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Semi-retired b-ball coach WNBA/NBA…Electric Solar-powered Fat Tire Scooter aficionado…passport renewal done

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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Benedict Cumberbatch presents How to Live on Earth. “Living on Mars would be horrible. Let’s try to live on Earth.”
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How to Live on Earth | Feature Documentary | Presented by Benedict Cumberbatch
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GKlop @gklop23.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A magnificent and visionary path forward if we, humanity, will take it. “It’s time to rethink….everything.”
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
My mom had polio when she was five. She was living on a US military base in Japan (1947). Four kids on the base died. She was the only survivor.
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GKlop @gklop23.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Small Oklahoma town stands up to toxic polluters and wins! oklahomavoice.com/2026/09/15/i...
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Inola smelting ban will appear on spring referendum ballot, moratorium will remain in effect • Oklahoma Voice
Inola residents will decide the fate of a massive aluminum smelter in a town-wide vote next spring. Until then, city officials have paused heavy industrial development — including the aluminum smeltin...
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
i keep learning about new WNBA players i would run through a wall for
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Alexa Philippou @alexaphilippou.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Caitlin Clark said she told Stephanie White before the game there was no way they were losing tonight. "I hated that our fans booed her before the game. That made me a little sick, to be honest." "We're going to ride for her, and we're always going to have her back."
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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention
My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.
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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
on this day 105 years ago in 1921 the Tulsa Race Massacre began when white supremacists destroyed Tulsa's Greenwood district. This group of citizens destroyed 35 blocks of "Black Wall Street", killed 300, and left 10,000 Black citizens homeless.
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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
"Hello daddy. I hope you are OK. Tell everyone from my class hello." here's some of what I saw and learned this week when I visited the Dilley ICE family detention center in Texas.
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Tina Casey @tinamcasey.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Trump's Iran war is turbo-boosting the balcony solar movement. cleantechnica.com/2026/03/28/b... #solar #balconysolar #solarenergy #solarpower #solarpanels #pv #solarpv #greenenergy #cleanenergy #affordableenergy #energy #us #energypolicy #iranwar #epsteinwar #utilitybills #coal #sustainability
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Balcony Solar Is Spreading Across The US
The balcony solar movement has reached the US, as Trump's war in Iraq sends ratepayers scrambling to after clean, local, affordable power.
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Okla City Free Press @freepressokc.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Thousands of protesters filled Bicentennial Park Saturday for the largest "No Kings" rally yet in OKC, followed by a march throughout Downtown | Alex Gatley & Brett Fieldcamp report:
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Largest ‘No Kings’ protest yet sees thousands march through Downtown
Thousands of protesters filled Bicentennial Park Saturday for the largest "No Kings" rally yet in OKC, followed by a march throughout Downtown.
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GKlop @gklop23.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Heartbreaking analysis of what is a complete breakdown of the rule of law, sanctioned by the leaders and a Supreme Court that is supposed to uphold it. Injustice and inhumanity are now the followed government norms.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 10/02/2026
Authoritarian regimes make you feel like shit because they will never admit they’re losing. But Trump is losing — and it’s because of the organizing work you’re doing.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/08/2025
Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve on the Minnesota shooting: "The sad thing is we can't sit here and tell them that help is on the way. Because we're not going to do a damn thing about it."
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
The priorities of the Trump regime…
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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
1. In the early hours of June 12, 1963, after Medgar Evers, the first field secretary of the NAACP in Mississippi, was returning from a meeting with NAACP lawyers on voting rights. Hours after JFK had given his Civil Rights address, Medgar Evers would return late to his home in the early morning
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GKlop @gklop23.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
RIP Sly…brought the energy back in the good old days at Woodstock. youtube.com/watch?v=tQ0P...
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Sly The Family Stone Higher And Higher live
YouTube video by Carlos López
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Lizzy Tish @lizzy-tish.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Not a single international cargo ship at the Port of Seattle. The port is dead. The last ship from China will dock at a West coast port on the 29th, and the last Chinese ship will dock on the East coast around May 10th. After that, there will be no more shipments arriving from China. We’re screwed.
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
New interview with @mskellymhayes.bsky.social (who I recommend you follow) on the Trump admin nightmare, the wasted Biden years, and why you should never give up: organizingmythoughts.org/sarah-kendzi...
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Sarah Kendzior: "Don't Give Up On Other People"
"If you still care, then I think there's still potential for this situation to be turned around," says Sarah Kendzior.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 18/04/2025
I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
Photo of Senator Chris Van Hollen with Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
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GKlop @gklop23.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
She’s been warning us for ten years about the autocratic nightmare descending upon us. Thank you for coming to Tulsa @sarahkendzior.bsky.social and for being a true American voice of truth in a sea of chaos.
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GKlop @gklop23.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Nails it. “This should have been obvious to anyone who had dealt with a schoolyard bully. If you give him your lunch money the first time, guess what? He will now be waiting for you every day. The only way to break the cycle is to refuse to cooperate; the sooner the better.”
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Alexa Philippou @alexaphilippou.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
The path might have been circuitous. The process might have been trying. But the ending for Paige Bueckers and UConn? It was as perfect as it gets. "[Bueckers'] journey," Geno Auriemma said, "has been the most incredible for any kid I've had." www.espn.com/womens-colle...
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'It's truly storybook': How Paige Bueckers and UConn got their fairytale ending
After four years of disappointing endings, Paige Bueckers finally lived her -- and UConn's -- dream-come-true.
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BlueUnikorn @blueunikorn.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Yes! I hope everyone in Tulsa will go to the Hands Off rally there today!
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
I hadn't seen this yesterday, Elon Musk saying two lawyers were "undermining civilization" which "seems like a generational trauma transfer issue." What a strange insult. Does he know their parents or something? Ah, I see: they're both Jewish. It's Musk being a Nazi. Again.
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GKlop @gklop23.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
www.commoncause.org/work/fire-el...
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Fire Elon Musk
Our democracy cannot be held hostage by billionaires. Let’s restore power to the people and demand accountability from our leaders.
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
There is no line the Republican Party is not willing to cross with and for Donald Trump. They have now reached a point where even Mitch McConnell, whose place in history as one of democracy’s worst gravediggers is secure, refuses to go. A reminder of how far things have already escalated.
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GKlop @gklop23.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Extremist governor criticizes his more extremist Superintendent of Education that he appointed. oklahomavoice.com/2025/02/12/o...
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Oklahoma governor rejects immigration checks in schools, says Walters should be 'held accountable’ • Oklahoma Voice
Gov. Kevin Stitt gave a searing indictment of state Superintendent Ryan Walters' performance as Oklahoma's schools chief.
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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Tesla's stock is ridiculously overvalued, and even a modest consumer boycott could tank the company, which accounts for the majority of Elon Musk's wealth. The divestment movement weakened apartheid South Africa. Let's do that again. slate.com/business/202...
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Don’t Buy a Tesla. Sell Your Tesla. Refuse a Tesla at the Rental Counter. Yes—It Will Help.
Elon Musk’s car company is in a precarious spot.
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 04/02/2025
The Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics, a great org, asks individuals & orgs to sign their letter requesting Congress act to restore data that has been removed & ensure a similar purge does not reoccur. #EconSky #PolicySky #sociology #PoliSky docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
They’re running the “Twitter Files” playbook agains the entire US government, and just as in that case, the claims are a bunch of half-baked conspiracy theories built around idiotic misinterpretations and intentional mischaracterizations of bits of data and out of context communications.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/02/2025
if you were an unreconstructed segregationist from jim crow alabama, what would you do differently than this administration with regard to civil rights enforcement?
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Helmi @helmsinki.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
The Dept of Education may take down many sites soon including studentaid.gov Folks should go to the website and download all their loan data (under "my activity" on the "My Aid" page), including docs related to loan consolidation, payment plan apps, FAFSA forms, and PSLF
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
I wrote about Trump's executive orders, including his attacks on trans and undocumented people, and how we should be orienting ourselves to defy fascist violence in this moment. This piece includes commentary from @chasestrangio.bsky.social and @silkys13.bsky.social.
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A Brutal Beginning: Orienting Ourselves Amid the Shock and Awe
We must be prepared to live and act defiantly, deriving no legitimacy from the illegitimate brutes who would govern us.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
These are the words of an extremist. At the moment we should band together to condemn domestic terrorism, this guy incites fear against teachers. Shame on him. Students and teachers deserve better.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/12/2024
New in PN: We can't memory hole the Election Day bomb threats "Putin, Trump, and Republicans have learned that potentially violent election interference targeting Democratic voters is fine as long as you win. If they aren’t made to pay some sort of price, why wouldn’t they do it again?"
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We can't memory hole the Election Day bomb threats
Healthy democracies don't normalize this stuff.
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Authoritarians want you to betray each other but they also encourage you to betray yourself through an inner moral collapse- you give up your agency and let the leader "fix it," and you disregard your moral compass.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
If you're struggling to find hope that we can banish America's fascist nightmare, read this piece I wrote for my free Stop the Presses newsletter. Together we can defend our democracy.
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Here’s what we WON’T do when Trump takes over
We won’t shut up and give up – we’ll stand up and power up
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Once more for the weekend readers: How right-wing/conservative media is like improv theater. It’s both about what is happening on stage and the relationship between the audience and the actor-influencers.
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GKlop @gklop23.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Our Delta pilots got us as close as possible on an incredible fly by of Mt. Rainier.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
My piece on Patel is up. (Gifted here. Thanks, Bluesky folks.) www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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The Kash Patel Principle
Trump’s choice for FBI director speaks volumes about his real second-term agenda
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Lesson 1: Do not obey in advance. Thread of lessons from my book #OnTyranny. Written in 2016.
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GKlop @gklop23.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Excellent piece….we’re not going to be complicit in this future American fascism. Resist what’s coming any way you can.
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Orwell, it turns out, was right. He was just 40 years off.
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
"On Sunday night at Madison Square Garden, the second-rate inheritors of a third-rate Klan dreamed of a Fourth Reich, imagining they would march into New York and declare a new boss. It was their attempt at cosplaying Hitler in Paris."
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Between the pitch and the terror
The Trump campaign stumbles by going mask-off before sealing the deal.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 28/10/2024
People keep saying Trump's rally was originally intended as his closing argument, but devolved into a hate rally instead. But the rally we all saw IS his closing argument. He is running explicitly on much of what we witnessed on that stage. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1876...
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Trump’s Ugly Racist Rally Finally Unmasks His Real Closing Argument
The Madison Square Garden rally didn’t devolve into a hate fest. The hate fest was the point all along.
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GKlop @gklop23.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
Congrats to NY Liberty on the 2024 WNBA Championship! Didn’t play well but found a way.
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