Betsy Nagler
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Betsy Nagler
@betsynagler.bsky.social
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Screenwriter & filmmaker. Alum of The Writers Lab, Stowe Narrative Lab, 2023. The Women’s List 2024.
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SCANDAL — the “paid protesters” all got stiffed yesterday 🤷🏼 💰

Now they know how all those contractors Trump hired feel 😕

(H/T @thegoodliars.bsky.social & @howdypolitics.bsky.social )
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One of the craziest stories I've seen in a long time. If you think Trump and his administration are extreme and depraved, just wait until you learn about the young guns who are positioning themselves to take over the reigns in the next few decades

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com
Tell ‘em, Kermie!
ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert
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Honestly, it needs to go further than this.

We need to confront the fact that democracy and wealth hoarding cannot coexist. Allowing people to amass the resources of a small state/country allows them to act as such, which is inimical to a shared society of “one person, one vote.”
“No Kings” is great , but we really don't get a functioning democracy back until we internalize, bone deep, the instinctive response to this and every other statement like it: “I don’t care what that rich guy thinks.”

Make it your morning affirmation. Say it ten times at the top of every hour.
Elon Musk calls for US troops to be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs: ‘It’s the only solution’
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Between this, the resegregation of the military, and the retooling of the Department of Justice to focus on (fake) discrimination against white Christians, and eviscerating Civil Rights Act enforcement, they have nearly erased the structural legacy of the Civil Rights Movement.
Wednesday is gonna be a rough day:

The Supreme Court will be hearing oral argument in a pair of cases that threaten what little remains of the federal government’s ability to protect voters from racial gerrymandering under the Voting Rights Act

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/louis...
Louisiana v Callais: The Republicans Justices Are Getting Ready to Finish Off the Voting Rights Act
In Louisiana v Callais, John Roberts will have the chance to finish his decades-long war on. voting rights.
ballsandstrikes.org
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What did Tom Homan do with the $50K he took in a CAVA bag from undercover FBI agents?

Just keep asking this everyday. Its a big scandal they can't escape because Pam Bondi and her DOJ killed the investigation. They're cornered on this and the Epstein Files.
This is how it’s done. Always ask for a warrant signed by a judge.
Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry.

The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”
Federal immigration operations target San Diego neighborhoods, sparking community resistance
Federal immigration agents conducted operations in Logan Heights and Southeast San Diego on Friday, with community members capturing footage of the enforcement actions.
www.10news.com
You know you’re in your 50s when you find yourself looking back fondly on the days when only one part of your body hurt.
“Much like the American system, France’s hardest problem is being trapped in the amber of past ages. Unlike the American system, France is not set up to ignore its problems forever while it falls apart.”
Great piece. “In other words, most people still prefer to hire a man over a woman, but they won’t admit it to others—or themselves. Instead, they change what counts as “qualified” to align with the credentials, experience, and qualities of the man they prefer to hire.”
How to Hide Discrimination
How "merit" becomes bias by posing as objectivity
open.substack.com
I mean…yeah.
Hilarious. My people.
"Strengths include the ability to work independently for years or even decades with minimal feedback and/or praise, as well as a marked level of comfort working with antiquated systems, outdated standards, and unending group email chains."
From back when she was thinking, “I’m going to be a princess! Won’t that be fun?”
Lying liars who lie lie lie.
“When a Guardian reporter pointed out on social media that the image was not a genuine photograph of the generally small & tame protests outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Portland, the Oregon Republican Party’s X account replied: ‘We’re not reporters, just bad memers.‘”
The Oregon Republican Party tried to help Donald Trump make the case for military intervention in Portland with an image of a fiery protest — but since Portland is calm, they had to fabricate one by merging old photos of police in Ecuador and protesters in Brazil www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Opinion | Why Democrats should nominate Tillie Norwood in 2028.
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If you live in FL, it would be useful if you called Ashley Moody's office & ask 1) Whether she renounces her support of Trump bc he incited hundreds of people to attack cops on Jan6 and then pardoned them all or 2) whether she retracts her slander accusing that Dems are themselves inciting violence.
What a relief this guy is gone.
you know this guy had to have made a huge number of enemies for oklahoma republicans to want to take him down (serves him right, he sucks)
THE CHICKENS ARE FINALLY COMING HOME TO ROOST

Ryan Walters is out & the investigation floodgates just opened. The Oklahoma AG launched a full audit of Walters’ entire tenure as Superintendent, and it’s about damn time.

Also the education dept website’s being scrubbed of his culture-war nonsense.
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you know this guy had to have made a huge number of enemies for oklahoma republicans to want to take him down (serves him right, he sucks)
THE CHICKENS ARE FINALLY COMING HOME TO ROOST

Ryan Walters is out & the investigation floodgates just opened. The Oklahoma AG launched a full audit of Walters’ entire tenure as Superintendent, and it’s about damn time.

Also the education dept website’s being scrubbed of his culture-war nonsense.
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