Betsy West

October 12, 2025 On October 9, President Donald J.

Re Trump’s wacky ode to Christopher Columbus: “A society grounded in fiction, rather than reality, cannot function.”

Justin Pearson, ‘Tennessee Three’ Democrat, to Run for Congress

Justin Pearson, ‘Tennessee Three’ Democrat, to Run for Congress www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Jimmy Kimmel just now on Donald Trump: “He tried his best to cancel me. Instead he forced millions of people to watch the show. That backfired bigly. He might have to release the Epstein files to distract us from this now.”

I think I’ll sleep better tonight night.

survey we don't want to see you go. But if you must tell us the main reason why. I've written in and checked off: "You capitulate to fascists."

Bye Hulu
Bye Disney.
Bye whatever else was in that package.

ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Off Air for Charlie Kirk Comments

ABC bends the knee. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...

"This is not the intervention that we need, and this is not what our communities deserve." Tennessee State Rep. Justin J. Pearson expresses his opposition to Donald Trump's plan to send the National Guard to Memphis. @justinjpearson.bsky.social

September 12, 2025 Since a gunman murdered right-wing activist Charlie Kirk at an outdoor event at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, both social media circles and the political sphere have been alight with accusatio...

Today’s Letter from an American reads like a horror novel. Too bad it’s not fiction.

Who doesn't love badass people outsmarting the oil and gas industry? THIS IS NOT A DRILL premiering at the #TellurideFilmFestival this weekend. Oren Jacoby directing, me producing.

Producer: @betsywest.bsky.social.

Trump Targets Agencies Long Seen as Above Politics. Critics See Big Risks.

"CRITICS See Big Risks"?! WTF? There aren't 2 sides to this story. Trump destroys CDC, EPA, FEMA -- agencies that protect American health and well being. You don't need a Trump "critic" to tell you that. Would it be "Hitler Rises to Power; Critics See Big Risks"?! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/u...

Trump, With Tariffs and Threats, Tries to Strong-Arm Nations to Retreat on Climate Goals

The Bozo Fascist is a nonstop, worldwide source of destruction and evil. For example: he's trying to bully other countries out pursuing the much-needed transition from fossil fuels to solar and wind power. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/c...

Tennessee legislator Justin J Pearson

And the new generation of leaders like @justinJPearson.bsky.social addressing the inequities in our country that helped lead to this terrifying predicament in the first place.

Mark Elias Voting Rights poster

Lawyers like MarcElias@bsky.social fighting unconstitutional power grabs on all fronts.

Julie Cohen protesting on a New Jersey street corner

Paul Barrett protesting in from of a New Jersey detention center.

Protestors like @filmmakerjulie.bsky.social and Paulthedogman@bsky.social making their opposition known on street corners, highway overpasses, detention center parking lots and thoughtful journals.

Fed Board Chair Lisa Cook

Brave public officials like Lisa Cook refusing to bow down.

Illiinois Governor JB Pritzker

Let’s celebrate and support governors like JB Pritzker standing up to our would-be tyrant.

As we head into the back quarter of 2025, I’ve made a mid-year resolution borrowed from my politically involved daughter: NO HAND WRINGING. Instead…

Schools
Theaters
Concerts
Malls
Churches
Synagogues
Mosques
Parks
Nightclubs
Offices
Festivals
Stores
Military Bases
Bars
Post Offices
Yoga Studios
Super Bowl parades

Nowhere is safe from the scourge of gun violence in America. You can't tell me we must simply accept it.

Do not come, Donald Trump.

You are neither wanted nor needed here in Illinois.

The worst single-day crime spree in modern Washington history, of course, took place on Jan. 6, 2021. Trump issued no order to the National Guard to intervene -- Mike Pence did -- and later pardoned the perpetrators.

So assuming this story is correct -- and the WSJ reporter is excellent -- Trump's chief negotiator on Ukraine is meeting with Putin about how to end the war while also scouting sites for a possible Trump hotel in Moscow.

www.wsj.com/world/russia...

RFK Jr. Cancels $500 Million In Funding For Vaccine Development The mRNA vaccines are credited with slowing the 2020 coronavirus pandemic.

Bearcarcass McBrainworm may end up killing us all. www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-va...

“Even though this book is billed as a memoir, it’s ultimately a call to action.”

I appreciate this thoughtful review of my new book, Coming Up Short. I hope it inspires some of you to give it a read.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/books/review/coming-up-short-robert-reich.html

At the Jones Beach Outlaw Music Festival, Lucinda Williams dedicates her song “You Can’t Rule Me” to the so-called King of America. Wonder who she means?

ICE Agents Invade a Manhattan Little League Field Youman Wilder has coached local kids for twenty-one years—including four who have gone pro. When masked agents tried to interrogate his players, he told them, “You don’t have more rights than they do....

Recently ICE agents appeared on a Little League field in Manhattan. Coach Youman Wilder told a group of kids who were being interrogated to get behind him and said to the officers, “You don’t have more rights than they do.”

Just so people understand, if a batter hits a ball to the outfield, there's nothing we can do. We don't have the technology to put baseball players in the outfield.

Check out this article in which @filmmakerjulie.bsky.social and I discuss the cowardly cancellation of @colbertlateshow.bsky.social and share how our protesting is even more important as a result.

We said release the files not the accomplices, idiot.

Academic with history of incendiary remarks to lead US Institute of Peace Darren Beattie once said on X that “competent white men must be in charge.”

Are you fucking kidding me. www.politico.com/news/2025/07...