Beckstle

Beckstle

@beckstle.bsky.social

Writer of TV & movie reviews, pop cultural & history analysis. Anti-MAGA, pro democracy, cat lover, and queer. Current Guilty pleasures: RuPaul's Drag Race (in most of its forms) & rewatching the X-Files.

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LOL! The GOP doesn't like when Dems use the same tactics they've used for years - the last time was in the 2024 elections in Florida. Are they going call that into question?🤨 Trump says he ordered DoJ to file lawsuit to block Alaska Senate results certification www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

theguardian.comTrump says he ordered DoJ to file lawsuit to block Alaska Senate results certificationTrump justice department claims there could be ‘confusion’ about two Republicans on the ballot named Dan Sullivan

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I think Greg is right but I also think Talarico’s program is much bigger. The Rs justify their goals thru the lens of a strain of Christianity that allows you to choose evil as long as you have a “personal relationship with Jesus.” Talarico calls that an abomination. That threatens everything.

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social

Something remarkable is happening: James Talarico is running an expansively pro-immigrant campaign in Texas, a state Trump won by 14 points, speaking in Biblical terms about our duty to "the stranger." And it's resonating. That's seismic. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2160...

Articles like this remind me of who the U.S.'s daddy was. We definitely inherited the hubris. 😏

East Anglia Bylines@eastangliabylines.co.uk

Britain chose to leave the EU. Yet politicians and commentators still talk as though we should retain a say in how Europe runs itself. Niall Ó Conghaile asks whether Britain has really understood what being outside means.

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At one of this Nazi rallies today, the orange felon encouraged Iran to attack Los Angeles and San Diego whilst his cult cheered him on for that treasonous statement. I’ll say it again, he belongs in a jail cell, not in the bulldozed White House. To hell with everyone who gave this monster power.

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In the United States under the MAGA regime’s disastrous rule there’s measles outbreaks in multiple states and food recalls every single day. This is what happens when deranged psychopaths like RFK Jr are given power to remove health safety regulations. This is what I’d call murder.

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Stein emerges each federal election to spew her puppeteer’s repugnant rhetoric. She’s a insult to independent thinking, honest and working women. #Pinks #Voices4Victory

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“A month before Election Day 2024, the New York Times reported that the US job market was 'as healthy as it has ever been'. A few days later, The Washington Post’s Heather Long explained, 'We are living through one of the best economic years of many people’s lifetimes'.” www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

ms.nowRepublicans’ midterm strategy hinges on rewriting the recent pastThe more the GOP tries to overwhelm voters’ memories, the more we’re reminded just how spectacularly the party has failed over the past two years.

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A warming Earth is accelerating the melting of the planet's two major ice sheets, with five-sixths of the melt not coming from hotter air, but from warmer waters eating away at the ice sheets from below and the sides, according to a study in the journal Scientific Data. https://to.pbs.org/3UN86kP

to.pbs.orgEarth lost more than 12 trillion tons of ice from Greenland and Antarctica in 47 years, satellites showA major report has found that 12.5 trillion tons of ice from Greenland and Antarctica have melted since 1979. The massive glacier melt is mainly attributed to warmer waters eroding the ice sheets from...

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Tell me again about how the US is the home of free speech and the free market

Status@status.news

David Ellison worked the phones over the weekend to secure a settlement for his Warners takeover—but the deal’s supposed safeguard for CNN is already drawing skepticism from inside the network as staffers brace for what’s next. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/david-elli...

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This is why I donate to @propublica.org, even as I work for @motherjones.com. We are all fighting corruption and abuse of power, regardless of which side of the aisle it's on. Please support nonprofit journalism in your annual giving. With Trump on the attack, it's never been important. Seriously.

propublica.orgThe FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the WayAfter the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...

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What? A sudden 30% decline in national housing prices would be a sign we're in like a serious depression. After the housing bubble burst in 2006/2007, national house prices fell "only" 27% peak to trough fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CSUSH...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Housing director Bill Pulte lies his ass off: "The cost of a new home is in some cases 20%, 30% lower than it was under Biden ... President Trump was crushed inflation."

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Trump's tariffs and Big "Beautiful" Bill have hit Iowa hard, and the incumbent Repub in #IA01 voted for it. Time to vote her out and put Christina Bohannan in Congress. She will work to lower costs and bring high-wage jobs to the state. Elect Christina Bohannan Iowa's 1st Congressional District

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Whoa. Sherrod Brown’s new ad is devastating for Jon Husted. Sarah Bloom Anderson trusted Husted when he looked her in the eye and promised he wouldn’t cut Medicaid, the program that saves her daughter. One week later, Husted voted to cut Medicaid.

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The Twins Days Festival bills itself as the largest annual gathering of twins in the world. While the festival celebrates the unique bond between twins, it’s also a hub for scientists studying what makes them so alike – and so different. https://to.pbs.org/4xS1IqB

to.pbs.orgSeeing double at the Twins Days Festival in OhioThe Twins Days Festival bills itself as the largest annual gathering of twins in the world. While the festival celebrates the unique bond between twins, it’s also a hub for scientists studying what ma...

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Sen. Mark Kelly: "Donald Trump said I should be hanged, executed, prosecuted. The guy couldn't even get the order right."

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Would we get in trouble if we put up big billboards explaining what jury nullification was? I'm asking for completely unrelated reasons, of course

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

"This isn’t just meant to stop liberals from engaging in anti-ICE activism. It’s meant to destroy trust among activists, who must now constantly worry about whether HSI has infiltrated them. It’s meant to drive out of public life anyone the administration disfavors." — @snipy.bsky.social

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Lord knows our healthcare system needs a major shake-up. It costs too damn much and works for far too few people. I support universal healthcare. But too many voters see “supports Medicare for All” next to a candidate’s name, check the box and treat it like we’re going to reach the promised land.

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We have the chance to change the corrupt status quo and end Trump's crime spree in America in November! #VoteBlue

🎭American actor Harrison Ford says of Trump: "I don't know a greater criminal in history. He has no policy, only whims. That's what scares me. The impudence, the arrogance, the lies, the betrayal. Trump knows what he's doing... He's profiting from his wealth while the world goes to hell."👇🎭

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Blaming the immigrants or refugee is the action of the man who is doing his best to protect the oligarch. The “law is the law” they chant as they cheer and celebrate corruption and criminals from the Epstein class. It’s not wealth they want trickled down, it’s the impunity.

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This is why they need to knock them down bsky.app/profile/phil...

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social

Police in Wisconsin used Flock to track a man who traveled to Michigan, where marijuana is legal, then back to Wisc., where it is illegal They then used his travel as part of the probable cause justification to search his car for weed and he eventually was arrested

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As we knew would happen, MAGA criminal Todd Blanche has further weaponized the DOJ by expanding executive protections for the orange felon which would make any criminal investigation again him or his disgusting family even harder. Pure fascism.

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Great news, My Pillow seditionist and deranged fraudster Mike Lindell has lost the GOP primary for Governor of Minnesota, dealing another major election loss for the orange felon. Love this for them both.

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Diana Sanchez Ledezma spent nearly four months inside the Otay Mesa Detention Center. After a sudden release in April, Ledezma is now sharing details about her experience inside the facility and life after detention.

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Angus: MAGA politicians are threatening our sovereignty, saying they’ll cross the border if we don’t solve the climate crisis. We’ve always crossed the border to help each other. Today we’re mourning a Canadian firefighter who died helping fight a wildfire in Aspen, Colorado.

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"Lynch’s presence at the Capitol that fateful day has not been publicly reported until now, more than five years later ... Lynch remained at DOJ and, under the second Trump administration, received a big promotion: He’s now running a national task force to prosecute left-wing political violence."

talkingpointsmemo.comEXCLUSIVE: Trump DOJ’s Top ‘Antifa’ Prosecutor Marched With Crowd on Jan. 6On Jan. 6, 2021, a man approached the Capitol who looked like...

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Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, 52 Joan Sebastian Guerrero, 26 Both brutally murdered by the MAGA regime’s ICE-Gestapo killers and are now part of long growing list of victims. RIP. 🙏