Bethany

“With fear for our democracy, I dissent”Nolite te bastardes carborundum . #AutismAwareness. #BLM. LGBTQ+Ally. Pro-choice. she/her

[Bethany @phoenixBNP]

“This is not a time to be dismayed. This is punk rock time. This is what Joe Strummer trained you for. You’re a good person. That means more now than ever.” - Henry Rollins

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

The biggest celebration for the United States 250th anniversary is the opening of the BARACK OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL CENTER.

[Vittoria @vitt2tsnoc]

Young women vaccinated against HPV now have close to zero risk of dying from cervical cancer before 30.

Not fewer symptoms. Not better treatment.

Close to zero risk of death.

That is an incredible and extraordinary public health achievement.🥰

[Acyn @Acyn]

Obama: I am not immune to anger or doubt. But I do know this when we lose faith in each other, when we stop believing that voting matters… we open the door to the most ruthless or the most careless, or the most fearful among us who see some groups and some people as more equal than others and see government as nothing more than a way to divvy up the spoils and punish enemies, and keep those who are different in their place. I do not believe that is the story of America that prevails in the end.

[Kim @KimsyWhimsy79]

I’m gonna go ahead and say THIS is Americas 250th celebration. ❤️ 🇺🇸

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Michelle Obama: We simply don't have the luxury or time to be cynical or complacent, to wring our hands in despair, or to wait for someone else to fix the problem. Hope is all we have, because hope is the essential spark that lights the fire of change. But hope is a choice. Whether or not we use our voices to speak up is a choice. Voting is a choice. Being a decent human being is a choice. Believing that we still hold the power to build a country that reflects us all is a choice.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Julia Roberts: Renee Nicole Goode is not a symbol. She is an American woman, a queer woman who was doing the very best she could do to be good in an unjust world.

And I am honored to celebrate her life and her legacy tonight, because the life she gave is our responsibility to carry.

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

I remember watching Barack Obama’s 2004 DNC speech and thinking: one day, this man is going to be president.

What I didn’t know was that he’d launch a presidential campaign just 4 years later.

Today, we’re a divided country. I’m ready to go back to the politics of hope. Who’s with me?

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

this should be reposted repeatedly!

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

If you want to push back against tech’s encroachment into every corner of our lives, you need to be reading books. They’re keen to create a world in which most people are illiterate & addicted to slop, a world without poetry, imagination or knowledge. Reading is resistance.

[Rep. Melanie Stansbury @Rep_Stansbury]

THIS ⬇️ is why we have a free press. To all our journalists out there—and especially our women journalists (we see you!)—don’t stop asking the hard questions! 💅

[Patrick Skinner @SkinnerPm]

US Senators:
Some of you have neither respect for the position you hold nor for the people you serve. I question your honor. If you approve the president’s personal lawyer as the Attorney General of the United States, there will be no question of your honor as you will have none

[Patrick Skinner @SkinnerPm]

There are no checks and balances. Even after the fake harrumph about the blatantly illegal president slush fund, the senate kept it in. And also a blank 70 billion dollar check to an unrestrained militarized immigration scam complex.
There are no checks and balances. None

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

100% of abortions are 0% of your fucking business.

[Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar]

Justice Kagan says it best

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Today’s Supreme Court decision effectively guts a key pillar of the Voting Rights Act, freeing state legislatures to gerrymander legislative districts to systematically dilute and weaken the voting power of racial minorities - so long as they do it under the guise of “partisanship” rather than explicit “racial bias.” And it serves as just one more example of how a majority of the current Court seems intent on abandoning its vital role in ensuring equal participation in our democracy and protecting the rights of minority groups against majority overreach.

The good news is that such setbacks can be overcome. But that will only happen if citizens across the country who cherish our democratic ideals continue to mobilize and vote in record numbers - not just in the upcoming midterms or in high profile races, but in every election and every level.

[Jenni @hashjenni]

Barack Obama was targeted 11 times in assassination attempts during his two terms.
We don't remember any of them because they were handled through proper channels, professionally, and he isn't a whiny bitch.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

JIMMY KIMMEL: "I agree that hateful and violent rhetoric is something we should reject. I do, and I think a great place to start, to dial that back, would be to have a conversation with your husband."

BOOM.
I stand with Jimmy Kimmel.🙏💪

[💗 @ma1ybe]

This. A thousand times this.