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Semi-retired. Avid amateur astronomer. President Big Sky Astronomy Club. Lover of life, seeker of truth and wisdom, practitioner of optimism and humor. Liberal for life. No DMs, please.

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MHP_MONTANA @markpaulson7.bsky.social · 1h
Well put, my friend.
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Grant Stern @grantstern.bsky.social · 20h
A live look at the Leopards Eating Faces Party convention
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Save Standard Time @savestandard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
🚨 New Jersey Senate State Government Committee hears permanent DST next week. 👉 Tell them to oppose S3236, support S293 instead. Email OLSaideSSG@njleg.org and/or speak in Room 6 of the State House Annex in Trenton on Thursday, October 15, 10am.
Two photos from Newark on January 4. At 7:45am Eastern Daylight Time, the sky is pitch black. At 7:45am Eastern Standard Time, the sky is sunlit. Captions say: “How would you rather start your day half the year?” and “Permanent Standard Time is the safest, healthiest, quickest end to clock change.”
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MHP_MONTANA @markpaulson7.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
That is really, really good! 🤣
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God @thegodshow.com · 09/10/2026
Attacking Iran was never about stopping them from getting a nuclear weapon and always about distracting everyone from talking about how many children the president raped in the Epstein Files.
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Save Standard Time @savestandard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The faster your clock is relative to the sun, the earlier your morning alarm sounds relative to the sun.
Title reads “Standard Time is closer to nature”. Three clocks are shown, one for Tallahassee mean solar time (set to 12:00), one for Eastern Standard Time (set to 12:37), one for Eastern Daylight Time (set to 1:37). Subtitle reads “Alignment to solar time naturally benefits health, safety, education, economy.”
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Save Standard Time @savestandard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Another crash in morning darkness. This was at 6am EDT. Dawn was 6:52am EDT. Sunrise was 7:17am EDT. 😔 If Florida had permanent Standard Time, dawn would’ve been 5:52am EST, sunrise would’ve been 6:17am EST; everyone would’ve had more light and likely more sleep. 🧡
Coral Springs News

Florida boy in critical condition, struck by SUV on walk to school

By Olivia Franklin, Treasure Coast Newspapers USA Today Network via Reuters Connect

Updated October 7, 2026 3:04 PM

The Port St. Lucie Police Department is investigating a crash that happened the morning of Oct. 7, which resulted in a 14-year-old boy sustaining life-threatening injuries.

At about 6 a.m. near the intersection of Southwest Port St. Lucie Boulevard and Southwest Squirrel Avenue the 14-year-old boy was walking north along Port St. Lucie Boulevard on his way to school, near construction barrels, the agency stated in a news release.

The boy, a freshman at Treasure Coast High School, was struck from behind by a 2002 Ford Excursion driven by a 72-year-old man. The man originally thought he hit a construction barrel, not a person.

The man quickly made a U-turn and returned, where he found the 14-year-old boy unconscious on the side of the road, according to the news release. The man…
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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MCTenor @mctenor1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Save Standard Time @savestandard.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/save...
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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
BC researchers released an analysis in the Canadian Medical Association Journal today: Multiple studies back permanent standard time over permanent DST, warning DST could harm health, economic productivity & students’ well-being 🔗 www.cmaj.ca/content/198/... cheknews.ca/clocks-stay-...
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Clocks stay in daylight saving, but analysis backs permanent standard time
Researchers from British Columbia have released an analysis warning of the potential risks to health, the economy and students' well-being with the darker mornings on the way.
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Save Standard Time @savestandard.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Daylight Saving Time makes us set alarms an hour earlier than we would on Standard Time. Morning is when sunlight is most essential to health, safety, and prosperity. #DitchDST
Two photos from Flowery Branch, Georgia, on October 6. The first was taken at 7am Eastern Daylight Time, and the sky is very dark. The second was taken at 7am Eastern Standard Time, and the sky is sunny.
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Save Standard Time @savestandard.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There’s no reason to set clocks nearly an hour and a half faster than the sun.
Title reads “Standard Time is closer to nature”. Three clocks are shown, one for Orlando mean solar time (set to 12:00), one for Eastern Standard Time (set to 12:25), one for Eastern Daylight Time (set to 1:25). Subtitle reads “Alignment to solar time naturally benefits health, safety, education, economy.”
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MHP_MONTANA @markpaulson7.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Speaking of dumb... It's "a bunch of dumb sons of bitches", not "a bunch of dumb son of a bitches". What a fucking moron!
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MHP_MONTANA @markpaulson7.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If the shoe fits...
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MHP_MONTANA @markpaulson7.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If there's a word more damning than "scourge" (I can't think of one right off the top of my head), sports gambling is it.
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MHP_MONTANA @markpaulson7.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Of course, he's on the wrong side of everything!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.
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Save Standard Time @savestandard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Morning sunlight reduces chronic disease. To have a permanent time and a reduction in chronic disease, we need Standard Time as our permanent.” —Sue Peters PhD
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MHP_MONTANA @markpaulson7.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Couldn't agree more. Eat the rich.
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MHP_MONTANA @markpaulson7.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Let do this in MT!
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Bob @psychobob4q2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
More than an idiot. He has a staff of dummies.
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MHP_MONTANA @markpaulson7.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The epitome of evil.
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Save Standard Time @savestandard.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Most Americans wake by alarm at 6:30am or earlier. Daylight Saving Time is making most wake in darkness, against natural health. Restore permanent Standard Time!
Two photos of a house in Flowery Branch, Georgia, on September 23. First photo taken at 6:30am EDT, and it’s pitch black. Second taken at 6:30am EST, and it’s sunlit.
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Save Standard Time @savestandard.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Thanks to Senator Tom Cotton for working to stop another permanent Daylight Saving Time disaster! 👏 Now let’s meet the demand to ditch the switch by restoring permanent Standard Time!
Political cartoon by TCB Teacher. President Trump and Speaker Johnson attempt to drive the United States off a cliff in a car marked “Permanent DST”. But Senator Cotton, dressed as Superman, stops it.
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Save Standard Time @savestandard.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Restore permanent Standard Time. #DitchDST
Norman Rockwell’s “Freedom of Speech” painting (a working man rises at a public meeting to speak), with the caption “Give us back our hour”.
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Save Standard Time @savestandard.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Has your alarm been waking you in darkness before you finish sleeping? You could be suffering from DST. Permanent Standard Time can help. Tell your legislators.
A photo of 6am Pacific Daylight Time on September 20 in San Francisco, with a pitch-black sky. A photo of 6am Pacific Standard Time on September 20 in San Francisco, with a sunlit sky.
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Save Standard Time @savestandard.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“Most everyone will applaud the decision of Congress (by a vote of 383–16) to return to Standard Time… Sleep-eyed laborers will no longer be forced to drive in pitch black, nor will children wait for buses in darkness…” (on this day in 1974).
Newspaper clipping from the Alexandria Daily Town Talk, Louisiana, September 19, 1974. Headline “Back to Standard Time”.
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Save Standard Time @savestandard.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Abolish “fast time” (Daylight Saving Time).
“Fast Times at Ridgemont High” meme. A young man wearing an apron and cooking hat smiles and says “Learn it, Know it, Live it, Standard Time!”
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Save Standard Time @savestandard.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“Farmers did not ask for Daylight Saving Time. They hated it on sight.”
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Save Standard Time @savestandard.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Permanent Daylight Saving Time repealed! Within days of WWII’s end, 50+ bills were filed in Congress to repeal War Time. Within weeks, restoration of Standard Time was underway—on this day in 1945.
Newspaper clipping from The Birmingham News, Alabama, September 18, 1945. Photograph of Congressman Lyle M Boren (D-OK), author of the bill that repealed permanent Daylight Saving Time (“War Time”), pointing at his wristwatch with a wall clock behind him. Headline “Sleepers to Benefit”.
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Save Standard Time @savestandard.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
6:35am Daylight Saving Time is more honestly 5:35am Standard Time. DST is a trick to make us start work/school an hour earlier than ST every morning.
X post from this morning, of a photograph showing a pitch-dark sky and a school bus, captioned “This morning’s 6:35am school bus adventures”.
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Save Standard Time @savestandard.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Standard Time could have prevented a school bus crash—on this day in 1961.
Newspaper clipping from The Oneonta Star of New York, on September 16 in 1961. A letter to the editor, headlined “End of Daylight Saving Time Would Help in Fog Problem”.
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Save Standard Time @savestandard.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“I don’t think we’re talking about sleep enough. Start School Later, Save Standard Time, these are going to help children thrive in school.” —Jennifer Galardi, Senior Policy Analyst for Wellness at the Heritage Foundation, live on Newsmax
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Save Standard Time @savestandard.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“Permanent DST creates a fiction that the sun sets later—at the cost of precious morning light. Our farmers, our children, and our health all need that morning light.”
The Daily Yonder
Keep It Rural

Government & Policy
Commentary: Permanent Daylight Saving Time Is Bad for Rural – and All – Americans
If we are going to stop changing the clocks, standard time makes more sense.

by Skylar Baker-Jordan
September 11, 2026

A funny thing happened on the way to changing the clocks: Farmers got blamed for Daylight Saving Time (DST). 

“Not only is that not true, but it is 100% not true. It is as far from true as one could get,” David Prerau, author of Seize the Daylight: The Curious and Contentious Story of Daylight Saving Time, told Nebraska Public Media in 2022. 

“People think it was put in place for farmers, but the leading group against daylight saving time has always been farmers and agricultural people.”

In July, the House of Representatives passed the Sunshine Protection Act, a bill which – should it become law – would make daylight saving time permanent. While many across both the country and the political spectrum celebrated this move, for rural…
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MHP_MONTANA @markpaulson7.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Gassing up on our way to Seattle. Thanks a lot, Trump! You asshat.
A picture of the "This Sale" window from my gas-up showing 29.977 gallons of fuel and a cost of $125.00.
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Jimothy the Raccoon @jimothythe-raccoon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Jimothy knows 🦝 #jimothy #seattle #jimothyraccoon
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Save Standard Time @savestandard.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Clocks should more or less align to the sun.
Two clocks are pictured with the at its peak behind each. The clock on the left is rotated 30 degrees, it’s set to 1:00, it’s labeled “Daylight Saving Time”, and it has a red interrobang. The clock on the right is not rotated, it’s set to 12:00, it’s labeled “Standard Time”, and it has a yellow thumbs up.
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MHP_MONTANA @markpaulson7.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Thanks for the follow, @serenwhitlock.bsky.social! 🥰
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MHP_MONTANA @markpaulson7.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Absolutely brilliant!
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Bob @psychobob4q2.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Trump calls them suckers and losers, small potatoes. They all had families and loved ones. Honor them.
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Kate @gaylekate.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
'WE THE PEOPLE' should all be adequately cared for. This man was traumatically injured 70 years ago & died over 30 years ago Medicine has improved dramatically but we don't have access to it I'D SAY THE TIME FOR 'MEDICARE FOR ALL' IS LONG OVERDUE
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MHP_MONTANA @markpaulson7.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Same here. The safe way to do it.
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Save Standard Time @savestandard.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
“Daylight Saving Time is quite problematic. We need light when we wake up to feel alert.” —Terry Cralle on Restoring American Wellness.
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Save Standard Time @savestandard.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Eastern Standard Time is closer to the honest sundial time in Miami, Florida. Eastern Daylight Time is more than an hour too fast!
Title reads “Standard Time is closer to nature”. Three clocks are shown, one for Miami mean solar time (set to 12:00), one for Eastern Standard Time (set to 12:21), one for Eastern Daylight Time (set to 1:21). Subtitle reads “Alignment to solar time naturally benefits health, safety, education, economy.”
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Save Standard Time @savestandard.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Ditch DST with permanent Standard Time, for natural health!
Infographic by Roger Seheult MD, listing many reasons against Daylight Saving Time and for permanent Standard Time.
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Save Standard Time @savestandard.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Permanent DST harms health, safety, education, and productivity. So why do some lawmakers still want it?
Photograph of Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) golfing, with a quotation from NOTUS news published on July 20, 2026, about his recent comments on the Sunshine Protection Act.
> Senator Tuberville also quipped that [permanent Daylight Saving Time] would give him more time on the golf course. When asked how many more rounds he’d get in, Tuberville laughed and conceded: “Quite a few.”
https://www.notus.org/policy/daylight-saving-time-bills-senate-regional-fight
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Save Standard Time @savestandard.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
“Making Daylight Saving Time permanent forces us to wake an hour earlier than our bodies want, every single day.”
The Forgotten Side of Medicine

Stopping the War Against Sleep

Since few recognize the critical value of sleep, a safe cure was buried, the pills that replaced it make sleep worse, and Congress is on the precipice of locking in dark mornings nationwide.

A Midwestern Doctor

Aug 9, 2026

Story at a Glance:

• Proper sleep is one of the most important things for our health, and when it is disrupted, many severe issues consistently emerge (e.g., heart attacks, psychiatric illnesses, car accidents, fatigue, diabetes, cognitive impairment, or dementia).

• Due to the importance of sleep and healthy sleep cycles not being understood, many counterproductive policies exist (e.g., sleep is essential for learning, yet educational programs like medical training sleep-deprive students, and schools wake adolescents up too early).

• One of these, daylight saving time, has been particularly problematic, so decades of attempts have been made to fix it. A law is currently advancing through Congress…
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Save Standard Time @savestandard.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
“Daylight Saving Time worsens our nation’s sleep deprivation epidemic, while permanent Standard Time would improve it.” sleepworldmagazine.com/2026/07/20/r...
sleepworldmagazine.com
Time to Realign: Synchronizing to Earth's Light/Dark Cycles - SleepWorld Magazine
Interestingly, ST better aligns with human circadian rhythms and the natural rhythm of Earth's light/dark cycles. A significant body of literature points to
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MHP_MONTANA @markpaulson7.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Oh, man! You gotta like that!
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Kilted Dude @kilteddude.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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