Beth Caskie
@caskiebeth.bsky.social
California Democrat from Virginia. Union Rep.
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Everybody should watch Andor. The end teaches lessons about resistance that should be learned now.
To quote Andor again:
“And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.”
“And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.”
January 25, 2026 at 5:18 PM
Everybody should watch Andor. The end teaches lessons about resistance that should be learned now.
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This is the first example I’ve seen of an American government using AI to meaningfully misrepresent actual events with the intent to deceive the public. We are at Stalinesque levels of propaganda.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/past-the-b...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/past-the-b...
January 23, 2026 at 2:23 PM
This is the first example I’ve seen of an American government using AI to meaningfully misrepresent actual events with the intent to deceive the public. We are at Stalinesque levels of propaganda.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/past-the-b...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/past-the-b...
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Current Resident Sex Offender
c/o The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, D.C., 20500
c/o The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, D.C., 20500
Vance: If we're trying to find a sex offender, tell us where the guy lives.
January 22, 2026 at 8:18 PM
Current Resident Sex Offender
c/o The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, D.C., 20500
c/o The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, D.C., 20500
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The people carrying out Trump’s illegal orders think they’re untouchable.
They’re not.
Trump won’t be in power forever to protect them.
Accountability is coming.
We will bring them to justice.
That’s a promise.
They’re not.
Trump won’t be in power forever to protect them.
Accountability is coming.
We will bring them to justice.
That’s a promise.
January 21, 2026 at 4:05 PM
The people carrying out Trump’s illegal orders think they’re untouchable.
They’re not.
Trump won’t be in power forever to protect them.
Accountability is coming.
We will bring them to justice.
That’s a promise.
They’re not.
Trump won’t be in power forever to protect them.
Accountability is coming.
We will bring them to justice.
That’s a promise.
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After illegally abducting Maduro, Trump has just sold $250M of Venezuela's oil to Vitol.
John Addison, a senior trader at Vitol who helped broker the deal, gave $6M to Trump's 2024 campaign.
Pay-to-play imperialism.
John Addison, a senior trader at Vitol who helped broker the deal, gave $6M to Trump's 2024 campaign.
Pay-to-play imperialism.
January 22, 2026 at 1:00 AM
After illegally abducting Maduro, Trump has just sold $250M of Venezuela's oil to Vitol.
John Addison, a senior trader at Vitol who helped broker the deal, gave $6M to Trump's 2024 campaign.
Pay-to-play imperialism.
John Addison, a senior trader at Vitol who helped broker the deal, gave $6M to Trump's 2024 campaign.
Pay-to-play imperialism.
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This breaks my heart to see.
January 21, 2026 at 10:30 PM
This breaks my heart to see.
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guys minneapolis is a living hell today. they've tear-gassed so many people, tear-gassed a park, beaten people up in front of me. greg bovino is rolling around to gas stations and posing in front of them, trying to cause a riot.
January 21, 2026 at 9:33 PM
guys minneapolis is a living hell today. they've tear-gassed so many people, tear-gassed a park, beaten people up in front of me. greg bovino is rolling around to gas stations and posing in front of them, trying to cause a riot.
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Cowards.
None of these guys have basic functioning moral compasses & they think that they personally will never experience the harm their constituents (and voting base) are experience.
And lack of courage comes from their feckless leaders at top.
Just a complete disgrace.
None of these guys have basic functioning moral compasses & they think that they personally will never experience the harm their constituents (and voting base) are experience.
And lack of courage comes from their feckless leaders at top.
Just a complete disgrace.
To quote one source:
“They’re terrified of being labeled anti–law enforcement. They want this to go away so they can talk about the cost of living more. Problem is, it’s not going away.”
prospect.org/2026/01/21/j...
“They’re terrified of being labeled anti–law enforcement. They want this to go away so they can talk about the cost of living more. Problem is, it’s not going away.”
prospect.org/2026/01/21/j...
Jeffries Won’t Whip Vote Against ICE Funding - The American Prospect
While the House Democratic leader announced personal opposition to a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security, he won’t pressure his colleagues to do the same.
prospect.org
January 21, 2026 at 10:23 PM
Cowards.
None of these guys have basic functioning moral compasses & they think that they personally will never experience the harm their constituents (and voting base) are experience.
And lack of courage comes from their feckless leaders at top.
Just a complete disgrace.
None of these guys have basic functioning moral compasses & they think that they personally will never experience the harm their constituents (and voting base) are experience.
And lack of courage comes from their feckless leaders at top.
Just a complete disgrace.
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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney: "This bargain no longer works." It was a fantasy we all accepted because it served our mutual interests.
digbysblog.net/2026/01/21/w...
digbysblog.net/2026/01/21/w...
January 21, 2026 at 11:46 PM
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney: "This bargain no longer works." It was a fantasy we all accepted because it served our mutual interests.
digbysblog.net/2026/01/21/w...
digbysblog.net/2026/01/21/w...
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Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."
January 22, 2026 at 12:05 AM
Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."
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A must-read.
Trump Needs a Shrink and a Baby-Sitter, Not a National Security Adviser
www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/20/t...
www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/20/t...
Trump Needs a Shrink and a Baby-Sitter, Not a National Security Adviser - emptywheel
Donald Trump is invading sovereign foreign countries, without even the ability to consider the years-long aftermath, out of a psychological need.
www.emptywheel.net
January 20, 2026 at 12:51 PM
A must-read.
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The other day I bitched that people always forget LaMonica McIver in their list of politicized prosecutions.
The New Yorker has a profile here, so hopefully we can change that.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The New Yorker has a profile here, so hopefully we can change that.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The Congresswoman Criminalized for Visiting ICE Detainees
LaMonica McIver went to tour an immigration jail in her district. Now she faces seventeen years in prison.
www.newyorker.com
January 19, 2026 at 9:25 PM
The other day I bitched that people always forget LaMonica McIver in their list of politicized prosecutions.
The New Yorker has a profile here, so hopefully we can change that.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The New Yorker has a profile here, so hopefully we can change that.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Former head of Norway's armed forces says U.S. is now a “neo-fascist banana republic” and a “hostile great power without norms.”
Maybe the Democratic leadership could take a hint from him.
www.dn.no/politikk/tid...
Maybe the Democratic leadership could take a hint from him.
www.dn.no/politikk/tid...
Tidligere forsvarssjef om Trumps USA: – Neo-fascistisk bananrepublikk (+)
Tidligere forsvarssjef Sverre Diesen mener USA er blitt «en normløs og fiendtlig innstilt stormakt», og advarer samtidig mot å feste vår lit til Europa. Harald Sunde mener det haster med en plan B.
www.dn.no
January 20, 2026 at 12:06 AM
Former head of Norway's armed forces says U.S. is now a “neo-fascist banana republic” and a “hostile great power without norms.”
Maybe the Democratic leadership could take a hint from him.
www.dn.no/politikk/tid...
Maybe the Democratic leadership could take a hint from him.
www.dn.no/politikk/tid...
"Democracy, multilateralism and accountability once defined the postwar order. ..... We need to ask ourselves, on both sides of the Atlantic, if we want to live in a world where democracy is recast as weakness, truth as opinion and justice as an option."
Opinion | I’m the Secretary General of the Council of Europe. This Is Something I Thought I’d Never Have to Write.
www.nytimes.com
January 19, 2026 at 5:15 PM
"Democracy, multilateralism and accountability once defined the postwar order. ..... We need to ask ourselves, on both sides of the Atlantic, if we want to live in a world where democracy is recast as weakness, truth as opinion and justice as an option."
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i think this MLK day the thing to focus on is the strategic focus and tactical brilliance of the civil rights movement and the way it was laser focused on a set of achievable goals
January 19, 2026 at 3:05 PM
i think this MLK day the thing to focus on is the strategic focus and tactical brilliance of the civil rights movement and the way it was laser focused on a set of achievable goals
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Maine alert: ICE is expanding its presence. Know the signs, alert neighbors, document safely, and stay nonviolent—but don’t stay silent. Community awareness saves lives. Save this graphic. Share widely.
Credit: Indivisible Maine
Credit: Indivisible Maine
January 19, 2026 at 12:10 AM
Maine alert: ICE is expanding its presence. Know the signs, alert neighbors, document safely, and stay nonviolent—but don’t stay silent. Community awareness saves lives. Save this graphic. Share widely.
Credit: Indivisible Maine
Credit: Indivisible Maine
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And they both think they are acting to please a god.
January 17, 2026 at 12:49 AM
And they both think they are acting to please a god.
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ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.
Vehicles that are abandoned due to an ICE detention and towed to the City's impound lot will be released to their owners or a representative at no cost.
Learn more: https://www.minneapolismn.gov/getting-around/parking-driving/impound-lot/#d.en.200746
Learn more: https://www.minneapolismn.gov/getting-around/parking-driving/impound-lot/#d.en.200746
January 16, 2026 at 11:42 PM
ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.
I just donated to the Immigrant Rapid Response Fund. The link below provides multiple ways to fund critical organizing in MN.
Stand With Minnesota
A directory of places to give to as Minnesota defends itself from ICE occupation
www.standwithminnesota.com
January 17, 2026 at 4:45 AM
I just donated to the Immigrant Rapid Response Fund. The link below provides multiple ways to fund critical organizing in MN.
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How can we stop the violent maraudings of our 21st-century Klan? Harold Meyerson has some thoughts.
prospect.org/2026/01/13/h...
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How to Stop ICE - The American Prospect
With another government funding deadline looming, congressional Democrats can at least partly curtail Trump’s thugs.
prospect.org
January 13, 2026 at 10:31 PM
How can we stop the violent maraudings of our 21st-century Klan? Harold Meyerson has some thoughts.
prospect.org/2026/01/13/h...
prospect.org/2026/01/13/h...
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over the course of 1871, congress held seven months of hearings on ku klux klan and other white vigilante violence in the south, they took detailed testimony from hundreds of black men and women attesting to klan terror. (1/?)
January 14, 2026 at 2:06 AM
over the course of 1871, congress held seven months of hearings on ku klux klan and other white vigilante violence in the south, they took detailed testimony from hundreds of black men and women attesting to klan terror. (1/?)
Goons and thugs.
Protester blinded, skull fractured by DHS agent during Santa Ana demonstration, family says
A young protester narrowly avoided being killed but was left permanently blind after a Department of Homeland Security agent fired a nonlethal round at close range during a Santa Ana protest last week...
www.latimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 1:41 PM
Goons and thugs.
“To those who think that the promises of a campaign cannot survive once confronted with the realities of government, today is your answer,” Mamdani said.
Mamdani’s First Week - The American Prospect
The mayor has already secured one of his top campaign promises, among other wins on behalf of New Yorkers.
prospect.org
January 11, 2026 at 5:32 PM
“To those who think that the promises of a campaign cannot survive once confronted with the realities of government, today is your answer,” Mamdani said.