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Gary Dowell

@heygary.bsky.social
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Freelance writer, former podcast producer (Far Fetched Fables, StarShip Sofa), professional geek, purveyor of vintage comic books, and perpetually perplexed...

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Joey Blue @jp262.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Ask yourself how twisted do you have to be to fight a law that bans people from creating AI-generated nude pictures, including children. Then ask yourself why this guy spends tens of millions to get Republicans elected. The ask yourself why anyone would ever consider voting for any f-n Republican!
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FireHorseLioness @firehorselioness.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Google maps said they wouldn't, but they did. Map Quest said they wouldn't and they didn't. Making sure I use Map Quest from now on.
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10/11 News @1011now.com · 04/09/2026
Adaptive horse show debuts at Nebraska State fair for riders with special needs
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Adaptive horse show debuts at Nebraska State fair for riders with special needs
The Nebraska State Fair is hosting its first Adaptive Horse Show on Sept. 4, giving children and adults with disabilities the opportunity to ride and compete.
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Trump Used Own Staff as Decoy During Iranian Assassination Threat Donald Trump let the press pool and some of his staff think he was on Air Force One, while really he had been smuggled in a catering cart onto a different plane.
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Trump Used Own Staff as Decoy During Iranian Assassination Threat
Donald Trump let the press pool and some of his staff think he was on Air Force One, while really he had been smuggled in a catering cart onto a different plane.
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Joe Biden would have never left his staff and crew behind to escape in a military food cart after accepting such an obvious decoy plane as a present.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
FOX GUEST: “If Mamdani put price controls on pharmaceuticals, bailed out farms, took stakes in companies, said energy companies make too much money — you’d all go apoplectic… You could argue TRUMP is the most powerful socialist in America.”
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 04/08/2026
WE NEED 4 SEATS TO FLIP THE SENATE. JOSH TUREK SHOULD BE ONE OF THEM. I was researching Josh and came across one of his signature issues: Right to Repair. I had no idea how important this was. Most people in big cities probably don’t either. 🧵
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Frank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
"I covered two presidents, LBJ and Nixon, who could no longer convince, persuade, or govern, once people had decided they had no credibility, but we seem to be more tolerant now of what I think we should not tolerate." -- Helen Thomas, born #OTD 1920 share.google/VXift6T2VaXv...
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Trump approval rating dealt triple blow—3 polls show all time low this week
Trump hits new lows in three polls this week — CNN, Quinnipiac and AP-NORC all find his approval at his second-term worst.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Sheriffs enter Mark Davis' home on false claims and DENY him entry into his OWN home....bc he doesn't like Trump This is fkin insane!!!!! Traumatizing kids now?! U.S. Air Force veteran and small business owner Mark Davis is running as an independent for Congress in Florida's 16th District.
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Moms Clean Air Force @momscleanairforce.org · 29/07/2026
California just became the first major grid system on the planet to generate more than 50% of its electricity from solar across an entire month.
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McSpocky™ @mcspocky.substack.com · 28/07/2026
Judge just ordered tRump’s DOJ to prove Epstein redactions are even legal. They blacked out co-conspirator names & FBI notes from a woman who said Epstein introduced her to tRump before he assaulted her as a minor. The law specifically bans covering for powerful people. upolitics.com/news/judge-o...
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Judge Orders Trump Justice Department To Prove Its Redactions Of Jeffrey Epstein Files Are Legal - uPolitics
A federal judge has decided he’s no longer willing to take the Justice Department’s assurances at face value in a lawsuit over withheld Epstein-related records, ordering the government to hand over un...
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ACLU @aclu.org · 28/07/2026
BREAKING: A court-appointed monitor issued a groundbreaking public report finding that ICE isn’t providing adequate health care to people detained at the California City Detention Facility in violation of a court order. No one should be subjected to this inhumane treatment.
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CorrinaLeeB 🇨🇦 @corrina.sheshed.rocks · 24/07/2026
Americans don’t need more culture wars! They need affordable housing, fair wages, quality healthcare & a government that works for people instead of big donors. The only minority destroying America is the billionaires! Priorities matter! #SheShed
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/07/2026
I’m confused. Who is META’s target customer with this ad? 🤔
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 28/07/2026
About the Austin police murder of a Black child named Anthoneil Williams: - Uvalde police cowered for 3 hrs while an armed terrorist murdered children—because cops feared for their lives. - But Austin police opened fire in 3 secs to murder a child—because cops feared for their lives. 1/4
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
FIFA president Gianni Infantino is now planning to sell stakes in the World Cup to private investors. Critics say the scheme could ruin the sport. It could also potentially earn him tens of millions of dollars, per Martyn Ziegler.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
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Forbes @forbes.com · 20/07/2026
The New York Times reported Monday that dozens of U.S. service members were injured in three Iranian strikes last week that weren’t publicly disclosed by the Pentagon.
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Pentagon Denies Hiding Injury Stats—After Report Dozens Were Hurt In Undisclosed Iran Strikes
The New York Times reported Monday that dozens of U.S. service members were injured in three Iranian strikes last week that weren’t publicly disclosed by the Pentagon.
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RedStateBlues @coolsprings.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
We’re all waiting for Trump ((the stable genius)) to explain how Democrats can rig elections when HE was in control of the government in 2020.
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dindin6.bsky.social @dindin6.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
😂🤣😂Too funny. Thank you Ray 💫
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 11/07/2026
Reporting on the security problems with Trump's Qatari vanity plane, despite hundreds of millions in taxpayer-funded renovations, show "exactly why we need to protect journalists and whistleblowers – without them, we’d never know about this kind of waste and incompetence,” we told @cnn.com
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Trump administration subpoenas New York Times journalists who reported security concerns around new Air Force One | CNN Politics
Four New York Times journalists who reported on security concerns surrounding a Qatari-gifted jet serving as the new Air Force One have been subpoenaed by the Justice Department, the news outlet repor...
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RoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
An Atlanta cop’s split-second decision to deploy a Taser without warning in 2018 changed Jerry Blasingame’s life forever. The fall that followed left him paralyzed, and he died before a federal appeals court ruled that the officer responsible must (cont.) www.theroot.com/atlanta-cop-...
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
im not being hyperbolic "In 1937, Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels made plans to show the public the forms of art that the regime deemed unacceptable. He organized the confiscation and exhibition of so-called “degenerate” art." encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...
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"Degenerate" Art | Holocaust Encyclopedia
Nazi leaders sought to control all spheres of German society, including art. They labeled art that did not meet the regime's criteria "degenerate." Learn more.
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Alex A. Pagliuca @alexpagliuca.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
"We are deploying responsibly
developed Al to liberate humanity from menial labor and usher in an era of unparalleled creativity and abundance."
SAM ALTMAN

"You ingested the entire written output of human civilization without consent, without compensation, and without credit, to build a system whose primary commercial application is eliminating the jobs of the people whose work you consumed.
You are not liberating human creativity - you are strip-mining it and selling it back at a markup while calling the theft training data."
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@think_and_exist
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Amber Woods @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
The internet remembers
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Sabrina Mandanas @sgmandanas.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
He is the worst human in our lifetime. 🤬
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Ossoff: I never want to hear these two pretend they give a damn about working people again. Because while hundreds of thousands of Georgians lose their health care, Mike Collins builds Trump a ballroom. They worked harder burying the Epstein files than they ever did lowering your grocery bill.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/06/2026
the feds have done more to harass americans angry over good and pretti’s killings than they have to investigate them
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Spoiler alert: CCS will never work at the scale necessary (and assumed in many models!) to blunt the climate crisis. The great @katieworth.bsky.social has well and truly put this myth to rest (with an assist from me and @themadstone.bsky.social at @drilledmedia.bsky.social)
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LoriB @lab2.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
“With the Iran War, Kushner has unleashed yet another costly failure—this time, for all of us. The only shock is that anyone familiar with his story would be surprised by the outcome.”
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Has anyone heard from Harmeet Dhillon today? www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DOJ now 0-9 in voter roll cases after Trump-appointed judge tosses its Maryland demand
In total, the DOJ has brought 31 voter roll lawsuits against states and Washington, D.C.
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
1/ Russian soldiers who are blind, deaf, have lost limbs, or are in wheelchairs, are having their medical discharges cancelled and are being sent back to Ukraine to fight. It appears to be Russia's latest measure to make up for its huge losses. ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/shau...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
ICYMI — Justice Alito’s son has been working in the Trump administration 🤔🤷🏼 So much corruption
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Amber Woods @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Just the facts
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
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Sassy0210 @sassy0210.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Friday Friends #10 @pollyp74.bsky.social @disappointed55.bsky.social @angrygrrrl1111.bsky.social @global-0.bsky.social @jodywagner.bsky.social @southerngayteacher.bsky.social @duwamishgirl.bsky.social @proud2bboomer.bsky.social @blucat701.bsky.social @starshine731.bsky.social
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Louisiana Republican Senator Cassidy on losing his primary: “When you participate in democracy, sometimes it doesn’t turn out the way you want it to — but you don’t pout. You don’t whine. You don’t claim the election was stolen.”
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Gary Dowell @heygary.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Traveller 5e is in overtime mode and closing in on $800k on @BackerKit! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/w... #Traveller #5e #ttrpg #DnD
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Traveller 5e
The oldest and most influential sci-fi TTRPG of all time meets the world’s most popular roleplaying game, with a complete 5e conversion by World’s Largest RPGs.
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KD📚🌎🌊🇺🇸 @kdnerak33.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
An audit of Arizona’s school voucher program found that no effective process is in place to prevent unallowable items from being approved. This is how parents get plane tickets, LEGOS, and amusement park passes while public school teachers crowdfund for pencils. www.azfamily.com/2026/05/14/a...
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Arizona ESA voucher program audit reveals oversight concerns
Arizona’s billion-dollar ESA voucher program is facing new scrutiny after a sharp auditor general report.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
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Gary Dowell @heygary.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
$773k with four hours to go! Check out Traveller 5e on @BackerKit! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/w... #5e #ttrpg #DnD
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Traveller 5e
The oldest and most influential sci-fi TTRPG of all time meets the world’s most popular roleplaying game, with a complete 5e conversion by World’s Largest RPGs.
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Dr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Well said, Ken Burns. What’s been lost in those who govern —and those who report— is duty. Today our leaders aren’t serving, they’re performing. And consumerism has become a national addiction: buy more, fear more, distract more… while democracy quietly erodes.
"DEMOCRACY DOESN'T END WITH A SINGLE COUP.
IT ERODES-COURT
BY COURT, ELECTION BY ELECTION, LIE BY LIE-UNTIL PEOPLE WAKE UP IN A COUNTRY THEY NO LONGER RECOGNIZE"
KEN BURNS
"THIS IS HOW TO PRESERVE OUR DEMOCRACY WITH FILMMAKER KEN
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Tj. @tjeerd001.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
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dan @amerkincynic.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
America first to be a sucker Everyone else will figure out the rules soon enough
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Jo Verneuille @linusalso.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
“It sure looks like tech billionaires and foreign dictatorships gave us Trump in 2024. This is as bad as the massive Russian bot presence on Facebook and Twitter back in 2016, which Robert Mueller documented gave Trump the presidency that time.” l.smartnews.com/p-7GQUnIsg/C...
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Science just proved what we all suspected (AlterNet)
It sure looks like tech billionaires and foreign dictatorships gave us Trump in 2024. This is as bad as the massive Russian bot presence on Facebook and Twit...
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Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Speaking of the US Supreme Court, this seems very accurate - no lies detected! bluevirginia.us/2026/05/va-d... h/t @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
Mrs. Betty Bowers: "The Ku Klux Kourt"  - carton by de Adder of the six right-wingnut US Supreme Court justices driving a bulldozer into an African-American man trying to exercise his right to vote.
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Hansel Krankepantzen @krankepantzen.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Absolutely. And more generally, be wary of accepting the definition of any issue by conservatives, right wingers, Republicans. They're insincere interlocutors intent on manipulation. Think always outside their little boxes. Question their framing, terms, description of any issue.
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Gary Dowell @heygary.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Just a few days left for Traveller 5e on @BackerKit! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/w... #5e #DnD #ttrpg
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Traveller 5e
The oldest and most influential sci-fi TTRPG of all time meets the world’s most popular roleplaying game, with a complete 5e conversion by World’s Largest RPGs.
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CEO of Rent ‘Em Spoons Inc. @joialexandra.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Picked this up at the library today. 2 chapters in and I LOVE it.
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