Beth

Beth

@loobeth.bsky.social

Smart, sarcastic, subversive. Author of educational/parlor RPG 'Monumental Consequence'

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We can all cherry-pick from a host of blunders to be furious about, but if our Secretary of State is not involved in ceasefire talks of this magnitude and is instead shown as a neutered lapdog attending a UFC match, then 😡.

Two things can be true at the same time: 1. The madness of the "king" is directly proportional to the sycophants' adulation. We absolutely can blame them for a large part of this. 2. The sycophants are openly recoiling at what they helped create. We can support this AND still place blame.

LMK when the spouses and family members of ICE abductees are given a ton of time on (very well lit and staged) major network tv to give us the heavy, deep and real on their irrevocably changed lives. Until then...

I am DONE with revisionist blather about the former presidency that left us with a solid economy and progress towards a solid future. Presidencies are coalitions. Get a good team or an evil team. I'm not diverging from the stance that the *this* in which we are now mired is WAY WORSE.

Um, hi professor. I was dinged a few points on an assignment and I want to pick a bone with you about them in a lengthy email, even though I received an A on this assignment and I have an A in the class. It's important that I bother you about this at *this* time. Right now. During finals.

All in all, the 100ish days I spent in 2020, post-emergency appendectomy in the sweltering August soup of Rome, Italy during a COVID emergency that included a lovely post-surgical hematoma and a scar that literally reshaped my abdomen as a really very pleasant 100 days, comparatively.

Two points: -maybe don’t go on camera and announce you’re headed to try busting someone out before going -why can’t an elected rep get any cooperation from the jailer as a member of the same govt paying for these illegal incarcerations? Oh wait. See my first point.

Sincere advice to U.S. Congress members posting typical 'this happened, and it has to stop' statements well after this community has become aware and is WAY more in the weeds than you appear to be: please stop. We are nonplussed. Get in the weeds too, or get out of the way.

This is Evander. Evander was adopted from a shelter in Rome. He is a (skin) cancer survivor. Evander would like for all of you to know that cuddles and tummy rubs are the prescription for hard Mondays like this one.

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It is very good question and one I’ve been asking for months. If there is an international agreement with El Salvador for these renditions, the Trump administration is legally required under the Case-Zablocki Act to share it with Congress. To my knowledge, they have not done so.

Tim Dickinson@timdickinson.bsky.social

Has anyone produced the contract by which El Salvador is holding folks for the US?

7) Upon the closure of that convention, he said that he was happy to report that it was rising. I imagine that statement delivered the way a proud parent shares news of a baby, over whom there was much labor. Love bubbles up from a deep place. You can hear it in the voice.

6) About this chair, Benjamin Franklin stated that during the 1787 convention, he often looked at this emblem - with its half sun, a liberty pole topped by a liberty cap, flanked by cornucopias, grounded by a sheaf of wheat - and he wondered if the sun was setting or rising.

5) about this one chair...George's chair. THAT George. On the chair back is a carving. When we later went to the African American Museum of Philadelphia, the topic of this chair arose again. The carving looks like this. This is my test print of a block I just completed.

We wanted to see where the sausage was made - where they debated over how to make a country answer to its own people. Where they put together their best intellects and crafted a great role playing game. As the National Park Service tour guide pointed to the austere room's furnishings and spoke

3) to the States, I wondered if I could have the same kind of experiences. What's important is the requirement that it happen on foot, or else you just can't give something enough time to open itself up to you. It takes a long time to see things. We went to Philadelphia during Thanksgiving.

2) I visually excavated it. I documented the numerous stone fragments, recycled reliefs and 'woddities' in the urban fabric. I retraced a lot of steps and still noticed new things in so many nooks and crannies. Hundreds of photos later, I mine them for my work in printmaking. After moving back

While the world was shut down and I was living in Rome, I taught myself to be a sourdough baker and a better cook, working many hours alone as the luckiest artist-in-residence at Temple University in Rome, and I wandered an empty city. I wandered on foot with my camera,

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