Beatrice Murch
@murchstudio.com
Program Manager of @internetarchive.eu – opinions strictly my own. Photographer, Wife, Mother, Daughter, Sister, Aunt, Cat Servant, Coffee Lover, Immigrant, Traveler, Geek, Participant & Observer.
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Beatrice Murch
@murchstudio.com
· Nov 11
I just created and published this website. Hopefully it inspires some people in the US to take action. Feedback welcome, but I don’t want to spend too much time and let perfect be the enemy of done. Link in the comments. We have 100 days! Let's gett'r done.
www.actiondissolvesanxiety.com
www.actiondissolvesanxiety.com
I am pivoting this website from helping to get Harris elected to advocating to protect Democracy. Do you know of good existing orgs that are fighting the good fight? What should I include?
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Stunning. Archives are everything.
‘We don’t even know all of what we have.’ Howard University fights to preserve Black newspapers. www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/... Last year, during a move, workers found two whole boxes of Frederick Douglass’s’ The North Star’s first year of publication.
‘We don’t even know all of what we have.’ Howard fights to preserve Black newspapers.
Across the United States, scholars are working to preserve the history of the Black press before the brittle pages are lost forever. In a basement at Howard University, uncovered treasures have includ...
www.csmonitor.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Stunning. Archives are everything.
Children are children!
Way to go! 🔥👍💯❤️👏
This 14-year-old girl hands Megyn Kelly her ass for her utterly disgusting minimization of child sexual abuse.
You go girl! #cdnpoli
This 14-year-old girl hands Megyn Kelly her ass for her utterly disgusting minimization of child sexual abuse.
You go girl! #cdnpoli
November 15, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Children are children!
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@chrismurphyct.bsky.social is giving us a reality based #CupOfJoe.
“Our job right now is draw moral lines in the sand to show the differences between Democrats - who are fighting to protect American democracy - and Republicans - who are fighting to destroy it.”
“Our job right now is draw moral lines in the sand to show the differences between Democrats - who are fighting to protect American democracy - and Republicans - who are fighting to destroy it.”
November 14, 2025 at 1:49 PM
@chrismurphyct.bsky.social is giving us a reality based #CupOfJoe.
“Our job right now is draw moral lines in the sand to show the differences between Democrats - who are fighting to protect American democracy - and Republicans - who are fighting to destroy it.”
“Our job right now is draw moral lines in the sand to show the differences between Democrats - who are fighting to protect American democracy - and Republicans - who are fighting to destroy it.”
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What a fascinating angle! 🤔 "Time is a flat circle," as Loki would say. 📚 Sci-fi can inspire new ways to think about history. How do you think archives could innovate further? 🪐 #SciFi #Archives
Spanning H. G. Wells’s "The Time Machine" to Marvel’s Loki, this delightful book considers how science fiction stories portray archives and archivists while showing how archivists can leverage sci-fi to improve the public’s understanding of the discipline. alastore.ala.org/infiniteloop
November 14, 2025 at 4:02 PM
What a fascinating angle! 🤔 "Time is a flat circle," as Loki would say. 📚 Sci-fi can inspire new ways to think about history. How do you think archives could innovate further? 🪐 #SciFi #Archives
It's called "hyperstationing" - feels pretty darned woo-woo but sometimes it also works....
I think we need to start visualizing the Trump Presidency ending, and socialize it. For it is the right thing to do for the country and the American people.
At this point we have to assume that if the Epstein files are released they will
- end the Trump Presidency
- implicate many other prominent Republicans
- destroy the careers of AG Bondi and his other defenders
This is beginning to feel like the greatest scandal in American history.
- end the Trump Presidency
- implicate many other prominent Republicans
- destroy the careers of AG Bondi and his other defenders
This is beginning to feel like the greatest scandal in American history.
November 13, 2025 at 3:55 PM
It's called "hyperstationing" - feels pretty darned woo-woo but sometimes it also works....
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I think we need to start visualizing the Trump Presidency ending, and socialize it. For it is the right thing to do for the country and the American people.
At this point we have to assume that if the Epstein files are released they will
- end the Trump Presidency
- implicate many other prominent Republicans
- destroy the careers of AG Bondi and his other defenders
This is beginning to feel like the greatest scandal in American history.
- end the Trump Presidency
- implicate many other prominent Republicans
- destroy the careers of AG Bondi and his other defenders
This is beginning to feel like the greatest scandal in American history.
Trump has done enormous harm to the country.
He is a deeply corrupt and venal man.
He is wildly unpopular, his agenda more so. He's lost the consent of the governed.
He is old, infirm & clearly no longer mentally competent to run a nation.
It is time now to start talking about him moving on👇
He is a deeply corrupt and venal man.
He is wildly unpopular, his agenda more so. He's lost the consent of the governed.
He is old, infirm & clearly no longer mentally competent to run a nation.
It is time now to start talking about him moving on👇
November 13, 2025 at 2:29 AM
I think we need to start visualizing the Trump Presidency ending, and socialize it. For it is the right thing to do for the country and the American people.
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For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
Epstein Document Search
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
November 13, 2025 at 1:12 AM
For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
Indeed.
Rough day to be any sort of survivor of sexual violence. Solidarity to all of you, please be kind to yourselves
November 13, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Indeed.
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Adelita Grijalva brought two Epstein survivors to her swearing in ceremony and Congress gave them a standing ovation.
She then immediately voted to discharge the Epstein petition.
She exuded grace and class and never stopped fighting for her right to govern.
She’s a badass.
She then immediately voted to discharge the Epstein petition.
She exuded grace and class and never stopped fighting for her right to govern.
She’s a badass.
November 13, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Adelita Grijalva brought two Epstein survivors to her swearing in ceremony and Congress gave them a standing ovation.
She then immediately voted to discharge the Epstein petition.
She exuded grace and class and never stopped fighting for her right to govern.
She’s a badass.
She then immediately voted to discharge the Epstein petition.
She exuded grace and class and never stopped fighting for her right to govern.
She’s a badass.
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that is a Blues Brother
Father Blues Brother
Father Blues Brother
What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
November 13, 2025 at 3:43 AM
that is a Blues Brother
Father Blues Brother
Father Blues Brother
Beautiful autumnal morning walk in MaximaPark Utrecht. Even though we started at 9:30, the sunlight was still weak as we get closer and closer to the winter. 🍁☀️
November 12, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Beautiful autumnal morning walk in MaximaPark Utrecht. Even though we started at 9:30, the sunlight was still weak as we get closer and closer to the winter. 🍁☀️
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BIG NEWS: Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva will finally be sworn in as a member of Congress tomorrow.
She is likely to be the 218th vote on the Epstein discharge petition, which would force a full vote to release the Epstein files in their entirety.
She is likely to be the 218th vote on the Epstein discharge petition, which would force a full vote to release the Epstein files in their entirety.
November 11, 2025 at 7:40 PM
BIG NEWS: Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva will finally be sworn in as a member of Congress tomorrow.
She is likely to be the 218th vote on the Epstein discharge petition, which would force a full vote to release the Epstein files in their entirety.
She is likely to be the 218th vote on the Epstein discharge petition, which would force a full vote to release the Epstein files in their entirety.
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You ever travel? Well, when you book a flight through any major travel site, a data broker sells the government:
❌ Your name
❌ Your credit card
❌ Your destination
Here’s how to opt out…
❌ Your name
❌ Your credit card
❌ Your destination
Here’s how to opt out…
How to Opt-Out of Airlines Selling Your Travel Data to the Government
The Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC), owned by major U.S. airlines, collects billions of ticketing records and sells them to the government to be searched without a warrant. I managed to opt-out o...
www.404media.co
November 11, 2025 at 5:43 PM
You ever travel? Well, when you book a flight through any major travel site, a data broker sells the government:
❌ Your name
❌ Your credit card
❌ Your destination
Here’s how to opt out…
❌ Your name
❌ Your credit card
❌ Your destination
Here’s how to opt out…
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Normal isn't coming back so get off your knees and fight back - what they have planned for us is far worse than anything they've already done.
November 12, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Normal isn't coming back so get off your knees and fight back - what they have planned for us is far worse than anything they've already done.
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IC-1805 -The Soul Nebula. HOO process
40 mins from 10th November 2025.
ZS61, ASI 585MC, L-eXtreme filter.
#astronomy #astrophotography
40 mins from 10th November 2025.
ZS61, ASI 585MC, L-eXtreme filter.
#astronomy #astrophotography
November 11, 2025 at 1:17 PM
IC-1805 -The Soul Nebula. HOO process
40 mins from 10th November 2025.
ZS61, ASI 585MC, L-eXtreme filter.
#astronomy #astrophotography
40 mins from 10th November 2025.
ZS61, ASI 585MC, L-eXtreme filter.
#astronomy #astrophotography
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Here's a page from the first novel (science fiction🚀) I tried to write 📝
How that led to my current vampire🧛♀️ series is the topic of today's newsletter. Go sign up to get the full story (& the best swag & discounts)
ancientscrolls.beehiiv.com
#booksky #bskybookclub
How that led to my current vampire🧛♀️ series is the topic of today's newsletter. Go sign up to get the full story (& the best swag & discounts)
ancientscrolls.beehiiv.com
#booksky #bskybookclub
November 11, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Here's a page from the first novel (science fiction🚀) I tried to write 📝
How that led to my current vampire🧛♀️ series is the topic of today's newsletter. Go sign up to get the full story (& the best swag & discounts)
ancientscrolls.beehiiv.com
#booksky #bskybookclub
How that led to my current vampire🧛♀️ series is the topic of today's newsletter. Go sign up to get the full story (& the best swag & discounts)
ancientscrolls.beehiiv.com
#booksky #bskybookclub
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instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."
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Simon Rosenberg is correct, as usual -- as a political matter -- Trump and the Republicans lost this shutdown badly, as they did the election.
And the cracks in the TrumpedGOP coalition are showing, and will only grow. It is Democrats' job to aid in turning those cracks into crevasses.
And the cracks in the TrumpedGOP coalition are showing, and will only grow. It is Democrats' job to aid in turning those cracks into crevasses.
Some thoughts on what comes next for Democrats....👇
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/ok-the-sen...
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/ok-the-sen...
OK. The Senate Voted To Re-Open The Government. What Do We Do Now? Some Early Thoughts
I am going live with Stuart Stevens at noon ET today. Join us - we have a lot to talk about.....
www.hopiumchronicles.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Simon Rosenberg is correct, as usual -- as a political matter -- Trump and the Republicans lost this shutdown badly, as they did the election.
And the cracks in the TrumpedGOP coalition are showing, and will only grow. It is Democrats' job to aid in turning those cracks into crevasses.
And the cracks in the TrumpedGOP coalition are showing, and will only grow. It is Democrats' job to aid in turning those cracks into crevasses.
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This! Anger is a sign that something is wrong. Let’s use this as fuel, rather than letting it burn us out.
SINCERE POST™️: you might be very angry tonight. don't let that anger eat you. that doesn't mean "don't be angry." just don't let it turn you to despair. anger in an energy, and you can use it as fuel for actions. As the saying goes, let this radicalize you
November 10, 2025 at 6:43 AM
This! Anger is a sign that something is wrong. Let’s use this as fuel, rather than letting it burn us out.
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just a reminder that the 8 Dems who folded need to vote again later in the week (thanks to dumb senate procedure, unsurprisingly)
light their phones up tomorrow at 9AM
light their phones up tomorrow at 9AM
BREAKING
The 1st Circuit REJECTS Trump DOJ's request to pause a judge's order to pay up Nov's SNAP funds to the states.
The SCOTUS stay will expire within 48 hours absent further action from the justices, per its terms.
Doc ecf.ca1.uscourts.gov/n/beam/servl...
The 1st Circuit REJECTS Trump DOJ's request to pause a judge's order to pay up Nov's SNAP funds to the states.
The SCOTUS stay will expire within 48 hours absent further action from the justices, per its terms.
Doc ecf.ca1.uscourts.gov/n/beam/servl...
November 10, 2025 at 5:46 AM
just a reminder that the 8 Dems who folded need to vote again later in the week (thanks to dumb senate procedure, unsurprisingly)
light their phones up tomorrow at 9AM
light their phones up tomorrow at 9AM
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Hey, hey, this premiered tonight on Apple TV. My husband and a whole lotta friends of mine spent the last few years making it. It’s very good. You should check it out.
November 7, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Hey, hey, this premiered tonight on Apple TV. My husband and a whole lotta friends of mine spent the last few years making it. It’s very good. You should check it out.
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Of note, quote:
"If people want Schumer to go here is what you need to do.
1) Call for his ouster
2) Make specific demands on what the replacement needs to do
3) Find a replacement
4) Withhold all support from any senator who does not agree."
"If people want Schumer to go here is what you need to do.
1) Call for his ouster
2) Make specific demands on what the replacement needs to do
3) Find a replacement
4) Withhold all support from any senator who does not agree."
Literally since I first started in the senate, it was commonly understood Schumer sucked.
In our office it was common to say "if he was the head of a company he would be fired".
Except that's all total bullshit because he runs unopposed each time and any senator could topple him if they wanted.
In our office it was common to say "if he was the head of a company he would be fired".
Except that's all total bullshit because he runs unopposed each time and any senator could topple him if they wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Of note, quote:
"If people want Schumer to go here is what you need to do.
1) Call for his ouster
2) Make specific demands on what the replacement needs to do
3) Find a replacement
4) Withhold all support from any senator who does not agree."
"If people want Schumer to go here is what you need to do.
1) Call for his ouster
2) Make specific demands on what the replacement needs to do
3) Find a replacement
4) Withhold all support from any senator who does not agree."
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Donors don't pay Democrats to solve problems, they pay them to stay just on the heels of Republicans enough to make it look like a fight most of the time.
I say this as a former comms person, this is the consequence of the party deciding that the most important ways to win is all about "messaging".
No it fucking isn't! It's about solving actual problems because that's what everyone pays them to do!
No it fucking isn't! It's about solving actual problems because that's what everyone pays them to do!
November 10, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Donors don't pay Democrats to solve problems, they pay them to stay just on the heels of Republicans enough to make it look like a fight most of the time.
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️