Beth Northcut
@ishmaella.bsky.social
Liberal Texan, library worker, fitness instructor, trans-ally, environmentalist
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Marco Rubio has sold his soul.
The State Department is changing its mind about human rights www.npr.org/2025/04/18/n...
The State Department is changing its mind about human rights www.npr.org/2025/04/18/n...
The State Department is changing its mind about what it calls human rights
The agency's annual human rights reports are being purged of references to prison conditions, political corruption and other abuses.
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April 18, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Marco Rubio has sold his soul.
The State Department is changing its mind about human rights www.npr.org/2025/04/18/n...
The State Department is changing its mind about human rights www.npr.org/2025/04/18/n...
"This will require a paradigm shift for Democrats. They will have to act less like an American political party and more like Solidarity in Poland in the 1980s or Alexei Navalny’s People’s Alliance over the last decade."
April 16, 2025 at 6:12 PM
"This will require a paradigm shift for Democrats. They will have to act less like an American political party and more like Solidarity in Poland in the 1980s or Alexei Navalny’s People’s Alliance over the last decade."
Governor Abbott is regulating women's bodies, dehumanizing our trans children, forcing prayer and Bible stories into our public schools. There is only one fundamental religion destroying our liberty in Texas. It is NOT the Muslims www.keranews.org/government/2...
Attorney for group behind Muslim community plan accuses Abbott, state officials of racial profiling
There are five open investigations into East Plano Islamic Center and its proposed project EPIC City. An attorney for the group says Gov. Greg Abbott has spread hate speech and misinformation online.
www.keranews.org
April 4, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Governor Abbott is regulating women's bodies, dehumanizing our trans children, forcing prayer and Bible stories into our public schools. There is only one fundamental religion destroying our liberty in Texas. It is NOT the Muslims www.keranews.org/government/2...
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🙌🏼 I’m not sure who had the amazing idea to invite this constitutional lawyer to a senate hearing that *intended* to prove Biden colluded with Meta to censor conservatives.
But she took the opportunity to speak truth to power ✊🏼 on the hypocrite 👑 KING OF FREE SPEECH, Donald Trump, himself. 👏🏼 Brava!
But she took the opportunity to speak truth to power ✊🏼 on the hypocrite 👑 KING OF FREE SPEECH, Donald Trump, himself. 👏🏼 Brava!
April 1, 2025 at 3:46 PM
🙌🏼 I’m not sure who had the amazing idea to invite this constitutional lawyer to a senate hearing that *intended* to prove Biden colluded with Meta to censor conservatives.
But she took the opportunity to speak truth to power ✊🏼 on the hypocrite 👑 KING OF FREE SPEECH, Donald Trump, himself. 👏🏼 Brava!
But she took the opportunity to speak truth to power ✊🏼 on the hypocrite 👑 KING OF FREE SPEECH, Donald Trump, himself. 👏🏼 Brava!
This is the job of the Fourth Estate. Listen as @michelmartinnpr.bsky.social firmly clarifies that the administration has NO charges for this unconstitutional action.
DHS Deputy Secretary Troy Edgar discusses arrest of protest leader, deportations www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...
DHS Deputy Secretary Troy Edgar discusses arrest of protest leader, deportations www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...
DHS Deputy Secretary Troy Edgar discusses arrest of protest leader, deportations
NPR speaks with Department of Homeland Security Deputy Secretary Troy Edgar about the arrest of a student protest leader and the Trump administration's ramped-up deportations of immigrants.
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March 13, 2025 at 2:53 PM
This is the job of the Fourth Estate. Listen as @michelmartinnpr.bsky.social firmly clarifies that the administration has NO charges for this unconstitutional action.
DHS Deputy Secretary Troy Edgar discusses arrest of protest leader, deportations www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...
DHS Deputy Secretary Troy Edgar discusses arrest of protest leader, deportations www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...
"It is those who wrestle with the challenging contradictions of this country, those who see the truth of our shortcomings, but also hold on to an unshakeable belief in the possibilities of this nation, who teach us how to commit ourselves to improving our deeply flawed and often perverse nation."
My latest essay is up. “Selma is Stronger than MAGA: On Loving Your Country.” Inspired by the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday…and, ironically Justice Kennedy. READ AND SHARE.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
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Selma is Stronger than MAGA
On Loving Your Country
open.substack.com
March 10, 2025 at 2:09 AM
"It is those who wrestle with the challenging contradictions of this country, those who see the truth of our shortcomings, but also hold on to an unshakeable belief in the possibilities of this nation, who teach us how to commit ourselves to improving our deeply flawed and often perverse nation."
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"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."
February 28, 2025 at 9:25 PM
"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."
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A true hero and leader.
This man has all the qualities needed in a president.
This man has all the qualities needed in a president.
February 26, 2025 at 4:24 AM
A true hero and leader.
This man has all the qualities needed in a president.
This man has all the qualities needed in a president.
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Elon Musk claims DOGE has saved $55 billion, but the numbers don’t add up. DOGE released a list of canceled contracts totaling $16 billion in supposed savings. However, nearly half of that came from an $8 billion ICE contract—except that contract was actually worth just $8 million.
February 19, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Elon Musk claims DOGE has saved $55 billion, but the numbers don’t add up. DOGE released a list of canceled contracts totaling $16 billion in supposed savings. However, nearly half of that came from an $8 billion ICE contract—except that contract was actually worth just $8 million.
www.keranews.org/education/20.... Big invasive government. Where are those "parental rights" Christian Nationalist are always are screaming about?
Texas AG demands documents on trans athletes in Dallas, Irving ISDs after controversial videos
Paxton’s letters to both districts are based on secretly recorded videos suggesting Dallas and Irving ISD officials may have violated a 2022 Texas law requiring public school students compete in athle...
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February 6, 2025 at 10:21 PM
www.keranews.org/education/20.... Big invasive government. Where are those "parental rights" Christian Nationalist are always are screaming about?
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Occasionally, we bring you good news.
Article by @miralazine.bsky.social
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Article by @miralazine.bsky.social
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A Texas City, Once at the Center of Anti-Trans Efforts, Now Offers Hope — Assigned
After previously passing legislation offering “bounties” on trans people using bathrooms not matching their gender assigned at birth, Odessa deems the ordinance unenforceable.
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December 24, 2024 at 2:46 PM
Occasionally, we bring you good news.
Article by @miralazine.bsky.social
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
Article by @miralazine.bsky.social
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
@waywordradio.org Random thought —"Tap In" and "Tap Out" sound like opposites, but I associate one with a tap on the shoulder and one as a water spigot. . .am I just warped or do the two refer to two different taps?
December 18, 2024 at 4:43 PM
@waywordradio.org Random thought —"Tap In" and "Tap Out" sound like opposites, but I associate one with a tap on the shoulder and one as a water spigot. . .am I just warped or do the two refer to two different taps?
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www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
This holds hope. . .
This holds hope. . .
Durably reducing conspiracy beliefs through dialogues with AI
Conspiracy theory beliefs are notoriously persistent. Influential hypotheses propose that they fulfill important psychological needs, thus resisting counterevidence. Yet previous failures in correctin...
www.science.org
November 24, 2024 at 2:25 PM
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
This holds hope. . .
This holds hope. . .
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From last week: “The American Indian Native studies course that we’ve developed is heavily focused on modern Indigenous people, both in Texas and beyond because we do still exist.”
But the State Board of Education delayed voting on this important new curriculum:
But the State Board of Education delayed voting on this important new curriculum:
Abbott Appointee Slams Brakes on American Indian/ Native Studies Course
The chair of the state Board of Education claims he needed more time to assess the curriculum without “drama or controversy.”
www.texasobserver.org
February 5, 2024 at 9:24 PM
From last week: “The American Indian Native studies course that we’ve developed is heavily focused on modern Indigenous people, both in Texas and beyond because we do still exist.”
But the State Board of Education delayed voting on this important new curriculum:
But the State Board of Education delayed voting on this important new curriculum:
'Texas approves Bible-infused curriculum for public schools' from '' on the KERA app!
www.keranews.org/education/20...
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Sounds straight up unconstitutional and UN AMERICAN, if you ask me. And, as, andrewlseidel@bskysocial can attest, the Golden Rule predates Bible by 2000yrs.
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Sounds straight up unconstitutional and UN AMERICAN, if you ask me. And, as, andrewlseidel@bskysocial can attest, the Golden Rule predates Bible by 2000yrs.
Texas approves Bible-infused curriculum for public schools
The Texas State Board of Education gave final approval Friday to controversial new K-5 curriculum that weaves in Christian references.
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November 22, 2024 at 6:42 PM
'Texas approves Bible-infused curriculum for public schools' from '' on the KERA app!
www.keranews.org/education/20...
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Sounds straight up unconstitutional and UN AMERICAN, if you ask me. And, as, andrewlseidel@bskysocial can attest, the Golden Rule predates Bible by 2000yrs.
www.keranews.org/education/20...
Brought to you by KERA
Sounds straight up unconstitutional and UN AMERICAN, if you ask me. And, as, andrewlseidel@bskysocial can attest, the Golden Rule predates Bible by 2000yrs.
Authoritarians just hate it when people vote.
November 21, 2024 at 3:53 PM
Authoritarians just hate it when people vote.
If I am going to be subjected to the calumny of autocrats the least I can demand is that we bring back the word "calumny." Thanks to the OED for this definition.
November 17, 2024 at 9:25 PM
If I am going to be subjected to the calumny of autocrats the least I can demand is that we bring back the word "calumny." Thanks to the OED for this definition.