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Gamer, vinyl listener, Hoosier, long suffering Colts fan.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
"We'll take our stand for this land & the stranger in our midst..." Powerful. Brutal. Inspirational. A loving tribute to Renée Good, Alex Pretti & the good people of Minneapolis. Plus, it name-checks all the villains: the Puppy Killer🐶, Pee-Wee German🇩🇪, the Orange Atrocity🍊💩 & above all: ICE🧊🚫 1/
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Bill Watson @playzvinyl.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Support frontline organizers demanding justice and shutting down ICE in Minnesota chuffed.org/project/supp...
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Support frontline organizers demanding justice and shutting down ICE in Minnesota
On January 7, 2026 ICE agents shot and killed Renee Nicole Good amid a sweeping immigration crackdown. On January 24, ICU Nurse and legal observer Alex Jeffrey Pretti was also shot and killed by ICE a...
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 16/12/2025
Well, this is an utter disaster for science. This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next. 🧪
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The changes permit as few as one outside review rather than the current minimum of three, end the routine use of expert panels to discuss those individual reviews, and give program managers greater authority to recommend which proposals should or should not be funded. They are described in an internal 1 December staff memo that Science has obtained and mentioned briefly in an update to NSF's grantmaking manual posted on 8 December.
A major reason for the smaller staff is the elimination of hundreds of so-called rotators, scientists on loan from academia who served as program managers as well as higher level administrators. Their absence, combined with the new review policy, represent a major change in how NSF
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The Athletic @theathletic.com · 07/12/2025
BIG TEN CHAMPIONS ‼️ No. 2 Indiana defeats No. 1 Ohio State 13-10 to claim the conference title.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
#CancelSpotify. Delete the app. Don't use it. They are proudly promoting ICE ads, and the CEO is just a trash human being. Make an example of one company. All they worship is money. The color green trumps all others.
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Bill Watson @playzvinyl.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
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These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department. — ProPublica
Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...
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Monica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since #SOS @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov
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Seth D. Michaels @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
they announced this on a Friday night in the summer www.ucs.org/about/news/e...
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EPA Will Close Its Scientific Research Arm
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said today that it will close its Office of Research and Development and begin firing hundreds of scientists.
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Bill Watson @playzvinyl.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
We need Colbert’s bold and frank commentary now as much as ever, and we need to stop corporations like CBS from cowing to political intimidation of this administration. Add your name to the petition to demand they reverse their decision and keep Colbert on air! sign.moveon.org/petitions/co...
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Keep Colbert on Air!
We need Colbert’s bold and frank commentary now as much as ever, and we need to stop corporations like CBS from cowing to political intimidation of this administration. Add your name to the petition t...
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Alex Kydd Ocean, Nature & Travel Photographer
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The Onion @theonion.com · 13/06/2025
Democrats Back Resolution Thanking Federal Agents For Handcuffing Alex Padilla theonion.com/democra...
Democrats Back Resolution Thanking Federal Agents For Handcuffing Alex Padilla
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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
in so many videos out of LA i am seeing officers aiming rubber bullets right into crowds, this is filling me with a deep and anxious rage knowing what happens when they do that www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
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Journalist shot by Minneapolis police during 2020 protests dying from injuries
Linda Tirado was in Minneapolis from out of state covering the protests and rioting when police shot her in the face with a rubber bullet, also known as a "less-lethal" round.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Screenshot of scene from the old game Oregon Trail. There is a green graphic on a black background. The graphic is of an ox pulling a wagon and below it is says YOU HAVE LISTENED TO RFK Jr.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/06/2025
The Department of Education was deep into an investigation of a school district where students allegedly played whipping sounds from their phones during a lesson about slavery. Then in March, Trump fired all of the employees working on the case.
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A Gutted Education Department’s New Agenda: Roll Back Civil Rights Cases, Target Transgender Students
The Trump administration is subverting the traditional priorities of the department’s decimated civil rights office by making discrimination investigations practically impossible — instead enforcing…
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Trump has deported a four-year-old US citizen with a rare form of metastatic cancer without medication or consultation with their doctor.
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Trump Has Now Deported Multiple U.S. Citizen Children With Cancer
Two families who had lived in the United States for years, including a child with cancer and a pregnant mother, were deported by ICE on Friday.
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iPacers.com - Derek Kramer @ipacers.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Reggie Miller got choked up when Stephen Jackson apologized for his part in the Malice at the Palace on the All the Smoke podcast. Both former Pacers discussed that night and much more. ipacers.com/2025/04/24/r...
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Reggie Miller tears up after Stephen Jackson apologizes for Malice at the Palace
Reggie Miller got emotional during his appearance on the All the Smoke podcast when Stephen Jackson started the conversation with an apology for his part in the brawl between the Indiana Pacers and…
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 12/04/2025
Why, thou picture of what thou seemest, and idol of idiot-worshippers
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 10/04/2025
No lawmaker in Congress should be able to own, buy, and sell individual stocks. We need to ban congressional stock trading—and I've got a bill for that.
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James Briggs @jamesebriggs.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Friday opinion dump: Indiana's secretary of state should be impeached.
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Diego Morales is rubbing our faces in his corruption. Impeach him now. | Opinion
Diego Morales has free rein to treat taxpayers and donors as his personal entitlements. Impeachment is the only check on his abuse.
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Kill a white millionaire, get the death penalty. Kill two black protesters, get invited to CPAC to be celebrated.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 29/03/2025
Instead of stealing Greenland from Denmark, let’s steal some of their policies. In Denmark: - Health care and college are free.   - The starting wage is $22/hr. - Paid parental leave is 1 year. - Paid vacation is 6 weeks.   - All workers get pensions.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
I appreciate that Jeffrey Goldberg did not sit on this news for a book that he writes two years from now
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
This is what we’ve come to, and so quickly.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Figured I’d hop on here today for the 15th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act. With everything going on right now, it’s easy to feel like regular folks can’t make a difference – but the ACA is a reminder that change is possible when we fight for progress.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
This flew under the radar, but Trump revoked a minimum wage hike for companies that contract with the government. An estimated 390,000 workers will now see significant pay cuts. It's not surprising that Trump's populism is fake, but it's hardly ever been more clear.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 21/03/2025
The Department of Education, among other things, is what funds special education for children with disabilities. Trump’s executive order will hurt kids and parents in virtually every school district in the country.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 21/03/2025
Part two:
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 21/03/2025
Terry was scammed out of most of his savings and was supposed to get his money back—until Donald Trump and Elon Musk gut the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Part one:
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
The administration is removing phone support for Soc Security recipients. Making it more difficult for seniors to get their checks. It’s a back door way to cut SS benefits. Horrific. If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Canadian MP Charlie Angus: I am here today to urge Canadians to avoid travel to the United States if at all possible and to call on our government to stand up for our citizens who are being denied their rights through arbitrary detention in the United States.
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
I want you to understand this is happening in our name and we know most of these men committed no crimes. One is a professional soccer player who was tortured in Venezuela and was working through asylum in the U.S. ICE shipped him for his Real Madrid tattoo and a picture throwing rock & roll horns.
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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
If you’re bored, here’s some light reading
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Selling Nazism in a Democracy - State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
When the Great Depression struck in 1929, Nazi favor dramatically rose in a polarized Germany. Millions of Germans now found Nazi propaganda messages appealing.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 18/03/2025
Ahead of Germany’s election, with anti-immigrant sentiment rising, they released viral videos showing life without immigrants. History proves that when a country starts erasing certain people, it doesn’t end well. 🧵
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 17/03/2025
William Archibald Spooner (1844-1930) was a British clergyman/educator. He was famous for saying things like "a blushing crow" instead of "a crushing blow." Today, a 'spoonerism' means "a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words."
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
The people Attorney General Bondi is calling “terrorists” have had no trial and no chance to defend themselves. We do not know who they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 17/03/2025
We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape, till custom make it Their perch and not their terror.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 16/03/2025
DHS Begins National Registry Of Duolingo Users theonion.com/dhs-beg...
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DHS Begins National Registry Of Duolingo Users
WASHINGTON—Warning that the highly suspicious individuals constituted a threat to the country’s safety and cultural unity, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced plans Monday to create a national registry of Duolingo users. “For unknown reasons, there are people in this country attempting to learn foreign languages ranging from Italian to Japanese, and we need […]
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
His track record speaks for itself. While we continue to resist, we should take comfort in that he is deeply incompetent, not very bright & his policies are hurting even his most devoted supporters. Let's not get in the way of his inevitable self-destruction.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 15/03/2025
O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 15/03/2025
Schumer enabled GOP power plays, failed to protect democracy, and abandoned the people when it mattered most. He’s lost the fight—and our trust. It’s time for new leadership. @schumer.senate.gov Time To Step Down @dearlstephens.bsky.social lays out the case perfectly here 🔥 (link in thread)
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 15/03/2025
the Senate have concluded To give this day a crown to mighty Caesar.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 14/03/2025
BREAKING: The Continuing Resolution cloture motion has passed 62-38, advancing the CR to a final vote. These are the Democrats who voted to invoke cloture:
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 15/03/2025
On Tuesday night, co-presidents Trump and Musk fired half of the workers at the Education Department. On Wednesday, FAFSA - the financial aid application for millions of kids who want to go to college - went down. That’s their idea of efficiency.
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How Education Department layoffs hit student loans, testing, civil rights
The layoffs call into question how agency will be able to handle major operations such as student loans, FAFSA, the Nation’s Report Card and civil rights complaints.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Cool so what happens if GOP attach a national abortion ban to a CR? You'll vote for that too? 🚮
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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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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
If you are a Southern California person upset about @schumer.senate.gov ‘s craven betrayal of our country, the theatre his book tour will be at on 3/23 is the Moss Theatre. Their phone number is 310-828-5582
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 15/03/2025
The terrible CR Budget bill — written by right-wing House Republicans with no input from anybody but themselves — was passed tonight with the support of 10 Democrats.   An absolute failure of Democratic leadership. NOBODY in the Senate should have voted for this dangerous bill.
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