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phyllisbetts.bsky.social

@phyllisbetts.bsky.social
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Sociologist. Retired Professor. Field-based community researcher. Engaged citizen. Data and policy work. Blue collar midwest background. JD Vance cannot tell me about the working class. I expose gaslighting.

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phyllisbetts.bsky.social @phyllisbetts.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Amazing how the call for women/families to have more babies is being cast as a SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY—even while JD has already told us that it is only natural and moral that we think almost exclusively in terms of our own immediate blood ties. Would seem to include #children as a “family” decision.
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phyllisbetts.bsky.social @phyllisbetts.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Never UNDERESTIMATE the size of the low-information voter population, nor the power of “vibes” to engage this voter. That’s it. Dems tying themselves in knots as pundits proclaim they do not communicate a clear, consistent message. People—a message requires a motivated listener. Dems, get a vibe.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Jessica: We have big headlines, getting investment like $8.5 billion out of Qatar, that was already announced in 2023 and 2024. Abu Dhabi, he says $200 billion… announced during the Biden administration… He likes to show up and take credit for things other people did
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phyllisbetts.bsky.social @phyllisbetts.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
This 8647 stuff being investigated? Nonsense. The Pam&Kash&Tulsi trio can issue an admonition that it could be misunderstood. Then let’s do a compilation of things 47 & his henchmen have said/posted that could be misunderstood as a threat. Or CLEARLY seen as a full-throated call for earthly demise.
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phyllisbetts.bsky.social @phyllisbetts.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
DOGE/Elon going silent re fake “exposures of fraud” and cost cutting “savings.” But we know they’re rooting around at IRS/other foundational data. INCREDIBLE damage to health, science, education/human services already done. WHO Is writing the best ongoing damage assessment/chronology?
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phyllisbetts.bsky.social @phyllisbetts.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Was watching news and the Trump Chatty Cathy in the Oval popped up. He really needs some new phrases in his voice box cause he says the VERY same lie-laced voice dumps EVERY SINGLE TIME. I swear even the celebrities being sworn in (Dr Oz today) have to mask their incredulity.
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phyllisbetts.bsky.social @phyllisbetts.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
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phyllisbetts.bsky.social @phyllisbetts.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
www.cnn.com/2025/04/11/c... The privatization of weather forecasting and elimination of climate research moves forward another step.
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Trump’s draft budget eviscerates weather and climate tracking and research | CNN
The move would devastate weather and climate research even as weather is becoming more erratic and extreme, and would cripple the US industries — including agriculture — that depend on free, accurate ...
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phyllisbetts.bsky.social @phyllisbetts.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
www.liberalcurrents.com/yes-its-fasc... Penetrating, non-cliche analysis.
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Yes, It's Fascism
It’s not an omen or threat or hint of fascism—it’s the thing itself.
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phyllisbetts.bsky.social @phyllisbetts.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
www.cnn.com/2025/04/11/t... What is going on? Are we just HEARING more about these crashes, with no actual uptick in how often these crashes occur?
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Small plane crashes in fireball on busy Boca Raton street | CNN
A small plane crashed just outside the airport in Boca Raton, Florida, Friday morning, erupting into a fireball along a busy city street, police told CNN.
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phyllisbetts.bsky.social @phyllisbetts.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
The self-praise predictability is so WORD FOR WORD predictable that he sounds like an old-fashioned pull-my-string Chatty Cathy doll who has run out of things to say.
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phyllisbetts.bsky.social @phyllisbetts.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Maybe the mad hatter can claim this off ramp? All together now, 1,2,3 . . . Sir, you are amazing and nobody else could have done this like thee.
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phyllisbetts.bsky.social @phyllisbetts.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
The best way to counter Trump Regime gaslighting: Ask over and over again, WHY, if so much FRAUD is being exposed, why are there are NO names, NO investigations, NO witness affidavits, NO warrants, NO charges, NO grand juries, NO arrests, NO prosecutions—even though PAM&KASH calling the shots.
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phyllisbetts.bsky.social @phyllisbetts.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
My small account remains on the other place to counter gaslighting with the best data and analysis I can find. Seems to break through with a few. Strangely picked up followers Steve Bannon, Dan Scovino, Kayleigh McEnany, Pete Hegseth. What is that about?
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