Hugh
@hughrbeyer.bsky.social
Nerd. Programmer. 3d modeler. Maker of game mods and modding tools. Sailor. Aikidoka.
Thinking Clearly About the Global Authoritarian Movement talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/think... This is the moment we are in. What we do about it, I dunno. But we have to recognize where we are.
Thinking Clearly About the Global Authoritarian Movement
Day after day we’re seeing more signs of Donald Trump’s slipping grip...
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February 12, 2026 at 12:16 AM
Thinking Clearly About the Global Authoritarian Movement talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/think... This is the moment we are in. What we do about it, I dunno. But we have to recognize where we are.
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It's the Karen presidency. Everything going on is because one dumb old asshole didn't get his way and now it's everyone's problem
every single goddam crisis happening right now is self imposed
January 19, 2026 at 6:09 PM
It's the Karen presidency. Everything going on is because one dumb old asshole didn't get his way and now it's everyone's problem
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This beautiful song about #ICELawlessness had me in tears!
Gorgeous vocals, an ethereal melody, and haunting lyrics that will hit you deep in your soul.
Please watch it & give it a like over on Instagram, too. Thanks, Speaknowsasha, this song moved me!
www.instagram.com/reel/DTn-lcL...
Gorgeous vocals, an ethereal melody, and haunting lyrics that will hit you deep in your soul.
Please watch it & give it a like over on Instagram, too. Thanks, Speaknowsasha, this song moved me!
www.instagram.com/reel/DTn-lcL...
January 19, 2026 at 3:52 AM
This beautiful song about #ICELawlessness had me in tears!
Gorgeous vocals, an ethereal melody, and haunting lyrics that will hit you deep in your soul.
Please watch it & give it a like over on Instagram, too. Thanks, Speaknowsasha, this song moved me!
www.instagram.com/reel/DTn-lcL...
Gorgeous vocals, an ethereal melody, and haunting lyrics that will hit you deep in your soul.
Please watch it & give it a like over on Instagram, too. Thanks, Speaknowsasha, this song moved me!
www.instagram.com/reel/DTn-lcL...
...and now they've come for the furries.
January 18, 2026 at 4:22 AM
...and now they've come for the furries.
January 17, 2026 at 2:42 PM
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I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.
January 16, 2026 at 10:15 PM
I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.
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11 days ago I scribbled some disjointed thoughts about what a year of photographing the men of ICE felt like.
Most of it isn't worth sharing, but these lines here—yeah. I guess. Yeah.
All I can say this afternoon is God will know what to do with them.
Most of it isn't worth sharing, but these lines here—yeah. I guess. Yeah.
All I can say this afternoon is God will know what to do with them.
January 9, 2026 at 9:16 PM
11 days ago I scribbled some disjointed thoughts about what a year of photographing the men of ICE felt like.
Most of it isn't worth sharing, but these lines here—yeah. I guess. Yeah.
All I can say this afternoon is God will know what to do with them.
Most of it isn't worth sharing, but these lines here—yeah. I guess. Yeah.
All I can say this afternoon is God will know what to do with them.
Have to admit, this was kinda energizing.
Want to spend 20 minutes mocking the f*ck out of ICE?
You’re welcome:
You’re welcome:
Internet OBLITERATES ICE on Social Media
YouTube video by The Dangerous Ones
youtu.be
January 13, 2026 at 2:30 AM
Have to admit, this was kinda energizing.
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This woman is harder than goddamn steel dealing with these goddamn thugs. I want her to be my neighbor.
January 12, 2026 at 6:47 PM
This woman is harder than goddamn steel dealing with these goddamn thugs. I want her to be my neighbor.
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It's the least important element to this, but I find it fascinating on an aesthetic level too.
Americans are watching a bootleg broadcast that someone in Canada recorded off their TV. And people are copying it to various platforms (however imperfect visually) to get it out as widely as possible.
Americans are watching a bootleg broadcast that someone in Canada recorded off their TV. And people are copying it to various platforms (however imperfect visually) to get it out as widely as possible.
December 22, 2025 at 11:18 PM
It's the least important element to this, but I find it fascinating on an aesthetic level too.
Americans are watching a bootleg broadcast that someone in Canada recorded off their TV. And people are copying it to various platforms (however imperfect visually) to get it out as widely as possible.
Americans are watching a bootleg broadcast that someone in Canada recorded off their TV. And people are copying it to various platforms (however imperfect visually) to get it out as widely as possible.
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I don't think enough people appreciate how much Republicans *hate* the United States as it exists today. They despise the idea of a culturally diverse, socially tolerant nation.
@radiofreetom.bsky.social @kenwhite.bsky.social
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December 3, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I don't think enough people appreciate how much Republicans *hate* the United States as it exists today. They despise the idea of a culturally diverse, socially tolerant nation.
@radiofreetom.bsky.social @kenwhite.bsky.social
@radiofreetom.bsky.social @kenwhite.bsky.social
"We did not evolve to be ALPHA CHADS, actually."
I am tired of scrolling through YouTube shorts and seeing beefy conspiratorial clowns declare cooked food and vaccines and the very presence of a foreign person to be anathema to their delusional vision of a perfect, homogenous, walled-off society.
We did not evolve to be ALPHA CHADS, actually.
We did not evolve to be ALPHA CHADS, actually.
November 15, 2025 at 3:41 AM
"We did not evolve to be ALPHA CHADS, actually."
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This is what federally-sponsored domestic terrorism looks like. An ICE raid targeting a bus full of farmworkers on their way to work, picking the produce that ends up on our dinner tables.
Only the worst of the worst, right MAGA? 😡 Deplorable.
Only the worst of the worst, right MAGA? 😡 Deplorable.
November 13, 2025 at 3:35 PM
This is what federally-sponsored domestic terrorism looks like. An ICE raid targeting a bus full of farmworkers on their way to work, picking the produce that ends up on our dinner tables.
Only the worst of the worst, right MAGA? 😡 Deplorable.
Only the worst of the worst, right MAGA? 😡 Deplorable.
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Timeliness cleanser.
Moon River
Moon River
November 7, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Timeliness cleanser.
Moon River
Moon River
Fear, Greed, Civic Virtue and the Fall of the Elites talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/fear-...
It would be good and necessary to tighten up all the holes in our constitutional structure. But in the end no constitution can hold up unless enough people are committed to it. Is that true of this country?
It would be good and necessary to tighten up all the holes in our constitutional structure. But in the end no constitution can hold up unless enough people are committed to it. Is that true of this country?
Fear, Greed, Civic Virtue and the Fall of the Elites
Members of America’s founding generation had an ambivalent and evolving understanding of...
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October 24, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Fear, Greed, Civic Virtue and the Fall of the Elites talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/fear-...
It would be good and necessary to tighten up all the holes in our constitutional structure. But in the end no constitution can hold up unless enough people are committed to it. Is that true of this country?
It would be good and necessary to tighten up all the holes in our constitutional structure. But in the end no constitution can hold up unless enough people are committed to it. Is that true of this country?
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This kind of work creates POLITICAL COVER for people (normies and politicos) to peel away from the fash and do hard but necessary work to recreate the public sphere. It's THE LITERAL EMBODIMENT of liberal pluralism in the BODY POLITIC.
October 19, 2025 at 2:05 AM
This kind of work creates POLITICAL COVER for people (normies and politicos) to peel away from the fash and do hard but necessary work to recreate the public sphere. It's THE LITERAL EMBODIMENT of liberal pluralism in the BODY POLITIC.
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This too shall pass
September 22, 2025 at 1:53 AM
This too shall pass
Yikes.
We have the PA turnout data. Dems lost this election on voter registration over the 4 year cycle, and turnout. And for the first presidential election in what is likely a very long time, the total turnout from registered GOPs exceeded that of Dems.
July 18, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Yikes.
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ok I’ll bite. does anyone on here want to argue about what the best shorebird is
Apparently it’s weird when you don’t want to spend your whole day arguing with randoms.
July 11, 2025 at 7:42 PM
ok I’ll bite. does anyone on here want to argue about what the best shorebird is
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(the above is from my long interview with @startswithabang.bsky.social for @bigthink.com, worth checking out:
bigthink.com/starts-with-...)
So a conspiracy theorist rejects any documented evidence of suspicious behavior by China when it concerns the market, but then turn around and claim...
bigthink.com/starts-with-...)
So a conspiracy theorist rejects any documented evidence of suspicious behavior by China when it concerns the market, but then turn around and claim...
Ask Ethan: Couldn't COVID-19 have originated in a Chinese lab?
In theory, scientists could've produced a deadly virus that accidentally infected lab workers. In practice, we know that didn't happen.
bigthink.com
July 11, 2025 at 8:07 AM
(the above is from my long interview with @startswithabang.bsky.social for @bigthink.com, worth checking out:
bigthink.com/starts-with-...)
So a conspiracy theorist rejects any documented evidence of suspicious behavior by China when it concerns the market, but then turn around and claim...
bigthink.com/starts-with-...)
So a conspiracy theorist rejects any documented evidence of suspicious behavior by China when it concerns the market, but then turn around and claim...
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here’s Tuesday’s post, on the giddy glee with which Republicans are celebrating their new concentration camp —
please read the whole thing, thanks!
link is here: bit.ly/4ey8Y2o
(and as always, there's a longer excerpt in the alt text)
please read the whole thing, thanks!
link is here: bit.ly/4ey8Y2o
(and as always, there's a longer excerpt in the alt text)
July 1, 2025 at 6:07 PM
here’s Tuesday’s post, on the giddy glee with which Republicans are celebrating their new concentration camp —
please read the whole thing, thanks!
link is here: bit.ly/4ey8Y2o
(and as always, there's a longer excerpt in the alt text)
please read the whole thing, thanks!
link is here: bit.ly/4ey8Y2o
(and as always, there's a longer excerpt in the alt text)
Good paper on how AI degrades thinking quality: arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088... -- just in time for my book in which I make that claim.
arxiv.org
June 19, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Good paper on how AI degrades thinking quality: arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088... -- just in time for my book in which I make that claim.
I still can't get over how? David Farenthold of the Washington Post revealed that no supposed beneficiaries of Trump's charity had ever gotten a dime and none of the media would pick up the story. A few good reporters, no good news outlets.
When this is all over, and over it will be eventually, the MSM will bear the lions share of the blame for not coming at Shitler full on with the truth to the public. They omitted SO many things. You'd thing with MULTIPLE avenues for news ONE of the big ones would be reporting different crimes, lies/
June 18, 2025 at 10:13 PM
I still can't get over how? David Farenthold of the Washington Post revealed that no supposed beneficiaries of Trump's charity had ever gotten a dime and none of the media would pick up the story. A few good reporters, no good news outlets.