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Bette Midler

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Bette Midler @therealbettemidler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Get the motherfuckin’ popcorn. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
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Elon Musk’s Exes Are the Most Damning Part of a Massive New Documentary
Interviews with Justine Wilson and Ashley St. Clair in the nearly four-hour-long “Musk” paint the world’s richest man as capricious and cruel even toward those closest to him.
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Bette Midler @therealbettemidler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/o...
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Opinion | I’m Exhausted. You’re Demoralized. We Weren’t Built for a World Like This.
A greatly underappreciated virtue of other presidents was that you could forget about them for weeks at a time.
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Bette Midler @therealbettemidler.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/o...
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Opinion | How a ’70s Improv Book Became Silicon Valley’s Required Reading
It can be useful to see reality as malleable.
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Bette Midler @therealbettemidler.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Our beloved Dolly Parton has died. I am devastated, and I’m sure the nation will mourn her as I do, and for many years to come. She had a voice of pure gold and a heart to match. What a terrible, terrible loss. #DollyParton
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Bette Midler @therealbettemidler.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
He’s tightening the noose. They are rigging and getting all hands on deck to steal the coming midterms. Vote like your life depends on it. It does. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/u...
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Supreme Court Allows Trump to Pursue Mail Voting Limits, for Now
The administration asked the court to clear the way for President Trump’s order that creates “state citizenship lists” and directs the Postal Service to decide who gets a mail-in ballot.
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Bette Midler @therealbettemidler.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Oh fer Chrissakes! Now this idiot has forever alienated our dearest friends and neighbors. What an effing JACKASS!! #RESIGNFOOL! www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/w...
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Carney Slams U.S.-Canada Trade Proposal and Vows Retaliation
Prime Minister Mark Carney gave a powerful speech to Canadians on Saturday morning, hours after ordering negotiators to suspend U.S. trade talks despite President Trump’s punishing tariffs.
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Bette Midler @therealbettemidler.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Get it! Read it! Vote!
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Bette Midler @therealbettemidler.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Get it.  Read it.  Vote.
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Bette Midler @therealbettemidler.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/07/17/c...
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Taking Out the Trash: These Old Ladies Are Cleaning Up Cape Cod
The Old Ladies Against Underwater Garbage estimate they’ve removed 6,000 pounds of refuse from ponds on Cape Cod. “There’s no better feeling,” one said.
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Bette Midler @therealbettemidler.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
US Soccer team going great until…you guessed it! Trump showed up, and as has happened so many times before, USA lost. Remember that infamous Knicks game? EVERYTHING TRUMP TOUCHES DIES.
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Bette Midler @therealbettemidler.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
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Bette Midler @therealbettemidler.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Wherever books are sold, but often sold out.
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Bette Midler @therealbettemidler.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
“Knicks in 5!” The parade is going on and it’s a pisser! Getting out my orange pants and blue tee now!! Go Knicks!
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Bette Midler @therealbettemidler.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
This says it all and says it beautifully… www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/n...
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Knicks Give Their City Something New: Impossible Joy
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Bette Midler @therealbettemidler.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
The worst #SCOTUS since #RogerTaney and the #DredScott decision. Shame on all of you for denying your fellow #Americans the vote. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/o...
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Opinion | A Shocking Betrayal of Black Americans
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Bette Midler @therealbettemidler.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
2/2 Trump doesn't and never did care about the $1.8 billion "fund"; it wasn't providing a financial benefit to him. The immunity is a different story. And Todd Blanche was very careful to make it clear that even if the administration abolishes the fund, the immunity deal stays.That's the real story…
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Bette Midler @therealbettemidler.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
1/2 You folks at the Wall St Journal have been played by this Trump-style version of three card monte. The lawsuit - and the fund - is just a fig leaf of cover to be used as pretext to grant Trump and his family of businesses permanent immunity from his fraudulent $72.9 million tax refund.
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Bette Midler @therealbettemidler.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
KNICKS! KNICKS! KNICKS! GO KNICKS!
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Bette Midler @therealbettemidler.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
How’s that new joint Chief “Razin” Caine doin’ for you, Donnie? Just can’t seem to win that idiotic war you started, huh? Maybe you shoulda stuck with the first guy. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trump fires Black joint chiefs chair Hegseth accused of promoting diversity
US secretary of defense had questioned whether history-making air force general CQ Brown Jr got job because of race
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Bette Midler @therealbettemidler.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
#2/2 July 19-20, 2014. WSJ. As if she wrote it yesterday. Bet she never DREAMED!
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Bette Midler @therealbettemidler.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
1/2 “ We live in a time when politicians relentlessly enrich themselves. The grab and grub. They never leave. They’ve found a launching pad and shot themselves into glamour and wealth. They’re operators—entitled, assuming. They “stand for the people.” They stand for themselves.”
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Bette Midler @therealbettemidler.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
#FOXNEWS VIEWERS!  Since your preferred media outlet won’t tell you, here’s the scoop!  #TRUMP is stealing from you in broad daylight, and for you to bury your heads in the sand is not just shocking, but tragic.  Theft isn’t BLUE or RED.  Some people are just crooks and he’s one of the biggest.
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Bette Midler @therealbettemidler.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
2/2 The other shoe has dropped! It’s not just the demented #RFK, it’s ALL of them! An #epidemic!
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Bette Midler @therealbettemidler.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
1/2 Now we know why the #Trump admin is so aggressive, vengeful, combative, competitive, loud, revolting, angry, bent on dominating everyone in sight, and physically violent. They’re all taking #Testosterone! www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/m...
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The Testosterone Moment Is Here. And Men May Never Look the Same.
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Bette Midler @therealbettemidler.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
2/2 The shame of that is unbearable, and I personally know Americans, men and women, who cry every single day at the news, feeling utterly hopeless to reel in these despicable forces. We have to meet them at the ballot box. That’s all we have left.
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Bette Midler @therealbettemidler.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
1/2 This cruel and vicious destruction of schools and hospitals are war crimes, and we have to face that we are now known all over the world as a rogue state. How the mighty are fallen. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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How the U.S.-Israeli Strikes on Iran Have Damaged Schools and Hospitals
The Times has verified strikes on at least 39 schools and hospitals, a fraction of the devastation so far.
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Bette Midler @therealbettemidler.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
2/2 #DavidHodne, and #MajorGeneralWilliamGreen Jr., the top Army chaplain, in what has been a rolling purge by Hegseth of senior officers—particularly those close to the secretary of the Army, #DanDriscoll. THIS IDIOT CANNOT READ THE ROOM. #UNQUALIFIEDHACK
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Bette Midler @therealbettemidler.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
1/2 It defies belief: The US is in the middle of a major war, but that didn’t stop Secretary of Defense #PeteHegseth on Thursday from firing #GeneralRandyGeorge America’s most senior Army officer. George was the Army’s chief of staff, and he was cashiered along with another four-star general,
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Bette Midler @therealbettemidler.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Trump and his crew are calling for all hands on deck to steal the midterms; he will use every tool in the playbook. Look online and educate yourselves, have your papers, bring your water, and RESIST.
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Bette Midler @therealbettemidler.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
These old Beaches be MARCHIN’!!! Turn up and SING OUT!!! No Kings March 28, 2026. Share the message far and wide! #nokings
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Bette Midler @therealbettemidler.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
www.nytimes.com/shared/comme...
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Read a Times Reader's Comment on: Why Won’t Europe Help Trump in Iran? Let’s Count the Reasons.
President Trump says his NATO allies are disloyal for not helping the United States to clear an oil blockade. But they have a long list of incentives to refuse.
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Bette Midler @therealbettemidler.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Preaching to the choir. It’s only the truly stupid who refuse to acknowledge the danger the planet is in…They pump up AI, which will surely lead to catastrophe, but deny us clean energy because….it’s fucking FREE. www.nytimes.com/shared/comme...
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Read a Times Reader's Comment on: U.S. Sanctions Pause Adds Political Win to Russia’s Economic Gain From Iran War
Kremlin officials said the American move, which Europe opposes, showed that Moscow could not be dislodged from the center of global energy markets.
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Bette Midler @therealbettemidler.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
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Bette Midler @therealbettemidler.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Uh, oh. Her replacement is Markwayne Mullin. 😩
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Bette Midler @therealbettemidler.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
DING DONG, THE WITCH IS DEAD! Kristi Noem has been fired. There is a God.
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Bette Midler @therealbettemidler.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Hooray! www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/u...
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Talarico’s Win in Texas Shows That Nice Guys Can Finish First
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Bette Midler @therealbettemidler.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
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Bette Midler @therealbettemidler.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Dem strategist Jesse Ferguson: “His obsession is on everything OTHER than what matters to people’s lives. If Bill Clinton was ‘I feel your pain,’ Trump is ‘I want you to feel my pain.’ He is all about what makes a #ballroom and getting #FIFAWorldCupPeace prizes.”
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Bette Midler @therealbettemidler.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
THIS GUY IS NOT AN ELECTED OFFICIAL.  WHY DOES HE NEED A PERSONAL SECURITY DETAIL?  Especially one for with the lives of women and children?
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Bette Midler @therealbettemidler.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
$15M Security Package: Documents show Vought is using $15 million in operating expenses from the U.S. Agency for International Development, USAID, an agency he helped dismantle—to fund his own personal security detail, which includes over a dozen U.S. Marshals.
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Bette Midler @therealbettemidler.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
This is the truth. I vividly remember when the phrase came widespread into use after 9/11. It sounded exactly like Hitler’s Germany and terrified me. Let’s unload it and find something less belligerent. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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How ‘homeland’ put America on the path to illiberalism
A phrase from the 1990s altered America’s sense of itself — and its political trajectory
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Bette Midler @therealbettemidler.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
YOU’RE WELCOME!! #Nincompoopers strike again! The incompetence and entitlement defies belief! nymag.com/intelligence...
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The 5 Wildest Anecdotes From the WSJ Report on Kristi Noem and DHS
A new report revealed new details of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s chaotic tenure, including a claim that she fired a pilot over a missing blanket.
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Bette Midler @therealbettemidler.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
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Bette Midler @therealbettemidler.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Apparently there’s a massive sewage crisis in Washington DC…a town known for producing overwhelming amounts of bullshit. Of course it would happen on Grump’s watch, he probably overwhelmed the system…oh, wait, he usually uses his pants…
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Bette Midler @therealbettemidler.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Delete your X account. I did!
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Bette Midler @therealbettemidler.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Look at these two winners!  And check out that RUG he’s sporting!  Hair issues run in the family I guess.
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Bette Midler @therealbettemidler.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
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Bette Midler @therealbettemidler.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
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Bette Midler @therealbettemidler.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
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Bette Midler @therealbettemidler.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
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