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Hardscrabbler. Native Vermonter. Writer. Bereaved mother. Food producer. Wood-splitter. Weed-eater. 60+ triathlons long ago. Kindness, community.

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Peg @ethnobot.bsky.social · 4h
something from a can
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 8h
“They say he who laughs last, laughs best. And Ben Collins is the best.” Couldn’t agree more. time.com/collection/t...
time.com
Ben Collins Is on the 2026 TIME100 Next
Find out why Ben Collins is on this year’s list
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Bob @psychobob4q2.bsky.social · 19h
Yes. I hope he is the next Attorney General.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Eric Schmitt is on The Charlie Kirk Show (yes it's still called that) -- and believe it or not, hosts are pretending he owned Smith with his embarrassingly botched gotcha "You caught him in this NBA game too in Atlanta" "Yeah," Schmitt says There's no mention that Schmitt had all his facts wrong
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
America.gov launched today--a DOGE initiative to use AI to deliver public services. Child lying facedown on a frozen lake as the image accompanying the question: "How can I invest in my child's future" is just incredible. Way to go AI
Image of a child lying facedown on a froze lake.  above is the portal where you ask AI questions about government services.  the question matching this image is:  "How can I invest in my child's future?"
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Amind the hoopla over RFK Jr's MAHA movement and his and Hegseth's fixation on testosterone levels, the reality is that the 2nd most widely used pesticide in the USA has been proven to cause chemical castration and even sex change in various animals. Naturally, no research on people.
theguardian.com
Hormone-disrupting herbicide contaminating 25% of continental US rivers, report finds
Atrazine, banned in 60 countries, polluting rivers at levels that can harm wildlife and may threaten human health
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mary-sonoma @mary94930.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#duh
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Jordan Wood @jordanwood.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Across Maine, Republicans are running for office as fake "independents." Not because they changed. Because they know an R can't win where they're running. We need to unmask them. Who’s the one in your district? I'll start in the replies. #mepolitics
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Chris Hendel @chrishendel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Common Bone Health Supplements Do Little to Prevent Fractures, Major Review Finds www.sciencealert.com/common-bone-... Editorial: Calcium, vitamin D, or combined supplementation to prevent fractures and falls per @bmj.com www.bmj.com/content/393/...
sciencealert.com
Common Bone Health Supplements Do Little to Prevent Fractures, Major Review Finds
Calcium and vitamin D help build strong, healthy bones, but taking these nutrients as supplements is not necessarily good for musculoskeletal health.
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Caroleeena @caroleeena.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Excerpt from the poem "Fire" by Nikita Gill, published in her collection Wild Embers: Poems of Rebellion, Fire and Beauty.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Despite being a famous Hollywood star if you want to know what sort of person DAVID NIVEN was, the largest wreath at his funeral was from the Porters at Heathrow Airport. It read: “To the finest gentleman who ever walked through these halls. He made a Porter feel like a King.”
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Tom Murphy @brtom.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Wendell Berry
THE times are disgusting enough, surely, for those who long for peace and truth. But self-disgust also is an injury: the coming of bodily uncertainty with age and wear, forgetfulness of things that ought to be remembered, remembrance of things best forgot.
Forgive this fragmentary life.
Wendell Berry
Sabbath Poem IV, 2006.
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Andy Heppelle🇺🇸🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇬🇱🇺🇳🏳️‍⚧️ @andyheppelle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Eleanor Roosevelt had thoughts on being a leftist, also known as being a liberal. Given that President & Mrs. Roosevelt led the USA🇺🇸 out of the Great Depression, led the USA🇺🇸 fight against Nazis and fascists and defeated them to end World War 2, & founded the United Nations🇺🇳. She lived this wisdom:
“Long ago, there was a noble word, liberal, which derive from the word free. Now a strange thing happened to that word. A man named Hitler made it a term of abuse, a matter of suspicion because those who were not with him were against him, and liberals had no use for Hitler. And then another man named McCarthy CAST the same program on the word. We must cherish and honor…the word free, or it will cease to apply to us” a quote from Eleanor Roosevelt 
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 26/09/2026
Being a leftist means taking big shots. And making them.
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Peg @ethnobot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 24/09/2026
www.adamkinzinger.com/p/zohran-mam...
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Zohran Mamdani Is the Future of the Democratic Party. But Not for the Reason You Think.
What everyone is missing about the left’s fastest rising star.
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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke." F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Correct
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Kate LaDew @kateladew.com · 03/09/2026
#vss365 #elixir #poetry #BookSky #LitSky
besom

household implement? used for sweeping?
a broom for the slower ones in the back
you get it, but after I open the grimoire,
flip to 'flying spells,' after I apply my flying ointment--
readily available from any elderly witch over 40, 
it's a joke we have-- smooth it into my elbows,
knees, neck, across the collarbones,
a small dollop on the heels -- I must be thrifty --
a smidge up and around the curls of my ankles, 
after I ready the besom,
run my needles over the bristles, scratch-scratch,
after I rev an invisible engine, well, I'm off
I let my toes skim the rose bushes, coming back pink,
I bite my thumb, I thumb my nose, I blow raspberries,
I stick my thumbs in my ears, hee-haw hee-haw,
and I can't fly for very long,
mandrake and thorn apple never quite taking,
never quite gifting the besom the magic it needs,
the grimoire chock full of love potion recipes
and spells for summoning demons
but I don't want elixirs, all the demons are already here,
I want hope, I want something to believe in,
and yeah, I want spite,
because it never solves anything, but, I don't know, it might?
it puts a smile on my face anyway,
and when my besom runs out of gas,
I glide back, chug-chug-sputter-pant
you'll never get a better night's sleep 
than the one you take after spitting in the metaphorical eye 
of the mighty and high who don't think there's a hell
if they behave like this,
but boy, brother, take a good look around,
we known there is 
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
trump can solve this by renaming "disapproval rating" to "approval rating"
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Mamdani announces $135 million settlement with DoorDash after an investigation revealed they were underpaying workers.
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Chris Hendel @chrishendel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
CSPI urges Senate not to confirm Overton as FDA Commissioner Statement of @cspinet.org president @drpeterlurie.bsky.social www.cspi.org/statement/cs...
cspi.org
CSPI urges Senate not to confirm Overton as FDA Commissioner
CSPI urges the Senate to block Heidi Overton’s FDA nomination amid concerns about vaccine misinformation and anti-reproductive health stances.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 22/09/2026
RATINGS FLOP Trump’s 24/7 Trump TV drew a dismal 4,000 viewers on its opening night. People are beyond sick of that man!
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Today a Dartmouth student publishes an op-ed calling for this provost to go. And yet still crickets from Dartmouth’s president. Not even a “we’re investigating.” Every minute that passes is a message to these students who’ll populate finance & gov: “reputation matters more than right & wrong.”
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Peg @ethnobot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
💪🏼🕊️✌🏻
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Well, I'll be damned. They finally found a spine.
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MaddowBlog @maddowblog.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“Effective today, the TV pool will not be covering events designated as pool coverage of the President.” www.cnbc.com/2026/09/21/t...
cnbc.com
White House TV pool won't cover Trump after press ban: CNN
The decision comes as CNN, MS NOW and Politico said they are suing Trump to overturn his new ban of those three media outlets from the White House.
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Peg @ethnobot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
First wood fire in our new Regency F2450. Gorgeous stove. But…diff controls & burn characteristics to learn.
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Dean Barker @deanbarker.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
How the poem comes to a screeching halt with "divorce," how great a contrast with both the expected word it doesn't really rhyme with, "breeze," and the third (!) use of "continual[ly]," how it unlocks and confirms the meaning of the preceding lines.
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Seinfeld: George Costanza's Genius Idea
ALT: Seinfeld: George Costanza's Genius Idea
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Dean Barker @deanbarker.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Ever the genius, Ms. Dickinson's use of slant rhyme is akin to the use of,say, key modulation or chromaticism among the finest composers, i.e., not showy for show's sake, but to advance for the overall goal of the artwork.
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newmexicanextexan.bsky.social @newmexicanextexan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Next No Kings: Oct. 17 Day of Action Focused on Early Voting msmagazine.com/2026/09/18/n...
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Next No Kings: Oct. 17 Day of Action Focused on Early Voting
No Kings’ Oct. 17 Day of Action will focus on early voting and voter participation ahead of the midterm elections.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It was wonderful to spend Rosh Hashanah last week with Missy and Elaine, two lifelong Michiganders who welcomed me into their home and taught me about the sweet and joyous meaning of Rosh Hashanah.
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Peg @ethnobot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Almost stepped on this tiny creature as I made my way across the lawn. Slipped it onto a plate to take a photo before releasing it into a brushy thicket beside the pond. A hatchling snapper! Here’s a first-rate read to learn more audubon.org/magazine/stayi…
Hatchling snapping turtle sitting on a ceramic plate.Hatchling snapping turtle sitting on a small ceramic plate
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
You would have thought RFK Jr. would have spoken out against the destruction of his uncle’s memorial. But, apparently, he doesn’t use his position to protect his own family—just hurt ours.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The Greenland “deal” epitomizes Trump. A huge amount of drama, a huge amount of damage that won’t be fixed for years and maybe never. And in the end he gets literally nothing but the diplo equivalent of Danish FIFA peace prize. 🏆 Stood down by Greenland and Denmark. Both hilarious and pathetic. Sad!
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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Breaking: CNN reporter Betsy Klein was denied access at the White House this morning and her press pass was seized, one day after President Donald Trump announced that he was “banning” CNN, MS NOW and Politico. My full story: www.cnn.com/2026/09/19/m...
cnn.com
CNN, MS NOW denied access to White House after Trump ‘ban’ | CNN Business
CNN reporter Betsy Klein was denied access at the White House on Saturday morning and her press pass was seized, one day after President Donald Trump announced that he was “banning” CNN, MS NOW and Po...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The Supreme Court's "shadow docket" allows justices to effectively make rulings in secret without explaining their decisions. Is it any wonder why so many do not trust the Roberts court? www.propublica.org/article/supreme-…
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
If ESPN wants to honor the Miss. National Guard at an Ole Miss game, they can use the story from my next book about the MNG riding to the rescue when racist mobs there rioted over James Meredith. The Oxford unit was led by William Faulkner's nephew! He served heroically even after breaking an arm.
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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Nothing says Berkeley has changed like it allowing Yarvin to live there in peace.
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Peg @ethnobot.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Must be why Kash Patel told the oversight committee ICE would accept applicants who’d been “forced into bestiality“
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/09/2026
oh...this is bad
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Misty at Boulder @matboulder.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
❤️
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Beng @bengtang.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
bsky.app/profile/zete...
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
(2/2) The president of the United States says things that are not only false and cruel but which only Russians could have instructed him to say, since there is no way he could have thought of them himself, and since they depend on knowledge that he does not have.
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Peg @ethnobot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“We believe there’s a fundamental misunderstanding of the market here in Vermont, the redevelopment realities of a property in a downtown with significant contamination, and significant questions about how serious that contamination is and how much it’s going to cost…”
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A possible measles exposure has been reported in the NICU at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
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Judy Stone @drjudystone.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
George Will endorsed Annie Andrews! South Carolina is as red as the cheeks of a blushing Senate candidate should be when the candidate promises to serve passively as an enabler of presidential whims,” Will wrote. 🎉
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Yes.
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