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Tamara Beachum 🫘
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Grief Educator at Creative Grief Studio, Potter, remarried widow, National Parks geek, & reluctant political activist. I’d rather be making pots.

#Leguminati #DailyBeans #Pottery

Find my pottery site here: https://linktr.ee/tamarabeachum
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I’m a potter, yes, but my body of work also includes that of Grief Support Educator, offering #griefsupport certification and training for therapists, coaches, support group facilitators, body workers, artists, & other helping professionals. Read more at:

creativegriefstudio.com/grief-certif...
Grief Coach Certification | For Your Grief Counseling Practice
Online certification and training for your grief counseling practice. For counselors, coaches, support group facilitators and other helping professionals.
creativegriefstudio.com
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Well, they have done one thing. They’ve destroyed Medicaid and defunded hospitals and added $4 trillion to the debt to cut taxes for the rich.
November 20, 2025 at 12:37 AM
This is one of my favorite pieces from my most recent kiln opening. The Sapphire Float glaze makes this dish sparkle. I’ve added this and other new pottery to my shop just in time for the holidays. If you’re looking for something handmade or one of a kind, take a peek: goimagine.com/beachumclayw...
November 19, 2025 at 5:50 PM
This is very much how I feel these days but…buy from artists if you can. None of us are Billionaires. #Pottery
November 19, 2025 at 12:34 AM
If you’re hunting for thoughtful gifts this season, I’ve been busy in the studio and uploaded new pieces. Mugs, bowls, small trays—lots of fresh work. Here’s the link: goimagine.com/beachumclayw... #pottery
November 17, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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NEW: The DOJ is in settlement talks with Mike Flynn for $50M. They're robbing us blind. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Michael Flynn, DOJ in Settlement Talks Over $50 Million Claim
The Justice Department has been discussing settlements with two former officials from Donald Trump’s first term who — like the president — claim they’re owed major payouts from the US government as vi...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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These Epstein emails make at least one thing abundantly clear:

The rumors that Trump “kicked Epstein out of Mar a Lago and cut ties with him” were bullshit.
November 13, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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November 14, 2025 at 8:01 AM
As grief practitioners, we guide others through the “firsts.” But what about all the holidays that come after? Explore Kara’s reflections on creative meaning-making beyond the first year: https://creativegriefstudio.substack.com/p/re-making-the-holidays
November 11, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH
November 11, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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All of this
Sanders: That is a totally meaningless gesture. You can get 100 votes here and it won't mean anything because the House is not going to take it up.
November 10, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.

The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.

People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.

And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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getting two pinky swears from Republicans, including one that they will merely follow the law, is laughably thin gruel
My statement on the funding deal to reopen government, protect federal employees, and vote to protect health care:
November 10, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Reminder that REGIONAL OFFICES for Senators are also a calling option. If you can’t get through in DC, try a regional office.
November 9, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Many in Trump’s administration now live on military bases, to shield themselves from the majority of Americans they are screwing over in favor of the oligarchs.

Many Republicans won’t do town halls.

They avoid the citizenry because they’ve stopped serving them.

We deserve much better.
November 8, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Wow!
November 8, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Looking for connection in your grief support work? Join us today at 1 PM Pacific for Studio Hour: Conversations for Grief Workers. A relaxed space to share, listen, and feel supported. Free to attend, registration required: https://creativegriefstudio.com/short-courses/
November 7, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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This
The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.
These big wins will embolden Dems to take on Trump's lawbreaking and show there's a price for GOP enabling of him. Folks hate to hear this, but normal patterns are asserting themselves: Liberalism isn't dead, Rs are likely to lose in 2026, and Trump is really unpopular, not a magical exception.
November 5, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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"Fuentes said he wants to drag the Republican Party “kicking and screaming into the future, into the right wing, into a truly reactionary party.” His vision is coming true. Consider the leaked group chats of Young Republican leaders that were revealed by Politico earlier this month."
America has no idea what's about to hit them. "Young Republicans" are fully steeped in neo-Nazi edge lord talking points. Fuentes is the present and future of the GOP. After Trump, this is the new form of MAGA. The establishment isn't built for this fight.

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
The Firewall Against Nick Fuentes Is Crumbling
The white-supremacist influencer is entering the MAGA mainstream.
www.theatlantic.com
November 1, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I’ve been working on genealogy and discovered I’m related to the Mace family of South Carolina. 😳 They were described in one book as a “peaceable and quiet people, not ambitious of public favor” so maybe not the same Mace people. www.cnn.com/2025/10/31/p...
Rep. Nancy Mace berated Charleston airport police due to missing escort, incident report says | CNN Politics
US Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina allegedly berated police officers at Charleston International Airport Thursday morning, allegedly “loudly cursing” at officers and saying they were “f**king incomp...
www.cnn.com
November 1, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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sure, you might not be able to eat or go to the doctor, but check out how nice Trump's new marble shitter is
October 31, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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42 million people will lose their SNAP benefits on 1 November.
October 31, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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I always get drawn back to Al Gore telling voters that he’d only raise taxes on the top 1% and then after the election a poll showed that something like 20% of voters thought they were in the top 1% and another 20% thought they would be in the next five years. Just a total tragic disconnect.
Maaaaan, this. So much this. Every time there's any kind of actual in-depth survey we find that the American people are *abysmally* ignorant about even the most basic political facts, but the pundit class just immediately forgets & proceeds with political analysis based on subtle policy differences.
Feels like so many of our convos are revolving about how voters respond to what politicians are doing, or what parties’ positions on issues are, without much actual empirical sense of what they actually know about those topics.
October 29, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Rep. Rosa DeLauro: "On the food stamp issue, the money is there! Let them not get away with saying they can't do it. Their political will isn't there to feed the people who rely on the SNAP program which is the most effective anti-hunger program in the USA."
October 28, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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It's the 28th day of the government shutdown.

Trump has fled the country.

Speaker Mike Johnson won’t convene the House.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune refuses to allow a vote on food stamps.

This is Republican leadership.
October 29, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Writer and educator Katie Riegel shares how her Creative Grief Studio training reshaped the way she teaches, listens, and writes, bringing new depth to her creative life. Read her story: https://creativegriefstudio.substack.com/p/writing-through-grief-how-creative
October 28, 2025 at 5:55 PM