Betsy Hodges
@betsyhodges.bsky.social
Former mayor of Minneapolis, MN
Current writer|advisor|consultant|speaker
www.betsyhodges.com
representation: [email protected]
Always up for Springsteen, Star Wars, Swift, Die Hard, dogs, cats, and good news.
Current writer|advisor|consultant|speaker
www.betsyhodges.com
representation: [email protected]
Always up for Springsteen, Star Wars, Swift, Die Hard, dogs, cats, and good news.
If you also love the obscure interests of smart people, news eps are up of Chet By Lightning, the podcast where @thematterickson.bsky.social and I dissect all things Chester A Arthur related in Death By Lightning, the @netflix.com show about the Garfield assassination. WAY more fun than it sounds.
LOVE when I learn the obscure interests of smart people!
November 12, 2025 at 8:56 PM
If you also love the obscure interests of smart people, news eps are up of Chet By Lightning, the podcast where @thematterickson.bsky.social and I dissect all things Chester A Arthur related in Death By Lightning, the @netflix.com show about the Garfield assassination. WAY more fun than it sounds.
If your favorite obscure president has been Chester A. Arthur since the Chester A. Arthur Middle School Incident of 1997… and then Netflix drops Death by Lightning, what do you do?
Obviously, you start a podcast.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
Obviously, you start a podcast.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
Chet by Lightning
TV Reviews Podcast · Series · Assemble your pants and check out the world's pre-eminent Chester Arthur podcast, in which Betsy and Matt recap Netflix's
podcasts.apple.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:29 AM
If your favorite obscure president has been Chester A. Arthur since the Chester A. Arthur Middle School Incident of 1997… and then Netflix drops Death by Lightning, what do you do?
Obviously, you start a podcast.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
Obviously, you start a podcast.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
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Fortunately, as researcher @betsyhodges.bsky.social points out, "The solution to the problem is good for all mayors... Our democracy depends on making sure we have access to women's genius."
🔗Read the report to learn the barriers women mayors are up against and how to address them: bit.ly/WMN-25
🔗Read the report to learn the barriers women mayors are up against and how to address them: bit.ly/WMN-25
How America's female mayors lead in face of adversity
Former Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges joined "The Final 5" to discuss a new study from the Women Mayors Network showing women mayors face substantially more harassment than their male counterparts. Fr...
www.fox5dc.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Fortunately, as researcher @betsyhodges.bsky.social points out, "The solution to the problem is good for all mayors... Our democracy depends on making sure we have access to women's genius."
🔗Read the report to learn the barriers women mayors are up against and how to address them: bit.ly/WMN-25
🔗Read the report to learn the barriers women mayors are up against and how to address them: bit.ly/WMN-25
If your favorite obscure president has been Chester A. Arthur since the Chester A. Arthur Middle School Incident of 1997… and then Netflix drops Death by Lightning, what do you do?
Obviously, you start a podcast.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
Obviously, you start a podcast.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
Chet by Lightning
TV Reviews Podcast · Series · Assemble your pants and check out the world's pre-eminent Chester Arthur podcast, in which Betsy and Matt recap Netflix's
podcasts.apple.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:24 AM
If your favorite obscure president has been Chester A. Arthur since the Chester A. Arthur Middle School Incident of 1997… and then Netflix drops Death by Lightning, what do you do?
Obviously, you start a podcast.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
Obviously, you start a podcast.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
Two new women governors were just elected and they’ll face all the challenges of being “the first.”
Real support means using your critical thinking to see the tools of sexism as they’re used.
🎥 From my @fox5dc interview → www.fox5dc.com/video/1738777
#WomenInLeadership #Democracy #GenderEquity
Real support means using your critical thinking to see the tools of sexism as they’re used.
🎥 From my @fox5dc interview → www.fox5dc.com/video/1738777
#WomenInLeadership #Democracy #GenderEquity
November 11, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Two new women governors were just elected and they’ll face all the challenges of being “the first.”
Real support means using your critical thinking to see the tools of sexism as they’re used.
🎥 From my @fox5dc interview → www.fox5dc.com/video/1738777
#WomenInLeadership #Democracy #GenderEquity
Real support means using your critical thinking to see the tools of sexism as they’re used.
🎥 From my @fox5dc interview → www.fox5dc.com/video/1738777
#WomenInLeadership #Democracy #GenderEquity
If you saw this story and thought, “oh, it’s probably just her” or “that probably happens to men, too” or “wow, does that happen a lot?” Well, I have some brand new data for you: mayorsinnovation.org/under-pressu...
November 10, 2025 at 8:31 PM
If you saw this story and thought, “oh, it’s probably just her” or “that probably happens to men, too” or “wow, does that happen a lot?” Well, I have some brand new data for you: mayorsinnovation.org/under-pressu...
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I was only 30 something when I helmed The Enterprise.
November 6, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I was only 30 something when I helmed The Enterprise.
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I had a dream last night that I was trying to get @theonion.com to do a story today with the headline “Activist Left Already Disappointed in Mayor-Elect Mamdani” and I woke up laughing.
(It was an “I’m asleep trying to laugh” laugh, but a laugh.)
(It was an “I’m asleep trying to laugh” laugh, but a laugh.)
November 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I had a dream last night that I was trying to get @theonion.com to do a story today with the headline “Activist Left Already Disappointed in Mayor-Elect Mamdani” and I woke up laughing.
(It was an “I’m asleep trying to laugh” laugh, but a laugh.)
(It was an “I’m asleep trying to laugh” laugh, but a laugh.)
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A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants
November 5, 2025 at 10:35 AM
A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants
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Q: It's election day in NYC. Did you vote for Mamdani or Cuomo?
Schumer: "Look, I voted, and I look forward to working with the next mayor to help NYC."
Schumer: "Look, I voted, and I look forward to working with the next mayor to help NYC."
November 4, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Q: It's election day in NYC. Did you vote for Mamdani or Cuomo?
Schumer: "Look, I voted, and I look forward to working with the next mayor to help NYC."
Schumer: "Look, I voted, and I look forward to working with the next mayor to help NYC."
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I’ve had a lot of fun in my life telling Youths who were too young to remember it about the time Dick Cheney shot his friend in the face, which might be a fun treat for you too today if you know any teenagers
the part where the guy who got shot had to apologize to Cheney is the 2000s in a nutshell
the part where the guy who got shot had to apologize to Cheney is the 2000s in a nutshell
November 4, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I’ve had a lot of fun in my life telling Youths who were too young to remember it about the time Dick Cheney shot his friend in the face, which might be a fun treat for you too today if you know any teenagers
the part where the guy who got shot had to apologize to Cheney is the 2000s in a nutshell
the part where the guy who got shot had to apologize to Cheney is the 2000s in a nutshell
New data from the Mayors Innovation Project: women mayors face steeper barriers to doing their jobs—undermined, second-guessed, held to higher standards with fewer supports.
🚨For women mayors of color, the gaps are wider.🚨
The tools of racism are available, and people use them.
#racialequity
🚨For women mayors of color, the gaps are wider.🚨
The tools of racism are available, and people use them.
#racialequity
November 4, 2025 at 4:21 PM
New data from the Mayors Innovation Project: women mayors face steeper barriers to doing their jobs—undermined, second-guessed, held to higher standards with fewer supports.
🚨For women mayors of color, the gaps are wider.🚨
The tools of racism are available, and people use them.
#racialequity
🚨For women mayors of color, the gaps are wider.🚨
The tools of racism are available, and people use them.
#racialequity
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Rampant harassment, threats to their family and property, criticism of their appearance, attempts to limit their formal authority—these are just a few of the individual and systemic barriers women mayors face.
Learn more in our new report🔗https://bit.ly/WMN-25
Learn more in our new report🔗https://bit.ly/WMN-25
For too many women mayors, challenges to their authority aren’t about performance—
they’re about power.
New Mayors Innovation Project research shows women mayors are more likely to have their authority questioned, limited, or attacked through lawsuits and procedural maneuvers.
they’re about power.
New Mayors Innovation Project research shows women mayors are more likely to have their authority questioned, limited, or attacked through lawsuits and procedural maneuvers.
November 3, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Rampant harassment, threats to their family and property, criticism of their appearance, attempts to limit their formal authority—these are just a few of the individual and systemic barriers women mayors face.
Learn more in our new report🔗https://bit.ly/WMN-25
Learn more in our new report🔗https://bit.ly/WMN-25
For too many women mayors, challenges to their authority aren’t about performance—
they’re about power.
New Mayors Innovation Project research shows women mayors are more likely to have their authority questioned, limited, or attacked through lawsuits and procedural maneuvers.
they’re about power.
New Mayors Innovation Project research shows women mayors are more likely to have their authority questioned, limited, or attacked through lawsuits and procedural maneuvers.
November 3, 2025 at 8:09 PM
For too many women mayors, challenges to their authority aren’t about performance—
they’re about power.
New Mayors Innovation Project research shows women mayors are more likely to have their authority questioned, limited, or attacked through lawsuits and procedural maneuvers.
they’re about power.
New Mayors Innovation Project research shows women mayors are more likely to have their authority questioned, limited, or attacked through lawsuits and procedural maneuvers.
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Watching CBS interview with Trump and pleading once again: stop interviewing this guy. He will filibuster (lol) and lie and avoid answering; he’ll broadcast further misinformation. No one is a good enough interviewer to crack him bc it is not really an interview.
November 3, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Watching CBS interview with Trump and pleading once again: stop interviewing this guy. He will filibuster (lol) and lie and avoid answering; he’ll broadcast further misinformation. No one is a good enough interviewer to crack him bc it is not really an interview.
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“Having an infrastructure that takes harassment and threats against all mayors seriously…could prevent actual acts of violence and help mayors feel supported enough to continue doing their job well.”
I can’t stress enough the daily impact this has. In the end, the whole community suffers. #nzpol
I can’t stress enough the daily impact this has. In the end, the whole community suffers. #nzpol
When I was mayor of Mpls, I was on the leading edge of something people didn’t want to name — a new wave of harassment toward women in public office.
New research shows women mayors face far more harassment and threats than men.
@politico story 👇
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
New research shows women mayors face far more harassment and threats than men.
@politico story 👇
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
Survey shows sharp gender gap in political harassment
Female mayors face higher rates of politically motivated violence and harassment, a new poll finds.
www.politico.com
October 30, 2025 at 9:50 PM
“Having an infrastructure that takes harassment and threats against all mayors seriously…could prevent actual acts of violence and help mayors feel supported enough to continue doing their job well.”
I can’t stress enough the daily impact this has. In the end, the whole community suffers. #nzpol
I can’t stress enough the daily impact this has. In the end, the whole community suffers. #nzpol
When I was mayor of Mpls, I was on the leading edge of something people didn’t want to name — a new wave of harassment toward women in public office.
New research shows women mayors face far more harassment and threats than men.
@politico story 👇
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
New research shows women mayors face far more harassment and threats than men.
@politico story 👇
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
Survey shows sharp gender gap in political harassment
Female mayors face higher rates of politically motivated violence and harassment, a new poll finds.
www.politico.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
When I was mayor of Mpls, I was on the leading edge of something people didn’t want to name — a new wave of harassment toward women in public office.
New research shows women mayors face far more harassment and threats than men.
@politico story 👇
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
New research shows women mayors face far more harassment and threats than men.
@politico story 👇
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
Turns out that ants both know how to do this and have evolved to do this—they are ahead of a lot of humans in America, it turns out.
Ants Redesigned Nests to Slow Disease Transmission
A recent study found that when exposed to a lethal fungus, ants redesigned their nests to protect their young and slow disease transmission.
nicenews.com
October 27, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Turns out that ants both know how to do this and have evolved to do this—they are ahead of a lot of humans in America, it turns out.
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D’Angelo was genuinely one of the only humans on the planet who had any business covering a Prince song. And in my opinion that is a rather short list of people.
October 17, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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As a historian, I can certify that we are in the bad times. But bad times eventually end.
In the meantime:
• Figure out a small way to help someone
• Figure out a small way to fight back
• Figure out a small place to find joy
• Figure out a small way to grow and thrive
And do it often.
In the meantime:
• Figure out a small way to help someone
• Figure out a small way to fight back
• Figure out a small place to find joy
• Figure out a small way to grow and thrive
And do it often.
October 15, 2025 at 9:40 PM
As a historian, I can certify that we are in the bad times. But bad times eventually end.
In the meantime:
• Figure out a small way to help someone
• Figure out a small way to fight back
• Figure out a small place to find joy
• Figure out a small way to grow and thrive
And do it often.
In the meantime:
• Figure out a small way to help someone
• Figure out a small way to fight back
• Figure out a small place to find joy
• Figure out a small way to grow and thrive
And do it often.
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A good way for Republicans to stop being called Nazis and authoritarians is to stop empowering an authoritarian president, undermining democratic norms at every opportunity, and making Holocaust jokes.
Dave McCormick: "I do think some of this horrible language on the extreme left -- 'fascism, Nazism, authoritarianism' -- I think that's a recipe, an introduction and encouragement to violence. It's gotta stop."
October 17, 2025 at 1:31 AM
A good way for Republicans to stop being called Nazis and authoritarians is to stop empowering an authoritarian president, undermining democratic norms at every opportunity, and making Holocaust jokes.
Question: is mentioning New Heights in Wood the first time a podcast has been namechecked in a song on the charts? @newheightsofficial.bsky.social #taylorswift
October 13, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Question: is mentioning New Heights in Wood the first time a podcast has been namechecked in a song on the charts? @newheightsofficial.bsky.social #taylorswift