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Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 11h

Delighted that Anne Carson got the Nobel Prize. A little bummed that none of the articles have mentioned the book that was my introduction to her writing and that is still my favorite of her works: Glass, Irony, and God.

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Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 22h

On the next season of THE STUDIO... #tentpole

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Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Have a cold/allergy event for several days now in which every single of my many, many coughs is accompanied by acute pain across my head. I think understand better why people looked to trepanning.

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Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

In the dark of the moon, in flying snow, in the dead of winter, war spreading, families dying, the world in danger, I walk the rocky hillside, sowing clover. - Wendell Berry, 1968

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Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I met him once in NYC and it was as nervous as I’ve ever been. I was too nervous to have him sign a first edition that I had in my bag. But I did give him a letter I wrote. To my great surprise, he wrote back. And that letter is a treasure for me.

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Wendell Berry, Writer Who Extolled America’s Agrarian Past, Dies at 92

A Kentucky farmer, he railed against agribusiness and championed small family farms and the environment, winning widespread acclaim.

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Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Honestly, I don't see the big deal of Trump leaving on a second plane. He's POTUS (god help us), and his safety is paramount concern for USAF, USSS, etc. If they think he secretly shouldn't be on AF1, then that's how it goes.

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Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Hey, @ajc.com, Now that you’re an exclusively online newspaper, can you focus on making the experience more user friendly? The website is a mess of interruptions advertisements and banners.

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Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

In the next week, Joe Biden is going to say nicer things about Lindsey Graham than Donald Trump will.

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Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I went to YDFM this morning with my toddler, and it was the sort of wonderful, beautiful, diverse version of America I want her to grow up in. Happy Independence Day, all.

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Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

For the record, I’ve been team Cape Verde since day one.

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Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Again. If you’re a professional soccer player, there is no excuse for missing the goal during PKs. Keeper stops it, fine. Miss the box? No one to blame but yourself, loser.

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Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Telling my daughter that The Life Aquatic soundtrack is the music from Moana 5.

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Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

A fun assortment of books at the Little Library at the Home of the Brave park in Symmes Township, near Cincinnati.

An array of books, mostly paperback, including the Autobiography of Malcolm X, Cleaver’s Soul on Ice, Joseph Heller’s God Knows, a satire children’s book featuring quotes from Donald Trump, and two romance novels.

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Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Really expected more of a valedictory final episode, something akin to the last episode of The Colbert Report or Letterman’s final show. Not just Paul McCartney talking about sandwiches.

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Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Two shows left... it's now or never, Prevost.

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Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Thinking of AI and the recent comments by Zuckerberg, I strongly recommend people read Kurt Vonnegut’s “Player Piano.”

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Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Georgia… you’re killin’ me.

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Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

What’s going on at Publix? Feels like a recipe for liver damage. At first I thought this must have been a mischievous customer rearranging products, but it’s been this way for a few weeks now.

Photograph of a few shelves of beer at a grocery store with a peg emerging from the shelf from which travel packs of Tylenol are hanging to be sold.

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Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Redrawing GA's map will backfire on R's. Now they've got Atlanta's D's all packed together. If R's want to increase their take of GA's seats, they'll end up with diluted power. There are tons of motivated D's who'd love to run against the ex-urb R goobers who've been sleepwalking into Congress.

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Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I have tremendous respect for Dr Michelle Au. But I am absolutely befuddled and confused by her apparent endorsement of the former Republican Lt. Governor (2019-2023) to be the Democratic nominee for Georgia’s Governor in 2026. 1/4

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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

that’s fuckin right

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Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

It’s not the biggest thing in a world gone mad, but the jokey questions from the floor of the GA Senate when bills are being hustled through just enrages me. Maybe I should lighten up, but I find the whole thing dumb and juvenile.

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Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Today is the Solemnity of St Joseph. I keep this olive wood carving of sleeping St Joseph on my nightstand. At bedtime I silence my phone and put it under him. I read the intentions for the day, and then I go to sleep. This ritual, which I started about a year ago, has been wonderfully calming.

Handmade wood carving of a sleeping man, barefoot and wearing a tunic, lying on his side with his hands meeting at about his waist. It’s made of olive wood, and there are many cracks running lengthwise. About 7” long.

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Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Still up at 1:20am while everyone else sleeps hunched over tub and using toothpicks to clean dogshit out of the billions of grooves in the soles of my toddler’s shoes so she can go to daycare tomorrow without spreading giardia. Something, something, love’s austere and lonely offices.

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Arizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

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Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Missed casting opportunity: Robert Plant for Ser Arlan of Pennytree. #sevenkingdoms #dunkandegg #rainsong #thesongremainsthesame

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Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

If there were no Olympics, would bobsled and skeleton even exist as a sport? Who is maintaining a track for that?

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James Brandt @jamesbrandt.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

I will simply never recover from reading this sentence: "Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."

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Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Jingle/Tagline idea: “WILD BIRDS UNLIMITED: Stop Putting Limits on Wild Birds!”

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Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Spent the last three days at my in-laws riding out the weather. My daughter got to play with a bag of toys collected by my wife and her brother when they were kids in the ‘80s and ‘90s. Was there any generation more exposed to merchandising?

Wooden coffee table covered in dozens of plastic toys from late 1980s and early 1990s, probably from McDonald’s Happy Meals.

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Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

CNN running the “Melania” movie ad during their coverage of the public execution of Minnesota nurse by federal agents.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

1. I am a resident of the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am over 18 years of age. I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting.
2. On Saturday, January 24, 2026, at about 8:50 am, I was getting ready to go to work when I heard whistles outside. I knew the whistles meant that ICE agents were in the area, so I decided to check it out on my way to work. I've been involved in observing in my community because it is so important to document what ICE is doing to my neighbors. Connecting to your local community and knowing who your neighbors are is something I profoundly value.
3. I drove to Nicollet Ave. and 26th where I could hear the whistles coming from. I turned south onto Nicollet. There were already several ICE agents there and they'd set up a sort of vehicle convoy on Nicollet and 28th. There were also about 15 observers there, recording and observing ICE.
4. I saw ICE agents surrounding cars and punching car windows. I also saw them stopping vehicles further down Nicollet, so I backed up because I didn't feel safe continuing on.
5. I noticed a man sort of acting to help traffic move more smoothly. He helped me find a place to park. I got out with my whistle and my camera. I went over to him and said something like, "I'm going to film and use my whistle."
6. It seemed like most ICE activity was happening a little farther down the street from us, near 27th. Someone was being thrown to the ground.

7. I started recording. There was an agent by a car across the street. Two observers were a few feet away from the agent, blowing their whistles. One was wearing a backpack.
8. I and the man who was observing and helping direct traffic were standing in the street. There was a phone in the man's hand recording a video.
9. An agent approached and asked us to back up, so I moved slowly back onto the sidewalk.
10. The man stayed in the street, filming as the other observers I mentioned earlier were being forced backward by another ICE agent threatening them with pepper spray. The man went closer to support them as they got threatened, just with his camera out. I didn't see him reach for or hold a gun.
11. Then the ICE agent shoved one of the other observers to the ground. Then he started pepper spraying all three of them directly in the face and all over. The man with the phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed him.
12. Then the man tried to help up the woman the ICE agent had shoved to the ground. The ICE agents just kept spraying. More agents came over and grabbed the man who was still trying to help the woman get up. All three of the observers looked to have been badly affected by the pepper spray. I could feel the pepper spray in my eyes.

13. The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them-he wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times.
14.1 don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him.
15. The video I recorded of what happened accurately depicts the events leading up to the agents shooting him and several minutes afterwards. The video is attached as Exhibit 1.
16. I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground.
17. I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened. I've heard that other witnesses might have been arrested and taken to the Whipple Building.
18. I am disgusted and gutted at how they are treating my neighbors and my state. I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined it is important to remember the value of documenting injustice. We show up for the people who need us to bear

witness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny. This is a struggle to protect our freedom and democracy, those things are on the line. He lost his life for those values.
I declare under penalty of perjury that everything I have stated in this document is true and correct.

Dated and signed on Jan 24, 2026 in Hennepin County, State of Minnesota.

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Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

A Beck pick is such a delicious way to win this.

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Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Just crawling up the field as slow as possible.

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Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Fernando can’t wait to go crack open a cold carton of whole milk.

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Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Toddler is having a full on meltdown (tears, thrashing on floor, etc) and crying “I need the boo-boo’s” because I gave her an otherwise perfect banana from which I had carved off a small bruise the size of a nickel. Dog is just staring at her.

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Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

At playground and just heard another dad yell out “Executive Override Command! We’re not doing that!”

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Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Bert in It’s A Wonderful Life is really dangerous with that gun. Just firing all loosey-goosey on a crowded street.

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Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Glad that Dolan is being shown the door. May he have a quiet retirement full of reflection and repentance. Very, very guarded optimism about Hicks. (Mostly just happy he isn’t a known conservative.) Getting excited about anyone being elevated in the hierarchy is for chumps. Trust must be earned.

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Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

An Atlanta Christmas tradition: waiting in line in the Decatur Post Office only to be told that they don’t have any books of stamps when you get to the counter. But you can buy them one at a time from the kiosk!

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Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Showing them what’s up at my first tai chi class in 26 years. The olds at the YMCA didn’t know what hit em.

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Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

How much legislation and regulation is being written by ChatGPT?

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Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

I can't claim to be following the Slaughter case closely - I'm busy! - but I don't understand how it can be said that the legislature is usurping executive authority in the creation of independent boards when, to my understanding, these boards are almost always products of laws SIGNED BY PRESIDENTS.

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Steve Weyer 𓅭 @blueweyer.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Filling out online forms to compare auto insurance rates is going to be my villain origin story.

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