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Gregory Spatz

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Writer, fiddler, teacher, professor. www.gregoryspatz.com www.thejaybirds.com

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
In less than 24 hours, Colbert's interview with Talarico is at more than 3.8 million YouTube views. The video is already one of the two most watched videos on the Late Show's YouTube page this year.
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Stephen Colbert hosts Texas State Rep. James Talarico for an online-exclusive interview that touches on the issues raised in Talarico's campaign for the Democratic nomination for Senate including the separation of church and state, the dangers of consolidated corporate-owned media, and the fabricated culture wars pushed by Republicans in states like Texas. If you're curious why this interview with James Talarico was an online-exclusive, click here to watch Stephen Colbert explain: • • Why CBS Didn't Broadcast Stephen Colbert's....
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars
A masked ICE officials with a 5 year old child
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 19/10/2025
Russ Vought set out to ensure a second Trump term would not be hampered by checks and balances: “I don’t want President Trump having to lose a moment of time having fights in the Oval Office about whether something is legal or doable or moral.” By @andykroll.bsky.social, with @newyorker.com
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Russell Vought, Trump’s Shadow President
From the wholesale gutting of federal agencies to the ongoing government shutdown, Russell Vought has drawn the road map for Trump’s second term. Vought has consolidated power to an extent that inside...
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David Rosenthal @davidrosenthalpoet.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Yes please.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 13/10/2025
The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!! Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/10/2025
Pritzker: "If the Constitution means anything -- and I guess we all are questioning that right now -- the Insurrection Act cannot be invoked ... they just want troops on the ground because they want to militarize especially blue cities in blue states."
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Moods of Florence @moodsofflorence24.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
A new episode from Jim Acosta @jimacosta.bsky.social youtu.be/N-wyirM3hlk?...
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EXPOSIVE: TRUMP & EPSTEIN'S 'WONDERFUL SECRETS' THAT HAVE WHITE HOUSE IN PANIC MODE!
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ZYZZYVA @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
“Or maybe she was still asleep asleep. Maybe everything she saw now was only a reflection of a reflection of reality, like that moonlight in the water.” New fiction from @gregoryspatz.bsky.social in our latest issue! Keep reading + subscribe at zyzzyva.org
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Gregory Spatz @gregoryspatz.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Apricots apricots apricots and more apricots
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Gregory Spatz @gregoryspatz.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Still waiting excitedly for my copy!
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David DeGusta @davidwrites1.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Excited to dive in! @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social going strong at 40. Kudos @ovillalon.bsky.social & contributors @arlozoroff.bsky.social @cubistoctopus.bsky.social @poetkellycm.bsky.social @mpalaia.bsky.social @fetaplace.bsky.social @dapowell.bsky.social @kimsamek.bsky.social @gregoryspatz.bsky.social
The cover of issue 129 of the literary magazine Zyzzyva, founded in 1985.
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Gregory Spatz @gregoryspatz.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
That was a day of work?
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Upon learning that your own mistake sent an innocent father to a brutal prison where he’s likely to be tortured, anyone with a shred of decency would be overcome with shame and fight like hell to get him back. They think it’s funny. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Gregory Spatz @gregoryspatz.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Fun time in LA at the AWP conference with old friends and new.
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Gregory Spatz @gregoryspatz.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky
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Mo Collins @mocollins.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
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Gregory Spatz @gregoryspatz.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
On the road in Prague, day one. Good times!
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 05/02/2025
The Execution of the Doge, by Delacroix, 1825. He was beheaded for attempting a coup d'etat. Apropos of, you know, absolutely nothing at all.
Delacroix's dramatic oil shows the aftermath of the beheading of Doge Marino Faliero on the famous staircase in the Ducal Palace in Venice.
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Mo Collins @mocollins.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
You are so appreciated, Marc. (Please read his response to musk).
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Lara Stapleton @larastap.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Chaos is the goal. Why? Is it because that is Putin's goal and he's in charge?
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Trump officials have terminated more than 300 staffers at the National Nuclear Security Administration without realizing that they oversee America’s nuclear weapons. They are now trying to rescind the terminations.
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Trump officials fired nuclear staff not realizing they oversee the country’s weapons stockpile, sources say | CNN
Some of the fired probationary employees included on-the-ground staff at facilities where nuclear weapons are built.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 14/02/2025
When I heard Musk say this on Tuesday, my assumption was that it was a programming issue. Because I can code and have written to databases and because I am familiar with other examples of default values being misinterpreted. Yet somehow Musk isn't.
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
These are the clowns Congress refuses to stop.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Perfectly captured.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet: www.404media.co/declassified...
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Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral
The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.
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Jamie Gangel @jamiegangel.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Breaking - Caroline Kennedy speaks out on RFK jr. calls him a “predator” www.threads.net/@jackuno/pos...
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Jack Schlossberg (@jackuno) on Threads
Please watch this powerful video and read this statement on RFKJr from my mother
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Literary Pearls @literarypearls.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” James Baldwin
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Pam Hemphill, a J6er who has since expressed serious regret for what she did, says she will not accept a pardon from President Trump. “I committed a crime.”
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Gregory Spatz @gregoryspatz.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
The fiddle maker and her apprentice, hard at work. One of them anyway.
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Gregory Spatz @gregoryspatz.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
So true.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
That Felony Guy makes zero sense and is only going to get worse.
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Gregory Spatz @gregoryspatz.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Another little piece of good news from the end of last year! Best American.
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Jamie Schler @lifesafeast.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
From @deadder.bsky.social in support of @anntelnaes.bsky.social 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Jeff Bezos never wanted this cartoon to become public. He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit. Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.
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billywayneweeks.bsky.social @billywayneweeks.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Pretty much
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 01/01/2025
One dead after Tesla Cybertruck catches fire outside Trump hotel in Las Vegas
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One dead after Tesla Cybertruck catches fire outside Trump hotel in Las Vegas
Authorities respond to explosion reported early morning that killed one person and injured seven One person died and seven more were injured on Wednesday when a Tesla truck caught fire and exploded outside Donald Trump’s Las Vegas hotel, authorities…
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Gregory Spatz @gregoryspatz.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
A very relaxed cat wishing you the happiest of Happy New Year's.
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Gregory Spatz @gregoryspatz.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Back in the pandemic my wife Caridwen and I posted a new song every night on social media. At least 200 nights, maybe more. And all of them featured our cat “listening.” Music With Mr Buttercup. Here’s a new sixty second reprisal we posted last night. The Hinge of the Year. Happy Hannumas to all!
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Gregory Spatz @gregoryspatz.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
A happy surprise! Special mention in this year's Pushcart Prize anthology for my story "Brake"!
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Gregory Spatz @gregoryspatz.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
A cat who loves all cases equally!
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Dammit Doug Smith @dammitdougsmith.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
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Gregory Spatz @gregoryspatz.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Coffee with a heart in it, as always, but this time with a little snow.
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Gregory Spatz @gregoryspatz.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
I think he's subtly making it known that he would rather if I didn't go on the road with the band. Or that he'd like to come with, but I doubt he'd be all right with that
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💙❤️💙Mia💙❤️💙 @mommamia.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Please.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Those saying Joe Biden’s pardon of his son gives “permission” to Trump to issue wild pardons forget that Trump never asks or needs permission to do anything wild.
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Gregory Spatz @gregoryspatz.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Great to see high school friends Elizabeth Graver, Peter MacGillivray, and Richard Scullin in Williamstown today!
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 30/11/2024
I wonder if him and Jesse Watters’ mom meet up at the world’s worst sons support group.
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Gregory Spatz @gregoryspatz.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Can anyone identify this strange object??
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Gregory Spatz @gregoryspatz.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
We saw this wise being today walking in the woods near my parents house in the Berkshires. So pleasing and beautiful
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