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Bridge, Sudoko, classical, jazz and rock music. English Romantic Era literature, historical fiction. Gardening.

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ButchieT @butchiet.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
The America We Knew Is Rapidly Slipping Away www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/o...
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Opinion | The America We Knew Is Rapidly Slipping Away
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ButchieT @butchiet.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Riddle me this: If he didn't invent the internet, then why are they called "Al Gore ithms"?!
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ButchieT @butchiet.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
The public is captivated by "the war of words" between Adderall and Ketamine Does anyone else thinks this "war" was cooked up by these two to deflect what they're doing to our economy, our democracy? As Rachel Maddow says, "Watch what they do, not what they say."
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ButchieT @butchiet.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Trump Claims Springsteen Not Born in USA open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...
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Trump Claims Springsteen Not Born in USA
“He’s not half as good a singer as Kid Rock," he added.
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ButchieT @butchiet.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Too much grift...even for MAGA Republicans? open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
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Too much grift...even for MAGA Republicans?
It took a Qatari ‘gift’ for Trump's GOP to suggest that accepting anything gilded in gold doesn't look (or smell) great for a president who has placed a cap on pencils
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ButchieT @butchiet.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
What China saw in Geneva open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
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What China saw in Geneva
Trump claimed a reset. Beijing recognized the bluff.
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Melvin 🍁the 🍊💩hating cat -💙🦋🐧-my human is not a fan either . 🇨🇦💙🦋 @vespavixen.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
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ButchieT @butchiet.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: In a free country there is much clamor, with little suffering: in a despotic state there is little complaint but much suffering. -Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot, statesman and engineer (13 May 1753-1823)
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ButchieT @butchiet.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. -Dante Alighieri, poet (c. May 1265-1321)
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ButchieT @butchiet.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Trump caught in major corruption scheme plus.briantylercohen.com/p/trump-caug...
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Trump caught in major corruption scheme
Even for Trump, the overt corruption is staggering.
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thepissedoldlady.bsky.social @thepissedoldlady.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Listen up @schumer.senate.gov @whitehouse.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @raskin.house.gov @ericswalwell.bsky.social @chrismurphyct.bsky.social @markey.senate.gov
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ButchieT @butchiet.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace turns into a circus. -Turkish Proverb
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ButchieT @butchiet.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace turns into a circus. -Turkish Proverb
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ButchieT @butchiet.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
contrarian.substack.com/p/the-media-...
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The media is failing to fight for democracy
In a long interview with a Russian official, a major news network did not mention the D word.
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ButchieT @butchiet.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
One of these is not like the other
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ButchieT @butchiet.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
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ButchieT @butchiet.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices. -Edward R. Murrow, journalist (25 Apr 1908-1965)
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ButchieT @butchiet.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
contrarian.substack.com/p/fascism-an...
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Fascism and the English language
The words we use matter. So let's say what's actually happening.
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ButchieT @butchiet.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Are Democrats taking Trump's bait on immigration? open.substack.com/pub/briantyl...
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Are Democrats taking Trump's bait on immigration?
Some think we must avoid a trap. I'm not convinced.
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Liz Ahern 🌈🇲🇽🏳️‍⚧️☮️ @austinmermaid.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
“Nobody is above the law.”Providence, Rhode Island filled the streets sending a message to Trump we won’t tolerate dictators! #NationalDayOfProtest #HandsOff #NoKings #50501Movement @fvp_tok
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ButchieT @butchiet.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Civilizations in decline are consistently characterized by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity. -Arnold Toynbee, historian (14 Apr 1889-1975)
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Liz Ahern 🌈🇲🇽🏳️‍⚧️☮️ @austinmermaid.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
When a comeback hits harder than a Tesla in autopilot.
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Gerry Joyce-Magladene @deaconbluesky.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
War hero schools a chickenhawk.
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ButchieT @butchiet.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Bondi Fires DOJ Employee After Finding Copy of Constitution on his Desk open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...
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Bondi Fires DOJ Employee After Finding Copy of Constitution on his Desk
The fired staffer used “telltale phrases like ‘due process’” in DOJ memos.
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ButchieT @butchiet.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
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ButchieT @butchiet.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
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'He was drunk when he posted this': Observers ridicule Pete Hegseth for 'childish tantrum'
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth raised onlookers' eyebrows on Saturday with an attack on a judge who recently ruled against the Trump administration in a court case about banning transgender troops. ...
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ButchieT @butchiet.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
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ButchieT @butchiet.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. -William Wordsworth, poet (7 Apr 1770-1850)
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ButchieT @butchiet.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
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ButchieT @butchiet.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
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JoeinNJfightsfordemocracy @progavalanche.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
If Stephen is tired of immigrants telling him he looks like a penis, it’s because native born citizens don’t say it enough. As a native born American citizen, I can confirm that he not only looks like but is, in fact, a dick with ears. #DemVoice1
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ButchieT @butchiet.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Trump set a trap. I'll bite. open.substack.com/pub/briantyl...
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Trump set a trap. I'll bite.
There's a decent chance that Trump's threats against Greenland are a distraction, but he overlooked a critical consequence.
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SuperSamich @supersamich.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Peaceful rebellion tomorrow! If there is a showroom near you in the United States, you are physically/mentally able, and you care about fighting against what is happening in our country. I implore you to show up and support! Find a group at; teslatakedown.com #teslatakedown #resist
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Tesla Takedown | Take action at Tesla showrooms everywhere.
The stakes couldn’t be higher. No one is coming to save us—not politicians, not the media.
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ButchieT @butchiet.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Beware or orange diaper baby
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ButchieT @butchiet.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
New phone, Houthis? open.substack.com/pub/briantyl...
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New phone, Houthis?
The Trump administration managed to get itself embroiled in its very own "But her emails" scandal.
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ButchieT @butchiet.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Greenland Appoints Special Envoy to Greet Trump Delegation open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...
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Greenland Appoints Special Envoy to Greet Trump Delegation
The American visitors will be greeted “the moment they step off the plane," a Greenlandic spokesman said.
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ButchieT @butchiet.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
A PEJORISM THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake. -Viktor Frankl, author, neurologist and psychiatrist, Holocaust survivor (26 Mar 1905-1997) 😢
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ButchieT @butchiet.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/o...
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Opinion | Why Did Elon Musk Go After Bunkers Full of Seeds?
Gene banks are like a survivalist cache: our nation’s safeguard against all future challenges to growing the food we need.
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ButchieT @butchiet.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Schumer is the new Susan Collins. Schumer is a schit who should resign.
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ButchieT @butchiet.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: It would indeed be ironic if, in the name of national defense, we would sanction the subversion of one of those liberties which make the defense of our nation worthwhile. -Earl Warren, jurist (19 Mar 1891-1974)
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The Borowitz Report @borowitzreport.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Chuck Schumer Cancels Book Tour
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ButchieT @butchiet.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
How Democrats can come back from the dead open.substack.com/pub/briantyl...
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How Democrats can come back from the dead
There is only one way for the Democratic Party to survive
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ButchieT @butchiet.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Trump Gets New Podiatrist’s Note in Preparation for War with Canada open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...
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Trump Gets New Podiatrist’s Note in Preparation for War with Canada
His new podiatrist, Dr. Mehmet Oz, composed the note.
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ButchieT @butchiet.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Was anyone thinking what I was thinking on The Ides of March?
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ButchieT @butchiet.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Schumer is a schit! Resign NOW
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ButchieT @butchiet.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
What Was That? open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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What Was That?
Grandpa Simpson visited the Justice Department on Friday, giving a speech that must have given even his handlers pause, a campaign stump speech delivered in front of the Seal of the Department of Just...
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
(🧵) On Twitter, Elongelicals are insisting this Musk sentiment is right and defending him passionately. What makes this so interesting isn't that it's more antisemitism from Musk—an antisemite—but that he's encouraging historical analogies between 2025 America and N*zi Germany. So let's play it out.
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Musk Boosts Claim That Hitler Wasn’t to Blame for Holocaust
The MAGA millionaire reposted a tweet saying “public sector workers”—not Hitler—caused atrocities.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Resign
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