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Brian Shelden

@shelden4vt.bsky.social
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Democratic activist in #vtpoli. City Councilor, Essex Junction (VT). Retired programmer, triathlete, and Diplomacy player

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Brian Shelden @shelden4vt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
here’s a distraction from the fact that we had 45 dead to rights on stealing classified documents?
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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CW Voigt @vj0nes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Big announcement #Vermont
Homemade Sign on tree: PEAK FOLIAGE
MONDAY 2PM
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Trump Organization filed for trademark protection of "Trump TV" so that the government would have to PAY him to use the channel he just created… Miraculously, Trump has found yet another way to steal even more money from the American people. Trump. Is. A. Charlatan. And. A. Fraud. 😎✨
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026
TILLIS: can the classified documents case be brought again in the future? JACK: we dismissed it without prejudice YESSSSS
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 29/09/2026
The Talmud teaches that anyone who sustains one soul, has sustained an entire world. For generations, Jewish New Yorkers have sustained our city. Today, we are launching the first-ever municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
When Jesus healed the sick, he didn’t ask for a deductible. When he fed the hungry, he didn’t price gouge for a profit. When the Hebrew prophets saw corruption, they spoke truth to power. When I take on this corrupt system, I’m doing it on biblical grounds.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Steph59Renee 👠 @steph59renee.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Donald banning CNN and MSNOW from the White House will only make them more popular. Donald was born stupid and nothing has changed. 👠
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Brian Shelden @shelden4vt.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Yep. Don’t obey in advance
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Democratic strategists: Ahhh! What's the right message!!?? Where do we moderate!?!? Jon Ossoff: This administration is horrible. I hate these people. We should put them in jail. I'm pissed Voters: This guy is cool Strategists: I can't figure it out!!!!!
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Remember when Jake Tapper dug in his heels to defend Fox News when Obama dared to move them to the second row of the press room? Well, now that the roles have reversed, I'm sure that Fox News will -- come on, stop laughing, let me finish
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Arbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Omg 😂
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Thanks For Sharing, Jerk @thx4sharingjerk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Do you realize how bad the polling has to be for the GOP that Congress is just folding their cards now and shutting down
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Vince D. Monroy @vincedmonroy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Protester at the "Hands Around the Kennedy Center" rally holds up sign that reads: “WAR CRIMES CANNOT HIDE S£X CRIMES”
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
trump could have just done nothing and let the economy continue to recover. no tariffs. no war with iran. no crazed assault on immigrant workers. all of this was superfluous. he didn't have to do any of it.
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schnaa.bsky.social @schnaa.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Almost like there's a reason the president and people who work for him aren't supposed to take bribes.
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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
if we’re still pretending that Mitch McConnell is alive then we should be able to criticize him for his silence on the anniversary of 9/11
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It's an abuse of the FCC. Texans, make it backfire!
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 11/09/2026
Shanah Tovah, New York! Wishing all Jewish New Yorkers celebrating a sweet, joyful and meaningful Rosh Hashanah. Here’s to a new year filled with health, happiness and blessings (and yes, even another Knicks championship).
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SweetMapleSugar VT @vtdragon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhfT...
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LIVE: Newfoundland town commemorates 25 years since 9/11
YouTube video by Reuters
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Defiance Dispatch @defiancedispatch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
7 faith leaders and #clergy arrested after blockading an #ICE surveillance center in Williston, #Vermont. The faith leaders encouraged other faith leaders to join them for a week of action protesting ICE starting October 4th. Find out more info by visiting shutdownicevt.org! #faithleaders
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Brian Shelden @shelden4vt.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I love the 988 initiative. And I'm sorry to Vermonters who were forced to use 10-digit dialing for the first time as a consquence.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Sen. @mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social understands the stakes. Mike Rogers moved to Florida and got rich off the corporations he was supposed to be regulating while in Congress. Now he expects us to let him take another turn through the revolving door.
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SweetMapleSugar VT @vtdragon.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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Brian Shelden @shelden4vt.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
View from my Council Seat – Jul & Aug 2026 Jul and Aug are busy months for everyone. I worked on some campaigns, took a trip with my wife to Montreal, and I had the privilege of working at the polls, too. I was so glad to see so many of you when you came in to vote! #vtpoli #ejpoli 1/2
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Ontario Nature @ontarionature.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
It's World Lake Day and we're reflecting on how Indigenous Peoples remind us that water is sacred. And we have a responsibility to care for it. Sign our action alert to urge the government to protect more water and land here: ontarionature.good.do/protected-ar... #lakeontario #ontarionature
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Arbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The EPSTEIN FILES are both justice and the remedy for all of this.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The Speaker of the House routinely deflects questions about the president who is in his own party by saying he hadn't heard that particular comment, but every single Democratic candidate is expected to denounce a Twitch streamer?
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Arbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
It’s been almost 90 days since the American people have seen or heard from Mitch McConnell. We’re still paying his salary.
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❀𝕀𝕣𝕞𝕒𝕊𝕡𝕚𝕜𝕖𝕪𝕞𝕒𝕞𝕒❀ @irmaspikeymama.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
It’s funny how Voter Fraud was never a Real Crisis for 250 years, until a Fraud became President, don’t you think?!
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 27/08/2026
Trump: I’ve had good talks with Putin. He’s not going to be attacking a Nato territory. That's a countdown.
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Arbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
It’s funny how Voter Fraud was never a Real Crisis for 250 years, until a Fraud became President, don’t you think?!
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Devin Nunes' Alt-Mom @nunesalt.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Trump Steaks 2.0 is somehow doing worse than Trump Steaks 1.0. cbsaustin.com/news/local/u...
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USDA recalls 30,000 pounds of Argentine beef sold in Texas and Florida
It was not immediately clear which retailers sold the beef.
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Roadrunner33 @roadrunner33.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
So I listened to Trump dingleberry Scott Jennings say Trump renaming Lake Ontario is ok because it’s just Trump trolling This is what drives me nuts Why would it be ok for a President to troll Canada and piss them off when a trade war and high tariffs screw US consumers Vote out Republicans
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A 5-year-old Texan just spent the first day of school in an ICE detention center. ICE kidnapped Liam Tadeo on his way to a soccer game with his dad. Liam should be in kindergarten. Instead, our government has thrown him in a prison camp hundreds of miles from home.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
There are powerful forces out there working to divide us. It's our job to make sure they don't win, to make sure that hate doesn't win.
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El-Sayed Talks Bridging Black, Arab Communities
El-Sayed Talks Bridging Black, Arab Communities
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God @thegodshow.com · 28/08/2026
Remember that time South Koreans rose up and arrested their president because he tried to incite AN INSURRECTION? Be like the South Koreans! 🇰🇷
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 27/08/2026
ནིའུ་ཡོག་གནས་སྡོད་མི་མང་པོ་ཞིག་ཁ་སང་རང་ཉིད་ཀྱི་ཕ་ཡུལ་ནས་སེམས་སྐྱོ་བའི་གཏམ་ངན་ཐོས་ཡོད། བལ་ཡུལ་དང་བོད་ཀྱི་ས་མཚམས་ཁུལ་དུ་ཆུ་ལོག་བྱུང་ནས་མི་བརྒྱ་ཕྲག་མང་པོའི་སྲོག་ཤོར་ཡོད་པ་དང་། ད་དུང་གར་སོང་མེད་པའི་མི་རྣམས་མུ་མཐུད་འཚོལ་བཞིན་འདུག།

བལ་ཡུལ་དང་བོད་ནས་ཡིན་པའི་ཡུལ་མི་རྣམས་ལགས། ཁྱེད་རྣམ་པའི་སེམས་ནང་འཚོར་བཞིན་པའི་སེམས་སྡུག་འདི་ང་ཚོའི་གྲོང་ཁྱེར་ནས་ཤེས་ཀྱི་ཡོད་ལགས་འཚོར་གྱི་ཡོད། དཀའ་ངལ་ཆེ་བའི་དུས་ཚོད་འདིར་ཁྱེད་རྣམ་པ་གཅིག་པུ་མིན། ཁྱེད་རྣམ་པ་དང་མཉམ་དུ་ནིའུ་ཡོག་གྲོང་ཁྱེར་ཡང་ཡོད།
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 27/08/2026
Thousands of New Yorkers woke yesterday to devastating news from home. Flooding along the Nepal-Tibet border has taken hundreds of lives, and the search for those still missing continues.

To our Nepali and Tibetan neighbors:
this city knows what it means to grieve a place you left and still call home. You are not carrying this alone. New York City stands with you.
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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026
We’re not changing it.
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Marcus SOBER 5 YEARS @papacitogordo.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The current president of the United States of America is a malignant narcissist, and a liar.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
It’s Lake Ontario.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Reminder: Dolly Parton helped fund the Moderna vaccine for COVID.
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Dolly Parton, who helped fund the Moderna vaccine, gets a ‘dose of her own medicine.’ (Published 2021)
The country music star broke into song before she was inoculated, and urged her fans to “get out there and get your shot.”
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Dr. Michael MacKay @michaelmackay.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
From now on, Canadians will refer to the United States as Epstein Island.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 25/08/2026
This is truly heartbreaking. Dolly Parton was an extraordinary person and an irreplaceable champion of the working class. We are a better country because of her.
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Brian Shelden @shelden4vt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This Supreme Court has got to go. Expand the court. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purcell...
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Purcell principle - Wikipedia
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Brian Shelden @shelden4vt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This Supreme Court has got to go. Expand the court. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purcell...
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Purcell principle - Wikipedia
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
A mail-in ballot does not pose a health risk. It will not cause panic if exposed to the public. It's a piece of paper marked with a pen that is only dangerous to authoritarians wishing to rule rather than govern with the consent of their citizens. newsletters.democracydocket.com/cremated-rem...
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Cremated remains, fake explosives and your ballot
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