LA Bell 🟧 ☮ ❤🌎☀️

Daily doses of seventies music, salads and sunshine.

[LA Bell 🟧 ☮ ❤🌎☀️ @ms_la_bell]

@RepDarrenSoto Animals will experience unconscionable suffering.

[LA Bell 🟧 ☮ ❤🌎☀️ @ms_la_bell]

@KyleClark Jumping right into the grift-o-sphere.

[LA Bell 🟧 ☮ ❤🌎☀️ @ms_la_bell]

@skydogsanctuary Thank you for saving her. +

[Dwarkesh Patel @dwarkesh_sp]

In medieval times, within the arms race of ever more demonic torture devices, some sadistic genius came up with the idea of the Little Ease.

This was a prison cell built so small in every dimension that a grown man could not stand upright in it nor lie down at full length nor properly sit.

The pain is relentless and without relief and inflicted by one's own body. Prisoners were known to go insane within a few days. A stay at the Little Ease was considered even more cruel than the rack, the thumbscrew, and the other ghoulish machinery of the Tower of London.

A breeding pig will spend her whole life in a version of that box.

These are social, roaming creatures (more intelligent than dogs) who will never leave this corset of steel.

They have been selectively bred to be bigger than their frames can support. Yet we put them in cells so confined that they cannot comfortably sit, and their attempts to do so (for example, by sneaking their limbs into adjacent stalls) reliably lead to fractures and sprains.

They cannot sweat, yet have nothing to roll around in to cool themselves off. Except their own manure, which (contrary to the common misconception) they are so averse to (thanks to their strong sense of smell) that new sows will often suffer from constipation to avoid soiling the space from which they eat and sleep.

Here is how the writer Matthew Scully described what saw at one of Smithfield’s “gestation barn”:

> “Sores, tumors, ulcers, pus pockets, lesions, cysts, bruises, torn ears, swollen legs everywhere. Roaring, groaning, tail biting, fighting, and other “Vices,” as they’re called in the industry. Frenzied chewing on bars and chains, stereotypical “vacuum” chewing on nothing at all, stereotypical rooting and nest building with imaginary straw. And “social defeat,” lots of it, in every third or fourth stall some completely broken being you know is alive only because she blinks and stares up at you … creatures beyond the power of pity to help or indifference to make more miserable, dead to the world except as heaps of flesh into which the [insemination] rod may be stuck once more and more flesh reproduced.”

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The Save Our Bacon Act is trying to unroll the few state protections we have against this barbaric cruelty - for example California’s Prop 12 - which banned the sale of pork from pigs kept in gestation crates.

It’s incredibly important we don’t end up with this sort of federal preemption.

SOB will not only kill the most important animal welfare related laws in the US of the past decade, but more importantly, it will also restrict ALL future legislative progress (aka how the animal welfare movement has gotten its biggest wins).

The Senate is currently deciding whether to add the SOB Act to the Farm Bill.

With relatively little money now, we can discourage the most pivotal senators in the Ag committee from backing this amendment.

Defeating this bill is even more important given the amount of philanthropic funding I expect to come online in the next year or two.

It will plausibly be over 10x more expensive to repeal SOB than to prevent it from passing in the first place.

All that money that could be spent transforming our society's relationship to mass animal suffering will instead have to be spent just getting us back to where we are right now.

That's why money spent now fighting this bill (and I mean right NOW) is so effective.

If you’re in a position to donate six figures, please DM me.

[LA Bell 🟧 ☮ ❤🌎☀️ @ms_la_bell]

Shame on @CNN for leaving this entire segment out of their re-airing of Maher's show Saturday night and instead showed the part about Trump's 250th celebration. The video below is worth a watch.

[Blue Georgia @BlueGeorgia]

Susan Rice absolutely schools Bill Maher on Iran.

[LA Bell 🟧 ☮ ❤🌎☀️ @ms_la_bell]

@kylegriffin1 How much did he pay for the pardon

[LA Bell 🟧 ☮ ❤🌎☀️ @ms_la_bell]

@thedailybeast Who cares?

[LA Bell 🟧 ☮ ❤🌎☀️ @ms_la_bell]

@KyleClark So Polis thinks she should have been released because it's okay to spread lies like this, accusations with no proof, just spreading disinformation. Polis should resign today.

[LA Bell 🟧 ☮ ❤🌎☀️ @ms_la_bell]

@kylegriffin1 Too little too late.

[LA Bell 🟧 ☮ ❤🌎☀️ @ms_la_bell]

@Acyn Is anyone pushing back on this blatant lie?

[LA Bell 🟧 ☮ ❤🌎☀️ @ms_la_bell]

@Acyn Except if you work for ICE or the CBP.

[LA Bell 🟧 ☮ ❤🌎☀️ @ms_la_bell]

@atrupar They're all part of the same corrupt oligarch club. Birds of a feather....

[LA Bell 🟧 ☮ ❤🌎☀️ @ms_la_bell]

@hnejr @neeratanden @jaredpolis @VanJones68 He should have let that process play out, not override it.

[LA Bell 🟧 ☮ ❤🌎☀️ @ms_la_bell]

@neeratanden @jaredpolis @VanJones68 Polis should resign. He ignored the advice of those closely involved & his own clemency board. His justification when questioned on CNN was ridiculous & twisted himself into a pretzel when explaining his decision. It's obvious he caved to Trump & he should leave the office. Shame

[LA Bell 🟧 ☮ ❤🌎☀️ @ms_la_bell]

@PatrickSvitek But yet, he voted almost 100% for Trump's agenda and for RFK Jr, against his better judgment. Not buying it, Senator.

[LA Bell 🟧 ☮ ❤🌎☀️ @ms_la_bell]

@Acyn Polis should resign.

[LA Bell 🟧 ☮ ❤🌎☀️ @ms_la_bell]

@RepBoebert Uh....it's spelled Capitol. You've "worked" in that building for how long now?

[LA Bell 🟧 ☮ ❤🌎☀️ @ms_la_bell]

@FreeWildHorses Project 2025 mandates "humane disposal" of wild horses in captivity. We tried warning people before the 2024 election.

[LA Bell 🟧 ☮ ❤🌎☀️ @ms_la_bell]

@nytimes And he'll get away with this lawlessness as always.

[LA Bell 🟧 ☮ ❤🌎☀️ @ms_la_bell]

@CharBolen Heartless. Both the owner and shelter. RIP, Rusty. 😢