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Bethany B

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Democratic Socialist • Bow Girl • Cosmology Enthusiast • D&D Lover. I read things, drink tea, and roll dice. We’re all on the same pale blue dot. Let’s act like it.

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Bethany B @paksbaby.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
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Bethany B @paksbaby.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
It’s not just the AI (and the development rate of it) that’s the problem. I mean, that’s a massively huge part of the problem, but we’re not using it critically. #thinkbeforeyouAI
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Southern Poverty Law Center @splcenter.org · 15/11/2025
🔔 Don't miss your chance to join us on Nov. 20 in #ConecuhCounty, #Alabama! RSVP 🔗: bit.ly/4nVwNUQ At this listening session, we will identify the issues that matter most and explore how we can spark collaboration and lead positive change in the area 🤝. #EconomicJustice #SPLCAL
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 15/11/2025
I stand in solidarity with the Starbucks workers on strike. When a corporation can pay $96 million to its CEO for just four months of work, it can afford to pay its workers a living wage and decent benefits.
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NPR @npr.org · 15/11/2025
An increasing number of women are joining the Ukrainian military, with thousands serving in front-line roles, as Russia's war on Ukraine nears its fourth year — with no peace in sight.
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'No turning back': More and more Ukrainian women join the army to fight Russia
An increasing number of women are joining the Ukrainian military, with thousands serving in front-line roles, as Russia's war on Ukraine nears its fourth year — with no peace in sight.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Across the country, voters support many of Zohran Mamdani's ideas, including: -Increasing taxes on the rich -Universal childcare -Freezing rent -Raising the minimum wage Everything Democrats do must focus on enacting popular policies that help working people. That is the path forward.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
We stand with Rep. Jasmine Crockett in calling for an end to voting machines owned by Dominion. Our voting systems should never be controlled by anyone aligned with MAGA politics. It’s time to push for statewide bans on these machines.
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Dani Carr @itsdanicarr.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Coming in June! Mighty Nein — Stories Untold! Nothing in my 8 years at CR has been more of an honor than being entrusted to write our Resident Hot Boi. I cannot quantify how excited I am for y’all to read these 9 wonderful stories!!! #CriticalRole
Coming June 23, 2026

A cover of a book called The Mighty Nein - Stories Untold - a list of writers follows: Betsy Aoki, Kiri Callaghan, Dani Carr, Mae Catt, Mike Chen, Rin Chupeco, Nino Cipri, Nadia El-Fassi, Chase K - with foreword by Taliesin Jaffe See Critical Role's Mighty Nein through the eyes of nine of their friends and foes in this new anthology, with a foreword by Taliesin Jaffe.
In these nine stories, the legend of the mighty adventuring party grows with tales from some of the most memorable characters who fought with—and against—the Mighty Nein!
Within its pages:
• Essek Thelyss grapples with the choices of his past and the potential of his future, as told by Dani Carr.
• Isharnai deals with the emotional aftermath of a fate-altering cupcake, as told by Kiri Callaghan.
• Pumat Sol returns to his shop after the fight with Obann and the Mighty Nein, only to find that his adventure is not quite done, as told by Mike Chen.
• Plus six more hilarious, heartbreaking, and heroic tales featuring Sprinkle, Avantika, Dairon, and more!
With their hope, unbreakable bonds, and larger-than-life commitment to heroism in a dark world, Critical Role's Mighty Nein touched hearts everywhere they went-both those of their fans and their fellow denizens of Exandria. This collection spotlights nine characters whose lives were changed by the Mighty Nein but whose stories have not yet been told.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
“This should be a nuclear bomb, it shouldn’t be a Wednesday.” - @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
"You know us...So please trust us now when we say that what is happening in the Chicago area is wrong." Powerful letter from retired Chicago broadcast journalists about what ICE/CBP is doing to our city: "it is terror" www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/13/l...
You know us.

For years, you watched and listened to our coverage of the Chicago area. As journalists, we did our best to bring you accurate, objective information about the people, events and issues that mattered. We hope we gained your trust.

So please trust us now when we say that what is happening in the Chicago area is wrong. The fact that some federal immigration forces may be leaving soon is cold comfort given the damage they’ve done and what they may do in other cities.

We are retired, but our colleagues who are still on the job have shown you a brutal and illegal campaign against fellow Chicagoans, mainly Latinos: violent abductions, gutting families, using tear gas around children, roughing up witnesses, ramming cars and even taking a day care teacher from her school.
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Bethany B @paksbaby.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
1 democrat brokered a deal For 8 democrats to sell out 8 democrats caved For 1 empty promise 100% of the opppostion Gave up the 1 power they had left 100% of the opposition must now stand& Show the courage they almost achieved Or we find someone who will. Stop backing down. Stop pulling punches.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

I Want You to Understand Chicago
Politics Chicago
2025-11-08

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st.

Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
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LA Blue Dot in GA 🌊🐸 @namwella1961.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
My husband planned to retire in December. I'm not eligible for Medicare until Aug so I planned to get an Obamacare policy. I found one in Oct that was $800/month. Now it's $2000/month. So now my husband isn't going to retire. I hate Trump & GOP so much. #ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
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B. Dave Walters - Yes, it is I! @bdavewalters.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
I wish I had something positive or uplifting to share. I don't. Hatred and ignorance are having success unseen in nearly 100 years. I will, however, offer you this:
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Kelsey @kerushii.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
4 1/2 minutes worth your time. Thank you @hcrichardson.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/0IvV...
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January 19, 2025
Letters from an American · Episode
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Critical Role @criticalrole.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
🚨IMPORTANT UPDATE 🚨 As the evolving fires in Los Angeles are directly impacting our cast and crew, we're taking a break from streaming this week with the intention of returning to Exandria next Thursday, January 16th.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10/01/2025
While LA firefighters were running out of water… Rick Caruso, the real estate developer and former L.A. mayoral candidate, hired private firefighters to save his upscale shopping center in Pacific Palisades on Tuesday night. The question is: did he use public water for this?
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
genuinely chilling that there is a currently a *one vote* majority for the basic notion "Donald Trump can't just do literally anything he wants"
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Bethany B @paksbaby.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
One of the reasons I’m here and deactivated Twitter. 👇🏻 youtu.be/D4ghgVq9z4M?...
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Twitter (and Threads) Have Made a HUGE Mistake
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism. We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive
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B. Dave Walters - Yes, it is I! @bdavewalters.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
The far right branch is my next campaign tbh
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