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Ruth Becker

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Ruth Becker @ruthbecker.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
"less immigration"
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Civil rights are a kitchen-table issue.
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Rip out your Ring doorbell RN, jfc
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rosebanditquinn @rosebanditquinn.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Why are the comedy team of Witkoff and Kushner the lead negotiators on …. ANYTHING??? No Senate approval. No confirmation process. The only expertise these two have is the ability to enrich themselves.
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Ruth Becker @ruthbecker.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
The investigation into MIT's connections with Epstein was triggered, I believe, by @ronanfarrow.bsky.social 's 2019 piece for the New Yorker. Joi Ito stepped down as director of the MIT Media Lab the next day after his piece was published. www.newyorker.com/news/news-de...
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How an Élite University Research Center Concealed Its Relationship with Jeffrey Epstein
New documents show that the M.I.T. Media Lab was aware of Epstein’s status as a convicted sex offender, and that Epstein directed contributions to the lab far exceeding the amounts M.I.T. has publicly...
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Ruth Becker @ruthbecker.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Boyden refers to the the Goodwin-Proctor report -- MIT's internal investigation report, " Concerning Jeffrey Epstein's Interactions with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology" facultygovernance.mit.edu/sites/defaul...
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Ruth Becker @ruthbecker.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Based on Ed Boyden's presence, I strongly suspect this was a Silicon Valley fundraiser dinner for MIT's Media Lab. Here are some of Prof Boyden's comments about his connection with Epstein www.media.mit.edu/posts/commen...
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Comments contextualizing the Goodwin Procter report – MIT Media Lab
I am writing this statement to clarify my interactions with Jeffrey Epstein as noted in the Goodwin Procter report, with the hope of providing additional conte…
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Ruth Becker @ruthbecker.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
What must really piss him off isn’t just that Obama’s nowhere to be seen in the Epstein files — It’s that they tried every possible means to compromise him — and failed.
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Ruth Becker @ruthbecker.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
pure malevolence
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Ruth Becker @ruthbecker.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Rowan — along with Kushner and Witkoff and Tony “bankrolled by Oracle” Blair — is also a Trump “Board of Peace” appointee
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Ruth Becker @ruthbecker.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Not Q — but well before the Q era, Pizzagate was pushed by ex CIA conspiracy theorist Robert David Steele. Sandy Hook truther POS. Died of COVID complications in 2021 Lord knows who he was working for. But we can guess
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Ruth Becker @ruthbecker.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Yes. If you really want to understand, read @davetroy.com’s work — whose grasp of these networks & their histories is as good as it gets. From 2024: washingtonspectator.org/peter-thiel-...
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Peter Thiel and the American Apocalypse | Washington Spectator
Between the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the race, and the rapid coalescence around Kamala Harris as the presumptive Democratic nominee, everyone’s rushing to…
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Sarah Kendzior THEY KNEW (2022) book excerpt
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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 31/01/2026
A manual for ICE's immigrant-targeting computer system, Palantir ELITE, was leaked today. Let's look at it, then step back to evaluate how far we've come along a dangerous road and where that road might take us. 🧵
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Here is the User Guide for ELITE, the Tool Palantir Made for ICE
404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, which lets ICE bring up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
To avoid the mere possibility that Holocaust remembrance might make a person draw contemporary political conclusions, JD Vance managed to post a Holocaust Remembrance Day message that does not mention Nazis, fascists, Jews, Romani, queer people, disabled people, nor any other victim or perpetrator.
Tweet from JD Vance: “Today we remember the millions of lives lost during the Holocaust, the millions of stories of individual bravery and heroism, and one of the enduring lessons of one of the darkest chapters in human history: that while humans create beautiful things and are full of compassion, we're also capable of unspeakable brutality. And we promise never again to go down the darkest path.”
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
It is literally false that the Jews being hunted by Nazis were citizens, because the first step toward genocide was stripping them of citizenship and making them stateless. As Arendt reminds us, citizenship is a legal category created to facilitate a machinery of exclusion of the out-group.
Tweet from Batya Ungar-Sargon: "Beyond disgusting. Gov. Walz is comparing the innocent Jews that the Gestapo were hunting for extermination—who were citizens—to the illegal migrant murderers, rapists, sex offenders, and child abusers that ICE is seeking to deport because they broke our laws again and again."
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Ruth Becker @ruthbecker.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
"citizenship is a legal category created to facilitate a machinery of exclusion of the out-group" is so perfectly worded tho -- thank you for that!
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
COLLECTIVE LIBERATION OR BUST
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
“At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man's unending search for freedom....So it was last week in Selma, Alabama." Lyndon B. Johnson, speech before Congress on Voting Rights, March 1, 1965.
At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man's unending search for freedom. So it was at Lexington and Concord. So it was a century ago at Appomattox. So it was last week in Selma, Alabama.
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Ruth Becker @ruthbecker.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Animated scene from the Legion of Doom cartoon: a group of supervillains seated around a large curved table in a dark, dramatic hall. At the center, a bald villain stands at a podium beneath an arch, as if presiding over a formal meeting, with other costumed villains arranged on both sides like the secret evil muthafuckin bitchass council that it is
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Ruth Becker @ruthbecker.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Inaugural meeting of Trump’s “Board of Peace.” From left to right: extractive capital, media capture, financial engineering, regional strongmen, shadow diplomacy, organized crime — with the Don, of course, presiding.
Animated scene from the Legion of Doom cartoon: a group of supervillains seated around a large curved table in a dark, dramatic hall. At the center, a bald villain stands at a podium beneath an arch, as if presiding over a formal meeting, with other costumed villains arranged on both sides like the secret evil council that it is.
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Ruth Becker @ruthbecker.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Got my first ritalin prescription 15 years ago when I visited a psychiatrist & nervously said I'd heard ritalin helped some ppl quit smoking. He asked me half a dozen questions, smiled, and wrote me a prescription. "This is gonna change your life." He was right. It did. And I quit smoking, too
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Ruth Becker @ruthbecker.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Independent artist reporting for holiday duty, folks! Support your local artisans! 🫶
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Ruth Becker @ruthbecker.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Turnage insisted on Monday that she wasn’t paid to share the emails with anyone, despite accusations that she was receiving financial compensation. “I’m like, really? Then why am I still sitting here eating corn dogs? I guess the check got lost in the mail. I don’t know.”
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Ruth Becker @ruthbecker.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Hahahahahah 😂😂😂
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Ruth Becker @ruthbecker.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
To justify Thiel-like wealth you need Thiel-like crazy: the protestant work ethic, rugged individualism, & invisible hand only get you so far. To believe that's it's Good that you have such extreme power over others, you need a whole batshit crazy belief system that makes it make sense.
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Ruth Becker @ruthbecker.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Yes. Concentrating power in the hands of so very few is inherently not ok. I think part of why they've developed such bizarre beliefs (lookin at you, paypal mafia!) is bc we have such a deep need to be heroes of our own stories: And only a distorted ideology can support such a distorted reality
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Ruth Becker @ruthbecker.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
“Rooted in my conviction” …
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Ruth Becker @ruthbecker.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Vance: "The couch thing was entirely offline"
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Ruth Becker @ruthbecker.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Ok right next week! Can’t come soon enough 🔥🔥 In the meantime, so happy for Bill! Can’t believe he sat out an entire season before joining the team — doesn’t seem to have hurt him tho 🫶
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Ruth Becker @ruthbecker.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Next week?
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Ruth Becker @ruthbecker.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Interesting! Thanks 🙏
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Ruth Becker @ruthbecker.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
tbh Klein doesn't inhabit the same intellectual or moral universe as Coates. In fairness, few do Klein is a conventional thinker -- smart, generally effective -- but he lacks Coates's depth and capacity to pierce the veil of seems-to -be to reveal what actually is -- and how the veil operates
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Ruth Becker @ruthbecker.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
ICYMI - a scathing takedown of Klein's pivot in the interview, where he responds to "love can get you shot" with "there’s a Buddhist meditation I like" lizbucar.substack.com/p/ezra-klein...
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Ezra Klein Just Showed Us Everything Wrong With Secularized Meditation
There’s a moment in Ezra Klein’s recent interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates that’s been bugging me.
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Ruth Becker @ruthbecker.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Disagree. They are very intentionally consolidating data and tech with narrative control
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Ruth Becker @ruthbecker.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
This is the bigger problem with LLMs — citizens as ciphers, pouring our souls into emptiness and seeing it reflected back at us
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Ruth Becker @ruthbecker.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
omg give this man a nobel prize!!!!! 😱😱😱😱😱
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Ruth Becker @ruthbecker.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Siri, show me Betteridge's law of headlines
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Ruth Becker @ruthbecker.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
love them like crazy. that's all you have to do they will learn all the terrible about the world and still -- carry hope in their hearts just love them like crazy ❤️‍🩹❤️
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Ruth Becker @ruthbecker.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
🫶🫶🫶
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Ruth Becker @ruthbecker.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
This is truth spoken soft and low, opening a window into the increasingly featureless desert of Israel's soul. @lisang.bsky.social writes with profound sensitivity and an unflinching, but deft touch. Worth your time.
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Ruth Becker @ruthbecker.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Oh those clever Gen Z kids! It's almost like... these are their only possible options? FFS
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Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
We are in the phase of the Gaza war where Gazan towns’ Wikipedia pages are having to be rewritten in the past tense. The demolition of Khuza’a this spring was the work not of air strikes in combat, but of the IDF’s 188th Armored Brigade and attached engineers while facing little resistance.
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Ruth Becker @ruthbecker.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Fuck
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Ruth Becker @ruthbecker.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Waiting for the ADL to explain these are just “awkward statements” made in a “moment of enthusiasm”
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Ruth Becker @ruthbecker.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Oh my god
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Ruth Becker @ruthbecker.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
nice upgrade
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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Ruth Becker @ruthbecker.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
fuck these fuckers to hell
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Ruth Becker @ruthbecker.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
of course. fuck this fucking game.
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