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Retired Midwest public librarian.

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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 21h
Voters will, and I cannot stress this enough, ALWAYS say taxes are too high. This is one of the reasons you have to tell people over and over what their taxes are doing. A lot won’t listen, but when we don’t tell people what stuff costs it’s easier for ‘tAxEs ArE THeFt!’ to take hold.
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🇺🇸IBWizard🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 🌻😷 🖖 @ibwizard.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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Retiredlibrarian @ciociano1.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
They are hoping to spark race riots. Trump had a post urging Minnesotans to crack down on Somalis. But short term memory Don forgets that he lost the last election when he was prez and there was racial unrest.
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Retiredlibrarian @ciociano1.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
But the one time they are really happy is when they are punching down.
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Retiredlibrarian @ciociano1.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Like the word “daring” in the title of his blog, like pissing off lefties is some breathtakingly risky undertaking. Like guys who try to impress by smashing aluminum beer cans.
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👣Coco👣 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @nortygirl.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Retiredlibrarian @ciociano1.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This. The only thing American conservatives truly believe in is that white conservatives should be able to push everybody else around. Every other “belief” is a useful tactic that can be disposed when inconvenient.
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Freethinkers United For Change @freethinkersunite.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Retiredlibrarian @ciociano1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
But they are not smart enough to realize that a lot of immigrants may exercise the option to leave or stay away. That’s why dairy farmers who voted for Trump are genuinely surprised that they are milking their cows alone.
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Retiredlibrarian @ciociano1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Here in Ohio, they have attack ads yelling TRANS, RADICAL and DRUNK DRUG USER about every three minutes. Across every TV station.
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Retiredlibrarian @ciociano1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Sometimes, cynicism is a dumb person’s way of trying to sound smart.
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Retiredlibrarian @ciociano1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
They were 100% on hustle because they assumed white men would be the beneficiaries. Guess not.
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
”i am a moderate on hustle“ = “I believe in whatever level of ‘ hustle‘ (;)) that will maximize the admission of white men to selective institutions“
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
There is no dialogue with the Sensible Moderates: they are *not listening to a word you say*, and they never have listened to anything you said. When you speak, they are only thinking about their next smart retort, and they only ever hear a noise like a cow mooing or Donald Duck throwing a tantrum.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I understand that paywalls are annoying, but the grim reality for everything right now, is if you want something to exist, you have to put money towards it. Every creative person is having their life's work hoovered up by AI companies. Layoffs never end. Private equity keeps making things worse.
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Jason Woodrow @jasonwoodrow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This morning's message from Indivisible
Your vote is not small to the people spending millions to make sure you never cast it. They know what happens when working people, young people, women, and every fed-up voter show up together. We flip Congress. They lose control. That’s the whole assignment.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Fox News talks a lot about the WNBA, but it’s not because it likes to see talented female athletes putting the ball in the hoop. To Fox, women’s sports is good for 2 things: 1. To agitate for white grievance. 2. To foment anti-trans hate. (This is No. 1, but there’s a lot of No. 2 on Fox as well.)
Fox headline: Sports media celebrates Caitlin Clark and Sophie Cunningham losing in the playoffs.
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Retiredlibrarian @ciociano1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
There is no depth ICE won’t stoop to: www.13abc.com/2026/10/02/f...
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Toledo man taken into federal immigration custody after 911 call for medical help
Police say Nazario Vazquez’s immigration status had nothing to do with their response or his later arrest, while his family argues the arrest ultimately put him on the path to federal custody.
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Retiredlibrarian @ciociano1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sound up startled the hell out of my cat.
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Retiredlibrarian @ciociano1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Pundits want to feel powerful, and nagging right wingers who will blow them off will not accomplish this.
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Retiredlibrarian @ciociano1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
And I’m betting the peeps who want trans people vigilante murdered perfectly overlap with peeps who want to give the Cornell 7 a calm, fair, non mob judgement.
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chrgeomo.bsky.social @chrgeomo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Rick Scott oversaw the biggest medicare fraud in history while leading a company in the private sector.
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Retiredlibrarian @ciociano1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In the library I worked for, management wanted to do the same thing. Librarians already have bad feet from walking on concrete, and management dopes who sit at desks wanted to make it worse.
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Retiredlibrarian @ciociano1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
And nobody will be prosecuted for this.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.
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Retiredlibrarian @ciociano1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
That’s not what I heard. I dared anxecangical who said only cheating was grounds for divorce. When I asked about abuse he kinds shrugged….
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Retiredlibrarian @ciociano1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Well, many CBS soap fans will be ok except for the ones who watch Beyond the Gates.
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Retiredlibrarian @ciociano1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I don’t think the excitement lasted a whole 24 hours. Everything—big announcements, alleged assassination attempts, insane social media postings—just disappear like Kleenex in a rainstorm, or drunken grandpa’s rants between servings of Thanksgiving dinner.
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Aida 🇵🇷🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦🐾🌊🦋🗽💙🐸 @latina4jesusdshw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Please don’t sit this one out! #Pinks #USDemocracy
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Retiredlibrarian @ciociano1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
More evidence that life is really based on Seinfeld episodes. This time, when Susan became a (temporary) lesbian after being with George.
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Retiredlibrarian @ciociano1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What a coincidence. I sought out and bought Bubbie pickles last week because I read that for authentic Sałatka Jarzynowa, you need fermented pickles. The clear taste of non-vinegar pickles won me over.
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Retiredlibrarian @ciociano1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
And these remakes always suck, because the good guys never win.
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Retiredlibrarian @ciociano1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is not just a grift, but a sort of badge of honor. She is from a whole class of people who have never known hardship, deprivation or mass tragedy. Having random strangers with no power to harm them say mean things about them is as close to battle scars as they will ever display.
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Retiredlibrarian @ciociano1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It’s easy to figure out. Telling rich people what they want to hear is attractive to rich patrons.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I like that in becoming a nazi, you get glowing coverage as a brave iconoclast, and then when you stop being a nazi, you’re get glowing coverage as a brave dissident. Money coming and going. Only way you lose is having normal opinions like “racism bad” bsky.app/profile/trac...
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쏨이시대 @missom.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
There is very little "mass/mainstream" music culture now in the US, outside for some corners of pop ubiquity like Taylor Swift. It's all silo-ed and decentralized. Like the only way I heard of this song was through this tweet
explaining choose in Texas to a leftist okay so you need to understand that American country music had has a Sunni Shia split between Nashville and Austin
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Retiredlibrarian @ciociano1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The ceasefire is a joke, and life in Palestine is no better. Meanwhile, Trump terrorizes Americans and strips us of our rights. Go peddle MAGA bullshit someplace else.
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Retiredlibrarian @ciociano1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
You are so right. Palestinians are in much better shape now since Trump got elected. In fact, they are not better off at all and a lot of other people are in worse shape. Congrats.
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Retiredlibrarian @ciociano1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Oooooh, the next non thing professional political shit stirrers are trying to make a thing.
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Retiredlibrarian @ciociano1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The far right loves the U.S. like stalkers “love” their victims. They love an ideal in their heads—in this case, white and 19th century—and want to kill their love interest when they refuse to be that ideal.
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Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 25/09/2026
It is really, really, really hard to find any group of people who hates the countries they live in, its culture, and achievements as much and so viscerally as the far right.
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I may be invisible, but you're transparent. @invisiblelad7.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The people who underreacted to the racist smear campaigns and "MASS DEPORTATION NOW" signs and calling live human beings "poison to the blood of the country" are the least moral people among us second only to the people who actively voted for our oppression or worse.
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Retiredlibrarian @ciociano1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
No, death has been coming for people like early reading philanthropist Dolly Parton. Maybe we need to slip death some twenties.
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Retiredlibrarian @ciociano1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I hope Conor isn’t holding his breath and standing on one foot.
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The White House Press Corps should just boycott the White House and stop covering Trump in solidarity with their colleagues. He would wither without any media attention.
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Retiredlibrarian @ciociano1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
People like Bezos never get it. If you display the tiniest scrap of dissent, anywhere, all your ass kissing is for naught and Trump will humiliate you. He might anyway just for fun.
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Retiredlibrarian @ciociano1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
One of the ear worms of my childhood.
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(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"he's not wrong that the GOP has a white supremacy problem and yet REFUSES TO ADMIT that the fundamental cause of white supremacy is other people being Black."
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 16/09/2026
If you’ve ever dated an abuser, you recognize this language immediately
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Retiredlibrarian @ciociano1.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Another excuse, pure and simple, for hating trans women. They’re stealing the scholarships! The same people who rip away every other protection from women. They just hate immigrants, and dark and trans women in general”protecting” cis women because those folks are even lower in their hierarchy.
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