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Joe Sheil

@basscleffer.bsky.social
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Bassist, singer, kind. Plays well w others. A loyal, strong friend. So Bronx Irish Cath roots. Migrated to Canada ‘96, Boston ‘02. 2 kids in NYC. Retired to No Shore ‘24 to play music & hang out w my gal. Loving it all. Sending peace, love & understanding.

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 02/04/2026
Nothing says “almost done” like committing to do more of the same.
NYT headline.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Sen. Marsha Blackburn slips out of DC before the vote to end the DHS shutdown.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
This is an ICE agent at TSA. Post their unmasked faces everywhere.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/03/2026
Jayapal to Noem: "None of these four US citizens were charged with a crime, none had their citizenship questioned, and all were lawfully exercising their First Amendment rights. Do you have anything you want to say to them?"
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
The President, two of his current Cabinet secretaries, his former strategist, his biggest donor, and his pending Fed Chair nominee are all in the files of a pedophile who ran a sex trafficking ring, while the attorney general and a former Cabinet secretary let him get away with it. Seems kinda bad?
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At least half a dozen top Trump administration officials appear in the Jeffrey Epstein files
The degree to which each individual was connected to Epstein varies significantly, from a single email to years of communications.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Donald Trump has produced the lowest GDP growth of any President in the last 80 years.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 05/02/2026
I'm so glad Rep Casten is in Congress.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Let’s be clear: when the Trump administration kills or stalls energy generation projects, that’s the White House choosing to make your electricity more expensive. Americans deserve better.
nytimes.com
A Trump ‘Blockade’ Is Stalling Hundreds of Wind and Solar Projects Nationwide
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Nine months out from the midterm elections, we face a coordinated effort by Trump, his administration, congressional Republicans and MAGA leaders to normalize a federal takeover of elections, enforced by ICE and federal agents. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/one-...
democracydocket.com
One month into 2026 and Republicans are losing their minds
If Democrats win the majority, Trump’s authoritarian plan will be foiled — and he knows that.
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
This much is clear: Stephen Miller is in charge. They've shipped off Bovino, they're hanging Noem out to dry, Trump is using slightly conciliatory language...and Miller is still running a blitzkrieg in Minnesota. He, not Trump, is in charge. And he is the one Democrats should fight to remove.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Please SHARE if you agree!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/10/2025
Q: Has Speaker Johnson reached out to you since the January 6er made a threat on your life? HAKEEM JEFFRIES: No
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/10/2025
Chris Murphy: "There's a lot of history that has taken place in the East Wing & it was just destroyed without any conversation in the public, without any consent of Congress. It's absolutely illegal. That visual is powerful b/c you're watching destruction of the rule of law as those walls come down"
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Good morning. It's been 30 days since Adelita Grijalva was elected by the people of Arizona's seventh congressional district to represent them in Congress. Mike Johnson still refuses to swear her in.
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Joe Sheil @basscleffer.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Its Sunday morning politics TV. Who and what networks will call out Repugs and POTUS for his AI posts of himself shitting on America??
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Like everyone, I hope this is a lasting peace deal.

That said, it's pretty disgusting to watch some political journalists trip over each other in competition to muse about a Nobel Peace Prize for a president who is currently deploying troops against American cities, violently weaponizing an apparently unaccountable police force against American citizens, suppressing freedom of the press, shutting down free speech for corporations and campuses to leverage bribery deals, openly threatening and cajoling federal judges, cutting many billions in foreign aid that will lead to millions of deaths globally, engaging in the extrajudicial murder of foreign citizens, placating dictatorial regimes with widely documented human rights abuses, and undermining global stability with third-rate mafia tactics.

It's tragic to witness how quickly informed journalists are folding to the fascism materializing in front of us because they don't want to be targeted next.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
This is out of hand. These agents are there to cause trouble and violence, not to keep people safe. These are the scenes that play out in war torn, destitute countries - not America.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
This is Adelita Grijalva. She was elected to Congress two weeks ago, officially making her the final vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files. She has still not been sworn in because Mike Johnson refuses to do so.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 07/10/2025
AG Bondi, here’s that correction you requested.
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Joe Sheil @basscleffer.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
hahahahahahahahaha
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 03/10/2025
Federal agents reporting to Secretary Noem have spent weeks snatching up families, scaring law-abiding residents, violating due process rights, and even detaining U.S. citizens. They fail to focus on violent criminals and instead create panic in our communities.
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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Can't stop. Won't stop. RELEASE ALL THE EPSTEIN FILES.
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Joe Sheil @basscleffer.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
And when a broke, unemployed American is treated in a US ED, who pays? Hello? Health care providers must be agnostic to financial wherewithal to fulfill their mission
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Dems, go all in on the Epstein Files. Big deal for MAGA and keep the pressure on.
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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 11/07/2025
ICE is using tear gas, helicopters, and military equipment to violently assault and detain FARM WORKERS. God have mercy on our society.
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Joe Sheil @basscleffer.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Absolutely!!!
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Joe Sheil @basscleffer.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
No fucking way am I listening to this.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
“If ICE was a military, it would have the 16th biggest budget in the world. You wanna talk about America First? Think about all the things we could do in this country, like giving a [hurricane] warning system to these folks in rural Texas, instead of plucking brown people out of their homes.”
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
The IDF has killed more than a dozen people seeking food aid every day for two months. www.timesofisrael.com/un-says-near...
timesofisrael.com
UN says nearly 800 Palestinian aid-seekers killed since May, mostly near GHF sites
Army says it issued instructions to troops 'following lessons learned' from deaths reported near US-, Israeli-backed aid agency sites; 18 people said killed across Strip on Friday
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/07/2025
"Cruz inserted language into the reconciliation bill that eliminates a $150m fund to 'accelerate advances & improvements in research, observation systems, modeling, forecasting, and dissemination of info to the public' around weather forecasting."
theguardian.com
Ted Cruz ensured Trump spending bill slashed weather forecasting funding
Senator on vacation abroad while Texas was hit by deadly floods, a disaster worsened by forecasting cuts, critics say
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
That there’s a police state.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
And this comes right as they're about to ramp up their campaign of masked kidnappings and military photo ops. Even the most poll-driven Democrat has to take this as a sign that it's well past time to dig in their heels on this shit.
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Joe Sheil @basscleffer.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Fetterman really does not know when to just keep his mouth shut.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
DHS Cancels Extreme Weather Comms Grant While Bodies Still Being Recovered in Texas talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/dhs-c...
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DHS Cancels Extreme Weather Comms Grant While Bodies Still Being Recovered in Texas
As more than a hundred fatalities have been confirmed in Texas flash...
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Brian Allen @allenanalysis.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
🚨BREAKING: Prince Andrew is now free to travel internationally after the FBI quietly shut down its investigation into his ties to Jeffrey Epstein. No charges. No accountability. Just a royal hall pass.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
ALERT: Former Justice Dept official to CBS News - "The rules don't exist anymore" ====>
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Joe Sheil @basscleffer.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
The very finest in government efficiency and bureaucracy… it’s a wonder they can find time for makeup. But hey, television…
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Maybell Romero @maybell.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Birthright citizenship is the law, not a custom. What the fuck, NYT?
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
"The Weather Service employee whose job it was to make sure those warnings got traction—Paul Yura, the long-serving meteorologist in charge of “warning coordination”—had recently taken an unplanned early retirement amid cuts pushed by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency."
nytimes.com
Opinion | As the Texas Floodwaters Rose, One Indispensable Voice Was Silent
The National Weather Service put out good forecasts. But a vital employee was missing.
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CleanTechnica @cleantechnica.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Wind Farms Outlast Expectations: Longevity Matches Nuclear cleantechnica.com/2025/07/07/w...
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Wind Farms Outlast Expectations: Longevity Matches Nuclear - CleanTechnica
Denmark’s wind farms operate for 50 years, matching nuclear power’s lifespan claims. Learn why longevity perceptions of wind energy need rethinking.
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Corinne Smith @corinne-smith.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
BREAKING - 35 ICE detainees held in the Alaska DOC custody in the Anchorage Correctional Complex in June were informed by ICE they were exposed to tuberculosis, according to the ACLU of Alaska. At least one man has been hospitalized in Tacoma, WA. www.acluak.org/en/press-rel...
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Rep. Janelle Bynum @bynum.house.gov · 09/07/2025
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Joe Sheil @basscleffer.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
The thing about telling lies is a) they just get bigger, and, b) when you tell more and more of them of them c) they become really, really unmanageable. Especially when others are lying about the same stuff 🤷🏻‍♂️…
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Daughter of street vendor asking why police aren't helping!! Broken heart 💔 🖕🏽 LAPD
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
this would be active duty US troops deployed indefinitely on US streets? www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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