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Beth Martin

@cliothemuse.bsky.social
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Sarcastic would-be Historian with a penchant for Literature, Culture, & Travel. Lifelong Anglophile. The counselor is in. linktr.ee/cliothemuse

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Beth Martin @cliothemuse.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
She’s busy plotting humanity’s downfall.
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Beth Martin @cliothemuse.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
If he’d complied with the original deadline & not made every effort to delay & obstruct, maybe the judge would be open to some benefit of the doubt? Maybe if he hadn’t *continued* defaming the plaintiffs he wouldn’t have a contempt hearing to work around? But HE is the victim here! 🙄
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Malaysian dude fantasizing about "bankrupting" our two biggest neighbors definitely has US interests at heart. No doubt about that.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/11/2024
Discworld QOTD, from The Truth “William wondered why he always disliked people who said 'no offense meant.' Maybe it was because they found it easier to to say 'no offense meant' than actually to refrain from giving offense.”
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 26/11/2024
I’m old enough to remember when Michael Cohen set up “Essential Consulting” and got millions for having Trump’s ear. This pay-for-access isn’t new.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I think it’s pretty clear to Trump
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Beth Martin @cliothemuse.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Oh.
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Mike Walker @newnarrative.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
A MAGA influencer who appeared multiple times on Fox News criticizing crime and homelessness in San Francisco was booked into jail on Monday on suspicion of pimping a woman for sex work. t.co/mr5cZ7g3MY?s...
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Fox News Guest Who Criticized San Francisco Crime Now Accused Of Committing A Crime
MAGA content creator Ricci Lee Wynne, 39, also known as Raw Ricci, garnered thousands of followers on social media criticizing crime in San Francisco.
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Beth Martin @cliothemuse.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
In my opinion “lazy linking” is all the posting & reposting of fact free claims with zero sources given & no attempt made to verify, which is exactly what Musk *wants* Twitter to be. Actually posting links to sources & facts so ppl can verify what’s true is the OPPOSITE of lazy.
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Beth Martin @cliothemuse.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Welcome to real life for quite a few Americans?
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Neil Abrams @readthedetox.com · 26/11/2024
I would bet against him.
As he left the courthouse, Mr. Giuliani repeated his grievances at a prepared microphone stand about being targeted for political ends. A heckler shouted at Mr. Giuliani as he walked to a waiting car.

“You got nothing now!” the man said. “You’re a bum!”

Mr. Giuliani smiled and turned toward the man.

“I wouldn’t bet against me,” he said.
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Ale @aliasvaughn.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
And guess what? He’s going to jail for it.
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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I was already excited to click on a news story about Rudy Giuliani having a meltdown in court today and YELLING at the judge. But nothing prepared me for the courtroom sketch
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Yes, and it remains frustrating the extent to which the editors who write headlines refuse to take serious responsibility for the ways in which the bodies of articles have become increasingly less relevant than the headlines.
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Beth Martin @cliothemuse.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
When you freely choose over & over again to intentionally harm others & then want to complain about the consequences, I don’t really have any sympathy for you. 🤷🏻‍♀️
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Philip Obaji Jr. @philipobaji.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Two Central African soldiers tell me Russian commanders ordered them to “kill everybody”, including women and children, in gold mining communities during operations to seize mines in the northeast of the Central African Republic.
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Talkest Thou To Me? @delaminated.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
They know (or should know) that trashing Mexico's economy would increase migratory pressure and make their goal of reducing immigration more difficult. But the idea of punching somebody in the face for it's own sake is just too irresistible to them. 2/2
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Talkest Thou To Me? @delaminated.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
And proving that modern conservatism is mostly a way for people to outwardly project their darker impulses in a socially acceptable way as opposed to an organizing movement for developing and implementing effective governing policy. 1/
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Beth Martin @cliothemuse.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
All they’ve got is hate & resentment. It drives everything & makes every situation into zero sum. There is no understanding of mutually profitable situations. They must always “win” & make others “lose”.
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Beth Martin @cliothemuse.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Ummmmm…
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David Noll @david.noll.org · 26/11/2024
phew it's a good thing our constitution is extraordinarily difficult to amend and wannabe autocrats can't do something like get their co-partisans on the constitutional court to recognize an atextual immunity from criminal law. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Beth Martin @cliothemuse.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Their feelings don’t care about your facts.
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Beth Martin @cliothemuse.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
The feeling when you are a grown adult who has lots of money & is currently trying to be shadow president of the most powerful nation in the world, but you still need your racist mom to go on TV & defend your delicate feelings from any criticism.
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E. Bond @ericbbond.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
And said Jeezus unto them, “Seek ye bootstraps, and by them, pull thyself into the kingdom.” — Misconceptions 3:9
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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Then Jesus said unto the sick, “you better have insurance.” Then Jesus said unto the stranger, “are you here legally?” Then Jesus said unto the hungry, “my taxes better not be paying for these loaves and fishes.” Then Jesus said unto the poor, “this is your own fault.”
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 26/11/2024
"The half of the country that voted against Donald Trump is left standing alone. Who in the Biden administration is shoring up whatever guardrails remain?" You know, someone can do something about that.
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Speak for America, Democrats
There is still much that President Biden and other Democrats can do during this increasingly alarming transition to Trump’s second term.
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
the Avocado Rebellion is nigh
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Otter Poppa's Poppaler Nature Facts @peezkyweezky.bsky.social · 08/03/2024
“Learn to code” - Hamurabi
A painting of King Hamurabi, energetically explaining something from his throne to a sitting man taking notes on a tablet. A cheers sits by his side
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Rob Fardon @robfardon.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
A dozen anti-vaccine accounts are responsible for 65% of disinformation shared online, new report finds. Yes, a reality-challenged nominee of a reality-challenged president-elect features prominently among the "disinformation dozen". www.cbsnews.com/news/vaccine...
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
If you're wondering why Trump would go through with imposing tariffs even though imposing them makes no sense, politically or economically, stop wondering. This is by @beyerstein.bsky.social. She wrote it in October. www.editorialboard.com/trump-tariff...
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Trump tariffs would be world’s biggest protection racket
He politicized tariff waivers in his first term, writes Lindsay Beyerstein.
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Nadiia Omelchuk🇺🇦 @ukrainianart.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Friends, this incredible Ukrainian Gerdan necklace is available❤️ Made of beads, invested a lot of time, skill and soul. Time to think about Christmas gifts and support Ukrainian art💙💛🎄🎁 Visit my Etsy shop: www.etsy.com/shop/NadiiaJ...
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Beth Martin @cliothemuse.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Eeeeexactly.
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Beth Martin @cliothemuse.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
There are advantages to not being an optimist…
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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
He got away with everything, and got rewarded with a second term. The list of people whose failure, cowardice, lack of imagination, and wishful thinking got us here will be longer than the "begats" in the Old Testament.
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Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
The only lesson he’ll take from his attempted coup is to ensure he never leaves office again. That doesn’t mean he’ll succeed but it will be a singular focus
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Renato Mariotti @renatomariotti.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
The big news here is that Trump's legal team did not insist that the indictment was dismissed *with* prejudice. Technically speaking, this means that the indictment could be filed in the future, if Trump is no longer president. But there are statute of limitations issues, and he may pardon himself.
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Giorgi Revishvili @revishvili.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
A large swarm of Russian Shahed drones are heading to Ukraine right now
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
No one knows the future - both what Trump will actually do, and what the effects will be - but it truly was the case that that Trump’s *explicit campaign promises* were to basically destroy the recovery.
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 25/11/2024
These words are engraved above the entrance to the United States Supreme Court. It's time for them to be removed. They're clearly no longer accurate.
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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
So Trump’s position has got to be that the Presidential Records Act just allows Joe Biden to take every government doc with him on the way out, right?
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Former federal prosecutor Scott Fredericksen tells me he still expects Trump to attempt to pardon himself .... after Inauguration... amid concern the 2020 election conspiracy case could resurface in 2029
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Beth Martin @cliothemuse.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Spent years as in store HR at a grocery store. Can confirm. Even 16 yr olds got background checks. We did drug testing too. Pretty sure that’s not happening either.
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 25/11/2024
Olha Cherniak survived 280 days in Russian captivity, enduring electrocution, torture, and threats to her family. 🧵 1/7
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Delayed and delayed..and delayed...and delayed...
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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
As is standard, Joe Biden is presumably declassifying a whole bunch of information in his head right now and then he will tell people about that after he is no longer President.
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Between reports that anti-NATO protesters in Montreal chanted "Death to Canada" and waved Ru flags, that a far-right, pro-Putin candidate came out of nowhere to win the 1st round of the Romanian presidential election, and that Ukraine's hold on Kursk is becoming more tenuous, today's news suck.
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Beth Martin @cliothemuse.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
“Young teen” not tern. 🤦🏻‍♀️
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