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Father, Husband, Retired mathematics teacher

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David @djmongin.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
@ms.now. I just sent two messages to msnow, but neither site looks like it’s checked very often. Please report on the 35th Independence Day in Ukraine on August 26th! Putin, the WAR CRIMINAL, may provide fireworks!
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David @djmongin.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
@msnowreports.bsky.social I’m writing to request more coverage for the Russian aggression in Ukraine. With the 35th Independence Day on August 26, I’m sure the Putin, the WAR CRIMINAL will be bombing the country excessively.
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David @djmongin.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
@msnowcomms.bsky.social I am hoping to see more coverage of Ukraine in the next few days. August 26th is Independence Day in Ukraine and the young country will be 35 years old. Many soldiers fighting for their freedom are older than their country. Please report on Ukraine more
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Dave The Artist @coloradofaux.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
And you definitely don't want to use a high-powered 532nm green laser, because it can permanently burn and disable digital camera CMOS or CCD sensors. Green light is absorbed at a very high efficiency by these electronic sensors, meaning concentrated beams easily melt or overload the pixel array.
YOU SHOULD NEVER USE
LASER POINTERS ON FLOCK CAMS
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/03/2026
Chris Murphy: "I Just came from a two hour, closed door classified briefing on the war. It just confirmed to me it's totally incoherent. We are not gonna be able to achieve any of our stated objectives ... this is a disaster of epic proportions, a 10 day debacle"
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
This is how our government has been corrupted: 1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians 2) Elected officials rewrite rules in donors' favor 3) Donors make huge profit 4) Repeat We must get big money out of politics. It’s the root of all evil in Washington.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Just a random reminder that over 50 members of Congress collectively own millions of dollars in defense contractor stocks. They stand to personally profit from wars that enrich these contractors. Make no mistake, this is legalized corruption. Watch how they vote this week.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/03/2026
WELCH: Mr. Yoho is also the husband of your former spokesperson, Tricia McLaughlin? NOEM: Yes WELCH: So your former assistant and her husband are the ones that got the DHS no bid contract for $143m. Any dispute about that? NOEM: No.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
🤥 @KristiNoem today: “I didn’t call Alex Pretti a domestic terrorist.” FLASHBACK: she sure did 👇🏽
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Moulton: He ought to think about the war that he didn't go to. That he allowed another American to go to in his place when he dodged the draft, making up some excuse about a sore foot so that he didn't go have to go serve in Vietnam. There is an example of a war where we sought regime change
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 10/01/2026
The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred. It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Yes, it is beyond insanity. Luckily, the American people aren’t buying it.
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 10/01/2026
A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you." The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?" "Learned what?" she asks Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
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Ali Velshi @velshi.com · 10/01/2026
Kurt Vonnegut’s daughter Nanette isn’t just fighting censorship in Utah because of her father’s legacy, his love of libraries, or his belief in the importance of literature. She is fighting for much more. #Velshi #VelshiBannedBookClub
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Velshi Banned Book Club: “Slaughterhouse-Five” by Kurt Vonnegut
Equal parts semi-autobiography, anti-war commentary, science-fiction exploration, and satire, Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five” centers on the infamous and brutal Bombing of Dresden during World War II. Vonnegut is one of those authors whose contributions to both literature and American culture are innumerable, and now his estate is at the center of a push to maintain the freedom to read. A group of best-selling authors, Utah students, the ACLU, and Kurt Vonnegut’s estate represented by his four children, are suing state officials in Utah over their book banning legislation.
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 10/01/2026
⚡️Ukraine's military confirms strike on oil depot in Russia's Volgograd Oblast. Ukrainian forces launched an overnight attack on an oil depot in Russia's Volgograd Oblast as part of efforts to reduce Moscow's offensive capabilities, Ukraine's General Staff said Jan. 10.
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Ukraine's military confirms strike on oil depot in Russia's Volgograd Oblast
Ukrainian forces launched an overnight attack on an oil depot in Russia's Volgograd Oblast as part of efforts to reduce Moscow's offensive capabilities, Ukraine's General Staff said Jan. 10.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/07/2025
FOX: Is The View now in the crosshairs of this administration? FCC CHAIR BRENDAN CARR: It's entirely possible there are issues over there ... the consequences aren't quite finished
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SETI Institute @setiinstitute.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Krun Macula -- Krun is the lord of the underworld in the Mandaean religion, and a macula is a dark feature on a planetary surface -- is believed to get its dark red color from tholins, complex molecules found across Pluto.
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SETI Institute @setiinstitute.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
#PPOD: This enhanced color view from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft zooms in on the southeastern portion of Pluto's great ice plains, where at lower right the plains border rugged, dark highlands informally named Krun Macula. Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI 🧪 🔭
Surface of Pluto as seen from the New Horizons spacecraft, focused on a portion of icy plain in the upper left diagonal half and a rough, jagged set of reddish-brown jumbled features in the lower right diagonal half.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
And the Supreme Court bows again. Today, the Court ruled that Trump, and any future president, can fire members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission at will. That’s a federal agency Congress intentionally designed to be independent of political pressure.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Oh no, the Supreme Court has been dreading banning abortion harder. What a nightmare for them
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
NEW: Deputy AG Todd Blanche is reportedly meeting with Epstein co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell, TODAY in a Florida prison.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Reup: Tulsi Gabbard Teams Up with Russian Spies to Wiretap and Unmask Hillary Clinton www.emptywheel.net/2025/07/24/t...
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Tulsi Gabbard Teams Up with Russian Spies to Wiretap and Unmask Hillary Clinton - emptywheel
In the guise of complaining about politicized spies exercising undue due diligence yesterday, Tulsi Gabbard just parroted Russian reports written by Russian spies -- reports that either rely on interc...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Today marks 16 years since the federal minimum wage was last raised. Guess how much the wage would be today if it kept up with worker productivity over the years?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Trump’s problem is that so many Americans — including most of his MAGA base — believed that, once back in the Oval Office, he’d expose a powerful global elite. But what if Trump is part of that elite? robertreich.substack.com/p/what-did…
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The Hill Times @hilltimes.com · 24/07/2025
The tariffs and trade war with the United States helped to motivate heavy federal advocacy in June about how to develop Canada’s economy, representing the highest monthly total of communications on that subject so far this year. By @cnockaert_j #cdnpoli www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0...
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 24/07/2025
⚡️ Update: 41 injured in Russia’s July 24 strike on Kharkiv. The number of injured in a Russian attack on Kharkiv on July 24 has risen to 41, the regional prosecutor's office reported.
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Russian glide bombs strike Kharkiv residential high-rise building, injuring at least 41
Some people were trapped beneath the rubble of the multi-story building, Governor Oleh Syniehubov said.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
The United Nations’ highest court issued a legal opinion stating that nations are obligated to take action against climate change, warning that neglecting this responsibility could breach international law.
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 24/07/2025
For the first time since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion, the major electronic music festival ICKPA returns to Kyiv, taking place on July 25-27.
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Georgian-Ukrainian electronic music festival ICKPA returns to Kyiv amid shared resistance to Russian imperialism
For the first time since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion, the major electronic music festival ICKPA returns to Kyiv, taking place on July 25-27. Founded in 2021 through a collaboration ...
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Larry Tenney @larrytenney.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
The party of "cancel culture" (GOP) has cancelled: Medicaid Veterans Care Meals on Wheels PBS NPR Too many colleges & universities to count DEI LGBTQ Rural Hospitals Cancer Research National Park Rangers Library Books FEMA Rule of Law Wall Street Journal (partial list)
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ALT: a cartoon hand is holding a red stamp
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
If you were to take the people who had left, you’re talking about 80% of the senior more capable prosecutors in the office or civil attorneys,” said a longtime staffer who resigned before Donald Trump took office in January. timesofsandiego.com/politics/202...
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'Open retribution' alleged as San Diego's DOJ office hit by resignations, demotions
The alleged DOJ brain drain in the Southern District of California — like that seen at "Main Justice" in Washington — includes as many as 10 federal prosecutors.
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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Paid subbies to my newsletter can read about the coldest exoplanet JWST has directly imaged, and a cool new space rock-hunting telescope. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/jwst-direc... 🧪🔭
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JWST directly images a cold exoplanet, the Flyeye asteroid hunter is now online
14 Her c is around our same age, and ESA has a new telescope to look for space rocks
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Winnable Democratic Races 💙 @winnabledemraces.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
The GOP is debating how much it can afford to spend on likely losing the Virginia governorship. The race is ranked LEAN DEMOCRATIC by Cook Political Report. Democrat Abigail Spanberger is favored to win. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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Republicans Are Panicking Over the Virginia Governor’s Race
The party is debating how much it can afford to spend on a losing proposition.
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The Hill Times @hilltimes.com · 24/07/2025
Ontario Senator Peter Harder’s Bill S-218 follows a motion last Parliament that sought to foster reflection on use of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms’ notwithstanding clause. www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0...
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Senator Harder wants to legislate how the feds handle the notwithstanding clause—his colleagues have some concerns
PSG Senator Peter Harder's Bill S-218 follows a motion last Parliament that sought to foster reflection on use of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms’ notwithstanding clause.
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Harry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Is it just me... but with each passing day, my disdain for anyone that voted for him grows exponentially. I didnt think I could hate them anymore especially after they tried to kill me and my coworkers on Jan 6th, man was I wrong.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
“Eventually, the monster will come for all of us.”
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Congratulations to our new ambassador to the UK Ghislaine Maxwell
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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 22/07/2025
This dreamy, foam-like scene is a portion of the Horsehead Nebula imaged by #NASAWebb in 2023. Webb shows some of the “mane,” which is composed of dusty silicates and soot-like molecules, in great detail: bit.ly/3HBSwBM 🔭 🧪
The image is more than half-filled from the bottom up by a small section of the Horsehead Nebula. Streaky clouds of white, gray, and blue resemble a foamy wave crashing at the seashore. The nebula stops at a textured, fuzzy-looking edge that follows a slight curve. Above it, a small number of distant stars and galaxies lie on a dark but multicolored background.
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