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Beth Sutton-Ramspeck
@bsutton-ramspeck.bsky.social
11K followers 8.3K following 1.4K posts
Retired English Prof. (Victorian lit) 💙📚
Pissed off Feminist; 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ ally
Chair, Black Mountain, NC, Democratic Party precincts cluster
Author of Harry Potter and Resistance (https://routledge.pub/Harry-Potter-and-Resistance)
fan of black bears
#resistance2.0
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What kind of monster doesn't just withhold food from people but DOUBLES DOWN on withholding food?
Well, we know what kind of monster. The cruelty is the point.
Headline: "Trump administration appeals order to pay full November SNAP food benefits" Beneath the headline is the byline, Aysha Bagshi, USA Today. Updated Nov. 7, 2025, 10:56 a.m. ET
November 7, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Attendance estimates for No Kings in little Black Mountain, NC, range from 2000 to 4000.
October 18, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Hahaha! I’m honored!
Troublemakers R Us!
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September 20, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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The local team that prepared for a visit by Senator Mark Kelly, to Black Mountain, NC, the "little town that rocks." That's, from left, @angelahlevine.bsky.social, @beth-franklin.bsky.social, @captmarkkelly.bsky.social, and @bsutton-ramspeck.bsky.social.
Group picture, left to right, Angela Levine, Beth Franklin, Senator Mark Kelly, and Beth Sutton-Ramspeck. The two Beths are wearing shirts that say "Black Mountain Dems." The Senator is wearing a Navy baseball cap. Photo taken inside Lookout Brewing Company, Black Mountain, NC.
August 31, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Jamie Ager is one of 5 (!!!!) promising Democratic candidates for the nomination to replace Chuck Edwards, a MAGA Republican who "represents" NC's 11th district and who is vulnerable in 2026.
Cartoon by David Cohen @cohencidents.bsky.social
Political cartoon. On the right is a drawing of the head and torso of a substantial looking man, wearing a ball cap and a shortsleeved button-down shirt. His substantial arms are crossed at his chest. He has a pleasant, friendly face and a friendly closed-mouth smile. Beneath him are wavy vertical lines and what look like three flies buzzing around (suggesting manure is below that). The caption on the left reads, "I'm Jamie Ager. I'm a farmer. Cattle, pigs, chickens. I'm around this stuf pretty much all day. I deal with it here, and I'll deal with it in Washington." At the lower right is the signature: Cohen 2025
August 3, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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The feeling when you look out the window while cleaning out the coffee pot and see a bear looking back at you.
Not precisely #caturday!
American black bear, walking left to right, on gravel driveway, with low limestone wall in the background. The bear's head is faced somewhat towards the camera.
July 5, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Cub in a tub!
Little brown bear cub with one front paw in a small tub of water and the other paw playing in the water. Cub and tub are next to a small stone wall, with stone steps behind. Little brown bear cub sitting in a small tub of water, next to a small stone wall, with stone steps rising behind it.
June 9, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Happy Pride, y’all!
Rainbow rising from the ground through fog that had taken a yellowish tinge, probably because of the refraction. In the background are the Blue Ridge mountains (not looking terribly blue); in the foreground the tree-covered lower slopes of a closer mountain. Framing the image on the left is the trunk of an oak tree. Its leafy branches overhang the top of the image.
June 8, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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"Something there is that doesn't love a wall."
On the other hand, the bear stepped very delicately around the plants that are waiting to be put in the ground, without knocking them over.
Large black bear paws at a stone at the top of a small stone wall. Beneath its right front leg--the same one pawing at the rock--is a "Proven Winners" nursery pot for a plant.
June 8, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Just dropped by for a drink.
Large American black bear drinking from a metal bucket at the base of stone steps that lead down to a a gravel driveway
June 7, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Favorite little visitor, viewed from the door beneath our deck.
American black bear cub walking, left to right on gravel, with foliage behind it American black bear cub, nose to gravel, heading right to left. A couple of large rocks in the foreground, foliage in the background.
May 25, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Sadly predictable.
New York Times headline: one thing helping Trump’s approval rating: some people are not paying attention. Voters were more likely to approve of President Trump’s job performance if they had not been following some of the major news stories of his first 100 days in office, a recent New York Times/Siena College poll found. By Ruth Igielnik May 18, 2025 President Trump’s strategy to “flood the zone” may be working to keep his approval rating from sinking even lower. Voters who have not heard much about some of the many major news events from the first 100 days of Mr. Trump’s second term have a higher opinion of the job he is doing, according to the latest New York Times/Siena College poll. A little under half of the 42 percent of voters who approved of the job Mr. Trump is doing as president said they had not heard much about at least some of the ups and downs of his administration’s decisions.
May 18, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Visitors with no particular respect for garden beds.
American black bears viewed from above. On the left a cub, standing on hind legs just inside a wooden raised garden bed, playfully pawing mamma, on right, whose mouth is open, also playfully pawing mamma.
May 15, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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Mama, what big teeth you have!
American black bears playing. Mama is lying on her back, while her little brown cub, standing on hind legs, cavorts near her large teeth.
May 15, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Bears at play
American black bears: Mama on left and small brown-furred cub on right
May 14, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Happy Mother’s Day, a few days early.
Rear view of American black bear and her little brown cub, standing next to a stone wall.
May 6, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Cubby!
Baby American black bear, with brownish fur, walking left to right across gravel driveway. A stone wall is in the background.
May 6, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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Findlay, Ohio!
White-haired lady in black jacket with fake fur trim, sitting in a wheel chair. Her left hand is raised in a conversational gesture and her right hand holds a handmade sign that say, "First protest at age 93 [the number is extra large and enclosed in a big circle, highlighted in yellow]. This shit is too serious to sit at home and ignore! I march for [in smaller letters] * my lte veteran husband * my 4 grandchildren * my 4 great grandchildren
April 20, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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I’m so stealing this sign idea!
Slogan on protest sign: “I didn’t think i’d have to spend my 70s fighting fascism.
April 20, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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meme: “no government – regardless of which party is in power – should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.“ Attributed to Harvard President, Alan Garber
April 19, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Reggie says, “Oh, please make it stop. Please make him go away!”
#caturday
Closeup of a black cat, lying on his back on a gray herringbone upholstered couch. One paw is covering his eyes.
April 19, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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This young’un seems kind of lonesome.
Young Blackbeard (yearling?) stands on a flagstone porch area, facing right.
April 19, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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Is it just me, or is this total Amateur Hour?
I don’t recall diplomats using this kind of language in such a serious situation.
Never mind the “President’s” juvenile statement that he is “not a big fan” of Zelenskyy.

The U.S. looks SO stupid.
New York Times headline: Rubio says US to decide in days if end to Ukraine war is “doable“ “If it is not possible to end the war in Ukraine, we need to move on,” the American Secretary of State said as he departed meetings in Paris
April 18, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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In this entire meeting, have you said thank you?
Image of Oval Office meeting of Trump, Vance, and Zelenskyy, but wit a penguin in Zelenskyy’s chair.
April 4, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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This bear decided to relax near our front door this afternoon.
April 3, 2025 at 8:35 PM