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James Kirk

@basswampus.bsky.social
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Musician | Bassist | Cat lover 🐈| Student of Life | Ornette Coleman | AACM | Sun Ra | Conducting | John Cage | Choral Performance | Lover of Democracy | Anti-Fascist | Pacifist | Blue Water Sailor ⛵️| Session Musician | Jazz | World Music |

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
ONE MONTH FROM TODAY:
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Sue Carr @scarr54.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I’ve been saying exactly this for over a year.
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God @thegodshow.com · 23/09/2026
Thou shalt ban AI data centers. Thou shalt primary anyone not on board with banning AI data centers.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/09/2026
Zelenskyy: "For first time in Russia’s history, we now hear that its oil industry is running on fumes. Our target is Russia’s ability to finance this war, to drag it out, to make it more brutal & destructive. Russia’s finances & Russia’s production are what must be stopped if Putin is to be stopped”
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: Canadian scientists at the University of Waterloo Dr. Brian Ingalls, Dr. Sara Sadr, and Dr. Marc Aucoin have engineered “tumor-eating” bacteria that can invade and consume cancerous tumors from within. A potential breakthrough in cancer treatment research.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the seventh richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
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God @thegodshow.com · 31/08/2026
The governor of Florida and his wife stole ten million dollars from a charity, but CNN would rather spend another week on blatant Islamophobic character assassination of Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, because they work for MAGA billionaires.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 31/08/2026
Spotted outside The Penthouse Nightclub in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. REUTERS/Chris Helgren.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Seems the Orange 🤡's renaming Lake Ontario is just as popular as his renaming The Gulf of Mexico, which is... NOT AT ALL. Instead of working on lowering prices, his focus on B.S. like the Ballroom, Helipad & putting his name on the Kennedy Center is the perfect Midterm strategy...for the DEMS!
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 31/08/2026
WOW! JD VANCE: “We’re about to celebrate the 25th year” of 9/11. Sir, the word is COMMEMORATE. Nobody’s celebrating 9/11.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Haha, a more fitting logo for Google.
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James Kirk @basswampus.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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That DISH Van on Your Block? It Might Be Installing a Police Surveillance Camera
Flock Safety license-plate cameras are installed by third-party crews, including DISH technicians — raising real questions about surveillance accountability in your neighborhood.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 29/08/2026
Whoa! Pentagon officials are warning of Navy payroll shortfalls after funds meant for service member pay were raided to help cover war costs. 📌 An official says they had to use “imaginative” workarounds to avoid the shortfall.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/08/2026
You guys ☠️😂
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/08/2026
Pritzker: So here’s the truth, plain and simple: Our state is under siege. Not by protesters, immigrants, the deep state, the press, Canada or Mexico or Greenland, Antifa or Jewish space lasers or pride parades. No. Our state's under siege by a petty, corrupt man in Washington.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
A mail-in ballot does not pose a health risk. It will not cause panic if exposed to the public. It's a piece of paper marked with a pen that is only dangerous to authoritarians wishing to rule rather than govern with the consent of their citizens. newsletters.democracydocket.com/cremated-rem...
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Cremated remains, fake explosives and your ballot
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/08/2026
Mark Carney: "This fall we will begin intense discussions with the European Union, the world's second-largest economy, to build a much stronger and deeper economic and security partnership"
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God @thegodshow.com · 24/08/2026
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 25/08/2026
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson accused the Supreme Court majority of "taking its eye off the ball" — lifting restrictions on Trump's mail-in voting executive order weeks before early voting begins, while the administration's real goal, she wrote, was to "foment chaos."
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Blistering dissent warns Supreme Court just handed Trump a 'chaos' plan
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson lost patience with her colleagues who moved on Monday to lift restrictions on President Donald Trump's executive order to restrict mail-in voting.The order directs the U.S. Postal Service to create new rules that would prevent the delivery of mail-in ballo...
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Meidas Sassy™ 🐬 @filosia.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
DO NOT LOOK AWAY! Take action! 📞✉️ 🪧 🫂
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Siding with the enemy over one of our longtime allies. AGAIN. He is unquestionably an existential threat to our Democracy. #Impeach-Convict-REMOVE
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God @thegodshow.com · 17/08/2026
God bless this person in particular! 😂
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Bless The US Service Member Who Scribbled “Operation Epstein Fury”
Dear Humans,
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I got to stay off ‘For You’ for a while on X because Elon has the MAGA Fake Outrage Meter algorithm dialed up to 10 with all the Trump worshipping snowflakes melting down while clutching pearls.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 12/08/2026
Iranian photojournalist faces 15 years in prison over images, reporting reut.rs/4i4z295
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Iranian photojournalist faces 15 years in prison over images, reporting
Acclaimed Iranian photojournalist Yalda Moaiery has spent much of her career documenting moments of dissent and the lives of women in Iran. The work has repeatedly brought her into conflict ​with the authorities, and on Iran's National Journalist Day on Saturday she learned she had been sentenced to 15 years in prison.
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lilychrystie.bsky.social @lilychrystie.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
THANK GOODNESS.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Funny how no one asked russia to halt strikes on Ukrainian civilians.
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The Fighting Liberal Texan🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 @fightingliberal.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
In Ohio, Haitians’ American dream shatters as Ice prepares to deport them US immigration has ramped up operations against Haitians, whose temporary protected status was removed by Trump ...
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In Ohio, Haitians’ American dream shatters as Ice prepares to deport them
US immigration has ramped up operations against Haitians, whose temporary protected status was removed by Trump
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strea3m.bsky.social @strea3m.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Surely ICE, with its record of abusing ppl & lying abt it will abide by "The manufacturer warns the device should not be used as punishment, against ppl merely exhibiting “verbal defiance or belligerence” Nov 3, hold the enablers of these goons to account. Ensure you're ready to do so: vote.org
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ICE to spend $20M on gloves designed to deliver painful electric shocks
The gloves must be applied directly to someone's skin to deliver the shock
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Pops @pops131.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
This change will only occur if you win control of the House and Senate in November. Please participate in the election. 🌊💙🌊💙🌊💙
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/08/2026
Peggy Flanagan: "We need to rip ICE apart and stop from them from terrorizing our communities"
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I'm not a lawyer, but I'm pretty sure raping children is an impeachable offense.
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Mack Butterfield @mack2114.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court decision that gutted the Voting Rights Act, a flurry of states have decided to pass their own versions of the legislation. A dozen states have now passed VRAs. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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As federal protections dwindle, more states pass their own voting rights acts
While 10 states already had their own protections, New Jersey and Delaware are two states to pass statewide voting rights acts following the Callais decision.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 08/08/2026
Talarico’s voting rights agenda shouldn’t be controversial. 📌 Expand access to the ballot box 📌 Protect voting rights 📌 End partisan gerrymandering Politicians drawing themselves safe districts and then making it harder for people to vote isn’t democracy.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
ICE has decided it’s now going to attack the global press, including the Associated Press (AP), because they are reporting the truth. This administration will stop at nothing to prevent the press from telling Americans what’s actually happening.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/07/2026
HOMAN: I wouldn't say that mistakes were made. We'll see. BASH: Well, we've seen with our own eyes that mistakes were made. Deadly mistakes were made. At least 5 of them.
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God @thegodshow.com · 24/07/2026
Mitch McConnell is dead. Apparently so is investigative journalism.
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James Kirk @basswampus.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Source: AP News share.google/nA8DYf2DL3Qs... Let's all wake up!
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Nearly 150,000 mail ballots rejected in California's primary despite efforts to count every vote
Nearly 150,000 voters have had their mail-in ballots rejected for California’s June primary election, a sharp spike from previous primaries.
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
This Administration is engaged in the largest criminal cover-up in American history.   Todd Blanche cannot serve as AG. Full stop.
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Gordon Wark 🤬💥😡🔥🕗🕕🕓🕖 @1stwark.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Just To Be Clear...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 15/07/2026
Quote of the day: “I am his lawyer.” ~ Todd Blanche, Attorney General nominee
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Fat Nixon is a Traitor 🇺🇦 🟦🟧🚩 @lbusdoor90.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I completely understand 1930-40s Germany now.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 15/07/2026
Todd Blanche is the worst Attorney General nominee in my lifetime. He’s under investigation by the Bar Association. This confirmation hearing isn’t bearing that out.
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Jo Romack @joromac.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
AND GW Bush's 2002 "Hague Protection Act" to give immunity to US servicemembers and elected officials from ICC Charges during the illegal wars in Iraq & Afghanistan. 🤦‍♀️ (also mostly written by the Heritage Foundation, just like the Patriot Act, Reagan's "Mandate for Leadership", and Project 2025) 😬
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MS Kohut @mskohut.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
USA has never legitimized the ICC because we’ve never wanted to be held accountable for war crimes which we have been committing without stop for decades upon decades
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Martha @marthaier.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I agree! We must keep believing that good will prevail in the end.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Oh, look! Two countries that commit war crimes don't like being held accountable. Who'd have guessed?
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Debra Derr @nyghtbyrd.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Truly awful that this loathsome individual was re elected to the presidency as a felon, and is now an adjudicated rapist who has finally paid his court ordered penalty for defaming the woman he raped. How much lower can we fall?
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🦋 Frankie 🦋 @frankiemillie10.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
In Greek mythology Narcissus is brought down by Green reflecting pool 🤔
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
A 3-year-old girl watched ICE murder her father yesterday. We all watched Sebastian Guerrero’s final moments through our phones. We can scroll away — but Sebastian’s 3-year-old daughter cannot.
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