Bethaf
@beth-af.bsky.social
Writer, political junky, dog rescuer, Leguminati, #voteblue
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OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.
September 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.
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Did RFK Jr just take away your cancer treatment?
mRNA promised to help turn cancer from a death sentence into a manageable condition.
mRNA promised to help turn cancer from a death sentence into a manageable condition.
Did RFK just take away your cancer treatment?
mRNA promised to help turn cancer from a death sentence into a manageable condition.
www.noahpinion.blog
August 9, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Did RFK Jr just take away your cancer treatment?
mRNA promised to help turn cancer from a death sentence into a manageable condition.
mRNA promised to help turn cancer from a death sentence into a manageable condition.
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LEFT: Where our government incarcerates a person who has a tattoo in honor of a family member.
RIGHT: Where our government incarcerates a person who has facilitated and/or engaged in the sexual assault of over a thousand children.
RIGHT: Where our government incarcerates a person who has facilitated and/or engaged in the sexual assault of over a thousand children.
August 9, 2025 at 5:46 PM
LEFT: Where our government incarcerates a person who has a tattoo in honor of a family member.
RIGHT: Where our government incarcerates a person who has facilitated and/or engaged in the sexual assault of over a thousand children.
RIGHT: Where our government incarcerates a person who has facilitated and/or engaged in the sexual assault of over a thousand children.
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Winsome Earle Sears can't make this guarantee because she supported a 15-week abortion ban as recently as 2023. And in 2022, she suggested an equivalence between consenting to sex and consenting to pregnancy. Great candidate, VA GOP!
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
RAJU: Can you guarantee that if you're elected you will not take steps to further restrict abortion access in Virginia?
WINSOME EARLE-SEARS: Why is it that Black women have 40% of the abortions? Who doesn't want us to have our babies?
(That's a no)
WINSOME EARLE-SEARS: Why is it that Black women have 40% of the abortions? Who doesn't want us to have our babies?
(That's a no)
August 1, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Winsome Earle Sears can't make this guarantee because she supported a 15-week abortion ban as recently as 2023. And in 2022, she suggested an equivalence between consenting to sex and consenting to pregnancy. Great candidate, VA GOP!
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trump's Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent just admitted that the Big Ugly Bill's "Trump Accounts" are a "backdoor for privatizing Social Security."
This follows Trump and DOGE slashing SSA staffing levels to record lows.
Make no mistake: the Trump regime is waging war on Social Security.
This follows Trump and DOGE slashing SSA staffing levels to record lows.
Make no mistake: the Trump regime is waging war on Social Security.
July 31, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Trump's Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent just admitted that the Big Ugly Bill's "Trump Accounts" are a "backdoor for privatizing Social Security."
This follows Trump and DOGE slashing SSA staffing levels to record lows.
Make no mistake: the Trump regime is waging war on Social Security.
This follows Trump and DOGE slashing SSA staffing levels to record lows.
Make no mistake: the Trump regime is waging war on Social Security.
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What a surprise that this freak had porn playing in his office during a state school meeting. He also mandated Trump Bibles in every classroom.
July 26, 2025 at 9:41 PM
What a surprise that this freak had porn playing in his office during a state school meeting. He also mandated Trump Bibles in every classroom.
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“Doesn’t look great, Donald. Doesn’t look great.”
Apparently @thebulwark.com’s @timmiller.bsky.social thinks it’s weird that Trump invited models as young as 16 to a party at his house and only invited… Jeffrey Epstein.
Context: www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Apparently @thebulwark.com’s @timmiller.bsky.social thinks it’s weird that Trump invited models as young as 16 to a party at his house and only invited… Jeffrey Epstein.
Context: www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
July 23, 2025 at 4:20 PM
“Doesn’t look great, Donald. Doesn’t look great.”
Apparently @thebulwark.com’s @timmiller.bsky.social thinks it’s weird that Trump invited models as young as 16 to a party at his house and only invited… Jeffrey Epstein.
Context: www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Apparently @thebulwark.com’s @timmiller.bsky.social thinks it’s weird that Trump invited models as young as 16 to a party at his house and only invited… Jeffrey Epstein.
Context: www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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the files don't exist but also Hillary wrote them. ohkayyyyy
July 12, 2025 at 9:34 PM
the files don't exist but also Hillary wrote them. ohkayyyyy
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Think Medicaid cuts do not affect you because you are not on Medicaid?
Well, enjoy your 10 hour wait at the Emergency Room while uninsured individuals use it for primary care.
Well, enjoy your 10 hour wait at the Emergency Room while uninsured individuals use it for primary care.
July 12, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Think Medicaid cuts do not affect you because you are not on Medicaid?
Well, enjoy your 10 hour wait at the Emergency Room while uninsured individuals use it for primary care.
Well, enjoy your 10 hour wait at the Emergency Room while uninsured individuals use it for primary care.
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Kristi Noem must resign now.
July 12, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Kristi Noem must resign now.
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"Metadata embedded in the Epstein video and analyzed by WIRED and independent video forensics experts shows that rather than being a direct export from the prison’s surveillance system, the footage was modified, likely using the professional editing tool Adobe Premiere Pro."
Metadata Shows the FBI’s ‘Raw’ Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Was Likely Modified
There is no evidence the footage was deceptively manipulated, but ambiguities around how the video was processed may further fuel conspiracy theories about Epstein's death.
www.wired.com
July 11, 2025 at 5:51 PM
"Metadata embedded in the Epstein video and analyzed by WIRED and independent video forensics experts shows that rather than being a direct export from the prison’s surveillance system, the footage was modified, likely using the professional editing tool Adobe Premiere Pro."
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Kim: I'm very concerned that if a hurricane hits, are we going to have to be begging Kristi Noem to be able to get off Instagram, to be able to actually go and do her job
July 11, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Kim: I'm very concerned that if a hurricane hits, are we going to have to be begging Kristi Noem to be able to get off Instagram, to be able to actually go and do her job
They want to rule by fear. We will respond with power, people, and purpose.
On July 17, five years since the passing of Congressman John Lewis, communities are coming together.
Because #GoodTroubleLivesOn
On July 17, five years since the passing of Congressman John Lewis, communities are coming together.
Because #GoodTroubleLivesOn
July 10, 2025 at 4:58 PM
They want to rule by fear. We will respond with power, people, and purpose.
On July 17, five years since the passing of Congressman John Lewis, communities are coming together.
Because #GoodTroubleLivesOn
On July 17, five years since the passing of Congressman John Lewis, communities are coming together.
Because #GoodTroubleLivesOn
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Can’t make this up.
July 4, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Can’t make this up.
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Imagine this is you.
You’re locked in a cell thousands of miles from home. No one knows where you are. No charges. No trial. No end in sight.
You’re locked in a cell thousands of miles from home. No one knows where you are. No charges. No trial. No end in sight.
July 4, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Imagine this is you.
You’re locked in a cell thousands of miles from home. No one knows where you are. No charges. No trial. No end in sight.
You’re locked in a cell thousands of miles from home. No one knows where you are. No charges. No trial. No end in sight.
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Hard to take seriously the red-white-and-blue rhetoric of freedom on a 4th of July where the US president has cut off aid to a democracy fighting for its independence against ferocious attack by a foreign tyrant.
July 4, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Hard to take seriously the red-white-and-blue rhetoric of freedom on a 4th of July where the US president has cut off aid to a democracy fighting for its independence against ferocious attack by a foreign tyrant.
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And the Freedom Caucus will still be tagged as deficit hawks in the press even though they've only ever been that when it's a Democrat in the White House.
July 3, 2025 at 1:42 PM
And the Freedom Caucus will still be tagged as deficit hawks in the press even though they've only ever been that when it's a Democrat in the White House.
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Millions of Americans know the pain and hardship of getting a cancer diagnosis. That’s a misfortune, a terrible misfortune.
Voting for a tax scheme designed to rip health care from millions of Americans struggling to make ends meet? That’s not a misfortune, that’s an injustice.
Voting for a tax scheme designed to rip health care from millions of Americans struggling to make ends meet? That’s not a misfortune, that’s an injustice.
July 3, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Millions of Americans know the pain and hardship of getting a cancer diagnosis. That’s a misfortune, a terrible misfortune.
Voting for a tax scheme designed to rip health care from millions of Americans struggling to make ends meet? That’s not a misfortune, that’s an injustice.
Voting for a tax scheme designed to rip health care from millions of Americans struggling to make ends meet? That’s not a misfortune, that’s an injustice.
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Credit where it's due. The stunt will draw attention to what's going on there from people that might not have been otherwise aware.
Jeffries says he "still has a lot to say" (it's pretty clear he's going for the record for longest Magic Minute speech)
July 3, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Credit where it's due. The stunt will draw attention to what's going on there from people that might not have been otherwise aware.