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Coltrane, the dog

@coltranethedog.bsky.social
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Animal lover. Nature appreciator. Sports fan (former Philadelphian, current Coloradoan). Ex-lawyer. Invisible disabilities (EDS/POTS). E-bike enthusiast. Amateur photographer.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens." There are not enough exclamation points to convey how I felt reading this paragraph
Screenshot of article which reads: From this perspective, the “both sides” frame falls apart. The prob-
lem is not that the parties are divided. The problem is the existential 
threat that a reempowered ethnonationalist strain poses to pluralistic 
U.S. democracy writ large. The current level of political animosity is 
exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted 
to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s 
citizens. The only way to re-oppress most of a country is to use anti-
democratic and authoritarian tactics. And the only way to oppose those 
tactics is to push back as a population and clearly reject them. This is 
the argument happening in the United States, and its pathology is not 
anger—it is the movement to undermine a generation of rights.
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Coltrane, the dog @coltranethedog.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
😄😄😄
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Coltrane, the dog @coltranethedog.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Excellent thread. The same strategies give us politicians whose entire purpose is getting elected/reelected. Any governing or attempts to better our lives must always yield to the singular goal of simply being in power. Electoral consultants have ruined public service.
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Lydia Hekataia @frogmother.net · 29/09/2026
Trans athletes should be accepted, and should be able to win and succeed just like any other athletes, and a trans athlete winning every so often is not evidence that there's an underlying truth in banning them.
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H.E. Cas Piancey @cascoinfoundation.org · 28/09/2026
Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
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Coltrane, the dog @coltranethedog.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Solar power keeps growing in spite of everything ☀️
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A sorta odd request. I’m looking for an artistic cartographer or an illustrator to commission to make a cute, useful street map of an actually existing village. Searching the internet produces a bunch of fantasy map specialists and AI slop, which isn’t quite it. Know anyone? (This is paid, ofc.)
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K8🌈⚽️💜 @katelynann.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
We are plagued by republicans flooding the zone with shit to change public opinion on a topic. Then Dems “moderate” their formerly status quo position my tacking to the right to try to win points, completely ignoring the big picture. It’s frustrating, but more often than not it’s also deadly
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 19/09/2026
Every now and then I see myself referred to as an "AI Denier" and I want to be clear I acknowledge "AI" exists, it's just I think it's a massive energy drain, created from theft, implemented poorly for inappropriate tasks by loathsome tech executives who get hard at the idea of the rest of us dying
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Kate Glenn @findingtangle.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The Democrats have a diverse coalition and a very poorly conceived and coordinated plan for how to hold it together. That might not matter rn because the anger at the GOP is strong enough to overcome their own weaknesses, but long term the party has to figure out how to keep their own people happy.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
BREAKING: Judge Nichols, a Trump appointee in Washington, D.C., has *blocked* the administraiton's mail-in ballot plan, saying USPS lacked the authority to issue it. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
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George The Station Cat @george-station-cat.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Night night sweet dreamies A difficult chapter is still only a chapter. It doesn’t get to name the whole story. Please keep turning the pages. 🧡
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 11/09/2026
If you put ten children in a room with a single large red button that launches all nukes, it would be a genuine threat to humanity. But it doesn't mean children are a human extinction risk. It means the person who puts them near the nuke button is a human extinction risk.
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Freelander @freelander.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Unleashing a random band name generator for *everything* on a populace that cannot discern opinion from fact and is already psychotic from exposure to social media is a very bad idea
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Coltrane, the dog @coltranethedog.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
We don’t have a right to ask whether we’re going to succeed or not. The only question we have a right to ask is what’s the right thing to do?” --Wendell Berry
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The Santa Fe New Mexican @thenewmexican.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The federal government agreed in court on Friday to extend a pause on border related construction in Big Bend National Park until mid September, a move welcomed by those challenging the contentious project in the area. www.santafenewmexican.com/ap/washingto...
santafenewmexican.com
Federal government extends pause on Big Bend National Park border construction until mid-September
This decision came during a court hearing Friday amid controversy over the Trump administration's border security plans.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The WNBA is a new front in the info and culture wars. The only way through this is, imo, a path that Cloud is showing you: stand up for your values, call out the tactics of those who are hijacking your platform, don’t get sucked into trying to perform a “neutral” stance… it’s a trap.
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Miser @misernyc.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Cities aren't loud
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Coltrane, the dog @coltranethedog.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
How does this fool keep getting hired?
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 21/07/2026
1. In an incredible new landmark review, the Health Council of the Netherlands has declared that gender-affirming care for trans youth works, reducing wait times is "morally urgent," and regret is rare. It is the latest of many Euro countries to advance care. Subscribe to support our journalism.
erininthemorning.com
Landmark Official Dutch Review Recommends Trans Youth Care, Call For Expanding Treatment
The review finds that wait times must be shortened, that few people detransition, and that trans youth care has enormous benefits.
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patternrettap.bsky.social @patternrettap.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
People without chronic conditions who are mostly healthy and therefore really haven't actually had to use the system that much but this just gives them unearned faith in the system. They are very vulnerable to fear mongering because it's easy to conflate "I'm healthy" with I have good healthcare
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Coltrane, the dog @coltranethedog.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
On hold with my insurance company. Trying to get my call used for training purposes. This system is actively harmful to my health. I'm wondering why I pay $900/mo to get in fights and pay out of pocket for my Rxs and specialist appointments that get randomly denied.
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Coltrane, the dog @coltranethedog.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Today was a good day. I did a fundraiser for homeless senior dogs at a fancy car show. Among the gorgeous automobiles was one of the coolest things I've ever seen. A Mercedes station wagon backed into the disabled spot near me and the trunk opened to reveal a robotic arm. (1/X)
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Also I would like to once again remind the nation’s very serious people that America’s campaign finance system sucked long before Citizens United (they regularly said so!) and so “ending Citizens United” is small potatoes. Gotta deal with Buckley v. Valeo at minimum.
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 15/07/2026
Trans people have always and will always exist. Gender-affirming care is incredibly important. It should be a decision between individuals, families, and doctors — not the government.
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Coltrane, the dog @coltranethedog.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
1000%
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/07/2026
Gov. Maura Healey’s push to revise the rape prosecution deadline came after @wbur.org and ProPublica found that as many as 47 other states allow more time to charge rapes or similar sexual assaults than Massachusetts.
propublica.org
Massachusetts Set to Extend Statute of Limitations for Rape Cases With DNA Evidence
Following reporting by WBUR and ProPublica, Gov. Maura Healey has pledged to sign a bill into law ensuring that Massachusetts will no longer have one of the strictest rape prosecution deadlines in…
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 03/07/2026
When our military is carrying out illegal executions at sea and deployed against domestic civilian populations, I’m gonna have a hard time taking a moral high ground against individual dissent. Especially when that dissent isn’t itself wielding an army.
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Katelyn Oldham *Abolish ICE. Defund DHS.* @katelynstarrpdx.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The power of a union contract in action! Congratulations to the California Faculty Association for fighting for Prof. Sang Hea Kil & winning reinstatement!
theguardian.com
Tenured California professor fired over Gaza protest wins job back
Arbitrator rules California State University system violated law when it dismissed Sang Hea Kil, who now plans to sue
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Bell Policy Center @bellpolicy.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Totally. And that’s exactly why we created Before You Sign, a voter resource that give you the facts — no recommendations or opinions — on questions out for signature. Check it out! bellpolicy.org/colorado-pet...
bellpolicy.org
Before You Sign: Proposed Ballot Questions Explained
Before you sign a Colorado petition this summer, take a moment to learn the details of what is being proposed. With the help of our new information hub, the Bell can help you understand the fine print...
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Coltrane, the dog @coltranethedog.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Been doing way too much lately and paying for it tonight. I am so incredibly grateful that we got solar panels and batteries a few years ago. My whole neighborhood is having at projected 6 hour power outage (so far, they keep extending it). No power + a mischievous puppy would break me. 😄
Little black and brindle puppy with big upright ears is yawning and showing her big pink tongue while snuggled on cream and tan bedding and blankets.
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Coltrane, the dog @coltranethedog.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Go rest the next post in the linked thread for more delight!
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Coltrane, the dog @coltranethedog.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
We got Stella's DNA results back!
Asian and Oceanian

59% Shiba Inu

3% Chow Chow

Terrier

17% Chihuahua

2% Peruvian Inca Orchid

2% Yorkshire Terrier

2% DachshundGuard

3% American Pit Bull Terrier

3% Boxer

2% Rottweiler

Herding

3% Australian Cattle Dog

1% German Shepherd Dog

Companion

2% Poodle (Toy and Miniature)

Hound

1% Bavarian Mountain HoundA small black and brindle puppy standing in a scruffy yard holding a stick in her mouth. A little black and brindle puppy wearing a turquoise harness on a yellow leash stands by a flower pot and a mat that says Hello
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Coltrane, the dog @coltranethedog.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Please share this with loved ones in Republican states. It could literally save lives. ❤️
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Coltrane, the dog @coltranethedog.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Fastest block of my life - especially saying that to @kathryntewson.bsky.social of all people! Inexcusable.
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Coltrane, the dog @coltranethedog.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Saw these lovely Red-Winged Blackbirds on my walk today. Just snaps from my phone but such lovely birds. #birdsky
A Red-Winged Blackbird perched atop a tree against a blue sky with wispy white clouds. Another Red-Winged Blackbird with its wings spread out in the process of taking flight from a dead tree limb.
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Coltrane, the dog @coltranethedog.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
We got a puppy! Here's her first ever video - nibbling treats out of my hand on the floor at the pet supply store while my husband makes her a tiny name tag. She is a terrier mix, about 12 weeks old, adopted at our local shelter transferred from somewhere in Texas. We named her Stella.
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Coltrane, the dog @coltranethedog.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Some are saying this means we're having Cuba this weekend but recall that he bombed Iran from the dance floor at Mar-a-Lago, sooo...
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Coltrane, the dog @coltranethedog.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Lololol! GO BIRDS! 🦅🏈
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Coltrane, the dog @coltranethedog.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
This is great news. I hope they pursue complaints for prosecutorial misconduct.
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Coltrane, the dog @coltranethedog.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Define "low-level decision" please. Quote from article: “Large chunks of the world are going to have many of the low-level decisions and bits of work being done by A.I. systems." Filling Rxs? Billing? Sending me what I ordered? B/c those are all things I need to be ACCURATE.
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Coltrane, the dog @coltranethedog.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
🎉💃🏻🕺🏻🥂🗽
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Coltrane, the dog @coltranethedog.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
A few times I thought this might be a dog. Spectacular ears. Use sound if you really want to giggle.
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Coltrane, the dog @coltranethedog.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Jason Crow is one of the 144 House Democrats who voted for this. Really disappointing. 1st, there's no such thing as "organized retail theft" and 2nd it's unclear why a new federal law is supposedly necessary or why in any universe it should involve DHS.
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Coltrane, the dog @coltranethedog.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
It's free, it's short, it's brilliant. I'm going to be thinking about this all day.
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Coltrane, the dog @coltranethedog.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Good news! These cameras are horrible. Luckily city councils are pretty responsive to citizen complaints so if these are in your town go be annoying until they're gone!
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The Downballot @the-downballot.com · 05/05/2026
This is partisanship at its rawest. SCOTUS has clamped down on lower courts for rulings that could alter maps many *months* before an election—even when those maps have been judged illegal. Here, it's rushing to let the Louisiana GOP change a map *while an election is underway.*
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 05/05/2026
Someone out there decided it would be a good idea to put a German Shepherd in charge of babysitting a bunch of Doberman puppies and they were 100% correct
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 04/05/2026
Honestly I laugh every single day on this app and people smile and joke around with me and pleasantly surprise me in ways that just make me happy that I am allowed to be here.
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