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Peter Foley

@pwfoley.bsky.social
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Nature (especially the ocean), progressive politics, data, embedded electronics, and general tinkering.

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Peter Foley @pwfoley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A used manual La-Z-boy swivel recliner could be excellent. The used ones are not quite as bonkers expensive but they hold up well (at least they used to, and buying used ensures QA problems are obvious) and are quite comfy. My grandma had one before moving farther away and I still miss it sometimes.
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Peter Foley @pwfoley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The best thing about that quote is that it only makes sense if you fundamentally misunderstand boats, electricity, AND sharks. Sinking electric boats in saltwater don’t electrocute folks nearby. Sharks don’t like electric current but don’t generally want to eat people. He’s just gonna drown.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 26/08/2026
just wanted you to see my pan ❤️
back of a cast iron pan that has a design with musical notes and a heart and a butterfly and the words "JOLENE PLEASE DON'T TAKE MY PAN"
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Peter Foley @pwfoley.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
My eskie is only 25lbs but that’s a very familiar face of lovable dumbassery. Their floof makes up for their lack of good decisions.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
“When voters scroll through their social media feeds after the hearing, Democrats should ensure they get clip after clip of Blanche squirming to justify his handling of Epstein…the sweetheart deal Blanche gave Maxwell and the discussions in the Situation Room.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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One Weird Trick for Torpedoing Todd Blanche’s Hearing
Trump voters tell me again and again they’re disappointed with the president over one thing. It could complicate his hopes for a new attorney general.
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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 12/06/2026
OCEANIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN VERY CLOSE TO A DEAL WITH EURASIA
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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 09/06/2026
LOL if you thought the Trump boos were loud on TV, wait until you hear them from inside MSG. Video courtesy of Evan Roberts from WFAN on X.
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Peter Foley @pwfoley.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
It sprays a secret third way.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Privatizing prisons and detention facilities is one of the worst public policy decisions this country has ever made. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Peter Foley @pwfoley.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Oh jeez based on linkedin I’m way behind—shame on me but good on you!
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Peter Foley @pwfoley.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Coba is a complex person and while I often disagree with her takes (especially employer wtf!?!), I have known her for 22ish years, and she’s not a bot.
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 01/05/2026
I read a very compelling argument that when this weasel chewed through a cable and unexpectedly shut down the Large Hadron Collider’s 17-mile particle accelerator in April 2016, that’s when our reality went haywire. I have yet to hear a more persuasive explanation. Not even really joking.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
The Texas legislature rammed through a gerrymandering bill at the request of Trump. Virginia actually voted in favor of redistricting to counterbalance what Texas and other Republican-controlled states have done. Yet only one is considered a "power grab." Oligarch-owned media in a nutshell.
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
ZOHRAN MAMDANI: "It is sad that for too many Americans when they want to look for ambition in the Democratic Party, they have to turn to a history book."
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Claire Zagorski, PhD, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Important context: all of the people arrested were let go when the county and district attorneys declined to press any charges. It was a weird “state police vs local prosecutor” dick-measuring contest. Thankfully our DA won. (Hi José!) www.texastribune.org/2024/06/26/u...
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Travis County Attorney drops charges against 79 more UT-Austin protesters - The Texas Tribune
The arrests were the result of the second police crackdown on pro-Palestine demonstrations at UT-Austin. The first protest, on April 24, resulted in 57 arrests, which were also dismissed.
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Claire Zagorski, PhD, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
57 of my fellow students were arrested, academically disciplined, and barred from campus 2 weeks before finals. And then the visas of some of those students were quietly revoked. And then the DEI office was killed. And then we watched our mentors’ grants evaporate over “woke”.
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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 11/03/2026
doing this without attaching it to a war powers vote is political malpractice
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
The question that very easily blows up all this double-talk is: “Would it be an act of war if another country did this to us?” Because OF COURSE it would.
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bag of moons 🏳️‍🌈 @bagofmoons.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
once again, i am begging everyone to turn some of their energy towards abolishing the concept of legal gender. there is no reason gender has to be on driver's licenses and passports, and for most of history, it wasn't!
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Hegseth and Noem keep mightily pissing off and humiliating those who serve under them and history informs us that that often does not work out for leaders such as them when regimes collapse taskandpurpose.com/news/army-wa...
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⭑ salma @whitep4nth3r.com · 16/02/2026
love a bit of continvouclous morging
Bugfixes (all one word) from rel comma branch may by continvoucly morged back into develop
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 16/02/2026
They want to scare people out of posting ICE-critical content, because they know these posts are turning even their supporters against them. But the better option is to take a page out of their playbook and flood the zone.
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Peter Foley @pwfoley.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
This hawk and another were fighting over a squirrel or rabbit. Was too slow to catch the battle but caught it swooping below the trail after it dropped its prey. #redtailhawk #socal #birds
Red tailed hawk viewed from above, looking back over its wing with tail feathers flared wide.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Abolish ICE and fire all agents is the moderate position.
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Peter Foley @pwfoley.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Upgraded my lens and confirmed its ability to capture birds in the act of whatever they’re in the act of. Note the lack of ICE in the picture. Everything’s better without ICE.
Hummingbird peeing mid flight. Sun is behind it so the pee is glistening like jewels.Same hummingbird flying farther from its pee, with the pee still glistening in the sun.Hummingbird in flight with its mouth open, probably to catch a bug, though the bug isn’t visible.
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Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."
Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti

“We are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.

I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. 

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 24/01/2026
Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
The official policy of the government of the United States of America is that they will murder anyone they want, that they will tell any lie necessary to justify that murder, and that no one who resists them has any rights they are bound to respect. /1
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/01/2026
Sayre: "My background is in international humanitarian response in conflict zones in Yemen, Haiti, Syria, Iraq, and Ukraine. What I've seen here is what I've seen there. A powerful entity violently and intentionally terrorizing people."
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 24/01/2026
A new video appears to show the moments leading up to a fatal shooting by federal agents in Minneapolis, with the individual appearing to simply record on his phone as agents escalated the situation. 🎥 dangjessie / Threads
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."
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Peter Foley @pwfoley.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Powerline ethernet is trash. Now if you had spare coax runs and could have used moca instead…
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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
abcnews.go.com/US/lawyers-a...
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Van Hollen: We are here to say not one more dime for Donald Trump's ICE operations
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Jon Walker @jonwalkerpdx.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
More Dems need to think about skating to where the puck will be not where it is. All indications are Trump's brain has turned to mush and no one around him will even try to control his worst impulses. He will just get way crazier and more evil and unpopular by November.
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Charlie Thomas @cthomasjamh.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
This is the sort of statement that was expected from every university president and law firm partner over the last year. That those statements weren’t made played a huge part in where we are now and people will remember.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
hi, political philosopher here! this is not funny, central banks only do this when they're in extreme distress
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 08/01/2026
For months, Trump’s DHS has wreaked lawless havoc in our neighborhoods. Tear gassing infants, families, and police. Firing their weapons at peaceful citizens. Killing innocent people. It’s brutal, unconstitutional, and out of control. It must stop. Kristi Noem must go. Now.
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Narrator: it was in fact what occurred
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
the thing is, “differing political views” used to be about what percentage to tax high earners and not whether brown people are humans
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 09/12/2025
The ban decision based on posting an actually flat out illegal threat to POTUS? probably justified. taunting the victim about it? silence is free.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars. She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
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Erika Wittekind @erikalyn.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Melania and Barron Trump have dual citizenship (US and Slovenia). Elon Musk has citizenship in the US, South Africa, and Canada.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Ordering no quarter, as Hegseth effectively did, isn't a newfangled modern war crime. It was understood as a crime as far back as the Revolutionary War. Washington threatened to do reprisals over it. The bad guy in 'The Patriot' is (very loosely) based off a British officer who was notorious for it.
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Peter Foley @pwfoley.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Google Trends scales all terms by the same amount (to put the highest peak among all terms at 100) so the y axes of both searches are on the same scale and you can validly compare them. They’re not independently normalized. support.google.com/trends/answe...
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FAQ about Google Trends data - Trends Help
Standard > Trends > FAQ about Google Trends data Google Trends provides access to a largely unfiltered sample of actual search requests made to Google. It’s anony
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 10/11/2025
How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
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Bob Cesca @bobcesca.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
"A promise of a vote on healthcare"
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a cartoon character named charlie brown is running in a field
ALT: a cartoon character named charlie brown is running in a field
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
The father was a U.S. citizen. But he was Latino, so Brett Kavanaugh says it’s fine. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
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Immigration Agents Arrest Man in L.A. Raid and Drive Off With His Toddler
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 31/10/2025
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