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Bill Beers

@wmbeers.bsky.social
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Professional GIS programmer, dilettante everything else. Portland now, Tallahassee then.

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 10h
I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.
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Bill Beers @wmbeers.bsky.social · 1h
Fair point. I'll put the kettle on, make some tea and make a push for the last half.
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Bill Beers @wmbeers.bsky.social · 2h
Can you summarize this? I found it a little hard to finish.
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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 11h
I’m outraged by this attack on Representative Omar. Trump and his DOJ have a bizarre obsession with tearing down Minnesota, our leaders and our communities. This latest action, even as voting has already started in Minnesota, is a transparent attempt to interfere in our elections.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13h
I do not think an exec branch led by a man who thinks he is entitled to treat federal agents as an arm of his firm, refers to Somali Americans as “garbage” and has said racist things specifically about Omar is capable of neutrally applying the law to her, to put it mildly apnews.com/article/ilha...
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Federal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources say
Federal agents have searched Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as part of a criminal investigation. That's according to people familiar with the matter.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Ossoff: "If John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club"
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Memo Torres @eltragon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Life as a brown person in the U.S.
Being brown in Trump's America means having to send messages like this to my children. 

You kiddos know what to do in case ICE pulls you over?
"I'm a U.S. Citizen, am I being detained or am i free to go". I invoke my 4th and 5th amendment rights. do not concent to search or questioning. I do not answer questions.
You'll have to repeat it several times
Record yourselvesWith the ICE surge happening all over I worry about my children getting harassed by these goons. My children are citizens, but ICE doesn't care. It's a scary time for all of us. And if you say "if they're legal you have nothing to worry about" then I can only conclude that you're willfully ignorant and nott paying attention to the horrors that citizens and immigrants are experiencing. Citizens have been shot, over 500 detained, some even deported. Many have been lost in the system for months until a lawyer proves their citizenship. There is no due process for people of color in America when facing ICE. You don't have any idea the mental stress we are living with. I worry about everyone, but I worry most about our children.
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Bill Beers @wmbeers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I hated it when my kid stopped wanting me to read to her. End of a brief, wonderful era.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
they did the thing
an october 11 2025 post from me reading: every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
4/ Fernando Vasquez, an 18-year-old citizen, was on break from work when agents chased and handcuffed him, then put him in their truck. After realizing their mistake, the agents left the teen alone in the woods, with no way to get home. Then they threw his ID out of the truck.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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OSINTRadar @osintradar.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Epstein case whistleblower dies by suicide — he is not the first Simon Andries revealed business ties between Howard Lutnick and Jeffrey Epstein. He is not the first person connected to the Epstein case files to have died after the materials were made public. ✅️Follow us for the latest updates
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Epstein Whistleblower Simon Andriesz Reportedly Dies By Suicide
None of the reports have linked Andriesz's death to his whistleblowing.
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Bill Beers @wmbeers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Same
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
it didn't even occur to me that the government might try to execute someone a second time if they torture the person but fail to kill them during a first botched attempt. truly grotesque and a moral stain upon all involved.
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
we've never had much reason to articulate this before a.i., but a reason we enjoy literature, art, music, etc. is that we know it is one human mind trying to express something fundamentally human and otherwise inexpressible to another human mind
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Two Schmitt staffers realizing this might be their last day.
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Citizens' Impeachment @citizensimpeachment.com · 27/09/2026
Have the fascists murdered over 200 people on boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific? The regime has bragged about it. Pretending that we need some kind of "investigation" is absurd. It's ridiculous and wildly counterproductive. Literally hundreds of millions of Americans see how dumb that is.
Picture of a fascist-enabling dirtbag who fiercely opposes impeachment yapping bullshit about how they're going to have endless toothless "investigations" into crimes that were committed openly. Apparently they want clips of themselves talking tough in committee hearings for their YouTube channels.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This serves as advertisement for Alex Gibney’s documentary, Musk, opening October 9. Pass it on.
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Bill Beers @wmbeers.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
On the rise: screenshot without alt text of an ai chatbot response to your question.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This seems like a pretty big deal: donors made illegal contributions to Susan Collins and then were awarded lucrative contracts after her office intervened with the Navy. An FBI investigation was dropped under Trump. www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
To skirt campaign finance laws and conceal the source of the funds, Navatek planned to funnel the donation through a shell company. The CEO wanted assurance that Collins would know where
the money came from. Reed confirmed that she would, the executive said - and that Navatek would get its government contracts.
After the Corner Bakery meeting, Navatek's CEO, Martin Kao, sent an initial $150,000 to the Collins super PAC using the shell company. Two months later, he told Navatek executives that Collins committed to getting the company $32 million in naval contracts, according to an internal company email reviewed by ProPublica.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The video shows the agents literally just leaving the guy in the street and driving off.
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Bill Beers @wmbeers.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
But I don't remember ever eating Grape Nu... wait
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
making this my new email autoreply
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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A few weekends ago I went to Miami and attended 9 open houses in extremely high-risk flood areas to see what agents are telling prospective buyers about them. Here is my journey
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The open houses at the edge of disaster
What are buyers being told about climate risk in Miami? I posed as one to find out.
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 17/09/2026
they were very subtle about it, but if you looked closely you could see the signs
A bunch of creeps at the RNC holding up “Mass Deportation Now” signs
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
He was actually very clear about what he was going to do. Maybe you should have leveled with your constituents about what you were supporting bsky.app/profile/phil...
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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 10/09/2026
Some of those that work forces Are the same that fuck horses
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
future generations, if they exist, are gonna say really, you flushed democracy itself down the toilet for THAT dumbfuck??
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: pluralistic.net/2026/09/12/g...
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Franchesca Ramsey @chescaleigh.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“you still got my support, but you gotta do something” 🐆💀
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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Would be really nice if reporters asked Trump why he isn't giving everyone $5k now, when he has full control of Congress, instead of uncritically repeating his lie about giving everyone $5k if the republicans retain control of Congress in 2027.
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Happy 72nd Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past.
Ruby Bridges, age 6Ruby Bridges flanked by three U.S. Marshals on the steps of her schoolNorman Rockwell’s painting depicting the event, “The Problem We All Live With,” originally published as a centerfold in the January 14, 1964 issue of Look magazine. Ruby Bridges talking with President Obama as they look at Rockwell’s painting while it was temporarily displayed at the White House in 2011.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/bf6b095...
telegraph.co.uk
Pentagon refuses payout for soldiers who died in Iran conflict ‘because it isn’t a war’
JD Vance offers support after widow expresses frustration in viral online post
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Bill Beers @wmbeers.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I wasn't sure I agreed with you on item 3, until the elephant.
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I guess what I'd like but do not expect is some memory of this event. For next time the right wing press or politicians act horrified at some perceived leftist slight against The Troops they're just reminded that, no, we've seen their revealed actual values, they don't actually care; and we move on.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/09/2026
ProPublica spoke to dozens of people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote:
Handwritten notecard. Prompt at the top asks: What object was most devastating for you to lose, and how have you been coping? Answer below: Dentures. Were thrown away and coping isn't somthing I can do. It’s made me feel ugly, unworthy, can’t go get a job with no teeth. So how can get off the streets until another pair can be made?
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 05/09/2026
Ok here we go: It DOES look like a major purpose of this NIH funding transfer to NIH is to circumvent NIH’s peer review processes so political appointees can have control. Check out the redacted agreement @maxkozlov.bsky.social released: 1/
AGENCY-AGREEMENT-NIH-AND-DOW-REDACTED v
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Federal departments, agencies, and offices with respect to the identification of additional priority virus families and other viral pathogens with a significant potential to cause a pandemic" (42
U.S.C. § 285f-5(e)(1)).
Through this agreement, NIH will leverage OASW ND-CBD's procurement, grants, and funding network to allow for critical basic science
I, related research pathways, and basic research to
support the translation and advanced development of medical countermeasures.
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 05/09/2026
“‘Root causes’ like sperm counts and erectile dysfunction”: seems about right, as a policy from an admin comprised entirely of dicks.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 05/09/2026
Women and children must die so men can get a hard on is a Trump administration policy.
A screenshot of a post on X (formerly Twitter) by user Eric Katz (@EricM_Katz), which quotes a post by Paige W. Cunningham (@pw_cunningham).
The post text reads:
"👀 In canceling the maternal and infant mortality grants, HHS said those issues were no longer a priority for the office and grants would instead focus on 'low sperm count, low testosterone levels and erectile dysfunction.' 👇"
The quoted post by Paige W. Cunningham reads:
"Scoop: HHS's Office of Minority Health has cancelled 16 grants, several focused on maternal/infant health, telling grantees it's pivoting to a focus on the root causes of infertility and promoting exercise. with @EricM_Katz notus.org/health-science..."
At the bottom, the post metadata indicates it was posted at 3:05 PM on Sep 4, 2026, and has 133K views.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 04/09/2026
Trump continues to disperse disaster recovery funds based on how states vote, which for any other president or public official, in any other time, in any other country, in any other context would be a morally horrific scandal that would dominate headlines for months.
subscriber.politicopro.com
POLITICO Pro: Trump rejects disaster appeals by four Democratic governors
New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Rhode Island will have to pay the entire cost of recovery from a major February snowstorm.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
To folks who think caving on things like “Lake America” doesn’t matter in the long run… It does. It invites more such ego-serving It suggests that there’s no push back. It teaches people to expect more of the same. It matters.
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Haitian student dies by suicide after ICE issued him an ankle monitor
Pierre Damas Bel, 20, of Springfield, Ohio, expressed feeling “shame and humiliation” at having to wear an ankle monitor. The college student died by suicide days later.
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Republicans have made their election strategy very clear: 1) Islamophobia 2) transphobia 3) blatant lying 4) cheating / suppressing votes 5) throwing endless dark + corporate $$ at all the above When I see Democrats HELPING them on 1 & 2 - or barely mentioning the rest - I want to break bones.
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Jim Swift @jimswift.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The cruelty is the point. Shame on this administration and shame on the people who voted for this. www.springfieldnewssun.com/local/spring...
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Springfield Haitian student takes his own life after being fitted with ICE ankle monitor, advocates say
A 20-year-old Wright State student took his own life on Interstate 70 out of anguish over a required ICE ankle monitor, according to local community advocates.
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_Mark 🏳️‍🌈 @marxgbaker.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Funniest possible example to choose
As a result, Armstrong has no plans to start a charity or a foundation.

"So far, I've just been like 'I'm not going to do that.' My fear is that it just gets captured by some ideology and I lose control over it," he said. "If you look at the Ford Foundation, I think Henry Ford would be turning over in his grave if he knew what they were up to."
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
“No, we stole that term from you Black folk. And now it’s ours, because we use it. We use it to mean that the concerns and perspectives of you Black folk are annoying or wrong or dangerous, as a way of ignoring and dismissing those concerns and perspectives. Like I’m doing now—does that make sense?”
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