babsbeaty
@babsbeaty.bsky.social
St Paul, MN. Coffeeshops, city life, books and progressive politics. Bad church lady. Pretty good enneagram teacher and coach. https://linktr.ee/babeaty
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“We killed a bird, cooked it, and ate it as part of a feast day,” is to my knowledge a concept which every culture has. How can one possible fail at comprehending the Thanksgiving turkey?
It’s how you end up with language like “paperwork American” or the idea that Thanksgiving turkey is some sort of natural ethno-national tradition that certain other groups are incapable of ever appreciating
November 13, 2025 at 9:44 PM
“We killed a bird, cooked it, and ate it as part of a feast day,” is to my knowledge a concept which every culture has. How can one possible fail at comprehending the Thanksgiving turkey?
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also: elite reporters handle criticism from the right better than criticism from the left for two reasons:
1) they know and like the right-wingers
2) left-wing criticism focuses on competence, and right-wing criticism focuses on ideology
1) they know and like the right-wingers
2) left-wing criticism focuses on competence, and right-wing criticism focuses on ideology
November 13, 2025 at 6:24 PM
also: elite reporters handle criticism from the right better than criticism from the left for two reasons:
1) they know and like the right-wingers
2) left-wing criticism focuses on competence, and right-wing criticism focuses on ideology
1) they know and like the right-wingers
2) left-wing criticism focuses on competence, and right-wing criticism focuses on ideology
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Happy holidays!
Annual shoutout to that one time in early November when I was getting lunch at the bar and the manager put on Christmas carols.
The entire waitstaff went deadly silent, disappeared into the back room, and then the GAME OF THRONES soundtrack kicked on.
The entire waitstaff went deadly silent, disappeared into the back room, and then the GAME OF THRONES soundtrack kicked on.
November 13, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Happy holidays!
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Commentary: New Mexico is expanding its free, high-quality child care program so all families can access it. Families will save an average of $12,000 per year with this program. It’s the first of its kind in the nation, and I hope other states will follow. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/13/r...
Child care can be free and universal • Ohio Capital Journal
New Mexico is now expanding its free, high-quality child care program so that all families can access it. Families will save an average of $12,000 per year with this program. It’s the first of its…
ohiocapitaljournal.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Commentary: New Mexico is expanding its free, high-quality child care program so all families can access it. Families will save an average of $12,000 per year with this program. It’s the first of its kind in the nation, and I hope other states will follow. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/13/r...
November 13, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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It all would have been much easier if, as would have happened if we were remotely a serious country, it all ended with the Access Hollywood interview.
November 13, 2025 at 3:46 AM
It all would have been much easier if, as would have happened if we were remotely a serious country, it all ended with the Access Hollywood interview.
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100% this.
Would you be ok with your 15 year old daughter giving partially nude massages to men in their 30s—50s? How about your 15 year old son? Fifteen year old CHILDREN do not have the reasoning to be involved in any of this. If I learned ANYTHING after 37 years of teaching it’s this. Dead wrong.
November 13, 2025 at 3:30 AM
100% this.
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CLAIM: The government is run by a secret society of pedophiles
RATING: FALSE. This society is in no way a secret
RATING: FALSE. This society is in no way a secret
November 13, 2025 at 2:06 AM
CLAIM: The government is run by a secret society of pedophiles
RATING: FALSE. This society is in no way a secret
RATING: FALSE. This society is in no way a secret
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Me: Don’t expect too much, it’s not like the emails will have a smoking gun.
The emails: Please see attached smokinggun.pdf.
The emails: Please see attached smokinggun.pdf.
November 12, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Me: Don’t expect too much, it’s not like the emails will have a smoking gun.
The emails: Please see attached smokinggun.pdf.
The emails: Please see attached smokinggun.pdf.
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“But where will it end?” was the handwringing question about Me Too. A question asked by people who didn’t want it to begin.
November 12, 2025 at 11:28 PM
“But where will it end?” was the handwringing question about Me Too. A question asked by people who didn’t want it to begin.
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One of the craziest things that has become apparent to me as I’ve gotten older is people are just putting “hello yes would you like to do crimes? Here is my plan to do crimes, let us join together to do the crimes at this specific time and place” in emails
November 12, 2025 at 9:57 PM
One of the craziest things that has become apparent to me as I’ve gotten older is people are just putting “hello yes would you like to do crimes? Here is my plan to do crimes, let us join together to do the crimes at this specific time and place” in emails
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Or the poor can die, we will be fine - Tom Emmer
November 12, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Or the poor can die, we will be fine - Tom Emmer
At times I’ve had an almost out of body sensation that I am not just living today, but I am experiencing history happen. I felt it right after I cast my vote for Obama. And when my state legalized same sex marriage and the bridge near my house was flying rainbow flags.
November 12, 2025 at 8:45 PM
At times I’ve had an almost out of body sensation that I am not just living today, but I am experiencing history happen. I felt it right after I cast my vote for Obama. And when my state legalized same sex marriage and the bridge near my house was flying rainbow flags.
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I'm not trying to center myself here (especially because mine was not CSA). I say it because I know many folks are feeling this, too--that it DOES matter to us every time a famous guy gets away with this shit, and every time he doesn't.
November 12, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I'm not trying to center myself here (especially because mine was not CSA). I say it because I know many folks are feeling this, too--that it DOES matter to us every time a famous guy gets away with this shit, and every time he doesn't.
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The funny thing is the people who always bring up Bernie Sanders in my mentions always miss the fact that if I were a fanboy for any politician, it would be Obama. But we shouldn’t be a fanboy/girl for any of these people. They are our employees and we should hold them to work standards.
November 12, 2025 at 1:28 PM
The funny thing is the people who always bring up Bernie Sanders in my mentions always miss the fact that if I were a fanboy for any politician, it would be Obama. But we shouldn’t be a fanboy/girl for any of these people. They are our employees and we should hold them to work standards.
So many. Most recently The Revisionaries (blew my mind in ways I can’t explain) Why Fish Don’t Exist (science book became history book became biography became romance and had me in tears) and My Best Friend’s Exorcism (best depiction of teenage girlhood, laughed, ugly sobbed and was so proud of us).
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 12, 2025 at 6:16 AM
So many. Most recently The Revisionaries (blew my mind in ways I can’t explain) Why Fish Don’t Exist (science book became history book became biography became romance and had me in tears) and My Best Friend’s Exorcism (best depiction of teenage girlhood, laughed, ugly sobbed and was so proud of us).
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Sometimes people that think they are genius of strategy just come right out and say they don’t care what happens because they are well off and it doesn’t effect them
November 12, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Sometimes people that think they are genius of strategy just come right out and say they don’t care what happens because they are well off and it doesn’t effect them
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Even as far as Real Politik Parenting goes this is already outdated thinking! STEM is not the silver bullet elites imagined. Nice to be good at math, but this is Joe Jackson screaming at his kids to ballroom dance.
November 11, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Even as far as Real Politik Parenting goes this is already outdated thinking! STEM is not the silver bullet elites imagined. Nice to be good at math, but this is Joe Jackson screaming at his kids to ballroom dance.
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#MorningVibe
Simple truth. I’ll add that people also need affordable housing & affordable healthcare.
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Simple truth. I’ll add that people also need affordable housing & affordable healthcare.
🎥 myvotemyvoice (IG)
November 11, 2025 at 12:37 PM
#MorningVibe
Simple truth. I’ll add that people also need affordable housing & affordable healthcare.
🎥 myvotemyvoice (IG)
Simple truth. I’ll add that people also need affordable housing & affordable healthcare.
🎥 myvotemyvoice (IG)
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In 1972, Shirley Chisholm declared her candidacy for POTUS, shattering barriers as the first woman & African American to seek the nomination of a major political party.
Her #CupOfJoe was 'Unbought and Unbossed’, something we could use more of.
Her #CupOfJoe was 'Unbought and Unbossed’, something we could use more of.
November 11, 2025 at 1:26 PM
In 1972, Shirley Chisholm declared her candidacy for POTUS, shattering barriers as the first woman & African American to seek the nomination of a major political party.
Her #CupOfJoe was 'Unbought and Unbossed’, something we could use more of.
Her #CupOfJoe was 'Unbought and Unbossed’, something we could use more of.
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Senator @shevrinjones.bsky.social
(FL-D) Truth be told:
“Reopening government is not the same as fixing what got us here.”
And MAGA Republicans hellbent on destroying Obamacare IS what got us here.
Keep voting them out because our lives are not bargaining chips.
That is our assignment in 2026!
(FL-D) Truth be told:
“Reopening government is not the same as fixing what got us here.”
And MAGA Republicans hellbent on destroying Obamacare IS what got us here.
Keep voting them out because our lives are not bargaining chips.
That is our assignment in 2026!
November 11, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Senator @shevrinjones.bsky.social
(FL-D) Truth be told:
“Reopening government is not the same as fixing what got us here.”
And MAGA Republicans hellbent on destroying Obamacare IS what got us here.
Keep voting them out because our lives are not bargaining chips.
That is our assignment in 2026!
(FL-D) Truth be told:
“Reopening government is not the same as fixing what got us here.”
And MAGA Republicans hellbent on destroying Obamacare IS what got us here.
Keep voting them out because our lives are not bargaining chips.
That is our assignment in 2026!
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Apparently ICE agents are now removing the license plates from their cars.
Which is what the boogaloo boys and the proud boys did during the uprisings in 2020 here in Minneapolis
Which is what the boogaloo boys and the proud boys did during the uprisings in 2020 here in Minneapolis
November 11, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Apparently ICE agents are now removing the license plates from their cars.
Which is what the boogaloo boys and the proud boys did during the uprisings in 2020 here in Minneapolis
Which is what the boogaloo boys and the proud boys did during the uprisings in 2020 here in Minneapolis
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Glad this is getting said.
Trump doesn't understand health insurance and he doesn't really understand real estate financing.
Trump's 50-Year Mortgage Idea Could Backfire, Housing Expert Says - Business Insider share.google/OUCyLR22lCbl...
Trump's 50-Year Mortgage Idea Could Backfire, Housing Expert Says - Business Insider share.google/OUCyLR22lCbl...
Why Trump's 50-year mortgage idea could backfire
Trump's idea for a 50-year US mortgage doesn't address the main problem at the heart of the housing affordability crisis.
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November 11, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Glad this is getting said.
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"If streateries are a pandemic relic, then they’re a monument to a moment when we correctly ordered our local politics around building community and creating a built environment that fosters maximum public benefit.
"We would be wise to re-commit ourselves."
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Opinion: D.C.'s new streatery rules are a costly miscalculation
The city's streatery guidelines are punishing small businesses and vibrant neighborhoods. We need a permanent solution to keep these staples of the city’s dining scene.
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November 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
"If streateries are a pandemic relic, then they’re a monument to a moment when we correctly ordered our local politics around building community and creating a built environment that fosters maximum public benefit.
"We would be wise to re-commit ourselves."
Our latest opinion piece:
"We would be wise to re-commit ourselves."
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