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Skeptical Beans

@skepticalbeans.bsky.social
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Good coffee is a joy, but any coffee in a storm will do. Yearning for intellectual herd immunity, will settle for compulsory civics and science. Gen J Opinions often my own, and occasionally correct.

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DemCast USA @demcast.com · 31/08/2026
David Byrne performed "Life During Wartime" at the Hollywood Bowl in front of ICE raid footage. His "Who Is the Sky?" tour is becoming a concert film directed by Oscar nominee Brady Corbet, following past films with Jonathan Demme and Spike Lee. This ain't no disco.
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Skeptical Beans @skepticalbeans.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Marking would be better than the reality that they just don’t pay attention to where they’re peeing. A friend once said that a urinal is like a huge mouth and men still piss on their shoes. I reminded her that a guy who doesn’t pay attention to his aim also sprays his clothing a bit…
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
"The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday made a critical announcement. It repealed the scientific determination that gives the government the authority to combat climate change." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/c...
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What to Know About the E.P.A.’s Big Attack on Climate Regulation
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 13/02/2026
NEWS: Goldman Sachs’ top lawyer Kathryn Ruemmler has RESIGNED after newly released emails exposed a years-long personal relationship with Jeffrey Epstein — including advising him on handling sex crime accusations, media scrutiny, and accusers.
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Skeptical Beans @skepticalbeans.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
From a purple leaning red toen in the PNW, we stand with MN.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
seriously does the Times not have anyone who understands internet culture anymore? because this is fast approaching “how do you do fellow kids” territory.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
She's butting heads with the actual journalists who are still trying to do journalism. And wrecking @cbsnews.com in the process.
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Shannon the Science Nerd @shanthesciencenerd.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
So we're living in a kakistocracy now. Cool, cool. It's the transition government to idiocracy.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Bernie's right: Thank you, New Yorkers, for electing Mamdani.
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Skeptical Beans @skepticalbeans.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
2025 took my daughter so yeah, let’s see what this new year brings.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
normally i wouldn't watch anderson and andy but apparently CNN is the only station that isn't tape-delaying the ball drop. anyway they're interviewing a very drunk and very giddy stephen colbert, and when he was asked what 2025 taught him, he replied "don't trust billionaires!" #hero
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AVK | Wide World of Batshit @avk.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
I don't mean to brag, but I got quoted by @georgetakei.bsky.social. It was a screenshot... And on Threads... BUT IT STILL COUNTS! brag brag brag brag brag
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 25/09/2025
A very happy birthday to my friend and co-cost @libradunn1.bsky.social Love you!
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 25/09/2025
Oh no. Wait. Don’t go. www.koco.com/article/ryan...
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Ryan Walters to resign as Oklahoma state superintendent for private sector job
State Superintendent Ryan Walters announced Wednesday that he will resign from office and take a job in the private sector.
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Skeptical Beans @skepticalbeans.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Did he join ICE because the truck he bought failed to make his penis larger? I feel that’s the case.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 13/09/2025
Now where have I heard this before? Oh yeah...
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Machine Pun Kelly @kellyscaletta.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Well said!
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police
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Skeptical Beans @skepticalbeans.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
What part is bullshit?
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Skeptical Beans @skepticalbeans.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
On a network that had to pay three quarters of a billion dollars in one single lawsuit. A network that’s being sued over the same lies that cost them the last suit. A network that had to axe their most valuable personality for his comments. Just sayin…
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Just to be clear: Brian Kilmeade *did not* endorse euthanizing homeless people. He advocated MURDERING over 700,000 of them. And on a network that has been *beside itself* over the murder of just one man this week.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 13/09/2025
I really like Van Hollen. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/u...
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Van Hollen Criticizes Democratic Leaders for Delay in Endorsing Mamdani
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Skeptical Beans @skepticalbeans.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
And even she was not self-made, unless she had absolutely no help or support in her journey. The notion of self-made needs to be retired.
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Skeptical Beans @skepticalbeans.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
You know it. I know it. The people who see everything different as a threat don’t know it nor do they understand it.
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Skeptical Beans @skepticalbeans.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Are ”they” in the room with you now?
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Skeptical Beans @skepticalbeans.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
What happens to children is far, far worse. That 30.06 doesn’t punch through a deer and ruin the meat along the way. What we saw was nothing compared to what first responders see in schools.
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Daniel Bastiaanse @indodragon.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
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Skeptical Beans @skepticalbeans.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Who radicalized Antifa? Seriously, do you think Antifa is an organization?
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Atticus Finch (of Georgia) @atticus59914029.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
As always, responsible, mature adults should be looking to reputable news sources, waiting for the facts, and ignoring the loony conspiracy theorists.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
“.. I can’t remember anyone ever telling me we can’t say anything critical about a civilian like this. He was not in our chain of command or anything,” the officer said. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 12/09/2025
We’re about to find out whether the corporate media knows that groypers are right-wing.
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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌊2026 🌊 @callyson.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Trump "might think he’s winning the War on Laughter—but much like George W. Bush, he’s going to discover that his mission is far from accomplished. He can cancel all the comedians he wants, but he will never make us stop laughing at him:" open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...
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Trump Will Lose His War on Laughter
Comedy is his kryptonite.
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Jon Cryer @mrjoncryer.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
CBS is reportedly considering having Bari Weiss in an advisory position to a new head of CBS News. Sincerely, wtf? www.yahoo.com/news/former-...
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Former boss Rhodes in talks to run CBS News if Paramount-Skydance deal closes, Puck News said
Rhodes, who was president at CBS from 2011 to 2019 and previously spent a decade with Fox News, has emerged as a likely successor at CBS News, where he may be advised by Bari Weiss, co-founder of onli...
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Politico @politico.com · 17/07/2025
EXCLUSIVE: Fired DOJ prosecutor Maurene Comey sends message to former colleagues, warning that ‘Fear is the tool of the tyrant.’
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Maurene Comey warns her former colleagues: ‘Fear is the tool of the tyrant’
“If a career prosecutor can be fired without reason, fear may seep into the decisions of those who remain. Do not let that happen,” she wrote.
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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
The bottom line, according to one person close to Stephen Colbert, is that "The Late Show" is a "casualty of the merger." Here's what that means: www.cnn.com/2025/07/18/m...
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Inside CBS’ ‘agonizing decision’ to cancel Colbert’s top-rated late-night show | CNN Business
While “The Late Show” host Stephen Colbert was on his usual mid-summer vacation earlier this month, CBS executives weighed the pros and cons of canceling the unique but unfortunately unprofitable show...
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
The Coldplay Kiss-Cam Incident Proves What I Have Said For Decades: Rock Music Undermines Morals. Tomorrow in the NYT by Ross Douthat
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 17/07/2025
“They don’t want anyone to see how they treat people. They want to be doing this”—their deportations—”with no witnesses.”
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ICE agents are harassing the courthouse volunteers who assist besieged immigrants
"They want to be doing this with no witnesses."
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Well this sure as hell isn’t incriminating! Nothing to see here.
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
What CBS' disgraceful termination of Stephen Colbert illustrates is how quickly a Republic can fall when the media chooses cowardice instead of courage.
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Skeptical Beans @skepticalbeans.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
He does this and then someone explains discovery to him and then it’s crickets.
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God @thegodshow.com · 17/07/2025
Every time a reporter mentions the Epstein list, Donold gets pissed. It’s a helpful reminder that Donold is on the Epstein list.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 14/07/2025
Tomi Lahren just posted on the other place that the federal government should “let California go” and that California should get “not one dime.” Where does she think the federal government gets most of its dimes?
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Skeptical Beans @skepticalbeans.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Where does she think the money her state uses comes from?
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Skeptical Beans @skepticalbeans.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
There are more of us, a lot more. They know that. It scares them.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Orange Daddy gonna be big mad.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Without making any endorsements, it does seem like in a city of 8.5 million residents, it’s not too much to ask for the mayor to actually live in New York City.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Could there be a clearer metaphor for our country nowadays?
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