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Norm Holder

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Retired school teacher. Too much a creature of habit.

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
copy editors are better at copy editing than llms and it's not particularly close
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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 14/04/2025
this is Mohsen Mahdawi, the green card holder who was just arrested by ICE for rendition at his citizenship interview
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Where is our humanity?
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
You use the officials USGovt secure channels to hide communications from bad actors. You use Signal to hide communications from the USGovt.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 25/03/2025
BREAKING: last week a department-wide email went out warning everyone in the DOD that “Russian professional hacking groups are ... targeting Signal Messenger to spy on persons of interest.”
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Trump Officials Ignored Major Pentagon Warning in War Plans Group Chat
The Pentagon sent out a clear warning one week before that group chat disaster.
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Kombiz Lavasany @kombiz.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Wow, it was about killing women afterall.
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tamrakat @tamrakat.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
🔑 under-discussed point — why they were on signal:
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 24/03/2025
American war planning usually takes place in highly secure facilities. But the Trump administration planned its strikes on the Houthis using a group chat—and accidentally included The Atlantic’s editor in chief, @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social. theatln.tc/AmsjsuT6
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Inclusion Chick @inclusionchick.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
“Lungs within neighborhoods.” 💚 Once you taste living in a bike-friendly, walkable world, you don’t want to go back!
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
March 22, 2025
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March 22, 2025
Perhaps in response to the growing outcry over last weekend’s rendition of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador under a legal justification a federal judge has found questionable, President Donald Trump...
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
We’re gonna need this meme a lot over the next few years.
Post on X by user Rod with the handle @rodimusprime
, posted 18 hours ago. The post includes an image of a person on an MSNBC set with the text overlay "Wow, that was really racist." The MSNBC logo and the name "Joy Reid" are visible in the bottom right corner. Below the image, there is a quote from Raw Story with the handle @RawStory
, posted 21 hours ago, which reads: "Errol Musk, the father of Tesla CEO Elon Musk, believes that his son can’t be racist due to his past relationships with 'Black servants' who worked for the family in apartheid South Africa. rawstory.com/elon-musk-raci..."
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someGhost 👻 @sometoast.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
I’ve run Toast Radio for 22 years. It’s a microbroadcast playing largely pop/alt/indie in a freeform format. It lets me scratch my college radio DJ itch, and the occasional programming itch like for building @upcoming.toast.radio. Can be heard on Live365, TuneIn, Apple Music, and at toast.radio.
Portrait of the poster as a young DJThe last time all the physical CDs were out in 2012, for a project to replace all the 160 and 192k mp3 rips with 256k AACSample collage posted hourly at @upcoming.toast.radio.

This image is a collage-style promotional graphic with the heading "Five Star Friday." It displays nine album covers, arranged in a 3x3 grid, with each album representing a different artist. Below the album covers is the "toast.radio" logo, which features a stylized radio and the text "toast.radio."

Here are the album covers and artists (from left to right, top to bottom):

1. **Freedy Johnston - Unlucky**
2. **The Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride**
3. **Benny Goodman Quartet - Together Again**
4. **Allo Darlin' - Allo Darlin'**
5. **Blake Babies - Sunburn**
6. **The Bluetones - Expecting to Fly**
7. **Unkle Bob - Sugar & Spite**
8. **The Grey Race - Give It Love**
9. **Sloan - Parallel Play**
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𝔸𝕝𝕝 𝕋𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕤 @allthingsisheretoo.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
"Turn it whatever way you will---whether it come from the mouth of a King, an excuse for enslaving the people of his country, or from the mouth of men of one race as a reason for enslaving the men of another race, it is all the same old serpent." -- Abraham Lincoln. Speech at Chicago, July 10, 1858
Abraham Lincoln with American flag in background.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
March 21, 2025
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These days, I keep coming back to the quotation recorded by journalist Ron Suskind in a New York Times Magazine article in 2004.
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Vaughn Wolff • Seattle WA @vaughnwolff.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
The below picture is an example of how to break rules. This should be helpful for most bluesky users who may not be familiar with how to break rules.
Cat sits in a place it’s not supposed to sit.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
The Alien Enemies Act centers on the President. If DJT says he knew nothing about its implementation, he’s not only lying; he’s saying that the government’s actions had no justification of any kind at all—not even the warped use of old legislation. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/03/...
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Trump says he didn’t sign proclamation invoking Alien Enemies Act | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump on Friday downplayed his involvement in invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1789 to deport Venezuelan migrants, saying for the first time that he hadn’t signed the proclamation, e...
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 22/03/2025
South Florida school teacher recalls what it was like to be deported from the U.S. as he was applying for asylum.
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South Florida school teacher was applying for asylum when he was deported to Honduras
Since his deportation on Feb. 6, Wualner Sauceda now lives with relatives in a remote, rural area with dirt roads and no running water.
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 22/03/2025
"They made it so painfully simple what was wrong with this plan, that maybe the White House even couldn't fail to understand it."
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'They spelled it out in crayon!' MSNBC's Rachel Maddow stunned as NYT blows up Trump plan
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow took to her show’s opening monologue on Friday to vent her frustrations with President Donald Trump’s claimed ignorance over reports that tech billionaire Elon Musk was to receiv...
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 22/03/2025
Military personnel swear an oath to the Constitution, not to any person or party. Trump's dismissals of senior leaders may test this principle across all ranks, according to a retired major general in the U.S. Air Force.
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Trump’s firings of military leaders pose a crucial question to service members of all ranks
Military personnel at all levels are now facing the question of whether they will stand up for the military’s independent role in maintaining the integrity and stability of American democracy.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 20/03/2025
"It felt like we had all been kidnapped, thrown into some sort of sick psychological experiment meant to strip us of every ounce of strength and dignity," writes Jasmine Mooney, who was detained by Ice earlier this month.
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I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Yes. That is in fact what just happened.
X post from the account "Polling USA" (@USA_Polling
) with a blue checkmark, timestamped 1 day ago. The post reads: "You’re telling me the code talkers that helped to defeat the nazis got removed from military websites BY nazis?" The post includes a reply from the account "Axios" (@axios
), also timestamped 1 day ago, with a yellow badge. The reply reads: "Exclusive: Navajo Code Talkers disappear from military websites after Trump DEI order trib.al/90XSYLB."
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Eric Muller @elmunc.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Left: government declaration filed yesterday in the Alien Enemies Act case. Right: Lt General John DeWitt, Final Report: Japanese Evacuation from the West Coast 1942 Sometimes history rhymes damn near *perfectly*. #LawSky #Skystorians
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 18/03/2025
On Saturday, Trump held a candlelight dinner at his Mar-a-Lago estate, with oligarch Elon Musk in tow, where guests spent $1 million per seat.
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Trump Hosts Elon Musk at Pricey, Secret Mar-a-Lago Dinner
Why wasn’t this on Trump’s official schedule?
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
🚨 Florida legislators are actively trying to dismantle the Miller test — which determines if the government can ban a book/film/art/music/site. They've proposed requirements that it be evaluated "as a whole" and with respect to it's "redeeming social value" They want to make it easier to censor.
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Florida bill would prohibit districts from considering ‘literary value’ of challenged books
Under the current standard, books deemed to have literary, artistic, scientific or political value when considered in their entirety can still be retained, despite controversial lines or parts.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
They have so few artists willing to allow their music to be used. Really says something.
X post by Semisonic (@SemisonicBand
), featuring a profile picture of the band performing on stage and a "Follow" option. The post reads, "We did not authorize or condone the White House's use of our song 'Closing Time' in any way. And no, they didn’t ask. The song is about joy and possibilities and hope, and they have missed the point entirely."
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Norm Holder @normanholder.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
theconversation.com/chewing-gum-...
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Chewing gum is plastic pollution, not a litter problem
The reality is that chewing gum is just another form of plastic pollution, but it is not treated as such.
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Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 17/03/2025
According to the attorney of one of the men shipped to El Salvador w/o due process, he was singled out by the Trump administration because they suspected his tattoos!
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micchiato 🎋 @micchiato.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
“At the airport Saturday, she said she remained in the dark about the reasons for her detention even as she was transported from Arizona back to San Diego to board her flight back to Canada. ‘No one told me anything. Not once,’ Mooney said”
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Canadian woman who was detained in U.S. immigration jails returns to Vancouver
After a dozen days being shuffled between detention centres in the U.S., Jasmine Mooney has made it back to Vancouver.
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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
What NASA’s two astronauts who have been stuck in space since before Trump’s inauguration see upon their return to Earth.
Final Planet of the Apes scene with half buried Statue of Liberty on beach.
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Vegasdebbie123 @vegasdebbie123.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
March 15, 2025:
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March 15 is a crucially important day in U.S.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
It’s unreal - the DOD deleted its page for Charles Calvin Rodgers, a Medal of Honor recipient who was wounded three times while defending against three assaults on his base in Vietnam. Now the URL includes “DEI Medal of Honor.” There’s something about Rodgers I don’t even have to tell you
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
The FBI is trying to criminalize Habitat for Humanity for receiving climate grants from the EPA. Yes, the nonprofit that builds houses for low-income people. This clearly demonstrates just how absurd and extreme the Trump regime has become. It's targeted harassment.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 15/03/2025
The FBI is now moving to criminalize groups like Habitat for Humanity for “conspiracy to defraud the United States.” This comes after EPA Director Lee Zeldin eliminated the EPA headquarters in D.C. and 10 other regional offices.
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Trump’s FBI Moves to Criminally Charge Major Climate Groups
The Trump administration is targeting climate organizations that received a Biden-era grant.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 15/03/2025
An Idaho teacher is in a standoff with her own school district after officials ordered her to remove classroom signs, including one that reads, “Everyone is welcome here.”
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Teacher ordered to remove signs from classroom, including one saying ‘Everyone is welcome here’
“There are only two opinions on this sign: Everyone is welcome here, or not everyone is welcome here,” argues Sarah Inama, a sixth-grade history teacher.
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RNS @rns.org · 15/03/2025
“I’m a Jew, and I don’t like antisemitism being used as a cover for a regime, a fascist regime. I will not have them do this in my name. I cannot sit down,” actress Debra Winger said during the protest.
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Jewish protesters occupy Trump Tower over arrest of Palestinian activist
NEW YORK (RNS) — The sit-in was organized by Jewish Voice for Peace, an anti-Zionist Jewish organization, and took place under the golden escalator where Donald Trump launched his first presidential…
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Kansas Reflector @kansasreflector.com · 15/03/2025
Opinion editor @claywires.bsky.social writes: Kansas Statehouse bigwigs lay down the law: Call us racist and we’ll crush you like a bug #ksleg
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Kansas Statehouse bigwigs lay down the law: Call us racist and we'll crush you like a bug • Kansas Reflector
I’ll tell you what this looks like to me. It looks as though Kansas Republicans have decided to teach Carr a lesson.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
March 15, 2025
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Today the Senate passed a stopgap measure from the House of Representatives to fund the government for six months through September 30.
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Kay F. Atkinson - Perfect Killer Bodies out Nov. 10 @tinylesbianrobot.itch.io · 15/03/2025
we should bring back preachy stories rather have a story that knows what it's about than endless waffly 'everything is kinda shit actually' cynicism
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House. We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication. They own what happens next.
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Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
BREAKING: Senate just UNANIMOUSLY restored $1.1 billion for DC local govt that was eliminated Why? Because Senators of BOTH parties work in DC - and most have homes there - and none of them want to be in a hellhole Now - try applying that same logic to THE REST OF THE COUNTRY
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Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 15/03/2025
A Hmong American woman who has lived in the Milwaukee area since she was 8 months old was deported last week to Laos, a country she has never visited, and says she is stranded in a rooming house surrounded by military guards. www.jsonline.com/story/news/l...
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Milwaukee-area woman deported to Laos though she's never been there, doesn't speak the language
As Donald Trump pushes the mass deportation of immigrants, Yang believes she is one of the first Hmong Americans to be deported to Laos recently.
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