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Michael Ditto @janus303.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Eric Schmitt, of course, is a licensed attorney, has been for 26 years, and served as the Attorney General of the state of Missouri. He should face professional consequences. mobar.org/site/content...

Full Name: Schmitt, Eric Stephen
Bar Number: 49968
Date Admitted: 09/27/2000
Location: Saint Louis, MO 63122 United States
Current Standing: Good Standing

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SoftBanksTryingToTakeMyLand @saturesreturn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yeah, it’s wild to me but, that’s where some have landed

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SoftBanksTryingToTakeMyLand @saturesreturn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I should’ve added, the main reason ppl think other ppl aren’t hearing it anywhere is because they believe the numbers are being cooked. They don’t believe the charts are legit.

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SoftBanksTryingToTakeMyLand @saturesreturn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

As we now know, there are many Americas 😬

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SoftBanksTryingToTakeMyLand @saturesreturn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

it was fb. it’s easy for me to get sidetracked on there these days. her speaking voice is very deep lol. piqued my audhd interest. novelty! 😂

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SoftBanksTryingToTakeMyLand @saturesreturn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I asked because you said it’s forgettable. I was curious about the country you did enjoy if you enjoy country.

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SoftBanksTryingToTakeMyLand @saturesreturn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

youtu.be/vgXyS8C4nuE?... You might find this interesting. There is a push to bring the legit country sound back. Whether they’ll be successful or not, who knows?

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Reba, Miranda Lambert & Ella Langley on Country Music's Comeback | Three Generations | ELLE

YouTube video by ELLE

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SoftBanksTryingToTakeMyLand @saturesreturn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Do you normally listen to and like country?

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SoftBanksTryingToTakeMyLand @saturesreturn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

it wasn’t just music. it was more a showcase about her & since i didn’t know who she was & she was talking, i stopped scrolling & listened for a minute

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SoftBanksTryingToTakeMyLand @saturesreturn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

i’ve witnessed it and ppl have gotten pretty heated. it’s because it passed mariah carey and politics are involved. obviously, no serious music analysis in the future* is ever going to place it higher than mariah. we know how streams work. *assuming we have a future 😓

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SoftBanksTryingToTakeMyLand @saturesreturn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I appreciate this in book review form 😂🫡

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SoftBanksTryingToTakeMyLand @saturesreturn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Oh, wow. Heavy stuff. Much respect to them.

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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

She really nailed his stressed out general vibe. The man is ALWAYS sweaty 😭

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SoftBanksTryingToTakeMyLand @saturesreturn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yeah, it gets suggested to me on YouTube music when I’m looking for older country artists. NOW, it might also do that if I searched for younger ones but, I’m not doing that lol

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SoftBanksTryingToTakeMyLand @saturesreturn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We never missed Hee Haw but, I also never missed Solid Gold or any other music/variety show. This is cool! I saved it to show my daughter later:) Thanks!!

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SoftBanksTryingToTakeMyLand @saturesreturn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I do think this point is worth engaging with though. That the book can be purchased from the Country Music Hall of Fame is cool too. shop.countrymusichalloffame.org/products/red...

Country music fans recognize this well. We've become so accustomed to hearing the qualifier "I listen to anything but country music" to signal class and taste that it's become a touchstone in sociological studies of music. As Nadine Hubbs wrote in the book Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music, "distance from country music can help to define one as a middle-class individual, which is precisely a matter of distinguishing oneself from the tastes, characteristics, and people of the working-class masses." It's shorthand, often, for liberal politics and a way to separate oneself from anything that could be associated with rural or Southern stereotypes. "I've never heard of 'Choosin' Texas'" is the "I listen to anything but country" of 2026.

In Hubbs's view, the popular phrase "I'll listen to anything but country" allows middle-class Americans to declare
inclusive "omnivore" musical tastes with one crucial
exclusion: country, a music linked to low-status whites.
Throughout Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music, Hubbs dissects this gesture, examining how provincial white
working people have emerged since the 1970s as the face of American bigotry, particularly homophobia, with country music their audible emblem. Bringing together the redneck and the queer, Hubbs challenges the
conventional wisdom and historical amnesia that frame
white working folk as a perpetual bigot class.
With a powerful combination of music criticism, cultural critique, and sociological analysis of contemporary class formation, Nadine Hubbs zeroes in on flawed
assumptions about how country music models and mirrors white working-class identities. She particularly shows how dismissive, politically loaded middle-class discourses devalue country's manifestations of working-class culture, politics, and values, and render working-
class acceptance of queerness invisible.
Lucid, important, and thought-provoking, this book is essential reading for students and scholars of American
music, gender and sexuality, class, and pop culture.

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SoftBanksTryingToTakeMyLand @saturesreturn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is what I find myself listening to this morning for some reason:) I truly listen to everything, though I appreciate some genres more than others. I feel a Yacht Rock binge coming on too 😅https://youtu.be/VO4SYPRa3pI?is=5LACFA3pwA64Z_dDo

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Dolly Parton, Tammy Wynette, Loretta Lynn - Silver Threads And Golden Needles

YouTube video by DollyPartonVEVO

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“LEAVE THEM THE FUCK ALONE!” Shouting at ICE is protected speech. Swearing does not cancel your rights. Know your rights: paxis.app Speak out. Record EVERYTHING. Demand accountability. Help keep PAXIS free: gofundme.com/PAXIS

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SoftBanksTryingToTakeMyLand @saturesreturn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Here’s the article archive.ph/2026.09.27-0...

archive.ph

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SoftBanksTryingToTakeMyLand @saturesreturn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It’s true there’s no longer a monoculture when it comes to music. Most ppl aren’t listening to the radio anymore so we are siloed. We could always choose our own music to buy & listen to more but, we previously had more exposure to charting music than we do today.

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SoftBanksTryingToTakeMyLand @saturesreturn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

appreciate her sound over much of what’s come out of newer country. personally though, i’m gonna stick with kacey musgraves.

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SoftBanksTryingToTakeMyLand @saturesreturn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

&, that’s how i 1st heard of her on socials. just a chase ad online. i’m not even a customer. beyond that, i’ve read about the charting controversy as it’s unfolded &, since i live in southern ohio, i’ve b/c aware of the song’s popularity & her fans. while i’m not actively listening to her, i can

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SoftBanksTryingToTakeMyLand @saturesreturn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

there’s more to this whole thing than just people not having heard it. there’s also been the refusal to believe *other* ppl have heard it too. that’s where the friction’s coming from as late imo. also, her tour’s doing extremely well when overall touring isn’t. chase sapphire has partnered w/her

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I don't understand why more people don't connect Trump calling Somalis "garbage" with the Hutus calling the Tutsis "cockroaches" and the Nazis calling the Jews "vermin." We know where it starts, and we know where it ends.

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The "centrist" think tank Third Way is looking to pay someone between $140,000 and $150,000 to spend their days trying to dig up dirt on DSA members. They're trying to sell this gig as "anti-extremism" work, which I find completely disgusting.

from job listing:

As the Director of Anti-Extremism, a typical day might include…

Assembling and updating a database of the DSA’s most extreme ideas and statements and a repository of voting records, affiliations, and issue positions to make available to allies and partners;
Leading public opinion research to identify and test the contrasts that move base voters away from these extreme candidates;
Overseeing the development of memos, talking points, rapid response materials, and other products that make the case against these extreme forces in American politics;
Promoting and marketing our research and materials to ensure they reach decisionmakers quickly, repeatedly, and at scale through a coordinated distribution infrastructure;
Recruiting and arming a group of young, diverse spokespeople to fight the DSA from a center-left perspective and assembling a broad coalition of organizational partners to make the case against extremism;
Running an earned media program to create a drumbeat of our message in op-eds, television appearances, podcasts, and traditional and digital media engagement.

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SoftBanksTryingToTakeMyLand @saturesreturn.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

It’s just a PE. She didn’t get a shoe deal.

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blaire erskine @blaireerskine.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Mitch McConnell’s spokesperson says she “received a message” from him

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Bat-prillia @aprillia.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

His heart grew three sizes that day

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The Rooster @rooster.info · 02/06/2026

They’re going to have to try a little harder than that!

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Supreme Court rules Black voters had no rights which the white man was bound to respect

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Again, today of all days is an important time to recognize that the Democratic Party's 2026/2028 platform must be institutional reform. <Every policy> everyone wants <follows> from that, not the other way around. There will be <one> chance to fix things. We can't waste it again.

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

It is worth, I think, emphasizing that in trampling congressional attempts to protect the rights of Black people, the Court is basically doing what it has always done, with the exception of a couple decades in the mid-20th century when it often worked with Congress to protect the rights of Black ppl

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 29/04/2026

This is the result of decades of organizing in the conservative legal community that’s been allowed to flourish in plain sight as anything but a committed ideological movement.

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A Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

It’s useful to practice identifying when purported liberal/progressive academics are doing fascists-are-in-power-we-gotta-get-right-with-em.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/04/2026

BURGUM: Understand -- there are times in North Dakota when the wind does not blow and the sun doesn't shine KING: Of course. That's where batteries come in

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