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Betsy West

@betsywest.bsky.social
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Producer: This Is Not a Drill EP: Barbara Walters Tell Me Everything Dir:Once Upon a Time in Ukraine Dir(w/@filmmakerjulie): RBG, JULIA, My Name is Pauli Murray Prof Emerita @ColumbiaJourn

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Betsy West @betsywest.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is a painful but must-read from @tombedsall.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/o...
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Opinion | Trump Has Untethered Himself From Reality
The president’s distortions have an impact on much more than belief in his claims about what he was doing on Sept. 11.
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Julie Cohen ❌👑 @filmmakerjulie.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Moved by the words of Sekou Siby who joined @betsywest.bsky.social and I on @democracynow.org this morning to highlight our film TOP OF THE WORLD. Siby, who worked at Windows on the World before 9/11, came to NY from the Ivory Coast and spent 20 years fighting for US citizenship.
Sekou on camera with quote below him: In a functioning democrary, immigrants are not seen as the enemy.
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Betsy West @betsywest.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
What made Gloria Steinem such an influential leader of women and men? I think this short video captures some of her wit and charisma… www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zl5...
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Gloria Steinem: Feminist Activist | MAKERS.com
YouTube video by MAKERS
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Betsy West @betsywest.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Deeply grateful this morning for Gloria Steinem's fearless fight for dignity and fairness. And for her humor and resilience. She told us the fight for women’s equality is centuries-long. She’s still leading the way…
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Betsy West @betsywest.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
High voter turnout in Tennessee tonight. Victorious Democratic candidate @justinjpearson.bsky.social predicts it will help him overcome the gerrymandering of CD 9.
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Betsy West @betsywest.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
An impressive win tonight for @justinjpearson.bsky.social who becomes the Democratic nominee for Congress in Tennessee’s District 9.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I have a question for those who study the media: Does anyone in corporate owned media wonder if their declining audience and trust is the product of events like we saw last night? Because, as someone who started an independent media outlet, it is definitely part of our growth.
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Julie Cohen ❌👑 @filmmakerjulie.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Weird how anything warm, spirited and overtly referencing LOVE now feels like an intentional rebuke of Trump. Which is to say I loved #WorldCupHalftime.
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Betsy West @betsywest.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
A new study shows how past authoritarian regimes have relied on mediocre lieutenants. Remind any one of the how our would-be dictator’s loyal losers are taking over CBS News and firing excellent, competent producers at 60 Minutes, the most successful news broadcast on TV???
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
How bad does a Trump administration policy have to be for Fox executives to say, 'whoa, fellas, that's a bit much' www.axios.com/2025/10/14/f...
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Fox News declines to sign Pentagon's new press policy
Other conservative-leaning outlets have also indicated that they won't sign the pledge.
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Betsy West @betsywest.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Brilliant obit by @timweiner.bsky.social of the “lock-jawed, rock-ribbed exemplar of a vanishing caste, the liberal Republican.”
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Robert S. Mueller III, 81, Dies; Rebuilt F.B.I. and Led Trump Inquiry
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Paul Barrett ❌👑 @paulthedogman.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
The perversity rivals the obscenity: The Bozo Fascist Regime wants to pay wind-power developers a $1 billion taxpayer-funded bribe NOT to build wind farms but instead to develop natural gas. MAKE AMERICA POOR/POLLUTED/STUPID AGAIN. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/c...
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Trump Officials Weigh New $1 Billion Deal to Stop Offshore Wind Farms
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Betsy West @betsywest.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Beautiful, brave Dolores Huerta www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/u...
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Read the Statement From Dolores Huerta on Cesar Chavez’s Abuse
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
a year of protesting against trump in northern new jersey: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRlu...
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MONTCLAIR SUNDAYS ANNIVERSARY
YouTube video by Julie Cohen
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Betsy West @betsywest.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Can a doc film make a difference? Director Oren Jacoby talks about the people in This Is Not a Drill who are stopping the dangerous expansion of Big Oil. www.storyville.org/films-tv
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 09/02/2026
Air pollution from burning fossil fuels causes 100,000 to 200,000 avoidable American deaths per year. At the EPA's statistical value of life of $10 million, these deaths cost America $1 to $2 trillion per year, every year. These costs far outweigh the costs of transitioning off of fossil fuels.
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Air pollution deaths attributable to fossil fuels: observational and modelling study
Objectives To estimate all cause and cause specific deaths that are attributable to fossil fuel related air pollution and to assess potential health benefits from policies that replace fossil fuels wi...
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MethaneHunter @txsharon.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Guess where I am. Click the link to see where I'll be next. The list is growing all the time. www.storyville.org/films-tv @betsywest.bsky.social
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MethaneHunter @txsharon.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Bad Bunny for president
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
The paper towels are really flying at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue right now.
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Betsy West @betsywest.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
An inspiring reminder: it’s not the first time Americans have stood up to an occupying army.
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Boston in the 1770s. Minneapolis in 2026. - The Boston Globe
America itself was born out of resistance to heavy-handed occupation.
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 01/02/2026
Methane pollution from US oil and gas infrastructure causes more climate change than the entire economies of all but seven nations on earth. (This is with methane's climate impacts conservatively evaluated over a 100-year time frame. Evaluated over shorter time frames, methane's impacts are worse.)
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Accounting for methane from natural gas infrastructure in United States greenhouse gas emission estimates
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that United States net greenhouse gas emissions have declined over the last two decades and are no…
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
"Among the hires at CBS News announced by Weiss is a doctor who claims he reduced his biological age by 20 years with cold plunges; that cod liver oil treats autism; and that Alzheimer’s and dementia can be reversed with supplements he sells on his online store." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Bari Weiss’s new CBS hires include ‘germ theory denialist’ doctor
Dr Mark Hyman, who claimed he reduced his biological age by 20 years, brought on as a contributor
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Betsy West @betsywest.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
She’s always insightsful, but today Heather Cox Richardson is particularly brilliant.
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January 31, 2026
White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller posted on social media this morning:
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Paul Myers @pulmyears.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
The movement now has its own “Ohio” thanks to Bruce Springsteen‘s “Streets of Minneapolis”: youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w?...
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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Betsy West @betsywest.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
@filmmakerjulie.bsky.social puts two and two together: “not normal spending for a documentary…suggest(s) Amazon is buying something else.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/b...
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Amazon’s Promotion of ‘Melania’ Has Critics Questioning Its Motives
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
This could wind up being the most-watched newsmagazine segment in television history!! Congratulations to the Ellisons and Bari Weiss!!!
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Betsy West @betsywest.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
From Garry to Bari.
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Dear Bari Weiss: From a Russian Dissident
From Garry to Bari: On CBS 60 Minutes, CECOT, and a free press.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
I trust major news organizations, members of Congress, and public interest groups are publicizing their secure tip lines so DOJ and FBI employees with knowledge of political interference in the Epstein files review process, can explain safely and confidentially what they saw.
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Betsy West @betsywest.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
When Judges Are Attacked, You Suffer www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...
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Video: Opinion | When Judges Are Attacked, You Suffer
When a judge has to ask if one ruling is a “safer choice for their family” than another, is it still justice? New Jersey judge Esther Salas explains how political attacks have threatened the foundatio...
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Betsy West @betsywest.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
The broligarchy explained. substack.com/@paulkrugman...
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MAGA, the Broligarchs and the Media
This isn’t just about business; it’s about democracy
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
> @miatretta.bsky.social
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
The attack at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney today was a vile act of antisemitic terror. I mourn those who were murdered and will be keeping their families, the Jewish community, and the Chabad movement in my prayers. May the memories of all those killed be a blessing.

While we are still waiting for all the facts to emerge, what we already know is devastating. At least 11 dead, including Rabbi Eli Schlanger, who held deep ties to Crown Heights. At least 29 injured. Another Jewish community plunged into mourning and loss, a holiday of light so painfully reduced to a day of darkness. This attack is merely the latest, most horrifying iteration in a growing pattern of violence targeted at Jewish people across the world. Too many no longer feel safe to be themselves, to express their faith publicly, to worship in their synagogues without armed security stationed outside. What happened at Bondi is what many Jewish people fear will happen in their communities too.

On Bondi Beach today, as men with long guns targeted innocents, another man ran towards the gunfire and disarmed a shooter. Tonight, as Jewish New Yorkers light menorahs and usher in a first night of Hanukkah clouded by grief, let us look to his example and confront hatred with the urgency and action it demands. When I am Mayor, I will work every day to keep Jewish New Yorkers safe—on our streets, our subways, at shul, in every moment of every day. Let this be a purpose shared by every New Yorker, and let us banish this horrific violence to the past.
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Betsy West @betsywest.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Even in defeat, Cuomo continues his hateful messsge. Sad.
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Betsy West @betsywest.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Van Jones nails it: Buyers remorse.
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Betsy West @betsywest.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
What a difference a year makes.
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Betsy West @betsywest.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Side by side on the front page of @NYTimes today: 3 stark stories about how we deal with the impoverished: hide them, starve them, kill them.
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Betsy West @betsywest.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
At first I wondered if this were an AI fake video not actually posted by our Shitster in Chief. Now I’m asking, how can decent people continue to support this dangerous, deranged man? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...
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Trump Posts Fake Video of Himself Flying a ‘King Trump’ Jet Over Protesters
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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
I missed this. Part of the ongoing @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social master class in political communication. Hilarious.
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60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
“We found over 35 cases in which the judges have specifically said what the government is providing…false information. It might be intentionally false information, including false sworn declarations time and again," says Ryan Goodman, law professor at New York University.
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60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
This is the first time former DOJ attorney Erez Reuveni has shown his face in such a public way. He says he felt he needed to speak out despite his safety concerns. cbsn.ws/4orCmuO
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Betsy West @betsywest.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Watching this now! The once-decorated DOJ attorney telling the truth about the DOJ’s lawlessness.
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Betsy West @betsywest.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Yes! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
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Brown University Rejects White House Deal for Special Treatment
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Betsy West @betsywest.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Re Trump’s wacky ode to Christopher Columbus: “A society grounded in fiction, rather than reality, cannot function.”
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October 12, 2025
On October 9, President Donald J.
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Betsy West @betsywest.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Justin Pearson, ‘Tennessee Three’ Democrat, to Run for Congress www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...
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Justin Pearson, ‘Tennessee Three’ Democrat, to Run for Congress
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Jimmy Kimmel just now on Donald Trump: “He tried his best to cancel me. Instead he forced millions of people to watch the show. That backfired bigly. He might have to release the Epstein files to distract us from this now.”
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Betsy West @betsywest.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
I think I’ll sleep better tonight night.
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Julie Cohen ❌👑 @filmmakerjulie.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Bye Hulu Bye Disney. Bye whatever else was in that package.
survey we don't want to see you go. But if you must tell us the main reason why. I've written in and checked off: "You capitulate to fascists."
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Betsy West @betsywest.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
ABC bends the knee. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...
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ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Off Air for Charlie Kirk Comments
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The Briefing with Jen Psaki @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
"This is not the intervention that we need, and this is not what our communities deserve." Tennessee State Rep. Justin J. Pearson expresses his opposition to Donald Trump's plan to send the National Guard to Memphis. @justinjpearson.bsky.social
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