Jeroen Beekman
@jbeekman.bsky.social
Middle aged rage against the machine
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“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine.
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:20 AM
40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine.
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
"May none but Honest and Wise Men ever rule under This Roof.”
Well, do I have news for you.
Well, do I have news for you.
On this day 225 years ago, John Adams moved into the still-not-quite-complete White House, becoming the first president to occupy it. His blessing was carved into the State Dining Room mantel in 1945: "May none but Honest and Wise Men ever rule under This Roof.”
November 1, 2025 at 4:48 PM
"May none but Honest and Wise Men ever rule under This Roof.”
Well, do I have news for you.
Well, do I have news for you.
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“Is it that hard to see that the man who dresses up every day in orange pancake makeup and a contoured swirl of dyed hair to hide his balding head… is not just a clown, he beclowns the whole country on the global stage?”
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Serving a Clown With a Fake Crown
What kind of "government" tear gasses children while its weak leader excitedly accepts a fake gold crown from a foreign country? Not one as powerful as it thinks it is.
www.americaamerica.news
October 31, 2025 at 11:39 AM
“Is it that hard to see that the man who dresses up every day in orange pancake makeup and a contoured swirl of dyed hair to hide his balding head… is not just a clown, he beclowns the whole country on the global stage?”
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Pregnant Women, DON’T TAKE PARENTING ADVICE FROM A CONVICTED FELON WHO OWNED A TEENAGE BEAUTY PAGEANT AND HAS SHUT DOWN THE GOVERNMENT TO HIDE THE FACT THAT HE WAS BEST FRIENDS WITH THE MOST NOTORIOUS CHILD RAPIST IN MODERN HISTORY.
October 27, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Pregnant Women, DON’T TAKE PARENTING ADVICE FROM A CONVICTED FELON WHO OWNED A TEENAGE BEAUTY PAGEANT AND HAS SHUT DOWN THE GOVERNMENT TO HIDE THE FACT THAT HE WAS BEST FRIENDS WITH THE MOST NOTORIOUS CHILD RAPIST IN MODERN HISTORY.
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I have one slight disagreement with this post.
There is at least one story bigger than that of a president instigating a plot to end U.S. democracy.
And that is the story that a president is instigating his *second* plot to end U.S. democracy.
There is at least one story bigger than that of a president instigating a plot to end U.S. democracy.
And that is the story that a president is instigating his *second* plot to end U.S. democracy.
October 24, 2025 at 2:05 PM
I have one slight disagreement with this post.
There is at least one story bigger than that of a president instigating a plot to end U.S. democracy.
And that is the story that a president is instigating his *second* plot to end U.S. democracy.
There is at least one story bigger than that of a president instigating a plot to end U.S. democracy.
And that is the story that a president is instigating his *second* plot to end U.S. democracy.
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Once again, one reason Trump says & does whatever he wants is bc every societal institution, including the media, has totally normalized & internalized the idea that the laws, the Constitution, & the international treaties we have signed & ratified simply don’t apply to this one guy. It’s maddening.
No mention at all of the fact that Trump doesn't have the legal authority to do this, that plans haven't even been reviewed (because the office is closed for the government shutdown), that the size and cost estimates keep changing, etc., etc.
Part of White House Is Reduced to Rubble. Trump’s Ballroom Will Rise in Its Place.
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October 21, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Once again, one reason Trump says & does whatever he wants is bc every societal institution, including the media, has totally normalized & internalized the idea that the laws, the Constitution, & the international treaties we have signed & ratified simply don’t apply to this one guy. It’s maddening.
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It’s not his house. It’s your house. And he’s destroying it.
October 21, 2025 at 12:16 PM
It’s not his house. It’s your house. And he’s destroying it.
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Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says. n.pr/4q87Jwb
Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass
Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says.
n.pr
October 14, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says. n.pr/4q87Jwb
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BREAKING: Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson asked a federal judge Monday morning to block President Donald Trump from deploying 400 members of the Texas National Guard to Chicago alongside 300 members of the Illinois National Guard. @wttw.bsky.social
Gov. JB Pritzker, Mayor Brandon Johnson Ask Judge to Block Trump From Deploying 400 Texas National Guard Troops to Chicago
The lawsuit filed by Illinois and Chicago officials calls the looming deployment of both Texas and Illinois National Guard troops a politically motivated and unconstitutional federal overreach.
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October 6, 2025 at 2:36 PM
BREAKING: Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson asked a federal judge Monday morning to block President Donald Trump from deploying 400 members of the Texas National Guard to Chicago alongside 300 members of the Illinois National Guard. @wttw.bsky.social
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"Trump, with the help of his sycophants, is waging war against our own country...It's hard to overstate how perilous this moment is as Dem governors must decide how they will respond to Trump’s unrelenting efforts to stoke more violence and seize more power." www.americaamerica.news/p/stephen-mi...
Stephen Miller and Donald Trump Want War
They are ignoring a judge's ruling, ignoring the sovereign right of governors to keep their states safe and ignoring the on-the-ground facts to justify their dangerous invasions
www.americaamerica.news
October 6, 2025 at 12:13 PM
"Trump, with the help of his sycophants, is waging war against our own country...It's hard to overstate how perilous this moment is as Dem governors must decide how they will respond to Trump’s unrelenting efforts to stoke more violence and seize more power." www.americaamerica.news/p/stephen-mi...
One of the great
Breaking news: Robert Redford, the big-screen idol turned Oscar-winning director, independent film advocate and environmental activist, died at 89.
Robert Redford, Screen Idol Turned Director and Activist, Dies at 89
He made serious topics like grief and political corruption resonate with the masses, in no small part because of his own star power.
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September 16, 2025 at 12:21 PM
One of the great
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"how do you show your loyalty? By paying the costs of humiliation. The more grotesquely over the top your praise, the more credible it is as a signal of support for Dear Leader."
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August 27, 2025 at 11:26 AM
"how do you show your loyalty? By paying the costs of humiliation. The more grotesquely over the top your praise, the more credible it is as a signal of support for Dear Leader."
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Europe is selling its soul to Trump. What ostensibly "pragmatic" leaders are getting terribly wrong. on.ft.com/4lQ9BpT
Europe is selling its soul to Trump
[FREE TO READ] What masquerades as pragmatism is self-harming opportunism
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August 27, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Europe is selling its soul to Trump. What ostensibly "pragmatic" leaders are getting terribly wrong. on.ft.com/4lQ9BpT
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Virginia Giuffre’s family denounces “DAG Todd Blanche’s bizarre interview” of Ghislaine Maxwell in a statement. www.allrisenews.com/p/maxwell-tr...
August 23, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Virginia Giuffre’s family denounces “DAG Todd Blanche’s bizarre interview” of Ghislaine Maxwell in a statement. www.allrisenews.com/p/maxwell-tr...
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GOOD TWEET. GOOD MOOD. FIGHT.
August 18, 2025 at 3:19 AM
GOOD TWEET. GOOD MOOD. FIGHT.
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When you strip away humanity
July 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM
When you strip away humanity
Not the Onion
Planes roared over D.C. on Saturday, tanks rolled along the National Mall, brass bands resounded and thousands of soldiers marched past cheering crowds, as the Army put on the largest show of military might in the capital in more than three decades. wapo.st/4dYFOck
June 15, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Not the Onion
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This scrum of pot-bellied, sunken-chested betas trying to bully an all-black clad badass Eastern European wasteland survivor while dressed like Men’s Wearhouse mannequins is peak cinema.
GLENN: Why don't you wear a suit? You're at the highest level in this country's office & you refuse to wear a suit. A lot of Americans have problems with you not respecting the office.
ZELENSKYY: I will wear a costume after this war will finish. Maybe something like yours. Maybe something better.
ZELENSKYY: I will wear a costume after this war will finish. Maybe something like yours. Maybe something better.
February 28, 2025 at 7:22 PM
This scrum of pot-bellied, sunken-chested betas trying to bully an all-black clad badass Eastern European wasteland survivor while dressed like Men’s Wearhouse mannequins is peak cinema.
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Pritzker: If we don’t want to repeat history, then for god’s sake, in this moment, we better be strong enough to learn from it.
February 20, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Pritzker: If we don’t want to repeat history, then for god’s sake, in this moment, we better be strong enough to learn from it.