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Dr (academic kind) Betsy Goulet

@betsyg44.bsky.social

Mom of 4, grandma of 8, wife of a really amazing guy, recently retired Assistant Professor Emerita (Child Advocacy Studies & Public Administration) Parent of a 17 year old orange tabby named Izzy. I knew the assignment and I’m happy to live in ILLINOIS!!

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This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

04.10.2025 18:10 — 👍 23976    🔁 7423    💬 1463    📌 580
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South Shore Residents Return To Ransacked Apartments After ICE Raid: 'It Looks Like Hell' A "now renting" sign outside touts granite countertops. Inside, residents are trying to make sense of the raid that made their already neglected building even worse.

ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white.

Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace.

That’s not making America great again.

02.10.2025 23:58 — 👍 28580    🔁 10139    💬 1368    📌 500

The president said, in a televised speech, that he's sending his new, less restrained, more violent military into US cities to practice their brutality on immigrants and minorities, to better train them to apply that brutality to other countries.

He said this out loud.

30.09.2025 20:50 — 👍 15461    🔁 5551    💬 651    📌 330
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Trump and Hegseth Gathered U.S. Military Leaders for an “Embarrassing” Rant Defense officials were shocked at the cost and danger of assembling the military’s top officers to listen to meandering tirades.

obviously the state of things is grim but i actually took a lot of comfort (not to mention schadenfreude) with the cold reception the generals gave trump and secretary breakfast gin

30.09.2025 22:24 — 👍 611    🔁 59    💬 25    📌 5

Our democracy is collapsing in real time.

Much of the damage will be irreparable.

If you’re waiting to say or do something, you better not wait much longer.

19.09.2025 14:33 — 👍 4103    🔁 1198    💬 161    📌 47

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

18.09.2025 13:58 — 👍 45964    🔁 12565    💬 1753    📌 421

Weird that the FCC Chair had no issue with Kilmeade wanting to euthanize homeless people.

18.09.2025 01:57 — 👍 28809    🔁 8687    💬 948    📌 353

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

18.09.2025 00:22 — 👍 40427    🔁 9034    💬 900    📌 554

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say.

This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.

All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

17.09.2025 23:22 — 👍 61509    🔁 17843    💬 1788    📌 729

Wow.

18.09.2025 12:20 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump says he’s designating Antifa as a terrorist organization | CNN Politics President Donald Trump said he is designating the far-left anti-fascism movement Antifa as a terrorist organization, announcing the move on his Truth Social platform in the early hours of Thursday mor...

Trump just designated “Antifa” as a terrorist organization, on par with ISIS and Al Qaeda. As a reminder, “antifa” is short for “antifascist”.

They will use this lie to surveil, imprison, and kill Americans on the left.

This may be our Reichstag Fire moment. Wake up.

www.cnn.com/2025/09/17/p...

18.09.2025 01:48 — 👍 18412    🔁 7165    💬 1755    📌 768

This

11.09.2025 00:21 — 👍 134    🔁 20    💬 10    📌 1
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Kamala Harris would not be secretly trying to deport innocent children to Guatemala if she was our president instead right now.

01.09.2025 12:35 — 👍 6791    🔁 1296    💬 153    📌 43
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I'd just like to point out how weird it is that places with hundreds or even thousands of reporters — the NYT, WaPo, CBS, NBC, AP, etc. — are all getting pummeled on every major story by the dozen computerboys at Wired. To fumble the bag this consistently is, at some point, cowardice and a choice.

15.07.2025 20:54 — 👍 39065    🔁 10363    💬 1016    📌 445
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I have one guess left and I’ve tried everything that I have remaining letters to use - and enlisted the help of the dictionary. I’m totally stumped.

05.07.2025 11:00 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

More than 16 million Americans are at risk of losing their health care because Republicans in Congress are rushing to pass a bill that would cut federal funding for Medicaid and weaken the Affordable Care Act.

02.07.2025 20:01 — 👍 27377    🔁 8623    💬 1109    📌 329
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Evil incarnate.

29.06.2025 15:54 — 👍 6705    🔁 2423    💬 576    📌 284
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finally a worthy Alien vs. Predator installment

05.06.2025 19:27 — 👍 9400    🔁 1965    💬 314    📌 176
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Was I wrong?

05.06.2025 20:19 — 👍 19167    🔁 2578    💬 524    📌 116

Felt good to unload him. 👍🏻

20.05.2025 15:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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They received presidential pardons for this ‘message’ and it wasn’t seashells on a beach.

16.05.2025 15:05 — 👍 17580    🔁 6069    💬 476    📌 243

One reason I never really took to ‘reality TV’ is that it isn’t - indeed, cannot be - real. There are too many variables in real life to make a ‘guaranteed’ watchable show. And so you (meaning I) find most reality shows far less believable than fictional narrative.

16.05.2025 06:34 — 👍 75    🔁 6    💬 18    📌 2

Never in a million years. And if I had 5 minutes with him he’d not want to spend another minute more with me.

16.05.2025 22:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yes, I’m sad, disgusted and done with him. We just made a joke that it had been 10 minutes since we’d last heard something about the book on his show. Meanwhile, we have the worst grift underway in the history of presidents and the main stream media is “meh”

16.05.2025 22:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Let me say a few words about Kristi Noem who showed up in my hometown to make a spectacle of her racist & cruel policies. I won’t even waste words when one will do: VILE. She was a coward who wouldn’t face the crowds. There’s more to say but I’m still in shock by what she then decided to do. 🤬

07.05.2025 17:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Pass it on…

05.05.2025 17:12 — 👍 20488    🔁 8245    💬 755    📌 478

My Governor. ❤️

04.05.2025 22:01 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

He stood there on Jan 20 and falsely mouthed the words to protect and defend our Constitution.

Asked now on Meet the Press if he thinks he needs to uphold the Constitution, he says, “I don’t know.”

Translation: No.

Woe to America and the utter failure of putting this man back in our Oval Office.

04.05.2025 15:19 — 👍 18958    🔁 5705    💬 960    📌 315

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