Beth-painter
@bethwhoisbeth.bsky.social
Artist, traveler, mother, wife, grandmother and friend. Armchair activist. Builds, paints, creates, sings, has a cat. Likes things. Doesn't like other things.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy
December 27, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy
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What the fuck?
Trump's DOJ was monitoring all the movements of the Miami Herald reporter who was covering the Epstein case.
December 28, 2025 at 9:08 PM
What the fuck?
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With all this talk of how to end Russias war against Ukraine, and a cease fire, keep this in mind:
If Ukraine ceases firing, Ukraine will cease to exist.
If Russia ceases firing. the war will cease to exist.
Pretty clear
If Ukraine ceases firing, Ukraine will cease to exist.
If Russia ceases firing. the war will cease to exist.
Pretty clear
December 28, 2025 at 9:23 PM
With all this talk of how to end Russias war against Ukraine, and a cease fire, keep this in mind:
If Ukraine ceases firing, Ukraine will cease to exist.
If Russia ceases firing. the war will cease to exist.
Pretty clear
If Ukraine ceases firing, Ukraine will cease to exist.
If Russia ceases firing. the war will cease to exist.
Pretty clear
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Jeanine Pirro Got Curiously Silent about What Brian Cole Did on December 14, 2020
www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/28/j...
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Jeanine Pirro Got Curiously Silent about What Brian Cole Did on December 14, 2020 - emptywheel
The accused pipe bomber, Brian Cole, started regularly wiping his cell phone the day after he traveled to Capitol Hill weeks before planting the pipe bombs. But DOJ dropped his December 14, 2020 trip ...
www.emptywheel.net
December 28, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Jeanine Pirro Got Curiously Silent about What Brian Cole Did on December 14, 2020
www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/28/j...
www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/28/j...
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Zelenskyy has become one of the world’s greatest heroes. — That’s eating Trump alive.
December 28, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Zelenskyy has become one of the world’s greatest heroes. — That’s eating Trump alive.
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A long way to say, “He lied to the voters.”
December 28, 2025 at 9:48 PM
A long way to say, “He lied to the voters.”
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This is a helluva piece by local news reporters about the nightmare our city endured. Read every word about the violence & overreach, non-stop DHS lies, disgusting ICE/CPB photo ops, horrible impacts on families & communities & how local Chicago residents fought back.
December 28, 2025 at 3:08 PM
This is a helluva piece by local news reporters about the nightmare our city endured. Read every word about the violence & overreach, non-stop DHS lies, disgusting ICE/CPB photo ops, horrible impacts on families & communities & how local Chicago residents fought back.
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I just saw Stephen Miller referred to as PeeWeeHimmler and now I can’t unsee it. 😂😂
December 28, 2025 at 2:25 AM
I just saw Stephen Miller referred to as PeeWeeHimmler and now I can’t unsee it. 😂😂
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December 27, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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J. D. Vance has "clearly made the calculation that anti-Semites are part of the Republican Party’s base, and he can’t afford to shunt them to the side as he plots his own presidential bid," Franklin Foer argues. theatln.tc/aaUENxUw
December 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
J. D. Vance has "clearly made the calculation that anti-Semites are part of the Republican Party’s base, and he can’t afford to shunt them to the side as he plots his own presidential bid," Franklin Foer argues. theatln.tc/aaUENxUw
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UPDATE: Speaker Sexton’s @TNHighwayPatrol driver speeding through NASHVILLE and refusing to pull over, then getting into a confrontation with MNPD, has made national news.
Again: The TN GOP supermajority thinks laws don’t apply to them.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Again: The TN GOP supermajority thinks laws don’t apply to them.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
December 25, 2025 at 6:10 PM
UPDATE: Speaker Sexton’s @TNHighwayPatrol driver speeding through NASHVILLE and refusing to pull over, then getting into a confrontation with MNPD, has made national news.
Again: The TN GOP supermajority thinks laws don’t apply to them.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Again: The TN GOP supermajority thinks laws don’t apply to them.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
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To be clear, this should be one of the biggest scandals to ever reach the presidency.
DOJ - after illegally scrubbing Trump from the Epstein files - is retroactively removing files they missed that would be embarrassing to the President.
It’s a complete affront to Justice.
DOJ - after illegally scrubbing Trump from the Epstein files - is retroactively removing files they missed that would be embarrassing to the President.
It’s a complete affront to Justice.
December 22, 2025 at 3:07 PM
To be clear, this should be one of the biggest scandals to ever reach the presidency.
DOJ - after illegally scrubbing Trump from the Epstein files - is retroactively removing files they missed that would be embarrassing to the President.
It’s a complete affront to Justice.
DOJ - after illegally scrubbing Trump from the Epstein files - is retroactively removing files they missed that would be embarrassing to the President.
It’s a complete affront to Justice.
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“My ancestors came here on the Mayflower”
So they were undocumented immigrants who survived with the help of the very indigenous people whose descendants ICE is now harassing because they look brown?
So they were undocumented immigrants who survived with the help of the very indigenous people whose descendants ICE is now harassing because they look brown?
December 22, 2025 at 3:15 PM
“My ancestors came here on the Mayflower”
So they were undocumented immigrants who survived with the help of the very indigenous people whose descendants ICE is now harassing because they look brown?
So they were undocumented immigrants who survived with the help of the very indigenous people whose descendants ICE is now harassing because they look brown?
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I don’t know. I have this funny feeling like the president might be hiding something about his past.
December 21, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I don’t know. I have this funny feeling like the president might be hiding something about his past.
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JD Vance lives in the bigot mythology of imagined persecution and nonexistent oppression that has convinced generations of mediocre white people that this nation is somehow conspiring against them, despite them being beneficiaries of its every advantage.
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JD Vance, Donald Trump, and MAGA Make Me Want to Apologize For Being White
If irony were deadly, JD Vance would have expired this weekend.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:17 PM
JD Vance lives in the bigot mythology of imagined persecution and nonexistent oppression that has convinced generations of mediocre white people that this nation is somehow conspiring against them, despite them being beneficiaries of its every advantage.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/jd-vance-d...
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/jd-vance-d...
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"Contentious disagreements" is a bullshit way of saying, "I don't give a fuck if you think I'm wrong."
Bari Weiss this morning on the 60 Minutes segment: "We need to be able to get the principals on the record and on camera."
Of course, most journalists know that oftentimes people who are the subject of negative reporting don't want to speak on camera or on the record.
Of course, most journalists know that oftentimes people who are the subject of negative reporting don't want to speak on camera or on the record.
December 22, 2025 at 3:18 PM
"Contentious disagreements" is a bullshit way of saying, "I don't give a fuck if you think I'm wrong."
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One explanation for Bari killing the story is that she did so as a public act of fealty to the administration. But another is that, as an inexperienced journalist, she doesn’t understand that a refusal to go on the record is a kind of comment in and of itself
December 22, 2025 at 12:40 PM
One explanation for Bari killing the story is that she did so as a public act of fealty to the administration. But another is that, as an inexperienced journalist, she doesn’t understand that a refusal to go on the record is a kind of comment in and of itself
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Hey dem friends in Virginia, Kaine not up for reelection until 2030. But you sure can call his office and tell him what you think. Here's his office number: +1 202-224-4024
December 21, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Hey dem friends in Virginia, Kaine not up for reelection until 2030. But you sure can call his office and tell him what you think. Here's his office number: +1 202-224-4024
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Okay, they are even Dumber than we thought. They removed the clickable link but not the file‼️
😆😂🤣
I just went there and manually put 468 in, it's still there. 🤦
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
😆😂🤣
I just went there and manually put 468 in, it's still there. 🤦
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov
December 20, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Okay, they are even Dumber than we thought. They removed the clickable link but not the file‼️
😆😂🤣
I just went there and manually put 468 in, it's still there. 🤦
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
😆😂🤣
I just went there and manually put 468 in, it's still there. 🤦
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
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EFTA00000468.pdf missing in .zip file downloaded today. Did anyone download the zip's yesterday before they had a chance to remove it? Proof of evidence tampering here. Impeachment imminent.
Congressmen behind Epstein files law draft articles of impeachment for AG Bondi
The co-sponsors of a law intended to force the DOJ to release all investigative materials related to Jeffrey Epstein say they are drafting articles of impeachment against Attorney General Pam Bondi.
www.scrippsnews.com
December 20, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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WOW: The DOJ has DELETED an image from its release of the Epstein files that shows photos of Trump in a drawer.
Yesterday, we noted that this image — file 468 — likely slipped through the cracks while officials were attempting to hide materials pertaining to Trump.
Now, it’s gone.
Yesterday, we noted that this image — file 468 — likely slipped through the cracks while officials were attempting to hide materials pertaining to Trump.
Now, it’s gone.
December 20, 2025 at 6:01 PM
WOW: The DOJ has DELETED an image from its release of the Epstein files that shows photos of Trump in a drawer.
Yesterday, we noted that this image — file 468 — likely slipped through the cracks while officials were attempting to hide materials pertaining to Trump.
Now, it’s gone.
Yesterday, we noted that this image — file 468 — likely slipped through the cracks while officials were attempting to hide materials pertaining to Trump.
Now, it’s gone.
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As a historian I've looked at hundreds of thousands of pages of government documents. And I just have to say that aside from being obviously illegal and clearly suggestive of some major crime, this “redaction” business is not a position in which serious people or serious governments find themselves
There is no basis to withhold these images under the clear terms of the Epstein Files Transparency Act. None.
WOW: The DOJ has DELETED an image from its release of the Epstein files that shows photos of Trump in a drawer.
Yesterday, we noted that this image — file 468 — likely slipped through the cracks while officials were attempting to hide materials pertaining to Trump.
Now, it’s gone.
Yesterday, we noted that this image — file 468 — likely slipped through the cracks while officials were attempting to hide materials pertaining to Trump.
Now, it’s gone.
December 21, 2025 at 9:42 PM
As a historian I've looked at hundreds of thousands of pages of government documents. And I just have to say that aside from being obviously illegal and clearly suggestive of some major crime, this “redaction” business is not a position in which serious people or serious governments find themselves
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Earlier this year the people at 60 Minutes urged me to overcome fear and speak on camera about what it's like being a lawyer being targeted by Trump. When I did, they lavished me with praise -- noting I was the only person willing to do it.
Now it is their turn to show courage.
Now it is their turn to show courage.
December 21, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Earlier this year the people at 60 Minutes urged me to overcome fear and speak on camera about what it's like being a lawyer being targeted by Trump. When I did, they lavished me with praise -- noting I was the only person willing to do it.
Now it is their turn to show courage.
Now it is their turn to show courage.
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Mike Johnson was pissed that we pushed a petition through and are forcing a vote on extended ACA tax credits. He just can’t stop losing.
But right now we need your help. We need everyone to contact Congress and tell them to get it done:
But right now we need your help. We need everyone to contact Congress and tell them to get it done:
Tell Congress: Demand Speaker Johnson hold a vote IMMEDIATELY on the ACA tax credit extension
Contact Congress today!
actionnetwork.org
December 20, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Mike Johnson was pissed that we pushed a petition through and are forcing a vote on extended ACA tax credits. He just can’t stop losing.
But right now we need your help. We need everyone to contact Congress and tell them to get it done:
But right now we need your help. We need everyone to contact Congress and tell them to get it done:
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Fudali: This is what we call in the civil litigation world a document dump, where you hide things in plain sight by throwing out a massive volume of documents with zero context, no order, no rhyme or reason, and then force the people who actually want information to dig through it.
December 20, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Fudali: This is what we call in the civil litigation world a document dump, where you hide things in plain sight by throwing out a massive volume of documents with zero context, no order, no rhyme or reason, and then force the people who actually want information to dig through it.