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Beth Northcut

@ishmaella.bsky.social
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Liberal Texan, library worker, fitness instructor, trans-ally, environmentalist

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Beth Northcut @ishmaella.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
For Transgender Day of Visibility, a reminder: Trans and nonbinary people are essential parts of our communities — the fight for trans rights is all of our fight.
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Beth Northcut @ishmaella.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Millions of Americans in every state and at several embassies across the ocean peacefully protest and, when NYT asked for comment the White House gave the emailed response "Who cares?" Think that imperial arrogance may go down in history with "Let them eat cake ."
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Beth Northcut @ishmaella.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
That an account claiming to be the official "The State Department" would post this is horrifying. Hey, Rubio, try reading the Constitution.
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Beth Northcut @ishmaella.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Protected free speech. The First Amendment is under serious attack in Texas, and Trump would have America follow. Ten Commandments posted on schools and denying the LGBTQ the right to assemble. Do not go gentle into this dark might
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Beth Northcut @ishmaella.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
How does the DOJ's COPS division feel about putting out of town strangers in DC neighborhoods?
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Beth Northcut @ishmaella.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
If only it were the first secure birth control vending machine. Alas.
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Beth Northcut @ishmaella.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
I agree. I know they are bending over backwards to try and stop the funding cuts, but, seriously, where was the pushback on outright lies and unfounded speculation?
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Beth Northcut @ishmaella.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Make way for Duckings!
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
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Beth Northcut @ishmaella.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Yep. Work in the library at a boys' school and we can't display nearly HALF the Rolling Stones issues. Great articles, but the boys fail to function at the merest glimpse of cleavage.
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Beth Northcut @ishmaella.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Ah, schadenfreude!
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Beth Northcut @ishmaella.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Seriously "Unconscionable behavior" is . . . Still supported. Go team! What the hell???
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Beth Northcut @ishmaella.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Democracy hinges on due process.
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Beth Northcut @ishmaella.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Marco Rubio has sold his soul. The State Department is changing its mind about human rights www.npr.org/2025/04/18/n...
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The State Department is changing its mind about what it calls human rights
The agency's annual human rights reports are being purged of references to prison conditions, political corruption and other abuses.
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Beth Northcut @ishmaella.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
"This will require a paradigm shift for Democrats. They will have to act less like an American political party and more like Solidarity in Poland in the 1980s or Alexei Navalny’s People’s Alliance over the last decade."
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Beth Northcut @ishmaella.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
"while Trump teased sending American citizens to El Salvador's torture prisons." Oh, I just love teases about unconstitutional cruel and unusual punishment!
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Beth Northcut @ishmaella.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
I get a lot of reading in at 3a.m., but the current novel I'm reading takes place, partly, during the Spanish Inquisition, so when I do fall back asleep that makes from some horrendous melded nightmares.
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Beth Northcut @ishmaella.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
As I scroll through Blue sky, I think time and again, they need a quick icon (like the heart) under so many posts that you are screaming. A little Edvard Munch icon, you know?
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Beth Northcut @ishmaella.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Yup, my first vote was against Reagan's idiotic "Trickle Down" lie.
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Beth Northcut @ishmaella.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
From a specialist on the topic:
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Beth Northcut @ishmaella.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
And, after stripping Haitians of their temporary protective status, and sending Venezuelan refugees to a brutal prison in El Salvador, they want to declare the white Afrikaners as refugees. . . www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Beth Northcut @ishmaella.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Fleecer in Chief. Golfing and partying with Saudi donors all weekend.
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Beth Northcut @ishmaella.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
So, why did the Chief Justice issue a temporary stay? Does the highest court really need to "contemplate" if DUE PROCESS is vital???
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Beth Northcut @ishmaella.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
They do know what the "I" stands for, right? It requires such a dark upside down Orwellian administration to call inclusion "divisive."
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Beth Northcut @ishmaella.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Governor Abbott is regulating women's bodies, dehumanizing our trans children, forcing prayer and Bible stories into our public schools. There is only one fundamental religion destroying our liberty in Texas. It is NOT the Muslims www.keranews.org/government/2...
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Attorney for group behind Muslim community plan accuses Abbott, state officials of racial profiling
There are five open investigations into East Plano Islamic Center and its proposed project EPIC City. An attorney for the group says Gov. Greg Abbott has spread hate speech and misinformation online.
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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 01/04/2025
🙌🏼 I’m not sure who had the amazing idea to invite this constitutional lawyer to a senate hearing that *intended* to prove Biden colluded with Meta to censor conservatives. But she took the opportunity to speak truth to power ✊🏼 on the hypocrite 👑 KING OF FREE SPEECH, Donald Trump, himself. 👏🏼 Brava!
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Beth Northcut @ishmaella.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Makes me think of the Zadie Smith quote "America is the kind of bitch who turns anyone who cares about Her into a crazy person."
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Beth Northcut @ishmaella.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Every day the morbid question passes through my mind " Has anyone started to keep track of how many deaths DOGE is incurring?"
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Beth Northcut @ishmaella.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
WTF?!😡And to be removed by someone sooo un- notable.
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Beth Northcut @ishmaella.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
"You want it darker? We killed the flame." Can't help but think that the great Leonard Cohen got "out of the game" before he ever had to see Trump in office. 💔
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Beth Northcut @ishmaella.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
New York Times: One of them, Jane Hirschmann, 78, said that she believed Jews had a particular obligation to voice their opposition to the Trump administration because it had “weaponized antisemitism.” Ms. Hirschmann, the descendant of Holocaust survivors
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Beth Northcut @ishmaella.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Including a 78 year old woman, descendant of Holocaust survivors.
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Beth Northcut @ishmaella.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Quite a blow to rural communities. Curious way of supporting your base.
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Beth Northcut @ishmaella.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
This is the job of the Fourth Estate. Listen as @michelmartinnpr.bsky.social firmly clarifies that the administration has NO charges for this unconstitutional action. DHS Deputy Secretary Troy Edgar discusses arrest of protest leader, deportations www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...
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DHS Deputy Secretary Troy Edgar discusses arrest of protest leader, deportations
NPR speaks with Department of Homeland Security Deputy Secretary Troy Edgar about the arrest of a student protest leader and the Trump administration's ramped-up deportations of immigrants.
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Beth Northcut @ishmaella.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
A student protester. This sends stomach churning chills ( a sensation which I'm getting way too much of lately.)
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Beth Northcut @ishmaella.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
"It is those who wrestle with the challenging contradictions of this country, those who see the truth of our shortcomings, but also hold on to an unshakeable belief in the possibilities of this nation, who teach us how to commit ourselves to improving our deeply flawed and often perverse nation."
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Beth Northcut @ishmaella.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
She is! Best thing Bezos could do for Amazon is go ahead and give her all the stock he has in the company!
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Beth Northcut @ishmaella.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Censure from the current GOP is a badge of honor. Thank you for representing so many of us who feel as if we are screaming for someone to stop them! You do Texas, and our United States, proud!♥️
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Beth Northcut @ishmaella.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Ah, Pip 💔
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Beth Northcut @ishmaella.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
A couple of them are the very embodiment of raw sewage.
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Beth Northcut @ishmaella.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
ALL of them, each and every Republican, needs to condemn this walking away from our allies. Make a UNIFIED stand for America over pandering to Russia!
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Beth Northcut @ishmaella.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
And isolated from Democracies. Under the thumb of oligarchs and autocrats. Dark day for America.
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Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦
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Liz (or Lizzie) Kim 김혜성 💫 @lizzielizliz.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
A true hero and leader. This man has all the qualities needed in a president.
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Beth Northcut @ishmaella.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Wonder what planet they'll leave for those future generations.
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Beth Northcut @ishmaella.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Please tell me Geraldo Rivera will be there to report on the heist when they get ready for the big reveal. . .
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Beth Northcut @ishmaella.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Waiting to see what this does to our unemployment numbers. Record inflation, record unemployment. . .remind me again what MAGA stands for?
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Elon Musk claims DOGE has saved $55 billion, but the numbers don’t add up. DOGE released a list of canceled contracts totaling $16 billion in supposed savings. However, nearly half of that came from an $8 billion ICE contract—except that contract was actually worth just $8 million.
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