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David Hemond

@davidhemond.bsky.social
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Retired lawyer, ground hog aficionado. Formerly Chief Attorney, Connecticut Law Revision Commission. See Dave Hemond’s Fleet Street davidhemond.wordpress.com Eyes and ears open for the good stuff.

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ndweiss @11tulips.bsky.social · 7h
”Scientists report the first comprehensive analysis of wooden Neanderthal tools retrieved from Abric Romaní, an archaeological site near Barcelona, Spain... The team identified 13 objects that resemble spears and pointed items, bark containers, structural elements, and a club-like object”
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Tibor M. Kalman @kalmantibs.bsky.social · 10h
The famous Bramante Staircase in the Vatican Museums is actually a double helix—two separate spiral ramps intertwined so those walking up never meet those going down. Designed by Giuseppe Momo in 1932. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Photo by © Claudio Ciardi
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ndweiss @11tulips.bsky.social · 13h
”Identification of cattail and woven fragments of high-quality wool within these masses suggest the remains of pillows, mattresses or linings that may reflect practices of furnishing not just burials but also domestic bedding practices“
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ndweiss @11tulips.bsky.social · 13h
Now that’s a profile
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David Hemond @davidhemond.bsky.social · 14h
I am Siamese if you please. I am Siamese if you don’t please. 😀
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ndweiss @11tulips.bsky.social · 15h
I can’t even express how incensed it makes me that these costumed, violent, racist bastards get away with thwarting democracy — while staying cozy-hidden behind their masks.
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David Hemond @davidhemond.bsky.social · 15h
The strongest argument against capital punishment is its finality and the inevitable bias and imperfections of the people and the system carrying it out. Would any sane system give that power to a delusional malignant narcissist like Trump? To a Nazi like Miller or Bannon? To any Republican toady?
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 16h
🚨BREAKING: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) over the past year investigated hundreds of nonprofits across the U.S. that help people register to vote, according to new records analyzed by Democracy Docket. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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ICE  probed hundreds of voter registration groups across the U.S.
The agency also contemplated deploying undercover agents to "initiate prosecutions" against the groups and "dismantle" them.
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David Hemond @davidhemond.bsky.social · 16h
A Senate race costs in the tens of millions. Talarico is over 47 million. Who has that kind of money to donate? What do they expect in return? These problems are in plain sight. SCOTUS derailed postWatergate efforts to rein them in. See Buckley v Valeo and Byron White dissent.
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ndweiss @11tulips.bsky.social · 18h
What an amazing, eclectic collection of music! I recognized some… never heard of others. Do they explain America? As well as anything can, I reckon.
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ndweiss @11tulips.bsky.social · 18h
“Alan” 💛
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David Hemond @davidhemond.bsky.social · 16h
A letter of “concern” perhaps?
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ndweiss @11tulips.bsky.social · 18h
”Hey guys. There’s a gunfight. Should we bring paper plates?”
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ndweiss @11tulips.bsky.social · 18h
For crissake. Democrats, forever flapping their hands in front of their own faces. “Some Democrats are cautioning that the party shouldn’t use investigative authority too broadly against corporate America to avoid steering into retribution.“
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David Hemond @davidhemond.bsky.social · 16h
See Citizens United. When you decide that the big boys can buy elections with impunity, they are going to buy Democrats as well as Republicans. Truth to tell, this was a problem before Citizens opened the sewer gates. Why we don’t have universal healthcare.
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ndweiss @11tulips.bsky.social · 17h
A lone white ibis stops at our little quarry for a rest, and maybe a snack, likely on his way to a warmer winter haven.
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Pamela in CA @pamica.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Ugh, are we really stuck with this imbecile?
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Ridge Cook @ridgecook.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We saw this in Vietnam War protests. Reforms were put in place. Current Admin has wiped away those reforms.
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Nancy Terhune @nancyterhune.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
If the media want sensational stories, they should want this to blow up in his face, the quick trip to impeachment, the fireworks during that, expulsion from office, he’s barricaded in his bunker, OMG the insanity, J.D. Vance swimming in flop sweat…. Otherwise it’ll be more of the silly sameness
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ndweiss @11tulips.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
For virtually every Republican, the Trump admin’s a gravy train. Media, too: $$. Imagine how much they’ll miss the crazy sensational stories! They’re eating the dogs! They should take out Los Angeles! We’re gonna shove it up their asses! MSM loathes calm & dignity.
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ndweiss @11tulips.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Steve’s spot on. Would that we learned from history.
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Nancy Terhune @nancyterhune.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Why isn’t everyone in Washington on their feet screaming for Trump to be removed from office immediately and making it happen? It is extremely, unacceptably dangerous for him to be in office one more hour. His people are saying “It’s a joke” and “We’re owning the libs.” That’s not what this is, FGS
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ndweiss @11tulips.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Read this: Good lord indeed. Excerpt: “The accusations are pretty crazy. According to media reports, the former spy chief paid his former chief of staff (who stayed at BND until this year) to receive classified information after he left the agency. That's already a big problem… it gets worse.“
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Ellen Enders @ellenenders.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
ethnic cleansing
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ndweiss @11tulips.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I cannot ever, ever, forgive this aspect of Trump-brand cruelty. Heart-injured children grow up to be depleted adults. What often follows are generations of broken families, hearts, people.
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Steve Sawyer @stevesawyer12.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Amazing how this global wave of right-wing totalitarianism is so similar to when it arose in the US and the rest of the world from 1920-1939. The KKK and Nazis in the US, Nazis in Germany, Fascists in Italy and Spain, militarists in Asia. We all know how that turned out.
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ndweiss @11tulips.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Isn’t it lovely? Excerpt: I don’t mean as in when you place your hands
 the way your grandfather did… … I mean as when you pick up your brush and flat board
and mix just the right emerald for the mallard because you must do this, you must ask: How much color can a palette hold
to hold up the sky?
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Ridge Cook @ridgecook.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
News Divisions are tiny parts of huge Conglomerates, 2-6% of corporate revenue. Those corporations have *no* responsibility to inform the public, only to their shareholders. If a political party or Admin will benefit the shareholders, they won't allow a 3% division screw the deal for the other 97%.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Aaron's relentless work has made all of us so much more aware of just how bat sh*t crazy Donald Trump is. When too many headlines, news stories & pundit panels fail to accurately report on Trump (& his admin & GOP lawmakers), Aaron's clips provide an essential reality check.
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Ellen Enders @ellenenders.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
thread good lord @stevesawyer12.bsky.social @jakichantler.bsky.social @sailormichael.bsky.social @davidhemond.bsky.social @dennowayne.bsky.social @ridgecook.bsky.social @docjanicel.bsky.social @maryapetry.bsky.social @halfmarshall.bsky.social @tepizep.bsky.social @nancyterhune.bsky.social
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Steve Sawyer @stevesawyer12.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“From a strategic point of view, not only do war crimes make sense, the Russians are practically being encouraged to commit them. This is the war we have created in the modern world. Do not look away.”
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Steve Sawyer @stevesawyer12.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“It is brutally simple logic. War crimes are what Russia has going for it technologically and militarily at present. Moreover, the Russians have seen from earlier US and European responses that they can commit extreme war crimes and nothing will change.”
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David Hemond @davidhemond.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Justice but at a snail’s pace? Figures. 😄
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Bat B @buckwheatmat.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I just have the snail set i designed, my house is very eclectic 😆
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Nancy Terhune @nancyterhune.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“Remember all the Christmas card photos you made me pose for? Who’s got the last arf now?!” @11tulips.bsky.social
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Beingsass @beingsass.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"He said the retaliation had already wrecked his life, and that he was about to publish more,” wrote German author and former financial journalist Oliver Janich in a social media post on X. “Then he was dead at 57. They called it suicide. I don’t buy it.”
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halfmarshall.bsky.social @halfmarshall.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
VOTE! We have a once-in-a-generation chance to change DC and red states. I'm ready: I've checked my registration, downloaded a sample ballot, and will vote on the first day of early voting in Texas, Monday October 19. ***Tomorrow is the last day for Texans to register to vote.***
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halfmarshall.bsky.social @halfmarshall.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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A police search using Flock was a form of ‘mass surveillance,’ judge rules
A federal judge said that police conducted an “unconstitutional warrantless search” by using Flock cameras to reconstruct a woman’s travels without probable cause.
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ndweiss @11tulips.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“Rebel Cheesemakers“—name of funk-soul band
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ndweiss @11tulips.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Mind-cracking brilliance.
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Tracytastic Bitchcakes @trcytstcbitchcakes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
#TeamFauci
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Walking Gal @docjanicel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Meticulously documented American thuggery as a cohesive whole. I was aghast when I read it. The world wide shakedowns that masquerade as US foreign policy.
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ndweiss @11tulips.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
⭐️ Read this: “Slowly, the Brazilians were learning the same lesson as other American allies… Informal envoys, private companies, online grifters, & hardened ideologues…matter more... They are deploying the tools of American diplomacy & government for their own purposes…because, suddenly, they can”
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GJRboston @gjrboston.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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David Hemond @davidhemond.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If time extends infinitely in both directions, then it may follow that everything is ultimately repeated. Admittedly above my pay grade.
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Ridge Cook @ridgecook.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Absolutely right. By not prosecuting Nixon showed others criming is alright, if I'm big enough, I'll get a pardon. Many of the criminal Nixon Admin committed crimes in the Reagan Admin, then the Bush Admin... now we have Trump and his immunity. But not his staff or henchmen.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
With this monopolized media empire comes not just size but unprecedented power. The power to throw workers under the bus. The power to price-gouge because consumers have few alternatives. The power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told.
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halfmarshall.bsky.social @halfmarshall.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
GIFT ARTICLE: "Vaikšnoras is Lithuania’s defense chief, and his distrust of Russia, a former occupying power, is not a notional concern. Ever since Russia’s invasions of other post-Soviet nations—Georgia in 2008; Ukraine in 2014 and 2022—
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The timeless beauty of ancient glass! This Roman glass scent bottle is around 2,000 years old, yet its elegant design feels surprisingly modern! British Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology
My photo shows a small Roman scent bottle made of cobalt-blue mould-blown glass in the form of a scallop shell. At the top it has a cylindrical neck with an out-turned rim. There is a thin, curved, handle either side of the neck. The top of each handle is attached to the neck, and the bottom is attached to the top of the scallop shell. Bottle dimensions: height 8.5 cm, diameter 5.2 cm. Dated AD 25-100. It is displayed on a circular, clear perspex (?) stand in a British Museum display case. The bottle was bequeathed to the British Museum by Felix Slade in 1869.
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halfmarshall.bsky.social @halfmarshall.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This order is strong stuff. The judge discusses the usual way criminal cases are dismissed — without prejudice — and then explains why he is dismissing Hearn’s case with prejudice… because no crime was committed.
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