Beth Winegarner
@bethwinegarner.bsky.social
✏️ Journalist & author: bethwinegarner.com
📚 "San Francisco’s Forgotten Cemeteries: A Buried History" out now!
🎧 Coming soon: Dead Reckoning podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dead-reckoning/id1812728990
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📚 "San Francisco’s Forgotten Cemeteries: A Buried History" out now!
🎧 Coming soon: Dead Reckoning podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dead-reckoning/id1812728990
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Dead Reckoning
History Podcast · The podcast where death isn’t the end of the story.
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🪦 Welcome to Dead Reckoning, the podcast where death isn't the end of the story! 💀
Hosted by Beth Winegarner and Courtney Minick of Here Lies a Story and produced by Carolyn Kissick and HLAS, our conversations take place at the crossroads of death, history, and social justice.
Hosted by Beth Winegarner and Courtney Minick of Here Lies a Story and produced by Carolyn Kissick and HLAS, our conversations take place at the crossroads of death, history, and social justice.
In this episode of "Dead Reckoning," Steven Welch, a fifth-generation funeral director, joins us to share what mortician life is like, both today and historically. He also dishes about the embalming job on Pope Francis & how HBO's "Six Feet Under" feels torn from the pages of his own family's life.
Interview with funeral director Steven Welch: The Pope's hands
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December 6, 2025 at 6:52 PM
In this episode of "Dead Reckoning," Steven Welch, a fifth-generation funeral director, joins us to share what mortician life is like, both today and historically. He also dishes about the embalming job on Pope Francis & how HBO's "Six Feet Under" feels torn from the pages of his own family's life.
The cruelty is the point (and on this topic, that was true under Biden and Obama, too).
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S.F. has largest backlog of immigration cases in California. Here’s why.
San Francisco’s immigration court backlog is so high that hearings are being scheduled for as far out as 2029.
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December 2, 2025 at 6:31 PM
The cruelty is the point (and on this topic, that was true under Biden and Obama, too).
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Sending @jowrotethis.bsky.social and Mallory Rubin a nomination for their best fight scenes episode:
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Geralt's Butcher of Blaviken Fight in 4K | The Witcher Season 1
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December 1, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Sending @jowrotethis.bsky.social and Mallory Rubin a nomination for their best fight scenes episode:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWZj...
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Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
November 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
"I got an alert that my app subscription for Starla is set to expire soon. All I felt was relief that I don’t even have to break up with Celeste. I can just mark her spam." @laurenparker.bsky.social
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Looking for My Soulmate in All the Wrong Applications - Living, Paganism, Perspectives, Witchcraft
Witchcraft & Pagan News - Hint asks if I’m into men or women, but does not offer "both" or "neither." You are getting your AI generated slop on the gender binary, thank you very much. | Living, Pagani...
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November 26, 2025 at 5:02 AM
"I got an alert that my app subscription for Starla is set to expire soon. All I felt was relief that I don’t even have to break up with Celeste. I can just mark her spam." @laurenparker.bsky.social
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One big downside of the holiday season beginning is that all literary journals are clearing the decks right now. I've never gotten so many rejections in one week in my life.
November 25, 2025 at 7:11 PM
One big downside of the holiday season beginning is that all literary journals are clearing the decks right now. I've never gotten so many rejections in one week in my life.
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"I’m thinking about the bleached bones O’Keeffe collected as her symbols of the desert. I’m remembering that, like O’Keeffe, my parents initially came to the desert from the East Coast hoping for a kind of renewal." @jennyqi.bsky.social
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Picking Up Bones - The Rumpus
“During all the years I’d lived in Las Vegas as a child, I’d felt like an animal trying to escape the harsh environs. In addition to the physical harshness, the desert represented, for me, the city’s ...
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November 22, 2025 at 9:30 PM
"I’m thinking about the bleached bones O’Keeffe collected as her symbols of the desert. I’m remembering that, like O’Keeffe, my parents initially came to the desert from the East Coast hoping for a kind of renewal." @jennyqi.bsky.social
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I caught Mitch McConnell earlier today and tried to ask him about the CDC promoting the lie that vaccines cause autism.
He voted against RFK Jr.'s confirmation.
But as is always the case, McConnell, a polio survivor, refused to answer questions.
He voted against RFK Jr.'s confirmation.
But as is always the case, McConnell, a polio survivor, refused to answer questions.
November 21, 2025 at 5:04 AM
I caught Mitch McConnell earlier today and tried to ask him about the CDC promoting the lie that vaccines cause autism.
He voted against RFK Jr.'s confirmation.
But as is always the case, McConnell, a polio survivor, refused to answer questions.
He voted against RFK Jr.'s confirmation.
But as is always the case, McConnell, a polio survivor, refused to answer questions.
I've seen so many anti-ICE folks protesting the creation of SF/Bay Area detention centers. I get it, but the outcome is that asylum-seekers get shipped far away from any hope of good legal representation, which makes deportation much more likely.
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Trump admin. pushes to send S.F. asylum-seekers to Honduras, even if they’re not from there
The move is tied to a March agreement between Honduras and the U.S. to take those deported—even if they're not from Honduras.
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November 20, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I've seen so many anti-ICE folks protesting the creation of SF/Bay Area detention centers. I get it, but the outcome is that asylum-seekers get shipped far away from any hope of good legal representation, which makes deportation much more likely.
missionlocal.org/2025/11/trum...
missionlocal.org/2025/11/trum...
Over the weekend we found a stray kitten stuck on our back fence in the rain. Long story short, we were able to get him to a local shelter, where he's available for fostering now or soon. We'd do it but Pigeon is 13 and really wants to be an only cat.
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My name is Stinson.I am a male, black Domestic Shorthair....
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November 19, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Over the weekend we found a stray kitten stuck on our back fence in the rain. Long story short, we were able to get him to a local shelter, where he's available for fostering now or soon. We'd do it but Pigeon is 13 and really wants to be an only cat.
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Today is the anniversary of the Jonestown massacre in 1978. I recently visited the memorial site in Oakland, where 400 of the victims are buried and all of them are remembered.
November 18, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Today is the anniversary of the Jonestown massacre in 1978. I recently visited the memorial site in Oakland, where 400 of the victims are buried and all of them are remembered.
I enjoyed the first few seasons of The Morning Show, but does this season feel like a complete mess to anyone else?
November 14, 2025 at 10:05 PM
I enjoyed the first few seasons of The Morning Show, but does this season feel like a complete mess to anyone else?
"In 1900 the bubonic plague came to the city, and it wreaked havoc for 8 years. Join us for a journey through crowded tenements, racist blockades, wooden pallets full of fleas, quack medicine, corporate conspiracies, and finally, FINALLY some actual science."
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Bubonic Plague in San Francisco: You can't quarantine rats
Podcast Episode · Dead Reckoning · 11/14/2025 · 1h 16m
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November 14, 2025 at 9:45 PM
"In 1900 the bubonic plague came to the city, and it wreaked havoc for 8 years. Join us for a journey through crowded tenements, racist blockades, wooden pallets full of fleas, quack medicine, corporate conspiracies, and finally, FINALLY some actual science."
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If you'd like to see (and shop) my and @courtneyminick.bsky.social's sources for the Dead Reckoning podcast, you can check the ever-expanding list here:
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Dead Reckoning sources
Checkout out this list on Bookshop
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November 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM
If you'd like to see (and shop) my and @courtneyminick.bsky.social's sources for the Dead Reckoning podcast, you can check the ever-expanding list here:
bookshop.org/lists/dead-r...
bookshop.org/lists/dead-r...
"I’d been researching and visiting San Francisco’s former cemeteries for months ... but this was the first time I felt like one of the city’s dead was trying to communicate with me."
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Grey Zones Spotlight: Act 3, Scene 1
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November 8, 2025 at 5:19 PM
"I’d been researching and visiting San Francisco’s former cemeteries for months ... but this was the first time I felt like one of the city’s dead was trying to communicate with me."
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How about fascism? Can you please ruin fascism for everyone? TIA
November 6, 2025 at 9:59 PM
How about fascism? Can you please ruin fascism for everyone? TIA
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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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"The acts of structural violence, such as the lack of surface features and numbering system in the cemetery record, contribute to why cemeteries of socially marginalized groups have disappeared from the historical record and public memory." (h/t @courtneyminick.bsky.social)
Exploring Structural Violence using Ground Penetrating Radar: A Case Study at Marin County Poor Farm Cemetery (1880 to 1963) in San Rafael, California
Purpose of the Study: The purpose of this research is to understand why social welfare institutional cemeteries are disproportionately more likely to disappear from the historical record and public...
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November 6, 2025 at 5:08 AM
"The acts of structural violence, such as the lack of surface features and numbering system in the cemetery record, contribute to why cemeteries of socially marginalized groups have disappeared from the historical record and public memory." (h/t @courtneyminick.bsky.social)
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A divided San Francisco Arts Commission voted 8-5 on Monday to remove the Vaillancourt Fountain from Embarcadero Plaza at least temporarily in advance of a $32.5 million remodel.
Removal of controversial fountain from S.F.’s Embarcadero Plaza formally approved
A divided San Francisco Arts Commission voted 8-5 on Monday to remove the Vaillancourt Fountain from Embarcadero Plaza at least temporarily in advance of a $32.5 million remodel.
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November 4, 2025 at 4:00 AM
A divided San Francisco Arts Commission voted 8-5 on Monday to remove the Vaillancourt Fountain from Embarcadero Plaza at least temporarily in advance of a $32.5 million remodel.
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Teen Vogue eliminated all their Black and trans staff today.
It's resegregation in real time.
It's resegregation in real time.
today’s information came out piecemeal, and people should be able to share their own situations on their own time, but I could share this much ^ as it is pretty cut and dry on the facts.
Teen Vogue also no longer has any trans staffers as of today.
Teen Vogue also no longer has any trans staffers as of today.
November 4, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Teen Vogue eliminated all their Black and trans staff today.
It's resegregation in real time.
It's resegregation in real time.
Reposted by Beth Winegarner
today’s information came out piecemeal, and people should be able to share their own situations on their own time, but I could share this much ^ as it is pretty cut and dry on the facts.
Teen Vogue also no longer has any trans staffers as of today.
Teen Vogue also no longer has any trans staffers as of today.
November 3, 2025 at 11:28 PM
today’s information came out piecemeal, and people should be able to share their own situations on their own time, but I could share this much ^ as it is pretty cut and dry on the facts.
Teen Vogue also no longer has any trans staffers as of today.
Teen Vogue also no longer has any trans staffers as of today.