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@bettysears.bsky.social
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In need of a Box of Rain and a Left-Handed Monkey Wrench, not necessarily in that order. Music, Democracy, Colorectal Cancer Progress and Counseling, Climate, Tech Critique, Guitar, Surf, Bees, Grand Canyon, Boating, Urban Homesteading, YIMBY and more

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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 3h
They're going to have to gut the DOJ to get rid of the cancer that's infected it. politicalwire.com/2026/10/08/j...
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Justice Department Seeks Cassidy Hutchinson Indictment
The Justice Department is seeking a federal criminal indictment of former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson on charges of lying to Congress about President Donald Trump's actions during the Jan. 6…
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 19h
the Vice President of the United States has gone on record citing this man as one of his biggest intellectual influences if you didn't know this, it's probably because for some reason literally no mainstream political media outlets think it's worth mentioning
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Neal @nskorpen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Seen in south Minneapolis
Photo of a public mailbox with the words “this machine kills fascists” printed on the front
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Patty Cole @pattycole.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“Voters can also request a postmark from the retail counter at their local post office to ensure they meet the deadline.”
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Important: the USPS rule that SCOTUS blocked tonight was Trump’s big plan to control and restrict mail voting. But a separate policy remains in place: USPS is no longer postmarking mail as soon it gets it, which is hugely important for deadlines. So people must mail back with plenty of time.
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In an Intense Election Year, New Post Office Rules Could Trip Up Voter Registration - Bolts
A change in how mail is postmarked could lead some voters to miss key deadlines, including voter registration. Advocates worry the people most affected will be those already facing voting barriers.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The Onion has created a machine that will kill everyone on Earth that is coincidentally running out of money and the only way to slow it down is if my staff and I take a six-week vacation to Cabo San Lucas.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
(NBC News) — It is now the least rewarding time to be a worker in the U.S. economy since the government started keeping track. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
If you haven’t read the dedication of Gloria Steinem’s autobiography My Life on the Road, it is really worth taking a second today.
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Tony Colletti @tonyc007.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Just for the record, Dolly Parton snubbed Trump twice when he tried to give her the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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Jeff @bettysears.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
If you read one thing today…
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Coupled with this study from a few months ago, a lot of data are accumulating showing that Twitter is an effective tool for pushing people to the right, and it doesn’t take very long to achieve. Musk doesn’t have to hack voting machines. He just needs to let his algorithm rip.
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Photojournalist Dickey Chapelle was the 1st American female war correspondent to die on the front lines, 1965. Marines called her "tough as nails." She marched 100s of miles thru jungle terrain, ate C-rations & slept in the mud alongside troops on 4 continents. #WorldPhotographyDay #Photography 🧵
A striking black-and-white historical photograph of trailblazing war correspondent Dickey Chapelle (1919–1965), the first American female reporter killed in action. She is crouched in a dynamic low-angle pose on a sandy beach, peering intently into the distance with a vigilant, professional expression. Defying early-mid 20th-century gender roles, she wears her signature field uniform: military fatigues, a utility cap, small pearl earrings, and prominent, thick-rimmed harlequin (cat-eye) glasses. Her hands securely grip a vintage rangefinder camera equipped with an specialized wide-angle lens attachment. Looming prominently in the out-of-focus background is a massive military combat tank with numbers stenciled on its turret, contextualizing the high-stakes deployment. The sharp, triangular composition tightly focuses on Chapelle's intense determination, framing her directly against the bleak backdrop of an active military exercise. The overall mood is gritty, courageous, and historic, encapsulating the unwavering focus of a pioneering photojournalist documenting the front lines of global conflict.
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
No news coverage on MLB.com, naturally. Their Padres beat writer hasn't tweeted about it either.
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Patrick Monaghan @pkmonaghan.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Emily Catalano on touring a free Europe youtube.com/shorts/LRUtR...
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My European tour was good.
YouTube video by Emily Catalano
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
RIP Don Nelson, he retired to Hawai’i to play poker and smoke weed and look like this, he’s literally the goal
Don Nelson looking fucking awesome
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
This is the way to deal with these unserious grifters.
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Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez @ramirez.house.gov · 05/08/2026
Big corporations and their lackeys in the Trump administration scapegoat immigrants to divert attention from their theft and abuse. While they lie to us about the problem they are the ones stealing from working people. Plain and simple, they want us divided and distracted while they rob us.
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Corporations, Not Immigrants, Are Responsible for Vast Majority of Healthcare Fraud, OIG Report Shows
Trump officials are focused on immigrants, but the Department of Health and Human Services report on healthcare fraud doesn’t even mention them.
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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 03/08/2026
U.S. ⁠Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Friday exposed a "to-do" list indicating he was contemplating U.S. purchases of Japanese yen, a photograph taken during a meeting held at Camp David shows. 👉 ebx.sh/A2A8SZ
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I love Talarico and hope he wins. But he’s already raised $70M On the flipside, control of critical state legislatures will come down to seats where candidates raise 0.1% of that. I’ve researched the highest leverage swing district candidates you should donate to secure.actblue.com/donate/donat...
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Donate to the candidates on the front lines of the fight against MAGA gerrymandering
These are anti-MAGA state candidates in *extremely* close races
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Colom is good people, a smart and decent man running against a complete MAGA buffoon. First black DA ever in his district. It’s a longshot’s longshot, but if any Democrat could win a Senate race in Mississippi, it’s him.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
A journalist willing to take on these risks is somebody you should be supporting, especially if you've ever complained about mainstream media - www.thehandbasket.co/subscribe
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The Handbasket
100% independent journalism by Marisa Kabas
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Exclusive from me — Daniel Moraff, one of the political operatives behind Graham Platner's rise and fall, has been accused of sexual assault. Full story here:
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Exclusive: Political operative behind Graham Platner's rise accused of sexual assault
A spokesperson for Daniel Moraff said: “Any suggestion that he committed a criminal offence is false and without foundation."
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 24/07/2026
his point is that the hypothetical superabundance of the AI and robot-powered future will make all goods and services cheap and abundant, which in turn will make people not care about money... yet he himself already lives in superabundance and is very much still in capital accumulation mode
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🦋 Still Standing 🦋 @imstillstanding.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Well…isn’t this a little gem. @jenpsaki.bsky.social did you know about this?
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
$100 to any reporter who asks him, "so you're saying Capitol Police should've shot dead everyone who breached the Capitol on January 6?"
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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
the pain for Spain is mainly on the wane
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I frequently think about how Argentina was one of the richest countries on earth 100 years ago but fumbled it away thanks to military coups, turbopopulism, protectionist policy, and a politically captured central bank
The 10 countries with the highest
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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Also, those who want to police how we talk about the dead rarely have the dead uppermost in mind. What they have in mind is policing. They seek control of their own obituaries, yes. But more fundamentally they seek control over what is SAYABLE. Why give it to them?
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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 10/07/2026
To the relief of Democrats in Maine (and elsewhere), Platner formally exited this afternoon, instead of waiting until Monday.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The ICE murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo deserves the same fury as Renee Good and Alex Pretti
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Jeff @bettysears.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
“the grift”
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Jeff @bettysears.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I guess he listens to me.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
there are men on the left who will see right wing men as their allies above left wing women because in their eyes the former confirms masculinity and the latter conveys weakness
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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
If you want a live link to the feedback form being circulated by the Platner campaign to volunteers, it's here: www.surveymonkey.com/r/9XL7GGG?my... Again, this is only for Platner campaign volunteers, and I cannot sanction bombarding it with comments from non-volunteers. Nor can I sanction that.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/07/2026
there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 07/07/2026
BREAKING: in June 2026, *every single one* of the 1,062 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 7,727 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.
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Jeff @bettysears.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
“radical selfishness”
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Abusers sabotage their own agenda and betray those who share it while placing the burden on victims to come forward and be punished, blamed, shamed, disbelieved, or not come forward and suffer in silence and let an abuser hold power. Abusers demonstrate radical selfishness.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I hope that the survivor has a soft place to land with lots of support.
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
hey here's an idea maybe hold men responsible for acts of sexual violence as a matter of course
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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
My constant reminder: next Monday, July 13, is the statutory deadline for him to drop out so that he can be replaced on the ballot.
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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Neymar taking this penalty is some Make-a-Wish stuff lol
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Jeff @bettysears.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
OMG
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Live Tapes @livetapes.heads.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/07/2026
John Prine - Capitol Theater, Port Chester, NY, 4-12-2019 albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/…
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John Prine - Capitol Theater, Port Chester, NY, 4-12-2019
Here is a concert starring singer-songwriter John Prine. It is part of the April 2026 week of dozens of soundboard recordings from the Capitol Theater in Port Chester, New York. So the sound quality is excellent. Prine's music career began with his debut album in 1971. This concert took place near the end of his career. He released the studio album "The Tree of Forgiveness" in 2018. But it would turn out to be the last album released in his lifetime, because he died in April 2020 due to health issues related to the Covid pandemic. In the leak I mentioned above, Nearly all of the recordings were a single audio or video file in mono. That was the case with this one. I converted the video file to audio, then broke it into individual mp3's. This album is two hours and 13 minutes long. 01 Picture Show (John Prine) 02 Six O'Clock News (John Prine) 03 talk (John Prine) 04 Knockin' on Your Screen Door (John Prine) 05 Bruised Orange [Chain of Sorrow] (John Prine) 06 talk (John Prine) 07 Spanish Pipedream (John Prine) 08 talk (John Prine) 09 Caravan of Fools (John Prine) 10 talk (John Prine) 11 Egg and Daughter Nite, Lincoln Nebraska, 1967 [Crazy Bone] (John Prine) 12 talk (John Prine) 13 Grandpa Was a Carpenter (John Prine) 14 talk (John Prine) 15 Hello in There (John Prine) 16 Crooked Piece of Time (John Prine) 17 Far from Me (John Prine) 18 talk (John Prine) 19 Boundless Love (John Prine) 20 talk (John Prine) 21 Summer's End (John Prine) 22 I Have Met My Love Today (John Prine) 23 Ain't Hurtin' Nobody (John Prine) 24 talk (John Prine) 25 Angel from Montgomery (John Prine with Courtney Marie Andrews) 26 talk (John Prine with Courtney Marie Andrews) 27 In Spite of Ourselves (John Prine with Courtney Marie Andrews) 28 There She Goes (John Prine) 29 All the Best (John Prine) 30 talk (John Prine) 31 Jesus the Missing Years (John Prine) 32 talk (John Prine) 33 Sam Stone (John Prine) 34 God Only Knows (John Prine) 35 talk (John Prine) 36 Lake Marie (John Prine) 37 talk (John Prine) 38 When I Get to Heaven (John Prine) 39 talk (John Prine) 40 Paradise (John Prine) 41 talk (John Prine) https://pixeldrain.com/u/tv7LngW8 alternate: https://bestfile.io/en/4PWOH39nZGY3Lde/file The cover image is a screenshot I took from a video of this exact concert.
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strawberry garfield @bbburgerrr.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
concacaf reffing strikes again
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Robert (Bob) Kubinec @rmkubinec.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Political scientist here: this is not funny, democracies only do this when they're in extreme distress
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Please RT this piece and share on other social channels talkingpointsmemo.com/news/exclusi...
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Exclusive: DOJ Taps Gang, Terrorism Prosecutors to Crack Down on Political Groups
The Department of Justice has tapped two prosecutors with expertise in organized...
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