angie beason
@angiebeason.bsky.social
Problem-solving generalist. Collector of information.
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As I get ready for another cozy weekend of Olympics watching, I'm seeing lots of chatter about ice quality for different sports. As a Minnesotan and a science journalist, just wanted to reshare this video about why ice temps matter!
It turns out that not all ice is created equal. Ice rinks are calibrated specifically for different sports, and at the Olympics these sport specifics are tightly controlled by the event’s "ice meisters."
🎤✏️: Marta Hill
📸: Getty Images
🎤✏️: Marta Hill
📸: Getty Images
February 13, 2026 at 10:09 PM
As I get ready for another cozy weekend of Olympics watching, I'm seeing lots of chatter about ice quality for different sports. As a Minnesotan and a science journalist, just wanted to reshare this video about why ice temps matter!
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I feel this way about pretty much all vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. You shouldn't be allowed to dump cyanide into municipal drinking water and you shouldn't be allowed to recreationally spread viruses around shared public spaces.
My most authoritarian opinion is that the MMR vaccine should be mandatory, with only medical (not religious or floofy) exemptions allowed. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
This Is How a Child Dies of Measles
When your family becomes a data point in an outbreak
www.theatlantic.com
February 13, 2026 at 5:09 PM
I feel this way about pretty much all vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. You shouldn't be allowed to dump cyanide into municipal drinking water and you shouldn't be allowed to recreationally spread viruses around shared public spaces.
“It hits different to front a “rah, rah, rah USA” persona when concentration camps are being constructed, foreign governments are being toppled, & influential alleged pedophiles are being protected at the behest of a justice department in lockstep with the executive branch.”
It’s just not fun to be patriotic with these games in Trump’s America.
www.sbnation.com/olympics/110...
www.sbnation.com/olympics/110...
Olympic patriotism isn’t fun in Trump’s USA
Olympic patriotism for Team USA just isn’t the same anymore.
www.sbnation.com
February 11, 2026 at 9:12 PM
“It hits different to front a “rah, rah, rah USA” persona when concentration camps are being constructed, foreign governments are being toppled, & influential alleged pedophiles are being protected at the behest of a justice department in lockstep with the executive branch.”
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oh so the jobs report is going to be BAD bad
February 9, 2026 at 9:14 PM
oh so the jobs report is going to be BAD bad
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Bad news for all the armchair skiing “experts”
“A lot of people have a lot of opinions about what happened yesterday and most of them are incorrect”
“A lot of people have a lot of opinions about what happened yesterday and most of them are incorrect”
Lindsey Vonn's Olympic teammate sets armchair skiing experts straight
When you hook a gate at high speed, as Vonn did in the Olympic downhill, there is little chance of making a recovery, said Keely Cashman.
www.usatoday.com
February 9, 2026 at 1:14 PM
Bad news for all the armchair skiing “experts”
“A lot of people have a lot of opinions about what happened yesterday and most of them are incorrect”
“A lot of people have a lot of opinions about what happened yesterday and most of them are incorrect”
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Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
February 9, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
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OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit
February 9, 2026 at 1:33 AM
OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit
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i worry that a 5-year stretch of nothing but ads for NFTs, bitcoin, and AI is a long enough gap that this nation's once-great advertising industry will forget how to sell a product people actually want
February 9, 2026 at 12:45 AM
i worry that a 5-year stretch of nothing but ads for NFTs, bitcoin, and AI is a long enough gap that this nation's once-great advertising industry will forget how to sell a product people actually want
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Reminder when you watch the Intuit Super Bowl ads, they have Super Bowl ad money because they are a successful rent seekers who have worked for decades to kill free, quality, public tax preparation services donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-death-...
The Death of Direct File
Tech for good not welcome in the Trump administration
donmoynihan.substack.com
February 8, 2026 at 11:40 PM
Reminder when you watch the Intuit Super Bowl ads, they have Super Bowl ad money because they are a successful rent seekers who have worked for decades to kill free, quality, public tax preparation services donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-death-...
Who can we talk to about a refund for these Super Bowl ads. So dull.
February 9, 2026 at 12:56 AM
Who can we talk to about a refund for these Super Bowl ads. So dull.
“Are you really going to tell one of the legends of the sport, someone who came out of retirement and almost immediately re-established herself one of the best in the world, that she can’t have this chance? Please.”
It ended disastrously and gruesomely, with images and sounds that will be hard to shake. But who are we to second guess Lindsey Vonn for trying?
Column for @yahoosports.bsky.social
sports.yahoo.com/olympics/art...
Column for @yahoosports.bsky.social
sports.yahoo.com/olympics/art...
Lindsey Vonn went for it. Who are we to second-guess?
Vonn has lived her life audaciously, and Sunday we saw an all-time skiing talent trying desperately, maybe too desperately, to win a race the rest of us just wanted her to finish.
sports.yahoo.com
February 8, 2026 at 4:28 PM
“Are you really going to tell one of the legends of the sport, someone who came out of retirement and almost immediately re-established herself one of the best in the world, that she can’t have this chance? Please.”
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“the Epstein class” should be THE tagline tbh. it’s so accurate their only defense is redactions, and it captures a hundred different linked evils at once. it also perfectly clarifies why trying to distinguish btw “kitchen table issues” (ie money) and “identity politics” (ie misogyny) is impossible
Ossoff: We were told that MAGA was for working-class Americans. But this is a government of, by, and for the ultra-rich. It’s the wealthiest Cabinet ever. This is the Epstein class. They are the elites they pretend to hate.
February 7, 2026 at 11:12 PM
“the Epstein class” should be THE tagline tbh. it’s so accurate their only defense is redactions, and it captures a hundred different linked evils at once. it also perfectly clarifies why trying to distinguish btw “kitchen table issues” (ie money) and “identity politics” (ie misogyny) is impossible
The drone camera shots in this Olympics really bring the wow factor to these events.
February 8, 2026 at 3:37 AM
The drone camera shots in this Olympics really bring the wow factor to these events.
Bummed about this bc their limeade is a delight to drink year round and it explains why I haven’t been able to find it since December. Not to mention that most of the carton OJ is pricy and undrinkable these days. Really need the store brands to step up and fill the gap.
apnews.com/article/minu...
apnews.com/article/minu...
After 80 years, Minute Maid's frozen canned juices are getting put on ice
Minute Maid helped make orange juice a year-round morning staple in 1946, when it started shipping cans of frozen juice around the U.S.
apnews.com
February 5, 2026 at 10:15 PM
Bummed about this bc their limeade is a delight to drink year round and it explains why I haven’t been able to find it since December. Not to mention that most of the carton OJ is pricy and undrinkable these days. Really need the store brands to step up and fill the gap.
apnews.com/article/minu...
apnews.com/article/minu...
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It is really infuriating to see how misogyny really does unite men across the sociopolitical spectrum. And, in so far as the Epstein files go, they sort women into two categories: fuckable or irrelevant. When they near a hint of accountability they complain about not being able to make women prey.
February 5, 2026 at 7:33 PM
It is really infuriating to see how misogyny really does unite men across the sociopolitical spectrum. And, in so far as the Epstein files go, they sort women into two categories: fuckable or irrelevant. When they near a hint of accountability they complain about not being able to make women prey.
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This debate or discourse or discussion about why Bezos is dismantling WaPo or whether or not more subscriptions or boycotts could change things or how he could fund it easily is pointless. It’s moot.
Bezos bought the Post to control the narrative and push his agenda. Financials don’t matter.
Bezos bought the Post to control the narrative and push his agenda. Financials don’t matter.
February 4, 2026 at 8:27 PM
This debate or discourse or discussion about why Bezos is dismantling WaPo or whether or not more subscriptions or boycotts could change things or how he could fund it easily is pointless. It’s moot.
Bezos bought the Post to control the narrative and push his agenda. Financials don’t matter.
Bezos bought the Post to control the narrative and push his agenda. Financials don’t matter.
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Gonna beg media not to just repeat Trump's obviously bullshit framing in the headlines. Tell readers the truth in the headlines.
Alternatives:
"With Artists and Audience Fleeing, Trump Closes Kennedy Center Indefinitely"
"Trump Says Kennedy Center Needs Renovation, Despite Recent $250M Renovation"
Alternatives:
"With Artists and Audience Fleeing, Trump Closes Kennedy Center Indefinitely"
"Trump Says Kennedy Center Needs Renovation, Despite Recent $250M Renovation"
Breaking news: President Trump said that the Kennedy Center could temporarily close for roughly two years to undergo construction.
https://wapo.st/49VsdCk
https://wapo.st/49VsdCk
February 2, 2026 at 12:45 AM
Gonna beg media not to just repeat Trump's obviously bullshit framing in the headlines. Tell readers the truth in the headlines.
Alternatives:
"With Artists and Audience Fleeing, Trump Closes Kennedy Center Indefinitely"
"Trump Says Kennedy Center Needs Renovation, Despite Recent $250M Renovation"
Alternatives:
"With Artists and Audience Fleeing, Trump Closes Kennedy Center Indefinitely"
"Trump Says Kennedy Center Needs Renovation, Despite Recent $250M Renovation"
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So the Epstein files dump
1. Protected a lot of predictors
2. Created another partisan food fight.
3. Failed to create any obvious pathway for these women to get accountability.
4. Included a number of clearly unverified claims that can be used to undermine the very legit emails
1. Protected a lot of predictors
2. Created another partisan food fight.
3. Failed to create any obvious pathway for these women to get accountability.
4. Included a number of clearly unverified claims that can be used to undermine the very legit emails
February 1, 2026 at 1:00 PM
So the Epstein files dump
1. Protected a lot of predictors
2. Created another partisan food fight.
3. Failed to create any obvious pathway for these women to get accountability.
4. Included a number of clearly unverified claims that can be used to undermine the very legit emails
1. Protected a lot of predictors
2. Created another partisan food fight.
3. Failed to create any obvious pathway for these women to get accountability.
4. Included a number of clearly unverified claims that can be used to undermine the very legit emails
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it’s not necessarily that all these people in the epstein files participated in the raping of girls it’s that none of them cared and if he hadn’t been arrested and died they’d still be out there trying to be his friend
January 31, 2026 at 5:45 PM
it’s not necessarily that all these people in the epstein files participated in the raping of girls it’s that none of them cared and if he hadn’t been arrested and died they’d still be out there trying to be his friend
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there are no mastermind villains. every single one of them is sending 4th grade level emails to World's Most Famous Sex Criminal from their work account
January 31, 2026 at 2:11 AM
there are no mastermind villains. every single one of them is sending 4th grade level emails to World's Most Famous Sex Criminal from their work account
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Man, it’s wild that normal people just go to work every day while the people who run everything meticulously document their sex crimes
January 31, 2026 at 2:26 AM
Man, it’s wild that normal people just go to work every day while the people who run everything meticulously document their sex crimes
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Macaulay Culkin on Instagram. 😢
January 30, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Macaulay Culkin on Instagram. 😢
“What we’ve been watching in Minnesota is proof that racist ideas lead to racist policies – and those policies produce bad, dangerous governance that affects everyone. Grievance governance does not stay confined to its targets; it corrodes the state itself.”
Hatred cannot govern a country effectively. Prior to this morning's arrest of journalists for doing their jobs, I wrote about this government using fear as policy in the Twin Cities, and why racist governance is bad governance. My first column for @us.theguardian.com.
Minneapolis is in a state of chaos. Racist immigration policies are to blame | Jamil Smith
What is happening in Minnesota is proof that racist ideas lead to racist policies – and it produces bad, dangerous governance
www.theguardian.com
January 30, 2026 at 7:58 PM
“What we’ve been watching in Minnesota is proof that racist ideas lead to racist policies – and those policies produce bad, dangerous governance that affects everyone. Grievance governance does not stay confined to its targets; it corrodes the state itself.”