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Beth Bartels

@bsbart11.bsky.social
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Location: Nebraska, Go Big Red!

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 24/07/2026
Listen, i work in historic preservation and conservation and this headline is misleadingly skipping the key point: this specifically and pointedly destroys the protections for Native American sacred sites. built heritage matters but not as much as the rights of indigenous folk.
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
⚠️ Your favorite local restaurant or hair salon is subject to more oversight than a medspa selling peptides as RFK Jr. tries to expand access www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...
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Peptide boom has states scrambling to protect consumers, Post investigation finds
The Post surveyed states’ pharmacy, medical and nursing boards to reveal the gaping regulatory holes for medspas and peptides.
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The Man in the High Castle destroyed every swastika prop after filming, so nothing could end up as a souvenir or extremist symbol.
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TrickyDicky @pawninthegame.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I worked on that set. Every single thing was accounted for every day. A guy tried to take one home and he was fired, barred from the union and almost got charged with hate symbolism. We don't fuck around with it.
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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Texas created an outcomes-based funding model for community colleges. Students and colleges outperformed expectations, so now the state wants to change the rules so they don't have to pay what they promised. www.texastribune.org/2026/07/22/t...
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Texas may limit community college's incentive funding
A formula designed to reward colleges for student success generated larger payouts than budgeted. Now, Texas’ higher education agency may limit how schools receive such funding.
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Sean Grass @gongdonkey.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Former faculty at Texas Tech here. State of Texas has done this for all universities for years and years, promising funds on a “formula” then reneging when universities exceeded expectations. Shameful. Wealthy state characterized by moral and ethical bankruptcy.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 25/07/2026
Yeah this "pervert glasses in the classroom" thing is bothering me enough that I emailed both my departments asking if we can get practical guidance from the chancellor & IT. What I'm really, increasingly wanting is a Wi-Fi kill switch for each classroom, but i don't know that that's in the offing.
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Witch-hunts targeted women with financial independence and status. In colonial New England, women from families w/o male heirs made up 64% of the females prosecuted for witchcraft, 76% of those who were found guilty and 89% of those who were executed. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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What makes a woman a witch? Financial independence
Women aren’t being burnt at the stake any more, but there is still risk and violence implicit in the label ‘witch’
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Co-signing here and I wish just *one* of these articles would point out the history of authoritarian regimes attacking sociology specifically because it makes authoritarians uncomfortable.
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Dayna Lynn Nuckolls @thepeoplesoracle.com · 26/07/2026
At the Walmart in an all Black part of New Orleans a worker sits with a cart full of plastic cases. She opens the locked cabinet of deodorant, takes out your choice, and puts it in another locked container you put into your cart. The cashier unlocks that container after you pay for it. 😑
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
(I only did this once. A hair emergency and a television appearance. I wouldn’t do it again for a trillion dollars. It’s so dehumanizing that the feeling lives in my body, years later.)
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
www.seattletimes.com/business/ai-...
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AI is running on borrowed money
Wealth from Oracle, the giant tech company founded by Larry Ellison, is enabling Larry and his son, David, to become media moguls. Thanks to backing from Larry’s Oracle billions, David has taken contr...
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Yup. When Musk says "no one" died, he's asserting that people of color are not people. Not that fact-checking is useless. But it needs to be paired with reminders that Musk is a racist who is asserting that non-white people aren't people. newrepublic.com/article/2135...
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The Real Reason Elon Musk Keeps Insisting DOGE Cuts Killed “Zero” Kids
In his explosive interview with The Economist, the SpaceX billionaire inadvertently revealed something darker about his true vision for the future—and about his affinities with global fascism.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Good overview you can easily share with others www.nj.com/news/2026/07...
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Student loan changes: SAVE plan is ending, what are the new payment options?
Millions of Americans will soon be forced to pick a new student loan repayment plan: Here are the options.
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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
In general the best advice, and the advice @debtcollective.bsky.social is giving, is to stay put. New litigation is ongoing that might keep some SAVE eligibility or at least require REPAYE and folks don’t have to move until September at the earliest
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
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Tara Shea @tsbhoney.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The mods on the PSLF and Student Loan Reddit pages have been doing the lord's work for a few years gathering lots of info and answering the same qs every day. One of them runs a free student loan advice NP called TISLA. Most misinfo is weeded out and explained clearly! several Pinned threads, etc.
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 10/06/2026
Increasingly glad I never bothered joining the Author’s Guild. You go after libraries, you do NOT represent me.
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SCBWI @scbwi.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI), and the children’s book world, is saddened by the news that author, mentor and friend, Jane Yolen, has died. She was 87 and her loss cannot be measured. Please find the full obituary here: www.scbwi.org/remembering-...
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
One annoying thing about Aaron's clips is how he transcribes what they said and you think "that can't really be what they said, Aaron must've made a mistake" so you feel obliged as a good citizen to listen to it yourself and inevitably Aaron was right, that's really what they said.
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Hey internet! You know how you love to be mad? Well now is a great time to put that skill to use and contact the FCC.
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Bill H @dahoovster.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
The evolution of going blind into a @tkingfisher.com book: •Oh, okay period piece…mystery? •Hmm, spooky stuff in the woods? •Uhh •Good LORD ALMIGHTY WHAT THE HELL Anyway, this has been my 5⭐️ review of Wolf Worm - read it
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
ProPublica used leaked tax returns to calculate that through complex tax avoidance schemes, Jeff Bezos pays a tax rate of 0.98% www.propublica.org/article/the-... So if we doubled the taxes he pays, that would mean he'd still be paying less than 2%.
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The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax
ProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, ev...
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 22/05/2026
As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.
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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Co fucking signed 🤬
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Micah @rincewind.run · 24/05/2026
between him and Cassidy I am sick and tired of guys who are personally responsible for putting these dudes in their current positions of power whining about them on the television Tillis was the deciding vote for Hegseth, Cassidy for RFK, own your awful choices and apologize for what you did
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JasonPlaysGames @jasonplaysgames.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
I don't know if @chucktingle.bsky.social is going to read this, but when I woke up today, instead of languishing in bed depressed, I said to myself "Let's trot, buckaroos" and got up and now my kitchen is clean and I've done meal prep for the week and I feel like I should thank him. Thank you.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 24/05/2026
helen lewis has an article in the atlantic today begging everyone to read discworld and I am going to suggest she start by rereading monstrous regiment and think about how that might apply to trans issues
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 24/05/2026
Goddamn ninjas cutting onions…
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
When they left, I swear that kid was about to pop, he was so excited to give that to his mom. He was practically skipping as they left. Dang. Jin, I met a bunch of celebrities and this might be my favorite moment of this con. 11/
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
So, a quick story. I have been at @comicpalooza.bsky.social, been swamped with long lines almost the entire weekend so far, and there was this very nice gentleman named Jin (not sure of the spelling). He came the first day and said he was bringing books the next day to get signed. 1/
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jenna ruddock @ruddock.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
your regular reminder that the national shoplifting crisis was a manufactured moral panic largely engineered by corporations in order to cover up their own mismanagement — and that wage theft is the largest category of theft in the U.S.
LA Times headline: "Retailers say thefts are a crisis level. The numbers say otherwise."
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Queen_Potato @queenpotato.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
And there you have it. The anti trans campaign in Maine was never some "grassroots movement." It was bankrolled by billionaire Richard Uihlein, who poured over $800,000 into targeting trans kids over sports and bathrooms.
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Richard Roberts @inscrutablemachine.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Ursula keeps tellin' me it ain't wrong to advertise myself, so here goes. This storyteller got many books out, but this is the one coming out in about a month! It's got a cat in it and a robot and a magic sword and a LOT of unfortunate decisions. www.amazon.com/Not-Chosen-O...
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I'm Not the Chosen One
Tick has made a big mistake. There’s a prophecy. Companions, a magic sword, a path to saving the world. It has all happened before, and this time everything is laid out for the Hero to win forever. ...
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 30/05/2026
Yeah, that’s the thing. The overwhelming majority of these performative types don’t actually line up with any of the classical masculinities most of us grew up with, which were often toxic but at least useful. Where is “can’t talk about feelings but changes your oil?”
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man." A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
the most surreal thing about this era of open yelling about masculinity is that, if you grew up anything like I did, you were exposed to several sets of standards of masculinity and would be hard pressed to identify which of them the Paxtons and Millers of the world are living up to
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 01/06/2026
Air conditioning is unapologetically a good thing because it helps people not die. And one good thing about air conditioning is that it largely needs to run during the day when solar power is at its maximum: it can and should align with clean energy goals.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 01/06/2026
If your goal in dealing with climate change doesn't include "helping people not die," I'm not sure we are aligned.
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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
This Pride, stop leaving people behind. Lord and Dark Gods certainly know the LG left B, then and now T and the rest of the umbrella behind and look where we're at, so why don't we try some actual solidarity instead of this bullshit.
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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
You don't tell people to "just move." You don't assume they should have to abandon their homes while you sit in your cushy relatively safe blue bubble and arbitrarily decide who cedes their ground to fascists. And I certainly don't see you absorbing the cost of that demand, you fucks.
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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I run an EXTREMELY niche jewelry shop. Have for ten years. Our artists are all LGBTQIA+. Our staff, LGBTQIA+. Our customers are either queer, queer adjacent via family or friends, or allies. Something I can tell you? QUEERNESS SHIPS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY. YOU DON'T LEAVE RED STATE PEOPLE BEHIND.
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Bethany @bethanyrobison.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Tangentially, A Snake Falls to Earth is a delightful book and if you haven't read it, pls consider giving it a try 📚💙 bookshop.org/p/books/a-sn...
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A Snake Falls to Earth: Newbery Honor Award Winner
Newbery Honor Award Winner
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Deb Haaland has won the New Mexico Democratic Governor primary. If elected, she will make history as the nation's first Native American governor.
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 05/06/2026
Here's your reminder of what that moment was:
Elon Musk
@elonmusk . Follow

Time to drop the really big bomb:

@realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files. That
is the real reason they have not been made
public.

Have a nice day, DJT!

2:10 PM · Jun 5, 2025

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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
here's today's post: "social media star Hunter Biden has no fucks left to give" — and we are all here for it. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter to keep getting the good stuff —
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social media star Hunter Biden has no fucks left to give
and we are all here for it
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 24/03/2026
If this is you, I want you to know that the amount per work is very likely to be > $3000. Half that if you're splitting with your publisher.
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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
the girl guides in the UK just kicked out all their trans members specifically bc they were threatened with a lawsuit from a rowling-funded group
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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 25/03/2026
🟢 Durant, OK warehouse has sold… to the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma! ICE previously sought to buy the space to create a mega detention center capable of holding 8,500 people. This is the 13th warehouse they have been denied.
A black and white graphic describing the sale of a shipping warehouse to the Choctaw Nation of OK.
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