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Beth Augustine

@scoutbeth.bsky.social
13K followers 7K following 829 posts

💙 Recovering optimist. Boy Mom. Local elected official. Producer. Lover of cheese🧀. Secular Humanist ☮️. EV enthusiast. Chicagoan. 🥃 Still gigantically dismayed about…you know. She/Her 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ally 🇺🇦🇨🇦 ally.

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 19h
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Beth Augustine @scoutbeth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
WTF?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Billionaires are vacuuming up all the wealth, while workers get screwed. They’re laughing in our faces while Trump steals from us and builds a ballroom. (H/T @qasimrashid.com)
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 30/09/2026
This is now a sycophancy test. Joking about it I’ll accept, barely, but anyone who even remotely indulges this is a coward
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Beth Augustine @scoutbeth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Our first example of what is likely an SI generated document, aka SI slop.
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Beth Augustine @scoutbeth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So….?……I guess…now…Altman’s company is hence forth to be called OpenSI.
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Human Cost Of Data Center Pollution Air pollution from data centers could contribute to roughly 600,000 asthma symptom cases, 1,300 premature deaths, and more than $20 billion in annual public health costs by 2028 Ban them now cleantechnica.com/2026/09/28/t...
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The Human Cost Of Data Center Pollution - CleanTechnica
As more data centers come online, more pollution gets added to the atmosphere and puts human health at risk.
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Beth Augustine @scoutbeth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Not too conspiratorial at all. Right on the money.
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Beth Augustine @scoutbeth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Well said @adamschiff.com.
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 29/09/2026
Monoculture is not healthy. Take away AI investments, and the US economy is basically treading water.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇
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Beth Augustine @scoutbeth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
For the best AI takes…. Way WAY WAAAY more of you should be following, reading, listening to @edzitron.com. Share widely.
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Ken Schultz @kschultz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’m sorry. Is the message “invest in us OR we’ll destroy humanity” or “invest in us AND we’ll destroy humanity“?
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026
Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...
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• Anthropic IPO could value the company at more than $2
trillion
• Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025
• Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year
• Operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025 from $2.98 billion in 2024
• Execs, industry analysts have expressed concerns over harms of Al tech
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic is making a massive bet that Al will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year, according to the
prospectus.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Do you know how much the pay of CEOs at major companies has skyrocketed since 1978? 50%? 100%? 500%? Try 1,316% Meanwhile, the typical workers’ compensation increased only 28%. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
Elizabeth Warren: "It's gonna look like whatever Xi Jinping wants it to look like. Donald Trump loves to bully when he's talking to the press. He loves to bully when he's front of a big crowd. But face to face is there any evidence that he has ever been tough with another dictator?"
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If you have a dollar for every transgender athlete playing college sports you'd have about $6 which just happens to be the price for a gallon of diesel now. Congrats MAGAts, you played yourselves.
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Beth Augustine @scoutbeth.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
💯 this.
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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Listen, i may not be a football girlie but game theory-wise i will say this: the way Robert Kraft collaborated with other NFL owners to get Macklemore kicked off of Ed Sheeran's tour speaks to why Colin Kaepernick was never given another shot after taking a knee for racial justice.
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Beth Augustine @scoutbeth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
And a LIFETIME of excellent free health Insurance if they serve at least 3 terms.
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Beth Augustine @scoutbeth.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
THIS!!!
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My good friend @rickwilson.bsky.social and I have teamed up by forming a PAC that—we promise, and I think he and I are pretty credible on things like this—will cause a great deal of (very good) trouble. Hope you'll take a look, follow, and help.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The number of voters who make no distinction between a document-supported 6-month journalism investigation and something they heard from a guy squeezing canteloupes at the supermarket is truly frightening.
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Beth Augustine @scoutbeth.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Exactly. We must never lose sight of why we have certain laws in place. Many are to protect us from the outcome of unchecked and dangerous greed.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 16/09/2026
Read Mikhal Zygar on Umar Kremlev, the oligarch who helped pay for Don Jr's wedding zygaro.substack.com/p/the-oligar...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A data center in New Jersey spilled 5,000 gallons of diesel fuel into a local creek, putting the area’s entire river system at risk. Is it any wonder nearly 70 percent of Americans don’t want a data center in their community?
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Say Hi 👋 to these Resisters looking to meet you! Vet, F&R. Ty! 💙 @hagatha58.bsky.social @damnyourlies.bsky.social @anselmdubois.bsky.social @deeddra.bsky.social @lyndapole.bsky.social @andrewlevesque.bsky.social @richardfordshow.bsky.social @kenseigle.bsky.social @janedziendobry.bsky.social 🚫Add-Ons
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Beth Augustine @scoutbeth.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Agree.
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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 09/09/2026
The Administration’s 50 percent tariffs on Canadian goods, along with Canada’s retaliatory tariffs that took effect today, will only make it harder for Minnesota businesses and farmers to compete and will further drive up prices for families.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
When I said things couldn’t get dumber it wasn’t meant to be a dare
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Beth Augustine @scoutbeth.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 06/09/2026
Corporate media asks about Hasan Piker instead of the GOP associations with neo-Nazis. But okay. Good answer by Raskin.
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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
🎯
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Beth Augustine @scoutbeth.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Boo.
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
📌Whether you’ve seen this one before or not, it can’t be shared enough.
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patthepublican2 @patthepublican2.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
IT WAS NEVER THE IMMGRANTS IN SMALL BOATS The world is 700% richer than in 1970 but the average person is only 8% richer Because the richest 0.01% are 4000% richer We are all being robbed every second of every day, and it doesn't matter how much profit or growth there is It will never reach you
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Beth Augustine @scoutbeth.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
This.
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can you make the world better ???????????????????? @justtheonethatcan.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
WHY IS THE USA INCAPABLE OF REMOVING AN OBVIOUSLY INSANE AND INCOMPETENT PRESIDENT?
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
There's a new hydronym from Jamie Raskin for Trump's [non]-Reflecting Pool: The Strait of Warm Ooze.
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
-It is still Lake Ontario -It is still the Gulf of Mexico -It is still the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. -He is still a pedophile. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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Beth Augustine @scoutbeth.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Be like Dolly. 💔
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 25/08/2026
Two paths diverged in the woods and America took the psychopath.
Paychopath
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Beth Augustine @scoutbeth.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Geezus.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 21/08/2026
Whole segment is too long for Bluesky but the first three minutes is honestly a highlight reel of my work as an AI critic and it was absolutely incredible.
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Beth Augustine @scoutbeth.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
That’s not okay and yet, you are probably right.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
The president is the head of an organized crime gang called the Republican Party.
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Trump Crypto Took $100 Million From a Businessman With Red Flags (Gift Article)
The curious case of Guren “Bobby” Zhou shows the ease with which investors with shady backgrounds and unknown motivations can funnel money to the president.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I’m sorry, you simply can’t lead your newscast with that Miller tape on the birthright citizenship “order” without pointing out that that’s not the damn way it works. It’s just not journalism.
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Beth Augustine @scoutbeth.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Thank you @katiephang.bsky.social
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God @thegodshow.com · 06/08/2026
It was revealed the president's bank accounts got shut down by Capitol One for money laundering but the media is too obsessed with Francesca Hong's take on Thanksgiving to notice.
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