Beatrix
@beatrix.bsky.social
I’m a New Deal Democrat
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Somerville, MA
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Beatrix
@beatrix.bsky.social
· Jan 29
don't let your sadness become despair and don't let your righteous anger become interpersonal nastiness, I've been seeing both a lot lately and we're going to need to avoid these if we want to have any hope of building a future for America rooted in love and justice instead of cruelty and cynicism.
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I did not understand this: one of the five Europeans the US has barred from traveling to the United States...is a permanent resident who lives with his family in the US.
Now he is worried about being arrested and deported for the crime of monitoring online hate.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/u...
Now he is worried about being arrested and deported for the crime of monitoring online hate.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/u...
Judge Blocks Detention of British Researcher Who Scrutinizes Online Hate
www.nytimes.com
December 26, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I did not understand this: one of the five Europeans the US has barred from traveling to the United States...is a permanent resident who lives with his family in the US.
Now he is worried about being arrested and deported for the crime of monitoring online hate.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/u...
Now he is worried about being arrested and deported for the crime of monitoring online hate.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/u...
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really telling that bari weiss after all this time masquerading as a centrist immediately signs up to be political commissar for rabidly antisemitic fascists. also telling that the times' management intentionally made her invulnerable, because they share her beliefs.
December 26, 2025 at 3:52 AM
really telling that bari weiss after all this time masquerading as a centrist immediately signs up to be political commissar for rabidly antisemitic fascists. also telling that the times' management intentionally made her invulnerable, because they share her beliefs.
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These are Roberts Pardons
GOP operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, convicted election fraudsters, were paid $960,000 in the second quarter to secure a pardon for a former nursing-home operator who defrauded the government of $38 million. Trump pardoned the man, Joseph Schwartz, last month.
Inside the New Fast Track to a Presidential Pardon
Even some of the president’s closest advisers have been surprised by a number of the recent series of pardons.
www.wsj.com
December 26, 2025 at 1:31 AM
These are Roberts Pardons
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Christmas is a cultural holiday as well as a religious one, so I don't really mind the Merry Christmas message. Merry Christmas, everyone! It's the statement that we all share a savior that goes way over the line. They really are trying to establish an official state religion.
December 25, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Christmas is a cultural holiday as well as a religious one, so I don't really mind the Merry Christmas message. Merry Christmas, everyone! It's the statement that we all share a savior that goes way over the line. They really are trying to establish an official state religion.
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Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.
December 25, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.
Merry Christmas everyone!!! 🎄🚊
December 26, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Merry Christmas everyone!!! 🎄🚊
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See also the persistent anger among conservatives about seeing gay or interracial couples in TV commercials. The government doesn't decide what's on your TV, but to them "the government" is a parent-like concept that substitutes for anyone who runs anything in society
December 25, 2025 at 5:51 PM
See also the persistent anger among conservatives about seeing gay or interracial couples in TV commercials. The government doesn't decide what's on your TV, but to them "the government" is a parent-like concept that substitutes for anyone who runs anything in society
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I think one of the defining things about our era and about conservativism, is an inability to distinguish between like, the actual government, and mid-level marketing managers at Target (who choose "happy holidays" to avoid leaving out non-Christian customers)
In retrospect the Bush-era War On Christmas stuff seems more ominous than it did at the time. It was just cable news guys crying about dumb/fake shit, then and now; I mean the campaign to turn Christmas, which most everyone likes and feels warmly about, into just another thing to get mad about.
December 25, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I think one of the defining things about our era and about conservativism, is an inability to distinguish between like, the actual government, and mid-level marketing managers at Target (who choose "happy holidays" to avoid leaving out non-Christian customers)
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Guys literally only want one thing and it's fucking disgusting
December 25, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Guys literally only want one thing and it's fucking disgusting
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It's only okay to get your kid into Warhammer if you have two boys because that way in twenty years you have a boy and a girl
December 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
It's only okay to get your kid into Warhammer if you have two boys because that way in twenty years you have a boy and a girl
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Happy holidays from your furiends at the zoo ✨
Thanks to Keeper Megan and Keeper Ali for the holiday pics!
Thanks to Keeper Megan and Keeper Ali for the holiday pics!
December 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Happy holidays from your furiends at the zoo ✨
Thanks to Keeper Megan and Keeper Ali for the holiday pics!
Thanks to Keeper Megan and Keeper Ali for the holiday pics!
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In retrospect the Bush-era War On Christmas stuff seems more ominous than it did at the time. It was just cable news guys crying about dumb/fake shit, then and now; I mean the campaign to turn Christmas, which most everyone likes and feels warmly about, into just another thing to get mad about.
December 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
In retrospect the Bush-era War On Christmas stuff seems more ominous than it did at the time. It was just cable news guys crying about dumb/fake shit, then and now; I mean the campaign to turn Christmas, which most everyone likes and feels warmly about, into just another thing to get mad about.
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NORAD Santa tracker is Woke
December 25, 2025 at 2:28 AM
NORAD Santa tracker is Woke
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bankpunk
one great thing about writing a story is that if you want everything to go through a vast pneumatic tube system you can do that
December 23, 2025 at 4:46 PM
bankpunk
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Not now, haunted Victorian shoes
Mystery as hundreds of Victorian shoes wash up on Ogmore beach
Mystery as hundreds of Victorian shoes wash up on Ogmore beach
More than 400 leather hobnailed boots, thought to date back to the 19th Century, have been found.
www.bbc.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Not now, haunted Victorian shoes
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Anyway the problem with a permanent vibescession caused at least in part by social media posturing is that while it might screw Trump in the short term it really screws the politics of generosity and solidarity in the long term. Believing times are bad makes people more selfish.
December 23, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Anyway the problem with a permanent vibescession caused at least in part by social media posturing is that while it might screw Trump in the short term it really screws the politics of generosity and solidarity in the long term. Believing times are bad makes people more selfish.
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The Atlantic had to get the "it was OK for Harlan Crow to have Nazi memorabilia" guy off the bench for this one
This person analyzes American politics for a living
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 23, 2025 at 4:24 PM
The Atlantic had to get the "it was OK for Harlan Crow to have Nazi memorabilia" guy off the bench for this one
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Yes, CECOT is a concentration camp in the guise of a prison. The Venezuelans were the first people to *ever* be released from CECOT since Bukele opened the prison in January 2023. Seriously. The first.
These are concentration camps. No other way to describe them. Truly horrific, and none of it surprising in the least.
30 minutes. Some deportees described sexual assault. Detainee describes the guard sexually assaulting most detainees. Lights left on all day. Prisoners not given clean water.
Now the DHS tour. Nobody spoke to the detainees. Noem's video was in a different area of the prison.
Now the DHS tour. Nobody spoke to the detainees. Noem's video was in a different area of the prison.
December 23, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Yes, CECOT is a concentration camp in the guise of a prison. The Venezuelans were the first people to *ever* be released from CECOT since Bukele opened the prison in January 2023. Seriously. The first.
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These are concentration camps. No other way to describe them. Truly horrific, and none of it surprising in the least.
30 minutes. Some deportees described sexual assault. Detainee describes the guard sexually assaulting most detainees. Lights left on all day. Prisoners not given clean water.
Now the DHS tour. Nobody spoke to the detainees. Noem's video was in a different area of the prison.
Now the DHS tour. Nobody spoke to the detainees. Noem's video was in a different area of the prison.
December 22, 2025 at 11:56 PM
These are concentration camps. No other way to describe them. Truly horrific, and none of it surprising in the least.
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this claim is entirely based on health care and substantially based on misunderstanding European health care systems
"dems would be center right in uk/eu" staggers on, zombie like, immune to evidence
the uk tories just proposed deporting 4-7% of the uk's population - self-partition- they are, in fact, to the right of adam schiff
the uk tories just proposed deporting 4-7% of the uk's population - self-partition- they are, in fact, to the right of adam schiff
December 22, 2025 at 10:49 PM
this claim is entirely based on health care and substantially based on misunderstanding European health care systems
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CBS furiously trying to take down the 60 Minutes segment about human rights abuses at the El Salvadoran prison that Bari Weiss spiked
December 23, 2025 at 2:09 AM
CBS furiously trying to take down the 60 Minutes segment about human rights abuses at the El Salvadoran prison that Bari Weiss spiked
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New: Months before Bari Weiss pulled the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, her outlet The Free Press was joking about the megaprison Trump has lawlessly deported people to.
"The hottest campaign spot…the new Jeffrey Epstein jet…the place to see and be seen."
@andrewperez.bsky.social @swin24.bsky.social
"The hottest campaign spot…the new Jeffrey Epstein jet…the place to see and be seen."
@andrewperez.bsky.social @swin24.bsky.social
Bari Weiss Praised El Salvador’s Dictator Before Spiking '60 Minutes' Story on His Torture Prison
Weiss touted El Salvador’s brutal leader while her blog published jokes about Trump sending immigrants to the CECOT prison.
zeteo.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:36 AM
New: Months before Bari Weiss pulled the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, her outlet The Free Press was joking about the megaprison Trump has lawlessly deported people to.
"The hottest campaign spot…the new Jeffrey Epstein jet…the place to see and be seen."
@andrewperez.bsky.social @swin24.bsky.social
"The hottest campaign spot…the new Jeffrey Epstein jet…the place to see and be seen."
@andrewperez.bsky.social @swin24.bsky.social
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In which we learn that the US attorneys office concluded that Trump traveled on Air Epstein regularly without appearing in he passenger manifest.
December 23, 2025 at 4:33 AM
In which we learn that the US attorneys office concluded that Trump traveled on Air Epstein regularly without appearing in he passenger manifest.
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bari weiss needs to fucking go to prison
December 22, 2025 at 10:51 PM
bari weiss needs to fucking go to prison