MsBeukema
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MsBeukema
@melissasrb.bsky.social
High school social studies teacher, political nerd, and mom with a cool husband too. Longtime Minnesotan originally from California.
Fascinating survey data on the missing Biden voters by Lake Research. The voters who sat out in '24 weren't looking for a centrist or turned off by trans rights. They want a genuine economic populist agenda: take on corporate greed, lower costs, and make the wealthy pay their fair share.
July 20, 2025 at 2:23 AM
The media has got to stop coddling these white women who align themselves with fascism, only to cry like they had no idea fascism was happening two seconds later.

Murkowski is not a victim.
She was not cheated.

This is what she voted for. This is what she’ll vote for again and again.
Murkowski said she feels “cheated” after she won a concession in the OBBBA to protect wind and solar projects, only to see the Trump administration issue recent orders that she said seem designed to quickly quash such projects.
www.adn.com/business-eco...
July 20, 2025 at 2:17 AM
We have a new kitten ❤️🐱
As promised: the kitten.
May 29, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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I need y'all to sit with this headline and understand what is being done to our community. They're trying to criminalize our very existence.

This is a campaign of eradication.

www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/rcna...
March 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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what a graph
February 6, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Popular or not Dems cannot bend on the need for trans people to be treated with basic humanity and respect. If we give up that because the right made trans people unpopular, we give up everything. They’ll dice us group by group like a salami. We die on this hill or we die alone in a ditch
February 5, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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"Controversial anti-sex trafficking group is coming to Minneapolis: Our Rescue, the focus of the film 'Sound of Freedom,' plans to train police in a new city-run community safety center, drawing concerns."
Controversial anti-sex trafficking group is coming to Minneapolis
Our Rescue, the focus of the film “Sound of Freedom,” plans to train police in a new city-run community safety center, drawing concerns.
www.startribune.com
February 5, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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An email obtained by NPR says NIH employees are subject to a travel freeze and offers of employment are being rescinded. Scientists worry about disruptions to critical research.
National Institutes of Health cancels scientific meetings after Trump directives
An email obtained by NPR says NIH employees are subject to a travel freeze and offers of employment are being rescinded. Scientists worry about disruptions to critical research.
www.npr.org
January 23, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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one reason democrats should cut the “we just want to work together” shit is that you lose the opportunity to do things like, for instance, hold a loud press conference on the fact that trumps ICE thugs arrested a veteran www.newarknj.gov/news/mayor-r...
News: MAYOR RAS J. BARAKA’S STATEMENT ON ICE RAID ON NEWARK BUSINESS ESTABLISHMENT
Official Page of Newark, NJ News: MAYOR RAS J. BARAKA’S STATEMENT ON ICE RAID ON NEWARK BUSINESS ESTABLISHMENT
www.newarknj.gov
January 23, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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Did your child lose their book collection in the Los Angeles fires? Are you a teacher at a school that lost its library or your classroom library? Whether you need one book or a whole library, we can replace your books. 📚

Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏
January 16, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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one thing i’m stuck on is this idea that “masculine” energy means license to act like a chud in public, as opposed to more traditional notions of public masculinity, such as those that put a premium on the performance of integrity, honesty, honor and generosity.
January 16, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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The GOP’s new bill requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote is a solution in search of a problem. Only U.S. citizens vote, with vanishingly rare exceptions. Even though the problem is fictional, the threat of disenfranchising millions of eligible Americans is very real.
House Bill Would Hurt American Voters
Republicans have reintroduced the SAVE Act, a bill that could disenfranchise millions of American voters.
www.brennancenter.org
January 15, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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We see right through this kind of behavior.
Former Aide Calls Out Rep. Nancy Mace Over The Reason She's Wearing A Sling After 'Assault'
What a fraud she is.
www.comicsands.com
December 13, 2024 at 4:04 PM
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Wow, taxing the rich works!!! Who would have thought????
npr.org NPR @npr.org · Dec 13
In Washington, D.C., a tax on residents earning more than $250,000 a year is boosting the wages of child care workers. Two years in, it's proving to be a great investment.
How D.C. tackled a child care crunch through a tax hike on the rich
In Washington, D.C., a tax on residents earning more than $250,000 a year is boosting the wages of child care workers. Two years in, it's proving to be a great investment.
www.npr.org
December 13, 2024 at 9:03 PM
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the clear sign that they just don’t see these kids as real people is the endless concern over hypotheticals and the indifference to the reality that actual children are more likely to kill themselves because of these bans
Kavanaugh also brings up "detransitioners," people who "regret" their decision to transition genders. Like Alito, he cites European countries that are "pulling back" from gender-affirming care for minors, saying it's a "yellow light" or "red light" for the court that Europe is "pumping the brakes."
December 4, 2024 at 4:01 PM
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On point.
November 25, 2024 at 9:32 PM
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This needs to be said, loud, and often.
November 25, 2024 at 5:20 PM
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H.R. 9494, the attack on non-profits bill, has passed the house.

But it went from being supported by 52 Dems to just 15.

Time to get on your Senator's case and halt the bill there.
November 21, 2024 at 4:06 PM