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@speechwriterguy.bsky.social
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Professional speechwriter who gives state & national seminars on speeches & storytelling. Progressive. Contributing editor to The Big Thrill. redpenofdoom.com Free handbook - 33 ways to fight lies, propaganda and oppression

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James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"In dollar terms, the very richest Americans have gained a total of $14.5 trillion in wealth [since 2019], with most of that—about $10 trillion—coming from gains in stocks and mutual funds, according to the Fed data, which runs through the end of June."
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The Gap Between the Rich and the Very, Very Rich Is Getting Wider
The 0.1% are worth $28 trillion, or about 15% of the nation’s total wealth. The average wealth for a household in this group is over $200 million.
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Rob Bignell, Editor/Author @inventingreality.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#booklovers #MustRead #writerreality #writingcommunity #writingtips #indieauthor
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Peace @dogsmile.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Judge needs to drop the damn hammer on this contemptuous behavior.
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jaculis.bsky.social @jaculis.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Stereotype: Trafficking doesn’t happen in the EU. Reality: Trafficking occurs in every region of the world, including the EU. It often happens within a victim’s own country, not just across borders. Learn more:
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
in your next zoom interview have not only a cup of ice coffee but seven or eight different cups of various beverages just off camera and casually drink from each of them throughout the interview the drinks should have fancy straws or colorful parasols or large pieces of fruit on the edge of the cup
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Guy @speechwriterguy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Pretty average quiz this week, not super easy, not We All Will Score 4/12 and Curse the Gods. What is everybody doing during this Super El-Nino weekend? #slate #newsquiz @masinger.bsky.social @halftongue.bsky.social @mededitor.bsky.social @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social @roblobster.bsky.social
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Christopher Farnsworth @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Videos Show ICE Agents Mistakenly Detaining U.S. Citizen www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
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Video: Videos Show ICE Agents Mistakenly Detaining U.S. Citizen
Federal immigration agents in Evanston, Ill., mistakenly detained a U.S. citizen, who was later released after he identified himself.
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🇪🇺🇺🇸 Kaja Kallas: Trump's inviting Putin to the G20 was very hard to hear, because considering that even a few days ago, there were Russian intelligence officers charged for murders of Americans on American soil.
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What's behind this tidal wave of epidemics? In the largest study ever conducted on emerging infectious diseases, we show that the popular explanation - "our relationship with nature is out of balance" - doesn't hold up. Out now in Nature, after half a decade of work: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The anthropogenic fingerprint on emerging infectious diseases - Nature
Emerging infectious disease outbreak risks are ubiquitous worldwide, and highest in landscapes where people, livestock and fragmented natural ecosystems coexist, but detection and data ...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We used to be a proper planet, one that rewarded its top scholars in style.
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Hard to believe it took us this long to get to “Die Hard in a whale”
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
👇🏽 #AbolishICE
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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Briton Rivière (British, 1840–1920) "Compulsory Education", 1887. Oil on Canvas, 73 × 52.5 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Everything the pro-Trump billionaire Ellison family will now own: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central And more... With this comes the power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told. Shameful.
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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
I spent my morning putting this guide together from sources all over the place. Happy to hear from anyone with suggested inclusions, deletions, or edits. jdica@protonmail.com, or you can hit my DMs here. Please share!
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The anti-ICE playbook for regular Americans
Every day actions to fight fascism in your community
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
CARL SAGAN on Libraries: "We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory. The warehouse of that memory is called a library."
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LAFAYETTE @lastudiolafayette.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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kenofseattle @kenofseattle.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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MPWERED @kelvin1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"Tyrants and the Press" by Dave Granlund (🇺🇸). 🎯 🔥
Tyrants and the Press.
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Mark Ruffalo @markruffalo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Don’t you dare @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov, do not cave. 5670 film makers put their necks on the line for you to fight this merger. Another 75,000+ and counting have signed to tell you not to concede in just 3 weeks. Please sign to send a message to the AG’s and Paramount. noparamountconcessions.com
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Also this book is the best “how did Reacher get sucked into this?” opening gambit. S2 “this is from Reacher’s past” was understandable but Reacher properly understood is a random justice, or better, Dikē from Greek plays. You have violated Zeus’s laws of hospitality, bud, and Reacher’s your prize.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
succinctly summarizing messy stories in a measured tone that sounds matter-of-fact instead of accusatory is this man’s superpower
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Frovo @frovo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
it’s batman day
a tweet by me from 1/6/2018 11:03 AM that became a meme apparently 

ROBIN: the batmobile won’t start
BATMAN: check the battery 
ROBIN: what’s a tery
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Edward A. Rowe @edwardarowe1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 19/09/2026
Insurers sometimes deny coverage citing lack of progress, labeling patients’ conditions as chronic. Yet if they do make progress, insurers have also used that to argue patients no longer need treatment. Doctors are left to walk a tightrope. (Published Dec. 2024)
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Her Mental Health Treatment Was Helping. That’s Why Insurance Cut Off Her Coverage.
Providers, patients and even some federal judges say progress-based insurance denials harm patients at key moments of mental health treatment.
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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Cartoon by Nick Anderson
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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
the president has finally revealed his true form: a 1980s preppie villain determined to tear down the rec center
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I 💙 Dogs @dogs100.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Who TF is that….
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Why didn't Odysseus simply secure a mutually beneficial exchange with the Trojans through the blockchain? Was he stupid?
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
GUYS US TOOOOO! GUYYYYSSS WE’RE DANGEROUS TOOOOOOOOOO
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A grandmother says a faulty AI match cost her six months of freedom. Now she’s suing for $10 million. Angela Lipps says AI falsely tied her to 2025 bank thefts in Fargo, ND, despite never being there. She was released on Christmas Eve in 10° weather with 4¢ and no coat. abcnews.com/US/grandmoth...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 19/09/2026
POWERFUL MOMENT Americans forming a human chain around the Kennedy Center to protect a national memorial from a president threatening to tear it down. JFK’s niece, Kerry Kennedy, called on people to show up, and they did. This will never be the Trump Center, in the people’s eyes.
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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Remember, it’s perfectly acceptable if your weekend plans consist of nothing other than reading a good book, drinking multiple cups of tea, and indulging in a scandalous amount of chocolate croissants.
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Guy @speechwriterguy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Holy cow. I tanked, but you gotta know the right answer and pick wrong to get 39 points, a new QUIZ TANK RECORD. What's everybody up to this weekend? #slate #newsquiz @masinger.bsky.social @halftongue.bsky.social @mededitor.bsky.social @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social @roblobster.bsky.social
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Alice Ruppert 🐴🎮 @malicedafirenze.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Random thought I could probably write a whole essay about some time: the fact that there aren‘t more mainstream Romance video games is such a bizarre failure, like don‘t you people wanna make money? Why not cater to the infamously ever hungry audience of Romance book readers in another medium?
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I wrote about who is actually making America “poorer and dirtier.” It’s not immigrants. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Who is responsible for this terrible state of affairs? The opposition party and immigrants, apparently. Vance went on to say, “The Democrat legacy of the last few years was that they bankrupted our country and left us poor. They left our country weaker. They left our border wide open and our communities less safe.”

But this account represents a preposterous inversion. Almost every problem Vance lists, the Trump administration has made worse.

The administration’s environmental policies have made American water and air dirtier. Its health-care, tariff, and tax policies have worsened inflation and increased the financial burden on most American households, even as incomes have grown. And its public-health policies have led to outbreaks of contagious disease.
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Pissed-Off Scientist @rockney.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
VOTE !!!!!!!
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Spa day for baby monkey [📹 monkeylover. club] Original post
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
rip annie dillard
One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ossoff: Blanche is a joke and a hack. These folks are not just corrupt, they're clowns. Here you have a Kremlin connected Russian oligarch giving massive cash gifts to the president's son…
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Corporations are not people. Their money is not speech. They should not be able to buy politicians. End Citizens United.
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Bari Weiss has plunged CBS News into ratings calamity. —"Evening News" has posted worst ratings of 21st century —"CBS Mornings" has posted worst ratings of 21st century —And now "60 Minutes" has posted worst ratings of 21st century More in @status.news: www.status.news/p/60-minutes...
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Bari’s ‘60’ Bust
Bari Weiss blew up “60 Minutes," ostensibly to create a better show. Instead, her revamped premiere just suffered its worst debut ratings of the 21st century—what one longtime TV executive told Status...
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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This post is making the rounds again for some reason and therefore I feel I must inform you that they’ve hired another one so there are now TWO forensic pathologists working in Iceland.
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
oh he mad.
orange cat looking UPSET
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Six Dettmar @sixdettmar.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I’M AT THE URGENT CARE I’M AT THE TACO BELL I’M AT THE COMBINATION URGENT CARE AND TACO BELL
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"Broken old man" is tight.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The best part of Roger Marshall's story is that this dumb hack spent the past two years going on TV to defend the most indefensible parts of the Trump agenda -- apparently believing he was invulnerable as a Kansas Republican -- and now you can see him actually starting to sweat.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026
Ossoff: "On day one, Donald Trump rescinded the AI safety order meant to guard against catastrophic risks, including the engineering of bioweapons. Meanwhile, Don Jr's 1789 Capital bought big money stakes in data centers and AI labs ... President Trump is compromised"
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Meghan L. Hall @itsmeghanlhall.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Angel Reese posted an absolutely hysterical Team USA celebration TikTok. There. Is. So. Much. Happening. 😂 What a masterpiece.
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