Beth
@bethmhg.bsky.social
Illinois housewife. I have 2 kids, one with autism. Love to knit and listen to audiobooks and podcasts.
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Penske Media cuts mark the latest tremors in a brutal year for media jobs, as rolling layoffs and mergers leave newsrooms across the industry in an anxious holding pattern.
Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/media-layo...
Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/media-layo...
Media’s Unhappy Holidays
Penske Media cuts mark the latest tremors in a brutal year for media jobs, as rolling layoffs and mergers leave newsrooms across the industry in an anxious holding pattern.
www.status.news
December 11, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Penske Media cuts mark the latest tremors in a brutal year for media jobs, as rolling layoffs and mergers leave newsrooms across the industry in an anxious holding pattern.
Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/media-layo...
Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/media-layo...
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Jeffrey Epstein called her “my great defender.”
Emails and texts show Goldman Sachs’ top attorney Kathy Ruemmler disparaged reporting on Epstein’s abuse as “rehashed crap,” in 2018 and helped craft a 2019 publication relations comment denying he got a sweetheart deal.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/11/p...
Emails and texts show Goldman Sachs’ top attorney Kathy Ruemmler disparaged reporting on Epstein’s abuse as “rehashed crap,” in 2018 and helped craft a 2019 publication relations comment denying he got a sweetheart deal.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/11/p...
Former Obama White House attorney dismissed report on abuse allegations and advised Epstein media strategy | CNN Politics
When billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein needed legal advice, help responding to negative press, or just moral support, he often turned to an unexpected confidante – Kathy Ruemmler, an elite atto...
www.cnn.com
December 11, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Jeffrey Epstein called her “my great defender.”
Emails and texts show Goldman Sachs’ top attorney Kathy Ruemmler disparaged reporting on Epstein’s abuse as “rehashed crap,” in 2018 and helped craft a 2019 publication relations comment denying he got a sweetheart deal.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/11/p...
Emails and texts show Goldman Sachs’ top attorney Kathy Ruemmler disparaged reporting on Epstein’s abuse as “rehashed crap,” in 2018 and helped craft a 2019 publication relations comment denying he got a sweetheart deal.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/11/p...
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Europe must be ready when the AI bubble bursts on.ft.com/4pXnjda | opinion
Europe must be ready when the AI bubble bursts
A market correction will give the EU the chance to offer a trust-based alternative to American tech
on.ft.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Europe must be ready when the AI bubble bursts on.ft.com/4pXnjda | opinion
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A French charity is testing an unusual fund-raising approach in the fine art world: Raffling off a Picasso painting worth more than 1 million euros to one winner. Each of the raffle tickets is on sale for 100 euros, and proceeds will go toward research into Alzheimer’s disease. trib.al/Xi9XqjE
December 10, 2025 at 5:18 PM
A French charity is testing an unusual fund-raising approach in the fine art world: Raffling off a Picasso painting worth more than 1 million euros to one winner. Each of the raffle tickets is on sale for 100 euros, and proceeds will go toward research into Alzheimer’s disease. trib.al/Xi9XqjE
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I'm sorry to add to this conversation but this section from the latest Lizza novel is worth elevating.
December 11, 2025 at 2:31 AM
I'm sorry to add to this conversation but this section from the latest Lizza novel is worth elevating.
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Merz offers to host Ukraine talks so deal not done ‘above Europe’s head’ on.ft.com/3Yk4mWf
Merz offers to host Ukraine talks so deal not done ‘above Europe’s head’
Leaders of Germany, France and UK hold ‘detailed’ call with Donald Trump about latest draft of peace plan
on.ft.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Merz offers to host Ukraine talks so deal not done ‘above Europe’s head’ on.ft.com/3Yk4mWf
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The Aurora City Council has approved a $688 million budget for 2026 that includes cuts to funding across city departments and the loss of around 140 positions.
Aurora City Council approves 2026 city budget with funding and staffing cuts
The Aurora City Council has approved a budget for 2026 that includes cuts to funding across city departments, including the loss of around 140 positions.
trib.al
December 11, 2025 at 1:30 PM
The Aurora City Council has approved a $688 million budget for 2026 that includes cuts to funding across city departments and the loss of around 140 positions.
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At least while we are screwing over our allies around the world we will be doing it in an anti-woke font.
December 10, 2025 at 9:44 PM
At least while we are screwing over our allies around the world we will be doing it in an anti-woke font.
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Trump's energy secretary wants to bigfoot tribes' stewardship of their land
Trump's energy secretary wants to bigfoot tribes' stewardship of their land
Chris Wright says letting Native Americans veto energy projects creates "unnecessary burdens."
www.motherjones.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Trump's energy secretary wants to bigfoot tribes' stewardship of their land
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When a well-off, widely respected pillar of the community and member of the hospital’s board can’t get the care he needs at the town’s only hospital, it raises the question: Who can?
Read the 5th and final part of our "Sick in a Hospital Town" series:
Read the 5th and final part of our "Sick in a Hospital Town" series:
Sick in a Hospital Town, Part 5: Too Big to Fight
When a well-off, widely respected pillar of the community and member of the hospital’s board can’t get the care he needed at Phoebe, it raises the question: Who can?
projects.propublica.org
December 11, 2025 at 1:30 PM
When a well-off, widely respected pillar of the community and member of the hospital’s board can’t get the care he needs at the town’s only hospital, it raises the question: Who can?
Read the 5th and final part of our "Sick in a Hospital Town" series:
Read the 5th and final part of our "Sick in a Hospital Town" series:
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A REPORTER MUST STAND UP WHEN TRUMP ATTACKS THEM:
As Trump threatens the NY Times with sedition/treason and tries to take over CNN, a reporter must be heroic. You'll get fired - and your next job will pay 2X
GET THE NEW THURSDAY COUNTDOWN PODCAST HERE: tinyurl.com/45ssudsf
As Trump threatens the NY Times with sedition/treason and tries to take over CNN, a reporter must be heroic. You'll get fired - and your next job will pay 2X
GET THE NEW THURSDAY COUNTDOWN PODCAST HERE: tinyurl.com/45ssudsf
December 11, 2025 at 12:20 PM
A REPORTER MUST STAND UP WHEN TRUMP ATTACKS THEM:
As Trump threatens the NY Times with sedition/treason and tries to take over CNN, a reporter must be heroic. You'll get fired - and your next job will pay 2X
GET THE NEW THURSDAY COUNTDOWN PODCAST HERE: tinyurl.com/45ssudsf
As Trump threatens the NY Times with sedition/treason and tries to take over CNN, a reporter must be heroic. You'll get fired - and your next job will pay 2X
GET THE NEW THURSDAY COUNTDOWN PODCAST HERE: tinyurl.com/45ssudsf
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This keeps happening.
December 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
This keeps happening.
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People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!
December 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!
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"Hegseth approved contingency plans...The military would attempt to rescue survivors who appeared to be helpless, shipwrecked."
Except:
"On the day of the attack, the U.S. military had no personnel or equipment on hand to rescue anyone."
Except:
"On the day of the attack, the U.S. military had no personnel or equipment on hand to rescue anyone."
December 11, 2025 at 1:34 PM
"Hegseth approved contingency plans...The military would attempt to rescue survivors who appeared to be helpless, shipwrecked."
Except:
"On the day of the attack, the U.S. military had no personnel or equipment on hand to rescue anyone."
Except:
"On the day of the attack, the U.S. military had no personnel or equipment on hand to rescue anyone."
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It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
December 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
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"You can and should eat garbage, it helps strengthen your immune system. I found a doctor in Tucson who proved it before he disappeared. Anyway, I just came by to tell you: I hate your kids—I mean, vaccines—and I, um, want them all gone. Yeah, I want vaccines gone."
I’m Robert F. Kennedy and I Hate Your Kids—I Mean, Um, Vaccines
“A federal vaccine committee took a major step toward Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s goal of remaking the childhood vaccine schedule, vot...
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December 11, 2025 at 1:30 PM
"You can and should eat garbage, it helps strengthen your immune system. I found a doctor in Tucson who proved it before he disappeared. Anyway, I just came by to tell you: I hate your kids—I mean, vaccines—and I, um, want them all gone. Yeah, I want vaccines gone."
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So the US just hijacked an oil tanker and the president casually says “I guess we keep the oil”
Is this not just theft
Is this not just theft
December 11, 2025 at 12:21 AM
So the US just hijacked an oil tanker and the president casually says “I guess we keep the oil”
Is this not just theft
Is this not just theft
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Sam Altman seems like such a subnormal that his dumb toy IS probably better than him at parenting, in the sense that a wire hanger would be a better parent than Joan Crawford.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Sam Altman seems like such a subnormal that his dumb toy IS probably better than him at parenting, in the sense that a wire hanger would be a better parent than Joan Crawford.
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Every part of this is bonkers. The intro is bonkers. The transition to his health is bonkers. The mention that other presidents didn't need cognitive exams is bonkers. The claim that this screening test is somehow hard is bonkers. The idea that criticism of him is treason is bonkers. All of it.
December 10, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Every part of this is bonkers. The intro is bonkers. The transition to his health is bonkers. The mention that other presidents didn't need cognitive exams is bonkers. The claim that this screening test is somehow hard is bonkers. The idea that criticism of him is treason is bonkers. All of it.
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CINCINNATI: “ICE agent arrested on domestic violence charges for for alleged assault, strangulation”
www.wlwt.com/article/ice-...
www.wlwt.com/article/ice-...
December 9, 2025 at 7:14 PM
CINCINNATI: “ICE agent arrested on domestic violence charges for for alleged assault, strangulation”
www.wlwt.com/article/ice-...
www.wlwt.com/article/ice-...
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Leaders of a Catholic church in Massachusetts kept a Nativity display with an anti-ICE message in place on Monday, defying an order from the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston to remove it. The display shows Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus missing, replaced by a sign reading “ICE WAS HERE.” trib.al/adPW46y
December 9, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Leaders of a Catholic church in Massachusetts kept a Nativity display with an anti-ICE message in place on Monday, defying an order from the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston to remove it. The display shows Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus missing, replaced by a sign reading “ICE WAS HERE.” trib.al/adPW46y
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Read this great piece by James Ball on the right-wing assault on attempts to identify disinformation. www.theverge.com/features/839...
The disinformation wars are here
How Joe Biden’s administration caved to the right in the battle for truth.
www.theverge.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Read this great piece by James Ball on the right-wing assault on attempts to identify disinformation. www.theverge.com/features/839...