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Sailing Steve

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Sailor. I believe in science and the constitution. Will cover politics and sailing I am, therefore I think. Diagonally parked in a parallel universe. Big fingers on smallish phone =Typos Have a bio. It's not hard. Sadly necessary: no DMs, no crypto, etc.

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Sailing Steve @sailingsteve.bsky.social · 3h
Good advice!! Make noise. It's long. Read it!
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Sailing Steve @sailingsteve.bsky.social · 3h
Guessing this insanity didn't make US news. WTAF?!?!
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Sailing Steve @sailingsteve.bsky.social · 3h
I am thankful for safe travels to and from the boat today. For getting a few things done on the boat. Would have gotten more done had I remembered my drill/driver set. 🤷 👇
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Sailing Steve @sailingsteve.bsky.social · 5h
Nails it. And she is (was?) a republican!
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Sailing Steve @sailingsteve.bsky.social · 15h
Everything he touches…
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💫Foxy💫 @getyourfoxyback.bsky.social · 17h
It’s National ☕️Coffee ☕️Day 🦊 Meet and Greet 🦊 Apparently I’m gonna need more than one cup today  According to an expert cupper (a professional coffee taster), there are four components of a perfect cup: aroma, body, acidity, and flavor. Me … I just need the caffeine 😂🤣 We will be okay 
On This Day September 29th
1849 First passenger train service to Peekskill, New York, operated by the New Haven Railroad
1916 American oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller becomes the world's first billionaire
1927 Telephone service between US and Mexico begins
1936 Radio is used for the first time in a presidential campaign
1941 Nazi massacre at Babi Yar ravine near Kiev, Ukraine, begins; 33,771, mostly Jews, are murdered
1957 Buddy Holly & The Crickets release their second single "Oh Boy!"/"Not Fade Away
1960 "My Three Sons," starring Fred MacMurray, debuts on ABC-TV
1962 JFK authorizes the use of federal troops to integrate the University of Mississippi
1966 Chevrolet Camaro, originally named Panther, is introduced
1976 Rock piano-playing singer Jerry Lee Lewis, attempting to shoot soda bottles, hits his bass player Norman Owens twice in the chest
1977 Columbia Records releases "The Stranger," singer-songwriter Billy Joel's fifth studio album; it becomes the label's all-time best-selling non-compilation record
1982 Situation comedy "Cheers," starring Ted Danson and Shelley Long, premieres on
NBC-TV
1984 Elizabeth Taylor undergoes substance abuse rehabilitation at the Betty Ford Center
1994 House votes to end lobbyists buying meals and entertainment for Congress
2006 US Representative Mark Foley resigns after allegations of inappropriate emails to House pages are introduced
2020 First debate between US Presidential candidates Donald Trump and Joe Biden is held, widely criticized as chaotic and ill-tempered
2021 Britney Spears' father, Jamie Spears, is suspended as her conservator by a judge in Los Angeles after claims of abuse
2021 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service declares 23 species of birds, fish, and other wildlife extinct, including the ivory-billed woodpecker
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Kinley 🦋 Brenda @bluthrunthru.bsky.social · 17h
Good morning #BreakfastCrew Resisters! Happy 🌮 Tuesday! Join us at this beachfront patio with fire pit, outdoor seating, infinity pool and endless beach for today’s Virtual Meet & Greet!🌴🔥💦☀️ Coffee, Tea, Juices & Cocktails ready!🍹☕️🥂 Meet new friends.👫👭👬 Everyone welcomed! Comment ✍️ say Hi! 👋
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Sailing Steve @sailingsteve.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I am thankful for gentle winds today, and the end of all the rain showers. For all the work my wife did in her closets today, changing seasons, and organizing. She did a lot. Spending some more time making her new sewing table look nice. More yet to be done.
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Sailing Steve @sailingsteve.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Says it all.
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Sailing Steve @sailingsteve.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
‘Nough said!
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Sailing Steve @sailingsteve.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For the sailing crowd. This is true. 😁
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Sailing Steve @sailingsteve.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The winning caption: Gilty Gilty Gilty
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Sailing Steve @sailingsteve.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Would someone please explain to me what a "moderation list" is? Thanks!
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Sailing Steve @sailingsteve.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“I know it’s not the president,” she said. “My people want to know why. I don’t have an answer.” And that’s the problem right there. apnews.com/article/spea...
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In GOP Speaker Mike Johnson's district, the political mood is mixed for the party in power
Legislation the GOP called its “Big Beautiful Bill” is rolling out different ways in Speaker Mike Johnson’s home district.
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Sailing Steve @sailingsteve.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We will see this plan in two weeks… apnews.com/newsletter/m...
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Trump airs more taxpayer-funded ads, Trump administration to lower fuel economy standards, Seoul demands apology after Zelenskyy reveals POW transfer
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Kinley 🦋 Brenda @bluthrunthru.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Good morning #BreakfastCrew Resisters! Happy Monday!☀️ Let’s start the week off at this cozy mountain lake house on this turquoise lake with a dock and boat for today’s Virtual Meet & Greet!🏡🛶🎣🐠 Coffee, Tea, Juices & Cocktails ready!🍹☕️🥂 Meet new friends.👫👭👬 Everyone welcomed! Comment ✍️ say Hi! 👋
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💫Foxy💫 @getyourfoxyback.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It’s National Good Neighbor Day 🦊 Meet and Greet 🦊 It’s a beautiful day in this neighborhood A beautiful day for a neighbor Would you be mine? Could you be mine? “It is a blessing to have a good neighbor, but it is an even greater thing to BE a good neighbor.” We will be okay Love Foxy
1901 American businessman King C. Gillette establishes the American Safety Razor Company
1904 Woman is arrested for smoking a cigarette in a car on 5th Avenue, New York City
1919 In the fastest Major League game (51 minutes), the Giants beat the Phillies 6-1
1928 Prussia lifts its ban on Adolf Hitler speaking in public
1944 Theodore Roosevelt Jr., son of President Theodore Roosevelt, is posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for directing troops at Utah Beach during the D-Day landings
1956 RCA Records reports Elvis Presleysells over 10 million records
1968 The Beatles' single "Hey Jude" hits #1 and stays at #1 for nine weeks
1974 John Lennon appears as a guest DJ on WNEW-FM (NYC)
1974 US first Lady Betty Ford undergoes a radical mastectomy
1980 Jaromir Wagner is the first to fly across the Atlantic while standing on an airplane's wing
1985 "Freedom" by Wham! peaks at #3
1982 First reports appear of deaths from cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules
1987 "Star Trek: The Next Generation," starring Patrick Stewart, debuts on syndicated TV
1995 American singer Bobby Brown escapes injury in a gun battle in Roxbury, Massachusetts; his friend Steven Sealy is killed
2008 SpaceX launches the first privately developed spacecraft, Falcon 1, into orbit
2015 NASA scientists announce the discovery of flowing water on Mars
2020 COVID-19 records a global death toll surpassing 1 million with over 33 million known cases
2021 James Bond film "No Time To Die," the last starring Daniel Craig, premieres after an
18-month delay due to the pandemic
2022 Hurricane lan makes landfall as a high-end Category 4 hurricane near Cayo Costa, Florida, with winds at 150 mph (National Hurricane Center), and goes on to kill at least 148 people in Florida
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Sailing Steve @sailingsteve.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
White nationalist christofascist. Women can’t lead. Must be because they are too emotional… 🙄
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Sailing Steve @sailingsteve.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I am thankful for a safe trip to the boat. we checked on her after the storm. Was still rainy and gusty this morning. Meeting new friends at the marina. A casual introduction over dinner led to a lovely conversation. Also got to chat with another friend about the storm at the marina. 👇
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Sailing Steve @sailingsteve.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Good assessment Men who rape in college are excused by deans who raped when they were in college. The men graduate and become lawyers who rape before moving up in the ranks to become judges who give rapists light sentences or time served.
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Sailing Steve @sailingsteve.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Data centers have a heat problem. Hence unsustainable electricity demands, and water demands.
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Sailing Steve @sailingsteve.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Wife school. How to be a good trad wife. www.instagram.com/p/DdXgwzbD9E...
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Sailing Steve @sailingsteve.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
He finally said it himself. Fetterman and his party. www.instagram.com/reel/DdxbNpa...
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Sailing Steve @sailingsteve.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Wins the internet today.
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Sailing Steve @sailingsteve.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Ears do not heal…
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Sailing Steve @sailingsteve.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I remember when republicans were vehemently anti-communist. Now this. Don’t hear one peep from those in Congress. Bunch of feckless cowards.
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Sailing Steve @sailingsteve.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Truth.
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Sailing Steve @sailingsteve.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Third world country. Going down.
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💫Foxy💫 @getyourfoxyback.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It’s National Gold Star ⭐️ Mothers and Family Day 🦊 Meet and Greet 🦊 Today honors the mothers, fathers, and families of fallen military service members. Also known as National Gold Star Mother’s Day, the day serves as a reminder of the losses suffered by military families. We will be okay ❤️ Foxy
1864 Centralia Massacre: Pro-Confederate guerrillas led by William T. Anderson, with Jesse James, loot Centralia and attack a train on the North Missouri Railroad, executing 24 Union soldiers. Later the same day, the guerrillas defeat the newly formed 39th Missouri Infantry Regiment, killing 123 of its 147 soldiers
1896 Elephantine Colossus, a vacant seven-story building in the shape of an elephant built in 1885, burns to the ground on Coney Island, New York
1908 Henry Ford's first Ford Model T automobile leaves the Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit, Michigan
1923 NY Yankee Lou Gehrig hits the first of his 493 home runs
1938 Jewish lawyers are forbidden to practice in Germany
1954 Late night talk show "The Tonight Show," hosted by Steve Allen, premieres on NBC-TV
1979 US Congress gives final approval to create the Department of Education
1982 Filming begins on "Never Say Never Again," with Sean Connery playing James Bond for the final time
2015 A supermoon coincides with a total lunar eclipse, creating a super blood moon, visible over much of the Earth
2018 US Securities and Exchange Commission files lawsuit accusing Elon Musk of securities fraud
2018 US Senate hearing into alleged sexual assault by Judge Brett Kavanaugh, with him and accuser Christine Blasey Ford giving evidence
2020 Details of President Donald Trump's tax returns are released by the New York Times, showing he paid $750 in income tax in 2016 and 2017, revealing
"chronic losses and years of tax avoidance
2023 Writers Guild of America ends its 148-day strike after agreeing to a deal with industry bosses
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Sailing Steve @sailingsteve.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Thanks Clare 🙂💙 @clareraynor.bsky.social
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Sailing Steve @sailingsteve.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I am thankful that the nor'easter allowed us to spend the day at the Ren Faire with friends. For my old school tweed jacket. Heavy wool. Mostly kept the rains at bay. Harris tweed is THE BEST. The Honda's quick warm up, and heated seats. Took most of the chill off by the time we got home.
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Sailing Steve @sailingsteve.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Hey Tommy! Look! Look! furries!!! At Mar-a-lago
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Sailing Steve @sailingsteve.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
There's always a tweet, or an op-ed, to remind them of what they said.
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💫Foxy💫 @getyourfoxyback.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It a National Pancake 🥞 Day 🦊 Meet and Greet 🦊 Also known as Johnnycakes, griddle cakes or hotcakes, this batter-made breakfast dates back more than 30,000 years. In fact, it may be the oldest breakfast food in history. My family spent many a Sunday after church at the Pancake House! Love Foxy
1789 Thomas Jefferson is appointed the 1st US Secretary of State
1890 US stops minting $1 and $3 gold coins and the 3-cent piece
1948 Chinese Communist Party form the North China People's Government
1949 Groundbreaking ceremony for the Hollywood sign in Hollywood, Los Angeles; old Hollywoodland sign is torn down, and reconstruction of a replacement begins with just Hollywood
1955 New York Stock Exchange experiences its worst price decline since 1929
1962 TV comedy series "The Beverly Hillbillies" premieres on CBS
1969 Apple Records releases The Beatles' 11th studio album "Abbey Road," their final recordings as a quartet, topping the charts in eleven countries
1969 TV sitcom "The Brady Bunch," created by Sherwood Schwartz, premieres on ABC in the US
1972 American Museum of Immigration is dedicated on Ellis Island, near New York City
1986 Bobby Ewing (Patrick Duffy) returns to the TV show "Dallas" as his death is attributed to his wife Pam's bad dream, erasing all of the previous season 1995 "George" magazine, published by John F. Kennedy Jr., premieres
2006 Colombian drug lord Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela is sentenced to 30 years in a US prison after pleading guilty to cocaine conspiracy charges
2016 First US Presidential debate: Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton vs Republican Donald Trump at Hofstra University
2019 US income inequality is the widest it has been in over 50 years, with the worst levels in California, Connecticut, Florida, Louisiana, and New York, according to new census figures
2020 President Donald Trump nominates Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the US Supreme Court to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg
2023 Joe Biden is the first US president to walk a picket line, telling striking autoworkers in Michigan, "You deserve a significant raise
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Sailing Steve @sailingsteve.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ann Applebaum on why the people in power are doing what they do. Worth the listen. www.instagram.com/reel/DduZ92h...
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Sailing Steve @sailingsteve.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I am thankful for a slow start to today. We both needed it. Two lovely walks today: in the sun, and at dusk. Yummy stuffed peppers for dinner.
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Sailing Steve @sailingsteve.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Well worth flooding their offices
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Sailing Steve @sailingsteve.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
🙂
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Sailing Steve @sailingsteve.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Not just one Ladies and gentlemen, but TWO! You get two wars for another huge increase in the debt. What a deal folks!
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Sailing Steve @sailingsteve.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is why I call them Faux Nooz.
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Sailing Steve @sailingsteve.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
He ain't rocket science. He's a lying idiot.
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Sailing Steve @sailingsteve.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Ain't this the truth...
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Sailing Steve @sailingsteve.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What might have been...
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Kinley 🦋 Brenda @bluthrunthru.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Good morning #BreakfastCrew Resisters! Keeping it Simple Friday! 🙌 Enjoy a cozy blue beach hut, comfy outdoor seating, and palm trees on a white sandy beach for today’s Virtual Meet & Greet!🏝️☀️🌊 Coffee, Tea, Juices & Cocktails ready!🍹☕️🥂 Meet new friends.👫👭👬 Everyone welcomed! Comment ✍️ say Hi! 👋
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💫Foxy💫 @getyourfoxyback.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It’s National 🎶One Hit 🎶 Wonder Day 🦊 Meet and Greet 🦊 Today, we honor all the musical artists and chart-topping songs that make them memorable even if it was just once. These songs make us sing whether we should or not. We know all the words even though we don't know why. Can you name any?
1789 The First U.S. Congress proposes the Bill of Rights, a set of amendments to the constitution guaranteeing essential liberties, including freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and the right to peaceful assembly
1861 Secretary of the US Navy authorizes the enlistment of slaves
1919 US President Woodrow Wilson suffers a breakdown in Pueblo, Colorado; his health never recovers
1926 Henry Ford announces an 8-hour, 5-day workweek for workers at Ford Motor Company
1974 Scientists first report that freon gases from aerosol sprays are destroying the ozone layer
1976 Bono, David Evans, his brother Dik, and Adam Clayton respond to an advertisement on a bulletin board at Mount Temple posted by fellow student Larry Mullen Jr. to form a rock band, which becomes U2
1981 Sandra Day O'Connor is sworn in as the first female US Supreme Court Justice
1986 Antonin Scalia is appointed to the US Supreme Court
1990 Saddam Hussein warns that the US will repeat the Vietnam experience
2015 Caitlyn Jenner officially changes her name from Bruce and her gender to female
2017 Former New York congressman Anthony Weiner is sentenced to 21 months in jail for sexting an underage girl
2020 Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg becomes the first woman to lie in state at the US
Capitol in Washington, D.C.j
2025 Paris court sentences former French President Nicolas Sarkozy to five years in prison after finding him guilty of criminal conspiracy regarding using funds from Libya to finance his 2007 campaign
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Sailing Steve @sailingsteve.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I am thankful to have found a locally owned hardware store close to home. Gather they are relatively newly opened. Don't have to big box A nice walk after dinner just after the sunwehnt down. Glad for my hi-vis hoodie. A fun/silly movie. Watched the Avengers. Based on the 60s/70s British tv show.
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Sailing Steve @sailingsteve.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is what the Christofascists want. A totally male dominated society. See "Handmaids Tale."
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Sailing Steve @sailingsteve.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Snicker... 😂
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Sailing Steve @sailingsteve.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Long before China dominated rare earth production, the country on top was… (checks notes) the USA. Then CEOs decided they could make more money offshoring the production - to China. We did this to ourselves. Xi has Little donnie Taco over a barrel. www.alternet.org/trump-china-...
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Trump races to stop November 10 time bomb
A temporary truce with Xi Jinping is set to expire, threatening an automatic snapback of Chinese export controls that could halt production of everything from smartphones to F-35 fighter jets.
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Sailing Steve @sailingsteve.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What could have been… 😔
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