Betsy Novotny
@benovo.bsky.social
Retired scientist, horse woman, birder, founder of Luminaria Enclave 🐸🫶🏻💙
https://luminariaenclave.com/
https://luminariaenclave.com/
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Just to be clear. It’s the John F Kennedy center legally.
Just like it’s still the department of defense
Just like it’s still the department of defense
December 18, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Just to be clear. It’s the John F Kennedy center legally.
Just like it’s still the department of defense
Just like it’s still the department of defense
Couldn’t turn down that deal so I just signed up. Want to join me?
December 18, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Couldn’t turn down that deal so I just signed up. Want to join me?
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I vacillate between grief and outright rage.
Heartbreaking and horrifying to go to bed reading about the mass shooting at Brown University and wake up to read about the mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach. Thinking of the victims, their loved ones, and those affected by the hate that drove these attacks.
December 14, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I vacillate between grief and outright rage.
This is from 2016. Still true.
December 14, 2025 at 3:32 PM
This is from 2016. Still true.
Sigh…
Remember when we were not losing jobs in droves, or at odds with all our allies, or attacking other nations for their resources, or deploying masked thugs to terrorize our citizens, or pardoning drug traffickers and violent criminals in exchange for bribes?
It was only little over a year ago.
It was only little over a year ago.
December 14, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Sigh…
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Two victims of previous school shootings — Mia Tretta, who was shot in the stomach in 2019 at Saugus High School, and Zoe Weissman, who survived the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School — are now at Brown. Gun violence is out of control in this country.
December 14, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Two victims of previous school shootings — Mia Tretta, who was shot in the stomach in 2019 at Saugus High School, and Zoe Weissman, who survived the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School — are now at Brown. Gun violence is out of control in this country.
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🚨BREAKING: In a powerful reproach to President Donald Trump, the Indiana Senate voted against a mid-decade redistricting that would have gerrymandered the state’s congressional maps. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
In Blow to Trump, Indiana Rejects GOP Gerrymander
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 11, 2025 at 9:49 PM
🚨BREAKING: In a powerful reproach to President Donald Trump, the Indiana Senate voted against a mid-decade redistricting that would have gerrymandered the state’s congressional maps. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Gallego: "This administration, since they started striking these boats illegally, has been very happy to show their snuff films . Now suddenly they're willing to show the first hit but not the second. Why? ... they're afraid the public is going to see the military killed 2 men that had surrendered."
December 11, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Gallego: "This administration, since they started striking these boats illegally, has been very happy to show their snuff films . Now suddenly they're willing to show the first hit but not the second. Why? ... they're afraid the public is going to see the military killed 2 men that had surrendered."
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ICYMI — “I identified myself as a U.S. citizen and a veteran, but that didn't matter. ICE Agents smashed my window, sprayed tear gas and pepper spray into my car, dragged me out… this experience violated the very principles I fought to defend.”
December 11, 2025 at 4:16 AM
ICYMI — “I identified myself as a U.S. citizen and a veteran, but that didn't matter. ICE Agents smashed my window, sprayed tear gas and pepper spray into my car, dragged me out… this experience violated the very principles I fought to defend.”
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🚨This woman was driving to work in Chicago when a double tented suburban swerved into her vehicle. She was pulled from her vehicle and thrown into their vehicle, “beaten, bloodied, and barefoot.” She is a United States citizen. 1/2
December 10, 2025 at 10:09 PM
🚨This woman was driving to work in Chicago when a double tented suburban swerved into her vehicle. She was pulled from her vehicle and thrown into their vehicle, “beaten, bloodied, and barefoot.” She is a United States citizen. 1/2
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Standing with members of @sbworkersunited.org
in Chicago today, demanding fair pay and dignity on the job.
This holiday season, choose solidarity. Don’t cross the picket line.
in Chicago today, demanding fair pay and dignity on the job.
This holiday season, choose solidarity. Don’t cross the picket line.
December 10, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Standing with members of @sbworkersunited.org
in Chicago today, demanding fair pay and dignity on the job.
This holiday season, choose solidarity. Don’t cross the picket line.
in Chicago today, demanding fair pay and dignity on the job.
This holiday season, choose solidarity. Don’t cross the picket line.
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Wild that the Secretary of Transportation is out here pretending pull-ups are policy while the rest of us are just trying to make sure bridges don’t collapse and planes don’t fall out of the sky.
December 9, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Wild that the Secretary of Transportation is out here pretending pull-ups are policy while the rest of us are just trying to make sure bridges don’t collapse and planes don’t fall out of the sky.
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*glaring at Mitch McConnell *
We are dealing with such corruption in every aspect of our government, I don't know how we undo the damage.
December 9, 2025 at 11:59 AM
*glaring at Mitch McConnell *
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me dressed up and exercising at the airport before my 8 hour flight
December 9, 2025 at 3:20 AM
me dressed up and exercising at the airport before my 8 hour flight
🤬😡🤬😡🤬😡🤬😡
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:46 PM
🤬😡🤬😡🤬😡🤬😡
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Himes: "I think it's really important this video by made public ... it's important people see what it looks like when the full force of the US military is turned on two guys who are clinging to a piece of wood and about to go under just so they have a visceral feel for what it is we're doing"
December 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Himes: "I think it's really important this video by made public ... it's important people see what it looks like when the full force of the US military is turned on two guys who are clinging to a piece of wood and about to go under just so they have a visceral feel for what it is we're doing"
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My uncle, Louis Conter, was the last surviving crew member of the USS Arizona. Quite the character - after the Arizona he became a PBY pilot for the rest of the war and got shot down twice.
Lou Conter, last survivor of the attack on the USS Arizona, dies at 102
www.npr.org/2024/04/03/1...
Lou Conter, last survivor of the attack on the USS Arizona, dies at 102
www.npr.org/2024/04/03/1...
Lou Conter, last survivor of the USS Arizona in Pearl Harbor, dies at 102
The seaman had a storied career in the Navy. Over 27 years he served, he survived the surprise attack by Japan, was shot down over the Pacific and was uninjured in the Korean War.
www.npr.org
December 7, 2025 at 2:52 AM
My uncle, Louis Conter, was the last surviving crew member of the USS Arizona. Quite the character - after the Arizona he became a PBY pilot for the rest of the war and got shot down twice.
Lou Conter, last survivor of the attack on the USS Arizona, dies at 102
www.npr.org/2024/04/03/1...
Lou Conter, last survivor of the attack on the USS Arizona, dies at 102
www.npr.org/2024/04/03/1...
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What did the Nazis do with valuable items of Jewish people they deported or sent to concentration camps? They did the same thing that Nazi ICE rats are doing with the property of Hispanic people.
December 6, 2025 at 7:22 PM
What did the Nazis do with valuable items of Jewish people they deported or sent to concentration camps? They did the same thing that Nazi ICE rats are doing with the property of Hispanic people.
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YO YO YO CALIFORNIA PEEPS!!!
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December 6, 2025 at 9:46 PM
YO YO YO CALIFORNIA PEEPS!!!
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STUDY of 22.7 million vaccinated individuals and 5.9 million unvaccinated individuals: “Vaccinated individuals had a 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19 and no increased risk of all-cause mortality over a median follow-up of 45 months.”
#COVID19
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COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality Among Adults in France
This cohort study uses the data from all adults aged 18 to 59 years living in France on November 1, 2021, to evaluate whether there is an association of receipt of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine with long-t...
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December 5, 2025 at 1:43 AM
STUDY of 22.7 million vaccinated individuals and 5.9 million unvaccinated individuals: “Vaccinated individuals had a 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19 and no increased risk of all-cause mortality over a median follow-up of 45 months.”
#COVID19
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#COVID19
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