Jesse Bethea
Freelancer @colsunderground.bsky.social, Statehouse reporter for @nbc4i.com.
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- Reposted by Jesse BetheaBREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
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- Probably the most emotionally difficult yet rewarding part of working on this project was learning more about Judy Resnik, lost this day 40 years ago aboard Challenger with six others. www.ohiochannel.org/programs/ohi...
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- Reposted by Jesse BetheaBREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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- Reposted by Jesse Betheahobbits are some country ass mutherfuckers man. getting all hopped up on reefer setting off fireworks and shit. the central theory of this story is that the greatest and cruelest army in all history can be defeated by a passel of pothead hillbillies
- Reposted by Jesse Bethea"Live: Man shot by federal agent in south Minneapolis this morning, witnesses say." www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
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- I have a story in this anthology, edited by @robinknabel.bsky.social, now available for pre-order! a.co/d/bw6yqGV
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- Reposted by Jesse BetheaA friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.
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- Always love when @colsunderground.bsky.social basically admits “we don’t always know what Jesse’s talking about but we just let him spin his wheels and sometimes it works.”
- Earlier this month, President Trump issued an executive order limiting the ability of states to regulate AI. Ohio lawmakers seem poised to move forward on AI regulations anyway.
- "You Americans have killed a lot of sand. The sand was...very evil..."
- I keep expecting to be tired of Stranger Things but this season has been pretty great.
- "Government silence is a statement, not a VETO," Alfonsi wrote in the email. "If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a 'kill switch'' for any reporting they find inconvenient."
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- Governor DeWine has said multiple times he did not want any changes to Ohio’s voting laws. Today he signed a bill into law doing just that.
- So many things one could say about Rob Reiner, but I always appreciated that he was a living, breathing refutation of the notion that directors have to treat their actors like shit in order to get a good performance.
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- The city may very well close case against Sanctuary Night at the next status conference on Friday. This is the first in my investigative series on how City Attorney Zach Klein's office decided to take the drop-in center to court in the first place.
- I recently FOIA'd documents from the city on why and how City Attorney Zach Klein's office decided to sue Sanctuary Night as a public nuisance. Here's the first in what will be an ongoing series documenting what I found. @colsunderground.bsky.social columbusunderground.com?p=1512508
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- Fall in love with someone who texts you when the moon looks really cool and you should go outside and look.
- Earlier this year, the Ohio General Assembly ordered the EPA to remove Air Nuisance Rule from its clean air implementation plan. The change was easy to miss—lawmakers slipped the amendment removing the ANR into the state budget. www.nbc4i.com/news/politic...
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- I actually don’t know what to do now that I’ve finished The American Revolution.
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- Somewhat fitting that on James A. Garfield’s birthday tonight’s legislative session is dying a slow and arduous death.
- Watching The American Revolution and I just love that Burns got Paul Giamatti to come back as John Adams.
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- If you live on the Westside, you've heard about Andrew Chapman's disappearance. Now, legislation bearing his name is moving through the Statehouse with the goal of centralizing information about missing persons in Ohio. My story for @nbc4i.com: www.nbc4i.com/news/local-n...
- I’m at the Missing Persons Working Group meeting at DPS, story coming later on what legislators are doing to help reunite families with missing loved ones.
- Something to follow closely as we head into the 2026 midterms: voter fraud is exceedingly rare, but in the interest of fighting it, the Statehouse is considering a flurry of potential changes to election laws.
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- What a miracle that we get to exist at the same time as this insane sport.
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- Baseball is so good.
- Scenes like this make me wonder if the feds sending observers to polling places might inadvertently increase turnout in some precincts.
- "If we were to put all Ohioans in a hypothetical blender..." It is Halloween at the Ohio Redistricting Commission.
- Blessed Samhain, the veil is thin! If you need something spooky to read here's everything I've written for @colsunderground.bsky.social about all the bodies buried 'neath our fair city: columbusunderground.com/tag/come-get...
- Showtime.
- Former Senator @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social talks a little baseball after a campaign appearance in Columbus. He’s rooting for the Blue Jays.
- I don’t think I’d be able to tell if my house was haunted. My cats make weird noises and move my things around constantly. A poltergeist is simply not going to register.
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- More than a million Ohioans are about to lose their SNAP benefits and it’s not clear what the state can or will do to help. www.nbc4i.com/news/politic...
- My piece on yesterday’s #NoKings protest in downtown Columbus. @colsunderground.bsky.social
- Reposted by Jesse BetheaGood evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...
- Here’s what the #NoKings crowd looked like from the steps of the Ohio Statehouse. @colsunderground.bsky.social
- Protest signs are under construction here on the Westside. #nokings @colsunderground.bsky.social @ohio50501.bsky.social
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- When I borrow a pen from you, there is very little chance I will return it.
- Looking through stacks of letters kept my my great grandmother and here’s a couple enigmatic photographs of a fresh grave because my family comes out of a Faulkner novel.
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- Don’t know why we’re still debating the City Hall Columbus statue when I solved it more than a year ago. @colsunderground.bsky.social columbusunderground.com/opinion-some...
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