Beth Arnold. A Liberal Southern Woman
@thebetharnold.bsky.social
A Liberal Southern Woman. Writer/Journalist of POLITICS+Culture+Travel+Art+Design. An Exile Returned From Paris. Author:Jours Of Our Lives. GLORIA STEINEM recommended my Substack: https://betharnold.substack.com
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To be fair my years exclude pre-Civil RIghts America, the age of the robber barons and the grasping amorality of the Mexican-American War, but overall I've lived 65 years and on an everyday basis, i have never been more ashamed of my country than in the past eleven months.
My god.
My god.
NEWS: Trump officials are worried the ICC may try to prosecute them for war crimes once Trump's term ends, and are threatening sanctions against the ICC to change its founding document to grant them immunity. (via Reuters / link in reply)
December 10, 2025 at 8:57 PM
To be fair my years exclude pre-Civil RIghts America, the age of the robber barons and the grasping amorality of the Mexican-American War, but overall I've lived 65 years and on an everyday basis, i have never been more ashamed of my country than in the past eleven months.
My god.
My god.
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The incredible grassroots anti-ICE organizing in LA, Chicago, NC, and now New Orleans is probably the most hopeful political thing I’ve seen all year.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/new-orlean...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/new-orlean...
New Orleans Is Watching You, Fuckers.
As the feds chase immigrants, a city chases the feds.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:45 PM
The incredible grassroots anti-ICE organizing in LA, Chicago, NC, and now New Orleans is probably the most hopeful political thing I’ve seen all year.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/new-orlean...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/new-orlean...
Listen to this. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 Medicare for all!
NEW INTERVIEW: “THE CASE FOR MEDICARE FOR ALL” with ex insurance exec @wendellpotter.bsky.social
“The work I was doing was to mislead people.”
He helped stop universal health care and propped up a cruel system — then he had a crisis of conscience (in TN)
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DSFsimP...
“The work I was doing was to mislead people.”
He helped stop universal health care and propped up a cruel system — then he had a crisis of conscience (in TN)
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DSFsimP...
December 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Listen to this. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 Medicare for all!
Womannhater gay man. Tough place to be.
PIERS: “You’re not gay?”
FUENTES: “No. But women are very difficult to be around.”
P: “Should they vote?”
F: “No.”
PIERS: “They should stay home?”
FUENTES: “Yeah.”
PIERS: “So you’re just a misogynistic dinosaur. Have you ever had sex?”
FUENTES: “No.”
PIERS: “Wow. Says the guy who never got laid.”
FUENTES: “No. But women are very difficult to be around.”
P: “Should they vote?”
F: “No.”
PIERS: “They should stay home?”
FUENTES: “Yeah.”
PIERS: “So you’re just a misogynistic dinosaur. Have you ever had sex?”
FUENTES: “No.”
PIERS: “Wow. Says the guy who never got laid.”
December 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Womannhater gay man. Tough place to be.
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A video of Nick Fuentes inciting the mob on Jan. 6 is circulating on X - at a time when fissures have erupted over the influence of Fuentes and his “Groypers” within MAGA.
For more on that specific video, and more, see this piece we wrote:
www.justsecurity.org/95385/twitte...
For more on that specific video, and more, see this piece we wrote:
www.justsecurity.org/95385/twitte...
December 8, 2025 at 8:22 PM
A video of Nick Fuentes inciting the mob on Jan. 6 is circulating on X - at a time when fissures have erupted over the influence of Fuentes and his “Groypers” within MAGA.
For more on that specific video, and more, see this piece we wrote:
www.justsecurity.org/95385/twitte...
For more on that specific video, and more, see this piece we wrote:
www.justsecurity.org/95385/twitte...
This is a world train wreck.
The headline, the main takeaway from a European viewpoint is this:
The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.
The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.
December 8, 2025 at 1:43 PM
This is a world train wreck.
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There is trolling, and there is whatever grandious name we should give to this:
December 6, 2025 at 4:18 PM
There is trolling, and there is whatever grandious name we should give to this:
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Spot on.
Once you see it, you cannot unsee it.
Once you see it, you cannot unsee it.
Person who actually deserves a trophy is the artist who made the FIFA peace prize trophy look like everyone in the entire world holding their head in their hands out of secondhand embarrassment
December 6, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Spot on.
Once you see it, you cannot unsee it.
Once you see it, you cannot unsee it.
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Person who actually deserves a trophy is the artist who made the FIFA peace prize trophy look like everyone in the entire world holding their head in their hands out of secondhand embarrassment
December 6, 2025 at 2:26 AM
I grew up in the American South. I know bluster when I see it—and Pete Hegseth is all bluster and no backbone.
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PETE HEGSETH IS A FUCKING DOUCHE
And other comforting South Park episodes
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December 7, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I grew up in the American South. I know bluster when I see it—and Pete Hegseth is all bluster and no backbone.
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Trump & his henchmen are racists--and they don't care: apnews.com/article/nati...
National Park Service drops free admission on MLK Day, Juneteenth while adding Trump's birthday
National Park Service drops free admission on MLK Day, Juneteenth while adding Trump's birthday
National Park Service drops free admission on MLK Day, Juneteenth while adding Trump's birthday
The National Park Service will no longer offer free admission to Americans on Martin Luther King Jr.
apnews.com
December 7, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Trump & his henchmen are racists--and they don't care: apnews.com/article/nati...
National Park Service drops free admission on MLK Day, Juneteenth while adding Trump's birthday
National Park Service drops free admission on MLK Day, Juneteenth while adding Trump's birthday
Hegseth is more like the Bozo of Defense, to go along with the Bozo of Homeland Security and the Bozo of Health and Human Services.
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PETE HEGSETH IS A FUCKING DOUCHE
And other comforting South Park episodes
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December 6, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Hegseth is more like the Bozo of Defense, to go along with the Bozo of Homeland Security and the Bozo of Health and Human Services.
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Double-tapping survivors isn’t “tough on crime.” It’s a war crime. Pete Hegseth may finally be facing consequences.
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Double-tapping survivors isn’t “tough on crime.” It’s a war crime. Pete Hegseth may finally be facing consequences.
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December 5, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Double-tapping survivors isn’t “tough on crime.” It’s a war crime. Pete Hegseth may finally be facing consequences.
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Could Tom Cotton be any more repugnant? >> US military conducts strike on another suspected drug boat as probe into the first strike begins
apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com/article/trum...
US military conducts strike on another suspected drug boat as probe into the first strike begins
U.S. Southern Command says it has conducted another strike against a small boat in the eastern Pacific Ocean, following a pause of almost three weeks.
apnews.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Could Tom Cotton be any more repugnant? >> US military conducts strike on another suspected drug boat as probe into the first strike begins
apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com/article/trum...
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Agree: change is that the "institutionalists" have stopped pretending
-Thomas/Alito: They're the equivalent of "Trump +35" safe House district
-Gorsuch (in Garland seat) equiv of "Trump +22"
-But Kav, ACB, and mainly pious 'just call balls and strikes' Roberts wanted to be seen as open to facts
-Thomas/Alito: They're the equivalent of "Trump +35" safe House district
-Gorsuch (in Garland seat) equiv of "Trump +22"
-But Kav, ACB, and mainly pious 'just call balls and strikes' Roberts wanted to be seen as open to facts
What's changed is that the Court has become more transparent in its corruption. There's not even an argument here beyond the implicit one which is: how do you expect us to hold the House without those seats?
December 5, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Agree: change is that the "institutionalists" have stopped pretending
-Thomas/Alito: They're the equivalent of "Trump +35" safe House district
-Gorsuch (in Garland seat) equiv of "Trump +22"
-But Kav, ACB, and mainly pious 'just call balls and strikes' Roberts wanted to be seen as open to facts
-Thomas/Alito: They're the equivalent of "Trump +35" safe House district
-Gorsuch (in Garland seat) equiv of "Trump +22"
-But Kav, ACB, and mainly pious 'just call balls and strikes' Roberts wanted to be seen as open to facts
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When one reads Hegseth’s so-called credentials on paper, it doesn’t appear that he’s a total idiot. But all on-the-ground evidence leads to the conclusion that he’s not only incompetent but also grossly cringeworthy.
open.substack.com/pub/betharno...
open.substack.com/pub/betharno...
PETE HEGSETH IS A FUCKING DOUCHE
And other comforting South Park episodes
open.substack.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
When one reads Hegseth’s so-called credentials on paper, it doesn’t appear that he’s a total idiot. But all on-the-ground evidence leads to the conclusion that he’s not only incompetent but also grossly cringeworthy.
open.substack.com/pub/betharno...
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If a Ukraine proposal was shaped to benefit a foreign power tied to Kushner’s money, that’s not diplomacy: it’s corruption…
hartmannreport.com/p/kushner-uk...
hartmannreport.com/p/kushner-uk...
Kushner, Ukraine, Saudi Arabia: The Conflict-of-Interest Story Everyone’s Ignoring
If a Ukraine proposal was shaped to benefit a foreign power tied to Kushner’s money, that’s not diplomacy: it’s corruption…
hartmannreport.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:53 PM
If a Ukraine proposal was shaped to benefit a foreign power tied to Kushner’s money, that’s not diplomacy: it’s corruption…
hartmannreport.com/p/kushner-uk...
hartmannreport.com/p/kushner-uk...
When one reads Hegseth’s so-called credentials on paper, it doesn’t appear that he’s a total idiot. But all on-the-ground evidence leads to the conclusion that he’s not only incompetent but also grossly cringeworthy.
open.substack.com/pub/betharno...
open.substack.com/pub/betharno...
PETE HEGSETH IS A FUCKING DOUCHE
And other comforting South Park episodes
open.substack.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
When one reads Hegseth’s so-called credentials on paper, it doesn’t appear that he’s a total idiot. But all on-the-ground evidence leads to the conclusion that he’s not only incompetent but also grossly cringeworthy.
open.substack.com/pub/betharno...
open.substack.com/pub/betharno...
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This is maddening. Folks are tap-dancing around with this bigoted mother🤬 said. "It's disconcerting." "It's unfair." No.
It's RACIST. tRump's a RACIST. Full-blown in the open RACIST!
It's RACIST. tRump's a RACIST. Full-blown in the open RACIST!
This is NOT, should never be, okay speech coming from OUR house... His hand-picked inept racist bigoted cabinet loves it!
December 4, 2025 at 3:46 AM
This is maddening. Folks are tap-dancing around with this bigoted mother🤬 said. "It's disconcerting." "It's unfair." No.
It's RACIST. tRump's a RACIST. Full-blown in the open RACIST!
It's RACIST. tRump's a RACIST. Full-blown in the open RACIST!
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A new video captures masked ICE agents in unmarked vehicles swarming the mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew before hauling her away. There’s no way this was random.
December 3, 2025 at 8:47 PM
A new video captures masked ICE agents in unmarked vehicles swarming the mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew before hauling her away. There’s no way this was random.
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One of the most striking things about these ICE/BP raids is not that they’re all kitted out for war while going after people who didn’t do anything wrong and don’t pose a threat, but that they always bring a camera crew.
Commander Greg Bovino led a group of Border Patrol agents on walk around the French Quarter in New Orleans this afternoon.
December 4, 2025 at 2:32 AM
One of the most striking things about these ICE/BP raids is not that they’re all kitted out for war while going after people who didn’t do anything wrong and don’t pose a threat, but that they always bring a camera crew.
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Team Trump planned to do this long before he reentered office. Always make propaganda, always bring a crew: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
December 4, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Team Trump planned to do this long before he reentered office. Always make propaganda, always bring a crew: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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It is really that stupid.
December 3, 2025 at 11:49 PM
It is really that stupid.
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This gets a repost because these numbers are infuriating: There are over 20,000 homeless families -- families -- and 35,000 children now sheltered in the city of New York, one of the richest in the world. If you too are now angry at this, maybe take a moment and do a small, decent thing with that:
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December 4, 2025 at 3:38 AM
This gets a repost because these numbers are infuriating: There are over 20,000 homeless families -- families -- and 35,000 children now sheltered in the city of New York, one of the richest in the world. If you too are now angry at this, maybe take a moment and do a small, decent thing with that:
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Good for George Will.
George Will: "Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war. An interesting achievement. ... The killing of the survivors by this moral slum of an administration should nauseate Americans. A nation incapable of shame is dangerous, not least to itself" www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | A sickening moral slum of an administration
Regarding Venezuela, Ukraine and much more, Trump and his acolytes are worse than simply incompetent.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Good for George Will.