kbethany.bsky.social

kbethany.bsky.social

@kbethany.bsky.social

Love scenic vistas, strong coffee, fluffy dogs and trash novels. She/Her

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Just used Vote411.Org to check if I needed to do any research before voting day. Just enter your address to see all the races/questions on your ballot. Now I’m ready to vote! 💪

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This is Kohen Wiley. He was killed by police in Mississippi after his mother was accused of shoplifting…DIAPERS. His mother lifted him up to show police there was a baby in the car. The officers shot him OVER A BOX OF DIAPERS.

I can’t wait until there’s a blue wave election and every media outlet runs a think piece about why the wave wasn’t the expected tsunami 🙄

jamelle@jamellebouie.net

reminder, this is what patrick ruffini was saying about the midterms earlier this year

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Real wages are shrinking year-over-year for the sixth month in a row. The Iran War brought an end to three years of real wage growth.

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Musk unilaterally shut off a defensive capability just as Russia attacked power plants with winter approaching I don't know why anyone trusted him before, but certainly nobody can afford an Elon Musk dependency after this

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Billions of dollars’ worth of contracts predicting oil would fall and the S&P 500 would rise were placed about 15 minutes before Trump announced a U-turn on Iran in a post on Truth Social. CFTC staff began to investigate...then were told to lay off. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

bloomberg.comCFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil TradesChairman’s adviser intervened to take over examination of lucrative bets that were made around Trump reversal on Iran power plant attack.

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Sam Altman said people are just gonna have to die in order to implement AI. In the very same week, Anthropic claimed it’s a human rights violation to be mean to the computer. These people need to be held accountable. They think lines of code are a person with rights but living people are debris.

The Verge@theverge.com

Over the past year, Anthropic has repeatedly flirted with the idea that its AI models could be conscious in some way. In February, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said on a podcast, “We don’t know if the models are conscious.”

I hate the Joy storyline! I know folks are struggling to pay rent these days but both Alex and Stephanie have well paying jobs and come from wealthy families and I’m pretty sure Jada sublets from Alex so why not just give Joy that apt and help Jada & Shawn move? It’s all so stupid. #Days

The same jokers who spent two years obsessing about Hunter Biden are *completely silent* as the Trump family literally takes in not thousands or 100ks or even millions but BILLIONS on insider trading and graft.

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

The Trump Crime Family

This. Like… did you know Jewish women have to get the consent of their husbands to get a Jewish divorce (called a get)? My parents legally divorced in 1981 and my mom finally got her *religious* divorce about 25 years later (my dad had been remarried with 3 more kids for almost all of those 25 yrs)

Andy Craig@andycraig.bsky.social

He said this at the time, as did many, and it remains a bald-faced lie. Not a matter of opinion. It's just completely untrue as an objective factual matter. Civil marriage laws don't work like that and never have. Just like the legality of divorce and remarriage doesn't affect the Catholic Church.

These assholes want you to buy that not being able to impose their religious views on everyone else hampers their freedom when what they’re actually demanding is the right to restrict other people’s freedoms based on their particular brand of religion. It’s not freedom - it’s religious supremacy.

We know the world is unjust because Jim Bakker outlasted Phil Hartman by 28 years - I know which guy I’m mourning

Hoodlum 🇺🇸@nothoodlum.bsky.social

Jim Bakker, the TV preacher brought down by sex and financial scandals, has died at 86. He and his then-wife, Tammy Faye Bakker, built a televangelism empire that ended in a spectacular collapse of greed, scandal, and excess.

To be clear - it should be a hard red line even if he were talking about Memphis or Orlando or Provincetown but listing San Diego sure shows his “respect” for our Military. And don’t pretend the guy that wanted to prosecute over “86” doesn’t know what “take out” means 🤬

Sandieglo@sandieglo.bsky.social

He simply must be removed from office as any other President would have been if they had uttered these words. "A small price to pay" means he is willing to let 15 million Americans be murdered and he thinks it is acceptable. The fact that those people clapped when he said that makes me sick.

Even aside from the anti-trust, the larger underlying issue is that these huge debt funded purchases should not be allowed. I’m not sure what the answer is and *some* debt is ok but these overly leveraged buyouts keep destroying companies and businesses and hurt everyone but the deal makers.

Maybe the answer is that banker bonuses have to have built in tiered delays for milestone completion? I don’t know but right now bankers have no incentive not to risk *other people’s money* and HUGE fiscal incentives to do so and it’s harming *everyone*

So happy to see this!

Seth Miller@wandrme.paxex.aero

Great news for students who vote in NH: While Student IDs "are no longer expressly valid to establish voter identity under RSA 659:13, election officials may consider them, along with other available evidence." Gives poll workers flexibility to ensure students can vote. #NHPolitics #nhtok

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This breathtaking NYT story about Trump's Russian entanglements includes three people who've been part of the operation to cultivate Trump since 2015: Bryan Lanza, Sheikh Tahoon, and Kirill Dmitriev. This is literally the culmination of the original plan. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...

nytimes.comU.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump AlliesPresident Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...

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There are a lot of Trump officials who need to be impeached, but Russell Vought -- the quarterback of all the Project 2025 fuckery and a central player in the administration's overreach -- really needs to be at the top of the list.

Johnie’s aunt is the DA and he knows the feds including Rafe have been trying to take EJ down so why wouldn’t he negotiate immunity before talking???? Heck, even Justin is his brother-in-law’s dad and could negotiate that plus his mom has tons of $$$ to hire him an attorney! #Days

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Texas is basically saying it wants to encourage fraud as a matter of public policy and you should keep that in mind whenever you see a large firm incorporated in Texas

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Replying to @conifergirl.bsky.social

Wrapping military rhetoric in a religious framework is is nothing but Christian nationalism. And Christian nationalism has absolutely nothing to do with religion, spirituality, or the actual tenets of faith. It has everything

I hope they are completely bankrupted by a settlement but it doesn’t change the absolute shame that everyone along the chain of command from the murderer ICE Agent to the President isn’t serving a life sentence for their responsibility for creating the environment that led to her murder.

nytimes.comRenee Good’s Family Sues ICE Agent and Top Officials Over Minnesota Killing (Gift Article)The fatal shooting of Ms. Good set off protests during the Trump administration’s immigration operation early this year in Minnesota.

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Better legal brains than i have said it but i’ll say it too, the concept of irreparable harm should apply to life and liberty, not the feelings of republican governors

hammancheez but spooky@hammancheez.bsky.social

The supreme court justices are guilty of ordering torture and that’s all there is to it

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These ads go in the same category as brazen, easily disproven lies after ICE killings. It’s not about persuasion. It’s a display of power. They could have passed them off as PAC-funded. They added “paid for by the U.S. government” because they want us to know they can break the law with impunity.

I’m starting to think his obsession with renaming stuff is that it represents (meaningless) power that gives him talking points to riff off of instead of saying anything substantive. If he can pivot to talking about “AI vs SI” he’s NOT talking about the hard questions he should be addressing re AI.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump starts to brag about renaming the Gulf of Mexico but then remembers he's speaking to a Hispanic Heritage Month event

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This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇

This is a great point - the American model often funds research with grants but the companies get the patents & only seek out answers that might be profitable. It’s corporate welfare designed not to heal people but to treat our illnesses as revenue streams subsidized with our tax dollars.

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻@strictlychristo.bsky.social

American health care creates no incentive for pharma companies to cure diseases. When you cure a disease, the customers go away. There's no money in that. Curing patients is not a sustainable business model, per Goldman Sachs. news.slashdot.org/story/19/02/...

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BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnham’s Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.

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I'm so glad I lived past age 6. Thank you, Lt. Col. Petrov.

Ed Maibach@maibached.bsky.social

Happy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social

This is a small example of Trump created stupidity. Trump’s idiotic tariff wars mean that Canada has to sell potash overseas (increasing cost and carbon footprint) AND USA has to buy from intl mkt (with same increased costs/carbon footprint) and we ALL pay the price 🤬

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