Betsy West
@betsywest.bsky.social
Producer: This Is Not a Drill
EP: Barbara Walters Tell Me Everything
Dir:Once Upon a Time in Ukraine
Dir(w/@filmmakerjulie): RBG, JULIA, My Name is Pauli Murray
Prof Emerita @ColumbiaJourn
EP: Barbara Walters Tell Me Everything
Dir:Once Upon a Time in Ukraine
Dir(w/@filmmakerjulie): RBG, JULIA, My Name is Pauli Murray
Prof Emerita @ColumbiaJourn
Even in defeat, Cuomo continues his hateful messsge. Sad.
November 5, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Even in defeat, Cuomo continues his hateful messsge. Sad.
Van Jones nails it: Buyers remorse.
November 5, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Van Jones nails it: Buyers remorse.
What a difference a year makes.
November 5, 2025 at 2:43 AM
What a difference a year makes.
Side by side on the front page of @NYTimes today: 3 stark stories about how we deal with the impoverished: hide them, starve them, kill them.
October 31, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Side by side on the front page of @NYTimes today: 3 stark stories about how we deal with the impoverished: hide them, starve them, kill them.
Watching this now! The once-decorated DOJ attorney telling the truth about the DOJ’s lawlessness.
October 20, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Watching this now! The once-decorated DOJ attorney telling the truth about the DOJ’s lawlessness.
I think I’ll sleep better tonight night.
September 24, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I think I’ll sleep better tonight night.
Who doesn't love badass people outsmarting the oil and gas industry? THIS IS NOT A DRILL premiering at the #TellurideFilmFestival this weekend. Oren Jacoby directing, me producing.
August 29, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Who doesn't love badass people outsmarting the oil and gas industry? THIS IS NOT A DRILL premiering at the #TellurideFilmFestival this weekend. Oren Jacoby directing, me producing.
And the new generation of leaders like @justinJPearson.bsky.social addressing the inequities in our country that helped lead to this terrifying predicament in the first place.
August 27, 2025 at 7:11 PM
And the new generation of leaders like @justinJPearson.bsky.social addressing the inequities in our country that helped lead to this terrifying predicament in the first place.
Lawyers like MarcElias@bsky.social fighting unconstitutional power grabs on all fronts.
August 27, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Lawyers like MarcElias@bsky.social fighting unconstitutional power grabs on all fronts.
Protestors like @filmmakerjulie.bsky.social and Paulthedogman@bsky.social making their opposition known on street corners, highway overpasses, detention center parking lots and thoughtful journals.
August 27, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Protestors like @filmmakerjulie.bsky.social and Paulthedogman@bsky.social making their opposition known on street corners, highway overpasses, detention center parking lots and thoughtful journals.
Brave public officials like Lisa Cook refusing to bow down.
August 27, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Brave public officials like Lisa Cook refusing to bow down.
Let’s celebrate and support governors like JB Pritzker standing up to our would-be tyrant.
August 27, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Let’s celebrate and support governors like JB Pritzker standing up to our would-be tyrant.
At the Jones Beach Outlaw Music Festival, Lucinda Williams dedicates her song “You Can’t Rule Me” to the so-called King of America. Wonder who she means?
August 1, 2025 at 9:42 PM
At the Jones Beach Outlaw Music Festival, Lucinda Williams dedicates her song “You Can’t Rule Me” to the so-called King of America. Wonder who she means?
The Scots giving our President the warm welcome he deserves.
July 26, 2025 at 2:14 AM
The Scots giving our President the warm welcome he deserves.
What a night on @cnn.com: broadcast of Good Night, and Good Luck about Edward R Murrow and the CBS journalists who helped turned the tide on McCarthyism 70 years ago, followed by stunning interview with CBS’s Scott Pelley standing up today…
June 8, 2025 at 1:53 AM
What a night on @cnn.com: broadcast of Good Night, and Good Luck about Edward R Murrow and the CBS journalists who helped turned the tide on McCarthyism 70 years ago, followed by stunning interview with CBS’s Scott Pelley standing up today…
As the Republican Congress prepares to defund Planned Parenthood, I am posting this favorite picture of me and my Mom, a lifelong Republican and staunch supporter of reproductive rights. Mom, who would have turned 100 on Monday, is still with me on this: #IFightForPP Call your Congressperson!
May 22, 2025 at 7:16 PM
As the Republican Congress prepares to defund Planned Parenthood, I am posting this favorite picture of me and my Mom, a lifelong Republican and staunch supporter of reproductive rights. Mom, who would have turned 100 on Monday, is still with me on this: #IFightForPP Call your Congressperson!
Our friend Mohsen Mahdawi. Legal US resident. Palestinian leader at Columbia who spoke out against antisemitism. Kind, thoughtful man. Today, Mohsen went to his final citizenship interview in VT where masked ICE agents put him in handcuffs and drove off. We don’t know where he is.
April 15, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Our friend Mohsen Mahdawi. Legal US resident. Palestinian leader at Columbia who spoke out against antisemitism. Kind, thoughtful man. Today, Mohsen went to his final citizenship interview in VT where masked ICE agents put him in handcuffs and drove off. We don’t know where he is.
Bittersweet to discover this new plaque in my neighborhood honoring the legal giant #PauliMurray at a time when so many of Pauli’s principles for equity and justice are under assault.
March 15, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Bittersweet to discover this new plaque in my neighborhood honoring the legal giant #PauliMurray at a time when so many of Pauli’s principles for equity and justice are under assault.
Anybody else notice what is missing from today's front page of @nytimes? IMO the outrageous, insane, dangerous suggestion by our incoming President to gain control of Greenland and the Panama Canal.
January 8, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Anybody else notice what is missing from today's front page of @nytimes? IMO the outrageous, insane, dangerous suggestion by our incoming President to gain control of Greenland and the Panama Canal.
High on my list of Jimmy Carter’s legacies: appointing an unprecedented number of women and minorities to the federal bench, including #RBG
December 30, 2024 at 11:38 AM
High on my list of Jimmy Carter’s legacies: appointing an unprecedented number of women and minorities to the federal bench, including #RBG
Once Upon a Time in Ukraine, our short doc on the Oscar shortlist, is back in theaters in New York.
December 26, 2024 at 5:39 PM
Once Upon a Time in Ukraine, our short doc on the Oscar shortlist, is back in theaters in New York.
The election. Now this: NYC’s Absolute Bagels shuttered.
December 13, 2024 at 10:42 PM
The election. Now this: NYC’s Absolute Bagels shuttered.
Did anyone notice: yesterday was the day all the gingko trees in New York dropped their leaves.
December 2, 2024 at 11:51 PM
Did anyone notice: yesterday was the day all the gingko trees in New York dropped their leaves.