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All he really wants to do is build things and put Home Depot gold gewgaws on them.

I have the tiniest infinitesimal sliver of hope that the midterms will lift enough Democrats into power that there will start being some limits and accountability. I understand that three different things need to happen. That Dems gain power, that they set limits, and that they hold him accountable.

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John Beacom @johnbeacom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The 2026 Physics Nobel Prize to Francis Halzen is well deserved! I wrote the attached explainer for the public from the perspective of someone who has worked in this field and known Francis for decades. I welcome helping sharing it. Congratulations to Francis and all! medium.com/@beacom.7/ho...

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How Neutrinos, Which Barely Exist, Just Ran Off with a Nobel Prize — Again!

John Beacom (Ohio State University), with no assistance from AI

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Jenna Beacom @jfbeacom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I used Otter on my phone (it's an app) and then screenshotted the transcript it generated.

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Jenna Beacom @jfbeacom.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Auto transcription (I was curious, sharing for access. Agree this is fantastic.)

$Screenshot of a transcript. It says: “Exactly right, but I want to say a couple things. One thing about cities that I found in this reporting: cities are very unfairly labeled as these problem centers by Donald Trump and others. And one thing is worth remembering: if you look at the population of well, all people in cities, particularly people who come to cities from elsewhere, but particularly homeless and other vulnerable people in cities, look at youth homeless. A pretty large chunk of those people who end up in cities were failed in some other parts of this country. Okay, in the fraction of youth homeless who are LGBTQ, whatever, pretty high. So there are a lot of families in this country who fail the first duty of family, which is to love your kids more than any other thing, and there's a lot of families in this country that look at some verse in some book, and their child's face, and choose the$

Second screenshot says: “verse in the book over their child's face, and drive their children out of Nebraska or out of Florida or out of Idaho, and those kids come to San Francisco, and those kids come to New York, and those kids go to Chicago, and we have friends giving dinners with them. You live in L.A. You are surrounded by people who have those kind of stories, and so cities. Every time someone is sleeping on a subway bench in a city, the rest of America can sort of say, "Ah, look at these cities.” But we are holding a lot of your people who you fail to love and take care of.

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The Rooster @rooster.info · 02/10/2026

"I do think they're going to lose Ohio," Erickson said in a clip shared by independent journalist Aaron Rupar. "The polling in Ohio for the GOP is pretty bleak." … "You have the Max Miller situation that is actually dragging down the ticket.” www.rawstory.com/erick-ericks...

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GOP mainstay has 'bleak' prediction for party's odds in red state: 'They're going to lose'

Conservative commentator Erick Erickson says Republicans are probably going to lose Ohio, a state Donald Trump carried easily three times."I do think they're going to lose Ohio," Erickson said in a cl...

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Jenna Beacom @jfbeacom.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Koko didn’t actually even know sign language. So. Yeah.

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Jenna Beacom @jfbeacom.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

(You’re making perfect sense.)

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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

SEN. SCHMITT: You deny seeing Bon Jovi at State Farm Arena that night in Atlanta? You just perjured yourself. JACK SMITH: I don’t even like- SEN. KLOBUCHAR: There was a Bon Iver thing that night in Eau Claire. SMITH: That’s right, Amy. I saw you there. KLOBUCHAR: Living room deal. It was nice.

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

lol my flight got diverted because of a medical emergency and they landed us in reykjavik in the middle of the night and deplaned us and sent us through passport control and then the crew vanished and then british airways sent us links to book an overnight hotel room but for a hotel at heathrow

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Jenna Beacom @jfbeacom.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Omg. 1/5th of the people in the state became 5 X the people in the state. Probably he’s just lying, but I wish choosing between lying and abject stupidity were not so frequently our only choices

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I think MAHA is very straightforwardly the triumph of the snake oil salesmen and the way we beat it is the same way you always beat snake oil salesmen: regulate their claims

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Rough Draft vs Final Draft

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Jenna Beacom @jfbeacom.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

What is the "get to" part? Is it how many are allowed in, or how many showed up? (If more had showed up would they have been allowed in?)

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Jenna Beacom @jfbeacom.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Go Trump! You can do it! (I have never said those first two words together and they make me a little nauseous tbh)

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

MAGA has dumped a lot of absurdity on us, but I don't think they'll ever top "Health and Human Services Secretary who believes diseases are fake"

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Jenna Beacom @jfbeacom.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Genuinely fascinating! (And not to derail but how many people who think Colonel Tom Parker is a fantastic part of American culture and history are also against “illegal immigration”? Or who say “my grandparents did it the right way” when the right way at the time was hopping off a ship?)

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/08/2026

Because the behavior of the parties is not symmetrical. If we genuinely brought back shaming of shitty, cruel, deceptive behavior, the shame would overwhelmingly fall on the right, and the whole elite political & media system has shown again & again that it values symmetry over decency.

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

the year is 2027. gas costs $83 and lettuce is at war with us. however every location on every map now says AMERICA

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Jenna Beacom @jfbeacom.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Excellent summary, thank you. I learned a lot. (And as a bikeride lover and helmet hater who has reluctantly strapped on a helmet for the past dozen years or so, way more interesting arguments against helmets than I thought.) (I’ll still wear the damn thing tho.)

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Algorithms killed the spectrum of emotional valences. Everything now is set to 10. Bring back the eyeroll, the exasperated sigh, the hand wave, the shoulder shrug. Some stuff is just mildly annoying or blandly dumb. You don’t need to blow every emotional outburst on the mundane.

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Jenna Beacom @jfbeacom.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I mean the Arnold (annual convention) is notorious for this, yes

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Jenna Beacom @jfbeacom.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

That’s what I assumed too but what are the little warpy reflectiony lines to the left? (Originally I was thinking the “AI” sign may have been swapped in for a real sign - now I’m kind of wondering if the whole thing may be AI.)

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 21/08/2026

This is not a secretary or assistant for the local flooring company... when Trump's account posted ‘bomb the shit out of them’ that was Natalie's fingers that typed that

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Jenna Beacom @jfbeacom.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

It’s fake, right? Right??? (I know the whole premise is that it’s AI, that’s not what I mean, I mean whether this is actually purposely displayed on a billboard as an incitement to EAT that monstrosity.)

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Jenna Beacom @jfbeacom.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

As an Ohioan, not enough of us hated him to keep him out of office, but wow we hate him.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Natalie Harp is one of the most powerful people alive. I'm not joking or exaggerating. Controlling what information the US president gets and publicly communicating on behalf of the president give someone significant influence over policy of the world's most powerful country, all the way up to war.

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Jenna Beacom @jfbeacom.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Wow she is really good at digging herself bigger holes isn't she? Don't let me stop you tho Michele! (I saw someone saying her name is really spelled with two Ls but she's saving one for November.)

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Jenna Beacom @jfbeacom.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I just went to TikTok to watch this with captions and now the same feature (same clips in the same order) seems to have excised her completely.

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Jenna Beacom @jfbeacom.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

And it's got layers! Aside from the Natalie of it all, it's about how Trump wants to escape reality with the people who appease him and is not at all interested in what real people think.

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Jenna Beacom @jfbeacom.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Yet another element is that a credible threat of cutting off contact - or having a period of cutting off contact - can be the catalyst for real change. Like, the relationship is better for BOTH parties after this.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

President Pedophile J. Badonkadonk

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Jenna Beacom @jfbeacom.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I’ve been thinking about this more and an element may be how the internet gives losers the attention that fuels them in a way that wouldn’t happen without the internet. If say 3% of all men are this brand of awful, they are more likely to get drowned out in an IRL-only context.

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Jenna Beacom @jfbeacom.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

It’s the best thing on said internet never change

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Jenna Beacom @jfbeacom.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I wish more people had that ability.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

You’ve spent six years trying to do this. You literally placed my city under siege and it never budged, but you did lose your DHS secretary and your stormtrooper-in-chief. Don’t you remember? You’re never going to win this issue, you old fool.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

First, this whole story is completely crazy. Trump wants to redesign already in production new class of aircraft carriers so they look more like the ones from WW2. Let's put a pin that absolute insanity. But there's an aspect of this that if anything this .. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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Navy weighs major warship redesign to match Trump’s preferences

The president wants the new fleet of aircraft carriers to more resemble those from World War II. Such a change could cost billions.

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Jenna Beacom @jfbeacom.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I think the bafflement is there amongst a lot of young people too - especially but not limited to women. The young men I know (not many) also heavily trend towards pity/disdain/bafflement when it comes to these losers.

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