Betty Cracker of Florida

@bettycrackerfl.bsky.social

444

Followers

471

Following

161

Posts

Postcards from the sedge

Posts Replies Media

Reposted by

Betty Cracker of Florida

Four years ago today

Friday March 13, 2020 Trump declares a national emergency, freeing up $50 billion for relief efforts. Pressed about the slow rate of testing (at least partly due to a desire to keep case numbers low) and his axing of the pandemic prevention office, Trump states, "I don't take responsibility at all."

Reposted by

Betty Cracker of Florida

Reply to

Jonathan M. Katz

What does Trump think of the Gaza War? He thinks it’s great that Muslims are getting slaughtered and that his opponent is taking the political hit for it. And if he were president he’d push for more slaughter. There, you can give me Maggie Haberman’s paycheck for the month.

Reposted by

Betty Cracker of Florida

i don’t know how to get it across to people, but, like, what trump’s proposing for a second term is genuinely much more radical than anything any credible presidential candidate has ever proposed in any of our lives. that’s not hyperbole, it’s a statement of fact.

This would have been enough on its own not too long ago to kill someone’s campaign. Fuck all of this.

Endless preventable horrors await us now that DeSantis and his quack surgeon general have politicized public health. It won’t go away with them either. We are screwed for the foreseeable future on any public health challenge that requires collective action. So senseless!

"And measles can cause immune amnesia, in which the immune system loses its ability to fight other viruses that people were previously immune to. It is extremely contagious: among unvaccinated people, nine out of 10 who are exposed will get infected." Florida's surgeon general is endangering kids:

Florida Surgeon General Risks Making a Dangerous Measles Outbreak Much Worsewww.scientificamerican.com By ignoring common sense and medical advice, Florida’s health officials risk accelerating a burgeoning measles outbreak

Reposted by

Betty Cracker of Florida

This story illustrates why the @nytimes.com and @washingtonpost.com need more science-trained editors and writers. Florida is on track to become the nation's center of pestilence. It's a concern to all of us.

"People have forgotten how dangerous measles is because vaccines have largely wiped it out. Take a moment to remember: the virus can make kids very sick. For people without immunity, one in five who get infected will be hospitalized...." www.scientificamerican.com/article/flor...

Fascist pricks of a feather flock together.

Hungary’s Orban says Trump’s comeback as president ‘only serious chance’ for end of Ukraine war

Hungary’s Orban says Trump’s comeback as president ‘only serious chance’ for end of Ukraine warapnews.com Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has confirmed that he will visit Donald Trump in Florida next week.

Reposted by

Betty Cracker of Florida

Clotilde Olyff’s collected stone alphabet. kottke.org/19/06/stone-...

Reposted by

Betty Cracker of Florida

This is a far bigger journalistic scandal than people accusing an anecdote of being fake on Twitter. Did a Senator propose invoking the Insurrection Act against peaceful protestors and the Times softened his language?

Chait cares so much about the truth he's going to litigate people dunking on the chicken-sandwich anecdote and ignore the parts where Rubenstein A) lied about Ed Wong and B) effectively, if accidentally, demolished Chait's own defense of the Cotton op-ed

Reposted by

Betty Cracker of Florida

I wrote about the Vice implosion and why I don't think the U.S. media industry is capable of being honest with itself as to why this keeps happening:

The Vice Media Collapse Was Entirely The Fault Of Incompetent, Fail-Upward Brunchlordswww.techdirt.com As we survey the rubble that once was the U.S. journalism industry, a common refrain involves lamenting that “online journalism just isn’t profitable.” But as the recent collapse …

Reposted by

Betty Cracker of Florida

Have a list of classic books on your TBR that you can’t get around to? Me too! Books of All Time is my new podcast taking on classic literature in chronological order. Every month, I’ll spend one episode summarizing a work of literature and then diving into its backstory in the second.

Who? 🤔 https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/27/longshot-gop-presidential-candidate-ryan-binkley-ends-campaign-00143543

Ryan Binkley drops out of GOP primary, endorses Trumpwww.politico.com The longshot presidential candidate failed to gain any traction in early nominating states.

Reposted by

Betty Cracker of Florida

Odds are that State Senator Tom Woods (R-OK) is a kiddie diddler. People who are as hysterically hateful as that are always the real degenerates.

A state Senator in Oklahoma responded to a question about the death of Nex Benedict with hate speech targeting the queer community. "We are going to fight it to keep that filth out of the state of Oklahoma," State Senator Tom Woods said. This is how Republicans respond when a child dies?

Senator calls LGBTQ+ people 'filth,' says most don't want them herewww.tahlequahdailypress.com A state senator said during a public forum in Tahlequah that LGBTQ+ people are "filth," and that he and his constituents don't want them in "our state."

Interesting, but **the whole fucking point** of this country is that their personal beliefs should have no bearing on the law and my choices. 🤔 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/24/us/christian-tradition-ivf.html?referringSource=articleShare

What Christian Traditions Say About I.V.F. Treatmentswww.nytimes.com While Catholic teaching expressly forbids in vitro fertilization, Protestants tend to be more open.

Reposted by

Betty Cracker of Florida

Reposted by

Betty Cracker of Florida

Reply to

Jessica Valenti

Any ban is an extreme ban because pregnancy is too complicated to legislate. The sooner Dems start repeating that truth (and pushing for it in their policies) the better.

Reposted by

Betty Cracker of Florida

Republicanism is when you're allowed to abuse your own children for sick kicks. Fascism is when you're allowed to abuse other people's children.

A teenage girl in Utah faced threats and is under police protection after a state school board member appeared to raise questions about her gender on social media, eliciting a condemnation from the state’s top government officials. www.mercurynews.com/2024/02/09/t...

Teen under police protection after school board member falsely implies this girl is transgender, prompting threatswww.mercurynews.com In a Facebook post, Natalie Cline, a member of the Utah State Board of Education, posted a photo of the high school basketball player and falsely implied the student is transgender, writing: “Girls…

Reposted by

Betty Cracker of Florida

Spot the gator.

Three blooms on my orchid so far!

Reposted by

Betty Cracker of Florida

Reply to

Betty Cracker of Florida

This abandoned building on on of Boston’s Harbor Islands

What’s the best picture you ever took that’s in your phone’s camera roll? Here’s mine. I knew I was taking a pic of a bee approaching a sunflower, but getting its shadow perfectly centered on a petal — with the little antennas and all! — was a happy accident!

Reposted by

Betty Cracker of Florida

Joe Biden plays dumb to the cops, he's just like us

Reposted by

Betty Cracker of Florida

Still one of my favorites! :) Original painting is the Saint Columba Altarpiece (or Adoration of the Kings) by Rogier van der Weyden

I sure hope the law that forbids Democratic administrations from appointing Democrats as special counselors/special prosecutors and FBI directors is overturned someday. 🙄

Reposted by

Betty Cracker of Florida

One of the side effects of being consistently scornful of universities and science and education and stuff is that eventually your party may not be able to count votes reliably.

Reposted by

Betty Cracker of Florida

Clever girls

god forbid women do anything

Reposted by

Betty Cracker of Florida

Reply to

Full Mental Jackass

I do love our bastard tongue.

Reposted by

Betty Cracker of Florida

These three are forever posing like they're about to drop a new album.

Reposted by

Betty Cracker of Florida