishop did this three more times. #StopTheRhetoricNow aje.io/cqpuywaje.ioUS blocking Canadian access to historical library on Quebec-Vermont borderHaskell Free Library denounces ‘unilateral’ US move amid tensions over Donald Trump’s continued threats against Canada. 131
Reposted by HelleboreChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 19/03/2025I had to compose myself before posting—because this breaks a part of my soul. If you’re a contractor with a segregation policy, say it loud—so non-white dollars don’t fund your business. It won’t go how you think. And if anyone uncovers businesses doing this, put them on blast. #NAACP #BlackSky 67085193627
Hellebore @moyers.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Ukraine’s army escapes from Kursk by the skin of its teeth economist.com/europe/2025/... from The Economisteconomist.comUkraine’s army escapes from Kursk by the skin of its teethUkraine will have less Russian land than it hoped to trade for peace 121
Reposted by HelleboreAltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · 17/03/2025Just throwing out some possibilities. 1) Blue states declare a state of emergency 2) Enact the title 2 of the Emergency Banking Act of 1933 3) Restrict moneys transferred out of state specifically targeting transfers to the IRS 4) Redirect those transfers to a state escrow account. 5) Sue me 431752
Reposted by HelleboreTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/03/2025Russia has kidnapped tens of thousands of Ukrainian children. Putin was indicted for this crime. Yale has a unit searching for them. Musk eliminated the funding. inews.co.uk/news/world/m...inews.co.ukMusk cuts the team finding Ukrainian children stolen by RussiaTrump’s federal cost-cutting - led by Elon Musk's Doge – has now hit the unit helping rescue Ukrainian children taken by Russia 23567253701
Reposted by HelleboreMark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 15/03/2025His track record speaks for itself. While we continue to resist, we should take comfort in that he is deeply incompetent, not very bright & his policies are hurting even his most devoted supporters. Let's not get in the way of his inevitable self-destruction. 25325894816796
Hellebore @moyers.bsky.social · 15/03/2025Today I wasn’t Zelensky gutting out the fight for dignity. The fight for safety and sovereignty. No pity parties. 🇺🇸 020
Reposted by HelleboreAdam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 13/03/2025Wow. This one is powerful 441025236
Hellebore @moyers.bsky.social · 11/03/2025www.threads.net/@akina.47/po...threads.netAnnika Jönsson (@akina.47) on ThreadsSomeone who gets the whole picture and not just the framework. Spread wide and far. Thank You Anonymous 👏👏👏👏👏👏 010
Hellebore @moyers.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Sen. Mark Kelly former NASA astronaut and Navy pilot who flew combat missions during Operation Desert Storm, visited 🇺🇦 mtg w/ the 🇺🇦 military, nurses + others, posted “…we can’t give up on the 🇺🇦 people.” In reply, Musk wrote: “You are a traitor.” #FuckMusk www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...seattletimes.comSen. Kelly's Ukraine comments lead to public spat with Musk on XElon Musk on Monday accused Sen. Mark Kelly of being a “traitor” after he visited Ukraine and said the U.S. should keep supporting its war against Russia. 020
Reposted by HelleboreAngry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Our allies are already hesitant about sharing intelligence with us. Does anyone actually think this is a good thing, that this makes us more safe? Americans supposedly voted for egg prices? We got worse egg prices and worse everything else while we’re at it. 1624536769
Hellebore @moyers.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Stop normalizing annexation of sovereign countries. 🇨🇦🇬🇱🇹🇼🇺🇦🇵🇦 … 020
Hellebore @moyers.bsky.social · 09/03/2025www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/u... Now this is a smart angle imonytimes.comDemocrats Turn to Sports Radio and Podcasts to Try to Reach Young MenProminent leaders are flocking to sports radio shows and podcasts, an early sign of how the party is trying to reach apolitical young men who have tilted toward President Trump. 020
Hellebore @moyers.bsky.social · 09/03/2025The empathy struggle when cuts hit WA's Trump country - the reddest part of Washington State. The 4th is famously the most government-dependent part of the state. It’s basically a company town, where the company is Uncle Sam. My empathy is zero. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...seattletimes.comThe empathy struggle when cuts hit WA’s Trump countryThey're squealing east of the mountains about the federal job cuts and the disruption caused by tariffs, Danny Westneat writes. One awkward question is: Should we care? 030
Hellebore @moyers.bsky.social · 09/03/2025Trump has backed 🇺🇦 into a corner by pausing 🇺🇸 weapons shipments + intelligence.. The main immediate impact will be felt from the cutoff of intelligence, which will constrain 🇺🇦 ability to accurately target long-range strikes to knock out 🇷🇺 troops and equipment before they reach the battlefield. 120
Hellebore @moyers.bsky.social · 09/03/2025www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/h... Dangerous pathogens unsecured @ labs across Africa. Halted inspections for mpox, Ebola etc. Trump’s pause of aid has hobbled programs that prevent/snuff out outbreaks around the world - leaving people everywhere vulnerable to viruses and bacteria.nytimes.comHow Foreign Aid Cuts Are Setting the Stage for Disease OutbreaksOrganizations funded by the United States helped keep dangerous pathogens in check around the world. Now many safeguards are gone, and Americans may pay the price. 030
Hellebore @moyers.bsky.social · 09/03/2025WA Ukrainians scramble, leave U.S., as legal status may end www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news... More than 30,000 Ukrainians have arrived in Wa since 2022, drawn by the large community from their country already here. Among the newcomers - doctors, nurses, teachers, engineers, tradespeople. 🇺🇦seattletimes.comWA Ukrainians scramble, leave U.S., as legal status may endAs Trump considers revoking legal status for Ukrainians who fled the war with Russia, many in Washington are trying to figure out their next moves. 110
Hellebore @moyers.bsky.social · 06/03/2025www.threads.net/@margi17/pos...threads.netMargi Simmons (@margi17) on ThreadsFrance has entered the chat, and whoa buddy!! They’re not holding back 👏🏻💙👊🏼💙 030
Hellebore @moyers.bsky.social · 05/03/2025President Trump has ordered a pause to intelligence sharing with Ukraine, said Central Intelligence Agency Director John Ratcliffe, a move that deprives Kyiv of a key tool in fighting Russian forces 062
Reposted by Hellebore2009-celticdreams.bsky.social @2009-celticdreams.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Yes- he even agrees that he should be impeached!!!!! 0334
Hellebore @moyers.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Washington now ‘largely aligns’ with Moscow’s vision, Kremlin says. Washington Post headline. “The new administration is rapidly changing all foreign policy configurations,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told state television on Sunday. “This largely aligns with our vision.” 030
Hellebore @moyers.bsky.social · 02/03/2025Uncertainty over Trump’s plans for U.S. troops in Europe fuels anxiety Many NATO allies left a meeting with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last month believing Washington could pull thousands of troops from Europe in the coming years, officials said. #standwithNATO 110
Hellebore @moyers.bsky.social · 01/03/2025The televised clash between President Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky left many in Ukraine aghast. Yet, in a way, this confrontation was inevitable. “By refusing to bend, Zelensky was the honor of Europe. Now, it is upon us Europeans to decide what we want to be. And whether we want to be,” 🇫🇷 PM 050
Reposted by HelleboreAlt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 01/03/2025That’s because autocrats always want to kill science and universities. It’s the Orban playbook. It’s Humboldt under the Nazis and then under East German rule. It’s Lysenkoism. @dahlialithwick.bsky.social :slate.comDonald Trump’s Orbán Playbook Is Working Exactly as IntendedThe events of the past two weeks are unimaginable to most Americans. 16312
Reposted by HelleboreAlt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 01/03/2025science, and universities. The attacks on NIH — the multiple funding freezes, comms and travel bans, federal register freezes, halting student recruitment, firing new and also senior employees — these aren’t misunderstandings. Trump and Musk want to kill American science. 2/ 2486
Reposted by HelleboreAlt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 01/03/2025“Today’s meeting confirmed that the US is now aligned with Russia and against Ukraine, Europe, and most of the planet. I felt physically sick watching the president yell at a brave ally…” @radiofreetom.bsky.social The US is marching to authoritarianism and THAT is why they’re attacking #NIH … 1/theatlantic.comIt Was an AmbushToday marked one of the grimmest days in the history of American diplomacy. 1045867
Hellebore @moyers.bsky.social · 28/02/2025I stand with Zelensky!!! Shame on Trump!!! #shameonTrump 120
Hellebore @moyers.bsky.social · 28/02/2025www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/w... “There’s an overwhelming feeling in Canada of betrayal,” Mr. Fukazawa said. “There is no country closer to us than the United States.” I’m so ashamed of the USA. I love and respect Canada!🇨🇦nytimes.comHow Canadians Are Directing Their Ire at the U.S. Over Trump’s TariffsCanadians are shunning American products and abandoning trips to the United States to protest the economic punishment President Trump has threatened to impose with tariffs. 100
Reposted by HelleboreAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 28/02/2025NOAA is an absolute mess, and it’ll be worse tomorrow. Please help us. There have already been over 1,000 terminations. It’s not just layoffs—Elon Musk and his staffers are trying to completely dismantle us. Today, there were tons of firings, and more are coming tomorrow. 495149134125
Reposted by HelleboreTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 26/02/20251/3. It should be astonishing, though it’s not, that the American negotiators want to begin from the premise that Russia was right and that Ukraine is not sovereign. Accepting the lies of the aggressor isn’t just unethical, it’s also unstrategic. 733562748