babsbeaty
@babsbeaty.bsky.social
St Paul, MN. Coffeeshops, city life, books and progressive politics. Bad church lady. Pretty good enneagram teacher and coach. https://linktr.ee/babeaty
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This season is heavy for a lot of us. Caring takes energy, and exhaustion doesn’t mean you’ve stopped caring. I wrote this as a permission slip to rest without giving up what matters. You’re not alone here.
open.substack.com/pub/thejenni...
open.substack.com/pub/thejenni...
In a Hard Season, Know You’re Not Alone
On Caring, Exhaustion, and the Right to Rest
open.substack.com
December 18, 2025 at 7:43 PM
This season is heavy for a lot of us. Caring takes energy, and exhaustion doesn’t mean you’ve stopped caring. I wrote this as a permission slip to rest without giving up what matters. You’re not alone here.
open.substack.com/pub/thejenni...
open.substack.com/pub/thejenni...
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Brooks should be driven out of public life. The fact that he knew there were photographs of himself with Epstein and he didn't disclose that while also telling people that they should move on is just straight up unethical.
December 18, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Brooks should be driven out of public life. The fact that he knew there were photographs of himself with Epstein and he didn't disclose that while also telling people that they should move on is just straight up unethical.
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Now, I care not who maintains the contrary, but all this is both foolish and unnecessary.
December 18, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Now, I care not who maintains the contrary, but all this is both foolish and unnecessary.
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Glad Rolling Stone published this, especially given the loud silence from the rest of the media on this grim watershed moment in US political history.
Melissa Hortman Died in a Shocking Act of Political Violence. This Is the Story of Her Life
The Minnesota Speaker’s closest friends and family open up for the first time.
Read @stephenrodrick.bsky.social's exclusive: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The Minnesota Speaker’s closest friends and family open up for the first time.
Read @stephenrodrick.bsky.social's exclusive: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
December 18, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Glad Rolling Stone published this, especially given the loud silence from the rest of the media on this grim watershed moment in US political history.
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This story has been corrected
December 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
This story has been corrected
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Bari Weiss learned the same thing as Kirk, Riley Gaines, David Brooks and every Faux Noise pundit:
Selling your soul to be a mouthpeice for hateful billionaire assholes is a very lucrative grift.
Worked great for Kirk, until it suddenly didn't.
Selling your soul to be a mouthpeice for hateful billionaire assholes is a very lucrative grift.
Worked great for Kirk, until it suddenly didn't.
December 18, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Bari Weiss learned the same thing as Kirk, Riley Gaines, David Brooks and every Faux Noise pundit:
Selling your soul to be a mouthpeice for hateful billionaire assholes is a very lucrative grift.
Worked great for Kirk, until it suddenly didn't.
Selling your soul to be a mouthpeice for hateful billionaire assholes is a very lucrative grift.
Worked great for Kirk, until it suddenly didn't.
I was on FB (I know, I know) watching a local news story about a recent anti-ICE protest. In the comments (I KNOW) someone said “My pastor was there!” The first comment under that was “Don’t tell me. He’s probably for gay marriage, too.”
December 18, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I was on FB (I know, I know) watching a local news story about a recent anti-ICE protest. In the comments (I KNOW) someone said “My pastor was there!” The first comment under that was “Don’t tell me. He’s probably for gay marriage, too.”
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I’m convinced the stress and constant annoyance of living in an economy where every corporation is constantly trying to screw you over is a big part of why people are unhappy with the economy, the government and status quo in general.
December 18, 2025 at 3:09 AM
I’m convinced the stress and constant annoyance of living in an economy where every corporation is constantly trying to screw you over is a big part of why people are unhappy with the economy, the government and status quo in general.
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"Suck it up, raise your game, success isn't a birthright" is PRECISELY what untold generations of parents have told their children when the system was arrayed against them in the cruelest and most horrific of ways.
Good god, Douthat. Fuck you.
Good god, Douthat. Fuck you.
December 17, 2025 at 11:00 PM
"Suck it up, raise your game, success isn't a birthright" is PRECISELY what untold generations of parents have told their children when the system was arrayed against them in the cruelest and most horrific of ways.
Good god, Douthat. Fuck you.
Good god, Douthat. Fuck you.
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Good lord. Anyone who has ever spent one moment learning about the survival skills that members of marginalized communities have always passed on to their children knows that Douthat's claim here is the exact opposite of the truth.
If you think the system doesn't seem interested in rewarding white guys at all that seems to be an issue of your media diet and not a reflection of reality
December 17, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Good lord. Anyone who has ever spent one moment learning about the survival skills that members of marginalized communities have always passed on to their children knows that Douthat's claim here is the exact opposite of the truth.
Good thing there’s a blueprint for how to succeed in the face of institutional discrimination: work twice as hard, be twice as qualified and learn how to blend in with the dominant culture.
Good luck, boys!
Good luck, boys!
December 17, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Good thing there’s a blueprint for how to succeed in the face of institutional discrimination: work twice as hard, be twice as qualified and learn how to blend in with the dominant culture.
Good luck, boys!
Good luck, boys!
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I see posts cc-ing Newsom on this with the hope of shaming him. But Gavs will actually LOVE this endorsement. Bipartisanship that’s 100% rightwing? Man, that’s his sweet spot. He’s gonna celebrate with extra hair gel tonight!
Alabama rep cites Gavin Newson's vote to out trans kids to parents as precedent that the federal government should follow
December 17, 2025 at 10:29 PM
I see posts cc-ing Newsom on this with the hope of shaming him. But Gavs will actually LOVE this endorsement. Bipartisanship that’s 100% rightwing? Man, that’s his sweet spot. He’s gonna celebrate with extra hair gel tonight!
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area idiot unaware of King Herod
December 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM
area idiot unaware of King Herod
I have been harping about this since the occupation started.
The Bundy occupation at Malheur in early 2016 (and the lack of consequences they faced for it) was a sign of what was to come. Right wing white anti-government vigilantes cast as “patriots.”
NEW: Tina Peters is rejecting a J6er's call to storm a Colorado prison and free her.
Peters is distancing herself from the jailbreak scheme and violent actions after allies and her attorney talked about using force or violence to free her and punish those keeping her in prison.
Peters is distancing herself from the jailbreak scheme and violent actions after allies and her attorney talked about using force or violence to free her and punish those keeping her in prison.
December 17, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I have been harping about this since the occupation started.
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*watches white men complain about ‘meritocracy’ while watching incompetent white men burn the US to the ground*
December 17, 2025 at 3:41 PM
*watches white men complain about ‘meritocracy’ while watching incompetent white men burn the US to the ground*
I wrote a piece about making Christmas happen, managing expectations, remembering what really matters and these two lovable goofs.
You can read it on Instagram: tinyurl.com/mvh7944p
You can read it on Instagram: tinyurl.com/mvh7944p
December 17, 2025 at 2:37 AM
I wrote a piece about making Christmas happen, managing expectations, remembering what really matters and these two lovable goofs.
You can read it on Instagram: tinyurl.com/mvh7944p
You can read it on Instagram: tinyurl.com/mvh7944p
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Sir, you and I are both old enough to remember the devastating effects that Reagan’s policies had on California and the country, especially in the realm of mental health and health care overall. He may have spoken of good and decent people, but he was not one.
December 17, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Sir, you and I are both old enough to remember the devastating effects that Reagan’s policies had on California and the country, especially in the realm of mental health and health care overall. He may have spoken of good and decent people, but he was not one.
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I would not tout the man who ignored the AIDS crisis that led to so much death, as someone who had an appreciation for common humanity.
What are you doing?
What are you doing?
December 16, 2025 at 3:07 AM
I would not tout the man who ignored the AIDS crisis that led to so much death, as someone who had an appreciation for common humanity.
What are you doing?
What are you doing?
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After ICE did this in Illinois, the Secretary of State revoked the plates, sent a cease and desist to ICE, threatened to suspend rental car licenses for allowing ICE to swap plates and set up a tip hotline to report plate tampering.
MN deserves the same action.
www.ilsos.gov/news/2025/de...
MN deserves the same action.
www.ilsos.gov/news/2025/de...
December 16, 2025 at 10:13 PM
After ICE did this in Illinois, the Secretary of State revoked the plates, sent a cease and desist to ICE, threatened to suspend rental car licenses for allowing ICE to swap plates and set up a tip hotline to report plate tampering.
MN deserves the same action.
www.ilsos.gov/news/2025/de...
MN deserves the same action.
www.ilsos.gov/news/2025/de...
I just wanted a nice cozy mystery to take my mind off things. Instead I got a post pandemic mystery that involves eugenics.
::Cathartic sobbing:: you can’t always get the book you want, but you just might find the book that you need ::noisy nose blowing::
::Cathartic sobbing:: you can’t always get the book you want, but you just might find the book that you need ::noisy nose blowing::
December 16, 2025 at 10:42 PM
I just wanted a nice cozy mystery to take my mind off things. Instead I got a post pandemic mystery that involves eugenics.
::Cathartic sobbing:: you can’t always get the book you want, but you just might find the book that you need ::noisy nose blowing::
::Cathartic sobbing:: you can’t always get the book you want, but you just might find the book that you need ::noisy nose blowing::
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Just say women. This is taking forever.
December 16, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Just say women. This is taking forever.
This thread!
I hadn't given much thought to the actual philosophy behind the "empathy is bad, actually" movement, because the people espousing it are so transparently anti-human that I never thought of it as having more depth than wolves having the philosophy "Sheep are tasty".
But I realized it matters to AI.
But I realized it matters to AI.
December 16, 2025 at 4:36 PM
This thread!
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Worf in dad jeans and a shark shirt directing DS9 is the timeline cleanse you didn’t know you needed 🖖
December 16, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Worf in dad jeans and a shark shirt directing DS9 is the timeline cleanse you didn’t know you needed 🖖