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Chuck Kistler

@birdlives.bsky.social
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Dad, husband, Radiologic Technologist. Secular Humanist. I like to play music and read.

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Chuck Kistler @birdlives.bsky.social · 7h
The Republican Party is a criminal conspiracy against the United States
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 7h
Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & then it's Friday.
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 8h
Hochul has been underwhelming a lot of the time (James is a rock star), but this is all just an important reminder of why we need women equally represented in leadership. The anger that Hochul and James brought to this was refreshing and few men could get there. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/10...
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Hochul Rebukes Prosecutor’s Handling of Cornell Case
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 8h
Gosh. Who lied to people?
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 9h
MechaHitler CSAM edgelord mass child starver is misunderstood 🥺
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 9h
I’ve gotten a lot of questions from journalists like, “If my son were in that group chat, I’d want him to say something. How can I teach him to speak up?” The question should be: “How do I raise a son who would never rush a fraternity?”
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Chuck Kistler @birdlives.bsky.social · 11h
Not sure who needs to hear this
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Chuck Kistler @birdlives.bsky.social · 12h
You may be shocked, or you may be cursed to have been paying attention to these subjects for over thirty years
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Jamey Evenstar @jameyevenstar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It’s Week Without Driving, ya’ll. Hear the story about how I went car free nine years ago as a mom of five kids. I hope it inspires someone to give it a try for just one week. It’s actually an amazing way to connect with our city and much easier and safer than you think! #weekwithoutdriving
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Chuck Kistler @birdlives.bsky.social · 14h
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George Duke Memorial Service: Stevie Wonder "If It's Magic", Aug. 19th, 2013, Los Angeles
YouTube video by tonartification
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 01/10/2026
Today, some of the changes in the Big Bad Betrayal Bill are now taking effect. In Washington state, that means over 11,000 people are losing access to Apple Health. This is cruelty for the sake of cruelty. Democrats will reverse these devastating cuts.
The image shows a hospital office environment text overlaid that says, "Over 11,000 Washington residents are losing access to federal health and food benefits on October 1."
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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago
I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Plus, there is a significant risk of sexual assault or harassment *by* police during the reporting process. I always think about Lauren McCluskey's story of calling the police over 30 times before she was murdered. They didn't help her, but they did do this:
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University of Utah police officer showed off explicit photos of Lauren McCluskey to his co-worker
<b>UPDATE</b><i>: Logan police announced </i><a href="https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2020/05/17/logan-police-will" target=_blank><i>an internal affairs investigation into Officer Miguel Deras</...
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
her role on fox is to be a punching bag. she helps to validate right wing bs. she plays the part by being a mousy liberal who wears glasses who is silenced by "alpha" republicans. liberals have unfortunately swallowed the propaganda that she is "fighting back" against fox
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/10/2026
"they really believe it"/"they will try to do it"/"the promises are real" are things that most americans refuse to believe about politicians but if you take them seriously will help you predict political behavior more often than not
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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
rightwingers are the lowest from of human filth
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COOLJEN @cooljenim.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
KING OF THE BEASTS, MY ASS...
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
every time you rightly say john roberts is a force for evil in the universe, remember why he has any power:
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George W Bush Dance
ALT: George W Bush Dance
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I mean "we elected a climate destroying Constitution-shredding human-rights-abusing fascist/white supremacist because people said mean things about men on the internet and it's their fault."
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Shout out to the heroes in Maine who do NOT sit quietly when the man who is taking away their rights walks into a brewery. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...
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John Roberts Retreated to His Island. Supreme Court Critics Found Him.
After decades of potlucks and paddle-boarding on Maine’s midcoast, rising anger and protests have left the Supreme Court’s chief justice more isolated than ever.
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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Seattle Times has chosen to ignore overwhelming written contemporaneous evidence and take a comment from a police chief as gospel in order to blame Mayor Katie Wilson for SPD's failure to put out any information after the Bite of Seattle shooting. Different day, same obsession.
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After debacle that followed Bite of Seattle mass shooting, city must set a new course | Editorial
As the city begins its search for a new police chief, it must be held accountable for promised improvements in order to attract the best potential candidates.
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Chuck Kistler @birdlives.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Real Blues - Ray Brown Trio 2002
YouTube video by Mr. Wolf
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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
DNA testing showed 30 years ago that *a* Jefferson fathered children with Sally Hemings. But holdouts desperately claimed it wasn't Thomas. Now DNA from a lock of Thomas Jefferson's hair cut on his deathbed proves it was him: www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-...
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Did Thomas Jefferson Father Sally Hemings' Children? After More Than a Decade of Research, the Answer Is Finally Firmly in Hand
A lock of hair, advances in genetic science and a community of descendants all contributed to solving an American mystery
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Maciek Hamela @maciekhamela.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
With the Strait of Hormuz closed, Iraq has resorted to moving its oil across the desert to Syria in hundreds of tanker trucks, in true Mad Max style. From there, it will be shipped to worldwide markets.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Absolutely this!
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Stories like this have, for ages, treated men's desire to harm women as a sort of background noise, a weather we just normalize and accept and try to work around. Feminism is among other things a process of denormalization.
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Rebecca Watson @skepchick.org · 26/09/2026
Not sure which is worset: Steven Pinker thinking the US isn’t saturated in racism, him thinking that gender identity has nothing to do with biology, or him equating either with 2020 election denial. What a dumbass
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Michael Mishak @mjmishak.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Online sportsbooks say they do not want business from problem gamblers. So @propublica.org's Jake Pearson spent 10 weeks on DraftKings testing how the company would react to someone displaying all the hallmarks of a compulsive bettor. Spoiler: It made him a VIP. www.propublica.org/article/draf...
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I Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP.
Amid growing public health concerns, operators like DraftKings have touted “responsible gaming” tools and prompts. But as I went off the deep end, I found they were no match for the incentives and pro...
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
How many times will Congress let Vought break the law at the expense of their constituents? How long will we constituents allow members of Congress to remain in their seats without doing more to curb these unlawful actions? It’s time to ImpeachVought.com
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Impeach Vought
We are current and former federal workers from across the government. We have witnessed first-hand the harm Russell Vought has inflicted on American communities. We are urging Congress to act now to p...
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Chuck Kistler @birdlives.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Fraternities are dumb www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Wisconsin frat leaders arrested after 30 pledges found in filthy basement, injured and covered in condiments
The two Alpha Epsilon Pi members were charged with hazing. The fraternity was booted from the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus in 2015, officials said.
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Einav Rabinovitch-Fox @einavrfox.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
There‘s much to appreciate in Mamdani, but his insistence that culture isn’t a privilege of the rich is one of his strengths.It is reminiscent of how unions and the government treated it in the 1930s -art for the masses - paintings, music, opera, theater - democracy for all.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
An acute reminder that we don’t live in a free country as long as American tech oligarchs continue to maintain their power.
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing "political" content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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David Kroman @kromandavid.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Debora Juarez, 2020: "When I hear people say there's just a few bad apples on the police force I adamantly disagree with that. It's just not a healthy tree. We need to plant a new tree, we have to completely re-imagine, re-vision what community policing is." www.kuow.org/podcast/news...
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Bad apples? Seattle Police 'not a healthy tree' says city council member
Chants of "defund S-P-D" have become a common message at protests in Seattle, and for the first time the idea is getting serious attention from the city council.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 25/09/2026
The U.S. strike on the Iranian elementary school was the deadliest American military targeting error of the 21st century in terms of child casualties.   Horrific.   This war needs to end – now.
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Chuck Kistler @birdlives.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Something's On Your Mind - 1985 Berlin, Miles Davis, Mike Stern, Steve Thornton, Angus Thomas
YouTube video by FORA DE CENA
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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Orthodox Jewish community members join protest against Netanyahu in NYC.
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Chuck Kistler @birdlives.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Birdlike (Remastered 2004/Rudy Van Gelder Edition)
YouTube video by Freddie Hubbard - Topic
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This really sucks. It also means it's on the rest of us to get vaxxed to reduce frequency and severity of the disease this season—if you have insurance/easy access, consider doing it to help the pack stay healthy, esp elders and vulnerable people of any age
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Chuck Kistler @birdlives.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
got my #flu and #covid #vaccines yesterday, and after a couple hours of work i feel like i need to go back to sleep :P
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Chuck Kistler @birdlives.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Anyone who supports anything like this is a shit human being www.france24.com/en/americas/...
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Third-country removals: Trump’s deportation policy by the numbers
Since January 2025, the Trump administration has deported more than 25,000 people to so-called third countries – places that are not their countries of origin. Working with a consortium of 26 internat...
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Chuck Kistler @birdlives.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
youtu.be/5Euo2PLEuU0?...
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Birdlike (Remastered 2004/Rudy Van Gelder Edition)
YouTube video by Freddie Hubbard - Topic
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Last week RFK.Jr once again falsely claimed that there is link between Tylenol exposure and autism. This is bunk. Several studies have shown this claim is unfounded. Another meta-analysis was just added to evidence against this false claim. www.cidrap.umn.edu/anti-science...
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Tylenol during pregnancy not linked to autism, ADHD, major review finds
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Edzard Ernst @edzard.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The idea that we reelected the worst President in US history when he was vowing revenge on the nation is really hard to grapple with
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Chuck Kistler @birdlives.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Ramones - Pet Sematary (Official Music Video) [HD]
YouTube video by Ramones
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I really hope people understand that stories like this are not anomalies or “mistakes.” They’re not the result of hospitals misunderstanding the law or legislative growing pains. This is simply what happens when you allow the government to interfere in pregnancy.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I don’t even know what to say anymore jessica.substack.com/p/her-baby-h...
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Chuck Kistler @birdlives.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Finally, a useful horoscope
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 22/09/2026
More than 500 children are now in shelters, their parents missing or declared dead since the August 26 floods.
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‘Orphaned' by floods, more than 500 Nepali children face uncertain future
More than 500 children are now in shelters, their parents missing or declared dead since the August 26 floods.
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