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Bob Spence

@bgspence.bsky.social
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computer programmer / software developer since 1962 (an RPC-4000) & persistent voter

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
I'm begging @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social to run against Musk. He's an unpopular and creepy white nationalist asshole billionaire whose approval rating in most polls is 20 points underwater. You can mock Paxton for needing to be bailed out *and* mock the puppet master pulling his strings.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/10/2026
oh my god this interview was a disaster for Zacharia. I've never seen Hannity do someone who works for Trump like this
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 16/10/2026
"Putin does not belong to any grouping of leaders representing civilized people around the world."
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Vladimir Putin Doesn’t Belong in Florida
And if he shows up at the G20 meeting, other leaders should boycott.
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Tom McKay @catturd2.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Tesla’s New Roadster Can Somehow Do Corkscrews in the Air (Without Exploding—Yet) gizmodo.com/teslas-new-r...
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Tesla's New Roadster Can Somehow Do Corkscrews in the Air (Without Exploding—Yet)
This engineering marvel / catastrophe-in-the-making will definitely come out in 2028, Tesla CEO Elon Musk promised.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Here are 22 times Katie Zacharia blatantly lied about being a lawyer. She’s perfect for the Trump administration. She’s pathological.
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Angry Donkey News @angrydonkeynews.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Zacharia’s LinkedIn work history places her at Zhong Lun, an elite Chinese multinational law firm, between 2011 and 2013. She worked at the Beijing-based firm as an associate on the international practice team, months after she obtained her J.D. from Pepperdine Caruso Law.
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WTF Was Trump’s New Press Secretary Doing in China?
Katie Zacharia says she passed the bar when she moved to China. What was she doing there?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/10/2026
😬 Katie Zacharia's first press briefing was brutally bad 😬 Trump managed to find a press secretary who can barely read, but she does have the number one qualification -- looking like Ivanka Here's a supercut from Zacharia's first briefing, which made Karoline Leavitt seem like Ronald Reagan
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Molly Roberts @mollyroberts.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
plaintiffs assert that NPS removed 529 trees on Saturday, including healthy, mature maples and oaks. the government was supposed to refrain from doing anything irreversible without providing enough notice for the court to act, but Judge Reyes hadn't entered a formal order until this morning
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Bob Spence @bgspence.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Ballot measures are way too convoluted. Here is a prompt to get some help filtering things out: If a voter is a progressive democrat, how would they vote on each ballot measure this year?
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Trump is the great destroyer. Killing 500 healthy trees.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Asked if he approved of the public execution,Trump said, “Absolutely.” After all, he’s been imagining executions since at least 1989 when he bought a full-page newspaper ad demanding that the Central Park Five be put to death. open.substack.com/pub/america/...
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How Much Lower Can Hegseth and Trump Go?
A Saturday Prompt
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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press president Bruce D. Brown says this investigation "appears to be a pretext for seeking records from the networks about how they are covering daily White House events during a media ban the president himself put in place." www.cnn.com/2026/10/10/m...
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Trump’s DOJ probes major TV networks over response to White House ban of CNN | CNN Business
The Justice Department is investigating the five major US TV networks for possible antitrust violations, opening yet another front in the Trump administration’s pressure campaign against the press.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
FYI, here's the plan for the "surprise" papal visit next weekend--assuming the White Sox win tonight. He throws out the first pitch in Chicago Friday at ALDS game four. He insists on visiting a No Kings rally Saturday. He preaches Sunday at St. Raphael's in Springfield, OH.
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Popeleo Bobbert
ALT: Popeleo Bobbert
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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
“Protests intensified after the Indian Express reported last week that two election commissioners had questioned Kumar's voter-list revisions that removed roughly 130 million names from voter lists.” 130 MILLION!
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11/10/2026
“A Republican victory in 2028 would mean that we could never assume—ever—that “liberalism” as we understood it since the end of Jim Crow, was secure in our country. It would mean living on the knife’s edge, between liberalism and fascism, forever.”
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The Doomsday Scenario
Even if Democrats crush the midterms, we’re in a world of trouble.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Estonian PM Kristen Michal after Trump's diesel deal with Putin: “It will be worth discussing in Estonia and at the European Council next week whether we can quickly contribute more to Ukraine so they can blast Russia's oil refineries to smithereens.”
Estonian Prime Minister Kristen Michal
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11/10/2026
Susan Collins "does what Trump needs her to do to enact his agenda, and sometimes casts a protest vote—but only if she can prearrange it to be meaningless. She is a snake disguised as a muppet."
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Susan Collins Is the Living Worst
The most despicable Republican is actually the “reasonable” Republican.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Trump is a coward. Zelensky is a warrior. Trump is a pathological liar. Zelensky is a truth teller. Trump is a scoundrel. Zelensky is a hero. Trump kisses Putin’s ass. Zelensky is kicking Putin’s ass. Trump is a traitor to the free world. Zelensky is defending the free world.
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DC Council @councilofdc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is clearly not acceptable
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 09/10/2026
"Unless Democrats have some major screwup in the next twenty-six days, it looks to me like the party, its voters, and their candidates have done just about everything we could reasonably ask of them to preserve liberal democracy."
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These Democrats Are Good, Actually
The candidate gap is real. And it’s spectacular.
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activist360 @activist360.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Investing in nature pays off. A new study shows how wetlands restoration and wildfire prevention can drive down skyrocketing insurance costs while protecting communities. tinyurl.com/yf6rs3wm #ClimateAction #ClimateHope #Nature #Restoration #Conservation #Sustainability
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‘Nature-Based’ Solutions Could Save Insurers and Policyholders Billions - Inside Climate News
Wetlands restoration and wildfire prevention can drive down insurers’ costs and skyrocketing premiums, a new study shows.
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activist360 @activist360.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A new study reveals that planned road expansion between Acre, Brazil and Peru could threaten a decade of REDD+ progress, risking up to 133,800 hectares of additional deforestation. tinyurl.com/m77tdv8c #AmazonRainforest #Deforestation #Conservation #ClimateAction
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New road between Acre and Peru could cause up to 133,000 hectares of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest, study finds - Amazon Conservation Association
Leer en Español Ler em português New analysis assesses the impacts of BR-364 expansion on Acre’s forests and warns of risks to REDD+ investments and the communities that depend on these resources A ne...
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"How could a country extend such a shining future to a young man like him—only to shatter that future, and him, by suddenly ripping it away? And how could the president who made it happen show his face that same day, just miles down the road, to bask in it?" www.thebulwark.com/p/a-death-a-...
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A Death. A Funeral. And the Trump Rally Down the Block.
On the day Springfield held a funeral for Pierre Damas Bel, the president held a rally 25 miles away. We went to both.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
25th Amendment.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 06/10/2026
Vance: "They are ruthless. They will do whatever they need to do, right up to cheating and right up to lying. And right up to putting somebody on the ballot who has no reason to be there other than to help them steal an election."
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing
Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.
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Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 28/09/2026
Gateway is ALL SYSTEMS GO! After repeatedly beating Donald Trump in his attempts to shut off federal funding for Gateway, we finally began boring the Hudson River Tunnel, the first new tunnel under the Hudson in over 100 years.
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Firing Line with Margaret Hoover @firinglineshow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Architecture is not incidental or accidental. It reflects who we are." @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu argues President Trump's White House renovations are damaging the ideas behind America. "It's changing what it means to be an American president." Follow on Apple: shorturl.at/nQU2k
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Trump White House official app is fraught with trackers. The White House app covertly collects excessive user data and shares it with third-party trackers while sidestepping federal security rules. For example, the app includes scripts to monitor a user's location several times per minute.
washingtonsun.com
White House Drove Users to Official App Fraught With Trackers
The White House app became the App Store’s most downloaded news app after the president barred three news outlets.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/09/2026
BREAKING: At least six (I'm hearing 8) prosecutors - including Kurt Olsen - have QUIT the "Grand Conspiracy" case in Florida overseen by Judge Aileen Cannon. I know this is the Daily Mail, but there are well-placed sources. Waiting for more developments. www.dailymail.com/news/us-poli...
dailymail.com
Trump 'grand conspiracy' case in crisis amid mass exit
Trump loyalist Kurt Olsen has resigned from the 'grand conspiracy' probe in Miami, along with at least six other prosecutors assigned to the investigation.
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SFGATE @sfgate.com · 28/09/2026
The same program made generic insulin cheaper for California residents.
bit.ly
Newsom moves to make GLP-1 drugs cheaper for Calif. residents
The same program made generic insulin cheaper for California residents.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 29/09/2026
The American pope draws attention, but there have been scores of American cardinals. You might not always hear much about them, but listen to this one:
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‘We Are Losing Our Soul as a Nation’
What we saw in Springfield, Ohio.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 29/09/2026
"What I want to do, and what I will do, is: You graduate from a college, I think you should get automatically, as part of your diploma, a green card to be able to stay in this country" - Donald Trump, once upon a time
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Trump to Foreign Students: F*ck Off
Trump promised green cards for “the best and brightest”—but he’s making legal immigration a gauntlet of red tape, fees, and threats.
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"The sources added that Patel consistently kept Bailey at arm's length and cut him out of meetings the deputy FBI director should attend because Bailey was constantly flagging things that were unconstitutional." www.cbsnews.com/news/top-fbi...
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Top FBI official Andrew Bailey, who was once widely seen as Patel successor, resigns
Bailey was originally brought in to help ease tensions between former Attorney General Pam Bondi and former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino.
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Conservative commentator Ann Coulter: “Republicans are about to be completely wiped out in the midterms. This is going to be a bloodbath like we haven’t seen before.”
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 29/09/2026
@adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social exposes the lie at the heart of Trump’s immigration crackdown: It was never just about illegal immigration. “They’re attacking student visas...attacking H-1B visas... 'Their goal ultimately is to end all immigration to the United States.'”
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 28/09/2026
"One Democratic lawmaker even quipped to me that there’s a very large pool from which to draw talent for this purpose. He was referring to the mass exodus of lawyers from the Department of Justice during Trump 2.0." ICYMI:
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EXCLUSIVE: Inside the Democratic Party’s Trump Oversight Plans
Lawmakers are already gearing up to tackle the widespread corruption.
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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 30/01/2025
NEW: The DOJ’s removal of a database detailing criminal charges and convictions related to January 6th from its website appears to be illegal. We sent a letter urging the National Archives and DOJ inspector general to investigate and take action.
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Deletion of Jan 6 charges database appears to violate the law - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
The DOJ’s removal of a database detailing criminal charges and convictions related to the January 6th attack from its website appears to be illegal. The DOJ’s removal of a database detailing criminal ...
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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Donald Trump is ending the national database of police misconduct
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Trump orders database tracking federal police misconduct to close
It ends one of the big milestones of the Black Lives Matter movement
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Military Times @militarytimes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Secretary Hegseth announced Tuesday that colonels and captains seeking promotions will undergo a new Joint Warfighter Evaluation. 🔗Link to article in comments ⬇️
Pentagon adds new ‘warfighter’ evaluation for officers seeking first star
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Our president treats the Constitution’s ban on foreign emoluments as mere suggestions. www.ms.now/news/trump-g...
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The lavish gifts Trump has received from world leaders and CEOs
The president has received golden presents from foreign leaders, powerful corporate CEOs and interest groups who received perks and leniency from his administration.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.
nytimes.com
F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins
The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/09/2026
Idea: no corporate welfare, subsidies, or government contracts for corporations whose employees need to rely on government assistance because of low wages.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🥹😍🤩✊🏽👏🏽👏🏽👀🗣️🫦✌🏽🔥💟💙💟💙💟💙
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A recent survey found that 92% of U.S. adults have delayed or avoided medical care due to high costs. Meanwhile, a new study from Yale estimates that Medicare for All would save over 114,000 lives and $1 trillion a year. If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have universal healthcare.
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Michael McFaul @mcfaulmike.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Reagan rightly talked about "peace through strength." I agree 100% with that concept. But there is also "strength through peace." When we act as a country committed to peace, we gain influence worldwide. When we use our military ineffectively, as in Iran, that weakens the US.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Florida Republican gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds launched an updated campaign website this week stripping away numerous prominent references to his endorsement from Donald Trump.
miamiherald.com
Byron Donalds strips Trump references from his campaign website
The Republican gubernatorial candidate stopped emphasizing his endorsement from Donald Trump as the president’s approval ratings plummet.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/09/2026
DoorDash has ripped off more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers. We’re making them pay $131.5 million — the largest worker settlement in City history. This is New York, where hard work pays and greed will cost you.
DoorDash messed up.
They repeatedly left more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers underpaid or paid late, causing them immense stress and financial difficulty.
That's unacceptable.
We've secured a $131.5M settlement from
DoorDash - the largest worker settlement in NYC history and largest delivery worker settlement in
American municipal history.
Every worker will be paid what they are owed, and every company will be forced to abide by the laws of this city.

LOGOS:
The OFFICE of the MAYOR of NYC
NYC Consumer and Worker Protection Mayor Mamdani and Deliveristas representatives stand behind a podium.Mayor Mamdani signs a giant check.Three delivery workers holding a giant fake check for $131.5M.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
FLAG MS NOW: Trump aides are now exploring attaching Trump's name to Ford's Theatre. The playhouse where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated has been mentioned by aides as one of the federal properties that could somehow carry Trump's name.
ms.now
Trump aides explore attaching president’s name to Ford’s Theatre
The playhouse where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated has been mentioned among federal properties that could carry the president’s name, people familiar with the effort told MS NOW.
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