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James D. Taylor

@jdtaylor-sd.bsky.social
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County seat lawyer, '76 Ole (Saint Olaf College), '82 Coyote (USD School of Law), politically Independent, religiously progressive, Freemason, husband, father, grandfather, rail fan, old house enthusiast, and a whole host of other, varied interests.

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James D. Taylor @jdtaylor-sd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Cycling in the Nebraska Sandhills. Fat tire bicycle territory for certain!
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James D. Taylor @jdtaylor-sd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
While resting alongside an old fence...
Old weathered post wrapped in wire with a small juniper shtub.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I’ve known many other defense secretaries, starting with Cap Weinberger, who served as defense secretary under Reagan. I can say without fear of contradiction that Pete Hegseth is the stupidest and least qualified of them all. He is a danger to the entire world. He must be impeached.
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James D. Taylor @jdtaylor-sd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"This is just the latest in a 45-year-long Republican scam where they break something in America, blame it on the Democrats, and then run for election on a promise to fix what they broke."
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Trump started “renovating” the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in April. After spending $19.2 million of taxpayers’ money, it appears he’s abandoned it.
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James D. Taylor @jdtaylor-sd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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James D. Taylor @jdtaylor-sd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Interesting...
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Kelly Guinan @kellyguinan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Fun, one-minute learning, the modern School House Rock® of American History by @hcrichardson.bsky.social team #250to250 Robert "Fighting Bob" LaFollette Narrated by @benwikler.bsky.social #WeAreAmerica250 #WorkersRights #Wisconsin #PeopleOverCorporations youtu.be/MdfIt1d9jRQ?...
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Robert “Fighting Bob” La Follette, Narrated by Ben Wikler
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
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James D. Taylor @jdtaylor-sd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Happy Constitution Day. We particularly need to remember our Republic's fundamental principles in these troubled times. constitutionday.com
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Constitution Day - September 17, 2026 | U.S. Constitution
Constitution Day is September 17, 2026. Celebrate the ratification of the U.S. Constitution. The Constitution of the United States of America is the supreme law of the United States. It is the foundat...
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James D. Taylor @jdtaylor-sd.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Tariffs ruin international grain trade, military adventure induced inflation, ICE deportation created labor shortages, massive increases in fuel and fertilizer costs, imported mystery meat chilling the cattle trade, zero action on an expired farm bill, small town businesses declining...
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James D. Taylor @jdtaylor-sd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"Gear one is paradise. Best economy in history, best tax cut, best border, best president since Lincoln...Everything he touchs turns to gold. Gear two is the end of the world. The radicals are inside the walls. If Democrats take the House your kids will be taught socialism by a librarian in a wig."
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James D. Taylor @jdtaylor-sd.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Watch this.
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Richard (DNArich) @dnarich.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Somehow, methinks Trump's plan for "acquiring" Canada and Mexico isn't going to mesh well with his goal of deporting a ton of Mexicans "back to Mexico"...
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James D. Taylor @jdtaylor-sd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Well, how about that! My hometown makes the big time!
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Joe Roberts 🔥💙🔥🐸 @robbyjoe.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
He didn’t change. They did.
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James D. Taylor @jdtaylor-sd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Trump and his minions ruin everything they touch. Complete incompetence.
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James D. Taylor @jdtaylor-sd.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
"Small potatoes," says Trump. He's an utter disgrace.
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James D. Taylor @jdtaylor-sd.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
We have to have hope. The Fascists can not prevail. VOTE! Do NOT sit home. America's future depends on each of us. youtube.com/watch?v=P17d...
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Arlo Guthrie & Jim Wilson ft. Vanessa Bryan - Hard Times Come Again No More
YouTube video by Arlo Guthrie (Jguth3)
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The title really says it all.
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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 04/09/2026
America’s most successful game of hide-and-seek continues. WHERE IS MITCH? #SheShed
Close-up meme of Mitch McConnell beside a Flock surveillance camera with the U.S. Capitol in the background. Text reads: “120,000+ Flock cameras watching Americans. Still no sightings of Mitch McConnell.”
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James D. Taylor @jdtaylor-sd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
www.americanrivers.org/2026/08/the-...
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The Missouri River: A Long History, A Hopeful Future
For more than 50 years, the Endangered Species Act has protected species from going extinct and disappearing from our planet forever. Animals and plants alike have benefited from these protections, an...
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 01/09/2026
Bridges bring people together - even a Vikings fan and a Packers fan.
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James D. Taylor @jdtaylor-sd.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Rest in peace, Harald V. www.npr.org/2026/08/28/n...
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Norway's King Harald V dies at 89 and his son becomes King Haakon VIII
King Harald V of Norway, who went into exile in the United States as a child during the Nazi occupation of his homeland and refused a string of European noblewomen to marry his school sweetheart, died...
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VT Commons @vtcommons.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I’m starting to get Soylent Green vibes. meidasnews.com/news/mystery...
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Mystery Meat: Trump Refuses to Say Where His New Flood of Foreign Beef Is Coming From
Trump says he has struck a deal to bring 300,000 metric tons of cheaper foreign beef into the United States. There’s one detail he won’t reveal: who the deal is actually with.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
“We’re the only country in the world that has mail in ballots”. - Senile Satan
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 24/08/2026
When a group of YMCA campers needed to be rescued during the wildfires on our northern border, it was Canada who immediately helped. Not a word from Trump.
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
This Pennsylvania barbershop boosts kids' confidence by paying young customers $3 to read stories aloud during haircuts. Original post
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dwmdvm.bsky.social @dwmdvm.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Trump stabs beef producers in the back.
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Jess Piper (@jesspiper)
Beef is one of the drivers behind Missouri agriculture. The state is home to more than 1.8 million beef cows on roughly 60,000 farms. This places Missouri third nationally in beef cow numbers. These ...
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KC @kcwinters.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
In this 250 to 250 from @hcrichardson.bsky.social & team, ‪@BenWikler‬​, political organizer & NYT best-selling author, profiles Robert "Fighting Bob" La Follette, Wisconsin reformer who battled corporate power & drove some of the Progressive Movement's greatest victories. youtu.be/MdfIt1d9jRQ?...
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Robert “Fighting Bob” La Follette, Narrated by Ben Wikler
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
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James D. Taylor @jdtaylor-sd.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Now, here's some good news! It's about time! www.npr.org/sections/the...
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The Women's Professional Baseball League makes its historic debut
The Los Angeles Queens, the New York Heights, the Boston Hunters and the San Francisco Firebells take the field in Springfield, Ill., as the Women's Pro Baseball League kicks off its inaugural season.
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kenofseattle @kenofseattle.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
We can verify the daily physical status of a specific Seattle raccoon but apparently we're completely unable to determine whether a United States Senator is alive or dead.
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James D. Taylor @jdtaylor-sd.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
On the Reflecting Pool. MN Governor Tim Walz commented: “Found an imaginary problem, said only they could fix it, didn’t listen to experts, hired buddies who grifted millions, failed miserably, bragged how great it went. The entire Trump presidency in a nutshell.”
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Aida 🇵🇷🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦🐾🌊🦋🗽💙🐸 @latina4jesusdshw.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
This! #Pinks #USDemocracy
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James D. Taylor @jdtaylor-sd.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Didn't anybody ever make these characters take a civics or US history class?
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call634-5789 @call634-5789.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Handy Hardware Hank™ sez:
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James D. Taylor @jdtaylor-sd.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Seemed a bit warm out along the bike trail paralleling the BNSF. But a lovely afternoon anyway...so long as you take a break in the shade and have a drink. Got home and found it had heated right up!
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Katherine Addison/Sarah Monette @pennyvixen.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
When people tell you who they are, believe them. *** Meta quits clean energy pledge amid data center expansion ground.news/article/meta...
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Meta quits clean energy pledge amid data center expansion
Meta has abandoned a global pledge made by leading companies to source all of their electricity from renewable sources, the social media giant has confirmed. RE100, an initiative of the UK-based nonpr...
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James D. Taylor @jdtaylor-sd.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Good job SFSD!
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James D. Taylor @jdtaylor-sd.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
July 26. Quite the day in literary history. The birthday of Aldous Huxley, George Bernard Shaw, Jean Shepherd, and Stanley Kubrick. open.substack.com/pub/thewrite...
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The Writer’s Almanac from Sunday, July 26, 2015
The Writer’s Almanac from Sunday, July 26, 2015
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James D. Taylor @jdtaylor-sd.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Pleasant morning for a bike ride...before the temperature cracked 100 F.
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James D. Taylor @jdtaylor-sd.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Accurate.
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James D. Taylor @jdtaylor-sd.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Disappeared in America's event, “Sioux Falls - Vigil for Lorenzo and Johan. Justice for All.” - sign up now to join. www.mobilize.us/disappearedi...
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Sioux Falls - Vigil for Lorenzo and Johan. Justice for All. · Disappeared in America
On July 7, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Houston while driving a work van with his crew. On July 13, ICE fatally shot 26-year-old Johan Sebastian Guerrero in Biddeford,...
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James D. Taylor @jdtaylor-sd.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Tacky, tasteless, and gross. What a parvenu.
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RedStateBlues @coolsprings.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
This has Trump’s tiny fingerprints all over it.
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James D. Taylor @jdtaylor-sd.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Read the linked article. It is important. "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed...". -- President Dwight Eisenhower open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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July 23, 2026
I have been thinking lately about taxes and war and citizens and what the government should do for its people.
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James D. Taylor @jdtaylor-sd.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Consider this, please. www.citizen-v2pt1.us
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Political Reform in America | CITIZEN Version 2.1
Citizen v2.1 seeks to enhance the citizenship experience for Americans by giving them control of the national policies that affect their lives. However, American voters will have to mature into well-...
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James D. Taylor @jdtaylor-sd.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Absolutely correct. Make the record!
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call634-5789 @call634-5789.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Waking up to this shithole Country, as Fat Donnie likes to say about other Nations, has me wondering WHY THE FUCK we are still tolerating him, his Fascist ass lickers or a ....where are they now? CONGRESS!! 103 days until the Mid terms. Get off your asses and VOTE.
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call634-5789 @call634-5789.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
This stood the test of time, like a bowl of curdled cream.
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James D. Taylor @jdtaylor-sd.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Good point.
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