Beocat
@beocat.bsky.social
Digital communications professor.
Tech law, digital storytelling, AI and education, journalism.
Into democracy, genealogy, meteorology, stargazing.
I was a Web utopian way back when. Sigh.
Tech law, digital storytelling, AI and education, journalism.
Into democracy, genealogy, meteorology, stargazing.
I was a Web utopian way back when. Sigh.
Reposted by Beocat
MSNBC Grandmas in Skechers seamlessly reclaiming the frog from 4chan Nazis in about six weeks has gotta be the political upset of the century.
October 18, 2025 at 5:52 PM
MSNBC Grandmas in Skechers seamlessly reclaiming the frog from 4chan Nazis in about six weeks has gotta be the political upset of the century.
@gregstonesart.bsky.social A Penguin victory!
Oops. Start processing those tariff refunds.
What a win-win for importers. They've already paid the tariffs and raised prices. Now they get a refund and keep the high prices for more profit. The US consumer always gets screwed.
www.cnbc.com/2025/08/29/t...
What a win-win for importers. They've already paid the tariffs and raised prices. Now they get a refund and keep the high prices for more profit. The US consumer always gets screwed.
www.cnbc.com/2025/08/29/t...
Most Trump tariffs ruled illegal in blow to White House trade policy
The appeals court stayed its ruling until Oct. 14, giving the Trump administration time to ask the Supreme Court to hear the case.
www.cnbc.com
August 29, 2025 at 10:14 PM
@gregstonesart.bsky.social A Penguin victory!
Reposted by Beocat
This pardon seems inevitable, at this point. And 90% of MAGAs will immediately pivot to, "Ghislaine was a victim and Trump has every right to pardon her unfair conviction."
But what about the other 10%? At least a few are not going to let this go.
But what about the other 10%? At least a few are not going to let this go.
There’s only one reason President Pedo would even consider pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell: she says what he wants her to say, and she gets a get-out-of-jail-free card.
July 25, 2025 at 7:49 PM
This pardon seems inevitable, at this point. And 90% of MAGAs will immediately pivot to, "Ghislaine was a victim and Trump has every right to pardon her unfair conviction."
But what about the other 10%? At least a few are not going to let this go.
But what about the other 10%? At least a few are not going to let this go.
Reposted by Beocat
Holy - and I cannot emphasize this enough - shit.
Also, this guy was a senior project 2025 organizer.
Also, this guy was a senior project 2025 organizer.
July 25, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Holy - and I cannot emphasize this enough - shit.
Also, this guy was a senior project 2025 organizer.
Also, this guy was a senior project 2025 organizer.
Reposted by Beocat
DHS CONTRACTORS FOR KIDNAPPING: These job adverts confirm that DHS-ICE is hiring people off the streets with as little as 2 years military service.
Plus CBP is hiring former War on Terror analysts to hunt Americans and migrants alike.
Straight up Secret Police shit.
These were on LinkedIn.
Plus CBP is hiring former War on Terror analysts to hunt Americans and migrants alike.
Straight up Secret Police shit.
These were on LinkedIn.
June 23, 2025 at 12:21 PM
DHS CONTRACTORS FOR KIDNAPPING: These job adverts confirm that DHS-ICE is hiring people off the streets with as little as 2 years military service.
Plus CBP is hiring former War on Terror analysts to hunt Americans and migrants alike.
Straight up Secret Police shit.
These were on LinkedIn.
Plus CBP is hiring former War on Terror analysts to hunt Americans and migrants alike.
Straight up Secret Police shit.
These were on LinkedIn.
Reposted by Beocat
Tech companies only have five ideas: robot slave (actually just human slaves), hallucinatory counter-reality, untaxable money, The Everything App, and Clippy
June 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Tech companies only have five ideas: robot slave (actually just human slaves), hallucinatory counter-reality, untaxable money, The Everything App, and Clippy
Reposted by Beocat
Ahead of No Kings Day, a couple trainings we have coming up that might be useful:
Safety and Deescalation: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
Know Your Rights (w/ACLU): act.aclu.org/a/2025-kyr-t...
Safety and Deescalation: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
Know Your Rights (w/ACLU): act.aclu.org/a/2025-kyr-t...
No Kings: Safety and Deescalation Training for Hosts & Core Teams · No Kings
_**Gather in-person with your planning and safety team to participate in this virtual training.**_
Get together a team of fellow No Kings organizers IN PERSON and dial in as a group for this virtual ...
www.mobilize.us
June 8, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Ahead of No Kings Day, a couple trainings we have coming up that might be useful:
Safety and Deescalation: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
Know Your Rights (w/ACLU): act.aclu.org/a/2025-kyr-t...
Safety and Deescalation: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
Know Your Rights (w/ACLU): act.aclu.org/a/2025-kyr-t...
Reposted by Beocat
If you are arrested during a protest or action against ICE or CPD in Chicago, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com.
(This is an offer for criminal defense; I unfortunately don't do immigration law.)
(This is an offer for criminal defense; I unfortunately don't do immigration law.)
June 7, 2025 at 10:54 PM
If you are arrested during a protest or action against ICE or CPD in Chicago, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com.
(This is an offer for criminal defense; I unfortunately don't do immigration law.)
(This is an offer for criminal defense; I unfortunately don't do immigration law.)
Reposted by Beocat
Hi! Do you want to rip your face off over the constant attacks on science in the US? Here are some actions you can take! They require varying amounts of time, repetitiveness, and sticking your neck out, so hopefully you can find something in here that’s right for you:
🧪 #scicomm
🧪 #scicomm
May 23, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Hi! Do you want to rip your face off over the constant attacks on science in the US? Here are some actions you can take! They require varying amounts of time, repetitiveness, and sticking your neck out, so hopefully you can find something in here that’s right for you:
🧪 #scicomm
🧪 #scicomm
Reposted by Beocat
Just a reminder that most of Trump's executive orders are nothing more than press releases.
After he ordered the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to pull funding for NPR and PBS, the CPB responded that it is authorized and funded by Congress and is not subject to the president's authority.
After he ordered the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to pull funding for NPR and PBS, the CPB responded that it is authorized and funded by Congress and is not subject to the president's authority.
![WASHINGTON, D.C, (May 2, 2025) — Patricia Harrison, President and CEO of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), issued the following statement today regarding the President’s Executive Order on public media:
“CPB is not a federal executive agency subject to the President’s authority. Congress directly authorized and funded CPB to be a private nonprofit corporation wholly independent of the federal government.
“In creating CPB, Congress expressly forbade ‘any department, agency, officer, or employee of the United States to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over educational television or radio broadcasting, or over [CPB] or any of its grantees or contractors…’ 47 U.S.C. § 398(c).”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kjjhbsc3pp3vkqjsivk6z2yd/bafkreie7ky7hw4h6fcaqa6fkkqdyhg6czlebc2udp6fbbsjah4eoj7qg2y@jpeg)
May 2, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Just a reminder that most of Trump's executive orders are nothing more than press releases.
After he ordered the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to pull funding for NPR and PBS, the CPB responded that it is authorized and funded by Congress and is not subject to the president's authority.
After he ordered the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to pull funding for NPR and PBS, the CPB responded that it is authorized and funded by Congress and is not subject to the president's authority.
Reposted by Beocat
Reposted by Beocat
Stop calling it deporting, so MAYBE more Americans will get it. "Deporting" is sending someone back, after due process, to the country they came from, where they arrive a free person. This is human trafficking to a foreign torture prison for the rest of their lives. GET THE LANGUAGE RIGHT.
April 19, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Stop calling it deporting, so MAYBE more Americans will get it. "Deporting" is sending someone back, after due process, to the country they came from, where they arrive a free person. This is human trafficking to a foreign torture prison for the rest of their lives. GET THE LANGUAGE RIGHT.
Reposted by Beocat
Have you said thank you once?
April 4, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Have you said thank you once?
Reposted by Beocat
Exclusive: GOP Rep. Don Bacon plans to introduce a bill aimed at reclaiming Congress’ authority over tariffs.
He's the first House Republican to openly challenge the powers Trump is using to launch a global trade war.
He's the first House Republican to openly challenge the powers Trump is using to launch a global trade war.
House Republican moves to rein in tariff powers
Nebraska Rep. Don Bacon's bill mirrors a bipartisan Senate bill introduced Thursday.
www.politico.com
April 4, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Exclusive: GOP Rep. Don Bacon plans to introduce a bill aimed at reclaiming Congress’ authority over tariffs.
He's the first House Republican to openly challenge the powers Trump is using to launch a global trade war.
He's the first House Republican to openly challenge the powers Trump is using to launch a global trade war.
Reposted by Beocat
I’m not sure how many times this has to happen for people to get it.
Not gonna pretend like I know anything about Carney’s politics because I don’t, but I watched his speech yesterday and he essentially told Trump to fuck off and now Trump’s speaking about him with a modicum of respect.
I feel like there’s a lesson in there somewhere.
I feel like there’s a lesson in there somewhere.
Trump drops the demeaning "governor" stuff and calls Carney by his correct title
March 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I’m not sure how many times this has to happen for people to get it.
Reposted by Beocat
Just a reminder: having a functional moral compass right now is going to make you feel bad all the time; don’t mistakenly hate yourself for that.
March 24, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Just a reminder: having a functional moral compass right now is going to make you feel bad all the time; don’t mistakenly hate yourself for that.
Reposted by Beocat
🚨 WOW: Former National Security Advisor Susan Rice says the Russians "undoubtedly" have all of the information shared on the Trump administration's Signal texts.
Meiselas: Steve Witkoff, was allegedly in Moscow while he was on this group chat. Do you believe the Russians now have all of that information and potentially more?
Rice: Well, yes—the Russians have whatever Witkoff was doing or saying on his personal cell phone. The Russians undoubtedly have it.
Rice: Well, yes—the Russians have whatever Witkoff was doing or saying on his personal cell phone. The Russians undoubtedly have it.
March 26, 2025 at 1:37 AM
🚨 WOW: Former National Security Advisor Susan Rice says the Russians "undoubtedly" have all of the information shared on the Trump administration's Signal texts.
Reposted by Beocat
We will not blindly follow illegal orders because Donald Trump wrote them down on a piece of paper.
Illinois follows the laws of the land – not the decrees of an aspiring king hell bent on disenfranchising millions of voters who deserve to have their voice heard.
Illinois follows the laws of the land – not the decrees of an aspiring king hell bent on disenfranchising millions of voters who deserve to have their voice heard.
March 25, 2025 at 11:36 PM
We will not blindly follow illegal orders because Donald Trump wrote them down on a piece of paper.
Illinois follows the laws of the land – not the decrees of an aspiring king hell bent on disenfranchising millions of voters who deserve to have their voice heard.
Illinois follows the laws of the land – not the decrees of an aspiring king hell bent on disenfranchising millions of voters who deserve to have their voice heard.
I wrote my senators, my representative, and my governor regarding this massive breach of security that occurred either because people were ignorant of protocol, laws, and basic technology, or because they didn't care to keep Americans and our troops safe. Please write to yours, too.
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
I wrote my senators, my representative, and my governor regarding this massive breach of security that occurred either because people were ignorant of protocol, laws, and basic technology, or because they didn't care to keep Americans and our troops safe. Please write to yours, too.
Reposted by Beocat
Shout out to Jeffrey Goldberg for reporting on this now instead of waiting two years to put it in a book.
March 24, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Shout out to Jeffrey Goldberg for reporting on this now instead of waiting two years to put it in a book.
Reposted by Beocat
It’s great that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is pushing to restrict the use of artificial dyes so that we can be healthier before dying of entirely preventable infectious diseases.
March 23, 2025 at 10:34 PM
It’s great that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is pushing to restrict the use of artificial dyes so that we can be healthier before dying of entirely preventable infectious diseases.
How dehumanizing--"one-offs"?
Mike Waltz on obvious mistakes that have been made in sending women or non-TdA members to a slave prison in El Salvador: "These kind of one-offs we'll deal with on an individual basis. I can't speak to those individuals cases and the details of the individual cases."
March 23, 2025 at 2:57 PM
How dehumanizing--"one-offs"?
Reposted by Beocat
The thing is not only will DOGE end up costing exponentially more than any supposed savings, it will kill a lot of people, maybe of historic proportions. Could it be that was the real goal all along?
March 23, 2025 at 1:19 AM
The thing is not only will DOGE end up costing exponentially more than any supposed savings, it will kill a lot of people, maybe of historic proportions. Could it be that was the real goal all along?
Reposted by Beocat
So look at that. DOGE has cost the US Treasury fucking half a trillion dollars. HALF A TRILLION DOLLARS. This is your cost savings.
To review what we from @washingtonpost.com are reporting out of the IRS today:
- Projected tax revenue this year is down 10% ($500 billion) as Trump's downsizing is emboldening tax cheats
- IRS is nearing an agreement with ICE to assist on mass deportations
- Projected tax revenue this year is down 10% ($500 billion) as Trump's downsizing is emboldening tax cheats
- IRS is nearing an agreement with ICE to assist on mass deportations
March 22, 2025 at 9:20 PM
So look at that. DOGE has cost the US Treasury fucking half a trillion dollars. HALF A TRILLION DOLLARS. This is your cost savings.