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Retired now. LOVED practicing and teaching diagnostic radiology. We love the great music in Cleveland, especially Apollo’s Fire and Cleveland Orchestra. Love CMA, CMNH, AMNH, and The Met museum. Instead of massive CO2-emitting “vroom-vroom,” we sailed.

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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Jack Smith is an American hero 👇
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bigskyrad @bigskyrad.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
How much preventable death and disease will satisfy the GOP?
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I hope this headline haunts Eric Schmitt for the rest of his pathetic political career.
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bigskyrad @bigskyrad.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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September 29, 2026
The scene that unfolded today at a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee was a snapshot of politics in the U.S.
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bigskyrad @bigskyrad.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Senator Eric Schmitt is a typical MAGA moron politician. His now famous confusion while trying to impugn an individual with higher morals and ethics than his justifies this contempt from Borowitz. open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...
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Eric Schmitt Confuses Ass with Hole in the Ground
A wild attempt at a “gotcha” moment resulted in the ass/hole-in-ground mix-up.
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Stuart O. Smith, Jr. - sosAssociates.com @sosassociates.com · 27/09/2026
“‘There’s never been a weapon as powerful as the combination of people with ill intent using the latest AI tools,’ Gates added, echoing other recent similar warnings by a wide array of tech and political figures.”
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Donna Stern @dvsmemphis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Vivek Ramaswamy thinks Ohioans are stupid enough to believe stripping teachers of their bargaining rights, slashing property tax funding, and supporting billions in education cuts equals having their backs in his bid for Governor. Make it make sense. #momsky#sheshed
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bigskyrad @bigskyrad.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Every single American who can read should read this carefully. mcusercontent.com/63b43b530ba2...
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bigskyrad @bigskyrad.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Please share this with a few million of your closest friends. mcusercontent.com/63b43b530ba2...
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bigskyrad @bigskyrad.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Please distribute this to at least twenty million voters. mcusercontent.com/63b43b530ba2...
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bigskyrad @bigskyrad.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Don’t they have more pressing issues?” Actually, they are so consumed by their fantasy world, that they don’t think really about real issues. So, the answer is, “No.” www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...
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Meryl Streep’s casting as Aslan has angered the Christian right. Don’t they have more pressing issues?
The Oscar-winner is voicing Narnia’s wise lion in Greta Gerwig’s adaptation of The Magician’s Nephew, leading to roars of fury from US evangelical commentators
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Askme @askme99.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I know I've posted this many times - needs to flood the media until election day.
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bigskyrad @bigskyrad.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Hitler Estate Sues Trump for Stealing Arch Design
“It is our duty as trustees of the Adolf Hitler Estate to ensure that the Fuhrer’s intellectual property rights are vigorously protected.”
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bigskyrad @bigskyrad.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The world gets worse and worse, all because too many cowards are unable to say "NO" to bullshit. www.scientificamerican.com/article/what...
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What changing ‘Lake Ontario’ to ‘Lake America’ means for weather forecasts
The National Weather Service is speeding ahead with changing the name of the Great Lake
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bigskyrad @bigskyrad.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Do those attending Trump’s belligerent UN speech understand the damage they have caused by their failure to turn their backs on him and walk out? When the world does that it will end him. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Trump invades the UN with a brutish speech | Ted Widmer
Gone was any shred of US idealism. It was a spectacle of raw power – a power that is likely to only diminish in the years ahead
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bigskyrad @bigskyrad.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
How can the GOP or its subsidiary Fox "News" possibly spin clear evidence that Trump has damaged U.S. standing in the world? Trump and his complicit GOP/MAGA/Project 2025 partners have caused vast damage beyond their criminal acts of greed. michaelmcfaul.substack.com/p/when-xi-me...
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When Xi Meets Trump, He Should Say Thank You
From war in Iran to threats against allies, China is reaping the benefits of Trump’s damaging foreign policies.
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bigskyrad @bigskyrad.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
And Zelensky should also apologize for invading Russia to take its land and resources, bombing apartment buildings and hospitals, and for causing El Niño. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump set to press Zelenskyy at UN to agree energy ceasefire with Russia
President to meet Ukrainian counterpart in New York as Ukraine steps up attacks on Russian energy sector
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Historians will look back and say America's downfall started with one simple mistake — not putting Trump in prison within 24 hours of January 6th… Merrick. Garland. Was. A. Disaster. 😎✨
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bigskyrad @bigskyrad.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I think it was James Carville who said, during the successful candidacy of Bill Clinton: "It's the gasoline price, stupid."
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Professor Darkness @professordarkness.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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bigskyrad @bigskyrad.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Trump's threat to the Kennedy Center may provide a faint echo of Tiananmen Square in 1989, but with protesters standing before wrecking equipment instead of tanks. We got here because law firms capitulated, universities chickened out, corporations cooperated, individuals knelt. Few just said, "NO."
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bigskyrad @bigskyrad.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Which new wildly outrageous and inappropriate statement, claim, or proposal from Trump will make most of the MAGA, right wing media, and the no credentials/no credibility “influencers” too embarrassed to keep supporting him?
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bigskyrad @bigskyrad.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
From a Guardian article: A cab driver recently told her he had voted for Trump, she said, but didn’t realize the president was “going to steal everything that wasn’t nailed down”. Huh? Really? “Didn’t realize”???Trump’s history of cheating, “gaming the system”, has been front page for decades.
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bigskyrad @bigskyrad.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I’m pissed off at ignorant voters, who know NOTHING about climate or medical science, or economics, or history, or law, etc. All they “know” is the culture war tripe spewed by right wing media. Damn those goons who refuse to learn important things. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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‘People are pissed off’: anger at the elite and the establishment is fueling this year’s midterms
Coming midterm elections are starting to be framed not as right versus left but instead the ‘well-fed versus the fed-up’
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MadGreek 🧿 @madgreek2024.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"Signs of Fascism" originated in my town. (Sequim, WA) I filmed it. I remember getting a call, "hey your video got 5,000 views." By the end of the day it had 60K. Over 100K in a few days from just one platform. Then my DM blew up! Everyone wanted to replicate the signs. Nice to see the signs today.
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bigskyrad @bigskyrad.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
From my home in Cleveland, I was Zooming with old friend in New Zealand and we were talking about right wing media and the anti-vaccination twaddle. He reminded me that the word "media" is also used to refer to the gel in Petri dishes which are used to grow bacteria. Hmmm.
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bigskyrad @bigskyrad.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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bigskyrad @bigskyrad.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Democrats could easily turn this into a powerful political weapon against the Grand Old Party of excessive untaxed wealth and outsized destruction of the climate by a small segment of the population. Sadly, few of them will do so. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Private jets pollute up to 14 times as much as commercial planes and are undertaxed in US, report says
Number of private jets has surged in recent years, but they do not pay commensurate portion of fees to FAA operations
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bigskyrad @bigskyrad.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
If Trump actually demolishes the Kennedy Center, and when there is nothing but a pile of rubble...then, and only then, would if become appropriate to add Trump's name.
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bigskyrad @bigskyrad.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
MAGA, GOP, Please explain to me again how this makes America great.
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bigskyrad @bigskyrad.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"America's Superintelligence Dillema, How to Avoid an AI Catastrophe", by Hal Brands, August 5, 2026 in Foreign Affairs is an excellent review of the bad options we have with AI and ASI. I read this wishing we had a sane, decent, educated President.
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bigskyrad @bigskyrad.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Trump/MAGA/GOP escape from consequences for horrible behavior is just a continuation of the failure of post Civil War Reconstruction to severely punish those who had waged war to continue slavery.
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bigskyrad @bigskyrad.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Insistence that what one perceives on a traditional Mercator map is “real” is childish. So one expects Trump and his MAGA morons to object to the Equal Earth map. www.theguardian.com/science/ng-i...
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‘A map is never neutral’: meet the cartographers who took on centuries of western bias
Equal Earth projection, adopted by the UN last week, provides an alternative to 16th-century Mercator display
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bigskyrad @bigskyrad.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Doesn't it seem as though one kind of important (and maybe click-worthy) news that isn't covered by mainstream media is how right wing "news" organizations distort news about the climate and climate science? The "news" should be news.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A macho culture of performative selfishness might start on the roads, through racing, rolling coal, ever bigger SUVs ... But it doesn't end there. If we want to live in a decent country which values human life, we need to change this culture. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Driving that’s too fast, too dangerous and utterly lawless: why do we tolerate this petro-masculinity? | George Monbiot
In towns and in the countryside, I see 4x4s and pick up trucks driven without care or consicence. It’s a Magafication of transport, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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ACLU @aclu.org · 16/09/2026
BREAKING: We're suing Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and the National Institutes of Health Director for their ideologically-driven termination and censorship of biomedical research grants. Targeting views the government disagrees with for not aligning with a political agenda is unconstitutional.
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bigskyrad @bigskyrad.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This got my attention this AM because I’ve posted about the under-appreciated social, economic, political, and environmental damage caused by an immoral and unethical PR and marketing industry. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Fossil fuel advertising contracts at all-time high in 2026
In year of extreme weather, ad agencies found to be building Big Oil’s image as integral to family life and security
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bigskyrad @bigskyrad.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Just curious - where is the giant sign in Washington, DC visible to legislators, ambassadors, etc. which simply states: Russia invaded Ukraine Ukraine did not invade Russia Just that. Nothing more needed.
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bigskyrad @bigskyrad.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Trump’s Foreign Policy Is Not Popular And Need Not Endure Beyond His Presidency
Launching a war against Iran, fighting with allies, embracing dictators, and blowing up the international trading system is not what the Americans want.
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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Oh. My. Goodness. Can they put this on billboards ALL OVER TEXAS? Because they should know, before casting their votes, that Ken Paxton and Greg Abbott spent the past decade letting China buy up 162,000 acres of Texas soil. Seems important.🚨
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Fi 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Independence For Scotland! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @asenathmagic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This list of Trump’s Kennedy Center board appointees is bewildering. It includes these baffling choices; Pam Bondi Maria Bartiromo Laura Ingraham Elaine Chao PAOLO ZAMPOLLI (!) Maybe I’m being naive, but I’d have thought an ‘arts’ center should have a board comprised of people from that field?
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bigskyrad @bigskyrad.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Resistance is futile if Trump’s Republican administration is offended by facts. But such resistance is important. Please join in when you can. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Trump asked Americans to help him whitewash national parks. They revolted instead
The DOI placed QR codes in national parks, inviting visitors to report content deemed ‘negative about either past or living Americans’. Instead, it became a mode of resistance
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bigskyrad @bigskyrad.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I am so glad that A4A added #7, especially with Trump's corruption-fueled ignorance on climate and RFK Jr's whacko nonsense which has already killed people and will get worse. www.astronautsforamerica.org/wp-content/u...
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bigskyrad @bigskyrad.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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bigskyrad @bigskyrad.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Fi 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Independence For Scotland! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @asenathmagic.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
❗️This needs to be shared everywhere ❗️ The Kennedy Center made a profit of $41m in 2024. By Sept 2026, it’s in financial ruin and has closed its doors. I wonder what happened in February 2025? 🤔
Photo of summary of Kennedy Center press release confirming appointment of Donald Trump as Board Chairman.
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bigskyrad @bigskyrad.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Iran War Has Cost U.S. Nearly $40 Billion and Fueled Inflation, CBO Finds — TIME
The war with Iran has cost the U.S. government around $38 billion and contributed to growing inflation, according to a new analysis by the Congressional Budget Office, the nonpartisan agency that prov...
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bigskyrad @bigskyrad.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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bigskyrad @bigskyrad.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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bigskyrad @bigskyrad.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Another brilliant, thorough, and profoundly important essay by Anne Applebaum in The Atlantic: “MAGA Is Making The World Safer For Corruption” (online title), “Empire of Grift” (title in print, October, 2026)
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