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High Desert Otter

@ottermd37.bsky.social
3.2K followers 1.3K following 6.6K posts

Gardener, cook, writer, physician, rescuer of old dogs. Aspiring shitposter. Lover of the ironic, the sardonic, and the generally unserious. I have faith in dogs and in soil biota. At this point, that's about it.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is true. In 2016, I got into an argument with a gay man on a menswear forum. I've since made it my mission to make every man dress gay, thereby destroying his ability to tell who is actually gay and, ultimately, his chances of finding love. I built my social media following to achieve that goal
Someone on Twitter writes to me: "People should follow your advise if they want to look gay."
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
the experience of COVID really drove this home for me. It wans't the apocalypse, life went on, but a million people died and there were enormous social costs, some of which continue to this day and then when it was done most people were like "let's never think about that again"
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Listen purity Dems. Your protest vote or non-vote won't "bring on the revolution" - it will only speed up the end of civilization. I suspect you don't care, which makes you complicit. But if you DO care, please open your eyes and let's get rid of the fascists if we even still can? Thanks, nice chat.
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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
@radiofreetom.bsky.social: “Painful as it would be to see the Kennedy Center go bankrupt, it would be more painful to cave to Trump’s deeply cynical refusal to save a national treasure unless he gets his name on it.” Yes. Thank you. Great piece. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Trump’s Kennedy Center Shakedown
The only appropriate response is to refuse to accede to his demands.
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Kenny Torrella @kennytorrella.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Far-right commentators, New York Times columnists, deep red Republicans, blue state liberals: They’re all opposed to keeping pigs in tiny cages. It’s been quite incredible to see the political unity in opposition to the Save Our Bacon Act, so I wrote about it:
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The neo-Nazi party made huge gains in the German elections thanks to the backing of the world‘s biggest billionaire and most prominent publicizer of white nationalist conspiracies on the planet. Good thing there’s no comparable relationship in the US for our media to explore.
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🤖✨💓👩🏻‍🦱✨💓🤖 @amaya79.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
An American legend has taken his final rest. John Kinsel Sr., one of the last original Navajo Code Talkers who used their language to outwit the Japanese in World War II, has died at 107.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Food companies wanted deregulation. Now there are dozens of recalls across the country. Mining companies wanted deregulation. Now the black lung rate is at a 45-year high. Financial companies wanted deregulation. Now financial losses to fraud are the highest on record. Noticing a pattern?
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 24/08/2026
When a group of YMCA campers needed to be rescued during the wildfires on our northern border, it was Canada who immediately helped. Not a word from Trump.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/08/2026
yep, i will note that the fugitive slave act was used to try to kidnap free blacks and sell them into slavery
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Rollie 🤬 @architecturenerd.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Truth 🫣😡
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
It's just a good thing doctor's visits are free and employers give unlimited time off to go to them.
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Peace @dogsmile.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
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Memento (artemis) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
we had an entire ICU team that was dedicated to flipping patients onto their bellies to give them a last shot at oxygenating before their inevitable deaths, but ok
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
This shit with Taylor Farms is exactly what I’m talking about when I say you may say you “don’t do politics,“ but politics are more than happy to do you. The microbes political bribes got out the door and into your intestines don’t particularly care that you find it all beneath you.
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I was haunted by Sean Hannity’s suggestion that Lindsey Graham’s heaven includes a mar a lago so here is a piece exploring that concept www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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Abandon Hope, All Ye Who Enter the Mar-a-Lago in Heaven
Tour the mansion in the sky to which Sean Hannity has consigned Lindsey Graham’s soul.
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Follow the Minnesota 1st @smullins3000.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Women are too emotional, part eleventy billion
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
“The basic problem is that while Trump’s approach to the war is cyclical, its damage is cumulative. Petroleum reserves, missile stockpiles, global trust in the U.S.-led world order—these are finite resources that are all being spent down at alarming rates.” www.thebulwark.com/p/its-ground...
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It’s Groundhog Day in Iran
If at first you don’t succeed . . . and second . . . and third . . .
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Marie 🇨🇦 @pawbaby2.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Jon Ossoff has made accountability his mission and that’s exactly why MAGA is determined to push him out. Please stand with Jon Ossoff and help defend this seat: ElectJon.com #USDemocracy #Pinks youtube.com/shorts/HHmJm...
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Did you all see Pete Hegseth in front of that committee this week?
YouTube video by Jon Ossoff
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
History of Medicine
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
“Don’t worry, Pete. That little speech I read was just for the voters back home. I have to put on these little shows to convince them I’m independent. You will get the $1.5 trillion for your wars even though I just gave ICE unlimited funding to run wild. We’ll just borrow more.”
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DeeEmmy @deeemmy.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." James Nicoll
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Oh! They gave millions to Trump lol. people.com/taylor-farms...
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Taylor Farms Met with Trump White House Days Before FDA Backtrack on Cyclosporiasis Findings, Sparking Controversy
Executives at lettuce supplier Taylor Farms met with Trump White House officials days before the FDA walked back a ‘false positive’ detection of the cyclosporiasis parasite that is causing ‘explosive’...
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High Desert Otter @ottermd37.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Fuckin' perfect.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The American psyche explained in one Onion headline.
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Conscientious SUV Shopper Just Wants Something That Will Kill Family In Other Car In Case Of Accident
PRESCOTT, AZ—Explaining that she did not have any strong preferences when it came to make or model, area woman Laura Bauer, a conscientious SUV shopper, confirmed Wednesday that she just wanted someth...
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
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High Desert Otter @ottermd37.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
substack.com/@saadiam/not...
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Saadia Mirza (@saadiam)
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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
It's weird to me how trump never lets go of a grudge, he still bitches about Obama, Biden, Hillary, and even Rosie O'Donnell for some reason. He never says a word about any of the people who supposedly tried to assassinate him. Nothing. Weird.
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High Desert Otter @ottermd37.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
As whaling continues unchecked and whales diminish, this thread still represents my favorite death fantasy.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
I wonder why this thing that's happening is getting more coverage than this insanely racist conspiracy theory that never happened?
Some Twitter dipshit with a blue mark, does it even matter?

"The algae in the reflecting pool is getting more coverage than the migrant gang rape of a quarter of a million white girls."
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High Desert Otter @ottermd37.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Seldom on Bluesky these days, so just learned today that I have been added to three block lists: “AI enjoyers,” “Can’t tell the difference between a technology and a corporation,” and “Does not like AI, crypto, VR, smart glasses, NFTs, or Bitcoin.” I have achieved equal opportunity offending.
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The Independent @the-independent.com · 26/06/2026
More people have been arrested over the Reflecting Pool than the Epstein files
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More people have been arrested over the Reflecting Pool than the Epstein files
Trump has claimed Reflecting Pool ‘vandals’ could face ‘years in jail.’ By contrast, he’s urged the public to move on from the Epstein files
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Mi nombre es Teo @toddkbailey.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
That’s amazing. You must listen. For real. Hold my head high at HEB got me 😂😂😂
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Memento Mori @mementomori4950.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Why of course 😏 Starbucks, Zuckbucks and now Elon Mucusbucks 😏
Starbucks UK made £556 million in sales last year.

They paid £0 in corporation tax.

"Quick, look at those immigrants..."

See how it works?
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 04/06/2026
Political cartoon. A man in a red hat sits in a recliner in front of a TV with Fox News on. The chyron reads "climate hoax." The man points his remote at his window where the sun is beating down and a fire rages.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 03/06/2026
The absolute bottom of the journalistic barrel is people in the media chiding Scott Pelley for having the gall to confront Bilton. If you want a job licking boots, become a bootlicker. You’re not a journalist.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Ossoff: He settled the suit with himself to create a $1.8 billion slush fund so he can cut checks to cronies and Jan 6th foot soldiers. The same men who sacked the Capitol. Donald Trump's brown shirts . He pardoned them, and now he wants you to pay them.
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
It’s the Second Time he has done this for our State! Thank You Stephen Colbert….
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Bob @psychobob4q2.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
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High Desert Otter @ottermd37.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Trump will certainly try. Either we will defend our democracy en masse, or we will find it lost or curtailed.
The original post shows Steve Bannon at a presser saying, "We're working on 5 or 6 different alternatives for how Trump could run again and be president...l continue to say that on the afternoon of January 20th, 2029, Donald Trump is going to be president for his third term."

It was reposted by Joe Walsh, who says, "And all I will continue to say is...imagine the worst, and be ready to defeat it. Is Trump gonna fuck with/try to cancel the midterms? Believe it, defeat it. Will Trump try to run for a 3rd term?
Believe it, defeat it. We didn't imagine the worst after the 2020 election, and Jan 6 happened.
Not again."
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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Today, Trump failed to name 14 of the 15 soldiers who died during his Iran war. Full list: Cody Khork Noah Tietjens Nicole Amor Declan Coady Jeffrey O'Brien Robert Marzan Benjamin Pennington John Klinner Ariana Savino Ashley Pruitt Seth Koval Curtis Angst Tyler Simmons Kevin Melendez Sorffly Davius
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I hate to admit it but John Bolton is right again.
Screenshot of an X (Twitter) post by @Tymofiy Mylovanov quoting John Bolton saying Trump called Xi Jinping 'King' and 'the greatest leader in Chinese history,' with Mylovanov commenting that Xi and Putin both view Trump as 'an easy mark,' accompanied by a video thumbnail of Bolton speaking at what appears to be a Copenhagen Democracy Summit.
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Charlie Sykes @sykescharlie.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
In Washington, we get Trump the Insult Dog. In Beijing, Xi got Trump the Lap Dog: open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
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Trump's Most Audacious Grift? (So far)
Plus: "Kow-towing in China
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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
The only good Confederate flag is a burning Confederate flag Their bellies are as yellow as their robes are white
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
May we one day have a Secretary of Defense who is not all hepped-up on "death and destruction" and is not driven by rage, arrogance and ignorance.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Military experts say that Iran's military is largely intact. A guy who beats his girlfriends and drinks a pint of gin before breakfast says that Iran's military capacity has been completely destroyed by American's maximum lethality. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust.
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High Desert Otter @ottermd37.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
He said it, all right, and Alsobrooks has the proof. But RFK Jr, who wanted to shunt Black kids toward farm work, is still HHS Sec.
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Isaac Bogoch @isaacbogoch.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
mRNA vaccines continue to show major promise. In a small Phase 1 trial led by Dr. Balachandran, some patients with pancreatic cancer (one of the deadliest cancers) reached 6-year survival. This is why sustained investment in science & research matters. tinyurl.com/f4n4anhk
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 19/04/2026
WOW: A stunning new report in the WSJ reveals that military advisers intentionally excluded Donald Trump from the command room during the recent high-stakes operation to extract a downed U.S. airman in Iran, because they feared his erratic behavior could jeopardize the mission. 1/
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