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Elizabeth Becker

@ehbecker.bsky.social
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Was a daily journalism for decades mostly at The New York Times and Washington Post. I write books about Cambodia and the Vietnam War - and the pleasure and perils of the tourism industry. Enthusiastic grandmother.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)
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Rural Freedom Network @ruralfreedomnet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Susan Collins chairs the committee that writes ICE's budget. ICE's two biggest jailers both send her campaign checks. She's one of nine. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-fill...
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Good on you Sister's 👏
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Newshound411 @newshound411.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It’s corruption on steroids in plain sight. He doesn’t even try to hide that he’s looting US and cashing in on insider trading. He’s the most corrupt president in American history.
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Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Gov. Lujan Grisham (@govmlg.bsky.social) shares how her administration successfully enshrined universal child care in New Mexico's constitution.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I don't take tips on virtue from a man who used a pic of his stillborn child for a GoFundMe campaign for his children's burial garden named "Lincoln’s Place" when the project was never built, and Ogles repeatedly refused to disclose what happened to the tens of thousands of dollars donated.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Trump administration was too stupid to realize that cutting food safety programs and firing thousands of public servants would have shitty consequences. Watch.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Exit polls showed that 75% of truckers voted for Trump in 2024. Now they are struggling to survive.
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Forbes @forbes.com · 01/10/2026
The $TRUMP crypto company is once again offering its biggest investors access to dinner with President Donald Trump.
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Top Trump Meme Coin Holders Will Win Invite To ‘Most Exclusive Dinner In The World’ Featuring President, Crypto Firm Says
The $TRUMP crypto company is once again offering its biggest investors access to dinner with President Donald Trump.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This guy has been doing everything he possibly can every day to use his position of SecDef to tamper with the midterms, from speaking at Republican campaign rallies, to giving partisan political speeches to troops, to this. Do all federal employees get a day off to vote?
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 02/10/2026
The White House is coordinating with the Justice Department to hide its abortion agenda from voters until after they've voted in order to try to influence the results of the election.
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mariaevajarrous.bsky.social @mariaevajarrous.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We've paid enough for his illegal involvement in our government. Nobody wants this bastard in there. We have enough of them right now. Call your representatives.☎️
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Elizabeth Becker @ehbecker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
So far Trump has tried to rig the midterms by: 1. Attempted to nationalize voter registration & voting requirements. 2. Mid-decade gerrymanders. 3. Tried to use the USPS to obstruct mail-in balloting. 4. Used taxpayer money for ads. 5. Intimidation of election officials.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I've reported first-hand on steel mills in Korea, China, Japan, Illinois, and Mississippi. This is 100% not going to happen. Disagree? Bet me. (Though I'm against online betting. It's just not going to happen.)
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/09/2026
Mamdani: "To have a potential governor who embraces ICE and has gone so far as to create effectively a private militia in Nassau County, that is in many ways the antithesis of what people hope for is the future of the state, and yet that is exactly what Blakeman is offering."
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TommasinaResist⚜️🦋🐈‍⬛ @tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
But we need EVERYONE to vote. We cannot take anything for granted. Being ahead in the polls is sometimes the kiss of death. That's one of the things that happened in 2024. All souls to the polls. #VOTE #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This is stochastic terrorism. Ted Cruz is an extremist encouraging violence.
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026
Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "
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Forbes @forbes.com · 08/09/2026
The New York City Mayor has said he will be present at the ceremony and wants the focus to be on the families who lost their loved ones to "the horrific act of terror."
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Petition Urging Mamdani’s Exclusion From 9/11 Event Hits 100,000 Signs Amid Similar Push By Giuliani, Pataki
The New York City Mayor has said he will be present at the ceremony and wants the focus to be on the families who lost their loved ones to "the horrific act of terror."
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Elizabeth Becker @ehbecker.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Timothy Carney, Diplomat Who Went Places Others Avoided, Dies at 82 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/o...
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Timothy Carney, Diplomat Who Went Places Others Avoided, Dies at 82
Insisting on seeing things for himself, even in hostile terrain, Mr. Carney opposed the closing of the U.S. embassy in Khartoum while Osama Bin Laden established himself there.
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Chico Escuela @blaqdocdown.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
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Elizabeth Becker @ehbecker.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
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Elizabeth Becker @ehbecker.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
The Boy Scouts Let in Girls Almost a Decade Ago. It’s Been a Triumph. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/o...
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Opinion | When Girls Get to Be Boy Scouts
What I know from six years of leading Troop 163 is that these girls invigorate scouting rather than weaken it.
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Elizabeth Becker @ehbecker.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
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Elizabeth Becker @ehbecker.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
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SAVE THE MIDTERMS: TAKE HOME THE TROOPS
Most Americans are counting on the November mid-term elections to block or blunt Trump’s power grabs.
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Elizabeth Becker @ehbecker.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Talarico: Every bar has that guy. He’s loud, he’s obnoxious, he makes all the women in the bar feel uncomfortable. He hears you say your name to the bartender and then adds his drink to your tab when you’re not looking. That’s Paxton. And I don’t know about y’all, but I’m done picking up his tab.
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Ian @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Just a normal morning in our police state
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
AOC: This is what I want people to understand: this is our money. When you pay your taxes, that money is being stolen to pay for a vanity project like a ballroom or whatever it is that this guy wants to do, instead of what it should be used for…
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Elizabeth Becker @ehbecker.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
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A RED CARD FOR TRUMP?
For undermining the 2026 World Cup. Fewer foreign fans are coming, horrified and frightened by Trump’s treatment of immigrants and international visitors
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Elizabeth Becker @ehbecker.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
www.cjr.org/feature/shou... Pleased to be included, along with Pol Pot
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Should journalists interview dictators?
Encounters on the line between control and conditions.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
That's for USA vs. Australia in Seattle, the match I wanted to go to before I decided FIFA's not worth spending half my life's savings or whatever
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Elizabeth Becker @ehbecker.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
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I'm Just A Poor European!
But at least I'm not deluded. Notes on that WSJ article.
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Elizabeth Becker @ehbecker.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
A French Soccer Star Faces Off Against a Surging Foe: The Far Right www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/w...
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A French Soccer Star Faces Off Against a Surging Foe: The Far Right
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Elizabeth Becker @ehbecker.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
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POL POT JOINS THE CONVERSATION
Trump’s corrosive habit of making everything about himself often backfires.
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Elizabeth Becker @ehbecker.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
There’s a Pattern of Abuse in America www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/o...
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Opinion | There’s a Pattern of Abuse in America
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Elizabeth Becker @ehbecker.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
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WATCH: Trump's Own Words Prove HE Is the Source of Most Violent Rhetoric, Not the Left
The GOP is now blaming the Dems for inciting violence, but it is Donald Trump who has invoked horrific language to attack immigrants, journalists, and his opponents for years. Zeteo has the receipts.
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damasterchief @damasterchief.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Ninth Grader Demi Johnson receives National Geographic award for plan to save Mississippi's oyster reef population. The ninth grader has produced 1,100 oysters that will in turn spawn millions of larvae into the ecosystem, a huge ecological impact
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 27/04/2026
FRIDAY: Workers, students, and families will be calling out of work, walking out of school, and refusing to shop as part of the nationwide day of economic disruption. There are many ways you can help make a difference on May Day: survey.alchemer.com/s3/8705046/i...
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Canadian Resistance 🇨🇦🇪🇺 @cdnresistance.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
From CBC News: Canadian detained by ICE for 6 months says he's an 'indefinite' prisoner, has no idea when he'll get out. 58 Canadians are being held by ICE. Avoid all nonessential travel to the United States.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
When children are shot in their classrooms, all politicians can offer are thoughts and prayers. When a shooting happens near them, they demand a $350 million golden ballroom to protect themselves.
Don't normalize a system that protects power more than it protects children.
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Elizabeth Becker @ehbecker.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
‘Easily the Worst President in U.S. History’ www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...
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Opinion | ‘Easily the Worst President in U.S. History’
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Elizabeth Becker @ehbecker.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
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EUROPE WITHOUT AMERICA
Five weeks learning how Europeans feel about the US
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April Verrett @seiupres.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Tesla. Disney. CVS Health. United Airlines. PayPal. Billions in profits. $0 in federal corporate income taxes. That money should be funding schools, healthcare, and public services. This is why people are mad as hell.
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Ononebete @ononebete.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
That the president of the United States is personally looting the treasury to the tune of literally billions of dollars and that he is not being immediately removed from office and tried for high crimes against this country is a devastating indictment of every part of our political system!
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