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Doug Urner (he/they) 🏳️‍⚧️

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"The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people." – Karl Marx, 1844 A prescient warning over 100 years before Alan Turing proposed his test for an intelligent machine.

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Doug Urner (he/they) 🏳️‍⚧️ @douglasurner.bsky.social · 51m
If blocking a transphobe today would bring a bit of peace & sanity into your life, may I commend to you: @rando1111.bsky.social.
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Rep. Emily Randall @repemilyrandall.bsky.social · 10h
🧵 Asking a donor to pay off your credit card bills in exchange for access isn’t just embarrassing — it’s an abuse of taxpayer trust.
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Doug Urner (he/they) 🏳️‍⚧️ @douglasurner.bsky.social · 3h
Well if they were hoping to get out of there alive they might be trying to maintain a facade of caring.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 5h
It’s bad enough that Gavin Newsom opposes California’s Prop 40. But he also supports Prop 42, a billionaire-backed poison pill that would cancel out Prop 40 entirely and make it impossible to enact future wealth taxes. It’s clear whose side he’s on. Remember this in 2028.
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Newsom Endorses Ballot Measure That Would Cancel Out Billionaire Tax—and Ban Future Wealth Taxes | Common Dreams
"He’d rather millions of children and families lose their healthcare than ask a couple hundred billionaires to finally p
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Doug Urner (he/they) 🏳️‍⚧️ @douglasurner.bsky.social · 6h
Rs attacking allies of the queer community is about as predictable as anything can get. So on top of being fair weather allies the Ds who turn tail are also showing us that they can't plan for a fight (or worse, they don't care to plan for this fight). That means they'll do a lousy job in Congress…
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Doug Urner (he/they) 🏳️‍⚧️ @douglasurner.bsky.social · 7h
Super thankful to have the good fortune live in a place where my state and federal representatives have spines.
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Doug Urner (he/they) 🏳️‍⚧️ @douglasurner.bsky.social · 7h
Ds in blue states sending two crystal clear messages: 1: We have no principles & can't be trusted. 2: We don't have the analytical, tactical, & strategic smarts to anticipate the attacks from the right and develop strategies to counter them & build our base. It's as if they *want* to lose.
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Doug Urner (he/they) 🏳️‍⚧️ @douglasurner.bsky.social · 7h
So… Mike Johnson is saying "if 'this group' wins, Congress will start doing its job." Are we supposed to think that is a bad thing?
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Doug Urner (he/they) 🏳️‍⚧️ @douglasurner.bsky.social · 8h
Went to? Usually we’d like to hear at least “graduated from.” Isn’t that a prerequisite to taking a bar exam?
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Doug Urner (he/they) 🏳️‍⚧️ @douglasurner.bsky.social · 10h
The Ridwell threads bag assuages guilt!
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 12h
This week ICE fascists shot a father in front of his five-year-old son. The child was fortunately unharmed, physically. Yet, despite Mayor Mamdani’s efforts to secure his release, Donald Trump and Markwayne Mullins effectively kidnapped
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Gabe @pedalsandpages.com · 03/09/2026
My new app! MyBibliotheca is a private, ad-free reading tracker built to keep things simple. Already use Goodreads or StoryGraph? Import your library and keep tracking without social pressure, clutter, or locking up your data. Your books. Your data. mybibliotheca.org #booksky #reading #books
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MyBibliotheca · Your reading tracker
MyBibliotheca is a private reading tracker for organizing your shelves, tracking pages and listening minutes, and remembering the books that stay with you.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11h
👀 Obama in Mississippi
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 13h
As seen on @lastweektonight.com 👀 The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so we did it instead. Use information from your prescription label to locate the factory and see if the plant has a history of inspection violations: projects.propublica.org/rx-inspector
John Oliver (on right) gestures with his hands as he speaks. On left, a ProPublica website screenshot shows a tool titled "Look Up Where Your Generic Prescription Drugs Were Made" and prompts the user to "Begin Your Search." Below John Oliver is a box highlighting the URL projects dot propublica dot org slash rx dash inspector.
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Corinne Green @ket.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
i will keep saying that cis people will simply ignore any law they feel like until everyone is forced to stop pretending "sanctuary" states have been doing anything other than corporate marketing. they'll ignore the rest of the law too, just give them time 🏳️‍⚧️
oregoncapitalchronicle.com
Oregon retreats from enforcing landmark trans health care coverage mandate • Oregon Capital Chronicle
Regulators cited fears that the Trump administration would use state data to target providers or patients.
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Doug Urner (he/they) 🏳️‍⚧️ @douglasurner.bsky.social · 19h
But they are helping us identify the ones who can be trusted and the ones who are smart enough to anticipate and plan how to respond to the attacks of their opponents – in other words the ones who will actually be good representatives. So, I suppose that's better than doing nothing…
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
PSA: when Trump, @MarshaBlackburn, @BrentTaylorTN and other Republicans mock “socialism” what they’re really mocking is the idea of caring about other people
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Doug Urner (he/they) 🏳️‍⚧️ @douglasurner.bsky.social · 19h
Musk's *actual* crime was his own. Omar was a child when her father filled out that paperwork. When are we going to hear about Musk's home being raided in the early hours?
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Doug Urner (he/they) 🏳️‍⚧️ @douglasurner.bsky.social · 19h
An absolute rock star, & arguably one of, if not *the*, first s/w engineers. Her story about the "Lauren Bug" – 4 y/o daughter crashes Apollo code; she proposes fix; NASA says no, crew wouldn't make that mistake; she says "yeah, right" & develops a back up plan; saves mission – is one for the ages.
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Doug Urner (he/they) 🏳️‍⚧️ @douglasurner.bsky.social · 19h
It may be because 1) the volume of liquid varies with temperature; or 2) because ship capacity is a function of weight; or 3) he doesn't know what he's talking about.
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Doug Urner (he/they) 🏳️‍⚧️ @douglasurner.bsky.social · 19h
You're welcome, I'm really happy when I find out that these things that look like AI click bait are at least based in reality. 🙂
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Doug Urner (he/they) 🏳️‍⚧️ @douglasurner.bsky.social · 19h
Decades ago I happened to be watching a Seabee land when something went wrong & it cartwheeled, it was an accident, far away, but I still feel it in the pit of my stomach when I think about that crash. Don't watch it. Don't let them do that to you. And if you have to watch it, I'm so, so sorry.
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Christine Kinser @ckinser.bsky.social · 22h
🆘OREO COOKIE 2B KILLED Volunteer: “Oreo Cookie is just as delicious as her name. Her fur is thick, just like her body &she is just a love. She immediately will lean in to anyone nearby” Her human surrendered her due 2 their medical issues. Said she’s an affectionate couch potato & cuddler 🙏Repost
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Doug Urner (he/they) 🏳️‍⚧️ @douglasurner.bsky.social · 20h
The Bahamas? Cuba? He's so confused.
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Doug Urner (he/they) 🏳️‍⚧️ @douglasurner.bsky.social · 20h
Apparently you can untag yourself on that platform and Ella Langley did…
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Doug Urner (he/they) 🏳️‍⚧️ @douglasurner.bsky.social · 20h
I think it's a bad sign when you're a Republican and the WSJ is publishing stuff like this about you. Meanwhile, Talarico's big scandal is that he had the flu…
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 12/10/2026
This is the Social Security Election. Senators who get elected this fall will decide the future of Social Security. REMINDER: Top Republicans are calling Social Security a “Ponzi scheme” and a “scam.”
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 21h
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Doug Urner (he/they) 🏳️‍⚧️ @douglasurner.bsky.social · 20h
www.waff.com/2026/08/26/m...
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Madison County man appears in court on murder charges
A Madison County man facing murder charges appeared in court Wednesday.
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Doug Urner (he/they) 🏳️‍⚧️ @douglasurner.bsky.social · 20h
And if that gets boring you could make art, learn a language, foster many cats, write a novel, track down war criminals & human traffickers, make a scientific breakthrough, sail around the world, and still have time for the interesting ones… Poor Stefan, sexist pigs must live terribly boring lives.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
🚨GOP NIGHTMARE: Democrats are surging in the battle for the Senate. NC Cooper +8.8 GA Ossoff +8.1 NH Pappas +5.9 MI El-Sayed +3.1 OH Brown +3.1 TX Talarico +3.0 MN Flanagan +2.2 AK Peltola +1.4 ME Jackson +1.0 IA Turek +0.5 But polls don’t vote — PEOPLE DO. No complacency. Turn out. Fight back. 👊
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Doug Urner (he/they) 🏳️‍⚧️ @douglasurner.bsky.social · 21h
From 2021, in Ulm. www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/55...
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A German city has created sleep pods for the homeless
A teamed based in the German city of Ulm has invented futuristic sleep capsules which can be used as emergency shelters at night.
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Doug Urner (he/they) 🏳️‍⚧️ @douglasurner.bsky.social · 21h
"Woulda been bullied by the girls' field hockey team if not for their kindness" would have been the best & funniest insult I've seen in years, but alas when we're talking evil of this magnitude it just shines a laser beam on how pathetically broken these people are. The thread is good, read it.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
No, it's not. A human being's death, even when necessary or deserved, is always a solemn and terrible thing. (We would do well to teach our warriors this, because they will find it out one way or the other.)
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Doug Urner (he/they) 🏳️‍⚧️ @douglasurner.bsky.social · 21h
That's a really interesting idea… Though I tend to think the test should come later and require an actual demonstration of citizenship as well as a test – something that demonstrates that you actually want to live in and contribute to a "melting pot" founded on the idea that all are created equal.
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Doug Urner (he/they) 🏳️‍⚧️ @douglasurner.bsky.social · 21h
Likewise Rebecca Welton in the last episode of Ted Lasso.
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Doug Urner (he/they) 🏳️‍⚧️ @douglasurner.bsky.social · 21h
I was at Atlantic College in Wales when Thatcher died, a moment that seemed quite worthy celebration, a student shut that down: "I despise what she stood for & what she did to this country, but I refuse to let her lessen my humanity by hating her." I had to think on that, but I think he was right.
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Doug Urner (he/they) 🏳️‍⚧️ @douglasurner.bsky.social · 21h
I wonder if they ever stop to think, "Are there people who share my point of view – about me?"
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 23h
Holy shit. Rick Jackson didn’t just duck a debate with Keisha Lance Bottoms. He left her debating an empty podium. And the moderator made damn sure everyone knew it. Moderator Jeff Hullinger: “Mayor Bottoms, you may now ask a question to your opponent represented by the empty podium.”
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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Chants of 'Don't protect the women, we can fight. We don't need your fascist shite' rang out in Glasgow tonight. As anti-fascists, women's rights groups and trade unionists protested against 'patriot platform' and their supporters pushing their racist agenda in the city. Things you love to see ✊
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Frosted Poptart @toastertrollop.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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Doug Urner (he/they) 🏳️‍⚧️ @douglasurner.bsky.social · 23h
Well as a matter of fact… I find it vastly preferable to “European Expropriators Day” and am very thankful to the indigenous survivors who are preserving their heritage and sharing a different way of seeing and being on the earth.
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Doug Urner (he/they) 🏳️‍⚧️ @douglasurner.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
If people can live reasonably close to the places where they, then good bike infrastructure means that you need less parking…
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Doug Urner (he/they) 🏳️‍⚧️ @douglasurner.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Democrats need to learn how to stand on principles & to defend them. When I see Ds turn tail & run on trans rights, I don't just see a betrayal of a marginalized group, I see candidates who can't be trusted. When principles conflict with polls, the polls win. They're not leaders, they're followers.
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
German photojournalist Anja Niedringhaus was born #OTD in 1965. The only woman on a team of 11 AP photographers that won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography for coverage of the Iraq War. She was killed in Afghanistan, 2014. theatln.tc/2pZHcET #journalism
Close-up portrait of German photojournalist Anja Niedringhaus smiling warmly at the camera while holding a large white Canon EOS-1 DSLR with a massive telephoto lens in her right hand. She has light brown hair with gray streaks pulled back, sunglasses resting on top of her head, and wears a blue vest over a black-and-white striped shirt; the out-of-focus background is dark, drawing all attention to her face and the professional camera gear she carries, capturing her as the Pulitzer Prize-winning war photographer known for her powerful images from conflict zones in Iraq, Afghanistan, and beyond.
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Hellishchildren @hellishchildren.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
How about "Nicotine helps me get my work done"? March 4, 2026
fortune.com
Palantir and other tech companies are stocking offices with tobacco products to increase worker productivity | Fortune
Health experts offer a blunt warning on using tobacco products to increase productivity, saying the adverse health effects have been well documented.
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Doug Urner (he/they) 🏳️‍⚧️ @douglasurner.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Salt Lake City
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Doug Urner (he/they) 🏳️‍⚧️ @douglasurner.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I’m so sorry to burst your bubble…
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Doug Urner (he/they) 🏳️‍⚧️ @douglasurner.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
A musician: bad (hearted, presumably) enough that Noem thinks that she's good; smart enough to want no part of Noem's squabbles.
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Doug Urner (he/they) 🏳️‍⚧️ @douglasurner.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
At Kacey Musgraves' concert?
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