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Carla Jean
@beerbabe.bsky.social
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Passionate science nerd, geospatial industry enthusiast, science and women's health advocate, new mom. Semi-retired freelance beer writer.
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Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · Nov 13
I should maybe reintroduce myself here. I am a former well-known beer writer (mostly retired from that currently) who used to be prolific on Twitter (RIP). I just became a mom at 41 years old, and my daughter turns one in a few weeks. From NY, living in Maine and working in geospatial tech.
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Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 3h
Some of you need to read more (anything!) about the McCarthy era and it shows.
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Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 4h
You know what they tell patients who fail that test, right?

"Great job, you did very well."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h
Trump: "I also did a cognitive exam. Which is always very risky because if I didn't do well, you'd be the first to be blaring it and I had a perfect score. And one of the doctors said he's almost never seen a perfect score. I had a perfect score. That made me well good ... not the easiest test."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h
Trump: "I also did a cognitive exam. Which is always very risky because if I didn't do well, you'd be the first to be blaring it and I had a perfect score. And one of the doctors said he's almost never seen a perfect score. I had a perfect score. That made me well good ... not the easiest test."
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Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 4h
More of this.
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Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 4h
If you want to believe it, check it twice
::clap clap::
If you want to believe it, check it twice
::clap clap::
Doesn’t matter if it’s awful
Doesn’t matter if it’s nice
If it confirms just what you thought, check it twice!
::clap clap::
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Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 5h
Literally the Red Scare and McCarthyism again.
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Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 1d
Surely the very competent and highly qualified FBI could produce one single bank record from a "paid" protestor or agitator of such a thing is obviously so widespread.
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Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 1d
Love that we are already at the "creating a boogie man"stage of fascism. Yaaay an invisible "organization" that were having hearings about in Congress. How novel. 🙄
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 1d
This is the lesson of 2025
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 1d
he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d
“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 3d
See, this is why no one trusts a word from you, newspapers. You swallow the cop stories hook line and sinker.
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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 3d
Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her
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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 3d
Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 4d
The very very warm version of brrr
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Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 5d
Bah... introverts nightmare: Joined a book club, I don't know anyone in it (trying to make friends locally) and the meetup was at a coffee shop that was absolutely packed and I couldn't find them. 😭
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 5d
the people who told us to calm down because Roe was settled law are the same people now telling us to calm down because the military would never open fire on Americans
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Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 5d
So she moved those 10 cars herself?
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Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 5d
Find. A. Better. Method. Than. Paywalls.
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Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 5d
Good Lord this is bleak
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Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 6d
You know they are just bombing boats to provoke a war right? Then they can have all the justification they need to do whatever because it's "wartime." And then the Haliburtons and Planatirs get rich AF
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Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 8d
We really need Dem leadership to get off the "we're fighting for healtcare" train and get on the "GET THESE FASCISTS OUT OF HERE WITH THIS MITLITARISTIC NONSENSE" train.
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Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 8d
I know its a sticking point w/ shutdown, but the contrast of "here's some of the most autocratic, facist and deranged shit we've ever done" with the Dem's response of "Don't you want healthcare?" is insane.

Who's worried about healthcare when they're literally turning the military on civillans?
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Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 9d
"… well c'mon generals, let's move fast
your big chance has come at last!

gotta go out and get those Reds
the only good Commie is one who's dead

and you know that peace can only be won
when we've blown ‘em all to kingdom come..."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10d
Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."
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Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 9d
… well c'mon mothers throughout this land
pack your boys off to Vietnam
c'mon pops, don't hesitate
send ‘em off before it's too late
be the first one on your block to have your boy come home in a box
… and it's 1, 2, 3, what're we fighting for?
don't ask me, I don't give a damn...
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Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 9d
… well c'mon on Wall Street
don't be slow
why this is war a-go-go
there's plenty good money to be made
by supplin' the Army with the tools of the trade
just hope and pray that if we drop the bomb
they drop it on-the Vietcong
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Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 9d
… well c'mon generals, let's move fast
your big chance has come at last
gotta go out and get those Reds
the only good Commie is one who's dead
and you know that peace can only be won
when we've blown ‘em all to kingdom come
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Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 9d
put down your books and pick up a gun
we're gonna have a whole lot of fun

it's 1, 2, 3, what're we fighting for?
don't ask me, I don't give a damn
next stop is vietnam

5, 6, 7, open up the pearly gates
ain't no time to wonder why
whoopee! we're all gonna die
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