@buckeyebeth.bsky.social
Positively Progressive. Abortion is healthcare. Retired educator. Knitter. 🧶
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One of the biggest moments of my career:
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
December 16, 2025 at 3:21 PM
One of the biggest moments of my career:
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
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In a month where everyone is asking for your money, Assigned is asking for your help in spreading the word about our journalism. Help us reach 60,000 Bluesky followers! Tell your friends and family about Assigned!
December 5, 2025 at 3:08 PM
In a month where everyone is asking for your money, Assigned is asking for your help in spreading the word about our journalism. Help us reach 60,000 Bluesky followers! Tell your friends and family about Assigned!
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As Justice Kagan begins her dissent by pointing out, what is even the point of trial, of fact-finding, of clear error, of standards of review, when the Supreme Court simply ignores every single part of that and decides everything purely on the papers without any real consideration of the facts?
December 4, 2025 at 11:08 PM
As Justice Kagan begins her dissent by pointing out, what is even the point of trial, of fact-finding, of clear error, of standards of review, when the Supreme Court simply ignores every single part of that and decides everything purely on the papers without any real consideration of the facts?
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🗣️ WE DON'T GIVE A DAMN FOR THE WHOLE STATE OF MICHIGAN‼️ www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio-state-f...
November 29, 2025 at 8:37 PM
🗣️ WE DON'T GIVE A DAMN FOR THE WHOLE STATE OF MICHIGAN‼️ www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio-state-f...
The Ohio State fans have done this every year since Chad passed. Great tradition ❤️🤍
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November 29, 2025 at 6:27 PM
The Ohio State fans have done this every year since Chad passed. Great tradition ❤️🤍
Go Buckeyes!!! Beat ❌ichigan!!!
November 29, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Go Buckeyes!!! Beat ❌ichigan!!!
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The Education & Workforce Cmte needs to assert our Article I & jurisdictional authority over this administration. There have been no hearings on the dismantling of the Dept of Education which is happening right before our eyes. Today I called for hearings & shared my priorities.
youtu.be/mSyNAWXkoZ4
youtu.be/mSyNAWXkoZ4
Congresswoman Hayes on the Role of the Education & Workforce Committee During the Trump Admin
YouTube video by Rep Jahana Hayes
youtu.be
November 21, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The Education & Workforce Cmte needs to assert our Article I & jurisdictional authority over this administration. There have been no hearings on the dismantling of the Dept of Education which is happening right before our eyes. Today I called for hearings & shared my priorities.
youtu.be/mSyNAWXkoZ4
youtu.be/mSyNAWXkoZ4
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For the vibrant upstate fiber industry, which heavily relies on imported yarn and tools, the local infrastructure can’t keep up with rising costs and uncertainty.
Trump’s tariffs are tying knots in New York’s yarn industry
For the vibrant upstate fiber industry, which heavily relies on imported yarn and tools, the local infrastructure can’t keep up with rising costs and uncertainty.
bit.ly
November 4, 2025 at 12:40 PM
For the vibrant upstate fiber industry, which heavily relies on imported yarn and tools, the local infrastructure can’t keep up with rising costs and uncertainty.
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Cotton > iron
Cotton > coal
Cotton > wool
Enslaved Black people's labor built the wealth of the modern colonial world.
Cotton > coal
Cotton > wool
Enslaved Black people's labor built the wealth of the modern colonial world.
Please consider these generally unknown details.
November 1, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Cotton > iron
Cotton > coal
Cotton > wool
Enslaved Black people's labor built the wealth of the modern colonial world.
Cotton > coal
Cotton > wool
Enslaved Black people's labor built the wealth of the modern colonial world.
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On this All Saints Day, let us remember all those people who have come before us who have shown us the way to hope and love, who did so with courage and decency. Let us celebrate a communion of those saints doing the same today in a world in need of so much more light.
November 1, 2025 at 12:54 PM
On this All Saints Day, let us remember all those people who have come before us who have shown us the way to hope and love, who did so with courage and decency. Let us celebrate a communion of those saints doing the same today in a world in need of so much more light.
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
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ICE detains mother dropping off child at elementary school—refuses to even look at her U.S. legal papers.
"What documents?" agent sarcastically replies—holding up the folder.
"The ones in your hands!" witnesses yell back.
Madison Elementary School in Santa Ana, California.
"What documents?" agent sarcastically replies—holding up the folder.
"The ones in your hands!" witnesses yell back.
Madison Elementary School in Santa Ana, California.
October 24, 2025 at 7:18 PM
ICE detains mother dropping off child at elementary school—refuses to even look at her U.S. legal papers.
"What documents?" agent sarcastically replies—holding up the folder.
"The ones in your hands!" witnesses yell back.
Madison Elementary School in Santa Ana, California.
"What documents?" agent sarcastically replies—holding up the folder.
"The ones in your hands!" witnesses yell back.
Madison Elementary School in Santa Ana, California.
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must-read thread
Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything.
It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in.
Long thread.
It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in.
Long thread.
October 24, 2025 at 1:13 PM
must-read thread
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"Conversion therapy" is a polite name for something that isn’t conversion and isn’t therapy. It’s abuse.
October 12, 2025 at 10:31 PM
"Conversion therapy" is a polite name for something that isn’t conversion and isn’t therapy. It’s abuse.
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⚠️ USAToday reporter confirms the office in charge of special education funding has been “decimated”:
October 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
⚠️ USAToday reporter confirms the office in charge of special education funding has been “decimated”:
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WATCH: Linda, who lost her son after he spent years in dangerous and discredited “conversion therapy,” speaks on why Colorado’s law helps protect families, kids, and faith.
Her story is a textbook example of why the Supreme Court must uphold Colorado’s restrictions on these harmful practices.
Her story is a textbook example of why the Supreme Court must uphold Colorado’s restrictions on these harmful practices.
October 8, 2025 at 7:01 PM
WATCH: Linda, who lost her son after he spent years in dangerous and discredited “conversion therapy,” speaks on why Colorado’s law helps protect families, kids, and faith.
Her story is a textbook example of why the Supreme Court must uphold Colorado’s restrictions on these harmful practices.
Her story is a textbook example of why the Supreme Court must uphold Colorado’s restrictions on these harmful practices.
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The mystery of medical diagnosis!
October 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM
The mystery of medical diagnosis!
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It appears that my employer, Dartmouth, one of the Trump 9, has said no to the compact. All the better given that our president is cited within it. But she’s saying no. Count the small victories when they come.
October 4, 2025 at 10:33 AM
It appears that my employer, Dartmouth, one of the Trump 9, has said no to the compact. All the better given that our president is cited within it. But she’s saying no. Count the small victories when they come.
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BREAKING: Federal judge BLOCKS a new ICE policy that went into effect last week to automatically detain unaccompanied migrant children on their 18th birthday when they “age out” of shelter care.
The TRO enforces a court order in a case brought by @immcouncil.org and @immigrantjustice.bsky.social.
The TRO enforces a court order in a case brought by @immcouncil.org and @immigrantjustice.bsky.social.
October 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
BREAKING: Federal judge BLOCKS a new ICE policy that went into effect last week to automatically detain unaccompanied migrant children on their 18th birthday when they “age out” of shelter care.
The TRO enforces a court order in a case brought by @immcouncil.org and @immigrantjustice.bsky.social.
The TRO enforces a court order in a case brought by @immcouncil.org and @immigrantjustice.bsky.social.
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IF ANY CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY SIGNS THIS RADICAL AGREEMENT, THEY'LL LOSE BILLIONS IN STATE FUNDING — INCLUDING CAL GRANTS — INSTANTLY.
CALIFORNIA WILL NOT BANKROLL SCHOOLS THAT SELL OUT THEIR STUDENTS, PROFESSORS, RESEARCHERS, AND SURRENDER ACADEMIC FREEDOM.
CALIFORNIA WILL NOT BANKROLL SCHOOLS THAT SELL OUT THEIR STUDENTS, PROFESSORS, RESEARCHERS, AND SURRENDER ACADEMIC FREEDOM.
October 2, 2025 at 8:34 PM
IF ANY CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY SIGNS THIS RADICAL AGREEMENT, THEY'LL LOSE BILLIONS IN STATE FUNDING — INCLUDING CAL GRANTS — INSTANTLY.
CALIFORNIA WILL NOT BANKROLL SCHOOLS THAT SELL OUT THEIR STUDENTS, PROFESSORS, RESEARCHERS, AND SURRENDER ACADEMIC FREEDOM.
CALIFORNIA WILL NOT BANKROLL SCHOOLS THAT SELL OUT THEIR STUDENTS, PROFESSORS, RESEARCHERS, AND SURRENDER ACADEMIC FREEDOM.
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“A lot of times, you know, babies don’t cough; they just stop breathing,” warned Mississippi State Health Officer Dr. Dan Edney as he discussed Mississippi's first infant death from whooping cough in 13 years.
Mississippi Baby Dies of Whooping Cough Amid Rising Cases
A baby in Mississippi has died of whooping cough for the first time since 2012. The baby was less than two months old—too young for vaccination.
buff.ly
October 2, 2025 at 5:45 PM
“A lot of times, you know, babies don’t cough; they just stop breathing,” warned Mississippi State Health Officer Dr. Dan Edney as he discussed Mississippi's first infant death from whooping cough in 13 years.
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NEW: "I’m thrilled to be a polio dinosaur. I am living proof that even though the Salk vaccine did not arrive in time to prevent my limp or rejection as a kickball pitcher, science is the workshop of miracles....Vaccines are manmade miracles among us."
www.thebulwark.com/p/polio-vacc...
www.thebulwark.com/p/polio-vacc...
The Polio Vaccine Was a Miracle—and We Must Not Forget It
As a polio survivor, I am a dinosaur today. My great hope is that our country’s living memory of the disease ends with my generation.
www.thebulwark.com
October 2, 2025 at 2:49 PM
NEW: "I’m thrilled to be a polio dinosaur. I am living proof that even though the Salk vaccine did not arrive in time to prevent my limp or rejection as a kickball pitcher, science is the workshop of miracles....Vaccines are manmade miracles among us."
www.thebulwark.com/p/polio-vacc...
www.thebulwark.com/p/polio-vacc...
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When you think you're World War II's Patton, but you're really just M*A*S*H's Major Frank Burns.
September 30, 2025 at 4:36 PM
When you think you're World War II's Patton, but you're really just M*A*S*H's Major Frank Burns.
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Republicans would rather shut down the government than help millions of Americans afford health care. This article tells some of their stories, and is a good reminder of what’s at stake.
These people have found their health care at the center of a shutdown showdown
Small business owners, self-employed people and early retirees are among the 24 million Americans who could lose the tax credit
www.usatoday.com
September 28, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Republicans would rather shut down the government than help millions of Americans afford health care. This article tells some of their stories, and is a good reminder of what’s at stake.