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GreggCockrell

@greggcockrell.bsky.social
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Former MSNBC/CBS/KFI Producer, Author, Barefoot Runner, Pearl Jam Fan "News, Politics, Rock 'n' Roll"

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GreggCockrell @greggcockrell.bsky.social · 20h
He killed it during the Jack Sabbath set! (DOH! That was Jack Black)
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GreggCockrell @greggcockrell.bsky.social · 20h
Matt Fucking Cameron! Mike Fucking McCready! www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaJS...
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Spoonman - Suns Of Soundgarden Live Performance At Power To The People Festival 3rd October, 2026
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GreggCockrell @greggcockrell.bsky.social · 20h
Oh, man, Chris woulda loved this!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1ly...
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Outshined (Soundgarden) (Mike McCready, Taylor Momsen,Tom Morello) Power To The People Festival 2026
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GreggCockrell @greggcockrell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
What an Attorney General he would be
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GreggCockrell @greggcockrell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I can't wait to see what Senator Nixon does once she is in office!! Come on Florida - wake up and vote!!
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GreggCockrell @greggcockrell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
AWESOME!! And then he played a killer set as: JACK SABBATH!!! ...opps! Sorry, that was Jack Black
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GreggCockrell @greggcockrell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Like kids in a candy shop, they will loot and grift and grab as much as they can before someone stops them
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GreggCockrell @greggcockrell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"We definitely weren’t designed to cope with all this — our bodies, our nervous systems, our brains." "A kind of overwhelming weariness and even sadness is increasingly the default state of people who, in living memory, had been optimistic..." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/o...
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Opinion | I’m Exhausted. You’re Demoralized. We Weren’t Built for a World Like This. (Gift Article)
A greatly underappreciated virtue of other presidents was that you could forget about them for weeks at a time.
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GreggCockrell @greggcockrell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
eric schmitt: "You said I don't know you - that's a lie!" Jack Smith: "Uhh, no, I said you don't know jack shit!"
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GreggCockrell @greggcockrell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Tom Morello’s Power to the People Festival with Bruce Springsteen, Dave Matthews, Joan Baez, Foo Fighters, Stephen Stills, Brittany Howard and More Will Stream Free on Saturday
This Saturday, Tom Morello’s Power to the People festival will debut at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland. When Morello announced the event
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GreggCockrell @greggcockrell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I think this music hits so hard right now! Panteón Rococó has been at the forefront of Mexican ska for over three decades. www.npr.org/2026/10/01/g...
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Panteón Rococó: Tiny Desk Concert
For over three decades, Panteón Rococó has been at the forefront of Mexican ska. The band's skankin' grooves slide easily between cumbia and Afro-Caribbean rhythms.
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GreggCockrell @greggcockrell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
god help us all ... prepare to be terrified! "But the Anthropic team remained focused on figuring out what Claude could learn from the world’s religions." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...
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Religious Scholars Met With Anthropic. What They Heard Stunned Them. (Gift Article)
In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious.
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GreggCockrell @greggcockrell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Life is like an Onion - you peel it off a layer at a time, and sometimes you cry.
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GreggCockrell @greggcockrell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A good argument can be made that the Internet has ruined life on Earth. At the same time, it preserves historic moments like this. A pristine recording of Thelonious Monk from 1947. archive.org/details/Thel...
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Niven Jazz Collection: Thelonious Monk Tape 1 (1947)
From the David W. Niven Collection of Jazz History, a cassette recording from the Jazz artist Thelonious Monk, from the era of 1947. Tape 1. Recorded with a TEAC AD-500 cassette deck, a desktop comput...
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The Onion @theonion.com · 30/09/2026
Man Confident He Would’ve Been Brave Enough To Send Thumbs Down Emoji In Cornell Group Chat
Man Confident He Would’ve Been Brave Enough To Send Thumbs Down Emoji In Cornell Group Chat
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GreggCockrell @greggcockrell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I thought this was pretty damned historic www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTIm...
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2026 - John McLaughlin at Crossroads Guitar Festival in Austin
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GreggCockrell @greggcockrell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
More than two decades. The deaths of more than 200,000 civilians & more than 4,500 U.S. troops, the wounding of more than 30,000 U.S. military personnel & the cost of more than $2.8 trillion. The last of the U.S. military forces in Iraq today pulled out of Erbil Air Base in northern Iraq. WHY?
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GreggCockrell @greggcockrell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I wound up seeing 60 Pearl Jam concerts over the years. Saw them in Canada, the UK & Holland & all over the US, but the very first one was this time 30 years ago on a small New York Island www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WVU...
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Pearl Jam - 1996-09-29 (30th Anniversary 3-Cam)
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GreggCockrell @greggcockrell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
just a reminder
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GreggCockrell @greggcockrell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
GOTCHA!!
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GreggCockrell @greggcockrell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Classic: After the hearing, Schmitt appeared on The Charlie Kirk Show, where host Andrew Kolvet cheered his attack on Smith. “Jack Smith is a total dirtbag and you caught him out on this NBA game…in Atlanta. It was a great moment. Good for you on that.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘You make me want to throw up’: Republicans attack ex-special counsel Jack Smith at Senate hearing
GOP senators lash out on Smith, who led criminal cases against Trump, with invective and inaccurate information
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GreggCockrell @greggcockrell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I hope Jack Smith NEVER stops telling this story: “Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in criminal activity” heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-...
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September 29, 2026
The scene that unfolded today at a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee was a snapshot of politics in the U.S.
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GreggCockrell @greggcockrell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I cannot let go of this feeling: "Something bad is going to happen to us as a result. We and our children are going to pay for this, and not only at the gas pump." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/o...
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Opinion | Trump Is Going Viral in the Worst Ways (Gift Article)
On the technological, diplomatic and biological fronts, Trump is creating a disaster.
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GreggCockrell @greggcockrell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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GreggCockrell @greggcockrell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I LOVE it when my friends win Emmys!!!
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GreggCockrell @greggcockrell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Still one of the greatest rock bands to ever take a stage www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQ_R...
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Pearl Jam - Scared of Fear - Ohana (September 25, 2026)
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GreggCockrell @greggcockrell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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GreggCockrell @greggcockrell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Pariah
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GreggCockrell @greggcockrell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Alabama" - John Coltrane, 1963, with McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison, and Elvin Jones. Coltrane conceived of the composition in response to the Baptist Church bombing on September 15, 1963—an attack by KKK that killed four African-American girls. www.youtube.com/watch?v=saN1...
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JOHN COLTRANE Alabama
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GreggCockrell @greggcockrell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I wrote this piece about 8 years ago for Arianna Huffington's new (at the time) website called Thrive Global. That seems like eons ago to me now, especially at the speed my life has traveled since then! community.thriveglobal.com/surviving-li...
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Surviving Life on My Own Terms - Thrive Global
Finding Balance Between Work, Play and Meaningfulness
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GreggCockrell @greggcockrell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Do The Right Thing, Florida- send this woman to the Senate!
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GreggCockrell @greggcockrell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
ed is so dead
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GreggCockrell @greggcockrell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I think we all know what a hot bed of radical leftist-communist politics Sequim, WA is
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GreggCockrell @greggcockrell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is cool
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GreggCockrell @greggcockrell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Ed has completely lost the plot: "...everyone here can stand beside people that have opposing views, and everyone here can stand beside people that they don’t agree with on everything, but they can all agree on singing these songs.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/a...
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Ed Sheeran Addresses War in Gaza After Macklemore Is Dropped From Tour (Gift Article)
The singer-songwriter began his Philadelphia show on Saturday night by apologizing for “mistakes” and saying he felt compelled to speak out about the “humanitarian issue.”
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GreggCockrell @greggcockrell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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ray 鄺羡華 @raykwong.lol · 19/09/2026
Good morning and happy Saturday to everyone who will never get tired of watching scumbag traitor Senator Tommy Tuberville fall down the stairs.
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Essence of RBG 🦋 @rbgprevails.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We have some of the most moronic + immoral leaders ever in charge of making decisions for all mankind whilst at the same time we have technology developed that could potentially kill us all. What the hell could possibly go wrong?
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GreggCockrell @greggcockrell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Garbage data in, garbage data out
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GreggCockrell @greggcockrell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace by Richard Brautigan
Read the full text of Richard Brautigan's "All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace." Explore its meaning, poetic devices, and over 55 reader interpretations and comments by fellow poets.
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
And scene.
quote from 1984 where the party is always right.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It's a small world after all!!
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GreggCockrell @greggcockrell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Jersey Shore - just like clockwork
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GreggCockrell @greggcockrell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
You didn’t want to take a stand, ed? Well guess what? One was taken for you and now everyone knows exactly where you stand. As Pearl Jam says: There ain’t gonna be any middle anymore!
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 15/09/2026
When the edible hits and you’re at the Taco Bell drive thru.
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Joan Walsh @joanwalsh.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
These people are really the scum of the earth. But be sure to click through to read about Don Jr.'s jawline enhancement (the chinless wonder!) I'd sure love my spa to write about all my pre-wedding treatments! www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Houthis just filmed a warehouse full of US-made armor they took off Saudi-backed forces after Mocha fell. Shot on an iPhone. Such a damaging image! The coalition’s decade-long war in Yemen is ending in captured American equipment & open humiliation.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
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