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Pete Tirrell

@pctir.bsky.social
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History, science, nature, music, explorer, builder, married. Old school nerd. Florida and Rhode Island. Editor designyourwild.com No DMs please.

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Joe Newberry @joenewberry.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
There are only a few musicians whose work is the fabric of the songs that we all wear. Dolly Parton was one of them. Rest in Peace. We will always love you.
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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Wonderful clip of Glen Hansard singing "The Parting Glass" in 2012. Many thanks to @donmoyn.bsky.social for flagging today in his newsletter. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCZc...
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Glen Hansard - The Parting Glass (Live 2012) | Stage On Sixth
YouTube video by Paste Magazine
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
This is the way. We can have nice things, too.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 07/06/2026
Muslims don’t recognize Jews as God's chosen people, Jews don’t recognize Jesus as the Messiah, Protestants don’t recognize the Pope as the leader of the Christian world, and Evangelicals don’t recognize each other at Hooters.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Story: www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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U.S. Senator Jack Reed @reed.senate.gov · 06/04/2026
Since the East Bay Bike Path bridges went out of service in 2019, bike path lovers & neighbors wanted to bring them back better than ever. Working w/ @whitehouse.senate.gov, we delivered $14M in fed investments to help make it happen. Today we cut the ribbon on this great project!
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Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
I’m going to post this joke every year until someone laughs.
What does Mr T called the month after March?

April, fool!
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Well done, SNL. 👏
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
And for the guests' sipping pleasure, I'll volunteer to stock the green rooms with plastic liter bottles of gin from the liquor store (for Lindsey) and bags of human blood from the Red Cross (for Stephen).
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 04/03/2026
Our democracy deserves a cleanup. My DISCLOSE Act is the solution.
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Joe Newberry @joenewberry.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Robert Duvall has passed away at the age of 95. Think of your favorite films of the last six decades, and you'll likely find his name in the credits. While he is gone, he remains through that iconic work. Rest in Peace.
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Robert Duvall, Star of ‘The Godfather’ and ‘The Great Santini,’ Dies at 95
Robert Duvall, who won an Oscar for "Tender Mercies" and was nominated for “The Godfather,” “Apocalypse Now,” and “The Great Santini,” has died.
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The Unquiet Ghost of Andrew S. @shoutingboy.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
you need to just put up an "is it fascism yet?" website. it's a single page that says "no". when the URL gives a 404, that's when we worry
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 23/01/2026
Those cuts to science, culture, medicine? They aren't just about research, they are about power. Episode Three of Autocracy in America: www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...
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Defund Science, Distort Culture, Mock Education
It’s not just about cuts to research. It’s about power.
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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
"The primary purpose of this occupation is the selective use of govt power to establish federal dominance over blue states or cities Trump dislikes. That's it. He thinks MN is the enemy, and so he unleashed an armed and masked paramilitary upon its people." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/past-the-b...
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Past the breaking point
The violent occupation of an American city is more than a warning
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
1/ICE, contrary to longstanding 4th Amendment jurisprudence, now says it can enter people’s homes without a judicial warrant; an administrative warrant suffices. That's a form signed by a gov't employee who can be fired if they displease the president. It’s not difficult to see the problem here.
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Breaking the Fourth Amendment
Last night, we learned from a report in the Associated Press that ICE, contrary to longstanding Fourth Amendment jurisprudence, is taking the position that it can enter people’s homes without a judici...
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
It is not up to the armed forces to put a stop to Trump’s ghastly ideas of war against NATO. The United States is not run by the military, nor should it be. Americans, and their elected representatives, must take this burden away from the armed forces—now. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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The Military Is Being Forced to Plan for an Unthinkable Betrayal
Attacking an ally would be a perversion of everything the armed forces have been trained to do.
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Ian Donnis @iandonnis.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...
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Active shooter on campus, Department of Public Safety reports
The alert and call were sent to students immediately by DPS following the incident, urging students to hide, run or evacuate until further notice. 
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
We aren't on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We are in the middle of it. But I worry people don't see the whole scheme. They just pay attention to each new daily outrage. So I went to the Senate floor to explain Trump's plan. Here's a 🧵of the speech. It's important.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Only the military remains outside Trump’s grip. Despite the firing of several top officers—and his threat to fire more—the U.S. armed forces are still led by generals and admirals whose oath is to the Constitution, not the president. But for how long? www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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The Civil-Military Crisis Is Here
The leaders of the U.S. military may soon face a terrible decision.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/10/2025
the single best decision I’ve made about how I use this website is that I do not argue in my replies I ignore it or I block people, nothing good ever comes of it and I am just some guy and not the sin eater for every moderation decision
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:
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Pete Tirrell @pctir.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/r...
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In This Class, the Teacher Wants You to Be Wild
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 15/09/2025
4 years cancer-free today! Proof that sarcasm is a treatment plan. For those of you still in the fight, stay strong, laugh harder. 🙏😂
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 05/09/2025
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
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Ari Peskoe @aripeskoe.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
There's a video too youtu.be/TRzEzU7kwyQ?...
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Samuel L. Jackson Wants You to Eat Seaweed (and Back Wind Farms)
YouTube video by Creative Boom
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Know what they call a seaweed snack in France?
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Another young loser attacks society, another day where I post this as the manifesto, anger, etc, plays out again and again. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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The Narcissism of the Angry Young Men
What to do about the deadly misfits among us? First, recognize the problem.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
I think it's time for me repost and pin this: My advice to both liberals and conservatives in 2022 about how to build a coalition, including the sage advice of "get over it" www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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All Hands on Deck
A new coalition for 2022.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Also this is very bad
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Corruption is bad, and members of Congress shouldn’t trade stocks.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 20/08/2025
Rhode Island lost a legend. Judge Frank Caprio has passed away. He and his court officer Ziggy Quinn turned the tedium of traffic court into a beloved and endearing human spectacle. He did it his way, and we all got to enjoy it.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 12/08/2025
A DOGE kid gets beat up in DC and it’s DefCon1; hundreds of bullets into federal buildings with officer killed in Atlanta and it’s crickets; violent mob attacks Capitol wounding dozens of officers and it’s pardons for all.
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Pete Tirrell @pctir.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
You need to be smart to use AI, the latest from Design Your Wild www.designyourwild.com/p/chatgpt-ga... #nativeplants #designyourwild #lesslawnmorelife
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Here's How ChatGPT Can Mess Up Your Yard
You’re avant garde and AI is basic.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 04/08/2025
No one should ever have to wonder if their senator or representative is making choices in Congress just to benefit their own wallet. There's a clear solution: ban Congressional stock trading.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 07/07/2025
Political Cartoon. Four frogs wearing red hats are pictured sitting in a boiling pot of water. Three of the frogs look pleased, saying “Woo hoo!” “This is what we wanted him to do!” and “Yeah, this is a good thing!” The last frog says nothing and looks nervously off to the side.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 07/07/2025
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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Sheldon Whitehouse’s Three-Hundredth Climate Warning
The senator’s wake-up calls about government inaction take on a new urgency in Trump 2.0.
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Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
It doesn’t bother me that Trump went to the Alligator prison. What I object to is that he was allowed to leave. #Traitor #criminal #LockHimUp
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
The only checks on a reckless president are the human beings in the #nuclear chain of command, who would have to choose to abdicate their duties in order to stall or thwart an order they found reprehensible or insane. Mutiny, however, is not a fail safe device. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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The President’s Weapon
Why does the power to launch nuclear weapons rest with a single American?
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Seven years ago, Pauline Shanks Kaurin left a good job as a tenured professor, uprooted her family, and moved to teach military ethics at the Naval War College. Now she's leaving in protest of policies she can't support and that make her job impossible. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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A Military Ethics Professor Resigns in Protest
Over the course of several months, Pauline Shanks Kaurin concluded she no longer had the academic freedom necessary for doing her job.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Checks out. ❌
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/06/2025
this wonderful piece from @profmsinha.bsky.social gets to what was truly great about lincoln — his open mind and great capacity for moral growth www.theunpopulist.net/p/abraham-li...
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Abraham Lincoln Wasn't Born an Abolitionist, He Became One
We live in polarized times when freedom is threatened but this Juneteenth we should remind ourselves that we have overcome far worse
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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
While regenerative A.I. sounds futuristic, the energy required to power them comes from burning good, old fashioned dinosaur bones If you’re wonder where bazillionares like Elon Musk are building these new toxic, environmentally unfriendly data centers… You must be new here.
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How the Growth of AI is Endangering the Health of Black People
Data centers, like the one built by Elon Musk in Memphis, are creating a toxic environment that is disproportionately affecting Black communities.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
June 18, 2025
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June 18, 2025 (Wednesday)
Tomorrow is the federal holiday honoring Juneteenth, the celebration of the announcement in Texas on June 19th, 1865, that enslaved Americans were free.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 21/05/2025
Donald Trump's "big beautiful bill" in a nutshell: 14 MILLION people losing their health insurance just so Jeff Bezos can buy another $500 MILLION yacht.
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Donald Trump's "big beautiful bill" in a nutshell.
YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Omg. Democratic House Rep. Gerry Connolly passed away from esophageal cancer just weeks after he announced he was stepping down from as the top Dem. on the House Oversight Committee and wasn’t seeking reelection in 2026. He was 75. My heart goes out to his family and friends.
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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 21/05/2025
Crushingly sad to learn of the passing of Gerry Connolly, my friend, colleague and fierce champion of federal workers, public integrity and the people of Virginia (though he never surrendered his hearty south Boston accent). May his memory be a blessing to us all.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 21/05/2025
$4 trillion increase to the debt limit, brought to you by: The Republican Trifecta.
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