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BERTA

@breitbert.bsky.social
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Canadian as possible, given the circumstances (in America lol). Politics and news junkie writing to you from bed. #MECFS she/her

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 9h
Stephen "Miller did not want the facilities that were comfortable. He did not want facilities that were humane. We were told point-blank that that was not what the administration wanted." www.npr.org/2026/10/08/n...
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ICE has quietly used this warehouse as a detention facility all summer, neighbors say
Throughout the summer, rumors have been bubbling in North New Jersey that ICE has quietly been using a warehouse as a detention center. NPR investigated.
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BERTA @breitbert.bsky.social · 23h
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Lucille Bluth's Iconic 'Good For Her' - Arrested Development
Alt: Lucille Bluth's Iconic 'Good For Her' - Arrested Development
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BERTA @breitbert.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This feels related to me yesterday thinking about how the administration keeps making challenge coins with little mottos and for some reason it reminds me of the sorting hat. Like instead of a griffendor scarf you get your little coin with your stupid motto?
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BERTA @breitbert.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
As a woman who watched it so many times on like the E network…criterion is where that masterpiece belongs
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BERTA @breitbert.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The worst part is that Blanche here is going on Fox News Sunday to lie to Republicans and they will believe whatever he tells them. I’d almost consider this campaigning, he’s trying to stop the bleeding of Republican voters.
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BERTA @breitbert.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The answers to these questions could terrify me.
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BERTA @breitbert.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It also is remarkable to me that in Memphis, aren’t they claiming like 10,000 arrests or something insane? What’s going on with those people? What crimes were they charged with? Are any of them still incarcerated? Did anyone get sent away to some scary location without our knowledge?
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BERTA @breitbert.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It’s like he wants to be consul-general of the United States. The longer this takes, the more he turns into Gaddafi.
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BERTA @breitbert.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
So I haven’t ever seen Dune but I have seen this meme. Anyway I thought someone got mad at her and accused her of being on a “butlerian jihad” and that’s what was happening here. Honestly it still sorta slapped and I found it very funny.
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BERTA @breitbert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You could definitely say that again lol
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BERTA @breitbert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You might be interested in Allie Beth Stinky’s great book about the sin of empathy! 😂
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BERTA @breitbert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“See it’s different! He didn’t choke me like my dad did my mom so it’s fine! Not real violence!”
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BERTA @breitbert.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
LOL look at me forgetting I already said I was impressed by how plainly before finishing one single post
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BERTA @breitbert.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Kat, thank you for your ability to speak plainly about abuse. Your handle on the issue is impeccable. I appreciate how plainly you are able to say this stuff too, we’ve all got a lot to learn from you.
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BERTA @breitbert.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
He’s been my nemesis ever since he ran for Seattle city council ugh lol
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BERTA @breitbert.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
…that makes me nuttier than the hypocritical immigrant. Or the hypocritical descendent of recent immigrants.
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BERTA @breitbert.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I find this especially interesting in light of Rufo being married to a Thai woman. I know being Thai is not the same as being Indian, but they are two countries from Asia. Does she count as American to him? How about his Italian ancestors…are they American too? I’m an immigrant and there’s nothing
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BERTA @breitbert.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The NDP wouldn’t have him (I hope lolol)!
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 24/09/2026
Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot
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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot
Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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BERTA @breitbert.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I just would like to say how much I love this. Raising money and having a benefit show for the Haitians in Ohio is something more people should do.
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BERTA @breitbert.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I can confirm as a person who has CFS that this article was very relatable to me being in the states. With the obvious difference that they do have the NHS.
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BERTA @breitbert.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Couldn’t happen to nicer guys
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BERTA @breitbert.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If he wasn’t a senator and he wasn’t serious, this would be the funniest video I’ve seen in weeks 🥲
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BERTA @breitbert.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Thank you so much for writing this article and getting the word out about how neglected people with CFS are. Your article directly supports my personal experience and I know that as a community, the CFS community is so very grateful to you for doing this. Thank you for being on our side.
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BERTA @breitbert.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I have been diagnosed with CFS but idk how real that is despite being very sick. I had a doctors appt yesterday and despite being a good doctor who was trying their best, I am left again with no real diagnosis or interest in treating my symptoms or really figure out what’s going on.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot
Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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BERTA @breitbert.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I miss Andy
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BERTA @breitbert.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I look forward to the day that Andrea is no longer important because she’s not a serious person
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BERTA @breitbert.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Hahaha you are on to something there. Must be why he’s one of a kind! 😂
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BERTA @breitbert.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Or Werner Herzog
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BERTA @breitbert.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Similarly my dream job is Fran Leibowitz
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BERTA @breitbert.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Maybe we’ve moved beyond it to the lukewarm zone lol
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Gizmodo @gizmodo.com · 18/09/2026
FBI Warns ICE Agents Not to Trust Any Woman Willing to Date Them
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FBI Warns ICE Agents Not to Trust Any Woman Willing to Date Them
ICE officers on dating apps should be wary of tradwives, an FBI memo suggested, as well as any woman whose profile would "appeal" to them.
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BERTA @breitbert.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It is INSANE that she thinks she can make this into a commercial (🥲😬) while supporting it and there will be people who are fooled by it. As a fellow immigrant, the hypocrisy is stunning.
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BERTA @breitbert.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
No but I’m still laughing 🤣
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BERTA @breitbert.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It just occurred to me that if Mitch was awake and able to, he got to see how we were all joking about how he was dead for 3 months. He’s one of only a few who get to see the reaction to their own death. Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy. 😩😂
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BERTA @breitbert.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Lived here almost all my life, felt proud reading this tweet. Also glad to remain cringe. 😂
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BERTA @breitbert.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Sort of like “Where’s Waldo (oligarch edition)”
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BERTA @breitbert.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
You lived the dream how fun and wonderful
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BERTA @breitbert.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Judge Judy for Viceroy of Washington DC
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BERTA @breitbert.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This is great. Not only what you all did during the occupation but keeping these records for years to come. It could help protect a lot more people and I hope it does.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Former Canada Prime Minister Jean Chrétien: "I have message for American friends...never mistake our generosity for weakness. Never mistake our tolerance for lack of determination. And never, never mistake our kindness for softness...We bow to no one."
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BERTA @breitbert.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Your comics really remind me of this time. Maybe it’s because I first started reading them then, but the alt weeklies (😭😭😭) brought them to me each week. Wild that it’s been 25 years.
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BERTA @breitbert.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
www.forever-wars.com/today-we-mus... I thought this was excellent and was in the spirit of your post.
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Today We Must Finally Remember What The 9/11 Commemorations Ignore
Righteous victimhood fueled the War on Terror. 25 years later, we also have to remember all of those slain under its banner
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BERTA @breitbert.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Read it for the same reason and no, there’s nothing new that isn’t just stenography to help JD look like president now and to help with his future presidential campaign lol
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BERTA @breitbert.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It might just be me but something that drives me up a wall about it is two things: if it’s gonna make people jobless do we need to do it? And if it’s gonna kill us all, really why do we have to do it? It seems to me they wonder why people hate their technology and to me it couldn’t be more clear.
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SWOP Behind Bars @swopbehindbars.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Again, I gently encourage more women to stand with sex workers. Many SWs are women who have been targeted, surveilled, stalked, abused by the criminal justice system. All things that are rapidly happening to more and more women as AI abuse increases, flock cameras are abused, ICE budgets increase.
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BERTA @breitbert.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This is the best meme I’ve ever seen
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BERTA @breitbert.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I hope the sandwich was good!!!
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