Beachbard
@beachbard.bsky.social
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You’ve Got To Be Carefully Taught
from South Pacific

You've got to be taught
To hate and fear,
You've got to be taught
From year to year,
It's got to be drummed
In your dear little ear
You've got to be carefully taught.

Premiered in 1949
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The federal government faked a riot and this was on Fox News!
Big opportunity for Big Ag
Trump II tariffs sent trading partners & $40B bailout to Argentina.
Bankruptcy sales of equipment, land, stock mean low low prices for multinational corporations or hedge funds looking for bargains.
Private prisons flourish as family farms fail
Big Ag is bad for all of us.
Sadly, they will just fill the post with anyone willing to "follow orders".
Abusing & decimating the US military fulfills one of Putin/Xi Jinping goals carried out by the Trump Regime. Weaken & destroy from within.
Trump hasn't thought ahead to defending his kingdom from China/Russia/India.
If Main Stream Media hadn't traded investigative reporting for access in 1990s, had posed hard questions to GOP pols when they made vague statements using Gingrich's lists of words, had remained undeniably unbiased & impartial regarding political parties for the last 40 years it would be different.
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this white house actively treats a large swath of americans as disloyal and outside the political community and it doesn’t merit so much as a peep from the political press
Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."
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I dont think enough Americans realize Republicans are gearing up for permanent rule. I dont know if we will get to midterm elections. Even if we do, with gerrymandering, the gutting of the Voting Rights Act, and violent intimidation, they'll rig the elections for minority rule.

All hands on deck.
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Price increases for "things" under Donald Trump:

Coffee is up 26%
Baby strollers are up 25%
Beef is up 14%
School supplies are up 7%
Electricity is up 5%

Car prices are at a RECORD high.

And thanks to Republicans in Congress, health insurance premiums are about to DOUBLE.
Childishly purposefully mispronouncing names seems to make some people feel superior.
Reminded of a chapter in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings where white women decide what name to call Maya Angelou, after already misnaming her "Margret" not Marguerite the ladies decided to call her "Mary" for ease.
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Well, this is horrifying, @masslive.bsky.social.
What the fuck?! MassLive is now using generative "AI" to create articles, which would be bad enough in any context but is especially egregious when publishing allegations that someone committed a crime.

@masslive.bsky.social #Massachusetts #mapoli

www.masslive.com/news/2025/10...
Generative AI was used to draft this story, based on information provided by federal charging documents. It was reviewed and edited by MassLive.com.
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This is good because it'll have a cumulative effect. The more institutions that stand up against Trump's attempted autocratic takeover, the more likely that others will do the same. There is safety in numbers.
“.. Penn has rejected the White House’s proposed preferential funding compact, according to a Thursday email to the University community.”

www.thedp.com/article/2025...
Dems should realize 1990s ended collegial bipartisanship when GOP initiated an "us v them" zero sum model of politics & governance
GOP eschewed bipartisanship (Hastert Rule) & adopted Gingrich's lists of words
GOP/Fox incited aggrieved victimhood
Dems: always Charlie Brown in the Lucy football gag
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Whenever Democrats are tempted to pull out the old “spirited disagreements but we’re all Americans” bromide, they need to remember this first.
Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."
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It's important for you to know that Republicans have been turning these depraved adults loose on your kids in high school and college for years now. I warned people constantly about Turning Point USA and the 30+ year old creep Charlie Jerk that was hanging around them.
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Yup. Notably, neither Tom Homan nor anybody else in the Trump admin has outright denied that he took and kept the $50,000 in taxpayer money given to him by the FBI in their bribery scheme.

Every time they’re asked, they either pivot or attack the questioner. But they don’t deny it.
To @DaveWeigel.bsky.social’s point, it’s never once been “no,” and everyone in Trump’s government is refusing to answer what happened to the $50,000 in taxpayer money that Homan never denied taking inside a paper bag.
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“The 3.5% rule is a concept in political science that states that when 3.5% of the population of a country protest nonviolently against a government, that government is likely to fall from power.”

If you can get to a No Kings rally this Saturday, please do.
Big opportunity for Big Ag
Trump II tariffs sent trading partners & $40B bailout to Argentina.
Bankruptcy sales of equipment, land, stock mean low low prices for multinational corporations or hedge funds looking for bargains.
Private prisons flourish as family farms fail
Big Ag is bad for all of us.
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This is why farmers are saying MAGA = “Make Argentina Great Again”

www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
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ICE has arrested a mother of a three-year-old for playing her clarinet outside an ICE facility in Portland, as reported by her husband.
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No King's Day!
Here we go!! 🗽⚖️🇺🇸
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“Operation Inflation” is offering free inflatable costumes to Portland ICE protesters.

Bravo and Brava!👩🏻‍🍳💋
Media allows GOP & Trump continue to shove the Overton Window to autocracy.
Bipartisan, middle of the road opinions from the 1970s widely receive a designation of "radical looney left" today.
Freeing the Upper Class from taxes shrunk the Middle Class & made life for the majority of Americans poorer.
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The racist-ass Supreme Court says race can't be a factor for college admissions or redistricting but racial profiling is perfectly fine for ICE to bash brown and Black skulls.

F this corrupt institution.

Expand the Court.