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Public Policy Research&Analysis; who would’ve predicted 😎 Opinions mine. Senior RAND & USAF Veteran UT-Longhorn, Creighton-MA —still just off I35 Current mischief: encourage community activetransportation infrastructure & Transit. Curling is a thing 🥌

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3h
He has always wanted Russia to win.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 4h
Elon Musk and America PAC have agreed to settle two fraud lawsuits over his $1 million daily giveaway ahead of the 2024 election. MAGA voters alleged they were misled into believing they had a random chance of winning. The settlement terms have not been disclosed.
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Elon Musk Settles Suit Over $1 Million Giveaway to 2024 Voters
Elon Musk settled a pair of lawsuits from voters alleging they were misled by his political action committee about a $1 million daily giveaway to registered voters ahead of the 2024 election.
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KJZZ Phoenix @kjzz.org · 19h
Ahwatukee residents flooded a town hall in Mesa with Attorney General Kris Mayes on Wednesday to voice their concerns about a massive data center under construction in their community near homes, businesses, health offices and a preschool.
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Mayes says she'll explore nuisance law as a way to curb unwanted data center development
Ahwatukee residents flooded a town hall with Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes in Mesa on Wednesday. Mayes told residents her team will consider a nuisance law investigation into the unpopular Menlo...
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Skip Williams @skipwaw42.bsky.social · 54m
Argh… 🏴‍☠️
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 13h
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20h
What do all these corporations have in common? Nvidia Apple Google Lockheed Martin Microsoft Palantir They all donated at least $10 million to Trump’s vanity ballroom — and they all stand to benefit from his policies. Is this Trump’s most corrupt grift yet?
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Skip Williams @skipwaw42.bsky.social · 55m
. 😬 I suppose he does not want to be held responsible for what he said and did….. thehill.com/regulation/c...
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Trump invokes executive privilege in Kennedy Center court fight
The White House is asserting executive privilege to block some records of President Trump’s communications from being shared in an ongoing lawsuit over the future of the Kennedy Center. Rep. Joyce …
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 2h
The economy’s overall hiring rate is at its lowest level in nearly a decade and a half. The data confirms what Americans are feling: finding a job is extraordinarily difficult in Donald Trump’s economy.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1h
Schools Theaters Concerts Malls Churches Synagogues Mosques Parks Nightclubs Offices Festivals Stores Military Bases Bars Post Offices Yoga Studios Super Bowl parades Nowhere is safe from the scourge of gun violence in America. You can't tell me we must simply accept it.
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Skip Williams @skipwaw42.bsky.social · 1h
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October 15, 2026
There is an old saying about rats and sinking ships.
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A simple (golden) rule to counter homelessness
Neighborly connection and care provide the vital glue to sheltering those in need.
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Skip Williams @skipwaw42.bsky.social · 1h
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Trump’s Moral Squalor
Affordability is important but we must also demand common decency from our president
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The Cook Political Report @cookpolitical.com · 14/10/2026
Republican advertisers have outspent Democrats by nearly $300M across the eight Senate races we currently rate as Toss Up or Lean. Learn more about each competitive Senate race from @adimpactmirror.bsky.social's new report: adimpact.com/fight-for-co...
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Skip Williams @skipwaw42.bsky.social · 1h
New book…. www.brennancenter.org/american-pro...
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An American Problem: How the Country Built — and the Supreme Court Broke — the Voting Rights Act
Michael G. Miller and Kevin T. Morris chronicle the rise and fall of the Voting Rights Act, from the triumph of its passage in 1965 to its evisceration by the Supreme Court in 2013.
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Skip Williams @skipwaw42.bsky.social · 4h
www.csmonitor.com/Editorials/t...
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A simple (golden) rule to counter homelessness
Neighborly connection and care provide the vital glue to sheltering those in need.
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www.csmonitor.com/Editorials/t...
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A simple (golden) rule to counter homelessness
Neighborly connection and care provide the vital glue to sheltering those in need.
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A grumpy old Swede. @rcolof.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
It has been a rather uneventful day here, just as warm as yesterday but not as nice since the sky was covered in clouds. #autumn #warmish #walks #cardboard #nature #Alma #Malkolm New blog: thecottagebythecranelake.blog/2026/10/15/l...
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Lots of cardboard.
It was just as warm today as it was yesterday but without the sun shining it took much longer for it to feel the same. Cloudy all day but the clouds were so thin that it wasn’t as dark as it …
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Skip Williams @skipwaw42.bsky.social · 5h
This is still a thing…. #NationalParks
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LCV – League of Conservation Voters 🌎 @lcv.org · 15/10/2026
Trump has been secretly trying to sell off part of YOSEMITE to a real-estate private equity firm so they can build their own road to the national park. This is absolutely unconscionable and un-American. American national parks belong to the people, not to Trump or billionaire private developers.
Photo of Donald TrumpValley View Sunset, Yosemite National Park
The features in Yosemite Valley are made of granitic rock emplaced as plutons miles deep during the late Cretaceous. Over time the Sierra Nevada was uplifted, exposing this rock to erosion at the surface.

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 6h
JUST FILED: Enormous financial boost for Democrats in some battleground US Senate races An eye-popping early voting number New effort to probe banks that might've bankrolled Epstein The twist in North Carolina Lots of new reporting in DAY AHEAD: macfarlanenews.substack.com/p/day-ahead-...
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 21h
I’m disgusted that this passes as leadership in America in 2026. Clearly afraid of a candidate like Talerico who possesses kindness and faith.
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Newshound411 @newshound411.bsky.social · 16h
He deserves a Nobel Peace Prize
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 17h
Devastating. Little kids. My heart goes out to the victims, their loved ones, and the people of Oregon. No family should ever have to suffer like this—and there have been over 50 school shootings just this year. Congress must do much more to prevent gun violence.
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Live updates: Children among 4 killed in Oregon school shooting, suspect dead
Follow live coverage as victims are hospitalized in a school shooting at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon. The suspect was fatally shot.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19h
Career staff at the CFTC were investigating suspiciously timed trades surrounding Trump’s announcement that the U.S. would not bomb Iranian power plants. Then a senior adviser to Trump’s CFTC commissioner told them to back off. Could this administration get any more corrupt?
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CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades
Chairman’s adviser intervened to take over examination of lucrative bets that were made around Trump reversal on Iran power plant attack.
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Skip Williams @skipwaw42.bsky.social · 5h
. Why the double dealing our relationship with Ukraine and western European democracies?! Why act to further enable Putin’s aggression?! …nothing here is being done to further U.S. interests or international norms under UN Charter 🫤
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Zak Williams @zakwilliamswzw.bsky.social · 16h
Of course it did
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Kilborn Alley Blues Band @kilbornalley.bsky.social · 15h
Our Andrew & Michael Peloquin on the Baltic Blues Cruise right now, then some shows in the Oslo area when they get back on land.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
New fundraising report from James Talarico has some eye popping numbers $64 million raised. Enormous total 97% of contributions to the campaign were $100 or less That's a broad base of support
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Account reposting Peter Parcek's tweets @peterparcekrepost.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Happy Birthday Oct 15 to Mickey Baker legendary blues, jazz & rocknroll guitarist & arranger born 1925! The Wildest Guitar youtube.com/playlist?lis... Presenting Mickey Baker youtube.com/playlist?lis... Love Is Strange youtube.com/watch?v=5SwM... #blues #jazz #bluesmusic #guitarist #arranger
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Skip Williams @skipwaw42.bsky.social · 5h
Beautiful day in the neighborhood….
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T. Tex Edwards @ttexed.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Little Antoinette - Lightnin' Hopkins youtu.be/zJ76xi4GnDo photo: Lightnin' Hopkins and Antoinette Charles, his third wife.
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The Blues List @theblueslist.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Big Boy Cleveland - Goin’ To Leave You Blues youtu.be/HmgG5jIBDzk?... 1927 single for Gennett records
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Ray Steele @raysteelenews.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
One of the right-wing "influencers" who helped spread the lie that James Talarico was in a mental hospital when he actually had the flu posted this to X, then deleted. It appears to be a threat to Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar the same week federal agents raided her Washington home.
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Skip Williams @skipwaw42.bsky.social · 22h
A minor mass of fall mushrooms emerged into Autumn…. North Shore of Lake Superior, Duluth, Minnesota
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Either they failed to anticipate the public backlash to a livestreamed execution or it was always just intended to be a distraction. Either way, these people are unfit to serve our country. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/15/u...
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Trump Cancels Planned Livestream of Fort Hood Shooter’s Execution
The president said only immediate families of the victims of the mass shooting in 2009 would witness the execution of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan.
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Julia Wick @sherlyholmes.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
A WILD story from @matt-hamilton87.bsky.social lamaterial.com/p/la-manager... For the last two years, the union that represents senior managers at LA City Hall has been filing paperwork signed by a dead man. And that’s not the half of it!
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Inside the Turmoil at LAPMA: A Dead Treasurer, Unreported Contributions, and a $3.7M Dues War
LAPMA, one of L.A.’s powerful public-sector unions, has a dead man signing its political paperwork, and SEIU Local 721 is accusing it of financial mismanagement, including $3.7 million in unpaid dues.
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The Blues List @theblueslist.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Little T-Bone - Love's A Gamble youtu.be/Qa_MtHqndOc?... 1949 single for Miltone Records
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 15/10/2026
It’s time to hold the bankers who financed Jeffrey Epstein accountable.
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Skip Williams @skipwaw42.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Tell the truth…. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
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All We Can Do Is Tell the Truth
On helplessness, January 6th, and why I’ve stopped carrying the weight of everyone else’s conclusions
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Under Trump: -Gas prices are up 43.7% -Grocery prices are up 3.7% -Household electricity prices are up 12.7% -Healthcare costs are up 14.6% -Childcare costs are up 7.6% -Rent is up 5.1% and mortgage rates are at 7.6% Tired of "winning" yet?
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Skip Williams @skipwaw42.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
. 😎 Southern Crossroads Blues, Wednesday 1000-to-Noon on Two Harbors Community Radio 99.5 FM or stream at KTWH.org. Zak gives us the Blues ‼️ #CommunityRadio #Blues
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KTWH 99.5 FM - Two Harbors Community Radio
Hearing local voices • KTwH 99.5 FM
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Skip Williams @skipwaw42.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
. 😎 Southern Crossroads Blues, Wednesday 1000-to-Noon on Two Harbors Community Radio 99.5 FM or stream at KTWH.org. Zak gives us the Blues ‼️ #CommunityRadio #Blues
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KTWH 99.5 FM - Two Harbors Community Radio
Hearing local voices • KTwH 99.5 FM
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The Vote Yes on Amendment 87 Podcast @getmoresmarter.com · 13/10/2026
This is admittedly a longshot, but goddamn it would be nice to remove the stain of Lauren Boebert from Colorado's otherwise recently won relatively solid reputation as a non-lunatic producing state.
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Zak Williams @zakwilliamswzw.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Corruption
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Gail Waldby ❌👑 @gailwaldby.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
From Western Native Voice #MTPol #VoteEarly
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Zak Williams @zakwilliamswzw.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
These folks are just not used to someone not sharing their warped world view, let alone a woman challenging them. The horror!
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Stranger In The Alps @strangernalps.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I absolutely believe a majority of republicans believe the first amendment prohibits women from interrupting them
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Zak Williams @zakwilliamswzw.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
This is such an important part of the story, and yes it may be inconvenient to Netanyahu right before the election, but that is why he is trying to hide it.
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Zak Williams @zakwilliamswzw.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
“I have lost all faith in President Trump, honestly. I wish I could get those years of my life back, because what difference did it really make? He never even fulfilled his very first campaign promise, which was to lock up Hillary Clinton.” politicalwire.com/2026/10/13/a... Bonus Quote of the Day
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"I have lost all faith in President Trump, honestly. I wish I could get those years of my life back, because what difference did it really make? He never even fulfilled his very first campaign…
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Living a moral life in an age of bullies requires collective action; it cannot be done alone. Each of us must organize and participate in a vast network of moral resistance. From this solidarity we will grow stronger. This is what our current moment requires.
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