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@fitzmurphy.bsky.social
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Just another old guy wandering the world looking for a decent cup of coffee, a place to sit, read some books and listen to good music. Supporting the good, kind, decent, creative and caring people in the world.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
"The reason the Mitch McConnell saga is so disturbing isn’t because McConnell may be dead, but because the Senate is." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/ghost-senate
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Ghost Senate
The vanishing of Mitch McConnell.
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The Daily Beans Podcast @dailybeanspod.com · 11/08/2026
Assaulters supporting assaulters. What a shock! youtu.be/-755VOhK900 #trump #maxmiller #republicans #RepublicansAreTheProblem #ohio #OhioPolitics
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Any episode with Elie Mystal is amazing and this one is no exception. 'Bat guano' = definitely going to be part of the insult vocab from now on 🤣
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Strict Scrutiny Podcast @strictscrutiny.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
NEW: Elie Mystal @elienyc.bsky.social joins Melissa to talk legal news, including the Box o Wine becoming a Box o Spine! Then Leah briefly makes an appearance with Melissa to discuss the new birthright citizenship attacks, ballroom decision, & more. crooked.com/podcast/some...
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Inna Drinks from a Giant Wine Bottle
Alt: Inna Drinks from a Giant Wine Bottle
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Princess of Ely @princessofely.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I am not joyful to say, Barak Obama could’ve done a recess appointment to the Supreme Court after Ginsburg‘s death. Andy Beshear could call for the special election right now, to end this #McConnellDebacle. Dillydallying never benefits the good. Get on with it already.
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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
We are attacked at night. And in the morning, we wake up and continue living. My new letter comes from one of those days: a local charity market in Kyiv. Part of it is open to everyone: www.patreon.com/strategywoma...
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
At her sentencing, Judge Dugan said: “For more than a year, the circumstances of this prosecution have been politicized. I have been cast as both a scofflaw and a hero. I am neither. I am a public servant who was just trying to do my job.”
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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Judge Hannah Dugan sentenced very lightly for her conviction on obstructing federal agents: $5k in fines, no prison time. she says afterwards "I am a public servant who was just trying to do my job."
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
On Wednesday of last week, Trump gave disaster relief funds to red states. On Friday, he denied disaster relief funds to blue states. If you’re wondering why a lot of us are up in arms about the proposed OMB rule that will require political litmus tests for grant funding, THIS IS WHY.
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Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar.com · 30/06/2026
Minnesota has 11,600 registered apprentices. I want to add 10,000 more — working with businesses and trade unions to expand apprenticeships into biotech, health care, manufacturing, and agriculture. It’s already happening in Rochester. Let’s expand it across the state.
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Randy Rainbow @randyrainbow.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Today’s video is brought to you by the letter D. 😵‍💫🎤🎼
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He's De-Mented! - A Randy Rainbow Song Parody
YouTube video by Randy Rainbow
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TruthToPower🇵🇷🇺🇸 @poweristruth.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Idk who needs to hear this, but there is no "gender war". Women didn't try to take away men's right to vote, to education, or for property. Women don't write laws that control a man's body. Women didn't built systems that strip men of their any freedoms. This injustice does not go both ways.
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Opinion | The anti-abortion movement’s growing support for throwing women in jail
The only way to actually stop abortions in states where they’re banned, some activists argue, is to prosecute women for homicide.
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
NEW: In 2020, the Montana U.S. Atty cut a plea deal that let a tribal police officer who sexually abused a 6-year-old girl serve less than a year in prison + dodge the sex offender registry. That U.S. Atty is now Montana GOP Senate nominee Kurt Alme. www.huffpost.com/entry/montan...
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Montana GOP Senate Nominee Kurt Alme Let Child Sex Offender Off The Hook
As U.S. attorney, Alme cut a plea deal in 2020 that let Mychal Thomas Damon serve less than a year in prison after sexually abusing a 6-year-old.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
US District Judge Denise Casper just permanently threw out the administration's sweeping voting restrictions, stripping the White House of its manufactured election authority. Read the exact ruling: 👇 www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-came...
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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 26/06/2026
The NYC Rent Guidelines Board approved a 2-year rent freeze for 1 million rent-stabilized apartments; the first of its kind. After 6 out of 9 board members were appointed by Mamdani to fulfill his campaign promise. 🔥 Here's the reaction after the vote. 👇🏼
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Noncitizens don’t vote. The right wing Heritage Foundation did the most comprehensive study on it. Since 1982, something like 7 to 8 billion votes cast in elections in this country, and they found roughly 100-200 cases of noncitizens voting. Do the math. It ain’t an issue.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/06/2026
Massie: "I think it's ironic that we control the House, Senate, Supreme Court, and the White House, and we're yelling 'election fraud'? I mean, we won all the damn elections."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/06/2026
Trump delivers a rambling speech at Joint Base Andrews about accepting a jet from Qatar to complete and utter silence. You can't hear a single sound from the audience in this 90 second clip.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Donald Trump‘s inability to control his bowels or hold his hands together without trembling raises new questions about Joe Biden’s advanced age.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 16/06/2026
Just arrived here at the Scalzi Compound: The advance reading copy of Monsters of Ohio. It looks fantastic. I'm likely to give one away in the next couple of days. Stay tuned. PS: That amazing cover art? Michael Koelsch did it.
The ARC of Monsters of Ohio on my porch railing at home
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 16/06/2026
NEW: GEO group privately asked ICE to remove requirements to pay detainees to work. Seems like a 13A violation since most detainees aren’t convicted of crimes. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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ICE removed detainee protections after private outreach from top contractor
In new federal standards released Monday, the agency appeared to make changes that could benefit Geo Group’s legal defense.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Good grief. Dietrich Bonhoeffer was the anti-Nazi theologian executed after the failed July 20 plot to assassinate Hitler. Do Republicans think he was the bad guy in the story?
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Bonhoeffer was an anti-Nazi Lutheran theologian, executed in 1945 by the Nazis. Brandon Gill, man of the people, is a Dartmouth grad with a history degree. Oopsie.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
17 June 1933 | An Italian Jewish girl, Emma Terracina, was born in Rome. She was deported to #Auschwitz from Rome on 18 October 1943 and murdered in a gas chamber after selection on 23 October. --- ▶ A short video showing the ruins of gas chamber and crematorium III: bit.ly/4ql4LTV
Vintage photo of a young girl in a formal dress with flowers in their hair.
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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
I've been self-employed for 35 years now. Not much of an athlete, but beer-league softball is fun. Not much of a poet, either, but pretty damn decent with prose. Married almost 46 years, 3 kids, 2 grandkids.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was an anti-fascist German Lutheran pastor who opposed Hitler and the Nazi Party so effectively that they murdered him in 1945. He is only a bad guy if you literally spend all your time on far-right, neo-Nazi websites and have pickled your brain in fascist group chats.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/06/2026
Oh, so they have NOTHING nothing
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
16 June 1914 | A Polish man, Karol Cebula, was born in Myślenice. A law student. He was deported to #Auschwitz on 14 June 1940 from Tarnów in the first transport of Poles to the camp. No. 598 In 1941 he was transferred to Dachau. He survived.
A mugshot registration photograph from Auschwitz. A man with a shaved head wearing a striped uniform photographed in three positions (profile and front with bare head and a photo with a slightly turned head with a hat on). The prisoner number is visible on a marking board on the left.
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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
This is as near an unconditional surrender as I've ever seen. U.S. Grant gave Robert E. Lee better terms than Iran gave us.
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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 16/06/2026
"Technology is never neutral because it's not god-given. We designed it - and we designed it to do something. When you design it to extract all value without consent and surveil on a mass scale, that is not neutral. AI Surveillance is a tool made to control." - Carissa Véliz
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DrakenKnight @drakenknight.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
...just sayin
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
As the government raids “antifa groups” in Minneapolis with the SAME charges levied against myself and the rest of the Broadview Six, we need to be asking how they got this indictment. And as charges (hopefully) get dropped, we must remember the process is the punishment.
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Angelica Shalagina Official🇺🇦 @angel-shalagina.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I’m from Ukraine. The war is loud. But my will to live, to hope, and to keep going is louder.
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Today is the one-year anniversary of the assassination of Minnesota Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark.
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Angelica Shalagina Official🇺🇦 @angel-shalagina.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
❗️Tonight will be a massive attack TU-95s already took off
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Angelica Shalagina Official🇺🇦 @angel-shalagina.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Greetings from Ukraine. The world sees the war. We see the people who keep each other going through it.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Please help us keep growing with any amount at kapow.works/donate !!
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KAPOW!
KAPOW! Turning campaigns into community, with Kat Abughazaleh and Common Power
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
We have an incredible problem: too many donations for our mutual aid hub and not enough shelves! We’ve outgrown our current setup, and we need to adapt to keep up with need, especially as we help candidates across the country adopt this model.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/06/2026
Trump is now sitting back in his chair and dozing off
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Angelica Shalagina Official🇺🇦 @angel-shalagina.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Fuel coupons are back in occupied Crimea. For the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union, fuel is being rationed on a massive scale. Empty gas stations, long queues, and some people reportedly switching to horses. Ukrainian strikes on logistics and oil infrastructure are working🔥🇺🇦
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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
@vitro.notvictor adds a new family member: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmil...
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
1 June 1942 | An Italian Jewish boy, Marco Segre, was born in Milan. On 25 May 1944 he was murdered in a gas chamber at #Auschwitz II-Birkenau.
A vintage sepia-toned photo showing a baby seated, focusing intently on their hands as they play with a small object. The baby wears a striped outfit and has neatly combed hair with a visible part.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 01/06/2026
Good morning, Bluesky.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/06/2026
NEW: lots of you have sent me this article asking for my thoughts. I’ve been able to confirm it. Just as she says, Trump’s administration is staging vote.gov on a non-government cloudflare account under the EOP where there’s no oversight or accounting. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/thedreyd...
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I found a second vote.gov — and it's registered to the White House
There is a moment in every investigation where the thing you have been looking for finds you instead.
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Noor Lovelace @noorlovelace.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Thinking about how my abusive ex at one point laughed in my face and said, “where are you gonna go?” To a difference state, with a better man, a better life, a community, the start of a fabulous and challenging career, and a dog with ears as big as her head. THAT’S where I went.
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Niall Harbison @niallharbison.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
One year ago, Little Chance moved in with myself and Hank. She'd had a tough life on the streets and had been stabbed twice in the stomach. Nobody deserves this safe home more than her, and although she might seem lucky, it's myself and Hank who count ourselves to be the luckiest.
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Jim Robert @mollygrub.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
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Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Shipshapes for a cancelled animated project. A recurring theme.
Pencil/digital concept sketches, ramshackle ships made from scavenged bits and pieces Pencil/digital concept sketches, ramshackle ships made from scavenged bits and pieces Pencil/digital concept sketches, ramshackle ships made from scavenged bits and pieces Pencil/digital concept sketches, ramshackle ships made from scavenged bits and pieces
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