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@bethtobey.bsky.social

Local government champion, arts manager, cat lover, hoping we can save democracy through sensible policy and empathy.

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INCREDIBLE opinion by Wilkinson refusing to stay Judge Xinis's orders in the Abrego Garcia case, condemning DOJ's arguments as "shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear."
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

17.04.2025 19:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 18003    ๐Ÿ” 5443    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 277    ๐Ÿ“Œ 355
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BREAKING: Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez has been released. This is the moment he reunited with his mom.

17.04.2025 23:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 53233    ๐Ÿ” 10046    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1141    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1105
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Rep. Steven Horsford to Greer: "So the trade representative hasn't spoken to the POTUS about a global reordering of trade, but yet he announced it on a tweet? WTF! Who is in charge? It looks like your boss just pulled the rug out from under you. There is no strategy ... is this market manipulation?"

09.04.2025 18:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 42929    ๐Ÿ” 13577    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1877    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1755

You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.

09.04.2025 17:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 87803    ๐Ÿ” 16178    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3089    ๐Ÿ“Œ 825
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What makes this visual even more stunning is that it was made possible by people who said their #1 concern when voting was the economy. What idiots.

07.04.2025 15:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 18564    ๐Ÿ” 5847    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 576    ๐Ÿ“Œ 293

The worst catastrophes of history are caused by men who are malevolent, ignorant, and have exceptional wills.

07.04.2025 12:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 42520    ๐Ÿ” 6444    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1244    ๐Ÿ“Œ 306
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Let's go Chicago!!!!

Thousands of protesters showed up for the Hands Off! protest!

๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ

05.04.2025 18:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3264    ๐Ÿ” 826    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 79    ๐Ÿ“Œ 53

๐Ÿคฎ๐Ÿคฎ๐Ÿคฎ๐Ÿคฎ๐Ÿคฎ

23.03.2025 23:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Wait, so it turns out the guy with a botched penis implant also makes cars held together (or not) by glue?

22.03.2025 23:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1740    ๐Ÿ” 196    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 47    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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The only fair way to handle this is to appoint a team of teenagers to tear this company limb from limb until we find out what kind of financial damage they are hiding and where

20.03.2025 01:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 60958    ๐Ÿ” 14030    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1415    ๐Ÿ“Œ 669
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Dropkick Murphys just had an epic moment at their show:

They made a friendly wager with a fan in a MAGA shirtโ€”โ€œLetโ€™s see where itโ€™s made.โ€

Then they checked his MAGA shirt tagโ€ฆ

Made in Nicaragua.

They swapped it with a Made in America Dropkick Murphys tee.

Legendary.

10.03.2025 19:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17008    ๐Ÿ” 4160    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 442    ๐Ÿ“Œ 561
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Funny, how "I will fix things on day one" quickly became "Please, please give me NINE MONTHS to show any signs of progress!!!"

09.03.2025 01:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8351    ๐Ÿ” 2063    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 844    ๐Ÿ“Œ 267
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Imagine if Joe Biden had reposted a liberal pundit saying โ€˜shut up about gas pricesโ€™ in 2022. It would have led the news, all of the news, for days, weeks, on end.

09.03.2025 00:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16520    ๐Ÿ” 3545    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 562    ๐Ÿ“Œ 185

youโ€™re fired. wait youโ€™re rehired. email us a list of things youโ€™ve done today wait forget it youโ€™re fired again. come back your job was important. youโ€™re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

05.03.2025 22:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 97119    ๐Ÿ” 26847    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1547    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1265
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Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

โ€œIn Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.โ€

06.03.2025 05:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 43267    ๐Ÿ” 14218    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 867    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1402

British PM Starmer hugged Zelenskyy. Thatโ€™s how bad U.S. foreign policy has gottenโ€”itโ€™s driving the Brits to physical displays of emotion.

05.03.2025 20:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17104    ๐Ÿ” 2354    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 354    ๐Ÿ“Œ 117

โ€œThose nasty Canadians are ripping us off and are controlled by Mexican cartels. Theyโ€™re poisoning us with fentanyl and need to become the 51st state or they will pay a high priceโ€ is a belief that literally ZERO Americans had six weeks ago. Itโ€™s entirely invented from scratch.

06.03.2025 02:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 91933    ๐Ÿ” 14959    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3564    ๐Ÿ“Œ 858
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Heโ€™s doing it for free? Nope. Follow the money and see where it goes.

Elon Musk is spearheading the overhaul of the $42 billion broadband programโ€”directly benefiting himself and Starlink.

06.03.2025 01:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10041    ๐Ÿ” 2263    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 203    ๐Ÿ“Œ 76
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This reality show premise of finding the dumbest MFer in the country and making him president isnโ€™t going well. Season 1 sucked. Season 2 is much worse.

04.03.2025 18:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 45088    ๐Ÿ” 9541    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3585    ๐Ÿ“Œ 869
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Top HHS spokesperson quits after clashing with RFK Jr. Thomas Corry resigned over disagreements with the HHS secretary and his approach to the measles outbreak.

RFK Jrโ€™s top spokesman at HHS resigns after just 2 weeks after reporting clashing with him about his response to the measles epidemic in Texas. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

03.03.2025 19:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 30093    ๐Ÿ” 9113    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1402    ๐Ÿ“Œ 627

๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘ ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

03.03.2025 23:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Due to President Musk, the U.S. Forest Service has terminated $75 million awarded to the Arbor Day Foundation to help disadvantaged communities plant trees. All 105 of the foundationโ€™s sub-awardees have suddenly lost funding.
#trees #forestservice #Trump #Musk #MuskisPresident

03.03.2025 03:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โ€œWhat Zelensky asked, I thought very understandably in the White House, was a simple question: How are you going to trust Vladimir Putin when he has sat down at the negotiating table before and never honored the agreement?โ€ - Sen. Chris Murphy

02.03.2025 19:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2914    ๐Ÿ” 696    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 83    ๐Ÿ“Œ 24
Quote from a New Yorker piece noting that working moms today 4 hours more a week interacting w their children than stay at home moms of a previous generation.

Quote from a New Yorker piece noting that working moms today 4 hours more a week interacting w their children than stay at home moms of a previous generation.

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

02.03.2025 15:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7271    ๐Ÿ” 1046    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 259    ๐Ÿ“Œ 94
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Roll out the red carpet.....

02.03.2025 14:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15624    ๐Ÿ” 2613    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 175    ๐Ÿ“Œ 106
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He didn't wear a suit, but he received a pardon and was treated better than Zelenskyy was.

02.03.2025 13:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 47461    ๐Ÿ” 13603    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 990    ๐Ÿ“Œ 498

Thereโ€™s nothing wrong with Billionaires having billions. There is something inherently wrong with billionaires cutting your benefits, and help to the poor through USAID, and running around with a chainsaw giggling.

You can have power or billions. But we refuse to be an oligarchy

03.03.2025 01:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16515    ๐Ÿ” 3117    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1157    ๐Ÿ“Œ 165

Sickening! ๐Ÿคฎ

03.03.2025 01:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0