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Velma

@deradee.bsky.social
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Reader/Writer Denver, CO

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 5h
My podcast is only a year old. I'm so geeked to be nominated for this particular episode because it's an episode ERRRRYBODY needs to listen to.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15h
This is not something you say if you actually like education or children
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15h
jfc
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Russell Brand, who's awaiting trial in London next month on rape and sexual assault charges, will moderate a panel at DC's MAHA summit tomorrow on reforming a U.S. health agency
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Austin, Texas
COWARD ICE
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Velma @deradee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
www.npr.org/2026/09/28/n...
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Eviction of 87-year-old sparks protests in Madrid over housing crisis
Tens of thousands marched through Madrid on Saturday to protest Spain's housing crisis and the eviction of an 87-year-old woman, camping overnight in Madrid's historic Puerta del Sol plaza.
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Snow Burrow @bostonjerry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Putting fake USDA inspection seals on packages of meat is some genuine mob shit. Straight up organized crime on an industrial scale.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/09/2026
Requirements for becoming a private school teacher vary by state. We recently reported on a woman who pled no contest to felony child abuse charges in Florida, but was still able to open a school. Here's how you can research private schools like an investigative reporter:
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How to Research Private Schools Like an Investigative Reporter
It can be really hard to get transparent, comprehensive information about private schools. Our investigative reporters share some suggestions for parents and guardians who want to collect it themselve...
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Elizabeth Lynn @aikilizzy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I can't help thinking that people who describe family life this way don't actually have families; or if they do, they are used to delegating many family tasks to other people. I wonder -- who shops for food in their households? Who does laundry? Who makes sure the kids get out the door on time?
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Colorado Pols @coloradopols.com · 28/09/2026
Republicans understand that the Medicaid cuts they voted for are about to cost them. So the lies are getting...pretty desperate. coloradopols.com/diary/228928... #copolitics
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Another Ad So Dishonest It Will Make Your Head Spin | Colorado Pols
Campaign ads don't generally rate a mention unless there's something particularly special about them: whether it's John Hickenlooper jumping out of a plane to sell a TABOR timeout, politicians popping...
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sandra fish @fishnette.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
good column from @mattklewis.bsky.social but come on, these people should have seen it coming. (today, i'm looking at you, beef farmers in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas. you thought they wouldn't come for your workers? well, ICE has quotas to meet!)
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How Trump Blew Up His Coalition, Group by Group
Why did he do it? It’s a psychological mystery!
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Here's how we get Medicare for All done: Make Medicare whole (no one can keep all the parts straight!) Include vision, dental, and hearing. Begin extending to more people, starting with children. We arrive at Medicare for All, which means great Medicare for everyone.
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
My teen came home from AP Computer Science yesterday and sat me down to lecture at length on the environmental injustice of data centers (I did not interrupt). If this is what they’re teaching the kids alongside Java maybe we’ll be alright.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/09/2026
Dog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBI theonion.com/dog-cant-believe-guy-s…
Dog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBI
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
There are two dieticians on local TV news right now talking about how you can buy potatoes and some cheap cuts of meat to really stretch your dollar and I feel like this is more devastating than any anti-Trump ad currently running.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
They also made him sleep on the floor of a holding cell. With the bullet in his back. And no pain medication. They also failed to provide medical care after they shot him. People need to go to prison for this.
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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Wrote it with Rob Smigel. And yes, it was pulled from reruns.
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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A Senegalese college basketball player, Amina Seck, is currently in ICE detention. Seck was travelling with her team to a tournament in New York when she was detained by ICE at Louisville Airport. She has been moved four times since her detention. #wnba eu.courier-journal.com/story/news/l...
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KSU women's basketball player detained by ICE at Louisville airport | Exclusive
Aminata Seck, 26, was detained while traveling as part of Kentucky State University's women's basketball team.
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Tiffany⸆⸉ @tiffanyclay.dev · 18/09/2026
“If you’re a US citizen you have no reason to fear” – Markwayne Mullin, responding to a video of a teenage US citizen being repeatedly punched in the face by ICE.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 17/09/2026
Elizabeth Warren and 12 other Democrats have introduced legislation to ban private equity from owning medical practices as increasingly widespread corporate ownership continues driving up health care costs each year.
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Warren Introduces Bill to Ban Private Equity From Owning Medical Practices
More than 80 percent of doctors are employed by corporate entities — a massive increase from 62 percent seven years ago.
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Matt Sebastian @mattsebastian.com · 17/09/2026
A Microsoft exec believes AI systems built on the work of others will be seen as “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions” and possibly the “largest theft of labor in human history," according to unredacted documents in a lawsuit by The Denver Post, The New York Times and other newspapers
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New docs in AI copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’
“[M]illions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” Microsoft’s Director of Applied Science w...
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
They can self-regulate, says the guy who shares a porn accountability app with his son.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Your regular reminder -- yes, I'm going to keep on with this -- that Republicans in Congress are just fine with everything he's doing.
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Rep. Jim McGovern @repmcgovern.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Like how Mark Zuckerberg did such a great job protecting our kids on Facebook and Instagram? Please.
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Everything is out the window. This is abhorrent.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 14/09/2026
Commentary: Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course? By Sam Altman, CEO, OpenAI theonion.com/anyone-else-...
Commentary: Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course? By Sam Altman, CEO, OpenAI
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I'm serious when I say I've lost track of all the recent revelations of literal Nazis working in high-level positions in Republican congressional campaigns and I would very much appreciate a journalist who took the time to detail as many of them as can fit into an article.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 11/09/2026
Just did a quick look around and I don't see very many headlines about the President of the US making people pledge allegiance to him personally while telling everyone to commit election fraud and "cheat like hell" to support his party. Seems like it should be a story?
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This thread asks why Trump saying “I'm going to try to cheat like hell..." isn’t getting as much media attention as his obviously farcical $5,000 proposals. They ignore it when he says crazy things that are true, and take seriously the crazy things he says that are not. Sanewashing. 
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2026
"It is indeed provocative, though not in the way the Times meant, for POTUS to either be lying about his role responding to the deadliest attack on US soil or so addled he thinks he was pulling away chunks of cement & narrowly escaping death from a tumbling building that then never actually tumbled"
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The muted response to Trump 9/11 fantasy is a media failure
It’s not “disputed.” He’s delusional.
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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The President stood up and lied about being at Ground Zero in the wake of 9/11 and he won’t even get the scrutiny a comedian would get for that lie
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This was always going to end in an attempt at literal vote-buying--apparently to the tune of $1.35 trillion.
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Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is great. Now every R House and Senate candidate in the country gets to spend the next 54 days explaining to voters when the $5,000 checks are coming and how Rs will find the $1,350,000,000,000 to pay for it after none of the other schemes happened.
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Katrina Green, MD FAAEM, FAMWA (she/her) @kgreenmd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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They’re, There, Their @keithlabrecque.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Article II, Section 4: The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors. It’s right there.
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Regular Guy @regularguyskol.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Well, that’s a Federal crime. Does anybody give a fuck or what?
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
NEW: Journalist Kaitlin Durbin accused Cleveland.com of publishing an AI "Express Desk" article under her byline — without her knowledge or approval — while she was away on her honeymoon. The Express Desk "uses AI tools to assist in producing content." futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Journalist Accuses Ohio's Main Newspaper of Slapping Her Name on an AI "Express Desk" Article Without Her Knowledge, While She Was on Honeymoon
A journalist accused Cleveland.com of publishing an AI "Express Desk" article under her byline without her consent, knowledge, or approval.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The Toledo Blade, one of the oldest newspapers in the country, will publish its final edition on Dec. 31. if it can’t find a buyer “Founded in 1835, the newspaper is Toledo’s oldest continually operating business”
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Possible final edition of Blade announced; company explores sale
Block Communications has announced its intention to explore a sale of The Blade’s assets, which, if unsuccessful, will result in the final edition of the ...
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
We need at some point to talk about American Evangelicalism as a heretical movement. We should not indulge the delusion of a bunch or nuts who cherry-pick the Bible to rationalize otherwise indefensible 21st century bigotries that they are representatives of a global faith.
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
NEW: Denver is preparing for emergency lines to be swamped by callers on 9/11 as United Airlines flies a passenger plane flanked by fighter jets over the city for a "private ceremony" www.9news.com/article/news...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
(NBC News) — It is now the least rewarding time to be a worker in the U.S. economy since the government started keeping track. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This is just to say... I have stolen the work that you spent years creating and which you were probably hoping would pay your bills But online sharing doesn't count It's actually a compliment So fuck you BTW, I'm a fan
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Colorado Newsline @coloradonewsline.com · 04/09/2026
Victor Marx, the Republican nominee for Colorado governor, is starting to feel the heat from state elections officials over a litany of alleged violations of campaign finance laws.
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Republican Victor Marx faces fine over 'unprecedented' campaign finance violations | Colorado Newsline
A hearing in the case is scheduled for Sept. 10, and it’s only the first of several potential proceedings against the first-time candidate.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 04/09/2026
No charges for shooting Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis. Charges for lying to the FBI about it.
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ICE officer charged with lying to investigators in the shooting of Venezuelan man, AP source says
Federal prosecutors are charging a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer with lying to investigators about the events leading up to the shooting of a Venezuelan man during the Minneapolis i...
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Corey Hutchins @coreyhutchins.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Journalists in Colorado have long noticed the Clarity outlets covering any time this organization sneezes. Reporters there might not have known about this even if they suspected it but they have no excuse but to disclose now: coloradotimesrecorder.com/2026/09/phil...
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Phil Anschutz & Son Give $735,000 to the Common Sense Institute, But the Gazette Doesn't Disclose It
If you were the editor of a chain of Colorado newspapers, and the chain's owner and his son controlled foundations that donated big bucks to an organization that you covered...
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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Timeline cleanse from the Black Flute Brigade of Los Angeles.
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Tonight’s bedtime reading: Volume “M”
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Tuesday Adams ™ 🌹 @tuesdayadams111.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Hmmm... Turns out, food regulations were really important for regulating food.🤔
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