Bee Geesmith
@beegeesmith.bsky.social
Fascinated with how people act against self-interest. Lifelong student of economics, recovering New Yorker, SFian. Technology connoisseur.
This week, ICE sought to deport (another) Native American (Pima) woman, Sigh.
The (Redux) Ballad of Ira Hays.
www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2...
The (Redux) Ballad of Ira Hays.
www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2...
Native American nearly deported after Polk County jail issues ICE detainer by mistake
Jail staff in Des Moines told Leticia Jacobo she would be turned over to immigration agents — even though Jacobo is Native American.
www.desmoinesregister.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:36 AM
This week, ICE sought to deport (another) Native American (Pima) woman, Sigh.
The (Redux) Ballad of Ira Hays.
www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2...
The (Redux) Ballad of Ira Hays.
www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2...
I want to like this as much as she likes attention.
November 22, 2025 at 12:24 AM
I want to like this as much as she likes attention.
I feel like tariffs are not helping American workers … and not helping American consumers. It’s weird. I wonder who they are helping.
November 20, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I feel like tariffs are not helping American workers … and not helping American consumers. It’s weird. I wonder who they are helping.
Also unpopular - democratic leadership driving against the change voters want (ie. Zohran) and unable to hold republicans accountable (no funding for healthcare, but funding for ICE).
We deserve better.
We deserve better.
November 20, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Also unpopular - democratic leadership driving against the change voters want (ie. Zohran) and unable to hold republicans accountable (no funding for healthcare, but funding for ICE).
We deserve better.
We deserve better.
It’s called Kumma Bear from FoloToy.
I’m not surprised it’s into body exploration.
I’m not surprised it’s into body exploration.
November 20, 2025 at 4:39 AM
It’s called Kumma Bear from FoloToy.
I’m not surprised it’s into body exploration.
I’m not surprised it’s into body exploration.
And the negative outcomes range from official government action, to outrage trolls, doxxing, job losses, etc … and it costs them nothing to mean-tweet at you which can ruin your life. For disagreeing with them. Or doing their jobs, like Ruby and Shaye.
November 20, 2025 at 1:04 AM
And the negative outcomes range from official government action, to outrage trolls, doxxing, job losses, etc … and it costs them nothing to mean-tweet at you which can ruin your life. For disagreeing with them. Or doing their jobs, like Ruby and Shaye.
I love how you hit every critical point clearly and concisely … and then gave your colleagues incentives to come along with you to support the people, the voters.
Because. They might hear that part. Even if they tuned out the rest.
Because. You’re right.
Because. They might hear that part. Even if they tuned out the rest.
Because. You’re right.
November 19, 2025 at 4:37 AM
I love how you hit every critical point clearly and concisely … and then gave your colleagues incentives to come along with you to support the people, the voters.
Because. They might hear that part. Even if they tuned out the rest.
Because. You’re right.
Because. They might hear that part. Even if they tuned out the rest.
Because. You’re right.
Please, god, please don’t let him go where Segal later goes.
November 19, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Please, god, please don’t let him go where Segal later goes.
Fair point! I guess he probably wasn’t buying her jewelry for his birthday, which was … what I was thinking … but, yes your math makes more sense when I’m thinking about it.
Why do I do things before I coffee.
Why do I do things before I coffee.
November 18, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Fair point! I guess he probably wasn’t buying her jewelry for his birthday, which was … what I was thinking … but, yes your math makes more sense when I’m thinking about it.
Why do I do things before I coffee.
Why do I do things before I coffee.
His math doesn’t check. 15,000/16= love. Or 1,000.
November 18, 2025 at 2:43 PM
His math doesn’t check. 15,000/16= love. Or 1,000.
And what did the rest of the press crew do about that? Did they ask why he used that language? Ask what about his rotund girth gives him knowledge of being a piggy, and why his name occurs so frequently in the Epstein files?
November 18, 2025 at 1:28 PM
And what did the rest of the press crew do about that? Did they ask why he used that language? Ask what about his rotund girth gives him knowledge of being a piggy, and why his name occurs so frequently in the Epstein files?
Don’t let facts get in the way of their story.
November 18, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Don’t let facts get in the way of their story.
Same here. And even my terminally online friends aren’t having as much fun with this as I am. I feel so alone. Except on Bluesky.
November 18, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Same here. And even my terminally online friends aren’t having as much fun with this as I am. I feel so alone. Except on Bluesky.
Full responsibility would include ….giving up teaching young people at a minimum. Perhaps to … do something to help victims.
Even if, which i doubt, he was completely innocent of wrongdoing - and just kept up email correspondence with the predator.
Even if, which i doubt, he was completely innocent of wrongdoing - and just kept up email correspondence with the predator.
November 18, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Full responsibility would include ….giving up teaching young people at a minimum. Perhaps to … do something to help victims.
Even if, which i doubt, he was completely innocent of wrongdoing - and just kept up email correspondence with the predator.
Even if, which i doubt, he was completely innocent of wrongdoing - and just kept up email correspondence with the predator.
12:15am, the bamboo keeps spreading and the fire spreads with it 3,000 acres. There’s no water tower, only lava rocks and metaphorical firearms.
November 18, 2025 at 3:38 AM
12:15am, the bamboo keeps spreading and the fire spreads with it 3,000 acres. There’s no water tower, only lava rocks and metaphorical firearms.
And “standing back from public life” as if .. you know … anyone will take his calls.
Saying “I shouldn’t have been emailing that rapist guy.” Isn’t the same thing as you know … admitting his actual role … or even trying to make amends with victims.
But, not giving up teaching….
…young people.
Saying “I shouldn’t have been emailing that rapist guy.” Isn’t the same thing as you know … admitting his actual role … or even trying to make amends with victims.
But, not giving up teaching….
…young people.
November 18, 2025 at 3:32 AM
And “standing back from public life” as if .. you know … anyone will take his calls.
Saying “I shouldn’t have been emailing that rapist guy.” Isn’t the same thing as you know … admitting his actual role … or even trying to make amends with victims.
But, not giving up teaching….
…young people.
Saying “I shouldn’t have been emailing that rapist guy.” Isn’t the same thing as you know … admitting his actual role … or even trying to make amends with victims.
But, not giving up teaching….
…young people.
Shakes fist at cloud!
Definitely not at the guy who bankrolled its demise
Definitely not at the guy who bankrolled its demise
November 18, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Shakes fist at cloud!
Definitely not at the guy who bankrolled its demise
Definitely not at the guy who bankrolled its demise
Holy frijoles. I earnestly thought this was hyperbole. Then I read the excerpt.
I. Um. Er.
It makes me appreciate … how terrible something can be. Like a slow motion interplanetary collision with trains.
12:15am the fire, like my passion, grows to 3,000 acres.
apple.news/A_MKO7IozTui...
I. Um. Er.
It makes me appreciate … how terrible something can be. Like a slow motion interplanetary collision with trains.
12:15am the fire, like my passion, grows to 3,000 acres.
apple.news/A_MKO7IozTui...
Olivia Nuzzi's American Canto: Read the Exclusive Excerpt — Vanity Fair
She flamed out and she faded away. Vanity Fair’s West Coast Editor returns to the written word to survey scorched earth.
apple.news
November 17, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Holy frijoles. I earnestly thought this was hyperbole. Then I read the excerpt.
I. Um. Er.
It makes me appreciate … how terrible something can be. Like a slow motion interplanetary collision with trains.
12:15am the fire, like my passion, grows to 3,000 acres.
apple.news/A_MKO7IozTui...
I. Um. Er.
It makes me appreciate … how terrible something can be. Like a slow motion interplanetary collision with trains.
12:15am the fire, like my passion, grows to 3,000 acres.
apple.news/A_MKO7IozTui...
If only we can do it without contributing to her ratings and income …. Sigh hope the libraries can keep up.
November 17, 2025 at 3:02 PM
If only we can do it without contributing to her ratings and income …. Sigh hope the libraries can keep up.
I’m definitely not that interesting or important. But, that’s also my point.
When you said “if this were fascism, you wouldn’t be posting here”
It’s oversimplified for 2 reasons: 1) I’m not that important. 2) signal/noise: if I post nothing, if ever they investigate me, that’s also bad.
When you said “if this were fascism, you wouldn’t be posting here”
It’s oversimplified for 2 reasons: 1) I’m not that important. 2) signal/noise: if I post nothing, if ever they investigate me, that’s also bad.
November 16, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I’m definitely not that interesting or important. But, that’s also my point.
When you said “if this were fascism, you wouldn’t be posting here”
It’s oversimplified for 2 reasons: 1) I’m not that important. 2) signal/noise: if I post nothing, if ever they investigate me, that’s also bad.
When you said “if this were fascism, you wouldn’t be posting here”
It’s oversimplified for 2 reasons: 1) I’m not that important. 2) signal/noise: if I post nothing, if ever they investigate me, that’s also bad.
Tom, I deeply respect you and I’m glad you’re here.
My friends and I quit posting on most social networks in 2016, deleted our twitter and meta accounts in 2018-2020, and post a carefully curated list of non-offensive things here.
And we, like the DoD, use Signal for all real communications.
My friends and I quit posting on most social networks in 2016, deleted our twitter and meta accounts in 2018-2020, and post a carefully curated list of non-offensive things here.
And we, like the DoD, use Signal for all real communications.
November 16, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Tom, I deeply respect you and I’m glad you’re here.
My friends and I quit posting on most social networks in 2016, deleted our twitter and meta accounts in 2018-2020, and post a carefully curated list of non-offensive things here.
And we, like the DoD, use Signal for all real communications.
My friends and I quit posting on most social networks in 2016, deleted our twitter and meta accounts in 2018-2020, and post a carefully curated list of non-offensive things here.
And we, like the DoD, use Signal for all real communications.
Someone needs to spend some time off the grid with my friends in Utah and Arizona to understand “extreme privacy”
November 16, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Someone needs to spend some time off the grid with my friends in Utah and Arizona to understand “extreme privacy”