Birmingham Indivisible ❌👑
LightNews LightNews
banner
indivisiblebham.bsky.social
Birmingham Indivisible ❌👑
@indivisiblebham.bsky.social
3.9K followers 2.1K following 1.6K posts
Birmingham (AL) Indivisible is a grassroots political org interested in using civic engagement for accountable gov't. Also for social, environmental & economic justice. Affiliated w Indivisible Nat'l
https://linktr.ee/birminghamindivisible
Posts Replies Media Videos
Pinned
indivisiblebham.bsky.social
Birmingham Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisiblebham.bsky.social · 1d
1/3📢Jan 22 Daily Action☎️
🧊 #ICEOUTFORGOOD🧊
🏛️House voting this week4️⃣DHS
❌ 5calls.org/issue/dhs-bu...
🔥RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES🔥
They want us2️⃣forget they exist
WE WON'T!
✳️ 5calls.org/issue/releas...
👇Script in photos
@alreporter.com
@al.com
❤️‍🔥JOIN US 4️⃣ #ICEOUTFORGOOD rally
Jan 23 730am
@alreporter.com
☎️Daily Action, Thursday, January 22nd, DEFUND ICE/EPSTEIN FILES ☎️ MOC CONTACT👇🏼 https://docs.google.com/.../1He3zd8rNqyB5nSX.../edit... 📚 Background (read before calling): January 21, 2026: The House is expected to vote this week on a standalone appropriations bill for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The bill maintains ICE’s current funding level for fiscal year 2026, while adding some requirements that DHS update Congress about certain proposed expenditures. https://5calls.org/issue/dhs-budget-ice-defund/ https://5calls.org/issue/release-epstein-files/ 📱Representatives Hi, my name is [NAME], I am a constituent from [STATE] [ZIP code]. I’m calling to ask that [REP NAME] push to defund ICE by opposing H.R. 7147, the DHS appropriations bill, and by supporting legislation that claws back the $75 billion ICE slush fund created by H.R. 1 last year. This lawless agency is violently attacking and killing immigrants and citizens around the country and must be defunded and dissolved for good. 👉🏻Also, what is [REP NAME] doing currently to pressure the release of the Epstein case files? 📱 Senate Hi, my name is [NAME], from [ZIP], [STATE]. I’m calling to ask that [SEN NAME] push to defund ICE by opposing any DHS appropriations bill that maintains ICE funding and supporting legislation that claws back the $75 billion ICE slush fund created by H.R. 1 last year. This lawless agency is violently attacking and killing immigrants and citizens around the country and must be defunded and dissolved for good. 👉🏻Also, what is [SEN NAME] doing currently to pressure the release of the Epstein case files?
indivisiblebham.bsky.social
"These 10 Rules of Resistance for #ICEOut offer ways to deny immigration agencies the key resources they need to function effectively." - 10 rules of resistance for #ICEOut wagingnonviolence.org/2026/01/10-r...
10 rules of resistance for #ICEOut
Americans can learn from the anti-Nazi leaflet “10 Commandments for Danes” by denying ICE everything it needs to function.
wagingnonviolence.org
January 23, 2026 at 7:49 PM
indivisiblebham.bsky.social
Jay Kuo: "The regime’s lies, distractions and smears are growing more desperate and more transparently obvious. As cringe-inducing or stomach-churning as they are, [it] is clear: The White House is signaling weakness, not strength." - Lies, Distractions and Smears open.substack.com/pub/statusku...
Lies, Distractions and Smears
As the Trump regime backs itself into a corner, it’s lashing out in predictable ways.
open.substack.com
January 23, 2026 at 7:35 PM
indivisiblebham.bsky.social
Alabama immigration bill draws criticism at House committee meeting alabamareflector.com/2026/01/22/a... #immigration #ICE #Alabama
Alabama immigration bill draws criticism at House committee meeting | Alabama Reflector
This is the third consecutive year that the Legislature is considering the bill to allow local law enforcement to enforce immigration.
alabamareflector.com
January 22, 2026 at 3:55 PM
indivisiblebham.bsky.social
Judd Legum - DOGE staffer signed deal to share Social Security data with election deniers open.substack.com/pub/populari... #DOGE #Musk
DOGE staffer signed deal to share Social Security data with election deniers
After months of denials, the Trump administration has admitted that staffers affiliated with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) misused Social Security Administration (SSA) data.
open.substack.com
January 22, 2026 at 3:17 PM
indivisiblebham.bsky.social
1/3📢Jan 22 Daily Action☎️
🧊 #ICEOUTFORGOOD🧊
🏛️House voting this week4️⃣DHS
❌ 5calls.org/issue/dhs-bu...
🔥RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES🔥
They want us2️⃣forget they exist
WE WON'T!
✳️ 5calls.org/issue/releas...
👇Script in photos
@alreporter.com
@al.com
❤️‍🔥JOIN US 4️⃣ #ICEOUTFORGOOD rally
Jan 23 730am
@alreporter.com
☎️Daily Action, Thursday, January 22nd, DEFUND ICE/EPSTEIN FILES ☎️ MOC CONTACT👇🏼 https://docs.google.com/.../1He3zd8rNqyB5nSX.../edit... 📚 Background (read before calling): January 21, 2026: The House is expected to vote this week on a standalone appropriations bill for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The bill maintains ICE’s current funding level for fiscal year 2026, while adding some requirements that DHS update Congress about certain proposed expenditures. https://5calls.org/issue/dhs-budget-ice-defund/ https://5calls.org/issue/release-epstein-files/ 📱Representatives Hi, my name is [NAME], I am a constituent from [STATE] [ZIP code]. I’m calling to ask that [REP NAME] push to defund ICE by opposing H.R. 7147, the DHS appropriations bill, and by supporting legislation that claws back the $75 billion ICE slush fund created by H.R. 1 last year. This lawless agency is violently attacking and killing immigrants and citizens around the country and must be defunded and dissolved for good. 👉🏻Also, what is [REP NAME] doing currently to pressure the release of the Epstein case files? 📱 Senate Hi, my name is [NAME], from [ZIP], [STATE]. I’m calling to ask that [SEN NAME] push to defund ICE by opposing any DHS appropriations bill that maintains ICE funding and supporting legislation that claws back the $75 billion ICE slush fund created by H.R. 1 last year. This lawless agency is violently attacking and killing immigrants and citizens around the country and must be defunded and dissolved for good. 👉🏻Also, what is [SEN NAME] doing currently to pressure the release of the Epstein case files?
January 22, 2026 at 2:23 PM
indivisiblebham.bsky.social
#Iceoutforgood
📢RAPID ACTION FOR THE BHM AREA📢
January 23 7:30-8:30am
Please register here👇
www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
❤️‍🔥Please share widely 4️⃣BHM AL area❤️‍🔥
@alabamareflector.com
@alreporter.com
@tabithak.bsky.social
@anneblackerby.bsky.social
@annehenson.bsky.social
@johnarchibald.bsky.social
January 22, 2026 at 12:23 AM
indivisiblebham.bsky.social
"[Tuberville] is voting consistently in ways that hurt Alabamians." Will Alabama voters elect him as governor anyway? 🤢 www.al.com/politics/202...
‘No ICE in Alabama’: Protesters tell Tuberville to ‘Go Back to Auburn’
Protesters delivered a letter accusing the senator of voting in ways that hurt Alabamians.
www.al.com
January 21, 2026 at 2:50 PM
indivisiblebham.bsky.social
In 2026, ICE detainees are dying at an alarming rate
open.substack.com/pub/populari...
In 2026, ICE detainees are dying at an alarming rate
In 2025, 32 people died in the custody of the U.S.
open.substack.com
January 21, 2026 at 2:34 PM
indivisiblebham.bsky.social
1/3📢Jan 21 Daily Action☎️
AL State level action
⚖️Support early voting HB270
Allow other abled people to have designated person deliver absentee app & ballot HB45
👇Script in photos
🔥RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES
5calls.org/issue/releas...
🧊 #ICEOUTFORGOOD
5calls.org/issue/dhs-bu...
@alreporter.com
@al.com
PLEASE KEEP CALLING your U.S. Reps and Senators. 5 Calls has excellent scripts as always (Here are my priority topics for Weds 1/21) I always end every call with mention of the Epstein files and I hope you will too. Top Two Topics if Democrat Rep: https://5calls.org/issue/trump-dictator-abuse-of-power/ https://5calls.org/issue/release-epstein-files/. (ALWAYS END WITH THIS ONE) Top Three Topics if Republican Rep: https://5calls.org/issue/trump-greenland-military-invasion/ https://5calls.org/issue/dhs-budget-ice-defund/ https://5calls.org/issue/release-epstein-files/. (ALWAYS END WITH THIS ONE) Our Reps and Senators -- local offices and in D.C, Democrats and Republicans -- NEED to know we are paying attention! It's OK to pick one or two issues, stay the course. Just keep making those calls! STATE LEVEL ACTION -- Get started: Step 1) Find your STATE SENATOR / STATE REP here. Remember: Upper Chamber = Senate; Lower Chamber = House. Step 2) Once you know who represents you, look up their numbers and save them in your phone! State Senators -contact info | State Representatives - contact info Step 3) When you email/call/or even visit the State House-- identify yourself as a voter/resident of ______ County or in ______ zip code. STATE LEVEL ACTION - Background: 1. SUPPORT HB270. --- Allowing Early In-Person Voting (Rep Adline Clarke + the whole Democratic Caucus) Alabama is only one of THREE states that does not allow some form of early voting. Unless voters have a qualifying excuse to vote absentee, Alabama's 3.5+ million registered voters have to vote in a 12-hour window on a Tuesday. Alabama voters deserve better and HB270 will give it to them. 2. SUPPORT HB45 -- Allow disabled person to have a designee to deliver absentee ballot application and ballot HB45 would allow registered voters who are disabled; blind; or unable to read or write to designate an individual to deliver the voter’s application for them to the absentee election manager. It would also allow disabled absentee voters to designate an individual to deliver the voter’s completed, absentee ballot packet to the absentee election manager. Passage of HB45 will improve accessibility for all eligible citizens to vote, including the blind, the physically challenged, and others with conditions that constrain them. Visit the Alabama Channel's YouTube Channel and watch the Constitution, Campaigns and Election Committee (CC&E) Meeting, Wednesday Jan 21 at 9:00 AM (Room 418) STATE LEVEL ACTION for BOTH HB45 & HB270 Call CC& E Chair Bob Fincher and tell him that Alabama needs early voting and Alabama's disabled community needs HB45. Ask him to get these bills on the committee's agenda. (334-261-0424) Note to Shelby County Residents: Rep Arnold Mooney is the Vice Chair of CC&E. If he is your representative, please call him as one of his constituents and ask for his support in getting these bills on the committee's agenda (334-261-9512). (credit / League of Women Voters (LWV) Take Action Tuesday email list-- Sign up here for the LWV emails!) * * * * * BONUS ACTION from Read Freely Alabama -- (If you didn't do this one last week) 432 people have completed this action already, help us get to 600 by the end of today 1/21/26! (Please do the action and share with two friends.) Please Tell Your State Senator: Vote NO on SB26. Use this form to contact your State Senator today. Urge them to oppose SB26 and protect independent, community-led libraries in Alabama. (Thank you to Read Freely Alabama for providing a super-easy form. This action takes 30 seconds!)
January 21, 2026 at 1:38 PM
indivisiblebham.bsky.social
🧊BE SAFE EVERYONE!!🧊
@mnindivisible.bsky.social
@indivisiblebemidji.bsky.social
@indivisiblenempls.bsky.social
@bluebrigade-ke.bsky.social
@indivisibleseniors.bsky.social
@indivisiblebrigade.bsky.social
@indivisible-a-m.bsky.social
@indivisibleamesia.bsky.social
@indivisibleia-joco.bsky.social
anneblackerby.bsky.social Anne Blackerby @anneblackerby.bsky.social · 2d
@indivisiblebham.bsky.social
nancabell.bsky.social nancabell.bsky.social @nancabell.bsky.social · 2d
Important new tactics in Minnesota 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
January 21, 2026 at 12:44 PM
Reposted by Birmingham Indivisible ❌👑
anneblackerby.bsky.social
@indivisiblebham.bsky.social
nancabell.bsky.social nancabell.bsky.social @nancabell.bsky.social · 2d
Important new tactics in Minnesota 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
January 21, 2026 at 4:54 AM
Reposted by Birmingham Indivisible ❌👑
mohaveindv.bsky.social
January 21, 2026 at 12:35 PM
indivisiblebham.bsky.social
"We need to expand the tent to fight tyranny and rebuild, but doing so means bringing in people who don’t know they need to be in the tent or who don’t care whether they are." www.editorialboard.com/do-not-spurn...
Do not spurn the ‘American dumbass constituency’
Liberals need them to rebuild America.
www.editorialboard.com
January 20, 2026 at 8:38 PM
indivisiblebham.bsky.social
1/3📢Jan 20 Daily Action☎️
⚛️Protect Science & the NIH⚛️
www.facebook.com/share/p/17rC...
🔥RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES🔥
Reps Khana & Massie asking judge to intervene in release
✳️ www.wxyz.com/us-news/crim...
🛑🧊DEFUND ICE🛑
#IceOutForGood
✳️ 5calls.org/issue/dhs-bu...
👇Script in photos
@ezralevin.bsky.social
Keep leadership scientific, not political. NIH’s disease-specific institutes (like Cancer, Heart/Lung, Neurological Diseases and Stroke etc.) are led by directors who should be chosen for scientific expertise, not politics. These jobs need to be filled by career civil-servants with subject matter expertise. After recent turnover and non-renewals of respected institute leaders, many of us in research are worried that funding decisions will become even more political. The Senate added a bipartisan guardrail to limit these multi-year, lump-sum payouts if they would cut the number of new awards. The House has written out this guardrail and OMB threatens to veto a bill with the guardrail (even though Russell Vought is not an elected official and has no veto power). Rep. Aderholt chairs the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor–HHS–Education. That’s the panel that writes the NIH funding bill. In that role, he makes decisions that affect every lab and hospital in the country. How to introduce yourself: say you’re “an Alabama resident from [your ZIP] calling about NIH appropriations.” Also call your own House member and both Senators. But please call Aderholt too. On NIH, he represents all of us. DC: (202) 225-4876 Cullman: (256) 734-6043: Hi, my name is [NAME], I am a constituent from Alabama [ZIP code] (and I’m calling because you chair the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor–HHS–Education). I’m calling about the NIH funding bill. Please keep NIH science broad and nonpolitical and protect the number of grants we can fund this year. 1. Adopt the Senate guardrail so NIH can’t pay five-year grants all at once if that would reduce how many new grants get funded this year. 2. Add clear language that NIH institute and center directors must be career civil-service scientists chosen on merit, not political loyalty. This is about keeping more Alabama research labs open, paying trainees, and speeding up cures without politics getting in the way
January 20, 2026 at 1:39 PM
indivisiblebham.bsky.social
BHM indivisible
#visibilitybrigade
Jan 19 2026
Celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
A GREAT man!!
January 20, 2026 at 6:23 AM
indivisiblebham.bsky.social
Joyce Vance: "Who benefits from a loss of faith in our institutions and in our ability to come out on the other end of this national nightmare with an intact republic?" - It’s The Cynicism open.substack.com/pub/joycevan... @joycewhitevance.bsky.social
It’s The Cynicism
It seems to be everywhere you look, across the political spectrum.
open.substack.com
January 19, 2026 at 6:40 PM
indivisiblebham.bsky.social
Brian Lyman: "Until we secure genuine political power for Black Alabamians — not subject to the whims of white politicians — none of us will live in a democracy." - The Martin Luther King Jr. speech everyone should know alabamareflector.com/2026/01/19/t... #MLK #Alabama
The Martin Luther King Jr. speech everyone should know | Alabama Reflector
No, not that one.
alabamareflector.com
January 19, 2026 at 3:39 PM
indivisiblebham.bsky.social
1/3🩻Welcome 2️⃣ Science & Health Mondays
🔬We will be giving you short, vetted, science-based content every Monday
🤧Flu, RSV & COVID-19 rates are on the increase in our community & misinformation from the Trump administration & Secretary Kennedy (HHS) is creating more confusion
@annehenson.bsky.social
January 19, 2026 at 4:32 AM
indivisiblebham.bsky.social
Trump Backlash Is Fueling A Leftward Culture Shift
open.substack.com/pub/thinkbig...
Trump Backlash Is Fueling A Leftward Culture Shift
Trump's disastrous immigration crackdown will go down as a self-own for the ages
open.substack.com
January 17, 2026 at 3:07 PM
indivisiblebham.bsky.social
Alert: AI video of seized Lamborghini distorts day care fraud claims - rumorguard.org/post/ai-gene...
AI-generated video shows feds seizing Lamborghini from Somali day care owner
A social media post appears to show a Lamborghini luxury sports car being confiscated from a Somalian day care owner by U.S. marshals, but this isn’t a genuine video. This clip is AI-generated. Let’s ...
rumorguard.org
January 16, 2026 at 9:00 PM
indivisiblebham.bsky.social
WHO will be held responsible 4️⃣ this CRAP!!
According to dear leaders sidekick NO ONE
VP JD Vance has suggested that ICE agents are protected by “absolute immunity” from prosecution over actions. Legal experts say ICE agents can still face criminal charges or civil lawsuits. The 🌎 is WATCHING 👀
brucedlittle.bsky.social Bruce Little @brucedlittle.bsky.social · 7d
“One of the bombs rolled under our truck, and within seconds our truck lifted up off the ground, and the airbags deployed, the car doors locked themselves, and the car began to fill with the powerful tear gas. We fought hard to get the doors open and get all of the kids out. Bystanders had to help.”
Infant needs CPR after feds unleash flash-bangs on family van with 6 kids inside
The father of three children who were hospitalized in Minneapolis on Wednesday night accused federal agents of launching flash-bang munitions and tear gas into their family van after they were caught ...
www.rawstory.com
January 16, 2026 at 6:16 PM
indivisiblebham.bsky.social
Join AshLeigh Dunham as she officially kicks off her campaign 4️⃣Alabama Supreme Court
🙋‍♀️Come meet Ashleigh hear about her vision4️⃣the AL Supreme Court Be part of a movement committed 2️⃣ upholding the rule of law & strengthening trust in our judicial system
@alreporter.com
@alpoliticsthisweek.com
@al.com
January 16, 2026 at 6:09 PM
indivisiblebham.bsky.social
Robert Hubbell - Addressing misconceptions about the Insurrection Act open.substack.com/pub/roberthu... #InsurrectionAct
Addressing misconceptions about the Insurrection Act
January 16, 2025
open.substack.com
January 16, 2026 at 5:08 PM
indivisiblebham.bsky.social
“You are becoming the censor-in-chief of Alabama.” - APLS to continue withholding Fairhope Library funds over ‘Handmaid’s Tale,’ other books alabamareflector.com/2026/01/16/a...
APLS to continue withholding Fairhope Library funds over 'Handmaid's Tale,' other books | Alabama Reflector
The Fairhope Public Library has been without state aid for almost a year after APLS voted to suspend its funding over library materials.
alabamareflector.com
January 16, 2026 at 4:40 PM
indivisiblebham.bsky.social
"ICE arrested more younger children than the agency detained in Alabama during the last two years." www.al.com/news/2026/01... #ICE #Alabama
ICE arrests, detains more children in Alabama under Trump administration
The youngest child arrested in Alabama in the last few years was about two-years-old.
www.al.com
January 16, 2026 at 4:30 PM