Beth
bethpdx.bsky.social
Beth
@bethpdx.bsky.social
Portlander, teacher
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When we note that having idiots run the government is a threat to national security this is the sort of thing we’re talking about
what is going on
November 23, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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King: According to Secretary Rubio, this plan is not the administration’s position — it is essentially the Russians’ wish list that is now being presented to the Europeans and to the Ukrainians.
November 23, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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TAPPER: Dr Cassidy, RFK Jr lied to you

CASSIDY: First let me say what's most important -- vaccines are safe.
November 23, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Just after midnight Fri, former fiancé of journalist who had a romantic relationship w/HHS sec RFK Jr. dropped another installment of his version of saga. It incl a graphic pornographic poem that would have ended cabinet member’s career in any normal admin.-HC Richardson
November 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Greene appears to be shifting to fit into a post-Trump future. “When the common Amer people finally realize and understand that the Political Industrial Complex of both parties is ripping this country apart, that not one elected leader…then I’ll be here by their side to rebuild it.” HC Richardson
November 24, 2025 at 4:52 PM
McConnell (R-KY) said: “Putin spent entire yr trying to play Pres Trump for fool. Rewarding Russ butchery would be disastrous to Amer.”Yesterday a grp of senators…told reporters they spoke to Rubio abt plan. Sen King said Rubio told them doc “not admin pos” but rather “a wish list of the Russians.”
November 24, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Sam is right. DOGE did exactly what they wanted it to do- hurt poor people, destroyed faith in government, enriched Elon.
November 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Remember the $5,000 checks that were promised to American working class families from all government waste DOGE was going to find? It was all a scam and a grift. 😳👇
November 24, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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There actually has not been enough reflection in the tech community about DOGE
November 24, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Still waiting for Musk and DOGE to show proof that 150 year old individuals were collecting social security checks and all the other corruption they promised to reveal.
November 24, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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The only thing DOGE accomplished was making Elon Musk a trillionaire.

When tf do we eat the mfing rich?
November 24, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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The "Department of Government Efficiency" has disbanded eight months early.

DOGE sowed chaos throughout the government and disrupted services relied upon by millions, while finding hardly any savings.

Here's what you should know about damage that DOGE leaves behind.
The DOGE Damage Elon is Leaving Behind
Robert Reich
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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One last thing: If AOC runs against Schumer, she will win.

Democrats need to make a hard left turn.

Mamdani has proven it is time.

The people of the United States are ready for politicians who will not just say they'lll fight for them, but will actually do so once elected.
November 23, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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I can't put into the words the visceral hatred I feel towards the administration in the US. The pain their behaviour is causing to Ukrainians is unforgivable.

Ukrainians have russians terrorising them with missiles & drones. Now the US is terrorising them with russian demands for capitulation.
November 23, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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THERE'S ONLY ONE REASON FOR OUR "SHITBAG-IN-CHIEF" DONNY DIAPERSTAIN NOT TO WANT THE MILITARY TO KNOW THEY CAN DISOBEY ILLEGAL ORDERS, AND WE ALL KNOW WHAT IT IS. YOU CAN READ ALL ABOUT IT IN MY POST LIKE NO ONE THOUGHT POSSIBLE. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO IT. LINK IS HERE: bit.ly/4ocJwTn
November 21, 2025 at 5:10 PM
remains authoritarian. In additn to evidently masterminding savage killing of Khashoggi, he reg jails critics & overseen sharp incr in executions for lo-level drug offenses. The approp role for US is make him uncomfortabl about abuses & push S Arabia twd freer future www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/o...
Opinion | No, Mr. President, We Cannot ‘Leave It at That’
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
One of the bragging rights that the US ed system had in the 20th century is that we didn't have education tracks. Essentially, any kid could go to a CC or state school & major in whatever they wanted to (obviously an oversimplification). I fear this aspect of the American dream is dying.
November 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Public land grant universities with a mission to serve the residents of their respective states are the great economic equalizers. So of course Republicans and billionaires want to destroy them. 😖
November 23, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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One reason the public doesn’t seem sold on the idea of attacking Venezuela is that it is a really bad idea.
November 23, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Great gods. We are letting this happen in public—imagine what happens behind closed doors— to women and children too—!
Local police officers and sheriffs in Mobile, Alabama, are abducting a man from the waiting room of a car dealership mechanic shop on behalf of ICE/DHS. During the kidnapping, he is administered an unidentified sedative.
November 23, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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“Since the beginning of Trump’s second term, members of at least five formerly separated families have been removed from the U.S. against their will.” www.thecut.com/article/fami...
Separated, Reunited, Now Deported
The Biden administration tried to undo the damage of Trump’s border policies. Now the government is coming for the same families again.
www.thecut.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Sorry, MAGA doesn't even support democracy here anymore, I'm supposed to believe they support it in Venezuela? bsky.app/profile/katz...
War criminal says what
November 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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I maybe be just a small-town political scientist but I reckon that the Trump administration's right hand has no fucking idea what its far-right hand is doing.
"US senators say they spoke with Rubio about Trump’s Ukraine peace plan who denied it is a US plan." Welcome to the Topsy Turvy administration in which six or seven people are pursuing their own private foreign policy, and much of it is scripted by a hostile foreign power.
US senators say they spoke with Rubio about Trump’s Ukraine peace plan who denied it is a US plan
U.S. senators critical of President Donald Trump’s approach to ending the Russia-Ukraine war say they spoke with U.S.
apnews.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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Any speculator who bought Trump’s memecoin at its peak after it was announced inauguration weekend would have lost almost the entire value of their investment by this month.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Crypto Crash Is Eroding Wealth for Trump’s Family and Followers
In President Donald Trump’s second term, crypto assets transformed his family’s wealth. Now the Trumps — and their followers — are getting a crash course in the wild volatility ingrained in digital cu...
www.bloomberg.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Trump Has a Recipe for War and Corruption, Not Peace
Who would benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?
www.theatlantic.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:11 AM