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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3h

Russia has shortages, long lines, and imposed limits. Ukraine has knocked out about 1/2 (!) of Russia's refining capacity. And they're going to export a million tons of diesel? Yes, Trump is again siding with Russia against Ukraine, Europe, law, and democracy. But that won't make fuel appear.

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Moscow Gas Stations Reimpose Fuel Limits as ‘Second Wave’ of Shortages Hits Russia - The Moscow Times

Fuel purchase restrictions are beginning to make a comeback in some regions as persistent shortages continue to dog the domestic market following months of Ukrainian drone strikes on oil refineries, i...

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Rick Brown @brownbattery.bsky.social · 5h

Is it possible that Drumpf has renamed it “The State of America”?

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randy r. potts @thephatic.bsky.social · 8h

they're not cute, they're not stupid, they're not quacks - they are an incredibly-well-organized political movement whose core beliefs include violence toward anyone who threatens their vision of "god's kingdom"

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 08/10/2026

#OtD 8 Oct 1916 mostly migrant workers at Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company in NJ walked out on strike against low wages and dangerous conditions. Police killed 4 strikers and injured dozens, crushing the strike after 10 days stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1085...

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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"

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Trump's Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than Stonehenge

Arizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This keeps happening

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Wow, these job numbers are TERRIBLE. Many people are saying we must have an “incompetent” president who is “asleep at the wheel”

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New York Working Families Party @nywfp.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Today is first day of a two-year rent freeze for millions of New Yorkers in rent-regulated apartments. This is one step towards making our city more affordable, and proof that when our government centers working families, it delivers for all of us.

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Rick Brown @brownbattery.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It’s not clear from what I wrote, but I really like the album AND the Dolly cover!

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 22/09/2026

Doordash have always been our enemies.

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Rick Brown @brownbattery.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

‘I can run’ is the clearest lie here.

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Rick Brown @brownbattery.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The _No Ruinous Feud_ album is, I think, not one of the Incredible String Band's most highly regarded records. Their version of "My Blue Tears" is probably not one of the better known Dolly Parton covers. #DollyPartonCovers youtu.be/AJ6VtgXDF5w?...

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The Incredible String Band - My Blue Tears

YouTube video by The Jukebox Rebel

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Rick Brown @brownbattery.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Thanks to Sloppy Heads for inviting us back and congrats to Antietam on the release of their new album The Counting Game. Thursday September 10 in Brooklyn

Flyer for sloppy heads/antietam/pretty rag show at mama tried
Fantastic art by Abraham McNew of a hundred wild faces

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Rick Brown @brownbattery.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

We’ve been working on some of the rough edges, but ‘ragged’ fits if you like that adjective (the way George Jones and Neil Young used it)...

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Rick Brown @brownbattery.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

We sing about fascists losing, how work is a bore, about going down the road feeling bad, ice cream cakes, gun control, and pastures of plenty. We admit to being “American” and we are certainly “primitive”, but who is sure what those words mean in these times?

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Rick Brown @brownbattery.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I’m in a band with some close buddies that has been playing for a while and now has a name : Pretty Rag Willie Klein (Mofungo, Escape By Ostrich) – guitars, voice Sue Garner (Run On, The Shams) – guitars, d-bow, voice me – percussion, voice

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 03/09/2026

Donald Trump is making it more expensive to raise a family. Back-to-school prices are up 11% compared to last year: Notebooks: +23% Index cards: +22% Lunchboxes: +27% Sandwich bread: +22% Apple juice: +20% Animal crackers: +16%

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

My cousin Tembys was a drug banger (of pot). He is in an iron lung in the basement of the Colorado super max prison now. But they are euthanizing him on Labor Day to make room for toddlers who have melanin.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Absolutely yes.

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🇺🇸𝕀𝕟𝕕𝕪 ℝ𝕖𝕗𝕦𝕘𝕖𝕖🇺🇸 ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖˡᵉˢˢ ᵁˢᴬ @indyrefugee.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Millions of people rely on the information they obtain via a search engine corporation which just proved it would alter digital reality if instructed to do so by those in political power. That’s some crazy shit, Google.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Ron and Cassie DeSantis: These two crooks stole $10 million from a settlement with a charity, wired it to Cassie’s fake “charity,” laundered it through two puppet organizations, and then used it for political ads in an election year. They should be in jail.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Octavia E. Butler’s novel “Parable of the Talents” depicts a dystopian United States run by Christian Nationalists. Their slogan is “Make America Great Again.” Published in 1998, many years before Trump’s political career, but this poem in the book prophesied Trump. (Poem from @zymplex.bsky.social)

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 25/08/2026

This is truly heartbreaking. Dolly Parton was an extraordinary person and an irreplaceable champion of the working class. We are a better country because of her.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

In a country so deeply divided, isn't it nice to have something we can ALL agree on? #ReleaseTheFiles-BeginTheTrials ⚖️

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Psaki: Why do you think Mike Rogers is so far refusing to agree to a date for this debate? El-Sayed: I mean, I hate to say it, he’s a coward. Rogers the Dodger does not want to actually debate because he knows that he’s an empty suit with no new ideas

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Jon Ossoff: “Donald Trump would rather fly around in a gilded plane than do his job.” Republicans: “DONALD TRUMP IS NOT A PEDOPHILE WHO SHITS HIMSELF AND CHEATS ON HIS WIFE AND HIS TAXES!!!!!!!”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/08/2026

Ossoff on why he invoked Natalie Harp during his speech: "We're in wartime. The commander in chief has mired us in this geopolitical disaster. People have lost their lives ... and he retreats into this bubble of West Wing aides who are his security blanket to make him feel good about himself"

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

On the one hand, 33% is an incredibly bad number for Trump, or any modern president. On the other hand, it feels like we’re in the middle of an experiment to find out how many Americans will support a dying, demented pedophile who frequently says he doesn’t give a shit about them. 33% seems high!

reuters.com

EXCLUSIVE: Trump approval falls to 33%, lowest of his presidency, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds

President Donald Trump's approval rating fell to the lowest level of his presidency, ‌with an overwhelming majority of Americans concerned the U.S. war with Iran will last a long time, according to a ...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Hegseth insists reports of Navy sailors being held prisoner on the ship without enough food for months because of Trump’s pointless war — some trying to jump off — “completely misrepresented” 🤔 (Imagine believing a word this guy says)

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Rick Brown @brownbattery.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

pondering whether it'd be any better if these two turds were in each other's spots... ugh, nope.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 10/08/2026

If it looks like an Amazon delivery and drives like an Amazon delivery, then it's an Amazon delivery, right? Not according to Amazon. Big companies like Amazon have built a vast network of subcontractors who deliver their packages while shielding them from accountability.

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Rick Brown @brownbattery.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I'm going with "films I really like from each year of the 60s" 1960: Peeping Tom 1961: Mothra 1962: Carnival of Souls 1963: High and Low 1964: Red Desert 1965: Cat Ballou 1966: Seconds 1967: Belle de Jour 1968: 2001: A Space Odyssey 1969: Z #FilmSky

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Rick Brown @brownbattery.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

If you've got the time, energy and focus, try "Nostromo" (first chapter, with no characters or plot, took me decades to get past but once I did I love this!) For a lighter lift, I'd recommend "The Secret Agent". Eventually I will go back and re-read "Chance"

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Rick Brown @brownbattery.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I’m a terrible reader (slow and very spotty) and I know nothing about current writers. Combined with a bit of an obsessive side, I have become very focused on Joseph Conrad. I’ve read most of the acknowledged classics and I’m (slowly, spottily) nearly halfway through his later, fascinating Victory.

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IMEU Policy Project @imeupolicy.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

AIPAC knows that it is wildly unpopular, and that it has an even more unpopular agenda of support for genocide and apartheid, that is why it goes through such extensive efforts to obscure the money they spend on races via shell PACs with unrelated.

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IMEU Policy Project @imeupolicy.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Despite AIPAC’s claim that it is a bipartisan organization, the vast majority of its money comes from Republican donors and a supermajority of its spending is in Democratic primaries.

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The so-called president of the United States is a massive money launderer and cut off by the bank that discovered it. Yet the story barely registers with the legacy media. What a disgrace.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/08/2026

Trump: "Everybody saw the vandalism. All you have to do is look at the tape." (There is no tape. Trump is nuts.)

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/08/2026

El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/08/2026

Whitehouse: "Today I think is a sad and embarrassing day for this committee as it looks like on a party-line vote we are going to advance out of this committee probably the most discreditable person ever to seek the office of attorney general. Let's start with the Epstein files ... "

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

He serves in the branch that the Constitution specifically charges with the duty of removing the President for criming.

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Alex Segura @alexsegura.com · 03/08/2026

We are seeing an increased ICE presence in NYC - making it imperative that NYers KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. I wrote a comic with @mayor.nyc.gov @nycimmigrants.bsky.social @davidhahn.bsky.social @elllewrightart.bsky.social @tayloresposito.bsky.social to do that! DOWNLOAD: www.weteachnyc.org/resources/co...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Every vote to confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general is a vote to continue the coverup of the Epstein Files.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 02/08/2026

I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

But today in his cabinet meeting, Trump blamed it on American Democrats. Just as he has blamed things many times that Russia and China have done on Americans. He’s not a patriot, he’s the ultimate traitor.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

this is the kind of obstreperousness, don't tell me what to do-ness, i got rightsness that is the sheet anchor of American liberties.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I admire our government's new commitment to honesty.

A real tweet from the Department of Defense that says "It's not an option" above a meme that just says WINNING.

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