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Calming Influence

@calminginfluence.bsky.social
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Puget Sound (on a dry spot) Laborer, scientist, builder, artist, general life enthusiast. Despite it all, I like to smile. USAF, PSD, 9th SRW, Beale AFB, 75-79 Pro-democracy, Anti-authoritarian, Peace-loving veteran.

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🇺🇸𝕀𝕟𝕕𝕪 ℝ𝕖𝕗𝕦𝕘𝕖𝕖🇺🇸 ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖˡᵉˢˢ ᵁˢᴬ @indyrefugee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Why are racists refusing to do the jobs they clawed back from immigrants?
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John Andreini @jpandre52.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just look at the Epstein Files. Trump was saved by a system that puts white wealthy men above the law. If other white wealthy men put Trump in jail, their own criminal acts and degenerate lives are at risk, so they protect each other. This goes beyond party lines.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
holy shit -- turns out Jack Smith went to a Hawkeyes game in Maryland but Schmitt's team is so reckless they concocted a conspiracy theory that Smith was actually in Atlanta seeing a Hawks game and colluding with Fani Willis. Klobuchar points out to Schmitt, "you have your teams wrong."
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El Howieson @elhowieson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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RoseyRoseamund - VOTE, OR FUCK OFF! @roseyroseamund.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This is life under Republican party rule. And I say Republican because THEY'RE in on it. I swear to Christ, if anyone here is encouraging others not to vote in the midterms, FUCK YOU. And ESPECIALLY don't take advice from foreigners. Why would you do that????
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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
🇺🇦 Zelensky: The war will end, I am sure people will return. I do not know what percentage will return. It will depend on what I said: education, on parents who did not allow their children to forget Ukraine — in their hearts, in their minds, in everything.
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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 18/09/2026
Folks, it's the fuckin phones.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Gas prices in Mountain West and other state where people think nothing of driving a few hundred miles for say a high school football game would seem to be a particularly big X factor
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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 18/09/2026
While top officials publicly spar over whether Pennsylvanians are dying of measles, a midwife in Amish country believes the outbreak is so bad she wants to be able to carry the MMR vaccine herself.
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‘Babies are dying’: How Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak changed the vaccine mindset of this Amish country midwife
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Cascadia Daily News @cascadiadaily.com · 18/09/2026
PeaceHealth, one of Whatcom County’s largest employers, is laying off 17 local employees and 150 systemwide as it outsources its IT services to a company in India.
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PeaceHealth lays off 17 in Bellingham, 150 systemwide | Cascadia Daily News
Health system announced plans to outsource IT services to India
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
They could tell you the mission, but then they'd have to kill you. Psych! They're going to kill you anyway.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“To play in venues that silence anyone advocating for Free Palestine is simply not an option for us… most of the audience supported @macklemore… the real enemy is the Zionist lobby. Up the workers. Free Palestine.” @edsheeran’s band Beoga reminding us what moral clarity is
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
They keep this up a 56-44 senate could happen 😳🤞🏻
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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 16/09/2026
If only the Minneapolis charter commission was still alive to see what they've done.
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Might be a reason that the Constitution requires congressional authorization—which would be accompanied by public debate and deliberation—before going to war.
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
CBS doesn’t think it’s newsworthy that Don Jr’s wedding was funded by Russian oligarchs. Yet she led the charge to accuse Twitter of censorship for removing pics of Hunter Biden’s penis.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
James Talarico: I wish our government would go after pedophiles like they go after brown men headed to work at 7 a.m. I wish our government would close billionaire tax loopholes like they close our public schools. I wish our government would fund healthcare like they fund forever wars.
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Patel cast doubt on the pro-victim storyline because the same rules changes allow for people who have stolen from their employers to be considered for the FBI.Is it only people who've stolen from their human trafficker employers? Are human traffickers employers?
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GodlessPrimate @godlessprimate.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We get all of the "advice" for our spending, the little we have to spend, while billionaires ride on private jets to pedophilia islands and hang out on yachts.
The people giving poor people advice on spending can fuck off.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 10/09/2026
The Hunter Biden cryptocurrency story is ridiculous. The corruption in this country has to end, no matter who it is. It’s out of control.
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News to Remember @moments2remember.link · 08/09/2026
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin is facing sharp criticism after suggesting that federal agents could be deployed to polling stations during elections, a move that many experts warn would violate federal law....
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Legal Expert Slams Trump DHS Chief Over On Camera Blunder Go Back To Plumbing School
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin is facing sharp criticism after suggesting that federal agents could be deployed to polling stations during elections, a move that many experts warn would violate federal law. During a recent appearance on the "Legal AF" podcast, legal analyst Michael Popok didn't hold back in his response to Mullin’s controversial remarks. Popok argued that the secretary's comments could lead to legal consequences, potentially spanning a prison sentence of five years.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The most dangerous person is the moron who thinks he knows everything with the ability to wreck the fortunes of a country and harm its people. We’ve had many bad presidents, but there was just nobody close to this bad.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 03/09/2026
Rob Sand: "I think I'm the better choice to be your next governor, and I'll start with this — I don't think you're gonna get a full-time governor out of a part-time Iowan…So I feel pretty comfortable saying he's a part-time Iowan."
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The Steady State @thesteadystate.org · 03/09/2026
OSC closed The Steady State’s Hatch Act complaint against Secretary Pete Hegseth just one day after receiving it. Our FOIA request found no records showing how OSC reached that decision. No investigative notes, legal analysis, or case-opening/closing documents. We’re appealing: zurl.co/5RXX5
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Kinlika @kinlika.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
From all that has been said and unearthed and agreed on regarding Epstein This Ar$ewipe has been front and centre from the get-go It was his money that started Epstein on the path to infamy www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
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Billionaire Leon Black sues House Oversight Committee over Epstein probe subpoenas
A lawyer for the former Wall Street private equity investor argued that the committee was overstepping its authority.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
pedo-bot money is now in at least 15 midterm contests Musk spends his dirty money in key midterm races www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Musk spends his dirty money in key midterm races
The racist billionaire reportedly plans to spend $100 million to boost Republicans.
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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
He wished it on a whole bunch of anyones. He just didn’t think he’d wind up being one of the anyones.
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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The USPS whistleblower letter raises a whole sort of overarching problem with all of Trump's illegal plots and schemes. Even if they don't come to fruition, they create the prospect for chaos come election, which is his ultimate hole card. I did a longer youtube on this youtu.be/-37uKOQw88E
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BOMBSHELL: Whisteblower REVEALS Trump Ballot Maneuever at US Postal Service
YouTube video by Talking Feds with Harry Litman
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Slava Ukraini 💙💛✊🏻✌🏻🐸 @hhlouise.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Alarm Bells Go Off: #TrumpElectionSabotage Escalates, Johnson Moves to Dodge #EpsteinVote, #Iran Strikes Resume, Apple Caves aaronparnas.substack.com/p/alarm-bell...
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Alarm Bells Go Off: Trump's Election Interference Escalates, Johnson Moves to Dodge Epstein Vote, Iran Strikes Resume, Apple Caves
There’s a lot happening today, and most of it points the same direction.
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Lawyers, Guns and Money @lawgunsmoney.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Make MapQuest Great Again
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Make MapQuest Great Again - Lawyers, Guns & Money
It’s obviously not the most important example of resistance to the Trump administration, but in its own way it’s a telling one: MapQuest has seen a surge in app downloads after the company said it will not rename Lake Ontario to Lake America, following an executive order President Donald Trump issued last week amid an […]
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 28/08/2026
Video is also 9:25 long...
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Perfect image of Trump’s disinformation strategy.
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Matt Bishop 🏳️‍🌈 🏁 @thebishf1.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Had he lived, Patrick Depailler would be turning 82 today. But, like too many in his era of #F1, he was killed in action, testing an Alfa at Hockenheim in ’80. Even so, let’s enjoy this famous pic of his & Ronnie Peterson’s 12-wheeled Tyrrell drift at Interlagos in ’77.
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Sybil Disobedience @toyotacorolla.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
JAMES BOND (ejecting Friendly Fires CD from 2008 Prius CD player): Bollocks
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Sansa Sandisk @cheatlines.co · 10/08/2026
i love being a stupid american watching a crime show set in London. The showrunners are like "We're going to show you the GRIT and the SEEDY UNDERBELLY of this TEEMING METROPOLIS... 2000 YEARS OF SHIT GOING DOWN" and I'm like "yay :) london :) rainy :) double decker bus :) :)"
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The President promotes Scotts Miracle-Gro in the middle of an Oval Office event: The best grass you can get. Scotts, you know Scotts? Scott's Miracle-Gro, they're doing it. They do great grass. I got to give him a plug because they did the White House for free.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Sanders: The irony is that the proper criticism of communism is that the Soviet Union was an authoritarian society.  And then you’ve got the most authoritarian president in the history of this country. So I suppose when he says, “I’d be a great communist,” yeah, I think there’s some truth to that
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
El-Sayed on Vance: Is that Peter Thiel's boy with that Ohio charisma? The last thing that he said that made any sense was Hillbilly Elegy—after he said that Donald Trump had no business being president of anything. And then he decided to suck up to power.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Phang: This means we’re going to get these handwritten FBI interview notes from four interviews conducted with this victim who alleges she was abused by Donald Trump.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Phang: The breaking news is… an order was just entered within the last hour by Judge Sullivan in my lawsuit against Todd Blanche. The reason why this is so momentous is that Judge Sullivan has pretty much said in this order, “Todd Blanche, you have now defied my orders.”
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The Wolfpack @wolfpack11720.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Mike Luckovich
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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
UPDATE: Burgum joins Trump-Pirro fray, says "evidence is clear" that vandals damaged reflecting pool, despite Pirro saying that until recently Burgum's agency withheld info that undercut criminal prosecution www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
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Trump dings longtime ally Jeanine Pirro for dropping Reflecting Pool vandalism case
The president said he disagreed “100%” with the top Washington prosecutor after her office abandoned vandalism charges for the former Olympian.
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Cascadia(PNW) @cascadiarevolting.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Please cancel all of them moving forward.
BREAKING NEWS
Blue Angels air show canceled at Seafair due to wind
The U.S. Navy Blue Angels demonstration team, a main attraction at Seattle's annual festival, canceled their scheduled appearance Saturday, citing wind conditions.
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The future of mass deportation is small-town America. Check out little Mount Holly Springs, Pa. - just 2,300 people, 4 cops, and a whopping 32 immigrants handed to ICE in just 4 mos. after a 287(g) deal with the feds:
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MissPlaced @missplaced.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
#UnionStrong
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