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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 · 8h
I saw it at age ten in the theater with my family on Christmas Day
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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
please set up a monthly donation to your local food bank if you can!
feedingamerica.org
Find Your Local Food Bank and Holiday Food Boxes | Feeding America
Find the Feeding America member food bank nearest you. Over 200 member food banks can connect you with free food, food pantries, soup kitchens, and holiday food boxes in your community.
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Shane Clifford @brilliantshane.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I wonder if Frank Sinatra ever ate a bowl of Cornflakes. Probably no way to find out
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Stephen Soldz @ethicalpsycholo.bsky.social · 13h
A variety of evidence support the benefits of reading fiction on cognition and emotional functioning. The benefits exist across the lifespan. www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
medscape.com
Why Reading for Pleasure Is So Vital for the Brain
Neuroimaging shows that reading books you enjoy reshapes brain architecture and strengthens cognitive reserve across a lifespan.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Ultra-wealthy donors are spending a staggering $430 million to fight state efforts to raise their taxes. If they can afford to drop millions of dollars to keep their taxes low, they can afford to pay slightly higher taxes. They’re making the case for taxing the rich better than anyone else could.
levernews.com
The $430 Million War Against Taxing The Rich
Ultrawealthy donors have spent nearly half a billion dollars trying to convince voters to keep their taxes low via the b
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
New post about Bhattacharya and Martin Kulldorff from Professor Dave Explains. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgda... I was interviewed (it appears around 55 minutes in).
youtube.com
Jay Bhattacharya and Martin Kulldorff: Colleagues in Fraudulence
YouTube video by Professor Dave Explains
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Chuck Kistler @birdlives.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
youtu.be/_aUITuG5gMA?...
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John Hicks piano solo on "Morning Song"
YouTube video by jazzster123
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Chuck Kistler @birdlives.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Anybody supporting the Republican Party in 2026 is way beyond a lost cause
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Chuck Kistler @birdlives.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Arguably the greatest scene in cinema youtu.be/xKdtuwTr-iM?...
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Bride of Frankenstein (3/10) Movie CLIP - Teaching the Monster Manners (1935) HD
YouTube video by Movieclips
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 13/10/2026
You are not going to believe the headline behind this smiling cop photo.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
It certainly appears that she never passed the bar exam in any state or in DC. She should fit in with the NIH Director Bhattacharya who is listed as "a renowned doctor,..." on the NIH website despite not doing any clinical training after medical school and never (it appears) practicing medicine.
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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 13/10/2026
Let’s fast forward to the part where they’re all rotting in prison
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onion person @junlper.beer · 12/10/2026
its very convenient when people admit their crimes like this, if only there were actually going to be consequences, its a shame crime is legal
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This man started his term by selling control of the federal government to his richest donor. He then spent the remainder of his time wiping his ass with-never mind the constitution--the declaration of independence. There's no such thing as legitimate official acts from him as far as I'm concerned
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I just don't care about any ~law enforcement~ story coming out of this administration because the idea of this man enforcing laws is preposterous on its face. We're talking about an arsonist doing fire code inspections. You're a sucker if you engage with any of it in good faith
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The Onion @theonion.com · 12/10/2026
Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-pe…
Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
"Wait, they're humans❓" What a sad (unsurprising) finding... Sum: sigh 😩 Male managers start hiring more women after their first daughter is born www.psypost.org/male-manager... From study: women’s earnings & employment increase "following the birth of the manager’s first daughter."
psypost.org
Male managers start hiring more women after their first daughter is born, study finds
Male managers who have a first daughter tend to hire more women and raise female employees' share of earnings, according to new research. The shift happens almost immediately and has no detectable imp...
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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 12/10/2026
Massive outbreaks and death aren't the only fallout from anti-vaxxers' rhetoric. Now they're going after the doctors who treat measles patients, reporting them to the state medical board. Thrilled to team up with @walkerbragman.bsky.social on this one! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Anti-vaxxers target Texas measles doctors to cast doubt on deaths amid outbreak
Children’s Health Defense and RFK Jr publicly dispute recent measles deaths to ‘distract’ from damage caused and question vaccines, experts say
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The most comprehensive data that I know isis from Grant-Witness and States United. www.lostfunds.org
lostfunds.org
Lost Funds — $174 Billion Gone
Track the Trump administration’s federal funding disruptions state by state — what was cut or frozen, who it hurts, and how states are fighting back in court.
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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
LOL two rich people looking back on the time, long ago, when they first started making six figures and realizing it wasn't enough They still. don't think ferry workers making five figures deserve more, obv
mynorthwest.com
‘People feeling like they’re going backwards’: KIRO hosts debate wages, living costs after WA ferry disruptions - MyNorthwest.com
KIRO hosts debate rising living costs, six-figure salaries and worker pay demands after Washington State Ferries disruptions.
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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I felt this with the cage fighting on the White House lawn. The video game like posts from official government accounts depicting violence. Hegseth bombing boats like it’s a game of Battleship. The memes making Trump into a superhero with his gigantic guns. It’s a pattern. And it’s escalating.
Ruth Ben-Ghiat v @ruthbenghiat
Historian of fascism here. This is an escalation of an attempt to normalize extreme violence, ritualize violence, militarize the country, and make violence entertaining so when they ask you to commit violence in their name, you will be ready.
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Trump & Hegseth aren't just proposing to livestream an execution for people who want to watch.
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Hemant Mehta @friendlyatheist.com · 09/10/2026
Yiiiiikes. Illinois GOP gubernatorial candidate Darren Bailey says right-wing Christian pseudo-historian David Barton has been "foundational" in his political journey.
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
How Vaccines Work 🧬🧫🧪🔬💉🥽
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Office Hours Live with Tim Heidecker @officehourslive.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
TUNE IN TODAY FOR FREE BUCKETS* IN HONOR OF JIM BAKKER JOINING THE ANGELS - 10AM PT (1PM ET) vist.ly/5mput *UNTIL SUPPLIES LAST
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Your boss was trying to incite a racist pogrom yesterday, Markwayne
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Chuck Kistler @birdlives.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
youtu.be/z9pccmxOn5c?...
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♫ Fantasy in D / Freddie Hubbard Quartet
YouTube video by take5t0ky0jpn
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Chuck Kistler @birdlives.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
youtu.be/z9pccmxOn5c?...
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♫ Fantasy in D / Freddie Hubbard Quartet
YouTube video by take5t0ky0jpn
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
these people would say it was "unclear" why more people in germany didnt openly identify as jewish in 1942
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Horrifying: Arizona Democratic congressional candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia was raped by a man after he knocked her out. Another man approached her to do the same. “She began swinging her foot at him. ‘Not even worth it,’ she heard the man say as he moved away.”
phoenixnewtimes.com
Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Guns are low-key powerful as hell.
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Real Phil Braun @philbraun.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
There’s a moment during Journey’s Jonathan Cain sing “Don’t Stop Believing”, and Jim seems to drift off into a nostalgic haze, perhaps visions of what might have been…or what’s to come…RIP Jim
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Jännät @jaennaet.fi · 05/10/2026
Meme. The top reads "this asshole fish decided to walk out of the water one day and now I ahve to go to work and pay rent", and then there's an artist's rendering of a tiktaalik (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiktaalik), and 3 arms have been edited into it, all giving it the middle finger
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Three panel comic. Panel 1: on the set of the Jerry Springer show, a man sits in a chair. Jerry signals off-stage and says, “we have with us: your ancestor who crawled out of the ocean 375 million years ago!” Panel 2: the live studio audience is booing. Panel 3: security attempts to break up a fight between the man on stage, and his ancestor, a tiktaalik.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Like so much else, this should result in the prosecution of everyone involved.
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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Seattle Times editorial board complains about $30,000 bonus for Sound Transit head, but apparently had no problem with $50,000 bonuses for three Seattle police command staff (Barnes, Sayles, and Powell), all of them just thank-yous for taking top jobs here.
seattletimes.com
Sound Transit CEO's $30,000 bonus shows a big disconnect | Editorial
When private corporations award employees performance bonuses, that’s between the corporation and their shareholders. Not so with a public utility.
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zenlike @zenlike.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
So, this very sympathetic piece where the subject is “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024”. 5 minutes of checking his facebook shows pro Trump posts as far back as 2019, and a post saying that he “stands with Trump” posted just a couple of days after Trumps coup.
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Chuck Kistler @birdlives.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
youtu.be/7EzAk9M0kko?...
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Stan Getz Quartet 1972 - Windows
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Chuck Kistler @birdlives.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Cannonball Adderley and John Coltrane (1959) {Full Album}
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Chuck Kistler @birdlives.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gage...
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Chick Corea Akoustic Band - John Coltrane: Chasin' the Trane
YouTube video by Deutsche Grammophon - DG
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
fun fact: The Treaty of Tripoli, 1796, Signed by Prez John Adams, includes: "As the government of the United States of America is *not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion*, as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of [Muslims].." Just saying.
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The 7th grader was unmotivated to read her history homework this afternoon. Zinn's chapter on Columbus, edited a bit. But it turns out if you introduce her to the original, unedited version alongside the school's edit, seeing what the school decided to leave out was *fascinating*.
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
RIP Marjoe Gortner, an American original - child preacher who once he grew up, revealed all the tricks of the evangelist trade in an Oscar winning documentary and then transitioned into acting and was ubiquitous in the 1970s... MARJOE the documentary is on Tubi!
Marjoe Gortner
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I really wish the world’s most dangerous, extreme anti-vaccine activist & conspiracy theorist, RFK Jr, who is a eugenicist & a MAHA dude who repeatedly peddles vile lies, had not been put in charge of the US health system Here he is telling truly horrific, dangerous lies about HPV & COVID vaccines
RFK Jr saying that the HPV vaccine increases the risk of cervical cancer & the Covid vaccine increases the risk of Covid—these are 2 dangerous lies
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
For everyone who spent #MeToo fretting “what if this goes too far?”—be of good cheer! It turns out we didn’t go too far at all! It turns out we didn’t nearly far enough! Good job guys!
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.
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Chuck Kistler @birdlives.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Miles Davis - Fat Time. 1982.
YouTube video by Per Hvidbjerg
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Chuck Kistler @birdlives.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Republican Party is a criminal conspiracy against the United States
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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 · 02/10/2026
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...
nytimes.com
Hochul Rebukes Prosecutor’s Handling of Cornell Case
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