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beth4158 🙄; also ❌👑

@beth4158.bsky.social
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Writer. Editor. Singer. Baker. And other things that end in -r. Horrified but not deterred. Deleted Threads and Instagram accounts (and quit Facebook in 2018). Deleted X recently after logging out years ago. Deleted LinkedIn, too. Bluesky is my lone home!

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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“Nobody fucking cares,” she says, summarizing the past 10 months. “You can do literally whatever you want [even] if it’s illegal, except for literally kill someone. No one gives a fuck.” www.wired.com/story/burner...
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A College Girl Was Exploited on Camera. A Network of Anonymous Men Got to Work
Maddie Kowalski is one of countless young women who’ve had their lives destroyed by the burnerverse, a loosely connected online community of sports fans. Now she’s fighting back.
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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“It doesn’t help that X, the burnerverse’s platform of choice, is famously subject to little moderation. Since Musk’s acquisition, it‘s become the ideal petri dish for coordinated harassment. ‘They’re also financially incentivized by followers, by views, by clicks…they’re making money off this.‘”
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A College Girl Was Exploited on Camera. A Network of Anonymous Men Got to Work
Maddie Kowalski is one of countless young women who’ve had their lives destroyed by the burnerverse, a loosely connected online community of sports fans. Now she’s fighting back.
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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 2h
The exact moment I knew Republican attacks on Jack Smith were a colossal mistake.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 12h
I think I'm getting the hang of this.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Please don't give the DA reopening the Cornell case any cookies. District Attorney Matthew Van Houten all but called Jane Doe a liar today. He said that in Doe's initial statement, she described "her participation in drug use and sexual conduct as voluntary, conscious, and consensual.” CONSENSUAL
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 2h
If you need to catch up on the whole controversy with GOP Sen. Eric Schmitt not knowing his sports and embarrassing himself while attempting to slander a public servant today, I made a 20 min. video explainer. Yes, 20 minutes. And I enjoyed the hell out of making it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfjN...
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GOP Senator Eric Schmitt + Most Embarrassing Moment Ever in a Congressional Hearing (FULL EXPLAINER)
YouTube video by Charlotte Clymer
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 2h
Eric Schmitt fucked up so badly today that even The New York Times isn't mincing words on how badly he fucked up.
NYT Headline: As Jack Smith Testifies, a Senator’s Accusation of Perjury Falls Apart

Subhed: A Republican eager to prove the former special counsel was dishonest appeared to instead demonstrate his own confusion over basic facts.
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 23h
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 2h
Another thing about fraternities is that the hazing rituals where slightly older young men would physically, mentally emotionally and sometimes even sexually abuse slightly younger young men have always disturbed and upset me greatly. And it’s really telling that I’ve seen men defend those too
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Clay Jones @claytoonz.bsky.social · 2h
Here's a public service announcement: Donald Trump's name is in the Epstein files over 38,000 times. #Trump #TrumpPSA #MAGA #EpsteinFiles
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Kate Hagen 🦂 𓋹 🦂 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 4h
"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 2h
Trump take jet fuel.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4h
“Well, you see, I have to stay on the White Supremacist Child Porn Rape Victim Doxxing site because that’s where my community is”
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 2h
No one on his staff even once thought to check if there were any women's games being played that night. These are the people calling themselves defenders of women's sports.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 2h
I actually don't think the Republican Senator mixed up "Hawks" and "Hawkeyes." Going by his own statements, it appears his staff saw he went to a basketball game on that date and googled basketball games and found the only men's game that night in the whole country was in Atlanta.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 4h
An Ohio woman filed a lawsuit accusing a hospital and her doctors of amputating the wrong leg during an operation last year. The 74-year-old woman is now a double amputee after the correct surgery was later performed at another facility.
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Ohio Woman Sues Hospital After Wrong Leg Is Amputated
Sharon Jacks, 74, said she went into surgery for the amputation of her lower right leg last year, but her left leg was removed instead. She has accused Selby General Hospital of negligence.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 3h
A 29-year-old man in Massachusetts faces kidnapping, sex trafficking and other charges. He held a woman against her will for six weeks, officials said.
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Woman Is Found Captive in Attic Near Boston, Leading to Charges for Man
The man, Jordende Pierre, 29, faces kidnapping, sex trafficking and other charges. He held the woman against her will for six weeks, officials said.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 3h
Mark Maxwell is a terrific, well respected local news reporter in St Louis. Take a look at his coverage of the Eric Schmitt debacle:
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 3h
This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.”
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 3h
😂😂😂
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 4h
The bros in the back don’t seem to understand what is going on. Sen. Britt does, however.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 4h
You know that scene in The Godfather where Michael goes to the trattoria bathroom, retrieves a pistol, and shoots those 2 guys in the head? This is 100X better. Maybe more.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 3h
this is the funniest imaginable explanation for the Hawks/Hawkeyes mixup and I desperately hope it's true
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 3h
This has to be a Claude thing, yes?
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 3h
People forget, Katie Britt is a former Chief of Staff. She would be in charge of putting these talking points together in her early career. This was a massive fumble. (I jokingly was looking for a young man in a suit with a box of his belongings today).
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 3h
NEWS: A unanimous 11th Circuit just REFUSED to halt sanctions stemming from Trump’s $1.8 billion insurrectionist “slush fund” saga
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Trump Loses Bid to Freeze Sanctions Over His IRS Scheme
A unanimous Eleventh Circuit panel left Judge Kathleen Williams free to enforce restrictions born from her finding that Trump used a federal lawsuit to manufacture judicial legitimacy for an administr...
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 7h
There was no “109 Row 1” at the Atlanta Hawks game Senator Eric Schmitt was fixated on today talkingpointsmemo.com/news/eric-sc...
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New Evidence Shows Just How Badly One Republican Senator Beclowned Himself in the Jack Smith Hearing
TPM has found fairly definitive evidence proving Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) misread...
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 4h
RFK Jr. says AI can offer patients “a second opinion that is much better informed than any doctor in the country” and has the power to “free us from medical tyranny.” He spoke at an industry-backed MAHA Summit, whose sponsors included AI companies. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/h...
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A.I. Is ‘Better Informed’ Than Doctors, Kennedy Tells Industry-Backed MAHA Summit
The health secretary, Vice President JD Vance and other top officials addressed a conference sponsored by corporations, including A.I. companies and others with business before the government.
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 3h
Federal watchdog says Trump’s $810M funding cancellation is unconstitutional www.politico.com/live-updates...
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Federal watchdog says Trump’s $810M funding cancellation is unconstitutional
A top Government Accountability Office lawyer told Congress the president doesn’t have the power to execute his latest 'pocket rescission.'
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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 4h
I wrote for @thecut.com about the Cornell case and what it says that, at my institution and many others like it, protesters are often punished more harshly than sexual assailants www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 3h
A Timeline of the Cornell University Rape Investigation www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/n...
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A Timeline of the Cornell University Rape Investigation
Prosecutors have reopened an investigation into a former student’s claims that several men sexually assaulted her in a campus fraternity house.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 3h
Tonight, 47 Senators supported my resolution to get accountability for the 9 Americans killed on the West Bank & for Palestinians who face injustices daily. That's more support than we've ever had in this fight. Republicans blocked us, but we won't stop until we get justice.
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 11h
💰️ Trump made $1.4 billion off crypto last year. 💰️ Regular investors are down an estimated $4.7 billion. See for yourself (not for real money, just shits and giggles):
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‘THIN AIR,’ REAL MONEY — The Trump Crypto Game
An 8-bit game about real money. Play as Trump: you only make money. Play as an investor: you only lose. Every figure is drawn from Public Citizen's report and the sources it cites.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h
Trump: "You got me for nothing. I don't take my salary." (Trump has made billions in crypto schemes while president)
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 5h
What is there to say that hasn’t already been said? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...
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Justice Dept. Unlawfully Withheld Grants to Combat Domestic Violence, Judge Rules
Judge Melissa R. DuBose said the department had placed arbitrary conditions on grants created by the Violence Against Women Act.
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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 3h
it's so funny that they *clearly* arranged this leak ahead of his Columbo moment. kendall roy-ass senator.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 4h
This was planned as Schmitt’s big day, with a “national ambitions trial balloon” in national media. Instead it’s ending like this.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 4h
Senator Schmitt doubles down, seemingly implying it’s risible for a man to be following a woman’s sport. (Any other interpretation of this post?)
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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 4h
NEW: Appeals court rejects bid by Trump & his lawyers to immediately lift sanctions over IRS leak lawsuit that judge found collusive & crafted just as vehicle for settlement. 3-0. Judges Jordan (Obama), Rosenbaum (Obama), Newsom (Trump) www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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Appeals court rejects Trump’s bid to block sanctions over IRS settlement
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 5h
Toddler brings loaded gun to Michigan daycare
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Toddler brings loaded gun to Michigan daycare
Daycare staff took the gun from the toddler and no one was hurt Monday in Canton Township, a community west of Detroit, police said.
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beth4158 🙄; also ❌👑 @beth4158.bsky.social · 4h
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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 4h
Reminder that Schmitt was responsible for rehabilitating Nate Hochman’s career after he got fired for posting a Neo-Nazi video for the DeSantis campaign www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Republican senator employs aide fired by DeSantis over neo-Nazi imagery
Nate Hochman, staffer for Eric Schmitt, also peddled far-right conspiracy theories as experts decry rise in extremism
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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 4h
Getting ratioed on Musk’s site as a hard-right senator takes some real skill
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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 5h
I mean we saw this in the first term where people were doing “oh he would have won if not for COVID” - COVID was good for incumbents everywhere else! The issue wasn’t COVID, it was the admin response to COVID, which was the entirely natural result of how Trump operates
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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 5h
Yup, absolutely. I think it’s wrong to treat the Iran War as simply one bad error that happened to the Trump Admin rather than the entirely logical consequence of the way it operates. If it wasn’t Iran, it would almost certainly have been something else
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 6h
FWIW, I think a fuckup on this scale in time to wreck them electorally was *almost* inevitable from Day 1, precisely because this is the Special Birthday Boy presidency in which there are almost no limits on Trump's madness and every proposed policy disaster has a real shot at going all the way.
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 5h
I believe that Dr. Ellora Derenoncourt is the first Black woman economist EVER to be named a MacArthur Genius. My heart is bursting. I am OVERJOYED.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7h
Oh my God, this just keeps getting better.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 6h
Riley Gaines, famous for turning her 5th place tie with transgender swimmer Lia Thomas into a far-right career agianst transgender people, has officially had her lawsuit against the NCAA thrown out by a judge today. The judge found no evidence for her claims. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Riley Gaines' Title IX Lawsuit Against The NCAA Struck Down After Judge Finds "No Evidence" Of Funding Claims
Gaines’ attorneys argued her civil rights were violated because she competed against a transgender athlete.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 5h
Sometimes I think about where we would be as a culture today if #MeToo in 2017 had radicalized more straight men into fighting sexual abuse instead of creating a culture of "oh god don't get me CANCELED" and "fake accusations" paranoia and resentment
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