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beukema.bsky.social
In Minneapolis. Structural engineer, mostly lapsed improvisor, 3 day Jeopardy! champ. Happily married to a public school teacher. Two kids, a cat, and a dog.
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oh crazy, it is as if protests have consistently hurt trump since 2017

submitted 18 minutes ago • 14 comments

Every report from LA is like "small and mostly peaceful protests continued through the evening and into the next day" and yet to here the administration and some commentators describe it it's like...mass violence on a scale we've never seen before.

submitted 1 hour ago • 5 comments

The mainstream/centrist punditocracy seems to exist in an alternate universe around discussing protests where 1) BLM happened while Joe Biden was President and 2) it resulted in an electoral wipeout for Dems

submitted 1 hour ago • 33 comments

We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.

submitted 2 hours ago • 345 comments

Literally all I’m asking for is for elected Democrats to treat the unpopular evil stuff as being unpopular and evil, because when they don’t, that signals to everyone that it’s not all that evil and it becomes less unpopular

submitted 3 hours ago • 25 comments

All my condolences to Dr. Davis, who is suspending his campaign for Minneapolis mayor.

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

on January 6th, while attempting to overthrow an election, multiple rioters wore Nazi paraphernalia. they declared their intent to murder elected officials. the right stood steadfastly behind them and are now more powerful than ever. you can stand behind someone waving a Mexican flag.

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

Every day the authoritarianism grows worse - Christopher Rufo calling for the Trump administration to "dispatch unmarked vans to follow key agitators and snatch them from the streets while the media are not looking" christopherrufo.com/p/trump-shou...

submitted 5 hours ago • 123 comments

derek guy made a point of taking a very public stand on twitter that is directly causing the vice president to try to send the secret police to put him in a gulag and when i name search him currently here people are trying to milkshake duck him for saying that greencards are helpful

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments

The law the administration relies upon in the June 7 Trump memo objectively does not allow them to do what they're doing and you should be saying that with your whole chest in a headline instead of whatever this is.

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

Blocked Steve Inskeep. I have blocked every variation of Barstool Sports on every social media site and won't stop now, sorry Steve but I don't need that puff peice of a garbage person in my feed.

submitted 5 hours ago • 2 comments

"Using AI is not about communicating. It’s about avoiding communicating. [...] It’s about ceding our powers of expression and comprehension to digital apps that will cushion us from fully participating in our own lives. Generative AI use is degenerative to literacy."

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

Welp, that's another donation I can't really afford right now to @peggyflanagan.bsky.social .

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

the fact that people were told “today you are going to an elementary school to lie to teachers and kidnap kids” and didn’t immediately tell their bosses to go fuck themselves is all you need to know about why ICE should be dismantled

submitted 15 hours ago • 261 comments

All of these Dems should be primaried so hard.

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

I got a little transistor radio for Christmas one year, and was fiddling with it while I played with Legos. Found some station playing Blondie's "One Way Or Another" and was like "I know this song from the Muppet Show! I was hooked.

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

Yeah my job is pretty cool. My uniform is a tactical vest that’s two sizes too small and a gaiter I bought in a gas station. They send me to sneak into schools to kidnap little kids because people got mad about having to press 1 for English. The president had to warn everyone to stop spitting on me.

submitted 15 hours ago • 47 comments

Ughhh psa for my cyclist friends: carry acetone with ya if possible when you know you'll have to lock your bike

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

When he switches from “what I say goes” to “I don’t know, I only heard about it, it was up to someone else” That’s when he knows he has lost on an issue

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

These guys are all practicing for being vets under Trump’s VA.

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

My house is never going to get fucking painted.

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

Right now, Dems are hiding in their offices, scrolling their phones fearfully, wondering "how are voters going to feel about the National Guard being deployed?" The right, meanwhile, is vigorously *attempting to shape* how voters feel about it, filling every medium with coordinated propaganda.

submitted 21 hours ago • 741 comments

It's really incredible how much purchase "trans women are dangerous to children" has with even nominally leftist and progressive people.

submitted 21 hours ago • 9 comments

This is a pretty important point!

submitted 23 hours ago • 205 comments

Now is the perfect time to be pressing this point hard. The entire premise of the immigration "debate" is nonsense, and it's debasing and destroying the country for immigrants and citizens alike. Who in national politics has the courage and the skill to say so?

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

what people seem to believe is that there is a large number of criminal, layabout immigrants who can be easily found and deported. they support doing so snd are dismayed by the deportation of otherwise law abiding people. the problem is that the criminal group is imaginary!

submitted 1 day ago • 325 comments

Hey good lookin’

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I'm going to find whoever taught Dem electeds the phrase "this is a distraction" and beat the living shit out of him while he's distracted

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

i wonder if there is a word in german for the incredible sort of societal gaslighting you feel when you are a protester on the ground and have to watch the news report a completely inaccurate version of reality and watch most people around you regurgitate the lies

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

The trampling videos from LA won't make you feel good about the idea of maintaining a mounted patrol for crowd control.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

the trump movement has inculcated a genuinely rotten contempt for life in our collective political life and the real challenge will be extirpating it in favor of life-affirming solidarity youtu.be/Em6hb2Mg0XA?...

submitted 1 day ago • 37 comments

i want people to imagine what this would mean in your neighborhood. for the police to tell you that you can't go outside, to see your friend, to pick something up at the corner store, to have a cigarette, not for your safety but because someone vandalized an autonomous taxi two miles away

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

Politics hasn't been this simple in a long time: do you think it's good for one man to exercise unchecked, arbitrary power or not. Those are the two available ideologies right now

submitted 85 days ago • 143 comments

The smiles of two people who would absolutely sit back and let the national guard beat you and your family with batons because rioting just isn’t the answer!

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments