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Progressive; space & science geek, futurist; spiritual, not religious; guitarist, sound engineer, retired computing technologist, AI researcher, and programmer. Ex-X. Alumnus of Georgia Tech, Intergraph, Boeing. 🚫DMs🚫crypto🚫GoFundMe

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George Williams @gpww.bsky.social · 4m
“Never did I think that if I was wounded that these things would happen,” said Bearman. “Some sacred trust that I thought would never be broken was broken.” newrepublic.com/post/216274/...
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Soldiers Wounded in Iran Say DOD Made Them Get Their Own Treatment
The service members were left to fend for themselves.
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George Williams @gpww.bsky.social · 2h
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Election deniers Cleta Mitchell and Tina Peters want Trump’s commerce secretary to seize voting machines
The problem? No federal official can seize control of election administration from the states and counties, who hold the power run elections under the U.S. Constitution.
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Mad_as_hell (Maddie) @maddie-says.bsky.social · 15h
Susan Collins isn’t working for Maine; she is working for Trump. Her voting record proves it. #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks
Susan Collins voted with trump 92% of the time
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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 15h
Say Hi 👋 to these Resisters looking to meet you! Vet, F&R. Ty! 💙 @web-horizons.bsky.social @justbeinreal.bsky.social @lzyltnin.bsky.social @johnpaul1956.bsky.social @freddierose.bsky.social @lyndapole.bsky.social @wdstckdr.bsky.social @gotterdammerrung.bsky.social @rjk9.bsky.social 🚫Add-Ons
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George Williams @gpww.bsky.social · 2h
Tommy Tuberville is big on data centers too, and that's a losing position in Alabama. Doug Jones has a very good chance of beating him in the AL gubernatorial race. Even AL could turn blue this year! www.contrariannews.org/p/data-cente...
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Data Center Backlash Is MAGA’s Comeuppance
🚨 27 Days to the Midterms 🚨
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In Austin, a 9-year-old watched ICE detain and drive away with his mother, leaving community members to scramble to find him care. Senate Republicans just blocked a bill that would bar ICE from making arrests at school bus stops. Their cruelty is endless.
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'It Has to Stop': Community Members Condemn ICE Arrests at Bus Stops After GOP Blocks Bill to Protect Kids | Common Dreams
Republicans in the US Senate blocked a bill to protect school bus stops from ICE arrests, leading to outrage in Pennsylv
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Biden checks his watch at a ceremony and Fox does nonstop segments on it for weeks. But Trump falls asleep repeatedly at the 9/11 ceremony and they won’t even show it. But national broadcast news networks won’t show it either because that would be impolite.
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VicSanta @vicsanta.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Without a doubt!!!
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VicSanta @vicsanta.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This! All. Day. Long.
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Kim Talise @kimtalise.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Thanks for including me Donald!
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George Williams @gpww.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
www.borowitzreport.com/p/leavitt-jo...
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Leavitt Joins Fox in Hopes of Becoming Defense Secretary
She said that only by becoming an on-air personality at Fox News could she acquire the “warrior ethos” necessary to lead the world’s largest military.
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George Williams @gpww.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This tool makes everyone a campaign finance expert This tool gives you immediate, unprecedented insight into who is sending you political advertising mail. paidforby.info
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Who paid for this?
Find out who really paid for political mailers and TV ads.
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Gary R Simonds @garys79.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
THe gloves absolutely must come off. No politeness. No respecting treasonous "Colleagues" on the other side of the aisle. Rules? Screw the rules. Since when has the gOP respected any of our rules/laws/judicial rulings? newrepublic.com/article/2161...
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The Long and Extremely Urgent To-Do List if Democrats Take the House
If House Democrats don’t use every tool at their disposal to name names, kick ass, and stop further destruction, there will be hell to pay with the base.
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Gary R Simonds @garys79.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Of course the surge in illness and death will occur after trump and his lunatic minions will be gone - and the democrat president and congress will take the blame. www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
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Florida on Cusp of Measles Outbreak
A mathematical model finds vaccination rates have dropped below the herd immunity threshold and are likely to decline even further, sparking an epidemic.
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Gary R Simonds @garys79.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"About 70% of the antibiotics that matter most to medicine are sold for use in food animals and most of that is not treating sick livestock. It is keeping healthy animals alive in the crowded, stressful confinement that industrial meat production depends on." www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...
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Opinion | We Keep Treating Resistant Infections. We Rarely Ask Where the Resistance Came From.
The farm-to-clinic pathway is not theoretical
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Gary R Simonds @garys79.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Get your flu vaccine, folks. PLEASE! www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...
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Why Now Is an Ideal Time for Flu Protection
And why just about everyone should get vaccinated against the flu
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
New Fox poll shows Trump coalition collapsing in Texas. GOP is sinking money into Iowa and Kansas. The horrors of Late-Stage Trumpism are creating space for a new anti-corruption, anti-cruelty politics to emerge. On the pod, @aselrod.bsky.social is brilliant on this: newrepublic.com/article/2161...
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Fox Drops Brutal Poll on Trump as Leaks Reveal MAGA Panic: “Wake Up!”
As the Trump-GOP position worsens, political theorist explains why Trump-MAGA’s corrupt and depraved misrule has created space for a new, values-based liberal-Democratic politics to emerge.
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George Williams @gpww.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
theintercept.com/2026/10/05/s...
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Susan Collins’s Committee Bought Trucks the Army Didn’t Want. Then Campaign Donations Poured In.
Appropriations committee members saw an influx of campaign contributions after steering $345 million to a military contractor.
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George Williams @gpww.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
theintercept.com/2026/10/02/g...
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Public Radio Station Forced to Call Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America”
Rather than stand up for editorial independence, the University of Alabama at Birmingham is rolling over to Trump and his “Gulf of America.”
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George Williams @gpww.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
newrepublic.com/article/2161...
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The Long and Extremely Urgent To-Do List if Democrats Take the House
If House Democrats don’t use every tool at their disposal to name names, kick ass, and stop further destruction, there will be hell to pay with the base.
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Kendra @kendrablm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Number 9
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“Nobody knows more about demonstrating the Dunning–Kruger effect than me.” —Donald Trump
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Pat G🇨🇦 🍁🏳️‍🌈🍉 @pguist.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is MAPLE MAGA and MAGA❕They don’t know how to tell the truth and get caught and then just spew more lies 🤥
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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luxlars.bsky.social @luxlars.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
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luxlars.bsky.social @luxlars.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
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luxlars.bsky.social @luxlars.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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George Williams @gpww.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The Justice Department’s complaint should be rejected. Federal judges must remain impartial in deciding the cases before them. But they need not — and should not — remain silent about threats to the rule of law itself. www.contrariannews.org/p/we-object-...
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We Object! DOJ’s Latest Attack on Our Heroic Federal Judges
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George Williams @gpww.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Political power and profitable trades in the US Congress
The debate over whether US members of Congress should be allowed to trade individual stocks has become a mainstream policy concern. This column uses data on every US congressional stock trade from 199...
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George Williams @gpww.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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A “Who You Gonna Believe?” Election
If you’re arguing, you’re losing. Trump is arguing.
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George Williams @gpww.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Why top Texas election denier Ken Paxton could cause chaos if he loses his Senate race
Ken Paxton has election interference tools and he’s proven his willingness to use them. But legal experts are confident that courts are up to the task of protecting the will of the voters.
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George Williams @gpww.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Along with most of today's MSM newrepublic.com/article/2160...
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Liberals Must Fight The New York Times’ Monopoly Too
The paper’s editorial vision is out of step with the robust liberalism needed today.
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UK 🇬🇧 🤝 🇺🇦 □ @ukbastard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Putin is repeating Brezhnev’s basic error The Kremlin is increasing military spending to unsustainable levels, recreating the conditions that led to the Soviet Union’s collapse archive.ph/tmioi
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pathetic…..
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
25th Amendment? We can’t even get network news to air it or even mention it. It’s a massive national media coverup to hide the fact the we have an addled president.
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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Of 24,650 recorded deaths in #Gaza that year, 70.1% were attributed to direct Israeli attacks, making them the leading cause of death. Heart disease ranked second at 7.7%." www.threads.com/@vpalestinet... #BDS #BoycottIsrael #GazaStrip #FreePalestine #Israel #News #Palestine #WorldNews
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Release ALL the Epstein files NOW!
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George Williams @gpww.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
www.contrariannews.org/p/you-can-he...
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You Can Help Improve Legacy Media
🚨33 Days to the Midterms🚨
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George Williams @gpww.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
arstechnica.com/space/2026/0...
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NASA has a Dragon dilemma, and there appear to be no good answers
So is SpaceX just being selfish or what?
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El Cortador @newmexislosh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Remember when republicans wouldn’t adopt electric vehicles, because our electric grid couldn’t handle it? Now they’re building data centers that consume entire state’s worth of power.
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Russ @pappyparki.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
At no point during Senate Republicans speeches & questioning of Jack Smith did a single Republican Senator deny Donald J Trump committed sedition, treason, espionage, breach of national security, conspired to overturn a election, conspired to assault, injure or kill Congress & VP. Think about that
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George Williams @gpww.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Just a few of many that deserve attention newrepublic.com/article/2160...
newrepublic.com
The Five Trump Scandals That Deserve Thorough Investigation
A guide for the Democrats’ coming congressional majority
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George Williams @gpww.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
arstechnica.com
Microsoft goes quiet after church groups ask for 1% of data center costs
“Microsoft claims to want to be a good neighbor, but the jury is still out."
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George Williams @gpww.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
arstechnica.com/health/2026/...
arstechnica.com
Trump admin using AI to deny medical care for seniors in disastrous experiment
Vendors rolling out AI have an "incentive to deny as many claims as possible."
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George Williams @gpww.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
newrepublic.com/post/216016/...
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Trump Reprograms Government AI Chatbot to Stop Fact-Checking His Lies
Trump officials seem to have realized their AI chatbot was correcting the president’s biggest lies.
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George Williams @gpww.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
www.contrariannews.org/p/march-us-t...
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March Us Toward the Summit, Not the Chasm
By Governor JB Pritzker
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George Williams @gpww.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Even with the best lower court judges, judicial remedies are often too little too late or simply not up to the task of disarming MAGA officials bent on suppressing voting rights. www.contrariannews.org/p/courts-are...
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Courts Are Not Going to Save Voting Rights
🚨 34 Days to the Midterms 🚨
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George Williams @gpww.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
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Trump ads paid for by US government allegedly violate anti-propaganda laws
FCC unlikely to stop Trump ads described as illegal taxpayer-funded propaganda.
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Ben Franklin’s ghost @ben-franklin-ghost.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They (GOP) know this to be true and it will always be true.
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