Bridget
@bewatts
Old biddy. She/her. Interests include women's basketball, anti-Trumpism, birding, the labor movement, and life in my city, Rochester, NY. Love Lake Ontario but still miss California.
Don't remember ever getting such a partisan political message from the SSA. All about how Trump is winning big for us seniors! 🤮 I can't find a good doctor, 2 of my husband's specialist docs have left USA, nursing home will be grossly understaffed because you deported the workers. But thanks!
State St., Rochester, Federal Bldg - be there Tues, May 26, 9:30am to support this lovely woman at hearing on her status. She's lived & worked in WNY for decades, picking apples, raising children, advocating for farmworkers. Snatched by ICE in April. #everyonefordolores #ICE #ROC
At the Free Dolores event today, I found myself tearing up from some combination of grief for the pain ICE is inflicting on immigrants like Dolores Bustamente, and the relief of being among compassionate people who know this is wrong and are trying to stop it. #abolishICE #NY4ALL #ROC
Tried to buy more John Lewis stamps from USPS. No longer available. They do have stamps featuring Barbara Bush, she who said "Why should we hear about body bags and deaths? It's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?" as her son plunged us into war with Iraq.
My local Gannett paper, Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, today, quoting unhinged statement (genital mutilation! aliens!) from Trump regime's USDA website as if it were a neutral source on the ending of SNAP benefits (& with no corresponding quote from a Democratic leader). #ROC
Remember Apple's famous 1984 Super Bowl ad? An Orwellian Big Brother figure on a big screen addresses a submissive crowd until a woman runs past what appear to be riot police (or ICE) to toss a hammer at the screen. Today, Apple sides with Big Brother by removing ICE tracker app.
Just sitting by the lake, keeping an eye on the northern border for Kristi Noem.
When Trump met with Carney I couldn't look away from the new tacky gold crap glued to the fireplace behind them. (Reportedly, it's molded plastic spray-painted gold) The neoclassical column peeking out above the PM's head is dying of shame. Our low-rent tsar loves gold bigly.
@indivisibleroc.bsky.social rally today at Federal Bldg in Rochester. @schumer.senate.gov & all our elected officials need to stand up & speak out for the constitution and for our neighbors who are being terrorized by ICE. No due process = tyranny.
Some of my postcards for the President, commenting on his job performance so far, to be mailed on March 15. #TheIdesofTrump