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Baxter Clare Trautman

@baxterclare.bsky.social
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(Retired?) author of the LA Franco mystery series, Spirit of the Valley, and The River Within. Tarot Fool, Wyrd Sister, maker of magical crystal grids, giver of Reiki, and in thrall to the mysteries of spirit and soul.

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Baxter Clare Trautman @baxterclare.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
www.forbes.com/sites/sarado...
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Trump’s History With Jeffrey Epstein: The Full Timeline
Trump acknowledged he knew about Epstein’s sex trafficking scheme in a 2006 phone call with then-Palm Beach police chief Michael Reiter.
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Baxter Clare Trautman @baxterclare.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Tell your senators to rein in ICE NOW act.indivisible.org/sign/ice-out...
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Tell your senators to rein in ICE NOW
On Wednesday, January 7, Renee Good was killed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Then, on January 24, Border Patrol killed Alex Pretti. These deaths were a direct...
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
He doesn’t have any basic answers for Rep. Thompson. This is an entirely fabricated threat.
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Baxter Clare Trautman @baxterclare.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
This sums it up pretty well - Trump shitting all over America
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Baxter Clare Trautman @baxterclare.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Trump did indeed drain the swamp of lazy alligators but then he refilled it and stocked it with man-eating piranhas.
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Republican officials and leaders need to stop having secret group chats that someone later exposes. This happened again, and the creepy crawlies under this particular rock were, in a word, insane. My write up and mini-rant in today’s piece, link in the replies.
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Baxter Clare Trautman @baxterclare.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS San Luis Obispo” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
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NO KINGS San Luis Obispo · No Kings
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Bo...
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Baxter Clare Trautman @baxterclare.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Jane Goodall for Nobel Peace prize Jane Goodall, Who Chronicled the Social Lives of Chimps, Dies at 91 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...
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Jane Goodall, Who Chronicled the Social Lives of Chimps, Dies at 91
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Baxter Clare Trautman @baxterclare.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
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A Quiet Revolution
I am not a revolutionary. I am far too introverted, too much inside my own head most of the time. I went to a march once, back in 2017, and found it both inspiring and ineffective. But I look at th…
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Bywater Books @bywaterbooks.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
🏳️‍🌈📚 It's a good day to remind folks that the literature you ❤️ is on the chopping block—so put on your Big Gay Undergarments & stand up for your First Amendment rights & in opposition to book bans & censorship. Friends tell friends . . . 👊 #SapphicBookSky #LGBTQBookSky #BookSky #AuthorSky
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Baxter Clare Trautman @baxterclare.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Thanks, Booktrib for the nice review! booktrib.com/2025/08/27/c...
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A Groundbreaking LGBTQ+ Crime Fiction Anthology | BookTrib.
There have been some excellent novels published in the last several years looking at historical crime fiction through a queer lens — books set in 1950s Los Angeles, 1950s Washington, D.C., 1828 Edinbu...
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Baxter Clare Trautman @baxterclare.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Thank you, tRump - we haven't stayed up for late night TV in decades, but yesterday we taped Kimmel's return show. We watched it tonight and it's our new favorite show! Probably would have missed it forever without Donnie getting his sticky fingers in the mix.
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Baxter Clare Trautman @baxterclare.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Go out there and be the force you want to see in the world today. Be Johnny or Janey Appleseed planting the seeds you want to see thrive.
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Baxter Clare Trautman @baxterclare.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
There Are Monsters in Your Midst, Too www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/o...
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Opinion | There Are Monsters in Your Midst, Too
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Baxter Clare Trautman @baxterclare.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Meta is an unethical company run by Peter Thiel’s techno-fascist billionaire protégé—Mark Zuckerberg—and is part of the Trump regime’s surveillance state. It’s time to leave Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp—and while you’re at it, drop Amazon, Google, and OpenAI as well. Learn how in this thread:
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Baxter Clare Trautman @baxterclare.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Let Your Garden Grow www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...
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Opinion | Let Your Garden Grow
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Baxter Clare Trautman @baxterclare.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Honored to be included in such august company.
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Baxter Clare Trautman @baxterclare.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14/08/2025
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com The president and his allies have reshaped the military for their own purposes, say Steven Simon and Jonathan Stevenson, former members of the National Security Council. “We no longer expect resistance from that institution,” they write.
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Opinion | How the Military Became Another Instrument of Trump’s Power
The president and his allies have reshaped the military for their own purposes.
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Baxter Clare Trautman @baxterclare.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
www.gofundme.com/f/assist-nyp...
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Thank you for donating to Assist NYPD Officer Didural Islam's Wife and Children...
<div>As a person that values the dedication and <span style="font-family:inherit;font-size:1rem;color:inherit;">service to the City of New York by those in the NYPD, I felt compelled to act. </span> <...
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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Another burrowing owlet video from yesterday. 🪶
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Baxter Clare Trautman @baxterclare.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
All the more reason to support independent news outlets - subscriptions can be dirt cheap - worth it to keep unbiased news sources Fox Shock open.substack.com/pub/steady/p...
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Fox Shock
A truth-challenged channel when we need it least
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Baxter Clare Trautman @baxterclare.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Why’s trump in a hard hat? There’s nothing in his head. www.nytimes.com/video/embedd...
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Video:
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 15/07/2025
As a vote to cut more than $500 million per year in federal funding from public media nears, stations like PBS and NPR are making their pitches to lawmakers, listeners and “Viewers Like You.”
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PBS and NPR’s Last-Ditch Fight to Save Funding
As a vote to cut more than $500 million per year in federal funding nears, stations are making their pitches to lawmakers, listeners and “Viewers Like You.”
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Baxter Clare Trautman @baxterclare.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
www.themarginalian.org/2025/07/07/s...
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Uncoding Creativity in the Age of AI: What Makes a Great Poem, What Makes a Great Storyteller, and What Makes Us Human
I once asked ChatGPT to write a poem about a total solar eclipse in the style of Walt Whitman. It returned a dozen couplets of cliches that touched nothing, changed nothing in me. The AI had the wh…
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Baxter Clare Trautman @baxterclare.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Let’s all start making 8647 with sea shells, and branches, and stones, and paint, and… You get the idea. I have been 86d from many a bar in my day and am still alive - it just means I am no longer allowed on the premises. Not dead!
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AltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · 08/07/2025
Two young Women, hero's, saved 20 children in the Texas floods. Silvana Garza and Maria Paula> Thank you thank you thank you. Why aren't they on any of the major news outlets ? And why aren't they being honored for their courage ?
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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Even if you assume the legitimacy of ICE operations, the idea that a fucking truck-mounted machine gun is necessary to carry them out is insane. This is about intimidation. This is them letting us know that the streets of the United States have been militarized.
ICE agents in full combat gear on the streets of Los Angeles. On top of a military vehicle is an agent with a full-ass machine gun on a tripod.
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Baxter Clare Trautman @baxterclare.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
How Bad Is This Bill? The Answer in 10 Charts. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Opinion | The Ugliness of the ‘Big, Beautiful’ Bill, in Charts
Steven Rattner reveals the ugly reality lurking within the “big, beautiful bill.”
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Baxter Clare Trautman @baxterclare.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Tax Cuts Now, Benefit Cuts Later: The Timeline in the Republican Megabill www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/u...
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Tax Cuts Now, Benefit Cuts Later: The Timeline in the Republican Megabill
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Baxter Clare Trautman @baxterclare.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Cruel Summer open.substack.com/pub/steady/p...
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Cruel Summer
The American president salivating over suffering
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Baxter Clare Trautman @baxterclare.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
@thelunaea.bsky.social look what I got today! 💗
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ProfKFH @profkfh.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting
Colorful quilt of a nighttime scene with  Harriet Tubman in an orange jacket and purple dress carrying a rifle. She is leading other figures who walk behind her.
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Baxter Clare Trautman @baxterclare.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Trump Administration Will End L.G.B.T.Q. Suicide Prevention Service www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/w...
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Trump Administration Will End L.G.B.T.Q. Suicide Prevention Service
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AltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · 04/01/2025
The censorship algorithm on Twitter reduced our audience by roughly 95%, and seriously, who does that to a wildlife biology & advocacy group ? So we moved 😇 over here to BlueSky If you could, please help us regain our following Follow Retweet and Repeat ;-) Together we can change the world.
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Baxter Clare Trautman @baxterclare.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
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“My Duty Is To Call It Out.”
A judge and a senator offer moral clarity in a time of monsters.
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Baxter Clare Trautman @baxterclare.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
gofund.me/68b327b9
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Donate to Help Laura, Vera, and Isaac After Afa's Passing, organized by Lindsey Olson
On June 14th, our sweet friend Laura lost her beloved husband Arthur Fol… Lindsey Olson needs your support for Help Laura, Vera, and Isaac After Afa's Passing
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Baxter Clare Trautman @baxterclare.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/what... The woman next to me at the rally and I were trying to figure out why the MAGAs have no empathy. This helped.
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The Decline of Empathy and the Appeal of Right-Wing Politics
Child psychology can teach us about the current GOP.
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Baxter Clare Trautman @baxterclare.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
bookshop.org I love this - I get the convenience of books mailed to me, my local bookstore makes money, and I don’t have to support Jeff Bozos. Win win win!
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Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.
An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Find something you can do. There is *always* something. No one can do everything, but everyone can do something.
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Baxter Clare Trautman @baxterclare.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Sleepy redneck Atascadero, CA got woke! ❤️
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Baxter Clare Trautman @baxterclare.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Live Updates: Minnesota Lawmaker Is Assassinated in Act of ‘Targeted Political Violence’ www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06... Is this the country your fathers and forefathers fought and died for? I think not. GET OUT IN THE STREETS TODAY - ENOUGH IS ENOUGH !!
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Live Updates: Minnesota Lawmaker Is Assassinated in Act of ‘Targeted Political Violence’
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Baxter Clare Trautman @baxterclare.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Don’t think the Dump eill stop with LA podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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A Message from Governor Newsom
Podcast Episode · This is Gavin Newsom · 06/11/2025 · 9m
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 11/06/2025
Faith leaders and a crowd are gathered at the Federal Building right now. Video taken by a 50501 organizer on the ground. @50501movement.bsky.social
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Baxter Clare Trautman @baxterclare.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Chevron crybaby wankers. Bet none of them had to live through the smog of the 70s and 80s. I’m okay paying for breathable air.
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Bywater Books @bywaterbooks.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Haters gonna hate, and let's be honest—who needs that kind of negativity? Check out Bywater Books, the Foreword INDIES 2024 Publisher of the Year, for your next LGBTQ book crush. www.bywaterbooks.com #BookSky #LGBTQBookSky #SapphicBookSky #PrideMonthSky
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
We know it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. It’s easy to feel worn down by our democracy being chipped away. YOU ARE NOT ALONE IN THIS FIGHT. Look at this map of NO KINGS protests. There are OVER 1,800 in the US, South America & Europe! This is a GLOBAL stand. Join us on JUNE 14th for NO KINGS ❌👑
NO KINGS
June 14, 2025
A Global Stand Against Fascism
Find an event: NOKINGS.ORG

A map of the world with pins for each No Kings protest location.
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Baxter Clare Trautman @baxterclare.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
www.reddit.com/r/vetsagains...
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June 14th
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 08/06/2025
Gina Ortiz Jones, a Filipino American who served as under secretary of the Air Force during the Biden administration, won a runoff election on Saturday to become the mayor of San Antonio, making her the first openly gay leader of the seventh-largest city in the country.
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Gina Ortiz Jones, a Progressive, Is Elected San Antonio’s Mayor
Ms. Jones, a former under secretary of the Air Force under the Biden administration, prevailed over Rolando Pablos, a conservative with ties with to Gov. Greg Abbott.
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