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Tara Dublin, Rock Star Author📚❤️‍🔥🤘🏻 @taradublinrocks.com · 22/06/2025

And now, a message from Hillary Clinton 🤨#ImpeachTrump

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Brian Cardone @cardonebrian.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

🚨🚨The White House is pissed off about this ad so you know what to do, share it everywhere! ICE is disappearing people just because of the color of their skin! No Warrant! No Due Process! This is not who we are as Americans! #MAGAKidnappers want an all white America, fuck that‼️

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Michael Prager @michaelprager.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Help! Our nonprofit is a Google prisoner! We have a Google Ads grants account, but can’t access it. I’ve been through their reclamation process, but it doesn’t work. No help, no option for help. If you have guidance on how to connect in this circumstance, by any means, please DM me!

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

How it started (sweating from questions from actual journalists) … how it’s going (doing the broligarch logroll)

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

It snowed. It’s not like there’s a violent mob outside beating up cops who are desperately trying to protect members of Congress inside.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Irony would like a word.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

An important point.

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 30/12/2024

Love this photo of John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and Muhammad Ali at Jimmy Carter’s inaugural gala.

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Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Jimmy Carter leaves the Southern Baptist Convention in 2009: “Women and girls have been discriminated against for too long in a twisted interpretation of the Word of God.” He continues to teach his regular Sunday School class in Plains, Ga.

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Michael Prager @michaelprager.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

You’re quite, quite wrong. I prefer not even to use the president-elect’s name. I just see no point in denying reality. He’s going to be the president, he has done this before so he has an idea of what types he wants (and doesn’t), and he has no one, essentially, to stand in his way. Reality.

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Michael Prager @michaelprager.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Because yes there are three branches, but having one house of Congress is a lot different from having both houses.

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Michael Prager @michaelprager.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Shelley, I don’t know where to begin with your comment. You know I know about branches of government, because I referenced them. I don’t drink Koolaid. I believe I’m describing reality, whether I like it or not. My values are intact. I’d try to know you a little better before questioning yours.

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Michael Prager @michaelprager.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Sometimes, you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone. But not with Dennis Overbye, who’s retiring from the Times. I’ve long been grateful for his combination of universe knowledge and ability to express beautifully. His valediction: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/s...

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A Solstice of the Soul (Gift Article)

For his next trick, your cosmic correspondent for the past quarter-century will (try to) retire.

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Michael Prager @michaelprager.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Andrew, your point is very good. It’s revolting. However. It was American voters who “normalized” the winning candidate. One job of “corporate media” role is to cover American politics. The asshole is now the president-elect. Deal with it.

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Jennifer Polk @fromphdtolife.com · 18/12/2024

Who does paid workshops for universities about PhD dissertation writing, for a US STEM audience? This is not my area and I'd love your recommendations, including self-recommendations! Repost to help others see this.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

“Patrick Soon-Shiong, the owner of the Los Angeles Times, reportedly asked the newspaper’s editorial board to ‘take a break’ from writing about Donald Trump”

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LA Times owner asks editorial board to ‘take a break’ from writing about Trump – report

Billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong, who said paper is ‘echo chamber’, also blocked paper’s board from endorsing Harris

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Michael Prager @michaelprager.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

I don’t know how you hang onto this perch. His support went up pretty much everywhere, and 50 percent or not, his side holds all four branches of government. He could hardly be in a stronger position. Baying at the moon is not going to change that.

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Michael Prager @michaelprager.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

This is pretty vile, Adam. Do we really have to be like the other side?

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Michael Prager @michaelprager.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Note to nonprofits: It is rude when the next thing you do after receiving a gift is to ask for another one. Sending that “Thank you, sir, may I have another” just means I’m less likely to give to you the next time. PS, I chair a nonprofit.

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Josh Rosenau @joshrosenau.org · 13/12/2024

This reminds me of this story about Reagan Education Secretary William Bennett, told by Reed Hundt on @joshtpm.bsky.social’s TPM Cafe: web.archive.org/web/20051223... “he did not want public schools to obtain new funding, new capability, new tools for success. He wanted them, he said, to fail…”

THE COFFEE HOUSE POLITICS
A TRUE STORY ABOUT BILL BENNETT
By Reed Hundt |
When I was chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (1993-97), I asked Bill Bennett to visit my office so that I could ask him for help in seeking legislation that would pay for internet access in all classrooms and libraries in the country. Eventually Senators Olympia Snowe and Jay Rockefeller, with the White House leadership of President Clinton and Vice President Gore, put that provision in the Telecommunications Law of 1996, and today nearly 90% of all classrooms and libraries do have such access. The schools covered were public and private. So far the federal funding (actually collected from everyone as part of the phone bill) has been matched more or less equally with school district funding to total about $20 billion over the last seven years. More than 90% of all teachers praise the impact of such technology on their work. At any rate, since Mr. Bennett had been Secretary of Education I asked him to support the bill in the crucial stage when we needed Republican allies. He told me he would not help, because he did not want public schools to obtain new funding, new capability, new tools for success. He wanted them, he said, to fail so that they could be replaced with vouchers,charter schools, religious schools, and other forms of private education. Well, I thought, at least he's candid about his true views. The key Senate committee voted almost on party lines on the bill, all D's for and all R's against, except one --Olympia Snowe. Her support provided the margin of victory. On the House side, Speaker Gingrich made sure the provision was not in the companion bill, but in conference again Senators Snowe and Rockefeller, with White House support, made the difference. The Internet has been the first technology made available to students in poorly funded schools at about the same time and in about the same way as to students in well funded schools.
Oct 01. 2005 -- 10:53:29 AM EST

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Kroger and Albertsons claimed they wanted to merge into one grocery giant in order to keep prices low. But after the merger was blocked, they approved spending a combined $10 billion on stock buybacks. They each paid their CEOs over $15 million in 2023, by the way. Hello?

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Michael Prager @michaelprager.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

It makes me sad that almost everyone who follows me is a young woman apparently working BlueSky as some sort of sex beat. Feels worse than no attention at all.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 13/12/2024

Stanley issued a recall of about 2.6 million travel mugs after concerns that loose lids could lead to burn injuries, the Consumer Product Safety Commission said.

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Stanley Recalls More Than 2 Million Travel Mugs Over Burn Hazard

Stanley, which also makes trendy tumblers that are wildly popular on social media, urged consumers to contact them for replacement lids.

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Michael Prager @michaelprager.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Frank Bruni is just a super-clever writer! From today’s newsletter, about Trump cologne: “Before this week, such musings might have seemed off-topic. Now they’re on the nose.” -and- “…wearing it presumably means that you’ll pass nasal muster with the king of bluster.”

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Michael Prager @michaelprager.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

So did this headline — more so than Wolf’s moves, which had *their* ups and downs.

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Joe Bishop-Henchman @jbhenchman.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I want to watch TV coverage of the live fall of the Syrian regime. CNN is airing a Giuliani documentary, Fox News has a comedian joking about Canada, MSNBC a documentary about migrants So I turned on BBC,which is breathlessly switching between Syria, South Korea demonstrations, and Ghana election

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Michael Prager @michaelprager.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Why do you think any of these hearings will be brutal? Truth has not yet mattered much to those in charge.

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Bob Lawrence 🔵 @trumpluvsobama.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Today's lesson discusses the American health care system for those in countries where their system provides care for free or reasonable fees. 👇

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

He praised the owner of the platform. The owner then reposted it to his over 200 million followers and used his algorithm to boost it just like he did to manipulate the election. And the take on that it is, ‘look how many people agree with me that Musk is right.’ Pretty damn sad.

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Michael Prager @michaelprager.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I’m not at all sure how boosting this signal would help. No details that might help someone find them. Willing to help.

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