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Betsy

@betsybooks.bsky.social
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My jams are reading, bookkeeping, spreadsheets and democracy. The best friend you will ever have if your hair is on fire. Not the person to call if you want to go shopping. Not giving in and going down fighting

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Nor do we want to be on Truth Social. I would hate to find a welcome home there. I would hate to be somebody who would be palatable to such a place. We don't go on Truth, because nobody needs bullies. They *do* try to come on Bluesky, because bullies need the rest of us.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The GOP is desperately trying to rewrite history, but just a reminder that Donald Trump was president during the lockdowns, and he awarded Fauci a presidential commendation for his work on COVID. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 29/07/2026
Just really feeling appreciative today that Donald John Trump rushed the Covid vaccine through and took it himself and told everyone to. Good job Trump MAKING THE COVID VACCINE
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Any Doubts @anydoubts.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
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Sam Stein (@samstein):

This is really incredible. Docs released by Trump tonight confirm RUSSIA tried to spread claims Biden was engaged in criminal activity vis-a-vis Burisma and that it advanced those narratives "with US officials" and planed a "high-profile corruption scandal... at the peak of the 2020 US presidential campaign."

Below the post are two heavily redacted, declassified intelligence-document excerpts. Red circles highlight passages describing Russian officials and proxies spreading and intensifying allegations against Biden during the 2020 election campaign.
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WUNC News @wunc.org · 17/07/2026
GOP candidate Michael Whatley has received a $5,000 campaign contribution from Chemours' political action committee. www.wunc.org/politics/202...
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What role could PFAS play in North Carolina's closely watched U.S. Senate race?
GOP candidate Michael Whatley has received a $5,000 campaign contribution from Chemours' political action committee.
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🌻Namaste🇺🇦 @schmetterling10.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
ICE claims that Araujo drove into one of their SUVs with his van and then tried to run over an agent. There were no marks on the van and KHOU11's Jeremy Rogalski found surveillance footage showing ICE chasing Araujo and cutting him off. Renee Good all over again.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/07/2026
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo called Houston home for 35 years. On Tuesday, an ICE agent shot and killed him. His family learned of his death from a video before anyone bothered to knock on their door.
New York City stands with the Salgado family in demanding a full, independent investigation and real accountability. To the Salgado family and any immigrant family in this city living in fear: we grieve with you and we will continue to stand beside you in the pursuit of justice.
Abolish ICE.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 04/07/2026
Weeks ago, I spoke directly with Major Jason Watson regarding his planned act of civil disobedience. What I do not hear enough people discussing is the broader constitutional strategy behind his message. 🧵
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Defender of Our Republic
Major Jason Watson Deserves an Honest Accounting
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
💙💙
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MingTheMerciless @mingthemercyless.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
It seems the USA's 'manifest destiny' is to elect the very worst people among them and destroy the democracy they swore to defend.
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Dovewoman 💙 🇺🇦 💙 @dovewoman.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
A Founding Father Speaks
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
@jamestalarico.bsky.social is what a politician should be.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 21/06/2026
What an honor to celebrate joy, liberation, and strength with Black New Yorkers this Juneteenth across the City and at Gracie Mansion.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10/05/2026
A lot has happened, but not much has changed.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/05/2026
Let’s go Liberty!
Mayor Mamdani poses with Ellie the Elephant at tonight’s New York Liberty basketball game.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
AOC on possibly running for the Senate or President: They assume my ambition is a title or a seat. My ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country. Presidents come and go, elected officials come and go, single payer healthcare is forever.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Black people are giving it these Confederates raw and uncut. This is how it’s gonna be now. You wonder what we’re thinking? It’s this. I believe this is activist Gary Chambers again in Louisiana.
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Doesn't matter if the performance itself is staged. The fact is, talented musicians coming together and giving a performance in a public space means the masses get to witness this for free and that's beautiful. TT: Raphaël Froissart IG: Michel Tirabosco ~ Pan flute
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Betsy @betsybooks.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
What started as a joke now has teeth. "Get in losers, we're going to buy an airline." Link in article to pledge your share. l.smartnews.com/p-7GqEdzmE/L...
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Man crowdsourcing to purchase shuttered Spirit Airlines exceeds $437 million in days (Upworthy)
“Get in losers, we’re going to buy an airline,” is the short bio next to the smiling face of Hunter Peterson, an aviation enthusiast making waves trying to d...
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Betsy @betsybooks.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
What started as a joke now has teeth. "Get in losers, we're going to buy an airline." Link in article to pledge your share. l.smartnews.com/p-7GqEdzmE/L...
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Man crowdsourcing to purchase shuttered Spirit Airlines exceeds $437 million in days (Upworthy)
“Get in losers, we’re going to buy an airline,” is the short bio next to the smiling face of Hunter Peterson, an aviation enthusiast making waves trying to d...
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
When children are shot in their classrooms, all politicians can offer are thoughts and prayers. When a shooting happens near them, they demand a $350 million golden ballroom to protect themselves.
Don't normalize a system that protects power more than it protects children.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
“'I’ve never experienced anything like this in my entire life,' the congresswoman said, fighting back tears. "She described the way people were laying down inside as “like sardines.” “'It is frightening in there,' she said. 'It is disgusting'..." azmirror.com/2026/04/10/i...
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Brutal.
A WHOLE CIVILIZATION
WILL DIE TONIGHT
My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools.
Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's
"keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "well open back up once the plows have cleared" it's
"we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight."
It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before.
"It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time.
A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead.
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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 05/04/2026
On Mary Magdalene, ancient misogyny and her red eggs.
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For All The Marys — Martha Crawford - What a Shrink Thinks
And how the dominating forces that we are facing now, that wish to stifle the self-actualization, intuition, intelligence, and power of non-maternal feminine autonomy have always been there. And ha...
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Cranky Cracker @timmyturmoil.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
In Israel citizens enjoy single payor, universal health care, free education including college, and legal abortion. When Americans ask for these things, we are told we can't afford them. Yet, we subsidize the state of Israel to the tune of nearly 20 billion dollars annually.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/03/2026
Everyone needs to stop what they’re doing and watch this video. “It seems like there’s a lack of diversity here today, and it’s mostly people who look like you and me, and I just…?” This lady’s response is🔥
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HUMBLE PIE @hughbtruthful.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
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Corey O'Neill @coreyoneill.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 13/02/2026
Anyone currently involved in federal immigration enforcement, every officer, every bureaucrat, every lawyer, every judge, is a member of the most evil group of people this country has seen since Reconstruction. Darkness personified, every one. Doing this to children is beyond depraved.
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Ranger Matt @tamranger.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
This should concern us all. You cannot speak of freedom and liberty and then support this regime’s actions. www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
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ICE plans to build mega warehouses for immigration detention spark growing concern
Sources at two government contractors told NBC News they were worried that new warehouses — and the large numbers of immigrants who would be housed in them — would present safety problems.
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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Rep. Melanie Stansbury: “The United States government is engaged in an active coverup of the largest sex trafficking scandal & influence peddling scandal in the history of the United States — and Donald Trump is right at the center of it”
Melanie Stansbury speaking to a crowd
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
AOC on DHS Warehouses: I think every American should be alarmed. They are building—and have built—a black box system that disappears people, both immigrants and U.S. citizens alike.
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
The radical preacher of Broadview just got his charges dropped...
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‘It’s as if Jesus Is Locked Up in Broadview’
A reverend violently arrested at Chicagoland’s ICE facility speaks out
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
More than half the drugs on the TrumpRx site have a cheaper generic version on the market. Pristiq, an antidepressant, is available with a TrumpRx coupon for ~$200 for a 30-day supply. A generic version is on GoodRx for less than $30 and Mark Cuban's CostPlusDrugs for $16.65.
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How TrumpRx drug prices compare to generic alternatives
Patients could save more buying non-branded copycat drugs, even if they don't have insurance.
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Jim Acosta @jimacosta.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
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The Sordid Story of Trump, the Trump–Witkoff Family Business, and the UAE | National Review
Even if crypto makes your head hurt, you’re going to be hearing a lot about this in the months to come.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal? Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail… Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you. Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/02/2026
Tear gas is banned in international warfare, yet classified as a “riot control agent” that law enforcement can use for crowd control. “It just doesn’t work well, and it hits the weakest people the most, and causes the most complications in them,” an anesthesiology professor at Duke University said.
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Tear Gas Is Way More Dangerous Than Police Let On
In the middle of a respiratory pandemic, law enforcement agencies have used tear gas in especially dangerous ways. The chemical agent also seeps into homes, contaminates food, furniture, skin and surf...
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Black Pearl @blackpearl.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Just a reminder: Barack Obama — not in the files. Kamala Harris — not in the files. Happy Black History Month ✊🏾
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
🚨TONIGHT’S PROTEST IN MINNEAPOLIS IS INSANE: CNN is STUNNED. Share this widely! “I've covered many protests… I've not seen a crowd like this before.” It’s 8 degrees. “It is freezing, but nothing, nothing is stopping these people.” This isn’t a rally. It’s a movement. @calltoactivism.bsky.social
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Sinner Representative @irepresentsinners.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Okay I’m ngl, he was funny af for that answer 😭😂
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Havoc @havoc147.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
This is the BEST explanation I have seen so far.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
“I watched him die… then I watched them maneuver his body like a rag doll— only to discover it was because they wanted to count the bullet wounds and see how many they ‘got’, like he was a deer.”
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