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Eric S (he/hi[m/s])

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Music hobbyist in the US. (Age: mid-50s.) If you want me to unfollow you etc., comment or message.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Democrats convert empty warehouses into shelters for the homeless. Republicans turn them into concentration camps to torture people without due process. The two parties are not remotely the same.
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Strictly 4 My Navigators @lizzslockeroom.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Here's some background on how the Franklin character came to be, it started with a letter from school teacher Harriet Glickman to Charles Schulz, he initially pushed back, but she kept writing and had others write him too. #Peanuts
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 18/04/2026
The FBI Director, the DC US Attorney, and the Secretary of Defense walk into a bar. Apparently like every day.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 18/04/2026
Today, President Barack Obama and I read to a group of toddlers at Learning Through Play Pre-K Center in the South Bronx.  In between singing wheels on the bus, we discussed our administration’s vision for this City — one where New York’s Cutest have the strongest start possible.
Mayor Mamdani and President Obama read a picture book to a group of children.Mayor Mamdani and President Obama chat and laugh with a group of children.Mayor Mamdani and President Obama chat and laugh.Children hug Mayor Mamdani.
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
We shouldn’t let it get lost in the conversation that Donald Trump said, in his capacity as “President”, from the Oval Office, that anyone with a learning disability is “dumb.” MAGA parents with learning disabled kids — are you listening?? Are you?!?
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Eric S (he/hi[m/s]) @malverbird.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Epistemic Injustice: The Great Gaslighting of Autistic Lives | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/posi...
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Epistemic Injustice: The Great Gaslighting of Autistic Lives
Epistemic injustice is the assumption that people, usually those with less power, are unable to correctly understand their own lives. It takes a tragic toll on autistic lives.
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Eric S (he/hi[m/s]) @malverbird.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
That’s not how it went down, afaik, Mr. Mamet ew.com/david-mamet-...
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David Mamet storms out of interview after exchange about Columbia protests
Playwright and author David Mamet made a dramatic exit from a podcast interview after being challenged over his views on the U.S. Capitol insurrection and Columbia University's pro-Palestine protests.
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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Oh dear fucking lord
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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
I feel like this should be way more widely publicized The GOP is literally the “measles and flesh-eating maggots” party
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Eric S (he/hi[m/s]) @malverbird.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Last page of an edition of Medtner’s “sonata epica”. B’cuz.
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NewsCurrentNow @newscurrentnow.com · 20/05/2025
Jasmine Crockett exposes the truth— Side by side, she plays footage of the violent January 6th rioters next to Rep. LaMonica McIver at Delaney Hall— a stark contrast between criminals and congressional oversight. The difference couldn’t be clearer.🗣️
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Eric S (he/hi[m/s]) @malverbird.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Wth? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...?
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‘Extremely disturbing and unethical’: new rules allow VA doctors to refuse to treat Democrats, unmarried veterans
Trump order allows VA staff to decline providing healthcare to patients based on political affiliation or marital status
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Eric S (he/hi[m/s]) @malverbird.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
www.axios.com/2025/05/06/t...
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In contrast to Trump, U.S. spy agencies don't believe Maduro regime directs Venezuelan gang
But the intel memo notes the FBI found some Venezuelan officials "facilitate" gang members' moves into the U.S.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Attorney General Pamela Jo Bondi says she is going against corrupt judges. In case you wonder why she hasn’t gone after the *most* corrupt, Clarence Thomas, there is a professional courtesy between lawyers who take bribes.
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Eric S (he/hi[m/s]) @malverbird.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
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Trump administration invalidates Social Security numbers of immigrants, pushing them to "self deport"
The move by the Social Security Administration essentially cancels an immigrant's Social Security number and classifies them as dead.
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Eric S (he/hi[m/s]) @malverbird.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
How does that song go… Tevye: “Efficiency! Efficiency!…” Hrm…
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
If you are not furious at what our government did to these people, there’s something wrong with you.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Until tonight. And so you’ll have to forgive me, but I am more than a little grief-stricken, because the road is paved now. The Supreme Court has not just endorsed the revival of a law that put Japanese Americans in camps, but has applied it to create unremediable atrocities.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
#BREAKING: 5-4 Court, with Barrett joining the three Dem. appointees in dissent *vacates* Chief Judge Boasberg’s temporary restraining orders in the Alien Enemy Act cases. Judicial review must be available, Court holds, but has to come through habeas petitions: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
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Eric S (he/hi[m/s]) @malverbird.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
I miss the days (pre-2005) when Red Hat had no more sinister connotation than “oh ****, I’m going to have to reinstall the operating system -again-.”
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Leah-Bug @leah-bug.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Topsy turvy.
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D. Goldman @dgoldman.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
I couldn't get it just right but I still wanna post it because why the fuck not? Trump's tariffs really fucking up those markets.

A digitally illustrated split-screen image from a fictional news segment called "Penguin News Network (PNN)." On the left, an Emperor penguin sits confidently at an anchor desk made of frosty glass, wearing a pinstripe suit, tiny red tie, and ice-blue glasses. The studio has an Arctic theme with icy blue tones and sculpted ice borders. A news ticker below reads, “BREAKING: HMISE TANKS AFTER TARIFF SHOCK — FISH FUTURES FROZEN.” On the right side of the screen, chaos erupts on the trading floor of the fictional Heard & McDonald Islands Stock Exchange. Penguins in business attire — suspenders, vests, glasses — waddle frantically across a frozen floor. One penguin faints while clutching a fish, another shouts into a shell phone, and yet another taps wildly on an abacus. Ice slips and papers fly in the air as a glowing LED ticker overhead scrolls crashing stock symbols like KRL, ICE, and FISHCO. A background headline reads, “Tariffs Freeze Trade—Panic on the Ice!” with a subtitle: “HMISE in Crisis as US Tariffs Target Penguin-Only Territories.
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Lisa Reyna Loe @lisaloe.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
My hometown paper ☕️💅🏽
Zach W. Lambert @ZachWLambert

This is how you write a headline.

San Antonio Express-News ®
@ExpressNews
Sen. Rafael Edward Cruz, who uses the preferred name Ted, has introduced a bill to limit the use of preferred names and pronouns.
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Eric S (he/hi[m/s]) @malverbird.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
If you’re in the US and appreciate libraries, don’t forget this documentary on public television (… kein ayin hara, of course) on March 29. www.pbs.org/independentl...
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Free for All: The Public Library - Independent Lens
The story of how public libraries shaped America and how libraries continue to be a sanctuary for Americans everywhere.
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ellenahzulu.bsky.social @ellenahzulu.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Here's another one: www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
seattletimes.com
I found a ‘dead’ person collecting Social Security in Seattle
“Dead” Ned Johnson turns out to be very much alive. It took him weeks to convince the system he was breathing and to start clawing his benefits back.
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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
“Genuinely care and act for a better world.” @aoc.bsky.social
AOC quote tweet meme from BlueSky:

“I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy, and despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.”

“Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It's not intellectually superior. It's the virus they're trying to infect us with. NO”

Thank you, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. @aoc.bsky.social 🙏🫶
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
The pages featured short biographies about the people buried in the cemetery, including Gen. Colin L. Powell, the first Black chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Hector Santa Anna, a B-17 bomber pilot, Berlin Airlift pilot, and members of the Tuskegee Airmen wapo.st/4isEBv8
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Arlington Cemetery website scrubs links about Black and female veterans
Pentagon leaders have ordered that their websites and social media pages remove articles and images that “promote” DEI.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
New Yorkers: Call Sen. Gillibrand’s office to vote NO on cloture and NO on the Republican Spending Bill. They vote in the morning. ☎️: (202) 224-4451
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Amy Siskind @amysiskind.com · 14/03/2025
From Columbia U. This is shocking!
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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
“Everything we can save is worth saving.” @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
Rebecca Solnit tweet quote meme: “They want you to feel powerless and surrender and let them trample everything and you are not going to let them. You are not giving up, and neither am I. The fact that we cannot save everything does not mean we cannot save anything and everything we can save is worth saving.”
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
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Eric S (he/hi[m/s]) @malverbird.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Opening of finale of Raff’s quintet
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 13/03/2025
If I was an attorney and had this interaction with a judge, I would simply request a recess and use it to fake my own death, then join the French Foreign Legion under an assumed name.
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Eric S (he/hi[m/s]) @malverbird.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
I’ve even read- well, fewer of these than in some earlier years, time to catch up :)
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Eric S (he/hi[m/s]) @malverbird.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Hee, had to share this! (Thanks to Mom) youtu.be/KpPIxcntxkE?...
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Defy Democracy - A Randy Rainbow Song Parody
YouTube video by Randy Rainbow
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
"I’m not sure which is worse: the fact that Republicans are moving to gut the last lifeline for 72 million Americans who rely on Medicaid and 43 million Americans who rely on Food Stamps or the fact that they’re lying about doing it." Read more: plus.briantylercohen.com/p/republican...
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Pete Hegseth just reportedly ordered the US military’s Cyber Command to “stand down” from all planning against Russia. Analysts have been ordered not to follow or report on Russian threats. One inside source said, “Putin is on the inside now.”
theguardian.com
Trump administration retreats in fight against Russian cyber threats
Recent incidents indicate US is no longer characterizing Russia as a cybersecurity threat, marking a radical departure: ‘Putin is on the inside now’
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Mike Pafford @mepafford.org · 25/02/2025
I Would Hope ALL Federal Workers-Who Actually Had To-Would Respond In This Way... 🇺🇸
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 24/02/2025
Big news for anyone with federal student loans: after we rang the alarm, a judge stopped Elon Musk and his team from seizing your personal data. This is why we get in the fight.
politico.com
Judge blocks OPM, Education Department from sharing personal info with DOGE
The order is the most wide-ranging block on DOGE’s activities to date.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 19/02/2025
Works as advertised
“Gulf of Weasel-dicked Fascist Chuds”
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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
This is a program for teenagers with serious disabilities who are finishing high school and transitioning to their next steps in life. Trump just axed it, effective immediately, in the middle of the night, with no notice.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I really do feel like I’m losing my mind.
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Raise your hand if you love THE GULF OF MEXICO 🇲🇽🙋🏻‍♂️
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!
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