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Chard Nelson

@chardlee.bsky.social
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Dad, baseball enthusiast, theater fanatic, scuba diver, ocean conservation activist, food bank volunteer, recreational photographer, tech nerd

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Norm Ornstein @normornstein.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My take on what Democrats should do in the majority  newrepublic.com/article/2161...
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The Long and Extremely Urgent To-Do List if Democrats Take the House
If House Democrats don’t use every tool at their disposal to name names, kick ass, and stop further destruction, there will be hell to pay with the base.
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Chard Nelson @chardlee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Well, you know, there was that 18h minute gap where he spent the whole time explaining that this was all just {expletive deleted} role playing. The Dems obviously covered that over. Duh.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
People say Bluesky is a bubble, but mostly it's because the entire rest of the internet is an absolute sewer
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I’m the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband.
You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night.
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Christopher Moore @theauthorguy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Pocket, a small, indoor fool, makes Jeopardy tonight.
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Marine Conservation Institute @savingoceans.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The BBNJ Agreement just reached 100 ratifications! We celebrate this milestone and look ahead to a strong network of protected MPAs on the high seas. Congrats to Germany, Zimbabwe, Papua New Guinea, Canada, Australia & Brunei Darussalam. Now: turn ratification into real, lasting ocean protection.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Raskin made a holy shit observation on MS Now this afternoon: Since taking office, Trump has made a million dollars per hour for himself. Every hour, he has made more than twice the president’s annual salary.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
New: hackers say they have personal data on all FBI employees and spouses. I got a sample of 5,000 alleged employees, including name, physical address, phone number, and in some cases spouses. Could be a massive national security and counterintelligence risk www.404media.co/we-hacked-th...
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‘We Hacked the FBI:’ Hackers Say They Have Data on All FBI Employees
A sample of 5,000 alleged agents seen by 404 Media includes names, addresses, phone numbers, and details on FBI employees' spouses.
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Chard Nelson @chardlee.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It matches his hat nicely, though.
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Chard Nelson @chardlee.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Apartheid would also like a word.
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DevinCow @devincow.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
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Chard Nelson @chardlee.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Of all the words I ever expected to use to describe a president, "pathetic" was not on the list. Now that's one of the milder terms.
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Everything you need to know about Mike Johnson's character and the GOP's views on sexual harassment can be seen in the way he handled the censure of Chuck Edwards as compared to the way Kevin McCarthy handled Adam Schiff's:
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It's like a parody, but it's deadly serious; the Commerce Department (which includes Census, NOAA, and others) has outright deleted "don't alter or suppress scientific findings for political reasons" from its scientific integrity rules. Seriously.
Protecting against "inappropriate influence" is no longer a "hallmark" of scientific integrity

The Commerce Department updated its policy for promoting a "culture of scientific integrity" in January 2025, days before Trump's second inauguration.

A new Trump administration order bans the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis from using statistical “noise,” or data for fuzzing survey results, to protect people’s privacy in their statistics.

The 2025 version included bans on attempts to shape or interfere in data collection, statistical analysis and other scientific activities "against well-accepted scientific methods and theories or without scientific justification."

The department's policy, the 2025 version said, involves ensuring scientific findings at its agencies "are not suppressed, delayed, or altered for political purposes and are not subjected to inappropriate influence," as well as making sure there's "independent review of facilities, methodologies, and other scientific activities as appropriate to ensure scientific integrity."

That language is missing, however, in the Trump administration's revision of the policy, according to an NPR analysis of text posted on the Commerce Department's website.

And while the revision adopts a definition for "scientific integrity" that is similar to the previous version, it no longer says that "protection from inappropriate influence" is among the "hallmarks of scientific integrity."
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Chard Nelson @chardlee.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
What do you mean the balcony was supposed to be outside the house?
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Chard Nelson @chardlee.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
My takeaway from trading his book on hitting was "hips before hands". You can see him generating torque that way.
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Chard Nelson @chardlee.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Add some cheap gold filigree and you've got something there.
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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Journalists need to stop describing these incidents in terms implying software has agency and intent. It does not. The people who created a faulty and dangerous product are the ones responsible for whatever happens, and must be held to account, with punitive financial penalties for damage done.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/08/2026
the famous line about how michael caine treated the muppets as fellow actors and tim curry treated himself as a fellow muppet keeps running through my head we have a lot of brilliant actors, but how many of them can really pull off 'unhinged muppet' the way curry could? what a tremendous loss
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Tim Curry Laughing as Pirate Captain
Alt: Tim Curry as Long John Silver in Muppet Treasure Island laughing
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
If you have enough money that you can blow $100,000,000 on avoiding taxes, you have enough money to pay $100,000,000 *on* taxes that will help your fellow citizens, you self-centered prick.
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Chard Nelson @chardlee.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I have learned more about baseball by listening to Mike over the years than all my other learnings combined. He's a treasure, and I will miss him terribly.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
DO IT NO MATTER WHAT.
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Chard Nelson @chardlee.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
El Cerrito was a lovely place to grow up, pre-Internet. Even when my mom sold her house and moved to the other end of town, she quickly found a really nice group of neighbors. It is unclear to me how social media has improved anything about local life.
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I Remember, Hope you do….
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Chard Nelson @chardlee.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The day I discovered the Scotch egg was one of the happiest of my life. The restaurant that made it is no longer in business, but I'm still in search of something that can match it.
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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
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A tweet 

I'll never get over how the best line in all of noir - "I've got eight slugs in me. One's lead, and the rest are bourbon - doesn't come from Raymond Chandler or Dashiell Hammett, but Calvin and Hobbes

Above a classic comic of Calvin as tracer bullet private eye, a noir render with a detective cap and pistol behind a desk. The caption is YEAH, THAT'S ME, TRACER BULLET.
I'VE GOT EIGHT SLUGS IN ME.
ONE'S LEAD, AND THE REST ARE BOURBON. THE DRINK PACKS A WALLOP, AND I PACK A REVOLVER.
I'M A PRIVATE EYE.
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Chard Nelson @chardlee.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Thanks for the message. I watched it on a plane this weekend. That was...weird, but fun!
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Chard Nelson @chardlee.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I dunno. Seems pretty on-brand for a guy named Cotton. Maybe he'd just really committed to the bit.
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En Buen Ora @enbuenora.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Just the *increase* Trump is requesting is ridiculously bigger than the *entirety* of other social programs, and ask yourself when you heard it characterized that way in news media discussions of how we just got to cut all this big deficit-causing social spending?
Graph with billions of dollars at left and 5 different US government spending programs, the leftmost being "Trump boost to military spending" at $600B, ACA (Obamacare) subsidies at some tiny level ($20B?), expanded child tax credits at $100B, USAID at maybe $25B, and Corporation for Public Broadcasting, now at zero.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/07/2026
Slotkin: "The president is using an authoritarian playbook I have seen tons of times abroad, where he's sowing misinformation & disinformation about our elections...it culminates in a in him creating a security incident that requires uniformed military or federal law enforcement to go to the polls."
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 12/07/2026
Alfred Nobel established the Nobel Prize after wake up call: newspapers mistakenly published his obituary when his brother died & what he read as his legacy horrified him speaking ill (factually) of the dead is literally the most effective way to curb living racist & Nazi public figures/politicians
There is a well-known story about the origin of the Nobel Prize, although historians have been unable to verify it, and some dismiss the story as a myth.[26] In 1888, the death of his brother Ludvig supposedly caused several newspapers to publish obituaries of Alfred in error. One French newspaper[which?] condemned him for his invention of military explosives—in many versions of the story, dynamite is quoted, although this was mainly used for civilian applications—and this is said to have brought about his decision to leave a better legacy after his death.[6] The obituary supposedly stated, Le marchand de la mort est mort ("The merchant of death is dead"),[6] and according to the myth went on to say, "Dr. Alfred Nobel, who became rich by finding ways to kill more people faster than ever before, died yesterday."[27] Nobel read the obituary and was appalled at the idea that he would be remembered in this way. His decision to posthumously donate the majority of his wealth to found the Nobel Prize has been credited to him wanting to leave behind a better legacy.[28][6] However, it has been questioned whether or not the obituary in question actually existed.[28] An actual obituary (pictured) stated "A man who can only with the utmost difficulty be considered a benefactor of mankind has died yesterday at Cannes. It is Mr. Nobel, inventor of dynamite. Mr. Nobel was Swedish." It was published on the first page of the Figaro on the 15th of April 1888 and retracted the next day.
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Chard Nelson @chardlee.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I wish we had a Silly Party in this country instead of several stupid ones.
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Brandon Leger @pathius.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
When corporate tax rates were 90% it created incentive for money to go back in to the company, so a lot went to R&D. Now it all goes into the pockets of executives and shareholders. Tax corporations.
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Cinnamon Toast Cunt @meri90.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Meta contaminated Cheyenne Wyoming’s wastewater supply with a bacteria with a 31% mortality rate DEATH TO AI
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Chard Nelson @chardlee.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
There's one who hangs around at the lake near my house. We call him Big Bird because he acts like he owns the place. Until the white pelicans come by. Then he tries to look very small and inconspicuous. Makes me laugh every time.
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Chard Nelson @chardlee.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
That's your pirate name, right?
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Kat Maybury @katmaybird.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Crowd on the National Mall at the Folklife Festival in the 1980s (photo: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives).
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Lecia Michelle @leciamichelle.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
More green herons because they are so pretty. #birds #photography #birdsofbluesky
Green heron with teal, burgundy, and yellow feathers with orange feet. Bird is perched on a branch with green leaves in the background.
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
It's Anti-Prime Day on Bookshop.org, the best day to support your favorite independent bookstore, and give your money to working people not billionaries, when ordering one of my books! bookshop.org/beta-search?...
The cover of "Inventing the Renaissance" by Ada PalmerThe cover of "Too Like the Lightning" by Ada PalmerThe cover of "Perhaps the Stars" by Ada PalmerThe cover of "Trace Elements: Conversations of the Project of Science Fiction and Fantasy" by Jo Walton and Ada Palmer
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Brian Jay Jones @brianjayjones.com · 22/06/2026
OTD in 1979, THE MUPPET MOVIE opened in theaters across the United States. Jim Henson noted (with typical understatement) that its reception was "Great!" and it was one of the most profitable films of the decade. But getting the Muppets to the big screen in the first place was hard work.
The movie poster for THE MUPPET MOVIE, which opened OTD in 1979.
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Chard Nelson @chardlee.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
But at least they're wildly inconsistent, so they keep that little bit of hope alive. Barely. Sort of.
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Corey O'Neill @coreyoneill.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
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Chard Nelson @chardlee.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Joseph Heller is rolling in his grave.
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Chard Nelson @chardlee.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Yeah, I was thinking about that first Until There's a Cure Day, too. The team used to handle dissent in the clubhouse, not guys just airing their views in the middle of a team event.
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Amber Woods @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
NEW Trump has now opened all five U.S. marine national monuments to commercial fishing, ending long-standing fishing restrictions across millions of protected ocean acres. Conservationists warn the move puts habitat for whales, sea turtles, sharks, and coral reefs at risk.
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
live your life in such a way that the entire world isn’t waiting to see your accursed name pried off every building
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 12/06/2026
A trillionaire isn’t a success story. it’s a policy failure.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Reporter: Are you concerned, Mr. President, about the latest inflation number which came out this morning? Trump: No, I love it. I love the inflation.
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Chard Nelson @chardlee.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
They are also very nice people, genuinely concerned about the health of the ocean. They make a bunch of other really good products, too. Happy to support Stream2Sea!
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 05/06/2026
i know no one cares, nothing matters, it’s all blasé to the median voter and pundit, but a sitting AG (even just acting) making these kinds of boldly partisan remarks would have been seen, in the past, as grounds for removal on a bipartisan basis
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Baseball by BSmile @bsmile.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Today In 1932: Legendary manager John McGraw steps down as the skipper of the New York #Giants and retires from baseball. He finishes his career with an amazing 2,763 wins! #MLB #Baseball #History #SFGiants
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