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Kooth

@koothkeeper.bsky.social
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I am a retired computer programmer, musician, sous chef (at home), Democrat, married, and an Atheist. Better half is Bamboshooti™️ I Love Jazz, C++, politics, all people. LGBTQ+ ally. NO MAGAts! No DMs please.

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Kooth @koothkeeper.bsky.social · 8h
Our Wins Of The Week thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/week-progr...
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Our Wins Of The Week
Donald Trump went on the road this week to stump for Republican candidates a month out from Election Day.
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Kooth @koothkeeper.bsky.social · 8h
Say Alito Prayer for Democracy statuskuo.substack.com/p/say-alito-...
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Say Alito Prayer for Democracy
A possible retirement of one of history’s most radical justices in history looms large over the midterms.
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Kooth @koothkeeper.bsky.social · 8h
The Central Question of Power in America robertreich.substack.com/p/the-centra...
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The Central Question of Power in America
Can we reverse the power shift that began four decades ago? This is the biggest question lurking behind the midterm campaigns.
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Kooth @koothkeeper.bsky.social · 8h
The emergence of shareholder capitalism robertreich.substack.com/p/the-emerge...
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The emergence of shareholder capitalism
Friends,
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Kooth @koothkeeper.bsky.social · 8h
It Is Probably Not a Pandemic. It Is Definitely a Cover Story. open.substack.com/pub/thejackh...
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It Is Probably Not a Pandemic. It Is Definitely a Cover Story.
Pneumonic plague doesn't spread like COVID–which makes the silence around Irkutsk harder to explain, not easier.
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Kooth @koothkeeper.bsky.social · 8h
What the fuck is this? open.substack.com/pub/jefftied...
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What the fuck is this?
How did we Nazi this coming?
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Kooth @koothkeeper.bsky.social · 8h
October 4, 2026 heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-4-...
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October 4, 2026
On Friday night, just before 11:00, Trump announced that his administration “will, immediately, begin sending ‘Checks’ of nearly $100 to over 20 MILLION wonderful Seniors to help pay for their Medicar...
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Kooth @koothkeeper.bsky.social · 9h
The Defining Moment! egraham.substack.com/p/the-defini...
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The Defining Moment!
This November’s Election may be the ‘Defining Moment’ of Our Democracy
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Kooth @koothkeeper.bsky.social · 9h
Texas judge forces Galveston school district to display Ten Commandments posters open.substack.com/pub/friendly...
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Texas judge forces Galveston school district to display Ten Commandments posters
Galveston ISD resisted the state’s Christian mandate for a year, but Ken Paxton and a Republican judge have ordered the district to put up the Christian signs
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Kooth @koothkeeper.bsky.social · 13h
I played squaredle.com 10/05: 31/31 words ( 11 bonus words) 🎯 Perfect accuracy 🔥 Solve streak: 1040
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Squaredle
Squaredle is a daily word building game. Swipe letters in the grid to test your vocabulary every day and rise to the top of the leaderboards!
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Kooth @koothkeeper.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I played squaredle.com 10/04: 72/72 words ( 53 bonus words) 📖 In the top 1% by bonus words 🔥 Solve streak: 1039
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Squaredle
Squaredle is a daily word building game. Swipe letters in the grid to test your vocabulary every day and rise to the top of the leaderboards!
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Kooth @koothkeeper.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Sunday thought: What’s Up With Kansas? robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-tho...
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Sunday thought: What’s Up With Kansas?
The power of kitchen-table economics
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Kooth @koothkeeper.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Preznit Fuckwit: still a moron, still insane, still a loser. Let us count the ways. open.substack.com/pub/jefftied...
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Preznit Fuckwit: still a moron, still insane, still a loser. Let us count the ways.
Another batshit rally goes straight off the rails.
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Kooth @koothkeeper.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
October 3, 2026 heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-3-...
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October 3, 2026
On Saturday, October 3, the Power to the People festival, organized by Rock & Roll Hall of Fame guitarist Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave, took over the stage at the Merriweathe...
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Kooth @koothkeeper.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Idaho’s attorney general gave churches a dark-money loophole to fight abortion rights open.substack.com/pub/friendly...
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Idaho’s attorney general gave churches a dark-money loophole to fight abortion rights
Raúl Labrador said churches may spend general-fund money opposing Proposition 1 while keeping their individual donors anonymous
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Kooth @koothkeeper.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Democrats rise as Trump and Vance campaign in GOP strongholds. Trump sparks Republican backlash. GOP Senator's gotcha attempt backfires hard. thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/october-2-...
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Democrats rise as Trump and Vance campaign in GOP strongholds. Trump sparks Republican backlash. GOP Senator's gotcha attempt backfires hard.
Democrats Rise in Race for Congress as Trump and Vance Campaign in Trump Country
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Kooth @koothkeeper.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Just for Skeets and Giggles (10.3.26) statuskuo.substack.com/p/just-for-s...
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Just for Skeets and Giggles (10.3.26)
As we head into the election that will define our nation’s future, let us reflect upon the wisdom of our dearly departed Dolly Parton.
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Kooth @koothkeeper.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Is a Reckoning Coming? | The Coffee Klatch for Saturday, October 3, 2026 robertreich.substack.com/p/anti-accou...
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Kooth @koothkeeper.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Mercury Is Shrinking. So Am I. robertreich.substack.com/p/mercury-is...
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Mercury Is Shrinking. So Am I.
Yikes
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Kooth @koothkeeper.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This week in stupid: October 3 edition open.substack.com/pub/jefftied...
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This week in stupid: October 3 edition
, Donny spells it, and so much more...
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Kooth @koothkeeper.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
While Putin's Missiles Fell, Washington Was Busy Cutting Checks to Someone Else open.substack.com/pub/thejackh...
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While Putin's Missiles Fell, Washington Was Busy Cutting Checks to Someone Else
$52 million pulled from NATO allies on Russia's doorstep. The timing tells you everything.
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Kooth @koothkeeper.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
October 2, 2026 heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-2-...
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October 2, 2026
Trump held a campaign rally tonight in Mobile, Alabama, the city where, as Shawn McCreesh of the New York Times recalled, his MAGA rallies really took off in August 2015, when more than 30,000 people ...
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Kooth @koothkeeper.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I played squaredle.com/xp 10/03: 23/23 words ( 5 bonus words) 🎯 Perfect accuracy
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Squaredle
Squaredle is a daily word building game. Swipe letters in the grid to test your vocabulary every day and rise to the top of the leaderboards!
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Kooth @koothkeeper.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I played squaredle.com 10/03: 59/59 words ( 14 bonus words) ⏱️ In the top 5% by speed 🔥 Solve streak: 1038
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Squaredle
Squaredle is a daily word building game. Swipe letters in the grid to test your vocabulary every day and rise to the top of the leaderboards!
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Kooth @koothkeeper.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
How's Trump's Mid-Decade Redistricting Ploy Looking Right About Now? thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/republican...
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How's Trump's Mid-Decade Redistricting Ploy Looking Right About Now?
Republicans are fretting that their gerrymander scheme may be backfiring hard
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Kooth @koothkeeper.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Renee Good’s Family Takes on the Trump Regime statuskuo.substack.com/p/renee-good...
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Renee Good’s Family Takes on the Trump Regime
Nearly eight months after an unimaginable horror, Good’s family has filed two lawsuits seeking justice and accountability
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Kooth @koothkeeper.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Cornell, Rape, and Misogyny in the Age of Trump robertreich.substack.com/p/cornell-ra...
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Kooth @koothkeeper.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
AutoWar robertreich.substack.com/p/autowar?r=...
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AutoWar
The nightmare
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Kooth @koothkeeper.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Preznit Fuckwit takes war advice from the Space Nazi’s Mecha-Hitler bot. Hilarity doesn’t ensue. open.substack.com/pub/jefftied...
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Preznit Fuckwit takes war advice from the Space Nazi’s Mecha-Hitler bot. Hilarity doesn’t ensue.
who thought this was a good idea?
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Kooth @koothkeeper.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
She's Spent 20 Years Investigating Nukes, Bioweapons, and CIA Kill Teams. This Is What Finally Scared Her. open.substack.com/pub/thejackh...
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She's Spent 20 Years Investigating Nukes, Bioweapons, and CIA Kill Teams. This Is What Finally Scared Her.
It's not a weapon you can see. It's an idea about the one thing you can't afford to lose: your mind.
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Kooth @koothkeeper.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
October 1, 2026 heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-1-...
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Kooth @koothkeeper.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Trump’s Taxpayer-Funded Self-Promotion Just Backfired open.substack.com/pub/briantyl...
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Trump’s Taxpayer-Funded Self-Promotion Just Backfired
An ad promoting the Iran War only serves to remind voters just how much of a disaster the war is, a baffling strategy just a month out from midterms.
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Kooth @koothkeeper.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A restaurant stood up to Doug Wilson’s Christian Nationalists—and won open.substack.com/pub/friendly...
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A restaurant stood up to Doug Wilson’s Christian Nationalists—and won
Saffire pledged its profits to charity, supported protesters, and watched the “Fight Laugh Feast” organizers cancel their own lunch bookings
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Kooth @koothkeeper.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I played squaredle.com 10/02: 66/66 words ( 19 bonus words) 🎯 In the top 12% by accuracy 🔥 Solve streak: 1037
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Squaredle
Squaredle is a daily word building game. Swipe letters in the grid to test your vocabulary every day and rise to the top of the leaderboards!
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Kooth @koothkeeper.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Epstein Files Are Back in the News statuskuo.substack.com/p/the-epstei...
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The Epstein Files Are Back in the News
Sen. Ron Wyden announced another undisclosed FBI Form FD-302, raising questions about what else the government is hiding.
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Kooth @koothkeeper.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Rot at the Top robertreich.substack.com/p/the-heart-...
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The Rot at the Top
The real reason Americans are paying more under Trump Republicans
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Kooth @koothkeeper.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
There is no such thing as a “free market” robertreich.substack.com/p/there-is-n...
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There is no such thing as a “free market”
All markets are defined by laws and rules. The question is who are the laws and rules for?
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Kooth @koothkeeper.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My advice to young people robertreich.substack.com/p/advice-to-...
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Kooth @koothkeeper.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Let’s all look on in horror as a racist game show host does a racism open.substack.com/pub/jefftied...
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Let’s all look on in horror as a racist game show host does a racism
also: Ken Paxton does a sad, and Piss-Drunk Pete does a transphobia.
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Kooth @koothkeeper.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Todd Blanche: How Seven Judges Became "Enemies" for Telling the Truth open.substack.com/pub/thejackh...
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Todd Blanche: How Seven Judges Became "Enemies" for Telling the Truth
And why a Bush appointee who clerked for Scalia now finds himself in the crosshairs.
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Kooth @koothkeeper.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
MAGA's Civil War Has a Winner. It Doesn't Have to Be Them. open.substack.com/pub/thejackh...
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MAGA's Civil War Has a Winner. It Doesn't Have to Be Them.
What the Republican split means for November, and the one mistake that could waste it
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Kooth @koothkeeper.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
September 30, 2026 heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-...
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September 30, 2026
A Washington Post headline today read: “U.S.
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Kooth @koothkeeper.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Pete Hegseth is centralizing religious power inside the military open.substack.com/pub/friendly...
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Pete Hegseth is centralizing religious power inside the military
Hegseth’s explicitly Christian defense of a new Pentagon religious office leaves non-religious service members on dangerous ground
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Kooth @koothkeeper.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I played squaredle.com 10/01: 56/56 words ( 13 bonus words) 📖 In the top 11% by bonus words 🔥 Solve streak: 1036
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Squaredle
Squaredle is a daily word building game. Swipe letters in the grid to test your vocabulary every day and rise to the top of the leaderboards!
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Kooth @koothkeeper.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The GOP Crisis: Five Separate Stories, One Looming Disaster thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/gop-crisis...
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The GOP Crisis: Five Separate Stories, One Looming Disaster
If this is the GOP’s posture going into the midterms, it won’t end well for them
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Kooth @koothkeeper.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Mr. Schmitt Goes to Washington—and Fails Hard statuskuo.substack.com/p/mr-schmitt...
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Mr. Schmitt Goes to Washington—and Fails Hard
If you’re going to come for Jack Smith, you’d better have double-checked your work.
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Kooth @koothkeeper.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Office Hours: The Most Important Lesson We’ve Learned from this Travesty? robertreich.substack.com/p/office-hou...
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Office Hours: The Most Important Lesson We’ve Learned from this Travesty?
Friends,
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Kooth @koothkeeper.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In Conversation with Timothy Snyder: On Tyranny, Trump, and the Midterms robertreich.substack.com/p/in-convers...
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In Conversation with Timothy Snyder: On Tyranny, Trump, and the Midterms
Watch now (36 mins) | What the author of “On Tyranny” told me about Trump, Tyranny, and the Midterm elections, five weeks from today.
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Kooth @koothkeeper.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Are you smarter than the White House’s new AI chatbot? Let’s find out. open.substack.com/pub/jefftied...
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Are you smarter than the White House’s new AI chatbot? Let’s find out.
Also: Jack Smith is definitely smarter than every Republican
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Kooth @koothkeeper.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Memo That Could Put Troops at Your Polling Place open.substack.com/pub/thejackh...
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The Memo That Could Put Troops at Your Polling Place
The Memo That Could Put Troops at Your Polling Place
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