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Robert Teeter

@rteeter.bsky.social
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Retired librarian. From the democratic wing of the Democratic Party. Jew, curler, Shakespeare fan, California water enthusiast.

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
When we talk about the corrupt Supreme Court, we’re not just talking about Clarence Thomas getting paid off or Scalia doing billionaire junkets. John Roberts’ spouse getting paid by BigLaw firms would also be considered corrupt under federal law for other government employees.
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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 29/09/2026
Before calling someone a “dirtbag,” the Senator should have had his facts straight. An apology is in order. Glad one of us knew the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes!
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Lauren Underwood @laurenunderwood.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This Congress, I am proud to say that I have passed four bills through the House. Not because I compromise my values, not because the legislation is a “gimme,” But because I show up every day and work hard for our community.
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Sally Deal - 📞 Call your legislators @ (202)224-3121 ⏰24/7! @sallydeal4.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
More on Prop 39, the little brother of DJT's so-called Save Act: Some CA voters are falling for the propaganda put out by billionaires. 😱 A ❌NO on 39 is a must to stop DJT's voter suppression agenda which adds costly, unnecessary barriers that could block eligible CA voters. 🗣️Talk to friends! 8/10
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Robert Teeter @rteeter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Atta Babe, Krukow! We‘ll miss you. #AttaBabe #AttaBabeKruk #SFGiants
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Please don't overreact to the SCOTUS SAVE database decision today Page 6 of the decision makes clear that we are in the 90 day statutory window when mass changes cannot be made to voter lists! Yeah it's a shit decision for the reasons the 3 dissenters say but we can deal with it. More to come...
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Supreme Court Allows Expansive Voter Screening Tool Ahead of Midterms (Gift Article)
Critics of the Trump administration system to monitor the citizenship status of voters had raised alarms about privacy and improper voter purges.
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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 24/09/2026
🧵 IN THE WINTER OF 2022, a few months after ChatGPT began to scramble everything, I was part of a small group of staffers who met with Sam Altman at the White House. A few reflections on that meeting, and what it tells us about this most recent hype/panic cycle 🧵🧵🧵
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PODCAST: Is it time to freak out about AI?
Think about it this way: Lucy and the football for the digital age.
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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
1/ A Colorado woman's credit score dropped 85 points over a $240K debt that wasn't even hers. She proved it. The credit bureaus still wouldn't fix it. Why? Because the federal watchdog that used to force them to is being quietly dismantled from the inside #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I'm sorry, what? Shakespeare didn't write the play in Olde English. And Shakespeare didn't set the play in a time or place where the characters would've spoken Olde English. Eggers is free to make his choice, but how does this show "meticulous attention to detail"? It shows the opposite?
As befitting a filmmaker who is known for his meticulous attention to detail in capturing a time period, even when it comes to dialogue, sources say that this adaptation will feature actors speaking in Olde English.

A tragic romance, Shakespeare’s play told the ill-fated story of the titular young lovers who hail from two warring families, the Capulets and the Montagues, in the city of Verona, Italy.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.
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F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins
The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 21/09/2026
Motherfuckers. torontosun.com/opinion/colu...
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KINSELLA: 'Devastating' Yom Kippur synagogue shooting rocks Belleville
Shots rang out at Sons of Jacob synagogue in Belleville on Sunday night as a police officer was hit and later rushed to a hospital. Read on.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Greenland will remain part of Denmark under a planned US-Denmark-Greenland security deal, despite Trump claiming the US secured “permanent control.” The pact preserves access & rights US already held since 1951. Denmark retains sovereignty and Danish & Greenlandic parliament still need to approve.
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Denmark & Greenland defeat Trump takeover bid. US settles for military access it largely already had
Greenland will remain part of Denmark under a planned US-Denmark-Greenland security deal, despite Trump claiming the US secured “permanent control.” The pact largely preserves or expands military acce...
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Deb @debfly.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I was wondering today, when ICE didn’t immediately come out with their usual statement…”the ICE agent shot in self-defense in-fear of his life”. But as the day went on, I realized that Eye witnesses are noting he was SHOT IN THE BACK! Next-the reason for shooting into a crowded intersection? 
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Professor Power @powerofacademe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Hey, Jews who fast on YK!! Go drink a glass of water. Go on! NU? Did you drink? Drink more! Go!
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Dan Levy as David Rose: Keep Walking
ALT: Dan Levy as David Rose: Keep Walking
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Harold S @oldredsubby.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Caitlin Moran: social media went from utopia to hellhole in a decade – if you want to feel hopeful again, get offline | Social media | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/media/2026/s...
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Caitlin Moran: social media went from utopia to hellhole in a decade – if you want to feel hopeful again, get offline
Fourteen years ago, Twitter was the fastest, funniest game on the web. Now I’ve been driven out by so-called ‘online activists’. The only answer is to unplug and try this instead
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I deleted my post about synagogues being attacked at high holidays because people wanted to pivot to talking about churches and I refuse to play oppression Olympics or watch people change the subject to center themselves in a way that’s not intended to be supportive.
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Do you know when the first #water war was? Or why Machiavelli and Leonardo conspired to divert a river? Or how many times the LA Aqueduct was dynamited by angry farmers? These are some of the stories I tell in my new book, "When the Well is Dry." Pre-order now! thenewpress.org/books/when-t...
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When the Well Is Dry - The New Press
A comprehensive look at the relationship between water and violence, and how we can move from conflict to cooperation and peace, by one of the world’s leading water experts   The first major water w...
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Plenty of other reasons to hate AI: It's making people stupider. The Trump/Musk slop art. It's destroying journalism. It's environmentally damaging. The attempts to force it on us are part of a larger anti-democracy project. But deadly robot armies ain't it.
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"We can't stop ourselves! We're so addicted to making sci-fi gizmos from the future that we need the government to stop us" is the advertising pitch. But, as I argue in Standing Room Only, the actual lobbying efforts show they don't mean it. salon-standingroomonly.beehiiv.com/p/no-scotus-...
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Robert Teeter @rteeter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Interesting take on the state of AI.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
As an American political historian, I can confirm that this Congress has been "almost unmatched in history" in several categories -- sad abdication of its war powers, craven surrender of the power of the purse, weird refusal to conduct meaningful oversight, and an utter failure to pass actual laws.
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Robert Teeter @rteeter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
www.npr.org/2026/09/18/n... #booksky
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Editor Rose Friedman, who helped shape NPR's cultural coverage, dies at 38
Friedman was in her early 20s when she landed her first position as an editorial assistant at NPR. She became an editor and reporter, and a co-creator of the annual Books We Love reading guide.
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is just a tiny slice of a global problem. There is no way to save vast swaths of coastal property that will be swallowed up by now unavoidable #climatechange induced sea-level rise and there's no way to compensate all the owners who will lose property. www.npr.org/2026/09/17/n...
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People's houses are collapsing into the ocean. FEMA gives them no other option
Waterfront homes are collapsing along the coast. Homeowners generally have plenty of warning before their house buckles. So why aren't most houses removed, or at least emptied, before they fall?
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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
continually maddening that people blame "the water companies" for hosepipe bans when "the water companies" have been begging to build new reservoirs but a few retired QCs in Oxfordshire have used the entire weight of the british planning system to prevent it www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Thames Water redraws mega-reservoir plan amid local opposition
A new public consultation has opened on the 150bn-litre above-ground White Horse project in Abingdon, Oxfordshire
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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
If you don’t occasionally treat yourself to a day of exploring used bookstores, greenhouses, libraries, cafés, and bakeries, then what’s the point of anything really?
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Bubbly T 🫧🇨🇦 @bubblyt.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Every time you use self-checkout, you’re doing a job a company used to PAY someone to do. Those 10 minutes in line? That’s wages a corporation no longer has to pay. Stop calling it convenience when you’re doing the work for free. Stop helping machines replace us. Smarten up. 👏🏻
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
In lefty spaces, there are often a lot of abstract paeans to unions on Labor, but since most people don't actually belong to a union, it often feels like a platitude more than a lived reality. But I am in a union: Writer's Guild of America East. I'm also one of two union stewards at Salon.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Help the Internet Archive, which is saving a lot of the data being purged/censored by the Trump Administration (and so much more).....
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Robert Teeter @rteeter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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LizB @elizab1776.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
"Every official who directs this work, and every firm that performs it, proceeds at their own peril." www.king.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Breaking: Someone appears to have hacked the Republican National Convention website and it now redirects to the Epstein Files website.
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404 Media @404media.co · 03/09/2026
Flock taught cops how they could surveil the No Kings protests and “small parades” using a mix of Flock’s technology and law enforcement’s own databases in a webinar last year. Here's a short clip from the webinar: @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports: www.404media.co/flock-taught...
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Jewish Women's Archive @jwaonline.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.” Today, we mourn Gloria Steinem - writer, organizer, and feminist icon whose work helped transform the possibilities of American life. May her memory be for a revolution. Read more: buff.ly/V45ULTK
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Congresswoman Gwen Moore @repgwenmoore.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The measles vaccine is safe and effective. PLEASE get vaccinated — especially to protect babies who are too young to get the vaccine. This is outbreak, like many nationally, is the consequence of Donald Trump and RFK Jr. peddling anti-science lies. www.jsonline.com/story/news/h...
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Almost 100 measles cases now tied to southwest Wisconsin outbreak
The cases are concentrated in Iowa, Lafayette and Grant counties. People getting sick have not been vaccinated.
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iWillVote.com Pollock ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 30/08/2026
👸🏼 Charlotte B. torched Santa Clarita's city council and used them as a hood ornament for her 1957 Cadillac Eldorado #Flock #GiveHerAShow via @jesscraven101.bsky.social
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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
1/ California billionaires are lying to our faces. Their ad says YOU ( a none billionaire) have to report every asset you own. That's not true. The tax hits people worth $1 billion or more. They're scaring regular people because the truth would lose. 🧵 #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy
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Treyf Posting 🤌 @postingtreyf.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
YO
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
THIS IS NOT HARD. IT HAPPENS LITERALLY EVERY YEAR. THERE IS AN INTERNET. Thread here below from @whysharksmatter.bsky.social with the dates, or you can look here:
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Jewish Holidays 5787 (2026-2027) - Hebcal
Dates of major and minor Jewish holidays for 2026-2027, observances and customs, holiday Torah readings.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I don't know who needs to hear this, but it's actually not just a coincidence that classes have a break around Christmas and Easter and therefore you don't have to think about avoiding scheduling stuff on those days.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Greetings, non-Jews in academia! As we start another semester, here's your regularly scheduled reminder that the Jewish High Holy Days are coming up. If you wouldn't schedule an important meeting or exam on Christmas or Easter, don't schedule one on Rosh Hashana or Yom Kippur.
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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
To be clear, using a drop-box won't do anything because this rule PREVENTS YOU FROM EVEN RECEIVING YOUR BALLOT!
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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
*ENTIRE STATES* as of right now won't be able to vote. This is the frankly insane result SOLELY because of the conservatives on the Supreme Court.
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Ian James @ianjames.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
In the last few years, multiple studies have shown that global warming is intensifying drought and worsening water scarcity in California and the western US. Now, scientists have found that a group of polluters is responsible for a large share of the drying. www.latimes.com/environment/...
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Big oil and gas companies are partly responsible for California’s water woes, study finds
Scientists have found that climate pollution from the fossil fuel industry is significantly worsening the water crisis in California and the western United States.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton did all the good she could, for all the people she could, for as long as ever she could. From her legendary songwriting to the Imagination Library—which sent 1 million books a month to children across the country—she was the best of America. Dolly, we'll miss your great heart.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Rep. Ralph Norman, who’s in a Senate runoff with Lindsey Graham’s sister Darline, secretly urged a military-backed coup in 2021 to keep Trump in power. But the NY Times thinks it’s no big deal. In its last 92 stories mentioning Norman over 3 years and 7 months, it hasn’t stated that fact once. 1/7🧵
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
All my life, I've been reading "California is so, so over" stories. And I've been around a long time!
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