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Barbara Banfield

@barbbanfieldrn.bsky.social
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RN, farmerette, astrologer, violin/fiddle player, gay-married, anti-fascist, pro-democracy. Whidbey Island WA

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fairweathersurfer.bsky.social @fairweathersurfer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Me too. Also me: Clerk: do you have a loyalty card? Me: no I'm disloyal. Clerk: what's your mobile number? Me: none of your business.
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Haibabi @haibabi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My teenager loves it when I say “yes I want to pay more because the amount I would save is not worth your employers access to my data” I will not download your app I will not give you my phone number nor email address. Oh lord I’ve become my grandfather.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The President is unable to stay awake during Oval Office press conferences
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Melber: You’re saying the VP has low T. You’ve called Mike Rogers a beta. El-Sayed: I'm just saying that they like to lead on strength. Strength is about being able to stand up to the problem. The problem is Donald Trump, and you don't see much standing up to Donald Trump
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
El-Sayed responds to JD Vance clip: Low T JD. It's always funny, man. He just brings the energy down every time you hear him talk.
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Keynote Speaker at the Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in March, folks.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
trump going on an emergency 17 state media tour to support republican candidates before the midterms and he is going with “nobody knows that dumb has a b on the end”
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DevinCow @devincow.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Legal folks, how is this "defying Democrats" and not "illegally misappropriating funds"?
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Adam Mallinger @bitterscriptreader.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Everyone demanding Senator Schmidtt apologize to Jack Smith are again setting the bar too low. They should be demanding his resignation from the Judiciary Committe. He's unfit to serve Pound the table. Make some noise. Turn this into a multi-day story
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“cowboys” here really reminds me of a brilliant post I saw on Twitter that I’ve never stopped thinking about, which is how the manosphere brand of toxic patriarchy isn’t about MEN, it’s about BOYS. everything is a 12-year-old’s fantasy. Pete is playing G.I. Joe on a trillion-dollar budget
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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Skipped the Nazis, huh.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
I literally said to Portia this morning, there's gonna be a shield law lawsuit soon. I didn't think it would be TODAY. Louisiana, Arkansas, and Alabama have filed a bill of complaint with the U.S. Supreme Court against New York, Massachusetts, and California. Hold on to your butts.
ag.state.la.us
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Cornell University has agreed to an independent investigation into how the school handled fraternity sexual assault allegations, governor says
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Cornell agrees to independent review of how it handled fraternity sexual assault allegations: Governor
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul called for the outside review, saying what happened raised "serious questions about Cornell campus culture."
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Jenni Said🖕🧊 @jennisaidthat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Not only did they not "double check", these "defenders of womens' sports" didn't even *consider* that the game he went to was a womens' game.
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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 30/09/2026
like i say every time this comes up, the term for what awaits survivors who go through the official system (cops, rape kit at the hospital, the hell of a trial where you as the victim get to be cross examined by yr rapist’s defense) is called “the second rape”
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 30/09/2026
Dude screwed up so badly, he is getting murdered on the other site.
Screenshot of an X post by Eric Schmitt (@Eric_Schmitt), timestamped 6:54 PM on Sep 29, 2026. The post reads: “Who knew Jack Smith was a Caitlin Clark fan?” Below it, a Readers proposed context note says: “Still gathering ratings” and “Eric Schmitt accused Jack Smith of perjury during his congressional testimony because Eric did not know the difference between the Hawks and Hawkeyes,” followed by a truncated NBC News link.
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Numbcat9 @numbcat9.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm reasonably deep into the socialism spectrum but hate Marx because for fuck's sake it isn't 19th century Germany and no one remembers what actual peasantry was like. Anyway. Holy heck man everyone Left I know follows sports way better than these jamokes. They're fake Americans. Effete snobs.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Making fundamental due process rights a nullity with the emergency docket (again)
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The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · 29/09/2026
In 2018, voters did something unprecedented, putting three initiatives on the ballot — to expand Medicaid, legalize medical marijuana and ban gerrymandering — and passed them all. This fall, voters will be asked if they want to make it significantly harder for some initiatives to pass.
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Battle lines drawn on constitutional amendment to make some ballot initiatives harder
Amendment B on the November ballot asks voters if they want to make it more difficult to pass a ballot initiative that includes a tax increase. Critics say it undermines the constitutional right, proponents say it protects taxpayers.
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 29/09/2026
Itta Bena Mayor Mary Tyes-Williams told the committee that the state's resources are better served elsewhere. "Taxpayer dollars should not be spent unnecessarily on this attempt to offer mid-decade redistricting.” buff.ly/NG8vyOj
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‘Leave Us Alone’: Speakers Push Back at Mississippi Redistricting Hearing in Cleveland
Lawmakers found lots of opposition and scattered support for potential redistricting plans at a hearing in Cleveland, Mississippi, on Sept. 1.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump’s war on the media is backfiring www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Trump’s war on the media is backfiring
Trump’s war on the First Amendment has sent public confidence in press freedom to a new low.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 29/09/2026
it’s tiresome but I think we have to keep asking these guys, so—who benefits from convincing people reading and writing doesn’t matter anymore
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’m genuinely worried that he weakened her civil case with this statement out of petty fury that he’s rightfully getting heat for not pressing charges against rapists. He clearly isn’t interested in seeing her succeed and he basically called her a liar—a huge gift to the civil defense
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
ok now i am a little curious how do autonomous cars deal with a guy unexpectedly redirecting traffic
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T.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Never sell anyone out. In fact, if you're asked about banning 12-year-olds from softball, just say, "You're asking me to sell out kids for my political career. I'm not going to do that. Let's stop demonizing people in tougher circumstances than you or I will ever experience. They have guts."
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We're witnessing the Rapist-to-President and/or Rapist-to-Supreme Court Justice pipeline with this Cornell scandal.
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
I will vote to send myself out to sea on a barge before I vote for Rahm Emmanuel. Please be serious.
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Penny @iamwoman65.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Chuck the Vampire Slayer 🧛🏻 @sazeracla.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Never forget – conservatives are destroying our future.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Recklessness Rewarded: I blew $1,800 in one night by chasing my losses with bigger bets, a classic sign of problem gambling. The next day, DraftKings invited me to audition for its VIP program."
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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 29/09/2026
In Texas, the State is removing climate change courses from the core curriculum. They have decided that climate change is just too dangerous to teach the students. This is indoctrination. I wrote an oped about it in the SA Express-News. Gift link: www.expressnews.com/opinion/comm...
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Texas can’t hide from climate change by stopping students from learning about it
Texas has removed climate change courses from core curriculum at public universities. Ignoring climate change will not serve the state.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i guess if anyone knows about despicable racist republican scare tactics
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 29/09/2026
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Join the No Kings coalition for this training to prepare for engaging in sustained mobilization and results protection work depending on opposition response to election results. *A core principle beh...
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🌹WeegieFromWA 🍀 @onefussyone.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
They look very well fed and clothed. after a long, arduous journey. Wonder how that happens.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene @mtgreenee
We have not seen a caravan headed to the U.S.
southern border in several years, why now?
Oh yeah, there is an election coming and the GOP
needs to scare you into voting because nothing else
is working.
@AnthonyAgue
Over 400 aliens predominantly from Honduras
entered Mexico on Thursday, ready to make their way
to the US southern border ... Here's footage of the
caravan. Someone is incentivizing this movement, this
is not organic.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I like that in becoming a nazi, you get glowing coverage as a brave iconoclast, and then when you stop being a nazi, you’re get glowing coverage as a brave dissident. Money coming and going. Only way you lose is having normal opinions like “racism bad” bsky.app/profile/trac...
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Martha Smith @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Men who yell, spit, or hog space on public transit. Men who leer at children and make women feel unsafe. Men who do that physical intimidation posturing when they don't get what they want. They all deserve to be told to knock it off, because we're trying to have a society.
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Martha Smith @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Men lash out when you say something about their antisocial behavior because what you are actually doing is putting some of the discomfort, pain, and fear they put out into the world back onto the source. Remember, you didn't start it. They did.
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Martha Smith @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Last summer, I got in a fight with a man for disruptive and increasingly homophobic heckling at a baseball game. He tried to physically intidate me. After, another man told me everyone agreed with me. Well why the fuck didn't you say something, you weak piece of shit? bsky.app/profile/fang...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 27/09/2026
Punxsutawney Jill is sticking her head out a little early this cycle.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Are Black Democrats not a thing or…
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 27/09/2026
If only there were a more concise word for “an overtly political campaign advertisement paid for by the government.” If only there were a roomful of writers and editors one could consult…
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What an odd moment in United States history.
A U.S. president is running an overtly political camaign advertisement, right before midterm elections, paid for by the U.S. government.
Trump appears to believe he is immune from any kind of legal limit.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 27/09/2026
Talking about my struggles with being overweight still makes me uncomfortable, since weight can carry moral judgment in ways that other health challenges don't. But that fear stops too many struggling from getting treatment that could extend their lives.
people.com
Gov. JB Pritzker Reveals He’s Lost 80 Lbs. with GLP-1 After Type 2 Diabetes Diagnosis (Exclusive)
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker tells PEOPLE that a GLP-1 has contributed to his 80-Lb. weight loss, but that he initially started taking it after being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Todd Blanche now says "one-sided news" is a national security threat worth barring the press over. That's not a legal standard. It's a viewpoint test. I didn’t go to law school…and didn’t need to, to know that the First Amendment exists to STOP government from judging which coverage is balanced.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Pope reminds me of a version of Catholicism I knew growing up as a young man attending anti-war and anti-death penalty protests, where I met elderly Catholics who shared their version of faith with me. I learned that Catholicism was about love and mercy for the weak, the condemned, and the poor.
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VoteHub @votehub.com · 28/09/2026
NEWS — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear criticizes fellow Democrats who say transgender athletes should be barred from women’s sports. “That is not the party that we are. We start as a party of compassion and empathy.”
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
She's much likelier to win Senate, but also not running for president pulls the field to the left more than running would. Running means she has the leftmost lane locked up and everyone else is competing over the rest. Not running means those votes are up for grabs, they're worth trying to get.
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