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Jenna Beacom @jfbeacom.bsky.social · 2h

Which reporter? Kudos to them for asking this question!

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Jenna Beacom @jfbeacom.bsky.social · 13h

I chortle every time he misses. And usually say “Fucking Butker” after chortling.

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Jenna Beacom @jfbeacom.bsky.social · 16h

Cut Butker already geez

Jenna Beacom @jfbeacom.bsky.social · 1d

For the person I know with dementia who has been a lifelong liar, they didn't start telling the truth. Their lies just became way less careful. For a long time, the lies were quite credible - many people were taken in. Then the lies just couldn't be knitted together anymore and became ludicrous.

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Jenna Beacom @jfbeacom.bsky.social · 1d

Right! I can’t stand the guy and hate what he’s doing but also, yes, this is what he promised. That’s WHY I didn’t want him to win.

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Jenna Beacom @jfbeacom.bsky.social · 1d

Hey congratulations!

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 1d

The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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Jenna Beacom @jfbeacom.bsky.social · 2d

I hope they write him out in some way that reflects what happened so people don’t have to be all sad about him. Like it turns out that he did something dastardly (it can be plot-related - he’s feeding info to the baddie?) and he’s fired and everyone is disappointed in him.

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Jenna Beacom @jfbeacom.bsky.social · 2d

God damn it. (Good for the show for taking action though.)

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Jenna Beacom @jfbeacom.bsky.social · 2d

"I just scored a prescription for Myalept. I'm gonna be rich! RICH!!!!"

[I just looked up most-expensive drugs and holy fuck is that depressing. I wasn't expecting them to start at over a million dollars a year nor that there would be so MANY of the insanely expensive ones.]

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James McLeod @jamespmcleod.ca · 3d

I do love "You dummies aren't actually reading the book" content about Christianity.

Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 3d

“‘I often wonder, even though the teaching of Sacred Scripture is so clear about the poor, why many people continue to think that they can safely disregard the poor,’ Pope Leo XIV states in his first magisterial document …” www.americamagazine.org/vatican-disp...

Pope Leo in first major document: Love for the poor is not optional for Christians

“I often wonder, even though the teaching of Sacred Scripture is so clear about the poor, why many people continue to think that they can safely disregard the poor,” Pope Leo XIV states in his first m...

www.americamagazine.org

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 3d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Jenna Beacom @jfbeacom.bsky.social · 3d

Who is cooler than Johnny Cash? Who?

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 3d

Second threat walked back after a couple days.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 3d

We are witnessing the most lawless behavior by a leader in American history, just daily, extraordinary abuses of power. National Democrats must speak out in a loud and clear voice against Trump's escalating authoritarianism. It is time now.

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 3d

The Guardian reports that Letitia James has been indicted

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 3d

Autism antibodies are stored in the foreskin.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 3d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Jenna Beacom @jfbeacom.bsky.social · 4d

(There is no rational world in which a trans college student tying for fifth place in a single college race is “awful.”)

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Jenna Beacom @jfbeacom.bsky.social · 4d

I’d agree but with that last sentence I’d say this is more someone who was annoyed he couldn’t be a bigot without consequences.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 5d

JUST IN: A federal judge has granted the New York Times’ demand for a list of Elon Musk’s security clearances. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 5d

Picture here is from 1992. LA riots. Ive seen this called bad news judgment. In any real journalism outfit this is more like a firing offense. I basically say such things. Beyond belief.

CNN @cnn.com · 6d

"President Donald Trump and his top aides are using the word 'insurrection' more frequently to describe anti-ICE protests in places like Portland," writes Zachary B. Wolf. https://cnn.it/4pWYmzr

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Jenna Beacom @jfbeacom.bsky.social · 7d

True. (Meanwhile the Vikings won somehow? I checked in with two minutes left and they were down by 3, then just checked again. Good for them!)

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Jenna Beacom @jfbeacom.bsky.social · 8d

I feel so bad for Justin Jefferson. A generational talent and the Vikings just can't get enough around him for him to really go off.

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Jenna Beacom @jfbeacom.bsky.social · 8d

I wonder if you could have someone create a real account that you authorize? I try to report the fake ones but TikTok wants me to ID the real account to report, and you don't have one. (Yes, this is a TikTok flaw. Also maybe I'm overlooking something, if anyone knows another way to report, lmk.)

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Jenna Beacom @jfbeacom.bsky.social · 8d

My assumption was correct! Yay. Added to my list, thank you!

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Jenna Beacom @jfbeacom.bsky.social · 8d

Oh! I did not know this was a thing. Love the books. (Off to find this and whether I'm making correct assumptions based on the name.)

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