Beth Lueck

Beth Lueck

@bethanyl.bsky.social

History fanatic and political junkie by night, Midwestern sales rep by day. Trying, and failing miserably to make sense of our newly f*cked up world. Organize. Resist.

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I want you to understand this is happening in our name and we know most of these men committed no crimes. One is a professional soccer player who was tortured in Venezuela and was working through asylum in the U.S. ICE shipped him for his Real Madrid tattoo and a picture throwing rock & roll horns.

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Dear Dems. This is a reminder that Donald Trump rescinded the ethics rules preventing gifts to executive branch employees. Now would be a good time to propose legislation formalizing the prevention into a law Time to do things that make him react to you. apnews.com/article/trum...

apnews.comTrump has canceled Biden's ethics rules. Critics call it the opposite of 'drain the swamp'Donald Trump took office eight years ago pledging to “drain the swamp” of the dominance of Washington influence peddlers.

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Replying to @sherry2.bsky.social

His Russian handlers call him KRASNOV. He’s going to attack Iran. Bet on it. He will move on Iran as the economy crashes and he hopes we haven’t seen this movie before. The war will distract from the failed economy and everyone will be expected to support their Commander in Chief in a time of war.

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Kristi Noem: “you can’t trust the government.” Dana Bash: “you are the government.” If the Trump Administration can’t trust itself, why should you?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

BASH: I remember a time when Republicans were very careful about the government having access to personal data NOEM: Well, we can't trust the government anymore BASH: You are the government

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I pointed out something similar a few weeks ago, but beyond just mocking the media for their stupid complicity here, these articles should be a direct refutation of the admin's claims that "The American People Voted For This." Because they literally promised they weren't going to do this.

Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social

This Politico story from last October shows how easy it is to launder lies through the press. It claimed Trump would ban anyone tied to Project 2025 from a job in a second Trump administration. “Clearly people working on Project 2025 are blacklisted,” said an unidentified Trump insider. 1/4🧵

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Trump & Musk are making massive cuts to the National Institutes of Health. I know there is a lot going on right now, but this is one of worst things they have done so far, will affect cancer research and trials, the search for cures, innovation and competitiveness, our universities. Your lives.

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Elon Musk's X army takes the wheel: Elon Musk is enlisting the help of his X army as he seeks to hack away at the U.S. government, responding directly to users who recommend specific cuts and posting an X poll to justify reinstating a staffer who resigned over racist tweets. Why it matters: Now…

axios.comElon Musk's X army takes the wheelElon Musk is enlisting the help of his X army as he seeks to hack away at the U.S. government, responding directly to users who recommend specific cuts and posting an X poll to justify reinstating a staffer who resigned over racist tweets. Why it…

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SCOOP: A US Treasury threat intelligence analysis has designated DOGE staff an ‘insider threat'. An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

wrd.cmA US Treasury Threat Intelligence Analysis Designates DOGE Staff as ‘Insider Threat’An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

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Blumenthal: "It would be one thing if we had some disinterested, impartial business person -- highly successful -- looking at ways to make our govt more efficient and save money. That's not what's happening here. Elon Musk is doing a power grab & information heist, the biggest in American history"

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'Read the fine print': Officials call out 'misleading' Trump buyout offer to federal staff: Thursday marks the deadline for federal workers to accept an offer from President Donald Trump's administration to quit their jobs with extra pay or risk being fired. But some officials are warning about…

rawstory.com'Read the fine print': Officials call out 'misleading' Trump buyout offer to federal staffThursday marks the deadline for federal workers to accept an offer from President Donald Trump's administration to quit their jobs with extra pay or risk being fired. But some officials are warning about specific language buried in the text of the buyout…

Is anyone actually getting through to their Senators? I’ve been trying to call Tammy Baldwin’s office on and off all day - I only get voicemail, and it’s garbled.

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RONALD REAGAN (1988): We should be aware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag.

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JFK on why he founded USAID. “The economic collapse of those free but less-developed nations which now stand poised between sustained growth and economic chaos would be disastrous to our national security, harmful to our comparative prosperity and offensive to our conscience”.

Ok. So all those idiotic people who believed Trump when he claimed to know ‘nothing about’ Project 2025, well? Here we are - he’s enacting it right before our eyes. Project 2025 was inspired by Victor Orban’s path to power. And let’s face it Orban’s path to power came via Hitlers path to power.

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Sen. Kevin Cramer touts $16 billion in cuts to the transportation budget 12 hours after the deadliest plane crash in America in 24 years

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Bird Flu is raging in #Ohio unlike anywhere else #Kansas is facing an unprecedented outbreak of Tuberculosis Hospitalizations for RSV & Flu are on the rise And Trump³⁴ has decided he and only he can share details about such public health concerns with us

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According to a Nixon-era law & SCOTUS case, presidents can’t hold back congressionally allocated funds because they disagree with a project. But that’s what Donald Trump is trying to do & the real question is whether this SCOTUS will let him get away with it. joycevance.substack.com/p/impoundment

joycevance.substack.comImpoundmentWe all know that Congress has “the power of the purse,” but what if he disagrees with the programs they decide to fund?

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H5N1 Bird Flu Spreads Rapidly Through California Dairy Herds The USDA has confirmed that five more dairy herds in California are infected, bringing the total number to 732. As of now, 74% of the state's dairy herds have tested positive for the virus.

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In 2017, we only had 6 Democratic trifecta states. Today, we have 15 Democratic trifecta states and we control even more mayorships and city councils. There’s enormous opportunity to go on offense to protect our rights & offer a safe-haven to red state residents under threat: indivisible.org/guide

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These are the good guys supporting DEI. Reward them with your business. Costco Meijer Kroger Giant Grocery Ben & Jerry’s Ulta, Macy’s Old Navy Nordstrom’s TJ Maxx GoTo Foods ( Moe’s Southwest Grill, Mcalister’s, Auntie Anne’s, Jamba, Cinnabon…) Dollar Tree Walgreens Wegmans

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“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

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Wow. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde fearlessly calls out Trump and Vance to their faces. This is heroic. (posting in 3 parts due to Bluesky's 1 minute limit)