@bepostema.bsky.social
Wife. Mom. Chorister.
Day job: librarian (for the time being)
Fargo. Yes, really.
Day job: librarian (for the time being)
Fargo. Yes, really.
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Melissa Hortman Died in a Shocking Act of Political Violence. This Is the Story of Her Life
The Minnesota Speaker’s closest friends and family open up for the first time.
Read @stephenrodrick.bsky.social's exclusive: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The Minnesota Speaker’s closest friends and family open up for the first time.
Read @stephenrodrick.bsky.social's exclusive: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
December 18, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Melissa Hortman Died in a Shocking Act of Political Violence. This Is the Story of Her Life
The Minnesota Speaker’s closest friends and family open up for the first time.
Read @stephenrodrick.bsky.social's exclusive: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The Minnesota Speaker’s closest friends and family open up for the first time.
Read @stephenrodrick.bsky.social's exclusive: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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This is the scandal. Trump isn’t targeting dangerous people. He’s targeting peaceful immigrants. Almost exclusively.
November 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
This is the scandal. Trump isn’t targeting dangerous people. He’s targeting peaceful immigrants. Almost exclusively.
Again and again and again -- the more a faith community is into "headship" and authoritarianism, the more likely there is to be abuse:
NEW: The leaders of an Old Apostolic Lutheran Church community in Minnesota enabled a child abuser by pressuring his victims to forgive and forget his sins — so that they could never speak of them again.
With @startribune.com
With @startribune.com
Young Girls Were Sexually Abused by a Church Member. They Were Told to Forgive and Forget.
In Minnesota, leaders of an Old Apostolic Lutheran Church community enabled a child abuser by telling his victims that once the sins were “washed away in the blood of reconciliation,” they could never...
www.propublica.org
November 20, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Again and again and again -- the more a faith community is into "headship" and authoritarianism, the more likely there is to be abuse:
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Do you really think a Department of Justice that lies to judges about grand jury indictments is going to be open and honest about the Epstein Files?
November 20, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Do you really think a Department of Justice that lies to judges about grand jury indictments is going to be open and honest about the Epstein Files?
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Eight residents of the tiny tourist town of Medora, North Dakota, decided to hold their own No Kings rally outside Theodore Roosevelt National Park rather than drive to a neighboring city. “We’re all so sad that our national parks are closed,” said Sandy Baertsch. (Photo courtesy of S. Lambert)
October 18, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Eight residents of the tiny tourist town of Medora, North Dakota, decided to hold their own No Kings rally outside Theodore Roosevelt National Park rather than drive to a neighboring city. “We’re all so sad that our national parks are closed,” said Sandy Baertsch. (Photo courtesy of S. Lambert)
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In a sane world, Fox host Brian Kilmeade would be fired and shunned for his depraved comments that homeless people should be euthanized. That’s sick (and deeply ignorant), but sicker still is that it’s tolerated.
September 13, 2025 at 7:09 PM
In a sane world, Fox host Brian Kilmeade would be fired and shunned for his depraved comments that homeless people should be euthanized. That’s sick (and deeply ignorant), but sicker still is that it’s tolerated.
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You might have missed this GOOD NEWS!
After a week in detention, ICE released 300 Korean Nationals & Trump asked them to STAY & GO BACK TO WORK at Hyundai.
They declined & went home, but were assured they would have no problems on re-entry.
ICE really fucked up.
m-en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN2025...
After a week in detention, ICE released 300 Korean Nationals & Trump asked them to STAY & GO BACK TO WORK at Hyundai.
They declined & went home, but were assured they would have no problems on re-entry.
ICE really fucked up.
m-en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN2025...
September 13, 2025 at 7:43 PM
You might have missed this GOOD NEWS!
After a week in detention, ICE released 300 Korean Nationals & Trump asked them to STAY & GO BACK TO WORK at Hyundai.
They declined & went home, but were assured they would have no problems on re-entry.
ICE really fucked up.
m-en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN2025...
After a week in detention, ICE released 300 Korean Nationals & Trump asked them to STAY & GO BACK TO WORK at Hyundai.
They declined & went home, but were assured they would have no problems on re-entry.
ICE really fucked up.
m-en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN2025...
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One would hope the obvious fact that a crazy racist billionaire can reprogram an AI bot to also be crazy racist in the blink of an eye will make anyone pause just a sec before they open up any other AI tool and treat it as gospel.
July 9, 2025 at 2:52 PM
One would hope the obvious fact that a crazy racist billionaire can reprogram an AI bot to also be crazy racist in the blink of an eye will make anyone pause just a sec before they open up any other AI tool and treat it as gospel.
But we're above the "bugline" . . .
The worst state when it came to vermin was estimated to have a horrific 241 rodents for every 1,000 homes.
Map reveals most rodent-infested US states
www.newsweek.com
July 9, 2025 at 3:21 PM
But we're above the "bugline" . . .
Having gone through the Red River of the North floods of '97, '01, '06, '09, '10, '11, and '14, I know firsthand the NWS is a vital service to protect lives:
Regarding the flooding: GOP doesn’t want to fund the programs that predict these things, but they still want to blame the federal government for not predicting this. DOGE has consequences
July 5, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Having gone through the Red River of the North floods of '97, '01, '06, '09, '10, '11, and '14, I know firsthand the NWS is a vital service to protect lives:
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We are now in the “human sacrifices for the greed of billionaires” phase of our trip to a Republican dystopia.
TX officials blame an inaccurate forecast by NWS for the deadly results of the flood, incl girls still missing from a camp. In the time of climate change we need better weather prediction from fed’l resources, not the dramatic cuts Trump/Musk have imposed. joycevance.substack.com/p/when-the-c...
When the Cuts Hit Home
I am not an alarmist.
joycevance.substack.com
July 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM
We are now in the “human sacrifices for the greed of billionaires” phase of our trip to a Republican dystopia.
And so it begins--
The first in a long list of rural hospitals closing due to Trump's bill. This hospital is in Don Bacon's district.
He voted for Trump's bill this week, and he voted for this. nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news...
He voted for Trump's bill this week, and he voted for this. nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news...
Southwest Nebraska hospital announces plans to close, blames uncertainty over funding
Community Hospital in McCook announced Wednesday that it will close Curtis Medical Center in Curtis, winding down its services over the next several months.
nebraskapublicmedia.org
July 3, 2025 at 5:43 PM
And so it begins--
Yes, we do:
The revolution is full of 60-year-old women who love their trans kids.
June 15, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Yes, we do:
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The Trump administration is looking to cut funding for already underfunded tribal colleges and universities by nearly 90%.
College leaders had not been warned of the proposed cuts nor consulted during the budgeting process.
By @mattkrupnick.bsky.social
College leaders had not been warned of the proposed cuts nor consulted during the budgeting process.
By @mattkrupnick.bsky.social
Trump Wants to Cut Tribal College Funding by Nearly 90%, Putting Them at Risk of Closing
ProPublica found that Congress was underfunding tribal colleges by a quarter-billion dollars per year. Rather than fixing the problem, proposed federal funding cuts unveiled this week would devastate…
www.propublica.org
June 9, 2025 at 12:30 AM
The Trump administration is looking to cut funding for already underfunded tribal colleges and universities by nearly 90%.
College leaders had not been warned of the proposed cuts nor consulted during the budgeting process.
By @mattkrupnick.bsky.social
College leaders had not been warned of the proposed cuts nor consulted during the budgeting process.
By @mattkrupnick.bsky.social
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Fact check: True.
June 8, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Fact check: True.
Yet another example of how AI gets you flunked:
When I searched to see if Mary Shelley and Jane Austen could have met in Bath, Google AI informed me that they were, in fact, sisters...
June 7, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Yet another example of how AI gets you flunked:
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Help help spread the news of @jdscholten.bsky.social, farmer and baseball player, challenging Joni "we're all gonna die" Ernst in Iowa for Senate.
He's starting an RV tour to meet as many people as possible 🚙
He's starting an RV tour to meet as many people as possible 🚙
June 3, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Help help spread the news of @jdscholten.bsky.social, farmer and baseball player, challenging Joni "we're all gonna die" Ernst in Iowa for Senate.
He's starting an RV tour to meet as many people as possible 🚙
He's starting an RV tour to meet as many people as possible 🚙
open.substack.com/pub/kristind...
"If there were justice in the world, Musk would never be able to repair his reputation, at least not without devoting the bulk of his fortune to easing the misery he’s engendered."
"If there were justice in the world, Musk would never be able to repair his reputation, at least not without devoting the bulk of his fortune to easing the misery he’s engendered."
Dehumanizing cruelty and deadly incuriosity
The legacy of Elon Musk
open.substack.com
May 30, 2025 at 3:32 PM
open.substack.com/pub/kristind...
"If there were justice in the world, Musk would never be able to repair his reputation, at least not without devoting the bulk of his fortune to easing the misery he’s engendered."
"If there were justice in the world, Musk would never be able to repair his reputation, at least not without devoting the bulk of his fortune to easing the misery he’s engendered."
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It’s staggering to me just how many children are being chucked under the wheels of reckless, cruel, dumb policies around the world
"Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year."
Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death
www.nytimes.com
May 30, 2025 at 10:56 AM
It’s staggering to me just how many children are being chucked under the wheels of reckless, cruel, dumb policies around the world
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These SpaceX failures are being financed by taxpayer dollars. So far, over $7,000,000,000. So this is *actual* government waste, unlike the *alleged* waste at Social Security that DOGE was unable to find.
UPDATE: SpaceX's Starship travels farther in its latest test than the two previous flights but loses control on reentry and contact with mission control.
SpaceX megarocket gets farther in test than last two flights, but loses control on reentry to Earth | CNN
SpaceX has launched a ninth uncrewed test flight of Starship, the most powerful rocket system ever constructed. The mission comes after two prior tests ended in explosive failure. Follow for live upda...
www.cnn.com
May 28, 2025 at 8:02 PM
These SpaceX failures are being financed by taxpayer dollars. So far, over $7,000,000,000. So this is *actual* government waste, unlike the *alleged* waste at Social Security that DOGE was unable to find.
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Soon after firing the Librarian of Congress, Trump has fired the nation’s top copyright official as well. Rep. Joe Morelle says Trump acted after the copyright official “refused to rubber-stamp Elon Musk’s efforts to mine troves of copyrighted works to train AI models.”
Trump fires top US copyright official
Democrats are alleging foul play.
www.politico.com
May 11, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Soon after firing the Librarian of Congress, Trump has fired the nation’s top copyright official as well. Rep. Joe Morelle says Trump acted after the copyright official “refused to rubber-stamp Elon Musk’s efforts to mine troves of copyrighted works to train AI models.”
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Amid all the other news, it's easy to become inured to the basic facts here. Öztürk:
-Is not accused of committing any crime
-Is nonviolent
-Was in this country legally
-Merely engaged in speech that the administration objects to
-Has been locked up for six weeks
-Is not accused of committing any crime
-Is nonviolent
-Was in this country legally
-Merely engaged in speech that the administration objects to
-Has been locked up for six weeks
Now from Öztürk’s ACLU lawyer Esha Bhandari:
“Rümeysa Öztürk’s case is unprecedented and shocking. She has been held behind bars for six weeks while her health deteriorates for writing an op-ed.”
“Rümeysa Öztürk’s case is unprecedented and shocking. She has been held behind bars for six weeks while her health deteriorates for writing an op-ed.”
May 6, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Amid all the other news, it's easy to become inured to the basic facts here. Öztürk:
-Is not accused of committing any crime
-Is nonviolent
-Was in this country legally
-Merely engaged in speech that the administration objects to
-Has been locked up for six weeks
-Is not accused of committing any crime
-Is nonviolent
-Was in this country legally
-Merely engaged in speech that the administration objects to
-Has been locked up for six weeks
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He stood there on Jan 20 and falsely mouthed the words to protect and defend our Constitution.
Asked now on Meet the Press if he thinks he needs to uphold the Constitution, he says, “I don’t know.”
Translation: No.
Woe to America and the utter failure of putting this man back in our Oval Office.
Asked now on Meet the Press if he thinks he needs to uphold the Constitution, he says, “I don’t know.”
Translation: No.
Woe to America and the utter failure of putting this man back in our Oval Office.
May 4, 2025 at 3:19 PM
He stood there on Jan 20 and falsely mouthed the words to protect and defend our Constitution.
Asked now on Meet the Press if he thinks he needs to uphold the Constitution, he says, “I don’t know.”
Translation: No.
Woe to America and the utter failure of putting this man back in our Oval Office.
Asked now on Meet the Press if he thinks he needs to uphold the Constitution, he says, “I don’t know.”
Translation: No.
Woe to America and the utter failure of putting this man back in our Oval Office.
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