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Beth

@bethinsac.bsky.social
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Just a country lawyer. "We must love one another or die."

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11h
i do think it's worth stopping for a moment to recognize how extraordinary and how fucked up it is that this sentence exists.
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Beth @bethinsac.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Old people telling college students how they should have protested in 2025-2026, after so many of their institutions brutalized and expelled them for Gaza protests? Do shut the fuck up. The kids didn't build this.
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Beth @bethinsac.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I think he's a single dad and he's actually not coming across as creepy, but holy god does he need to stop.
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Beth @bethinsac.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Confidential to teenage girl having an embarrassing conversation with her dad about pap smears: He's on a train and he's got you on speakerphone.
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Beth @bethinsac.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I went wine tasting one time in and realized how many of the groups around us weren't spitting and didn't have a designated driver. It was not my scene anyway, but jesus christ.
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Beth @bethinsac.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Why is 100 so much hotter in October than it was in July.
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Beth @bethinsac.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
California you have GOT to stop pretending that weed makes you a better driver.
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Beth @bethinsac.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Keep seeing that I have a text message and think it's one of my kids BUT NO IT'S JAMES FUCKING TALARICO asking me for five dollars. (Nobody texts me except my children and Democrats. And only one of those groups asks me for money.)
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 02/10/2026
sorry i get fired up about this but like once a month the "why doesn't everyone become [trade]" conversation picks up despite very few of you actually knowing what it feels like to be one (also i would love if someone who actually knows what it's like to work like that wrote about it.)
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Beth @bethinsac.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
So does this year's flu. (Got the virus before I got the vaccine. Do not recommend.)
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Beth @bethinsac.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The ugliness of our local congressional race is the most unnecessary expenditure of peace of mind and political energy I have ever seen in my life. It did not need to be this way and I just so disgusted by the way it has played out.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And, for the coup de grace, two bills protecting fire survivors from predatory insurance companies, which he vetoed, deliberately, to punish fire survivors for rejecting his "reform" bill that was actually a huge payout to SCE for starting fires. calmatters.org/economy/2026...
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Newsom vetoes insurance-claim bills: Is it ‘petty’ politics?
California governor rejects legislation sponsored by LA fire victims, who had spoken out against his wildfire-liability effort.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers
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Beth @bethinsac.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I Never Called it Rape, the big Ms. report on acquaintance/date rape, came out in 1988, but it was reporting on things people had already been talking about for at least a few years. None of this is new and none of it is changing.
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Beth @bethinsac.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I started college in 1986. Campus rape was all anyone talked about. I think I felt like it was a new conversation then? But probably it wasn't.
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Beth @bethinsac.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Sometimes I'm walking the neighborhood and I see someone walking their dog and I say hi and the person says hi and I'm like MIND your BUSINESS, JENNIFER, I was TALKING to the DOG.
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Beth @bethinsac.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You have no idea how many underground parent networks relied on her coverage to know what was coming and where they could go for next steps. It never felt like fear mongering, it felt like leadership.
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Beth @bethinsac.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
SO MANY TRANS KIDS abruptly lost access to care since 2025. They lost rights and a lot of times the first person to sound the alarm was Erin. We needed to be scared because we needed to plan. And she also reported on every victory.
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Beth @bethinsac.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I mostly think cis people need to stay out of this but I am just going to say it: I am immensely grateful to @erininthemorning.com for her coverage over the past couple of years. Maybe it seemed like scare tactics to adults, I can't speak to that, but it was different for trans kids.
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Beth @bethinsac.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
SCHOOLS CAN'T GIVE YOU A BANDAID, WHO ACTUALLY BELIEVES THEY ARE DISPENSING HORMONES.
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Beth @bethinsac.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Also my own kids have been complaining about their teachers using AI to generate classroom materials for at least two years now.
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Beth @bethinsac.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Also if you ask GenZ, the real AI lovers are boomers. Also I am taking an in-person theater class and it is the oldest person in the class who is constantly pulling out his phone to read us an AI summary of something. Also lots of GenX-owned businesses are advertising with AI slop.
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Beth @bethinsac.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Friends we have to stop blaming AI proliferation on young folks. It's not a generational issue. Sure, there are kids using ChatGPT to do their homework, but there are just as many older people using it to summarize email or run their lives. PLENTY of kids are appalled by AI art and advertising.
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San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 30/09/2026
Intentionally addressing trans people with their birth name or previous gender at University of California schools is permissible under freedom of speech rights, federal judge rules.
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UC’s anti-misgendering policy struck down by judge
Intentionally addressing trans people with their birth name or previous gender at University of California schools is permissible under freedom of speech rights, federal judge rules.
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Beth @bethinsac.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As a generation we can sure run a joke into the ground. (I blame really bad SNL during our formative years.)
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Beth @bethinsac.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I feel like the "white Gen X is maga" talk is at least ten years late but we are waaaaay overdue for the "white Gen X is annoying" discussion. (I am white and Gen X but there are at least four high profile influencers whom I can't block fast enough.)
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Butt Praxis @buttpraxis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I will vote, make calls, knock doors, take up arms for whoever destroys the online gambling industry
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brian nam-sonenstein @bson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
ICE cannot do what it’s doing without local law enforcement. They need their manpower and infrastructure. That means if you want to stop ICE you are going to have to confront police collaboration and police power. I’m sorry but progressive hopes of avoiding this conflict are a recipe for failure.
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Beth @bethinsac.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I tried to get covid and flu shots a while back but our insurance wasn't going to pay and it was going to be $400 a person so I decided to wait, and now I am sick.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Vermont's attorney general, a Democrat, has decided to prosecute ICE protesters after the state police asked her. The local prosecutor, the progressive Sarah George, had declined to seek charges (as Bolts reported here: boltsmag.org/with-latest-...). www.sevendaysvt.com/news/crime-n...
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AG's Office Brings Charges Against Williston ICE Facility Protesters | Seven Days
Chittenden County State's Attorney Sarah George had declined to prosecute the protesters.
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Beth @bethinsac.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
calmatters.org/politics/202... 1979!
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Legislators could override nearly every Newsom veto. Why don’t they?
Most bills Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed passed the Legislature with enough votes for an override. The Legislature hasn't tried since 1979.
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Beth @bethinsac.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Not sure but the California state legislature has a longstanding policy of not overriding vetoed. I think it's been decades.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
ProPublica got the literal check Collins was bribed with.
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Beth @bethinsac.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I might actually hate Gavin Newsom more than I hate Donald Trump, because Donald Trump has always been upfront about being a racist misogynist piece of shit, but Gavin Newsom very cynically used gay marriage to paint himself as a maverick willing to break laws to advance human rights.
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Meh Pluribus Unum (Alli) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @pluribus-unum.co · 22/09/2026
It's pretty much never consigned to teen sports either. "...every single...state that has passed laws banning trans athletes has...pass[ed] additional anti-trans laws" "...27 out of 29 such states have banned gender-affirming care for trans youth as well." juliaserano.medium.com/on-democrats...
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On Democrats Who Cave in Response to Anti-Trans Attack Ads
and more importantly: a response to all the cis people responding to the way that trans people are responding to said Democrats’ responses
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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 22/09/2026
just want to say that when a politician campaigns on/publicly states transphobic positions it will actually be reflected in policy and is not some sort of 4d chess electoral rhetoric move
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Beth @bethinsac.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This absolute piece of shit. I hate him so much. www.ebar.com/story/170505...
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Newsom vetoes bill aimed at protecting providers of transgender care
Governor Gavin Newsom used his veto pen over the weekend to ax legislation aimed at protecting providers of gender-affirming care from being extradited to face charges for doing so by another state.
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PoisonIvy @poisonivystings.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Idk man, I would be fucking embarrassed to say this shit publicly.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is not great
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Beth @bethinsac.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I am so mad about the Paramount settlement, fucking Democrat AGs out here enabling robber barons. There is no such thing as a progressive prosecutor.
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Shellraiser B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
There is a club, and you and I aren't in it.
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Beth @bethinsac.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
My children are yelling BEEF DIED and I actually got that reference.
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Beth @bethinsac.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Okay I googled. "Twitch streamer." That's not a real thing, I am going back to work.
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Beth @bethinsac.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Is it okay if I continue to not know who Hasan Piker is, I'm really busy right now.
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Amelia Sandrine Reisinger 🏳️‍⚧️ @ameliasandrine.com · 17/09/2026
Gonna start referring to Democrats who take anti-trans stances as “Biological Republicans”
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Maybe the thing to do is rip down the rest of the White House when he’s out. Make the next administration work out of motels and travel by public transportation for the next decade or two to reacquaint them with the people they work for.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Cassidy cast the deciding vote to confirm RFK Jr, and he did so knowing the full history of RFK Jr’s decades of extreme anti-vaccine activism These 2 men—Cassidy and RFK Jr—have sealed their “terrible legacy” together. It’s all they will be remembered for: suffering, sickness, pain, & death.
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Scott @smadin.net · 16/09/2026
Isn't this guy the one who refused to kick Jesse fucking Signal off the platform
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