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Chris Jensen

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“ Sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly “ - and sometimes glacially - I’ve stumbled my way to a life I no longer want to lose. I write about grief, Shame, reconciliation, and the long way around to healing after years of getting in my own way.

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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
They should consider themselves lucky this time. #wildlife #nature #bullelk #estespark IG: @goodbullguided www.instagram.com/goodbullguid...
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We @democracydefendersfund.org helped stop ballot seizure efforts in CA & helped save mail-in voting in the USPS case Now we’re taking on possible deployment of ICE at polling places I explain in my weekly column @ContrarianNews.org 👇 -TN
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It Was the Best of Fridays, It Was the Worst of Fridays (Well, Kinda)
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Susan Shelton @txsccs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
How much could a banana cost? Ten dollars?
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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Every word on Trump in this is bang on the money. Wake up Democrats & fight for truth, decency & standing for the working classes against the billionaire gangster class. And don't get obsessed with rules & procedures as a replacement for what you stand for as you have done. @walshfreedom.bsky.social
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
BREAKING: @democracydefendersfund.org filed a Hatch Act complaint against Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy He pitched DOT policy at a super PAC event in Michigan & tied it to a Senate endorsement You can't electioneer with your cabinet title. Congress settled that in 1939 Our complaint👇 -TN
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Maggie 👗🧢💎💙🩵💙FBR @magi777.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
He can’t stay out of midterm interference. 🤯>Just imagine I’m there; they won’t know the difference since I’m always sleeping. If he wants to make the midterms all about himself, he should buy all the Republican candidates his face mask.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Proud to support the movement for labor rights each and every day.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 10/09/2026
40% more kids are eating breakfast and 15% more are eating lunch since we launched free school meals in Minnesota. Now we’re making sure 100% of kids eat their broccoli.
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Chris Jensen @chrisjensenwriter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Catnaps all day! #catlover #cats
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
It still sickens me this bigot mocked a disabled reporter and millions of Americans said, “No big deal. That’s who I want as president.”
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barbhansen.bsky.social @barbhansen.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Behind Closed Doors, John Fetterman churns through staff, dodges constituents, alienates fellow Democrats, skips meeting w wounded veteran left waiting, and courts Israel lobby www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Behind Closed Doors, John Fetterman Shows Little Interest in the Work of a Senator
The first-term senator, poised to be a possible swing vote, churns through staff as he alienates fellow Democrats and defends Israel.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/09/2026
Trump claims his super PACS money is “my money”
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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Lake America
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
March 8.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 05/09/2026
Today, I had the honor of speaking with patients and providers at NYC Health + Hospitals’ World Trade Center Environmental Health Center. The WTC EHC has offered exceptional care to more than 22,000 survivors facing long-term health challenges related to 9/11.
Mayor Mamdani speaks to a New Yorker. A group of New Yorkers sit around a square table at Bellevue.
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Chris Jensen @chrisjensenwriter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I went full Conway Twitty for my niece's Western-themed wedding
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Me crossing beef off my shopping list …
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Chris Jensen @chrisjensenwriter.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
New piece is up. It's about the photos that kept me tethered to the world for a while. It's also about buttercups, Cheryl Strayed, and my late friend Kate Vita, who taught me that the most important thing you can do in any artistic endeavor is to forget about everyone else and just do it for you.
In November 2014, I left San Francisco the way you leave a house on fire: not because I'd stopped loving it, but because staying had stopped being a choice I got to make. I hadn't filed taxes in two years. My freelance work had thinned to almost nothing, and my landlord raised the rent like a final, indifferent shove. I was, of course, an active participant in my own unraveling, but I wasn't ready to look at that yet. Blaming the landlord was simpler.
Spokane was the sensible move: inexpensive, familiar, full of people who already knew me.
It was also the last place I wanted to be. I told myself I was getting my life back on track, but I was really just bringing the same problem to a colder climate.That winter was dark in the specific way
Spokane winters are dark: the sky goes the color of a bruise sometime in November and doesn't change much until March. I managed to make it to spring, but that didn't feel like any kind of achievement. The sun would peek through the curtains in the morning and I'd stay in bed, doing the math on whether I had the nerve to get up, brush my teeth, be a person for the day.
By that point, the first buttercups had come up through the patches of snow along Latah Creek, small and stupidly bright against everything that was still brown and half-dead. Camera in hand, I found myself looking at those glossy little scraps of yellow and landing on something between an idea and a plan.
One good picture, I told myself. Just try to take one good picture today.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
THIS 👇 HERE AS WELL.......
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This may never be topped.
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
We need more politicians like Pete, who not only see the problems, but also has ideas to fix them. I was accused of "ageism" when I said the old guard needs to step down. It's not about age, it's about the attitude of going along to get along, of being tone deaf to the times we're living in, etc.
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Mike Henry @onlyveesaz.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Happy September! 🏜️🌵☀️
Post-monsoon sunrise in SE Arizona
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
A Florida “Deputy of the Year” resigned after an investigation found he used Flock cameras to track his ex, put a gun in his girlfriend’s mouth during sex, used racial slurs and apparently gave a Nazi salute. This seems to have been the final straw for Flock in Florida.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/09/2026
He’s scared, and proposing a constitutional amendment to keep SCOTUS at 9 justices because court expansion is actually mainstream. Jim Clyburn endorsed it Sunday. 👀
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I want to tell you about David, a long time Winsted small business owner who is now living out of his truck. I met him at Dunkin on my walk across the state. “How come the government spends a zillion dollars on this fucking war but doesn’t care about people like me at all?”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
A reminder for Corporate Democrats: New research from Yale found that Medicare for All would save over 114,000 lives and $1 trillion a year. It's no surprise why the majority of Americans — including 90% of Democratic voters — support it.
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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
It’s not “an oil deal with Venezuela.” It’s Trump kidnapping an autocrat, refusing to hold elections, then leaving the remainder of the regime in place but only if they allow him to pillage their natural resources, which they are doing to remain in power oppressing the people.
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Buckingham Palace band playing 9 to 5 for Dolly Parton
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
On this day in 1963, my mom and grandma — and about 250,000 others — marched on Washington.

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On this day in 1963, my mother and grandmother — and about 250,000 others — marched on Washington.

Photograph showing massive crowds of people on The Mall, starting at the Lincoln Memorial, going around the Reflecting Pool, and continuing to the Washington Monument, at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963. At this event, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech. 
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Photograph showing massive crowds of people on The Mall, starting at the Lincoln Memorial, going around the Reflecting Pool, and continuing to the Washington Monument, at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963. At this event, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech.
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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026
We’re not changing it.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
There's no forgiving this. No living it down. It's a stain on our humanity. When all this is over, the monsters who did this should be pariahs. And the soulless thugs who cheered it on while dehumanizing Haitian immigrants should be reminded of what they did every day of their lives.
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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Republicans have spent the last year trying to defund Dolly Parton
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Bambi and Thumper, the adult years 💕 TT: @medy_evans Port Angeles, Washington
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A 5-year-old Texan just spent the first day of school in an ICE detention center. ICE kidnapped Liam Tadeo on his way to a soccer game with his dad. Liam should be in kindergarten. Instead, our government has thrown him in a prison camp hundreds of miles from home.
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leftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Texans, if you’re one of the people who had their voter registration suspended, there’s still time to fix it! trib.al/OP3mVj5
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Abolish ICE. Fire them all. Prosecute their crimes.
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KC @kcwinters.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Jack Reed, RI senator, tells of the First Rhode Island Regiment, widely recognized as America’s first Black military regiment, which saw its first combat experience at the Battle of Rhode Island on August 29, 1778, in this 250 to 250 from @hcrichardson.bsky.social & team. youtu.be/mEfWer8E7M0?...
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First Rhode Island Regiment, Narrated by Senator Jack Reed
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OPrev @oprev7.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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#fighttheright | The Democratic Coalition | 51 comments
Great idea - the MITCH Act! FACT: Since he entered the Senate in 1985, Moscow Mitch McConnell has voted against creating or expanding medical leave — paid and unpaid — at least 23 times. A few infur...
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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Well this should do wonders for the Behavioral Analysis Unit. They can just study fellow agents. Ka$hApps buddies can all apply!
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Kacey325 @kacey325.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
That is 6% of Texas voters. That is HUGE. I hope folks who care about voting spend some of their energy trying to help Texans who are being disenfranchised. Texans, please check your own voter registration, and help those you love check theirs. 👇🏽 goelect.txelections.civixapps.com/ivis-mvp-ui/...
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Washington State Democrats @wadems.org · 29/08/2026
ICE is now targeting folks at Sea-Tac Airport. Including those with no criminal records, who have built lives, received work permits, and waited years for their application. Trump is now using domestic flight info to track, detain, and send them to the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma.
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‘It’s very unprecedented’: ICE targets certain immigrants at Sea-Tac Airport
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is targeting immigrants at Sea-Tac International Airport, including asylum seekers and green card applicants married to U.S. citizens.
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Chris Jensen @chrisjensenwriter.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Thank you to everyone who's been checking in. My place is a little south of the evacuation zone, and | only lost power for about 30 minutes yesterday, so I'm feeling very fortunate.
I took this photo from High Drive on the South Hill yesterday afternoon.
A few days ago, I was having a casual conversation with someone in my parents' generation. He's an educated, affable who's been very financially successful. We were talking about the unusually hot weather and the prospect of a brutal fire season. He would not acknowledge or admit that this is vastly different from when he and I were kids growing up in Spokane.
I don't think you can call that ignorance. It's more like a complete psychological blackout on the terrible changes in our climate and in our world that might've been addressed several decades ago, but now appear so advanced that's there's nothing to be done but pack a go-bag and hope the winds don't shift.
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Chris Jensen @chrisjensenwriter.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Serviceberry blossoms along Latah Creek
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Chris Jensen @chrisjensenwriter.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Dear @bsky.app, I'm looking for writers of memoir and creative nonfiction with fewer than 200 subscribers (just like me). Let's build each other up.
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Chris Jensen @chrisjensenwriter.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
So: I wrote an essay about objects that survived a period of time when I was doing my best to lose everything. It includes shout-outs to @troy.f.nickerson and Spokane's beloved @tossedfound - I'm proud of this one. Link in bio.
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