Becky Etchberger
@etchberger.bsky.social
Producer @ Last Week Tonight with John Oliver | Invisible disability advocate living with CMT | Proud New Yorker, anxious American
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Via NPR ~ Hundreds of celebrities have relaunched a committee to defend free speech that was first formed during the post-World War II Red Scare. It’s spearheaded Jane Fonda, whose father, Henry Fonda, stood against the Hollywood blacklists of the McCarthy era.
December 27, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Via NPR ~ Hundreds of celebrities have relaunched a committee to defend free speech that was first formed during the post-World War II Red Scare. It’s spearheaded Jane Fonda, whose father, Henry Fonda, stood against the Hollywood blacklists of the McCarthy era.
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In thinking about what you can do this year, keep this in mind: showing up at protests has real impact - -
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very
From emancipation to women’s suffrage, civil rights and BLM, mass movement has shaped the arc of US history
www.theguardian.com
December 25, 2025 at 3:24 PM
In thinking about what you can do this year, keep this in mind: showing up at protests has real impact - -
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Soon we’re all going to be penalized for speaking unkind words about the führer and liberals — the resistance will be labeled as “Enemies of the State” and become National Security Threats. They’re going to take away our voices if we don’t stop them.
December 24, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Soon we’re all going to be penalized for speaking unkind words about the führer and liberals — the resistance will be labeled as “Enemies of the State” and become National Security Threats. They’re going to take away our voices if we don’t stop them.
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and then miller smiled, and i smiled, and then he swallowed a mouse whole as he turned and walked out the room
December 18, 2025 at 12:36 AM
and then miller smiled, and i smiled, and then he swallowed a mouse whole as he turned and walked out the room
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This is what happens when you view human creative expression not as something to be experienced and appreciated and savoured, but as just content to be consumed
December 7, 2025 at 1:09 AM
This is what happens when you view human creative expression not as something to be experienced and appreciated and savoured, but as just content to be consumed
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The Trump administration has fired, or tried to fire, many of the federal staff who manage and enforce federal disability law in schools. n.pr/48udkF5
50 years after the birth of special education, some fear for its future under Trump
The Trump administration has fired, or tried to fire, many of the federal staff who manage and enforce federal disability law in schools.
n.pr
December 3, 2025 at 10:16 AM
The Trump administration has fired, or tried to fire, many of the federal staff who manage and enforce federal disability law in schools. n.pr/48udkF5
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A must read from @anandwrites.bsky.social. This line —
“The clubby deal-making and moral racketeering of the Epstein class is now the United States’ governing philosophy” — is spot on. How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
“The clubby deal-making and moral racketeering of the Epstein class is now the United States’ governing philosophy” — is spot on. How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Opinion | How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:43 AM
A must read from @anandwrites.bsky.social. This line —
“The clubby deal-making and moral racketeering of the Epstein class is now the United States’ governing philosophy” — is spot on. How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
“The clubby deal-making and moral racketeering of the Epstein class is now the United States’ governing philosophy” — is spot on. How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
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Trump praised Zohran Mamdani as good for NYC before Chuck Schumer did. Think about that.
November 21, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Trump praised Zohran Mamdani as good for NYC before Chuck Schumer did. Think about that.
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We need to support working-class kids before the 21st century abandons them completely.
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:48 PM
We need to support working-class kids before the 21st century abandons them completely.
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A father and his one-year-old daughter were pepper sprayed by US ICE agents in Chicago while on their way to go grocery shopping.
November 11, 2025 at 2:47 PM
A father and his one-year-old daughter were pepper sprayed by US ICE agents in Chicago while on their way to go grocery shopping.
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"With your support, and with God, we’ll find a way out of this...”
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/08/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/08/m...
November 10, 2025 at 12:40 AM
"With your support, and with God, we’ll find a way out of this...”
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/08/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/08/m...
Good!! We covered this story in August with a fantastic sketch at the end featuring Edi Patterson (Judy Gemstone) & Bobby Moynihan (SNL) ##chuckschumerhastogo
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dijM...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dijM...
November 10, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Good!! We covered this story in August with a fantastic sketch at the end featuring Edi Patterson (Judy Gemstone) & Bobby Moynihan (SNL) ##chuckschumerhastogo
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dijM...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dijM...
I mean, what can we do here? Protest at their houses? Pull a Thunberg in front of the capitol? Genuinely curious
Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 94th day out of the last 106.
12 days of work in 106 days.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
12 days of work in 106 days.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
November 7, 2025 at 2:48 AM
I mean, what can we do here? Protest at their houses? Pull a Thunberg in front of the capitol? Genuinely curious
This 👇
Politicians should probably get on Bluesky to get better in touch with the American electorate.
November 5, 2025 at 3:54 AM
This 👇
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Mamdani cracks 1M votes, the first NYC mayor to do so since John Lindsay in 1969
November 5, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Mamdani cracks 1M votes, the first NYC mayor to do so since John Lindsay in 1969
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Zohran Mamdani's promise to lower chicken-over-rice prices and reform vending permits has inspired a wave of grassroots organizing among the city's 23,000 street vendors.
documentedny.com/2025/11/04/h...
documentedny.com/2025/11/04/h...
Zohran Mamdani to Street Vendors: I’m Listening - Documented
Zohran Mamdani's promise to lower chicken-over-rice prices and reform vending permits has inspired a wave of grassroots organizing among the city's 23,000 street vendors.
documentedny.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Zohran Mamdani's promise to lower chicken-over-rice prices and reform vending permits has inspired a wave of grassroots organizing among the city's 23,000 street vendors.
documentedny.com/2025/11/04/h...
documentedny.com/2025/11/04/h...
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For years people made fun of big tech for inventing things that already exist and they responded with their magnum opus: inventing fascism. Incredible work
November 3, 2025 at 3:45 PM
For years people made fun of big tech for inventing things that already exist and they responded with their magnum opus: inventing fascism. Incredible work
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The 24 corporations funding Trump's ballroom have received $279 billion in government contracts in the past 5 years.
Most of them are facing federal enforcement actions.
These are not random donations.
It's a clear as day effort to kiss up to the Trump admin.
Most of them are facing federal enforcement actions.
These are not random donations.
It's a clear as day effort to kiss up to the Trump admin.
November 3, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The 24 corporations funding Trump's ballroom have received $279 billion in government contracts in the past 5 years.
Most of them are facing federal enforcement actions.
These are not random donations.
It's a clear as day effort to kiss up to the Trump admin.
Most of them are facing federal enforcement actions.
These are not random donations.
It's a clear as day effort to kiss up to the Trump admin.
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THIS! 1000%
If ICE agents begins harassing voters on the way to vote on Tuesday, we need local prosecutors to charge the ICE officers with state law crimes. We need to send a message for 2026 that they will be swiftly arrested.
November 3, 2025 at 1:40 AM
THIS! 1000%
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For 17 years I have relied on SNAP benefits. I'm on Social Security Disability, Medicare, Medicaid & live w/chronic illness & disabilities, 2x cancer survivor & Lupus. SNAP is ESSENTIAL for my nutrition. Me & 42M are experiencing a President who does NOT care if 1/8 of ALL Americans STARVE to death!
November 3, 2025 at 1:51 AM
For 17 years I have relied on SNAP benefits. I'm on Social Security Disability, Medicare, Medicaid & live w/chronic illness & disabilities, 2x cancer survivor & Lupus. SNAP is ESSENTIAL for my nutrition. Me & 42M are experiencing a President who does NOT care if 1/8 of ALL Americans STARVE to death!
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I see that CBS chose not to air this part. It probably explains much of what they did decide to air.
November 3, 2025 at 1:37 AM
I see that CBS chose not to air this part. It probably explains much of what they did decide to air.
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New Yorkers: please vote!!!! Cuomo went all-in on racism in the final 2 weeks because he's got nothing else. And as we've seen, that's a very effective motivator.
i hate to be that bitch, but my sources are telling me this early voting data has gotten Zohran's people rightly spooked and y'all better stop assuming this one's in the bag. GOTV
Voter turnout surges in NYC mayor’s race, with Boomers and Gen X leading the charge
The data so far is good news for independent candidate Andrew Cuomo, a political scientist said.
gothamist.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:20 AM
New Yorkers: please vote!!!! Cuomo went all-in on racism in the final 2 weeks because he's got nothing else. And as we've seen, that's a very effective motivator.
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A 14-word replacement for most op-eds, substacks, etc about this moment.
The GOP could stop ALL of this, right now—if a handful of Sens or Reps could step outside the cult.
It would take four in the Senate, four (maybe five) in the House, to change history.
Until then, they're all to blame.
The GOP could stop ALL of this, right now—if a handful of Sens or Reps could step outside the cult.
It would take four in the Senate, four (maybe five) in the House, to change history.
Until then, they're all to blame.
October 25, 2025 at 1:56 AM
A 14-word replacement for most op-eds, substacks, etc about this moment.
The GOP could stop ALL of this, right now—if a handful of Sens or Reps could step outside the cult.
It would take four in the Senate, four (maybe five) in the House, to change history.
Until then, they're all to blame.
The GOP could stop ALL of this, right now—if a handful of Sens or Reps could step outside the cult.
It would take four in the Senate, four (maybe five) in the House, to change history.
Until then, they're all to blame.
What a king thing to do
Leavitt: "At this moment in time, of course, the ballroom is really the president's main priority."
October 24, 2025 at 6:01 AM
What a king thing to do