Betsy West

Betsy West

@betsywest.bsky.social

Producer: This Is Not a Drill EP: Barbara Walters Tell Me Everything Dir:Once Upon a Time in Ukraine Dir(w/@filmmakerjulie): RBG, JULIA, My Name is Pauli Murray Prof Emerita @ColumbiaJourn

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MONTCLAIR SUNDAYS ANNIVERSARY YouTube video by Julie Cohen

a year of protesting against trump in northern new jersey:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRlu...

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Can a doc film make a difference? Director Oren Jacoby talks about the people in This Is Not a Drill who are stopping the dangerous expansion of Big Oil. www.storyville.org/films-tv

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Air pollution deaths attributable to fossil fuels: observational and modelling study Objectives To estimate all cause and cause specific deaths that are attributable to fossil fuel related air pollution and to assess potential health benefits from policies that replace fossil fuels wi...

Air pollution from burning fossil fuels causes 100,000 to 200,000 avoidable American deaths per year. At the EPA's statistical value of life of $10 million, these deaths cost America $1 to $2 trillion per year, every year. These costs far outweigh the costs of transitioning off of fossil fuels.

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Guess where I am. Click the link to see where I'll be next. The list is growing all the time.

www.storyville.org/films-tv

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Thrilled that MethaneHunter aka TX Sharon is joining us in Santa Barbara for screenings of This Is Not a Drill! You gotta see the scary images she’s captured in the oil fields of Texas and around the world.

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Bad Bunny for president

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The paper towels are really flying at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue right now.

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Boston in the 1770s. Minneapolis in 2026. - The Boston Globe America itself was born out of resistance to heavy-handed occupation.

An inspiring reminder: it’s not the first time Americans have stood up to an occupying army.

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Accounting for methane from natural gas infrastructure in United States greenhouse gas emission estimates The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that United States net greenhouse gas emissions have declined over the last two decades and are no…

Methane pollution from US oil and gas infrastructure causes more climate change than the entire economies of all but seven nations on earth.

(This is with methane's climate impacts conservatively evaluated over a 100-year time frame. Evaluated over shorter time frames, methane's impacts are worse.)

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Bari Weiss’s new CBS hires include ‘germ theory denialist’ doctor Dr Mark Hyman, who claimed he reduced his biological age by 20 years, brought on as a contributor

"Among the hires at CBS News announced by Weiss is a doctor who claims he reduced his biological age by 20 years with cold plunges; that cod liver oil treats autism; and that Alzheimer’s and dementia can be reversed with supplements he sells on his online store."

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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January 31, 2026 White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller posted on social media this morning:

She’s always insightsful, but today Heather Cox Richardson is particularly brilliant.

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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

The movement now has its own “Ohio” thanks to Bruce Springsteen‘s “Streets of Minneapolis”:

youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w?...

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Amazon’s Promotion of ‘Melania’ Has Critics Questioning Its Motives

@filmmakerjulie.bsky.social puts two and two together: “not normal spending for a documentary…suggest(s) Amazon is buying something else.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/b...

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This could wind up being the most-watched newsmagazine segment in television history!!

Congratulations to the Ellisons and Bari Weiss!!!

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Dear Bari Weiss: From a Russian Dissident From Garry to Bari: On CBS 60 Minutes, CECOT, and a free press.

From Garry to Bari.

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I trust major news organizations, members of Congress, and public interest groups are publicizing their secure tip lines so DOJ and FBI employees with knowledge of political interference in the Epstein files review process, can explain safely and confidentially what they saw.

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Video: Opinion | When Judges Are Attacked, You Suffer When a judge has to ask if one ruling is a “safer choice for their family” than another, is it still justice? New Jersey judge Esther Salas explains how political attacks have threatened the foundatio...

When Judges Are Attacked, You Suffer www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...

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MAGA, the Broligarchs and the Media This isn’t just about business; it’s about democracy

The broligarchy explained.
substack.com/@paulkrugman...

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The attack at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney today was a vile act of antisemitic terror. I mourn those who were murdered and will be keeping their families, the Jewish community, and the Chabad movement in my prayers. May the memories of all those killed be a blessing.

While we are still waiting for all the facts to emerge, what we already know is devastating. At least 11 dead, including Rabbi Eli Schlanger, who held deep ties to Crown Heights. At least 29 injured. Another Jewish community plunged into mourning and loss, a holiday of light so painfully reduced to a day of darkness. This attack is merely the latest, most horrifying iteration in a growing pattern of violence targeted at Jewish people across the world. Too many no longer feel safe to be themselves, to express their faith publicly, to worship in their synagogues without armed security stationed outside. What happened at Bondi is what many Jewish people fear will happen in their communities too.

On Bondi Beach today, as men with long guns targeted innocents, another man ran towards the gunfire and disarmed a shooter. Tonight, as Jewish New Yorkers light menorahs and usher in a first night of Hanukkah clouded by grief, let us look to his example and confront hatred with the urgency and action it demands. When I am Mayor, I will work every day to keep Jewish New Yorkers safe—on our streets, our subways, at shul, in every moment of every day. Let this be a purpose shared by every New Yorker, and let us banish this horrific violence to the past.
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Even in defeat, Cuomo continues his hateful messsge. Sad.

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Van Jones nails it: Buyers remorse.

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What a difference a year makes.

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Side by side on the front page of @NYTimes today: 3 stark stories about how we deal with the impoverished: hide them, starve them, kill them.

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Trump Posts Fake Video of Himself Flying a ‘King Trump’ Jet Over Protesters

At first I wondered if this were an AI fake video not actually posted by our Shitster in Chief. Now I’m asking, how can decent people continue to support this dangerous, deranged man? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

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This was so outrageous, at first I thought it was an AI fake. How can Republicans continue to support a President who literally revels in this kind of shit?

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I missed this. Part of the ongoing @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social master class in political communication. Hilarious.

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“We found over 35 cases in which the judges have specifically said what the government is providing…false information. It might be intentionally false information, including false sworn declarations time and again," says Ryan Goodman, law professor at New York University.

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This is the first time former DOJ attorney Erez Reuveni has shown his face in such a public way. He says he felt he needed to speak out despite his safety concerns. cbsn.ws/4orCmuO

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