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A Tom

@atoms99.bsky.social
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Architect, runner, reader. Enjoying life in the Eastern Sierra. Pro equality, pro living in reality, pro science and scientific method, and pro (real) critical thinking. "These are the times that try men's souls." Thomas Paine, December, 1776

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Ms. Magazine @msmagazine.com · 23/09/2026
In 2024, nearly 2,400 women were killed by men, according to the Violence Policy Center. Of these, 86.9 percent knew their killer—nearly nine out of 10.
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A Restraining Order Is Not Enough When an Abuser Has a Gun
Nearly 2,400 women were killed by men in 2024, according to a recent Violence Policy Center report. Nearly nine out of 10 knew their killer, and firearms were used in 63.4 percent of these homicides. ...
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Bozzi @bozzione.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Why Democrats Are on Track to Lose the Midterms substack.com/@wswancutt/n...
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Why Democrats Are on Track to Lose the Midterms
That is not just a messaging problem. That is a power problem.
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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
It’s the original Helmet of Memory, with images of Ukrainian athletes killed by russia. Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych wanted to compete with it at the Winter Olympics. He was disqualified. I saw it today and want to show it to the world.
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Citizen X @mayoubhappy.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
This👇🏽 deserves to be posted 100 times but I’d be labeled spam.
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Kayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Trump had committed 10 lifetimes worth of misdeeds before he ever declared his candidacy. There was no excuse to vote for him ever.
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@KeepItBlueDems.bsky.social @keepitbluedems.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Bondi's contempt for the Rule of Law open.substack.com/pub/anntelna...
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Bondi's contempt for the Rule of Law
The attorney general testifies before the House Judiciary Committee
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Ben Mullin @benmullin.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
NEW: “CBS Evening News” producer Alicia Hastey sends a bombshell farewell note: Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”
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Wayne B. Smith @waynesbrain.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
www.guitarworld.com/music-indust... Music is life...but less so for those dying to make it.
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I've spent 20 years as a touring guitarist. The live industry is broken – now it’s breaking musicians too. Here’s what needs to change
When an average gigging life includes permanent damage to financial, physical and mental wellbeing, it’s time to re-evaluate what the business is doing to the people who stand on stage
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world
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Almost three years ago, my editor called me early one November morning. A wildfire had sparked near a town called Paradise, he said. Could I go? (1/13)
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I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated.
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Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) 

But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.
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Colin Miller @evidenceprof.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Horrible news: "Maryland law change is making it harder to get compensation for wrongful convictions": www.thebanner.com/community/cr...
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Maryland law change is making it harder to get compensation for wrongful convictions
A provision included in one of the budget bills in 2025 requires counties to now pay half of any compensation — even though state’s attorneys are independent elected officials.
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 24/01/2026
“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.” Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945
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brad @bradiscranky.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
dare to be stupid is a protest song now i keep coming back to this. when *weird al* is this mad...
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Hawks 101 @iahawks101.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Dave Matthews and Tim Ryenolds playing Neil Young’s Ohio last night and ends with some Rage Against the Machine.
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Avvie @avviegamergirl.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
I don't know how many bands and music artists are here but I am thinking that if you are a popular artist or have a good foothold, can we immortalize Renee's poetry in our music? Any and all proceeds from that song can go to her family.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Amanda Gorman wrote this poem for Renee Good and that’s it for me tonight.
Post from Amanda Gorman’s Instagram that says 

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Minneapolis, Minnesota
For Renee Nicole Good
Killed by ICE. on January 7, 2026
by Amanda Gorman
They say she is no more, That there her absence roars, Blood-blown like a rose.
Iced wheels flinched & froze.
Now, bare riot of candles, Dark fury of flowers, Pure howling of hymns.
If for us she arose,
Somewhere, in the pitched deep of our grief, Crouches our power,
The howl where we begin,
Straining upon the edge of the crooked crater Of the worst of what we've been.
Change is only possible, & all the greater, When the labour
& bitter anger of our neighbors
Is moved by the love
* better angels of our nature.
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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
ICE destroying a memorial for Renee Good set up by protesters after ICE murdered her in cold blood.
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Ink Radio @inkradio.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Quick heads-up before we drop the needle. These ain’t celebration tracks — they’re reckonings. Songs staring straight at power, ego, and acts that leave bodies. 🎵 Masters of War — Bob Dylan 🎵 Ohio — Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young 🎵 Zombie — The Cranberries 🎵 Sunday Bloody Sunday — U2
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Julia Rose Kraut @juliarosekraut.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
"Ohio" (1971) - written by Neil Young in reaction to the Kent State shootings of May 4, 1970. Performed by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. 🗃️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN_9...
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Ohio - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (Music And Song Courtesy:Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
YouTube video by peaceandfreedom2011
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
I can’t believe how stupid everything is
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Something that’s so striking in these emails is how…unimpressive Epstein is. He comes off as a pompous, sub-literate lech. Yes everyone is so mortifyingly solicitous of him! All fawning and flattery! Why?????
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Jon Cryer @mrjoncryer.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Hey @schumer.senate.gov You suck at this.
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Alberto Resists 🏳️‍🌈 🦋 @alberto-resists.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
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DrJaimeFriedman @drjaimefriedman.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
I wrote a blog post about this because when my husband was sick (cancer for 6 years before his passing) I often didn’t know what I needed or didn’t have the emotional energy to tell someone what they could do for me. I loved concrete offers.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 03/11/2025
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
democrats of all stripes should be rallying around kat abughazaleh asap. it doesnt matter where you stand ideologically. trying to jail dissenters is fundamentally unamerican and 100% fascist. democratic leaders at all levels should be making noise about it. you dont need a poll or focus group.
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A Tom @atoms99.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Very true!!
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
I wrote this piece about 7th anniversary of Jamal Khashoggi's murder. On the costs of speaking the truth in today's world. And how Jamal's memory still stalks Saudi Arabia--- and the Washington Post. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...
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Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post, and the Cost of Speaking Out
As Saudi Arabia hosts comedians and courts gamers, the silenced voice of Jamal Khashoggi still echoes.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Another way of looking at it
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Ruth @poofer.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Good morning resisters 🌅💙 It's Saturday morning and waking up in America is different these days. But no matter, all is not lost , because we still have the power to change the course we are on. Your votes mattered and still matter today , so get involved with your local politics. #Vote
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A Tom @atoms99.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Surreal rainbow tonight
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Blue Society @bluesociety.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
What’s more astonishing: 1) that the president clearly believes, and repeatedly suggests, that asylum seekers are people from mental asylums, or 2) that no journalist has ever challenged him on this and no mainstream media outlets have done any deep dives on this story?
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
I’m worried we may have hit peak stupid
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
When the government moves to punish those who say things that are offensive to the feelings of the government, that is a crystal clear violation of First Amendment protections. Anyone who tries to tell you otherwise is asking you to give up your own First Amendment protections.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
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Jeff Stein @jeffstein.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Statement from @postguild.bsky.social on the firing of Karen Attiah:
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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Attiah was the most important member of the Washington Post's Opinion team, and they just fired her because of her entirely appropriate and insightful comments.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Washington Post fires their last remaining Black opinion writer @karenattiah.bsky.social over the most benign comments in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk's murder... Meanwhile Fox still has Brian Kilmeade who casually said all homeless people should be killed. Its all unfair & unbalanced. Wake up.
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Evergreen Blue @evergreenblue.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
HOW MUCH DO I DESPISE RFK JR and this entire corrupt regime? They’re all murderers. apnews.com/article/vacc... approves updated COVID-19 shots with limits for some kids and adults
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FDA approves updated COVID-19 shots with limits for some kids and adults
The Food and Drug Administration has approved updated COVID-19 vaccines for the upcoming fall and winter season.
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Larry Tenney @larrytenney.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
The historic Ennis House, a Mayan-influenced Frank Lloyd Wright gem is perched in the hills of Los Feliz high above Los Angeles This week they joined the resistance: standing up to lawless & fascism in this moment of constitutional crisis
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/04/2025
Abrego Garcia's wife: "I will not stop fighting until I see my husband alive. Kilmar, if you can hear me, stay strong. God hasn't forgotten about you. Our children are asking when you will come home ... they miss their dad so much."
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
It's just uninformed blather.
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A Tom @atoms99.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Wordle 1,386 2/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Weird Wordle!!
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Saw a clip from Fox News that was like, oh we all came together during wartime and this (this being the tariff bullshit) is like that. Which is insane. The only “wartime” is that Trump and Musk set our government on fire. We aren’t sacrificing for any greater good. Just for deranged billionaires.
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