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What you are, isn't who you are. What you think, and what you do is who you become.-Heraclitus United we stand divided we beg. "Wait" broke the bridge. If its not right, its wrong.

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johns61.bsky.social @johns61.bsky.social · 8h
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Trump Rejects International Election Monitors, Doubles Down on His Own Fed Monitors. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
With less than four weeks remaining before the midterm elections, the Trump administration is making two significant changes to the way American elections are monitored.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Horrifying: Arizona Democratic congressional candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia was raped by a man after he knocked her out. Another man approached her to do the same. “She began swinging her foot at him. ‘Not even worth it,’ she heard the man say as he moved away.”
phoenixnewtimes.com
Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Check out this amazing story (to me, anyway) of a 1000-mile-long cloud that consistently forms and disappears on #Mars. As a climate and water scientist, this fascinates me. www.livescience.com/space/mars/1...
livescience.com
1,000-mile-long cloud that forms and vanishes on Mars every day obeys 'exotic physics' never seen on Earth
New simulations suggest that the perplexing Arsia Mons Elongated Cloud (AMEC) repeatedly emerges in the Red Planet's skies thanks to a never-before-seen meteorological process.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
New strong candidate for best sentence of journalism in 2026 just dropped in this wild Kimberly Guilfoyle story from WSJ “‘Honey please I need you to get this done for me today,’ she texted [Eric] Deters, adding a prayer hands emoji and a PDF with bill payment instructions from American Express.”
wsj.com
Exclusive | ‘Honey Please’: Kimberly Guilfoyle Pushed Donor to Pay Her $100,000 Amex Bill
Text messages with a MAGA ally show Guilfoyle seeking funds and offering access to top administration officials before becoming ambassador to Greece.
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johns61.bsky.social @johns61.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Short answer, No.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Is there one person in this administration—say, the person who changes the urinal cakes in the Agriculture Department men’s room—who is not shamelessly using their position to grift every dollar they can? Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
wsj.com
Exclusive | ‘Honey Please’: Kimberly Guilfoyle Pushed Donor to Wire $100,000 to Her Amex Account
Text messages with a MAGA ally show Guilfoyle seeking funds and offering access to top administration officials before becoming ambassador to Greece.
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johns61.bsky.social @johns61.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hmmm. But do either have the will to do anything.
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
DNC sues administration over taxpayer-funded pro-Trump TV ads www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
nbcnews.com
DNC sues administration over taxpayer-funded pro-Trump TV ads
Trump announced this week that he and his PAC, MAGA Inc., would pay for the ads moving forward following bipartisan criticism.
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Student protest unrest spreads across Europe www.axios.com/2026/10/07/e...
axios.com
Student protest unrest spreads across Europe
Thousands have been arrested in France's student protests and over 130 in Belgium, as education unrest echoes across Europe.
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johns61.bsky.social @johns61.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Breathing room? No, what working people really want are good wages, world class affordable Healthcare, world class affordable education and means to retire without having to live from check to check.
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johns61.bsky.social @johns61.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
JW-"Imagine a bathtub with a huge drain. It’s draining 12 gallons a minute, which is enough to fill (and refill) a kitchen trash can. The G7 arrives, heroically, to refill the tub. To do it, they bring a single jug of milk that isn’t even full."
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Brad DeLong @braddelong.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Journalists who do not count the zeroes and compare them to the proper magnitudes are not bystanders or generalists, but accomplices in the disinformation bullshit machine. The release is one day of world output and one-fifteenth of the total Hormuz-closure gap over the four-month period of... 1/
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CROSSPOST: JUSTIN WOLFERS: An Agreement to Agree About an Earlier Agreement
Justin’s subheadline: “Read the G7 communiqué closely and the "new" 100 million barrels [of oil reserves] turns out to be leftovers from March”; not new, not large, not enforceable...
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Sandieglo @sandieglo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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johns61.bsky.social @johns61.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Unremarkable that the average American doesn't care. Most still throw their lunch trash out their car window.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 07/10/2026
And this is why she should have stayed in jail www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
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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johns61.bsky.social @johns61.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
-symptoms may come on suddenly. -The earlier a person receives treatment, the better their outlook. - According to the WHO, pneumonic plague can be fatal within 18 to 24 hours without treatment. What could possibly go wrong.... What would ratfink jr do.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 06/10/2026
The world needs to shut down travel to and from Russia until we get honest answers about this plague. The broken vial story makes no sense…. Unless they have absolutely no safety protocols in which case this is even worse
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
FOX NEWS: "LA LA LA LA LA LA WE CAN'T HEAR YOU!!!!"
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LA Blue Dot in GA 🌊🐸 @namwella1961.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
REPORTER: Why are you telling your supporters to vote by mail if you think it's fraud? TRUMP: I'd rather have them vote in person, but they can vote by mail. But there is a lot of cheating in vote by mail. REPORTER: There's no evidence. TRUMP: You are fake news. #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed
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johns61.bsky.social @johns61.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Ugh.
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Kayla Calkin @kaylacalkin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"If finalized, the repeal would strip protections from 44.7 million acres of wild intact forest." truthout.org/articles/tru...
truthout.org
Trump’s Repeal of Roadless Rule Would Declare Open Season on Protected Forests
A public policy expert described the move as “the largest evisceration of public lands protection in American history.”…
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 06/10/2026
NEWS: New York City just recorded the fewest shootings, shooting victims, and murders in recorded history through the first nine months of the year. Major crime is down 6.6% citywide, the largest year-to-date drop in 17 years, with declines in all five boroughs. 1/
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A fun detail: Poirot repeatedly describes the Macho Jesus his leetle grey cells dreamed up as like a “Mustang.” You might think this is merely weird and homoerotic, but it’s actually linked to a bit of misinformation evangelicals like to use to retcon Jesus as a high-T alpha male.
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johns61.bsky.social @johns61.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
And of course "FOX NEWS" 😆 Shouldn't I be reading this while waiting to check out my groceries?
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
BREAKING: We're asking the DOJ & Interior IGs to investigate Davey Hearn's prosecution They botched a $14M pool job & pinned it on an innocent citizen The judge said they shot first & asked questions later. @democracydefendersfund.org, Steptoe & WLG have questions of our own👇 -TN
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
AI isn't reliable enough to get even a hamburger order right, but reckless Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is pushing to expand artificial intelligence across the U.S. military, including AI-enabled targeting. "Would you like fries with that obliterated girls' school?"
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Sean Brodrick @seanbrodrick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"The withdrawal was highly unusual: Such moves are rarely made so quickly from an allied air base in a peacetime country thousands of miles from a combat zone." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...
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Dyan London @dyanlondon444.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐁𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐎𝐛𝐚𝐦𝐚, 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞.
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
2026 Maine Fall Foliage Tour
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johns61.bsky.social @johns61.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Huh. Go figure.
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johns61.bsky.social @johns61.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
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Peter M. Shane @petermshane.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The American.Gov chatbot knows stuff.
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johns61.bsky.social @johns61.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Beloved until they started putting them in cars, tractors and lawnmowers
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Roger @arbejdsmyren.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In Denmark a scientist plotted data and research findings into Claude, only to see Anthropic publish the findings as something the LLM had conjured up on its own. The theft of one scientist’s data and work translates into false claims about the model’s ability to generate research #ai #eupol
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
BREAKING WaPo: Major League Baseball has abandoned a proposal to build a ballpark in Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park.
washingtonpost.com
MLB drops proposal to host a baseball game at Grand Teton National Park
After The Washington Post reported on the proposal, local leaders sent letters to the Trump administration and the MLB commissioner expressing strong opposition.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026
meanwhile people have been telling us since 2025 that we have to vote for him in 2028
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Well, gee, this certainly makes $6 per gallon diesel worth it
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The Wolfpack @wolfpack11720.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them." ~ George Orwell #BrucePlante
Bruce Plante
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johns61.bsky.social @johns61.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's a shame, but the village idiots got their idiot supreme.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
-Trump Airlines -Trump Beverages -Trump Casinos -Trump Magazine -Trump Mortgage -Trump Steaks -Trump's Travel Site -Trumpnet -Trump Tower Tampa -Trump University -Trump Vodka -Trump Fragrances -Trump Mattress -Trump Mobile All massive financial failures led by Trump. Now this...
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The Kennedy Center was solvent when Trump took over. Then its finances collapsed.
The Post examined 15 years of the institution’s financial records to see why it went south after the president took over
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Andy Hoberek @thathoberekguy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Well, now we know what it takes to get Trump to go from criticizing your university to calling it “a fine school.”
independent.co.uk
Trump calls Cornell ‘a fine school’ as he breaks silence on alleged gang rape case
The president was asked whether the Ivy League school had ‘done enough to investigate’ the alleged sexual abuse
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 02/10/2026
The Pentagon office will “sponsor and oversee research, technology, and analytical tools to support and assess spiritual fitness, spiritual readiness, and spiritual resilience.”
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What to know about Hegseth’s new Office of Religious Affairs
“Our department is, you might say, putting on the full armor of God.”
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johns61.bsky.social @johns61.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Ahhh. Here comes the " spiritual koolaide" part
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johns61.bsky.social @johns61.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Felons should be banned from any political action.
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Exactly 😤😡
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Just adds another level to the story of Trump's illegal ads that he stole the money from what is purportedly his top policy priority (immigration enforcement) to run his tax payer funded campaign ads. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
politico.com
Trump administration used DHS funds for pro-Trump ads, Dems say
Congressional Democrats said the White House used $20 million for the ad campaign from funding for U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
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