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Harold S

@oldredsubby.bsky.social
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Happily married. I do not respond to DM’s Raised in NJ, now So. Sound Wa, USA. Enjoy good music, art & photos Amateur photographer Photos: 500px.com/harold_jr mastodon: @oldredsubby@sfba.social College, NY (BS) & Seattle Univ (MBA)

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 9h
As we talk about what happened at Cornell, please take a moment to learn about how a young LSU student is fighting for help against that school’s storied football program
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Plant Powered A-ron🌱🌎💙🌊 @plantpowered1971.bsky.social · 21h
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 4h
While I'm enjoying the humiliation justifiably being heaped on Senator Eric Schmitt, I don't don't think enough mockery is being directed at his accomplice, Senator Kennedy, the Cornpone Clown, with this stupidly victorious expression as he smugly holds up the ridiculous "evidence."
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AgricultureID @agricultureid.com · 25/09/2026
Golden-hour fields — light that pauses the to-do list. Farming systems start with attention: soil underfoot, sky overhead, crop in between.
Image of Agriculture Fields Golden Hour.
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debbiepetty @debbiepetty.bsky.social · 3h
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Roger ZenAF 🖕🐸🖕 @rogerzenaf.bsky.social · 17h
Guess where we spent Sunday! Here's Long's Peak in Rocky Mountain National Park. 🙂
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 3h
In case you don't know AI construction costs are being removed from the taxes they should pay and their power and water bills are subsidised by you. So YOU are paying for AI, and of course THEY own it.
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The Daily Edge @thedailyedge.bsky.social · 5h
How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes It's own accountants admit the techniques are so shady they might be called Trumpy www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes (Gift Article)
Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
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Mickey Kuhns @mickeykuhns.bsky.social · 3h
Trump starts a war with Iran, gas prices surge, and MAGAts blame Obama. He’s been out of office nearly a decade, but apparently still controls the pumps. The party of personal responsibility has one policy: take the credit, outsource the blame. What a farce. www.politicususa.com/p/republican...
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Ben Franklin’s ghost @ben-franklin-ghost.bsky.social · 18h
I might engage in an old American tradition going back to those plucky patriots of the 1760’s and ‘70’s - smuggling goods to avoid unfair and exploitive duties.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 3h
Saw this happening yesterday! This appears to be a woefully designed AI product; as I said a true government AI system would release its constraints as well as its major database. And one of the reasons, I wrote Infrostructure was to try to describe how information is produced and materialized.
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 23h
Morocco appoints its first woman prime minister, Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri
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Morocco appoints its first woman prime minister, Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri
Nearly a week after her party, the Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM), won the parliamentary elections, the mayor of Marrakech was named Morocco's prime minister on September 29.
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Marie 🇨🇦 @pawbaby2.bsky.social · 4h
😂 Trump says Canada will come crawling back to apologize. Mark Carney’s response? He laughed. 🇨🇦😂 #ElbowsUp #CanadaStrong #USDemocracy
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 22h
PM Carney calls out Canadian based Stelco steel company (owned by US company Cleveland Cliffs) for the layoffs due to Trumps tariffs, betraying Canadian workers. They were offered $$ by the Fed govt in Canada to keep it open and refused. Credit to soocanadian /1 thread
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 7h
If there'd been just one man in that room or that chat who’d been raised to believe in consent, who’d been taught to see women as equals, who’d been told by their fathers how good men speak when no one else will, it would all have been different for her... johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/cornells-j...
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Cornell’s Jane Doe Needed One Good Man In That House And That Group Chat. She Would Find None.
Warning: this piece includes references to sexual assault, as well as words many may find offensive.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3h
#RatepayerProtectionAct
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Kim Masters @kimmasters.bsky.social · 4h
Look at these masked thugs terrorizing us on our streets with our money.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h
Eric Schmitt is what happens when a state becomes so red that you don’t need to be a talented politician to become a US Senator. And to be fair, there are examples of this in blue states too. Iron sharpens iron.
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Marie @mhsty.bsky.social · 20h
This is Remy, my neighbors puppy. He frequently runs over to my house to visit when his humans vacation.
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Zack🥀 @zackrose2.bsky.social · 5h
Gold Medal Rose! #roses #flowers #bloomscrolling #gardening #pnwgardening
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 3h
Still waiting for Clarence Thomas and Sam Alito to be investigated for allegedly taking bribes from billionaires in the form of lavish vacations while addressing cases in which the wealthy men were involved
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Ian Kremer @wolverinebear.bsky.social · 3h
Federal watchdog says Trump’s $810M funding cancellation is unconstitutional www.politico.com/live-updates... #Project2025 #OMB #GAO #Constitution #SeparationOfPowers #Blues
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Federal watchdog says Trump’s $810M funding cancellation is unconstitutional
A top Government Accountability Office lawyer told Congress the president doesn’t have the power to execute his latest 'pocket rescission.'
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AMPTsuper @amptsuper.bsky.social · 4h
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Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 4h
So, my mother had an issue on her taxes and I've been trying to follow up on her behalf for months but cannot get a live person on the phone. Called my Congressman who said it is because of budget cuts that phone lines are understaffed. Thanks a lot!
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Kate Good @kategood.bsky.social · 4h
Seattle area people fight back! The proposal would cost a typical PSE electricity customer an additional $612 a year by 2029 and a typical gas customer $276 a year. The utility is also seeking approval to boost its profit margin to 10.8%, up from the current 9.9%.
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Puget Sound Energy seeks $1.5 billion rate increase
Puget Sound Energy is asking state regulators to approve $1.5 billion in rate increases over the next three years. The proposal would cost a typical PSE electricity customer an additional $612 a year ...
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Washington State Standard @washingtonstatestandard.com · 4h
A company providing medical care at the Overlake Medical Center emergency room will refund more than $400,000 to low-income patients under an agreement with Washington’s attorney general. washingtonstatestandard.com/2026/09/30/w...
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WA company has to pay $410K for withheld hospital charity care • Washington State Standard
A company providing medical care at the Overlake Medical Center emergency room will refund more than $400,000 to low-income patients under an agreement with Washington’s attorney general.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4h
“.. The watchdog found no wrongdoing by Mr. Powell or his colleagues and it affirmed that no referrals were made to the U.S. Attorney General.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/b...
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 3h
Why Silicon Valley’s technofascists are “just another generation of elites who hate democracy because it means they can’t be 100 percent self-interested.” buff.ly/bAdxAu3
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The Real Technofascists of Silicon Valley: Why Big Tech Oligarchs Hate Democracy
When I first started seeing coverage of what seemed like a deranged plan from the Trump administration to take over Greenland, I felt like I was losing my mind. Not because I didn’t understand the …
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Harold S @oldredsubby.bsky.social · 3h
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Quick Update
Since being released from the ER I’ve done very little other than doctor visits and sit in my local McDonald’s, reading and scrolling online — a product of continuing lethargy and some lingering pain,...
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Jaycee Crawford / Vision Logic Images @jaycee-visionlogic.eurosky.social · 04/09/2026
'Journey to the Sea' (2026) -- Wolfe's Neck Farm Vicinity, Freeport, ME Such Beauty in Vast Spaces... #Scape ✨ #ForestFriday ✨ #BWFri ✨ #BlueSkyArtShow #Minimal ✨ #Stunday ✨ #BlueSkyMonday ✨ #TidesOutTuesday ✨ #PaintByWords ✨ #BlackAndWhite #Monochrome #ClassicMono #ECK #JayceeCrawford
A natural canal of freshwater slowly flowing into the bay on the horizon through enormous mud flats at low tide, In the distance, various uninhabited islands and heavily forested walls on the shoreline of the bay's usual high tide levels
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Antijen @antijen.bsky.social · 4h
Take the time to notice things.
Red maple leaf lying in the green leaves of a low-growing shrub/vine
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Roman Piso @romanpiso.bsky.social · 21h
#Discover #Trump'sPressBan #FreeSpeech #Reporting #TV #NewsMedia #NewsCoverage #WhiteHouse #Trump #RemoveTrumpNow www.yahoo.com/news/politic...
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Media outlets say White House will impose a ‘complete ban’ if Trump wins legal battle
Trump’s attempts to justify press ban are being used as ‘weapons’ against due process, lawyers say
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WTTW - Chicago PBS @wttw.bsky.social · 4h
The rate for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage surpassed 7% for the first time since January 2025 last week. The Fed said the increase was necessitated by rising inflation, but it could spell bad news for an already strained housing market. to.wttw.com/3VYW9Zz
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uppaalaska.bsky.social 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇦🇺🇬🇱🇵🇦🇺🇦 @uppaalaska.bsky.social · 4h
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 5h
"First Draft: 📺 Trump’s White House Agrees His ‘Midterm Ads’ Are Illegal. They’re Doing It Anyway" Donald Trump is demanding the propagandistic TV ads, even as some of his aides fret they ‘obviously’ break federal law. Read/share/subscribe:
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First Draft: 📺 Trump’s White House Agrees His ‘Midterm Ads’ Are Illegal. They’re Doing It Anyway
Donald Trump is demanding the propagandistic TV ads, even as some of his aides fret they ‘obviously’ break federal law. Missouri MAGA Senator Eric Schmitt, meanwhile, makes a fool of himself.
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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 5h
“Sooner or later pretty well every Democrat running for office will say that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.” Mark Damazer on a historical shift: Israel lost the bipartisan US support it has so long relied on:
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How Israel lost America
Once-solid bipartisan US support for the Jewish state is no more. The consequences for Israel will be enormous
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 4h
Shocker. The Trump admin’s story doesn’t match reality. not even close. Trump on Mesabi Metallics’ proposed $15 BILLION steel plant in Lee County, Iowa: “They’ve already started building.” REALITY: No permits, disclosed site, or major land purchase. Financial incentives still unresolved.
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medicare for all @ypkyp.com · 15h
Seattle, a blue city that just elected its first socialist mayor in Katie Wilson, also has on its council a former security officer, Bob Kettle. Who only seems interested in CCTV surveillance and public safety but cops only. www.hardpressed-info.com/seattle-city... h/t @glentalk.bsky.social
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Seattle City Council Member Received Military Human Source Intelligence Collection Training
Five months after Seattle city council member Robert Kettle abruptly revealed during a city council meeting that he participated in a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operation at Camp Cropper prison...
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 4h
Nearly all the Extras in this iconic scene were French expatriates. Their tears during the stirring rendition of La Marseillaise were genuine— filmed at a time when the fate of France was still uncertain. CASABLANCA (1942)
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h
Q: President Trump in 2020 asked his DOJ to say the election was fraudulent. Do you think that is the role of the DOJ? BLANCHE: I think it's our job to investigate and prosecute (That's not a no!)
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Jim Lokay @jimlokay.com · 29/09/2026
If you want to really know how the outrage machine gets fired up: 1. Schmitt plans to drop “bombshell” on Smith 2. Someone plants story that Schmitt is a Vance VP contender to run same day 3. Right-wing Twittersphere gets talking points 4. Schmitt steps in it 5. Scheduled tweets go out anyway
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Dave Wenning @rxdavid.bsky.social · 4h
We also have to stop electing people who don’t listen to us and only serve the needs of their wealthy donors. Perhaps shutting down that "free market" might be a good start.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 5h
The concentration of wealth in the hands of a few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy. When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice. The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.
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Dave Wenning @rxdavid.bsky.social · 4h
"In a Sept. 18 letter to the government, Casey Sixkiller, director of the state’s Department of Ecology, wrote that the proposed pipeline would double the volume of crude oil exported through the Salish Sea. Sarah Cox reports."
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4h
Four-byline alert: “.. Meta claimed that $4.1 billion of stock options exercised by Mr. Zuckerberg counted as a research expense ..” @nytimes.com $META www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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Natalee @natalee53.bsky.social · 4h
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Bugs Bunny Says NO
ALT: Bugs Bunny Says NO
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 4h
Jason Bell recounts the secret three-man mission that won the Allies World War II. buff.ly/sGj17i0
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On the Secret Three-Man Mission Deep in Nazi Europe That Won WWII
“Territorial male flies toward intruder, erects crown feathers, puffs chest, and sings loudly.” –“White-crowned Sparrow,” Birds of the World * March 15, 1944—the southeast coast of Italy Colonel Fl…
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brendanamartin.bsky.social @brendanamartin.bsky.social · 4h
“The term ‘enabling legislation’ is meant to evoke Hitler’s transformation into a dictator. Not because I think Trump is Adolf Hitler (though he is capable of evil on that scale), but because the delegation of power Democrats have accepted is analogous to how Hitler consolidated his.”
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 4h
🚨BREAKING: Key federal agencies failed to provide any records to back up President Donald Trump’s allegations that tens of thousands of noncitizens are registered to vote in various blue states, a nonpartisan government watchdog said in a new lawsuit. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DHS has failed to provide records to prove Trump’s allegations of noncitizen voting, watchdog says
Key federal agencies failed to provide any records to back up President Donald Trump’s allegations that 278,000 noncitizens are improperly registered to vote, a nonpartisan government watchdog said in...
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
There can be no talk about the fate of Ukraine and the Ukrainian people without the presence of representatives of Ukraine. This reminds of the Munich Agreement in 1938. Is this what "great America" looks like?
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