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Beingsass @beingsass.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

It's worth the click. Dirk is our resident renaissance man!

Dirk Schwenk @dirkschwenk.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

If y'all Spotify users could go play this song, I'd appreciate it. A recording I can't stand is the forever "most popular" song in The Algorithm and it makes me nuts. open.spotify.com/track/5DQL0w...

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Hippie Chicks

Dirk Schwenk · Hippie Chicks · Song · 2025

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

BREAKING: A new experiment in Philly shows cash rental assistance slashed homelessness rates by 57–67%.

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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 22/08/2025

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me?
Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

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Dirk Schwenk @dirkschwenk.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

I thought I'd seen enough stupidity for the day then I saw a dude at the hardware store with a "big beautiful bill" sticker in his car.

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Dirk Schwenk @dirkschwenk.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

If y'all could share this around, I'd really appreciate it. youtu.be/lFbEWXpGwrg?...

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HIPPIE CHICKS Official Video

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Dirk Schwenk @dirkschwenk.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

New music Friday, that's what's up. youtu.be/lFbEWXpGwrg?...

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HIPPIE CHICKS Official Video

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🗽Tammy🗽 @mariatammy.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

that was cool ✌🏼 #HippieChicksRule 😊

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Beingsass @beingsass.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Some Schwenky music! 😁

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

1. We interrupt this programming for some LEGITIMATELY GOOD NEWS Violent crime in Baltimore has PLUMMETED to historic lows How did the city do it? Baltimore adopted a comprehensive set of "woke" policies, treating violence as a public health issue

This April, Baltimore saw five homicides.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 09/07/2025

Globally, roughly a third more power is being generated from the sun this spring than last. If this exponential rate of growth can continue, we will soon live in a very different world, @billmckibben.bsky.social writes.

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4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment

In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.

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Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Jeff Bezos pays less in taxes than you do. Then spends $105M in a weekend while you fight for food stamps and insulin. This is class war. And they’re winning.

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Dirk Schwenk @dirkschwenk.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

I have listened to the masters of the new record. I am excited. Probably called Bring That Back. Possibly will have art.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

This is an unbelievably dark story about ChatGPT from top to bottom, especially the twist at the end here www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...

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Dirk Schwenk @dirkschwenk.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Happy Father's Day month eve to all who celebrate.

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Dirk Schwenk @dirkschwenk.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

If you are looking for a song about fighting oligarchs and would be kings, well there's this open.spotify.com/track/74Bi7R...

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Power to the People

Dirk Schwenk · Peace Rage · Song · 2020

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Guaranteeing every American healthcare with Medicare for All would save 5x more money than the Republicans’ budget cuts to Medicaid and Medicare. It’s not about saving money, or cutting fraud and waste. It’s about harming and controlling working class people.

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Tom Maxwell @tommaxwell.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

This is the content I crave

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 06/05/2025

We should understand this for what it is: an effort to build public consent for the president to ignore the Supreme Court. abcnews.go.com/Politics/jus...

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Justice Department investigating 2022 Abrego Garcia traffic stop: Sources

DOJ has been investigating a 2022 Tennessee traffic stop involving Kilmar Abrego Garcia, ABC News has learned.

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Arieh Kovler @ariehkovler.com · 03/05/2025

Ironically, this is Big Pharma's wet dream. Rather than a preventative vaccine that costs a few dollars a dose twice a lifetime, they can sell expensive new in-patent drugs for hundreds a dose that you need to keep taking.

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Dirk Schwenk @dirkschwenk.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

What's everyone spending their DOGE dividend on?

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Dirk Schwenk @dirkschwenk.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Yo. Pointing out inconsistencies in their position is not going to work. Waiting for elected Dems to do something is not going to work. Hoping for federal courts or the DOJ is not going to work. Attacking others is not going to work. It's us against oligarchs. The end.

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Dirk Schwenk @dirkschwenk.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Liberals will make a huge mistake if this is the hill where they choose to fight. They will lose and deserve it. DOJ to sue Maine over refusing to comply with transgender athlete ban www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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DOJ to sue Maine over refusing to comply with transgender athlete ban

The suit over Maine’s refusal to ban transgender athletes from women’s sports escalates a months-long standoff between the state and the Trump administration.

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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

It’s a great time to support your local public radio or television station with a donation.

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Dirk Schwenk @dirkschwenk.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

This song just came and bashed me over the head this weekend. Kinda captures where I am. youtu.be/r6ADH-3R1v8?...

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Maybe

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Dirk Schwenk @dirkschwenk.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

This song just came and bashed me over the head this weekend. Kinda captures where I am. youtu.be/r6ADH-3R1v8?...

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Maybe

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SlenderSherbet @slendersherbet.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

"Excuse me. My eyes are up here"

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Dirk Schwenk @dirkschwenk.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

If you are looking for songs to fuel you in this time, you could do a lot worse than my Trump1 record Peace Rage. open.spotify.com/album/3MUmuQ.... #handsoff

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Peace Rage

Dirk Schwenk · EP · 2020 · 5 songs

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Dirk Schwenk @dirkschwenk.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Amidst the ongoing attack, I got to see my friend Joey Harkum headline a show in Baltimore. He continues to absolutely crush.

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Dirk Schwenk @dirkschwenk.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Is there a functional multi-ethnic democracy on the planet in 2025? Has there ever been?

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Dirk Schwenk @dirkschwenk.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Dear everyone: for safety I would delete all mention of 4ntifa or 4nti fas0ism from your profile. Call yourself sane and we will know what you mean.

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Dirk Schwenk @dirkschwenk.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Musk has bet everything that he will not be held accountable for harming almost everyone on the planet. I hope he loses.

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Frankl & Yalom fan (Wendy) @yellowfevre.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Takes me back twenty-some years ago, sitting at some Fells Point bar drinking scotch with friends while John Hiatt and John Prine play in the background.

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Dirk Schwenk @dirkschwenk.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Democracy and the US Constitution aren't dying. They're dead. This is the new world.

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