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Patrick Roan

@adlaiobie.bsky.social
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Former Librarian, but still have stories to tell.

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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Although you don't see these wins in the headlines, they are happening.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
BREAKING: trump to sign executive order renaming the Atlanta Hawks to the Iowa Hawkeyes!
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
one MAGA preacher says that God is going to lower the price of gas. another is building an AI Jesus. and the House GOP now says that border walls are a commie plot. all that and more in "this week in stupid," my every-Saturday round-up of the dumbest shit that happened. links here: bit.ly/4rkEO9b
ha ha, you stupid leftist. I’ll bet all this time you thought it was market forces that determined the price of gas. well, guess again, commie. it’s God who controls that shit. check and mate!
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 19/09/2026
Every now and then I see myself referred to as an "AI Denier" and I want to be clear I acknowledge "AI" exists, it's just I think it's a massive energy drain, created from theft, implemented poorly for inappropriate tasks by loathsome tech executives who get hard at the idea of the rest of us dying
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A bit of a ratio going on over at Xitter.

Benny Johnson

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We are Rome. 
Got what I voted for again.
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We are pleased to announce that after a very long wait (over 125 years!), we are preparing to start, over the next two-week period, the excavation work necessary for the Great Triumphal Arch and Military Observation Deck, at Memorial Circle on Columbia Island between the Lincoln
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Just wait until you learn what happened to Rome.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/08/2026
Mark Carney: "In recent days. the US proposed new terms that were uneconomic, unfair, and undermine the net benefits for Canada, and called into question the reliability of any deal. In short, they asked too much and they offered too little ... You're at war when you get attacked. We got attacked."
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The deadly Cyclospora outbreak, it turns out, is just another Trump corruption story. A big donor gets a favor. And causes a massive public health crisis. Let me explain.
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Patrick Roan @adlaiobie.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
"Move along, nothing to see here. Please disperse." Frank Drebin from Naked Gun movies standing in front of the old AF 1 plane with the catering truck off it's wing, presumably carrying the porcine chicken President.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Quite a paragraph in the Washington Post report about Trump-touted youth Patriot Games in Ohio
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AW Sylwester @aw-sylwester.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I love how virtually everything we hear about AI is something akin to "AI MODEL CREATES LIVING CHUPACABRA THAT DEVOURS RESEARCH TEAM IN TEST RUN BEFORE GAINING ACCESS TO U.S. NUCLEAR CODES" and everybody's like, "Well, it's the future, guess we better just roll with it and see if it helps."
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azureriver.bsky.social @azureriver.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
"Only the second Trump administration could find a way to get so bogged down in such a shallow pool." Priceless lines from Chris Geidner.
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
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Denzel Washington as Alonzo Says Boom!
ALT: Denzel Washington as Alonzo Says Boom!
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
There will be a Victims Fund in 2029. It will be for all the people who were charged under false pretenses, whose cases were dropped after DOJ admitted the evidence was all lies, and/or who were acquitted at trial. There will be justice. It’s coming.
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
This didn’t age well.
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
"We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men — not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular.” - Edward R Murrow
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
My kids have measles, I lost my job, and a parasite that the CDC no longer monitors has given me explosive diarrhea. But at least now there’s no plaques honoring Black scientists at the Smithsonian.
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Doug Sackman @dcsackman.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Thank you for posting the rebuttal. Check out a few of Director Hartig's "favorite things," from the National Museum, and see if you are not moved by the histories they carry (minutes @8-19). www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxKV...
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Chancellor’s Distinguished Lecture Series: Anthea M. Hartig
YouTube video by UC Riverside
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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Yes! Is there a # we can use to all voice support & teachers can share what they & students have learned from the Smithsonian? Also, House Democrats issued 16-page rebuttal with many clear & strong points. (Although too rosy at end about past presidents.) democrats-cha.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
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Virginia Scharff @vscharff.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Today’s essential reading. www.zocalopublicsquare.org/in-defense-o...
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In Defense of Public History | Essay
Four Scholars Refute the Attacks on the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Director Anthea Hartig
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God @thegodshow.com · 19/07/2026
Congrats to Spain on winning the World Cup! Trump cut off trade to Spain a few weeks ago. He also gave $20 billion to his fascist buddy Javier Millei who runs Argentina. Everything he touches turns to crap.
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EJ Today News @ejtodaynews.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
#Data Centers to Add Billions in Power Costs in 13 PJM States Ivan Penn reports for @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/b...
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Data Centers to Add Billions in Power Costs in 13 States (Gift Article)
A power auction conducted by a giant grid operator is expected to add $6.3 billion in additional charges to consumers and businesses because of electricity needs of data centers.
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Lewis @lewishardy.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Data centers are harming every environment they are placed in.
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Patrick Roan @adlaiobie.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Urge Maryland Senators to pass a Statewide Data Center Moratorium during the Special Session!. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/pass...
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Urge Maryland Senators to pass a Statewide Data Center Moratorium during the Special Session!
Marylanders need our state leaders to act now. Please contact your state senator and urge them to support a statewide data center moratorium during the Special Session in August. Communities across...
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Unless McConnell comes out and publicly rebukes this on camera, I'm going to assume it's true.
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Oversight Committee of One @usnvetfordemocracy.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I found Mitch McConnell
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
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I Went to the Great-American State Fair. It Was a Flop
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
It looks like Trump threatening to invade Iran, seize the strait and steal their oil hours before negotiations began failed to produce the desired result.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Graph of Strait of Hormuz crossings since June 2025. See that little spike all the way on the right? The one that's much lower than the leftward 2/3 of the graph, and immediately crashes back down? That's what the US government and quite a bit of US media tell us is fully open, with normal traffic.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Trump pardoned people who literally smeared shit on the capitol walls
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Knits With Cats @knitswithcats.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
A photo of algae with white letters in the upper left: Pantene Color of the year 2026 and a paint chip appearing box with a solid block the color of the algae labeled Pantone #658a2a American Flag Blue.
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
If Trump stuck two french fries in his nose and said he's going to tell Westeros to invade Narnia, Fox would devote 10 hours a day to the Narnian threat and the New York Times would run articles headlined "President Considers Expanding Conflict Zone; Critics Raise Questions"
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Happy Father's Day 🖤
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Alexis Goldstein @alexisgoldstein.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
If you want a Representative who isn’t afraid to try and fail to do an ollie 🛹… Vote ElectAlexis.org on 6/23 in #MD06
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
I want to support public broadcasting but NPR plays the "Nice Polite Republicans" bit way too much, they structure everything around it so that readers are led to believe problems caused or made worse by Republicans are acts of god and forces of nature.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Reuters: US JUDGE ORDERS TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TO REINSTALL SIGNS, EXHIBITS IT REMOVED FROM NATIONAL PARKS DISCUSSING TOPICS LIKE SLAVERY, CLIMATE CHANGE
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
this is my pandacam www.youtube.com/live/aAhm880...
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LIVE: See Donald Trump’s name come off the Kennedy Center as it happens
YouTube video by MS NOW
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 05/06/2026
I just offered an amendment to prevent anyone convicted of heinous crimes — from attacking law enforcement to molesting children — from getting money from Trump's taxpayer financed slush fund. Republicans blocked it. All to please the Dear Leader. It's sick.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Most damning part of this @nytimes.com interview with Scott Pelley is at the very end. Where he says that the real problem with Bari Weiss was not her political toadying. It was her ignorance, inexperience, and dumbfounding incompetence.. Check it out: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/m...
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Scott Pelley on the Bari Weiss Era and His Last Days at ‘60 Minutes’
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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Trump should show up here at the L.A. County ballot processing center because he’d learn within five minutes this is democracy in action, not some conspiracy.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Say that he lied, New York Times. Say that he lied.
Trump denies he pledged. It to start new wars
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 09/06/2026
“Women are just too emotional to be president.” 🙄
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
tell them there’s a sex criminal in the building
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Everyone is crooked, rigged, hoax…. NEVER HAS EVIDENCE?
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Prof. Nathan Shrader @nathanrshrader.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Mainers ought to take a close look at @davidcostello.bsky.social. He seems to have the values necessary to defeat Susan Collins without the rapidly accumulating baggage of Graham Platner. #MESen #MEPolitics www.costelloforsenate.com
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Home | Costello For Senate
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
NEWS: A @lawfaremedia.org report finds that *97* Jan. 6ers who received clemency for their role in the attack were arrested, charged, or convicted of subsequent crimes—a number much higher than previously reported. Incredible work by @katherinepomps.bsky.social www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
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The Jan. 6 Pardons: How Many Clemency Recipients Have Faced Other Charges?
The real count is much higher than the public knew.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man." A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
I’m proud of President Donald Trump and his loyal Republican lawmakers. After years of pretending, it seems they’ve finally grown confident enough to flatly admit they don’t give a rip about regular Americans. My column: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
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Trump doesn't care about Americans. He just admitted it. | Opinion
After years of pretending, it seems Trump and Republicans have grown confident enough to flatly admit they don't give a rip about regular Americans.
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