Pat Beall

Pat Beall

@pbeall.bsky.social

Columnist and op-ed writer, South Florida Sun Sentinel; popups at Orlando Sentinel. Kayaks with gators. Wordwork: elex access, opioids, private prisons, child welfare.

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I emailed Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor for standards and trust at NYT, to ask why their story about a House report with new details of rape allegations against the President of the United States included neither those details, nor a single use of the word "rape." archive.is/1s9AM

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Put a monument for the people of Minneapolis for this on the National Mall when all is said and done.

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social

I do think when historians look back the period the exact moment where it flipped and started going the other way won’t be anything any politician did but my Minneapolis neighbors weathering the worst of the regime in the streets, rallying together, fighting back, and winning

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@crampell.bsky.social on Trump encouraging Vivek Ramaswamy to continue running an ad that exploited the childhood abuse of his opponent: “It is loathsome…It reminds us of some of the other ways that this administration has hurt victims of domestic and sexual abuse.”

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"So the guy called himself a king" *muffled gasps from the panel* "and he sent thousands of soldiers to quarter in my city" *Washington audibly whispers "what the f-"* "and so we, like, formed this system where we'd call up people within a minute or two if they showed up" Paul Revere: hell yes

Philip Bump@pbump.com

Even if this were viable as a concept (that there's an afterlife; that it allows conversations with others; that enslavers are going the same place as you), who cares? Oh, are you mad at me, Ben Franklin? Tough shit.

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I know people instinctively recoil at monocausal explanations and want important trends to have sufficiently weighty causes, but “We built a novel social environment that rewards anger and lurid pessimism and moved 95% of political discourse into it” is a pretty good explanation for a lot of stuff

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A horse is a horse Of course of course Unless you’ve been forced By a horse of course If so of course you can become The bureau’s Mr. Fed

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Kash Patel: "Applicants who have engaged in beastiliaty means they were victims of beastility because they were forced to do so. At this FBI we are not going to criminalize and prevent victims from serving."

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BREAKING: Liam Tadeo was just deported by ICE.

James Talarico@jamestalarico.bsky.social

A 5-year-old Texan just spent the first day of school in an ICE detention center. ICE kidnapped Liam Tadeo on his way to a soccer game with his dad. Liam should be in kindergarten. Instead, our government has thrown him in a prison camp hundreds of miles from home.

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Speaking as a survivor? May he fuck himself until the heat death of the universe or prison on CSA charges, making the heat death of the universe a desirable alternative. uhttps://www.sun-sentinel.com/2026/08/18/palm-beach-county-clerk-of-courts-mike-caruso-arrested-on-child-sexual-abuse-charges/

sun-sentinel.comPalm Beach County Clerk of Courts Mike Caruso arrested on child sexual abuse chargesMike Caruso, the Palm Beach County clerk of courts and a staunch ally of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, was arrested Tuesday morning on child sexual abuse charges, state officials announced.

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hahahahahahahahahaha AG Todd Blanche: "This narrative...that the president is going to pull me aside and ask me to do something illegal is completely a false narrative, not true, will not happen, and hasn't happened"

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Apparently the recent reporting from MeidasTouch, Aaron Parnas, and others, and the subsequent tantrum from CENTCOM, made its way into a new lego video

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“These men and women signed up to serve their country. The least their country owes them is hot water, a working toilet and a real meal. Hegseth cannot even manage that, and he has the nerve to look their families in the eye and call them liars.”

theguardian.comUSS Abraham Lincoln sailors tried to jump overboard amid extended deployment – reportsAircraft carrier’s crew in ninth month at sea and has spent record 250 days consecutively without making land

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If you have enough money that you can blow $100,000,000 on avoiding taxes, you have enough money to pay $100,000,000 *on* taxes that will help your fellow citizens, you self-centered prick.