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Dave Butler

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Amateur musician, professional discontent <https://dbut.net>. Son of a writing teacher <https://dbut.net/dad/> and a Renaissance woman <https://dbut.net/mom/>.

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Laurel Krause @laurelk.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Dennis Rein shares "I have a 19-year-old daughter that’s in college ... When you walk on campus ... any of these people could be my child, you know, and I would certainly hope that nothing comes even close to happening to any of these people now, that happened with us." bit.ly/4qHQGlu ☮️
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Dennis Rein, Kent State Student
Kent State Truth Archive Testimonial
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Dave Butler @dbut53.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Say NO to #DataCenters in #Pennsylvania Join the Pennsylvania Data Center Resistance paenvironmentdaily.blogspot.com/2026/04/dep-...
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DEP To Hold May 11 Hearing On North Centre Twp. PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ Hazardous Site Response In 12 Municipalities In Columbia County Involving Contaminated Sewage Sludge
The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the April 11 PA Bulletin announcing a May 11 hearing on the response to the N...
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Dave Butler @dbut53.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Say NO to #DataCenters in #Pennsylvania Join the Pennsylvania Data Center Resistance paenvironmentdaily.blogspot.com/2026/04/dep-... Please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/go...
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Governor Shapiro, Hear the Voices of Your Constituents on Data Centers
In the past year, Pennsylvanians have experienced a tsunami of data center proposals. The known impacts of the data centers themselves, as well as those of the fossil fuel and nuclear infrastructure n...
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Elijah Wald @elijahwald.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
It's crazy that so many folks are jumping on board with a "peace plan" that consists of threatening Hamas if the hostages aren't released, with no firm constraints on Israel from resuming attacks if they ARE released, and no future but a colony run by Trump with Palestinians working service jobs.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Millions of Americans marched against the US invading Iraq under the false pretence of weapons of mass destruction. How many Americans will march against the US invading itself under the false pretence of domestic terrorism?
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Iceland: Israel’s actions in Gaza cruel, inhumane and illegal - www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/liv…
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Iceland: Israel’s actions in Gaza cruel, inhumane and illegal
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Bill K - NO DEATH PENALTY @really-mad.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
MagaMike you are a fake Christian, and you’ll be gone like a turkey through the corn….you represent the poorest state in the nation, and you’re destroying your own people, you bootlicking coward!
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Israel wakes up to ‘very sad, difficult morning,’ Herzog says - www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/liv…
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Israel wakes up to ‘very sad, difficult morning,’ Herzog says
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Colin Miller @evidenceprof.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Are they seriously doubling down after being reversed for suborning perjury?: "Oklahoma plans to retry Richard Glossip for murder but will not seek death penalty, top prosecutor says": www.cbsnews.com/news/richard...
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Oklahoma plans to retry Richard Glossip for murder but will not seek death penalty, top prosecutor says
Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond said his office will seek a sentence of life in prison for Richard Glossip.
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Colin Miller @evidenceprof.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
New Milford approves $7.6 million compensation for two men wrongfully convicted based on Dr. Henry Lee's perjured testimony about "blood" on a towel: www.ctpost.com/newmilford/a...
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New Milford approves payoff of $7.6M wrongful murder conviction case using multiple funding sources
The town of New Milford will pay a $7,659,000 wrongful conviction settlement to Ralph "Ricky" Birch using funds from the town's unassigned funds and the landfill settlement, among other sources.
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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.
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Dave Butler @dbut53.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
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The Vic @tdssister.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Good morning beautiful souls! School's out so the summer reading club will start Monday at my library and I'm the lead this year. Maybe some #GoodTrouble in my future 😎 Happy Friday! 🌞☕🌻🏃‍♀️🕉️
Cartoon depiction, one person handing a book ban list the other person presenting the list as current reading list!
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Dave Butler @dbut53.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Tell Your #Pennsylvania Legislators: If Transit Stops, We All Stop. www.congressweb.com/ppta/2?frame...
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Tell Your Legislators: If Transit Stops, We All Stop.
Tell your lawmakers: PA can’t afford to stall out. If we want to grow, compete, and deliver for our communities – transit has to stay on track. Add Your Voice Transit keeps Pennsylvania moving...
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Stephen “reggaepaparazzi” Cooper @stephenacooper.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
I’m so dang stubborn about this—on and off social media—about the United States not allowing individual states—like Alabama and Louisiana, so far—to gas-torture human beings to death. I know. Sue me.
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Colin Miller @evidenceprof.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Ahmad Gatlin's attempted murder conviction reversed after evidence shows his cell phone was connected to the Wi-Fi at his girlfriend's apartment 7 miles away at the time of the crime: www.knoxnews.com/story/news/c...
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Cell phone evidence in a shooting near Austin-East leads to new trial
Ahmad Gatlin was convicted as a teenager of two counts of attempted murder in a shooting outside Austin-East and sentenced to 31 years in prison.
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Death Penalty Action @deathpenaltyaction.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
🛑 Ex*cutions are still happening in America — right now. In our names. With our tax dollars.
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☕️Research&Coffee☕️ @drjbw.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Absolutely shameful. As an asylum-seeker, we were accountable for his safety as he went through our process. Without due process, he was disappeared to another country. If DHS is following legal, standard due process & law, they should have NO issue with confirming with a “partner” about a prisoner.
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Bill Samuel @billsamuel.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
From the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. Some Knesset members openly favor starvation and denial of medical assistance to Gazans. archive.vn/TzFJT
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...
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Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress
I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.
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Dave Butler @dbut53.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
The Trump administration fired one of the most respected, celebrated, and qualified librarians in America. The real reasons she was fired are genuinely terrifying. action.everylibrary.org/haydenaicong... Follow @everylibrary.bsky.social for more!
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What Were the Real Reasons that Trump Fired the Librarian of Congress?
The real reasons she was fired are genuinely terrifying.
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Laurel Krause @laurelk.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
“My daughter #Allison was not a radical. She was a feeling, caring person who was against war in Vietnam, Cambodia, Israel or any other place. She was not a member of a radical group, but rather acted as an individual, who felt deeply.” – #ArthurKrause May 1970 @kelleyswords.bsky.social #KentState
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Laurel Krause @laurelk.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Eight years ago this coming May 2025, I made my demand for the protection of #Protesters in the U.S. My sister #Allison was shot dead by the Ohio National Guard when she protested the #Vietnam war, May 4, 1970. READ bit.ly/2oUcH4Q ☮️
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Honor Thy Protesters. Protect Protest in America!
May 2, 2017 by Laurel Krause As protest season opens across America, citizen concern for the safety and protection of protesters comes to the fore. Like so many Americans raised in the Sixties, I e…
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Laurel Krause @laurelk.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
April 23, 2025 is #Allison's 74th birthday. I wrote this letter to my older sister Allison on her 70th. mendocoastcurrent.wordpress.com/2021/04/23/o... bit.ly/3sMu2Zm ☮️
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On Your 70th, Happy Birthday Allison
April 23, 2021 Dear Allison, Even though you’re not with us, I am writing to wish you a happy 70th birthday. This is my bittersweet wish from your little sister who still looks up to you. Five deca…
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Laurel Krause @laurelk.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
One of Mom’s favquotes: “We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law." ~ Edward R. Murrow #Protest bit.ly/4cStQRb 🌺☮️💟
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Laurel Krause @laurelk.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
For the 55th anniversary of the May 4, 1970 #KentState massacre, my alterego "Flowers" visits the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City, #Vietnam. Please read, subscribe, like and follow me on Substack, thank you! bit.ly/3GCeAMa ☮️ 🌺
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Visiting Vietnam's War Remnants Museum with Flowers
Despite U.S. Student Protests in 1970, It Still Took Five More Years to Bring Peace in Vietnam
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Laurel Krause @laurelk.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Today on the 55th anniversary of the May 4, 1970 Kent State massacre, we pay homage to #Allison Krause at her spot in the #KentState University parking lot where students protested against President Nixon’s invasion of Cambodia in the American war in Vietnam. bit.ly/2oUcH4Q #StudentProtesters ☮️
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/05/2025
UNDERWOOD: Do you believe that the US government has the authority to deport American citizens NOEM: No, and we are not deporting US citizens UNDERWOOD: Several American citizens have been deported
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Mike Peterson @csotd.bsky.social · 25/04/2024
Here we go again: Two senators want to send the National Guard to college. Click here - tinyurl.com/pn9ez45d - & join Doonesbury, Herblock, Derf Backderf, Scott Stantis, Michael Ramirez, Dana Summers, Jeff Danziger, Rick McKee, Paul Conrad, John Fischetti, Bill King, Chick Larsen & Bob Stevens
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NPR @npr.org · 21/04/2025
BREAKING NEWS: The White House has begun the process of looking for a new secretary of defense, according to a U.S. official who was not authorized to speak publicly.
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The White House has begun process of looking for new secretary of defense
The White House has begun the process of looking for a new secretary of defense, according to a U.S. official who was not authorized to speak publicly.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 12/04/2025
1. A Florida teacher has been fired because she used a transgender student's name. But now, her community is rallying around her and fighting for her to keep her job. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our reporting.
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Florida Teacher Loses Job Over Trans Student’s Name, But Community Fights Back
Administrators tried—and failed—to brush the first-of-its-kind case “under the rug,” community members say.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 12/04/2025
It’s surreal how fast the United States has fallen into a dictatorial regime. Checks and balances are gone, the president disappears innocent people into foreign prison camps, words get banned, and the Overton window shifts at light speed. I honestly wonder these days when they will come for me.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 11/04/2025
An innocent man, picked up by “mistake,” must not be allowed to rot in an El Salvadorian jail. Mr. President. Obey the courts. Obey our Constitution. Bring him home immediately.
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Hamas blames Israel for misinformation, says it received no new truce proposal - www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/liv…
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Hamas blames Israel for misinformation, says it received no new truce proposal
<article data-history-node-id="421164" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/hamas-blames-israel-misinformation-says-it-received-no-new-proposals" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/hamas-blames-israel-misinformation-says-it-received-no-new-proposals" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Hamas blames Israel for misinformation, says it received no new truce proposal</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Hamas official Taher al-Nunu&nbsp;blamed Israel for spreading misinformation about the negotiation process and presenting new offers.</p> <p>"We have not received any new proposals regarding a prisoner exchange deal within the ceasefire agreement. We are ready to release all prisoners in exchange for a prisoner exchange deal, a ceasefire, and the reconstruction of Gaza," he told Al Jazeera Arabic.</p> <p>"The administration of the Gaza Strip is a Palestinian affair, and we do not accept the presence of any foreign administration or foreign forces. The resistance's weapons are not up for negotiation, and will remain so as long as the occupation persists."</p> <p>Hamas also announced in a statement that a delegation headed by senior official Khalil al-Hayya has departed for Cairo to meet&nbsp;representatives from Qatar and Egypt "as part of efforts to reach an agreement."</p> </div> </div> </article>
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News Feed @news-feed.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
@MiddleEastEye: "Our deaths were barely a footnote. When Israeli bombs reduced homes to rubble, with entire families buried under the debris, there were no breaking news alerts, no in-depth analyses, no panel discussions dissecting the scale of Palestinian suffering" ✍️ Opinion by Ahmed Najar https
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Dave Butler @dbut53.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
When Freedom Still Feels Like Prison: Life After Solitary Confinement mindsitenews.org/2025/03/31/l...
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Surviving Solitary Confinement: The Devastating Mental Health Toll - MindSite News
The U.N. considers solitary confinement torture. Yet it remains widespread in U.S. prisons and jails, where 122,000 people are isolated.
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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
We’re going to annex Canada and invade Greenland but we can’t request return of an innocent man from El Salvador.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Kill a white millionaire, get the death penalty. Kill two black protesters, get invited to CPAC to be celebrated.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
The most significant thing about #SignalGate is that Republicans reporting to Donald Trump didn't even think it was necessary to consult with Donald Trump, the supposed Commander in Chief, about attacking a foreign country. They regarded Trump as irrelevant. We should too.
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
USA to coal miners - Drop Dead. Literally. And take your towns with you www.post-gazette.com/business/pow...
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Deep fear in coal country: DOGE cuts put region's miners and families on edge
For federal safety inspectors, the urgent call to their sprawling mining office near Pittsburgh was bleak: Man crushed in the rubble of an aging mine in...
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 30/03/2025
Israeli forces bombard Gaza on Eid al-Fitr as Netanyahu's office says Israel submitted a counterproposal after Hamas accepted an Egypt-Qatar ceasefire plan. 🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.io/fe7ehn
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 30/03/2025
This is the moment Israeli forces fired tear gas at Palestinians in the occupied West Bank as they visited the graves of loved ones buried in the Jenin refugee camp on the first day of Eid al-Fitr.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 30/03/2025
With global attention fixed on war on Gaza, Israel is rapidly redrawing the map of the occupied West Bank through intensified assaults, paving the way for full annexation. On Palestine Land Day, we map out what is happening. 🔗: aje.io/7nwbkc
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 30/03/2025
‘Eid of Sadness’ Gaza marks festival amid Israeli bombings, lack of food — in pictures aje.io/dpn42m
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 30/03/2025
With global attention fixed on the war on Gaza, Israel is rapidly redrawing the map of the occupied West Bank through intensified assaults, paving the way for full annexation. On Palestine Land Day, we map out what is happening ⤵️
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Mapping how Israel’s land grabs are reshaping the occupied West Bank
Israel’s assault in Jenin and Tulkarem seeks to suppress resistance and tighten control amid a demographic crisis.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 25/03/2025
Al Jazeera strongly condemns the assassination of its correspondent in Gaza Hossam Shabat.
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Dave Butler @dbut53.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
"You put me in the penitentiary for 44 years and during that time you destroy evidence, you lose evidence, tamper with the jury, you commit perjury and everything about the trial was a mockery," Long said.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Trump has deployed active military to help round up migrants and put them into detention camps. The military forced us out of our homes at gunpoint in 1942 because we were considered possibly disloyal Americans. They sent us to internment camps for four years. History is repeating. Pay attention.
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