Brian Betz
@brianbetz.bsky.social
Atlanta-based Architectural Designer. Trivia man. Cat dad. Mad lad.
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Getting plane tickets and game tickets this week: if anyone has an in on tickets or knows anyone at the Bills, let me know! Cousin Zach and I are trying to go all out for this
I'm a lifelong Buffalo Bills fan who has never been to a Highmark Stadium game (my family was poor and then we moved out of Buffalo when I was a teenager). I'm running out of time to catch a game in the stadium that defined football for me growing up so I think it's time: Dec 7.
November 24, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Getting plane tickets and game tickets this week: if anyone has an in on tickets or knows anyone at the Bills, let me know! Cousin Zach and I are trying to go all out for this
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alas, there's a lot of sanewashing in this piece - even as it expresses frustration in RFK, it treats him as a legitimate, good faith actor in a way that's just not true.
Over many interviews, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Michael Scherer about how he plans to remake America’s public-health system. Can he lead the scientific establishment he’s spent much of his life crusading against?
Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
November 24, 2025 at 4:39 PM
alas, there's a lot of sanewashing in this piece - even as it expresses frustration in RFK, it treats him as a legitimate, good faith actor in a way that's just not true.
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The media needs to stop calling it a peace plan. It's a Republican surrender plan for Europe. Why? Because Republicans have embraced fascist plutocracy and Europe isn't.
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Trump’s signals to Zelensky and Europe: Accept this plan or you’re on your own | CNN
The 28-point plan hammered out by US and Russian envoys and put to Ukraine this week came with a deadline and an implicit threat: Sign up or face the risk of being abandoned.
www.cnn.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The media needs to stop calling it a peace plan. It's a Republican surrender plan for Europe. Why? Because Republicans have embraced fascist plutocracy and Europe isn't.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/23/e...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/23/e...
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Elon Musk’s latest feature on X has had some shocking and unintended consequences. trib.al/wFuPXVp
Starting Friday, X users were able to use a new “about this account” feature to see what country accounts were based in. And for many “America First” posters, this revealed an inconvenient truth...
Starting Friday, X users were able to use a new “about this account” feature to see what country accounts were based in. And for many “America First” posters, this revealed an inconvenient truth...
Many Top MAGA Trolls Aren’t Even in the U.S.
Elon Musk’s new X feature has been very revealing.
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November 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Elon Musk’s latest feature on X has had some shocking and unintended consequences. trib.al/wFuPXVp
Starting Friday, X users were able to use a new “about this account” feature to see what country accounts were based in. And for many “America First” posters, this revealed an inconvenient truth...
Starting Friday, X users were able to use a new “about this account” feature to see what country accounts were based in. And for many “America First” posters, this revealed an inconvenient truth...
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“Nobel Prize-winning economist Simon Kuznets is often cited, perhaps apocryphally, as having said that there are four types of countries: developed, underdeveloped, Japan, and Argentina.” You mean to say, a guy with a chainsaw isn’t likely to fix it? Great lede to an illuminating essay.
This is a terrific primer on the economic history of Argentina by former Argentine central banker Matias Vernengo. He explains how Milei's policies have been tried before, failed then, and will fail again.
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Make Argentina Crash Again: On Milei’s Neoliberal Experiment - The American Prospect
The short-term political boost to Argentine president Javier Milei's fortunes is unlikely to continue, as the familiar cycle of crisis and default looms.
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November 24, 2025 at 2:52 PM
“Nobel Prize-winning economist Simon Kuznets is often cited, perhaps apocryphally, as having said that there are four types of countries: developed, underdeveloped, Japan, and Argentina.” You mean to say, a guy with a chainsaw isn’t likely to fix it? Great lede to an illuminating essay.
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My knowledge of colors is not sophisticated enough for this game.
November 23, 2025 at 12:08 AM
My knowledge of colors is not sophisticated enough for this game.
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y'all ready for this
November 23, 2025 at 8:40 PM
y'all ready for this
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The media doesn't treat the Trump regime's allegiances with neo-Nazis like Nick Fuentes as antisemitism, but Zohran's belief in Palestinian liberation is treated as antisemitism.
It's completely backwards and insane. Zohran will protect American Jews; the fascists will target American Jews.
It's completely backwards and insane. Zohran will protect American Jews; the fascists will target American Jews.
WELKER: What is your message to Jewish New Yorkers who feel you won't be tough enough in your response to antisemitism?
MAMDANI: That I am looking forward to being the next mayor and fulfilling the commitment I've made to Jewish New Yorkers to not only protect them but to celebrate and cherish them
MAMDANI: That I am looking forward to being the next mayor and fulfilling the commitment I've made to Jewish New Yorkers to not only protect them but to celebrate and cherish them
November 23, 2025 at 5:21 PM
The media doesn't treat the Trump regime's allegiances with neo-Nazis like Nick Fuentes as antisemitism, but Zohran's belief in Palestinian liberation is treated as antisemitism.
It's completely backwards and insane. Zohran will protect American Jews; the fascists will target American Jews.
It's completely backwards and insane. Zohran will protect American Jews; the fascists will target American Jews.
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Just got the secret doritos from crank johnsons all star brewery and pub house in north illinois but it contains 37 FDA unapproved GMOs addidives and plastics so im driving slow as fuck going past Upton Sinclair’s Academy of Fucking You Stupid Little Carcinogen Bitche’s Shit Up in wyoming
November 23, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Just got the secret doritos from crank johnsons all star brewery and pub house in north illinois but it contains 37 FDA unapproved GMOs addidives and plastics so im driving slow as fuck going past Upton Sinclair’s Academy of Fucking You Stupid Little Carcinogen Bitche’s Shit Up in wyoming
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Truly remarkable reporting here from @unraveledpress.com using public records requests, on-the-ground video footage, and social-media sleuthing to unmask this ICE goon: Timothy Donahue. unraveledpress.com/identified-f...
Identified: federal agents who pointed gun, punched detainee in Evanston
Unraveled has verified a hate speech-laden X account belonging to U.S. Border Patrol agent Timothy Donahue, who was seen in numerous viral videos during Operation Midway Blitz. He and another agent, T...
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November 21, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Truly remarkable reporting here from @unraveledpress.com using public records requests, on-the-ground video footage, and social-media sleuthing to unmask this ICE goon: Timothy Donahue. unraveledpress.com/identified-f...
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thanks for all the sympathy. went as well as these things can. first time we’ve done the at-home thing and it is obviously 100% the correct way to go if you can swing it.
I’m gonna miss hell out of that big crazy bastard
I’m gonna miss hell out of that big crazy bastard
November 22, 2025 at 3:51 AM
thanks for all the sympathy. went as well as these things can. first time we’ve done the at-home thing and it is obviously 100% the correct way to go if you can swing it.
I’m gonna miss hell out of that big crazy bastard
I’m gonna miss hell out of that big crazy bastard
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These sturdy kids' blocks being sold under the Bankers Box brand, the experts in folding a sturdy cardboard object out of a flat die cut piece, is kinda blowing my mind
November 22, 2025 at 4:39 AM
These sturdy kids' blocks being sold under the Bankers Box brand, the experts in folding a sturdy cardboard object out of a flat die cut piece, is kinda blowing my mind
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Marjorie Taylor Greene RESIGNS from Congress effective January 5, 2026.
November 22, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Marjorie Taylor Greene RESIGNS from Congress effective January 5, 2026.
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If you missed yesterday's @propublica.org story on the latest tragic death resulting from Texas' abortion ban, my colleague Lizzie Presser was on MS Now earlier today to talk about her reporting:
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Texas mother dies after she couldn't get an abortion: ProPublica
YouTube video by MS NOW
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November 20, 2025 at 11:24 PM
If you missed yesterday's @propublica.org story on the latest tragic death resulting from Texas' abortion ban, my colleague Lizzie Presser was on MS Now earlier today to talk about her reporting:
youtu.be/25sVNWX0-0E?...
youtu.be/25sVNWX0-0E?...
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Mamdani is the best to ever do it. Holy shit.
November 21, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Mamdani is the best to ever do it. Holy shit.
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Had some additional thoughts on the sedition thing that I felt compelled to jot down. www.pbump.net/o/so-were-ju...
So, we’re just moving on from the sedition-execution thing?
It's quite tidy how the whole thing worked out, in a way. Democratic members of Congress, recognizing that President Trump would be more than happy to dispatch the military to aid his political object...
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November 21, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Had some additional thoughts on the sedition thing that I felt compelled to jot down. www.pbump.net/o/so-were-ju...
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a nice reminder of one of the more absurd elements of trump v. u.s., which is roberts’ apparent belief that the constitution was written to remove limits on executive power prospect.org/2025/11/21/r...
The Right-Wing Legal Movement Made Trump a King - The American Prospect
John Roberts created a monster: Donald Trump compressed a solid millennium or two of monarchical misrule into a mere ten months.
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November 21, 2025 at 2:58 PM
a nice reminder of one of the more absurd elements of trump v. u.s., which is roberts’ apparent belief that the constitution was written to remove limits on executive power prospect.org/2025/11/21/r...
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Pretty revealing, in my view, that Scalia spent his entire career ridiculing diversity and affirmative action for underrepresented groups, given that the Reagan White House put him on the Supreme Court in part because it really, really wanted to nominate the first-ever Italian American justice
Antonin Scalia Was a Diversity Hire
The late justice spent his career ridiculing the notion that elite institutions had any interest in diversity. He might not have made the Supreme Court without it.
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November 21, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Pretty revealing, in my view, that Scalia spent his entire career ridiculing diversity and affirmative action for underrepresented groups, given that the Reagan White House put him on the Supreme Court in part because it really, really wanted to nominate the first-ever Italian American justice
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i think the vision of rigid separation of powers and no independent agencies articulated here is unserious and unworkable. these are just slogans untethered from either the history or reality of american governance.
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November 20, 2025 at 2:21 PM
i think the vision of rigid separation of powers and no independent agencies articulated here is unserious and unworkable. these are just slogans untethered from either the history or reality of american governance.
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
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Is this from the same gathering that produced the lady saying "too bad the Gazans are skinny because it makes our genocide look worse on TikTok"
How is this any different than CPAC or the RNC. This is insane shit.
How is this any different than CPAC or the RNC. This is insane shit.
Jewish Federations applauds Olivia Reingold, a staff writer at Bari Weiss's Free Press, as she victory laps her (ghoulish and erroneous) reporting that some of the children Israel was starving to death and denying medical aid to in Gaza had pre-existing conditions.
November 19, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Is this from the same gathering that produced the lady saying "too bad the Gazans are skinny because it makes our genocide look worse on TikTok"
How is this any different than CPAC or the RNC. This is insane shit.
How is this any different than CPAC or the RNC. This is insane shit.
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Bill Cassidy should be required to have this shit framed and hung where he can see it every time he sits at his desk
this is the bargain you made, asshole
you knew better and you did this to the rest of us anyway
this is the bargain you made, asshole
you knew better and you did this to the rest of us anyway
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Bill Cassidy should be required to have this shit framed and hung where he can see it every time he sits at his desk
this is the bargain you made, asshole
you knew better and you did this to the rest of us anyway
this is the bargain you made, asshole
you knew better and you did this to the rest of us anyway
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Doctor: I’m sorry, you have Microsoft Teams Exposure…. the only cure is watching a movie from the 90s on mute at your local dive bar
November 20, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Doctor: I’m sorry, you have Microsoft Teams Exposure…. the only cure is watching a movie from the 90s on mute at your local dive bar
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The legendary HOPE hacking conference has been banned from its venue at St. John's University over what the university seems to be calling an "anti-police agenda." Part of a broader crackdown on security research / hacking / open source: www.404media.co/hope-hacking...
HOPE Hacking Conference Banned From University Venue Over Apparent ‘Anti-Police Agenda’
"The lack of due process on its own is extremely disturbing," the conference said.
www.404media.co
November 18, 2025 at 7:41 PM
The legendary HOPE hacking conference has been banned from its venue at St. John's University over what the university seems to be calling an "anti-police agenda." Part of a broader crackdown on security research / hacking / open source: www.404media.co/hope-hacking...