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Dan Holtmeyer

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Editor, writer, photographer and native plant grower in northwest Arkansas. The native plants biz is @ozarkroots.bsky.social. I have a newsletter: localeyesnwa.beehiiv.com. And I’m running for office: danholtmeyerforar.com

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 21h
The photo sits atop a story about how he’s blatantly exploiting his office for personal gain, corrupting the federal government to an unprecedented degree, and no one is even slowing him down anymore. And this is his only response.
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Dan Holtmeyer @danholtmeyer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The eternal mixup of which state AR is
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Levin: People then said, “Do you think you can take out a fascist just by voting, just by organizing? You think that’s how this works?” Yes, that’s how this works. If they can do it in Hungary, we can do it here.
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Dan Holtmeyer @danholtmeyer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
As Benjamin Franklin would say himself
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin was on-site last week at a new ICE facility for unaccompanied kids that’s about to open at an airport in Louisiana. Mullin reiterated the Trump regime’s “worst of the worst” baloney. www.thequeenzone.com/new-ice-faci...
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New ICE Facility for Migrant Children Raises Alarm Over Trafficking Risks
A new ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) facility for unaccompanied children, families, and single women is set to...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Just a reminder that these Haitian immigrants in Springfield -- who came here legally, did everything they were asked to do and more -- became a target of federal crackdowns because the white nationalist vice president shamelessly spread racist lies about them.
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J.D. Vance Defends False Claims Against Haitians: 'If I Have to Create Stories… That's What I'm Going to Do'
J.D. Vance defended his debunked claims that Haitian immigrants are eating pets in Springfield, Ohio.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Normalization is treating the president stealing from taxpayers to buy campaign ads and offer bribes to voters like it's just another day. Normalization is reacting with "won't work" or "polls poorly," and not "resign immediately or you'll be removed, we exist because of a revolution against that."
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Newsletter is out! I've noticed some panic over what the government should be doing to regulate AI. I have a pretty simple solution, make the people who put out harmful products afraid of prison link.heartlandsignal.com/v/443/b6619d...
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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We need to rephrase the whole discussion in terms of hazardous products, instead of "minds". And then we need to make sure that there's liability. A model hacks someone? Put a C-suite guy in jail. A model produces sexual harassment material? Put a C-suite guy in jail. Watch how fast things get safe
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 04/10/2026
ICE arrests have reached a record high—nearly fifty-one thousand in August alone—with agents conducting operations nationwide at hospitals, at airports, and outside schools. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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ICE Is Everywhere and Acting with Impunity
ICE arrests have reached a record high—nearly fifty-one thousand in August alone—with agents conducting operations nationwide at hospitals, at airports, and outside schools.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
simpsons party convention meme edit: WE LOVE LIFE AND OURSELVES 

WE CAN GOVERN!
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
there are vanishingly few principles that Donald Trump holds to, but by far the most important one is a universal admiration and fellowship with sex criminals
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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The GOP's biggest funder blocked a law to prevent exploitation of women and children on his website Dems should be talking about him and his creepiness. He wants to make fake nudes It's a party of weirdos
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 01/10/2026
Thou sayest the King grows mad, I’ll tell thee, friend, I am almost mad myself.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Feels like skipping past the Civil War and World War II are sorta big tells here? I wonder why he doesn't want to talk about the times the US military waged war against white supremacists. Probably a totally innocent explanation, right? Right?
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Ben D’Avanzo @bendavanzo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This KFF headline really gets directly to what's happening today
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US Poised To Boot Legal Immigrants From Medicaid, Including Refugees and Sex-Trafficking Victims - KFF Health News
The Congressional Budget Office estimated 100,000 more immigrants will be uninsured by 2034 because of Medicaid eligibility changes under President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act that take effect ...
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Micah @rincewind.run · 01/10/2026
this tracks, since nixon being forced to resign was the original sin that led to the modern conservative media environment that gave us trump
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's time, friends
Kermit gets his fangs out on October 1
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Colin McMillen @mcmillen.dev · 01/10/2026
this is completely unhinged, even by Trump's standards.
Have you seen the videos of Mitch McConnell back in the Senate? Do you think he should resign because of his health condition?

It was a disappointment to a lot of Republicans. So that's just—well, Sleepy Joe gave pardons to everybody. He gave them to Fauci. He gave them to this. But you mean I'm not allowed to give them, but Sleepy Joe's allowed to give them? This ain't gonna be much of a story. Here we are doing this. You haven't asked me one fucking positive question. All of this. What about this? What about that? What about that? What about this? All negative. Why are you devoting all this time to the White House? You know how I do, I do that out of my back pocket. I pay for a lot of it, but I fix it because the White House should look like that. It shouldn’t look like—if you would have stood in that balcony and looked at that wall, half the wall was falling. It's actually dangerous. People are walking under, crap was falling off it all the time. Every time it rained, it was leaking, horrible. Now it's perfect, and I would say that I should be given credit for fixing the White House because I'm also doing very well with the war. I'm doing very well with another war that we already won, Venezuela. Do you notice you haven't asked me a question about Venezuela?

We did earlier.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 01/10/2026
"An ambulance was seen arriving at the prison where Pike was to be executed and then leaving. Medical aid was being administered, according to online federal court records." The utter absurdity of the state trying twice to kill someone and then calling an ambulance. We must end the death penalty.
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Tennessee inmate still alive after being administered two lethal injections, her lawyer says
Christa Pike, 50, was 18 when she murdered a classmate. She would be the first woman the state has executed in more than 200 years.
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
remember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Only doing this in states that are on the federally-run exchange also makes this another straight up theft from (mostly) blue states. Intolerable
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
oh my god shut the fuck UP
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 30/09/2026
The man who found a way to bankrupt a casino is on the verge of bankrupting the Kennedy Center. Everything he touches he destroys.   The reflecting pool, the East Wing, the Kennedy Center, & every monument in America belong to the PEOPLE. They're not his to remake, remodel, or destroy.
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The Kennedy Center was solvent when Trump took over. Then its finances collapsed.
The Post examined 15 years of the institution’s financial records to see why it went south after the president took over.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
That's a $96,318 fine for being raped.
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Dan Holtmeyer @danholtmeyer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“We’re helpless and worthless and bad at our jobs. Vote for us!”
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Meanwhile, what we need to demand from universities far and wide is clear: Cease to be a place where sexual assault is often subject to less punishment than protesting and plagiarism." www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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sarah margaret @sarahmargs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
if colleges had to refund the tuition of every student that had been raped during their time there, they would actually fucking give a shit about students getting raped.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
this really is impeachable for any president, but really grotesque coming from a regime that cut life-saving development aid because they said it was not efficient
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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Trump era has really fucked everyone up in profound ways. Turns out electing the physical embodiment of the most demonic things about American society to the Presidency was a mistake
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 29/09/2026
Google Maps images show scale of Israel's destruction of Gaza, where more than 74,000 Palestinians have been killed.
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Satellite images show Gaza in ruins three years into Israel's genocidal war
Google Maps images show scale of Israel's destruction of Gaza, where more than 74,000 Palestinians have been killed.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.
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Zander🚈🔰 @kohiwonomu.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
exactly this, pretty much the entire story of the right in the past 10 years is "vice is virtue and virtue is vice"
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 27/09/2026
Imagine hearing these screams, breaking this window, and going home at night believing what you are doing is right and good.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Imagine losing a third of a city’s firefighters and then wondering why downtown is burning.” Connecting the dots between cuts and public sector failures is often difficult, but we are seeing the damage in public health. The only category of employee growing at CDC are political appointees.
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Ross @rossengineer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
OpenAI is tempting federal prison sentences & the corporate death penalty for any more of this invasive horseshit. "An [AI Agent] must not make management decisions because an [AI Agent] is not accountable." No more "Oops, we crimed, tee-hee" from sloppy human management. It's garbage.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 25/09/2026
America cannot have a multiracial, multicultural democracy if the United States Supreme Court is allowed to continue to exist in its current form
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
$17 million! WTF?
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
we have control mechanisms for this. it's called The Law. these guys should be held personally liable for these harms. the suicides, the thefts, the intrusions into computer systems. they should be sued and prosecuted as appropriate. problem immediately solved
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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 24/09/2026
Heavy AI use and being mega-rich both separate you from an essential part of maintaining a grip on reality, which is being answerable to community.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
All the things everyone pretended were happening on an unprecedented scale during the entire Biden administration, from real wage/income declines to the widespread Suffering From Inflation™️ are actually happening now.
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I do think you basically charge a few of them with the cybercrimes they're committing and the "alignment" problem does suddenly start to disappear.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 23/09/2026
look, you can't just punish trump when dems are in power. that might make republicans do something crazy, like stage a coup, illegally shred the federal bureaucracy, or even vstart abducting people off the street and extraditing them to torture sites all over the world
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
latest in a long running series of Republicans discovering that Republican policy preferences are bad when they’re applied to their loved ones
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