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Slim Heilpern

@slidemanslim.bsky.social
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Musician (slimandpenny.com), Humanist, Concerned Citizen

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/10/2026
Look at the shabby state and increasingly authoritarian trajectory of the country and ask yourself if we can endure 2 more years of a lawless Trump administration wreaking havoc with no check from Congress, then vote accordingly. This is not the time for a protest vote or purity politics.
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Slim Heilpern @slidemanslim.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Stand Up! We put this little Country tune together four years ago in advance of the midterm elections and, well, it's that time again and this is still relevant as ever. Whatever else you do, stand up and VOTE BLUE – it's the only way out of this mess! youtu.be/RsS4KmuD3M8
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Stand Up! (Slide Man Slim & Penny Hanna)
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
owner even lost in federal court trying to force access through Yosemite. Now suddenly it’s back on the table. Our national parks are not supposed to be carved up to make private developments more valuable. Yosemite belongs to all of us!
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Maxine Joselow @maxinejoselow.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
The Trump admin just changed the definition of "harm" to animals under the Endangered Species Act, in what environmentalists called the biggest erosion of protections for wildlife in 50 years. @nytimes.com gift link to the story w/ @catrineinhorn.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/c...
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Trump Cuts Habitat Protections for Endangered Species (Gift Article)
The rule change ends a safeguard that had been in place for 50 years and could hasten the demise of imperiled animals.
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Slim Heilpern @slidemanslim.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
"Buenos Dias America" Words and Music by Penny Hanna ©1985. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rqu5...
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Slide Man Slim & Penny Hanna - "Buenos Dias America"
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Slim Heilpern @slidemanslim.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Buenos Dias America" is a never before published song written by Penny in 1985. Her poignant lyric is even more relevant now than it was back then. Listen here: slimandpenny.com/web/articles...
Image of immigrants up against an American brick wall
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Sometimes it feels like Trump thinks he was elected president of the White House.
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Governor Newsom Press Office @govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov · 06/05/2026
California is showing the world a top 5 economy can grow AND be green! “For the first time, California discharged just over 12,000 MWs, equivalent to 12 large nuclear plants, of energy from its battery arrays. That’s enough to meet over 40% of the state’s energy demand.”
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Slim Heilpern @slidemanslim.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Happy Earth Day?
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Slim Heilpern @slidemanslim.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Our scrapbooks serve as a scattershot index into our personal stories, with each item surfacing deep (if not completely accurate) memories. And its the subject of our latest single: slimandpenny.com/pages-of-our...
"That van that brought us from gig to gig"
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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
The Agriculture Secretary sent an agency-wide email titled "He has risen!" that told the story of Christ. Separation of Church is just the latest Constitutional principle this administration is destroying. The Founding Fathers are rolling in their graves.
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Norma Ballingall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 🇵🇸 @balr0g.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
In a nutshell. 😊
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Thom Hartmann @hartmannreport.com · 16/04/2026
ROFL!
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
"The Children of the New." 😄😅😆 And man, we burned the fuck out of so many CDs.🥹💿
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Slim Heilpern @slidemanslim.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Come on down to Crazy Don’s Gas Emporium!
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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
We should not move on from the President threatening to annihilate a civilization.
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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Boiling frogs
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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
"Within weeks ... major artificial-intelligence systems began repeating the invented condition ... The fake papers were then cited in peer-reviewed literature. Osmanovic Thunström says this suggests that some researchers are relying on AI-generated references without reading the underlying papers."
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Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real
Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness?
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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 07/04/2026
This is a horrifying threat of genocidal war crimes. The lives of civilians and service members alike are at stake here. Congress must stop this war and remove Trump from the White House.
Trump statement threatening Iran to open Strait of Hormuz
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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Artemis II crew returning to Earth.
Final Planet of the Apes scene with half buried Statue of Liberty on beach.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
"He wanted it big. He wanted lots of gold, lots of marble. He wanted visitors awestruck by his architectural expansion of the country’s symbolic seat of power." {gift link} www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
We need the lawsuits brought to specifically charge racial discrimination in these firings and blocked promotions.
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Human Rights Index 💙 @humanrightsindex.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
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Cartoon showing a man resembling Donald Trump lying on a therapist’s couch while a therapist asks, “The Iranians you’ve been talking to for 2 days — are they in the room with us now?”, suggesting imagined or exaggerated interactions.
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jaz52.bsky.social @jaz52.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
“This is one of the most grotesque crimes of our time.”
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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
It is *fascinating* to me how quickly some people have gone completely from “we all must work in the office! human collaboration is vital and only happens in person!” to “I can replace all these pesky people with chatbots!” Definitely some commentary there about our society and who gets to choose.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 09/03/2026
We offered to fund TSA. No conditions. Republicans refused. They want the hostage, to extract more ICE money with. No ICE reforms
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Government shutdown hits spring break travel with hours-long TSA lines
A partial shutdown impacting the Department of Homeland Security left some travelers waiting hours at airport security checkpoints.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
"Jews don't belong in American society." Imagine a sitting member of Congress tweeting that. You can't. Thankfully, it'd never happen. And *if* it did, it'd be the end of their career and the biggest story in America. But Ogles can say this about Muslims without any censure.
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Slim Heilpern @slidemanslim.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Terrific band, great album!
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach the earth None of them through the Strait of Hormuz billmckibben.substack.com/p/sunlight-t...
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Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach the earth
None of them through the Strait of Hormuz
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
I continue to be gobsmacked at 1) how common this formulation is 2) how antisemitic and generally bigoted it is 3) and how for all the talk of anti-semitism this is never cited as an example even though it’s quite literally the original incarnation.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Also Marco Rubio: Our shared Christian faith must dictate our most consequential decisions about who gets to enter and join our society
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Excellent advice right here.
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American Humanist Association @americanhumanist.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
American humanists are committed not to governments or nation-states, but to the safety and dignity of every human being. The Iranian people deserve peace, safety, and the right to self-determination - now, and always. (To be clear - we don’t support temporary wars, either.)
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Send ICE agents to Iran. They already have the outfits.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Donald Trump in 2012:
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Weird they dragged in Hillary Clinton when there's another First Lady right there in the White House who actually knew Jeffrey Epstein.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
the 'restrictions' are worth stating explicitly. Anthropic doesn't want its AI to be used to make decisions about whether to kill someone without some human oversight. Hegseth says he won't accept that restriction.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Of all Presidementia's prior State-of-the-Unions I've not watched in the past, tonight's State-of-the-Union is the State-of-the-Union I'm not watching the most. 🍊🚫
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
I refuse to get used to our government murdering people on the high seas. If they can do it to these people, they can do it to you.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
So NJ lawmakers wrote a bill to rein in ICE. And this is what they called it. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/n...
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Rep. Ilhan Omar @repilhan.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
The American people do not want war. Trump is threatening an illegal strike on Iran. This will do nothing but bring needless death and destruction. We cannot let warmongers override Congress's power. No war with Iran.
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Johanna Vogel @johannavogel.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
A heads-up from @billmckibben.bsky.social: "One way of summing up this moment is to say that the endangerment finding & the politics of climate are puny in the face of physics. We’re going to see that physics in action in the next 24 months, and it will drive many changes... some of them political"
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
None of this is normal
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Marcel Dirsus @marceldirsus.com · 11/02/2026
Quite the chart
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Richard Silvia @yesrising.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
[Abraham] “Lincoln saw clearly that if we give up the principle of equality before the law, we have given up the whole game.” —Letters from an American 🇺🇸 by @hcrichardson.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 11/02/2026
Courage and clarity — wow
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 10/02/2026
Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Ali Solomon. #NewYorkerCartoons
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Cato Institute @cato.org · 03/02/2026
The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
I can’t believe how stupid everything is. I just hate the stupidity.
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