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Phil

@drphildowns.com
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Prof in the Franks School of Education at Trine University. Retired Public School Superintendent and History Teacher. Opinions herein are mine, not yours, nor theirs. Fan of #plaidurday, Detroit sports, #COYS, and Purdue, the #CradleOfSuperintendents

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 12h
Opeongo Ridge, Clear Lake Charles Comfort n.d.
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Golden, BC Doris McCarthy 1974
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 12/10/2026
Russia lost data centers - MAGA lost its best and brightest.
Warning BSKY - possible ai slop
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fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
“Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.” ― Khalil Gibran, Sand and Foam
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Autumnal Bliss Jeff Dillon 2022
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Campfire Tom Thomson 1916
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Red Sumac Tom Thomson 1916
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God @thegodshow.com · 11/10/2026
SLAVA UKRAINE! 🇺🇦
Russian disinformation bot traffic nearly eliminated overnight after Ukraine drone strikes cripple multiple of 'Russia's Google' data centers
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
In the Northland Tom Thomson 1915
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Autumn Woods Tom Thomson 1915
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I approve this message 👇
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The covert of “The Nickel Boys” by Colson Whitehead, a novel about a ‘reform school’ that brutalized and killed Black children in Florida, based on a real and terrible place.
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
today's essential read for all Canadians. “Human rights and respect for constitutionally protected Aboriginal rights and title, in addition to Indigenous Peoples’ right to self-determination, must not be spun as inconveniences to Canada’s economic aspirations,”
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Whose Nation Is Being Built?
Carney’s first “national interest” project is an oil pipeline through Indigenous territories. Consent was not part of the announcement.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Ruffalo: Keep the bastards away from our most vulnerable people, our beloved, beloved immigrants. Because if you ain’t Native American, you’re an immigrant, a beautiful immigrant.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Community Notes for the win here, Megyn Kelly. 👌
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
this is remarkable
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The road to reconciliation begins with truth Mishiikenh Kwe ~ Anishinaabe c. 2022
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Compositional Study for tâpwêwin (Truth) Kent Monkman ~ Cree 2025
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Be sure to read the subtitles
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We are the Wildflowers Emily Kewageshig ~ Anishinaabe 2024
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We are Still Here Blake Angeconeb ~ Anishinaabe 2021
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
âcimostâtowak (They Tell Stories to One Another) Kent Monkman ~ Cree 2025
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Study for mâtinawêwin (Offering Food) Kent Monkman ~ Cree 2026
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 27/09/2026
We published our investigation, in partnership with @pablo.show, about Tim Tebow’s involvement with Life Surge, a Christian financial seminar company. One day later, Tebow, who was on track to speak at 10 Life Surge events by the end of this year, paused his relationship with the company.
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Tim Tebow “pausing” Christian seminar promotion after our investigation
“I think the allegations are extremely serious."
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If you missed it, there was a dramatic baseball moment over the weekend, and fortunately Jason Benetti was there to make the call. awfulannouncing.com/mlb/jason-be...
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Jason Benetti shines calling Justin Verlander's final game: 'A farewell to something more than a player'
Saturday was Justin Verlander's moment, but Detroit Tigers announcer Jason Benetti made the legendary pitcher's final game even more special.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.
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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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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social did the country 2 big favors this week His talk with the Nvidia CEO revealed a shallow, glib, defensive man (and thus a technology) nowhere near safe maturity His talk with Abdul El-Sayed revealed a humane, responsive, and morally rich man ready for leadership
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 26/09/2026
Whatever you do, don't smoke an entire brisket at a job interview, it's a lot of equipment to bring in, it takes a really long time to do it right and those conference rooms have notoriously poor ventilation
Someone smoking a brisket and poking it with a meat thermometer to see what the internal temperature is
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Joe "I'm a Zeppo Marxist" Bacon @josephebacon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Grifters gonna grift! www.rawstory.com/tim-tebow/?u...
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'This is evil': Christians say Tim Tebow's favorite wealth seminar buried them in debt
A new investigation says Tim Tebow's celebrity has helped draw believers into a wealth seminar that left some of them thousands of dollars in debt.The former NFL quarterback is the recurring keynote a...
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Pablo Torre @pablo.show · 24/09/2026
Good morning: youtu.be/uh7s2jr0b48?...
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We Investigated the Christian "Scam" Fronted by Tim Tebow | PTFO
YouTube video by PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT
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JM =^D @jm539581.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Oh sure, NBA cap circumvention is a juicy topic, but that is concentrated on a few wealthy people and nobody else. This, however, should get more attention @pablo.show
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We Investigated the Christian "Scam" Fronted by Tim Tebow | PTFO
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Room empties out at the UN as Netanyahu begins his speech.
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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
By destroying Voting Rights Act and gutting 14th & 15th amendments the Roberts Court is recycling legal arguments once used by Confederates and white supremacists to destroy Reconstruction Please read my deep dive w/ @pemalevy.bsky.social in @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Oh No He Didn't @ohnohedidnt24.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Kevin Durant on the drama surrounding the WNBA: "All that stuff is to be noise man. WNBA is flourishing. Look what these women are doing. Look at the money they made over the last few years. Look at the visibility of their league. They got 4, 5 signature athletes on major brands
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
With the midterm elections shaping up to be a massive reckoning for the Republican Party, it's worth remembering that they had a fairly easy offramp from Trumpism in the immediate aftermath of the January 6th riot but they completely chickened out.
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Rob Friedman @pitchingninja.com · 22/09/2026
Jason Benetti gets absolutely roasted by his own production crew with the camera cut after his Austro-Turkish War reference. 🤣
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The Alternate Histoween 🎃 @althistorian.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Did we really need TWO Donner Party themed board games???
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A CNN investigation reveals Russia likely provided crucial satellite information about U.S. bases, giving Tehran a major advantage in the war. And not a word from Senile Satan.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Macklemore being worth significantly less than Ed Sheeran but having a much better PR and management team is fun to watch play out in real time. When I read his "I am not complicit" post I was like dude you're so rich how do you not have someone to run this by or write for you
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Phil @drphildowns.com · 16/09/2026
#SteveEarle ‘s Galway Girl > #EdSheeran ‘s Galway Girl
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
That's gonna be an lol from me dawg.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
One of the coolest things about people who don't have a lot of power taking a principled stand is it lays bare the complete cowardice of the ones who actually *do* have power when they fail to do even a fraction as much.
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The fallacy that University leaders pushing AI are falling into is thinking that the point of undergraduate research is to find things out. It isn't. What students find out is typically already generally known. The point of undergraduate research is to learn how to find things out.
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Ben Kuchera @benkuchera.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Matt Damon does this thing in a ton of movies where his character almost does the wise thing but then turns around and says "fuck it" and really goes for it. Rounders and Bourne have tremendous "fuck it" scenes. Anyhoo Macklemore had a beautiful "fuck it" moment and I gotta respect a contender
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