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DrBetsy94

@drbetsy94.bsky.social
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Nerdy academic, queer-identified bisexual, political junkie. Mom of 1 autistic YA and 2 trans YA. No DMs. Cis female; she/her.

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Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 16h
Interesting piece in @nytopinion.nytimes.com about how Denver has brought down homelessness rates, with lessons for other cities. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/o...
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Opinion | We Know How to Fix Homelessness. Why Don’t More Cities Do It?
It takes doing things conservatives and progressives both dislike.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 15h
This is disgusting, but not unexpected. The Trump administration is putting their thumb on the scales for Putin, despite the fact that it’s Russia violating the energy ceasefire. 
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 12h
I’m sure there’s no connection
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 14/10/2026
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DrBetsy94 @drbetsy94.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
7th grade, I think? I’ve never regretted embracing my inner freak. 😂
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Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
A cost of "pro-life" policies is maternal death.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
UPDATE on Trump’s violation of a court order to stop airing taxpayer-funded campaign-style tv ads: the Govt’s excuse - "our lawyers accidentally missed the email.” It's beyond time for contempt in all cases where the Trump Regime is giving the middle finger to the courts. youtu.be/2pg_33uqafs?...
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Trump DOJ CAUGHT Making SHOCKING Excuse After IGNORING Court ORDER!?!
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Trump’s making up endorsements because his rubes are too stupid to use Google. SNOPES: ABC News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News, MS NOW, NBC News, Newsmax, and NewsNation found no reporting or evidence that Denzel Washington ever publicly spoke favorably of Trump. www.snopes.com/fact-check/t...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/10/2026
holy shit -- a protester at the Trump rally gets physically assaulted after they interrupt the rally by a man who punches her in the face. Trump smears the protester as a "fat guy"
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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Imagine in a post Cornell world getting on one of America's oldest remaining stages and calling women whores for existing at the gym. You ignorant fuckwad. Control your boner, maybe.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
"There is no excuse for this and you know why I’m furious right now,” the judge said. “I was hearing from plaintiff’s side that this was going to happen and I said ‘no’ repeatedly, ‘I trust the government.’ I trusted you all repeatedly to not do what you have done...” www.ms.now/news/you-did...
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‘You did your absolute worst’: Judge blasts government after she says it defied her on D.C. golf course case
A livid U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes called an emergency hearing after the government flouted warnings to notify the court before cutting down more than 10 trees at East Potomac Golf Course; it cut d...
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/10/2026
New in PN: Trump wants a race war. Minnesotans won’t take the bait. "They genuinely don’t understand how whites could care for immigrant communities in their midst and they’re going to keep trying to drive a wedge. But Minnesotans will do what they do: take to the streets to protect our neighbors."
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Trump wants a race war. Minnesotans won’t take the bait.
We love our Somali neighbors.
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Cat 🌻🌾 Tbubs 🔜 2000AD @tsundernova.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
IT IS MY BIRTHDAY and my only birthday wish is for YOU to sign as many petitions as you can to fight back against data centres trying to be built in Scotland. Some handy links below👇
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/10/2026
DHS claims the man ran in front of their SUV. You be the judge.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
"The government is legally forbidden by a court order from converting the Roxbury site to a detention facility... But an NPR investigation has found signs that the facility is being used. The state's Office of the Attorney General is looking into similar reports..." 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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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/10/2026
Do you know how hard it is to lose the war if you're the United States? It's about as unlikely as bankrupting a casino.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
In August, Trump purchased between $1m and $5m in SpaceX bonds. Two days later, he signed a memorandum setting out a new policy pledging US government support for space transportation companies: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Trump bought over $1 million in SpaceX debt days before unveiling space policy
The purchase, revealed in his latest financial disclosure, involved a firm directly affected by his administration’s actions — and led by presidential ally Elon Musk.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
New Trump rule set to go into effect Oct 22 -- may cause serious spike in prescription drug prices for millions of Americans: www.usatoday.com/story/money/... apnews.com/article/drug...
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The cost of drugs from Canada is set to soar for millions of Americans because of a federal rule
Millions of Americans who buy cheap drugs from Canada could soon lose access due to a new customs rule.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The Talarico nonsense being spread by GOP influencers is a typical republican “scandal” - lots of BREAKING!! And 🚨 but no actual substance. If anyone from the Paxton campaign coordinated with influencers to spread these lies, people should go to prison, and Talarico should sue the fuck out of them.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
1. Trump’s new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia is a prolific user of Truth Social where she regularly promoted Pizzagate and QAnon conspiracies, accusing elites in the Democratic Party and Hollywood of running child sex rings and eating people.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/10/2026
White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia nods along on Fox & Friends as Rachel Campos-Duffy blasts that "ingrate Zelenskyy who keeps blowing up refineries and making things more complicated for the president ahead of the midterms"
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
MAGA, I ask again: Do you ever get tired of defending this petulant, whiny beta male?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Ossoff: "If John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club"
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"It was the classics as learned through memes by a groyped-up staffer;" open.substack.com/pub/johnganz...
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The Greeks Without Tragedy
On Marco Rubio’s Athens Speech
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 09/10/2026
“We are enforcing the nation’s laws. Why is that controversial?” The Fugitive Slave Act. The Three-Fifths Compromise. The Nuremberg Laws. Dred Scott. The Indian Removal Act. The Law for Protection of German Blood. Anti-miscegenation laws. The Defense of Marriage Act. The Reichstag Fire Decree.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Russia is resupplying Iran with missiles. Guess who is, in effect, paying for those missiles when we pump $$$ to Russia for diesel? That's right. Another masterstroke from the genius-in-chief.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
1. I think the president of the United States really believes "there's never been anybody" who deserves the Nobel Peace Prize more than he does. He really believes he "settled eight wars." He really believes he stopped "the total obliteration of the world" by going to war with Iran.
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
here's today's post: "What kind of shithole country livestreams executions? Our kind." — Cruelty, as always, is the point. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter to keep getting the good stuff —
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What kind of shithole country livestreams executions? Our kind.
Cruelty, as always, is the point
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
ProPublica and The Texas Tribune reviewed Ken Paxton's travel records dating back to 2015. Paxton has taken nearly 1,000 trips with a state-funded security detail, costing $3.3 million. The outlets could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to actual state business.
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Ken Paxton’s Security for Travel Cost Taxpayers Millions. Just 1 in 6 of His Trips Had a Stated Business Purpose.
Records show the Texas attorney general has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to sta...
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Newsletter time. Alito is on the ballot in the midterms, in case creeping fascism wasn’t enough of a reason to vote. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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This November, Vote Like Alito Is on the Ballot
In this week’s Elie v. U.S., our justice correspondent gives Democrats another reason to vote in November. Plus: How Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s Medicaid unmasked the racists.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 09/10/2026
ICC judge Navi Pillay worked on human rights violations in Rwanda and Myanmar, and more recently chaired the UN Commission that concluded Israel committed genocide in Gaza. She received the news while in the Nuremberg Palace of Justice, and joked about sharing the prize with Trump.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Documents released by a watchdog group suggest that despite Trump's promise to fund Freedom 250 events through private donations, taxpayers largely footed the bill. The budget estimates leave open questions about where tens of millions in private donations ended up.
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Trump Raised Big Bucks for Freedom 250 — But Most Events Appear to be Funded by Taxpayers
Newly released documents raise questions about what happened to the corporate and private donations.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
NEW on MS NOW: The FBI plans to offer the UFC an exclusive one-year contract to train its special agents in hand-to-hand combat. UFC chief executive Dana White has long been a Trump ally. "This is just Patel giving his friend Dana White a lucrative contract."
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Patel’s FBI wants to give UFC exclusive contract to train agents
CEO Dana White has long been an ally of President Donald Trump and his administration. Agents would be trained in hand-to-hand combat.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 09/10/2026
Regardless of the legality of posting armed national guard members at drop boxes, whether the boxes were open yet, or whether drop boxes qualify as polling sites under the law; the optics are what matter. Lawful or not, it’s overt, intentional voter suppression.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Shit! 😳 Let’s make this nationwide.
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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"He still has a bullet inside him." Following yesterday's ICE shooting in the Bronx, the attorney representing 28-year-old Oscar Belgal broke down his current condition, his location, and the brutal reality of what happened after federal agents opened fire while his child was in the car.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
"You hired half the Third Reich to staff your office ... If John Lewis were marching today, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club" -- here's a supercut of Jon Ossoff SMASHING Mike Collins during tonight's debate
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DrBetsy94 @drbetsy94.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Hegseth is clearly getting very excited about this. 🤮
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
An IRS investigator is suing the agency — claiming officials illegally leaked his confidential personnel records to federal prosecutors to punish him for years of whistleblowing on the agency's failure to tackle tax dodging.
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Whistle-Blower Says I.R.S. Leaked His Tax Records in Retaliation
Brian J. Visalli, a veteran investigator of tax fraud, said in a lawsuit that the agency had sent his personal and tax information to federal prosecutors.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“last year, Stephen Miller asked the bureau to allow agents to go undercover in his Virginia neighborhood's political activist group, several sources with knowledge of the matter told CBS News.” www.cbsnews.com/news/stephen...
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Trump adviser Stephen Miller spoke to agents at recent FBI training on domestic terrorism, sources say
Stephen Miller spoke at a training session at FBI headquarters just days before prosecutors criminally charged a man with making disturbing calls and texts to his wife, sources told CBS News.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Oh good. Real-life Thought Police. Exactly what I always wanted. #MakeOrwellFictionAgain
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 08/10/2026
This has to be an 8th Amendment violation. Don't forget that everyone in the US, even visitors, are protected by the Constitution.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Soulless ghoul, Stephen Miller, has ordered DHS officials to have “inhumane” & "cruel" detention facilities. ICE is still on our streets terrorizing men, women, & children. I share one of the latest horrors in NJ & explain how ICE may be violating yet another court order: youtu.be/aA8UE8DDmPw?...
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Trump’s ICE SPIRALS After COURT ORDER VIOLATION EXPOSED!?!
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
BREAKING: MS NOW confirms. The Trump Justice Department is seeking a federal criminal indictment of ex-White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson on charges of lying to Congress about Trump's actions on Jan. 6.
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DrBetsy94 @drbetsy94.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
My university has a lot of journals available online, downloadable in PDF form. Would depend on the journal.
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DrBetsy94 @drbetsy94.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Elected official shows once again that he either a) understands nothing about politics, or b) will blatantly lie to further his political agenda. Or both.
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