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Carman J. Price

@carmanjprice.bsky.social
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He/him. Singer of jazz standards & choral music. Fan of Jeopardy! (Pop Culture Jeopardy S1 contestant!) and TCM. Be curious, listen more.

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Amadi Lovelace @amaditalks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Remember that if you got the Moderna Covid vaccine, you have Dolly Parton to thank, she gave the largest individual contribution toward their research to make it possible.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
with alt text. this is so beautiful 💕
Dolly Partons IMAGINATION LIBRARY

Dear Imagination Library Graduate,

My, how time flies. It seems it was only yesterday when your family and friends read you your first story. You were just a baby. Now you're five years old and about to go to school. How exciting!
This may be your last book from my Imagination Library but you have to promise me you will keep on reading. If you go to your local public library you will find a great number of books just for kids your age. Every book is a treasure and every time you open one up you will meet new friends and take wonderful journeys to magical places.
I hope you have a great time in school. I bet your school will even have a library where you can check out books. You and all of your friends are very special. There is no limit to what you can do or how far you can go.

Just remember the lessons my family taught me - dream big dreams; learn everything you can learn; and care for all those who care for you. You do all of these things and you can be anyone you want to be.

You are terrific, and remember...
I Will Always Love You,
Dolly
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spooky halloween txt @metaltxt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Well, what I always say, "I just want everybody to be treated good." I try not to get into the politics of everything. I try to get into the human element of it. I have some of everybody in my own immediate family and in my circle of employees. I've got transgender people. I've got gays. I've got lesbians. I've got drunks. I've got drug addicts — all within my own family. I know and love them all, and I do not judge.

And I just see how broken-hearted they get over certain things and I know how real they are. I know how important this is to them. That's who they are. They cannot help that any more than I can help being Dolly Parton, you know, the way people know me. If there's something to be judged, that is God's business. But we are all God's children and how we are is who we are.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Parton's legacy as a songwriter, a performer, a personality, and a beacon of warmth and acceptance all make her one of the greatest to have ever done it. But when you add the truly astounding level of her philanthropy...what is there to say? She inspired decency and shamed the wicked. All hail.
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Phoef Sutton @phoefsutton.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I am generally skeptical of boycotts. But I don't think one can overstate the degree to which J.K. Rowling has chosen to make loathing of trans people and cruelty about them into her primary identity. Nobody on earth will suffer from skipping the Harry Potter series. Let's not make her richer.
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Joe Hass @hassgocubs.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Via @moryan.bsky.social via @runwithskizzers.bsky.social, a friendly reminder: JK Rowling is a transphobic bigot.
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There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.
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Carman J. Price @carmanjprice.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I miss these so much! And Dad’s Goodie Rings.
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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 03/08/2026
There is no version of yourself you could become that would satisfy the people who hate you. So you might as well be who you are.
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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Yep [as Linda knows] this is also a common response when someone accused of misconduct or abuse: "He was nice to me/I never saw it." Right so [Chidi voice] you get how that makes it worse??! This person KNEW how to be good, thoughtful etc & chose not to act that way in situations where it mattered!
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Wallace @wallace.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I got to know Lindsey Graham during our years working together to pass the Incinerate Children on Other Continents for Profit Act. He was a good man.
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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
‘Say yes and never do it’ Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios
You have some wonderful stories of basically getting away with stuff at the studios.

I’d learned one very simple trick: say yes. Simply say yes. Like Joseph E. Levine, on “The Producers,” said, “The curly-haired guy—he’s funny looking. Fire him.” He wanted me to fire Gene Wilder. And I said, “Yes, he’s gone. I’m firing him.” I never did. But he forgot. After the screening of “Blazing Saddles,” the head of Warner Bros. threw me into the manager’s office, gave me a legal pad and a pencil, and gave me maybe twenty notes. He would have changed “Blazing Saddles” from a daring, funny, crazy picture to a stultified, dull, dusty old Western. He said, “No farting.” I said, “It’s out.”That’s probably the most famous scene in the movie, the campfire scene.

I know. He said, “You can’t punch a horse.” I said, “You’ll never see it again.” I kept saying, “You’re absolutely right. It’s out!” Then, when he left, I crumpled up all his notes, and I tossed it in the wastepaper basket. And John Calley, who was running [production at] Warner Bros. at the time, said, “Good filing.” That was the end of it. You say yes, and you never do it.

That’s great advice for life.

It is. Don’t fight them. Don’t waste your time struggling with them and trying to make sense to them. They’ll never understand.
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
A very happy 80th & final birthday to our great President!
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
RIP Sonny Rollins, a great jazz talent and the last surviving musician in one of the best photos of men in suits during the 20th century
The black-and-white photo A Great Day in Harlem shows 57 musicians gathered around the steps of a Harlem brownstone, while some kids sit on the curb. The photo was originally shot for an August 1958 issue of Esquire Magazine.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
What's wild is that the only group that actually violates property rights in Canada is corporations. They can drill through your land and excavate you from your home and send the RCMP if you protest. Yet racists want us all to be mad at Indigenous people who didn't take anyone's property title away
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Google, Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon have announced that they now plan to spend $725 billion on infrastructure this year — mostly AI data centers. With that money America could end homelessness, alleviate hunger, make public colleges free, and more.
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Torrance Coste @torrancecoste.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
“We cannot continue to expand fossil fuel infrastructure and hit our climate goals.” - @davidebybc.bsky.social, 2022 This man’s descent from progressive to corporate conservative underscores the profound toxicity of power.
A post from David Eby celebrating the expansion of fracked gas in BC.
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I voted for her @atinyweneebebe.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
It really isn’t hard to get rich if you are devoid of any morality, do not obey the law, and do not value people or the planet.
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Carman J. Price @carmanjprice.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Don’t stop now!
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 10/04/2026
This infuriating attitude shows up on the bookshelves in learning environments, too. We expect girls to empathize with boys, but we kneecap every opportunity to let boys empathize with girls. And look where we are.
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🐈‍⬛ 👻 Kat-erwaulin' Hyssssslop 🐍🎃 @kehyslop.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
"In a statement to CBC News, a spokesperson for the board says “there are very few areas we are able to make reductions,” noting that music is not an area protected by collective agreements or contracts." www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...
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These B.C. students are trying to drum up $250K to save their music programs | CBC Radio
For a trio of B.C. high school band students, the idea came to them, clear as a bell: if no one else would step in to save their school’s music programs — they would.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
If only a dozen Republicans in Congress found the will, they could impeach and remove him today.
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Mel Woods @melwoods.me · 27/03/2026
One of the reasons I covered the Olympic policy from this angle is that a lot of media is failing to cover the IOC policy for what it is. When you say athletes have to undergo mandatory testing, it's important to highlight that only women have to do it ... xtramagazine.com/culture/olym...
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IOC fairness in women’s sports policy makes sports less fair for women | Xtra Magazine
In banning trans women from the Olympics and mandating strict gender testing, the IOC just set women’s rights overall back
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Xtra @xtramagazine.com · 27/03/2026
In banning trans women from the Olympics and mandating strict gender testing, the IOC just set women’s rights overall back
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IOC fairness in women’s sports policy makes sports less fair for women | Xtra Magazine
In banning trans women from the Olympics and mandating strict gender testing, the IOC just set women’s rights overall back
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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
the girl guides in the UK just kicked out all their trans members specifically bc they were threatened with a lawsuit from a rowling-funded group
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DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 16/03/2026
“No to war and Free Palestine” — Javier Bardem at the Oscars
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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Every other team in the WBC has demonstrated a love of country, baseball, their fans, their teammates, and a love of joy itself and Mark De Rosa and the U.S. team have offered nothing but gross pro-military horseshit. They're just the worst and I hope the D.R. hangs a dozen runs on 'em.
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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
From the Tehran Times - photos of the school CHILDREN killed by an AMERICAN tomahawk cruise missile. The headline: TRUMP, LOOK THEM IN THE EYES (Ht @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social )
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Carman J. Price @carmanjprice.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Saving this for… later.
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littlestormcloud.bsky.social @littlestormcloud.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Masterful Troll, TCM.
screenshot of a tv user guide, showing two channels under Tue 8PM:

MSNOW - State of the union
TCM East- Gaslight
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Brian McFadden @mcfadden.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Now USA needs one more sudden death, and you know who I'm talkin' about.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
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Brian Tallerico @briantallerico.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Age verification? I paid a penny for 12 cassette tapes.
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 10/02/2026
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 09/02/2026
"Every man has a go-to McConaughey film, a go-to Pitt film, a go-to DiCaprio film, and a go-to Gosling film." Every man has no such thing. Every man has a go-to Bette film, a go-to Joan film, a go-to Irene film, and a go-to Sylvia film.
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Jen St. Denis @jenstden.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
The photo for this story is literally a cop telling me to leave an area I'd just been given access to. Because they were tearing down a tent with a woman still inside. And they said **I** had to leave because of **her** privacy. Which they were violating. thetyee.ca/News/2026/02...
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Press Restrictions During Vancouver Decampment Violated Human Rights: Report | The Tyee
A BC human rights inquiry also found that the police board ‘abdicated its legal responsibility’ when investigating complaints.
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Carman J. Price @carmanjprice.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
I second the motion! 🥌
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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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Tyler McBrien @tylermcbrien.com · 03/02/2026
Martinez ends her testimony with this: "If there's not justice for the people, let there be no peace for the government."
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Al Hirschfeld Foundation @alhirschfeld.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Congratulations to John Williams and Steven Spielberg for your Grammy wins for the documentary “Music by John Williams” and congratulations to Steven Spielberg on achieving EGOT status! Images: John Williams, 1990 Steven Spielberg, 1997
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 30/01/2026
If I had to pick one scene from one movie, I'd pick this one.
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Midnight at the Oasis - Waiting for Guffman HD
YouTube video by artfilm33
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
And there were bloody footprints Where mercy should have stood And two dead left to die on snow-filled streets Alex Pretti and Renee Good... Their claim was self defense, sir Just don’t believe your eyes It’s our blood and bones And these whistles and phones Against Miller and Noem’s dirty lies.
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Hannah BW @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
my grandmother, an Auschwitz survivor, was Anne Frank’s neighbor in Amsterdam, and Oma thinks this comparison is perfectly apt
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
REP. OMAR after being attacked with liquid: “We will continue! These fucking assholes are not gonna get away with this! Here is the reality people like this ugly man don’t understand — we are Minnesota Strong. We’ll stay resilient in the face of whatever they might throw at us.”
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Emerald City Supporters @weareecs.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Our message remains clear and steadfast in solidarity with everyone in Minneapolis and across the continent facing the horrors of border policing and not backing down: FUCK ICE.
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
From "Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong" by Adam Serwer. Recommended. [gift link] www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 27/01/2026
No one writes like @adamserwer.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.
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Andrea Woo @andreawoo.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
“Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority.” - @adamserwer.bsky.social
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
James O'Keefe says he's never seen anything so organized as the anti-ICE movement, observers--he seems to think this term is code--everywhere he goes. Who is paying for it??? he demands to know. It's like he can't even imagine people caring for one another.
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