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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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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Allegedly Amy @amyewest.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This was delightful to read. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...
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Tight Competition: The Contest to Name Philly’s Best Parallel Parker (Gift Article)
Out of more than 900 applicants, 15 were chosen to compete in three rounds, including “Tight Squeeze” and “Under Duress.”
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Fierce Reads @fiercereads.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
PEN reports that SPEAK by Laurie Halse Anderson was the second most banned book in the 2025-2026 school year. 📣 SPEAK UP for banned books during #BannedBooksWeek by sharing what books changed your life and pledge your support for the Freedom to Read here ➡️ vist.ly/5m532
A flier showing a copy of SPEAK by Laurie Halse Anderson, along with an image of the author. The text reads: "Speak up for banned books!" with a quote from Laurie, "Censorship is the child and fear and the father of ignorance."
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ceej @ceej.online · 05/10/2026
we don't have time for another plague apocalypse. we already did that. we're on to robot apocalypse now, try to catch up. next in line is fungal apocalypse. please consult the schedule
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Guy @speechwriterguy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Accurate.
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Grant Blackwood @grantblackwoodbsky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Fellow writers, take care….
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Pro Publica’s bombshell report is as detailed a story about government corruption as you’re going to get. And Susan Collins is right in the middle of it.
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Guy @speechwriterguy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Perfectly sums up a small and vulgar man.
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I said this in a NY Times story last week about the WA millionaire tax, but let’s bring back shame. Even if billionaires don’t know it’s wrong to do shit like this, they should know it’s embarrassing.
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses | Fortune
The state’s ultrawealthy, including Larry Page and Peter Thiel, have similarly donated to efforts opposing the wealth tax.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Schmitt: Did you attend a concert wearing an anti-Trump shirt? Smith: I wore a “No Kings” shirt. It used to be a bipartisan American sentiment.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If Trump just takes money appropriated by Congress for a specific purpose & seizes it to use it for an entirely different purpose, what is the point of having a Congress or appropriating money for anything? I’m sure the Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins must be concerned.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I believe in Medicare for All like I believe in public schools. There for you no matter what.
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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
No matter how bleak things may seem, just remember that in the 1960s the US Coast Guard received reems of earnest letters begging them to save those poor castaways on Gilligan's Island.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.
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Mary Brandt, MD, MDiv @drmlb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Brilliant. (This treads on a serious issue that can unite all Texans behind @jamestalarico.bsky.social!)
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Seriously: Hate Digger all you want, but [pauses for flow of hate] movies like Digger are why we need studios. A world in which Digger doesn't get made one in which Sinners and One Battle also don't get made. You miss with Heaven's Gate and you still swung. You miss with Paw Patrol and you >
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Caturday
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
$100 to the first reporter who asks Eric Schmitt what he plans to do next now that his political ambitions are over
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ossoff: The money that they took from you when they slashed Medicaid and defunded hospitals and nursing homes—They’re taking that money to buy corrupt, taxpayer-funded political ads on national television to try to promote the failed and broken president…
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Andy Mackenzie @andymack.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Good morning. 'Batman's aff his Nut' by Robert Florence.
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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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I 💙 Dogs @dogs100.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ahh, it’s Caturday….
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Guy @speechwriterguy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
No way.
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Guy @speechwriterguy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Best tank gif
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Guy @speechwriterguy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hmm, the piece I read didn't say. More of a list / run-down of them all. Hollywood marriages have to be crazy--wealthy, good-looking people who could hook up with whoever, whenever. Like a divorce time bomb.
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Guy @speechwriterguy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The only celebrity news I read this week: Jim Carrey's love life, from still-married weirdo who tried to blackmail him to current wife who he said things in French about while at a French film festival or whatever.
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Guy @speechwriterguy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This week's quiz is beatable, and I hope you all crush it into powder! #slate #newsquiz @masinger.bsky.social @halftongue.bsky.social @mededitor.bsky.social @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social @roblobster.bsky.social
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Man Stepping On Cans: 'Stepping On Bugs I See'
ALT: Man Stepping On Cans: 'Stepping On Bugs I See'
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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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Guy @speechwriterguy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fall on the East Coast is prettier -- evergreens here a just "whatever, we're not changing."
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Guy @speechwriterguy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Will check him out!
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Guy @speechwriterguy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Had an epiphany watching a violin solo on Belgium TV, super difficult & complicated piece. Meh. Maybe that impresses the top 10 violin experts in the world, but zero enjoyment for the other 8 billion people. Give us a first-grader doing a bad cover of AC/DC and we will enjoy the hell out of it.
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Cat Plays Guitar
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Guy @speechwriterguy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Love going fast (zero points or MANY POINTS) but yeah, sometimes I click and smack my forehead a half-second later, duh, the national anthem of Luxembourg does NOT feature a drum solo.
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Dokken's Mick Brown Drumming in the Rain
ALT: Dokken's Mick Brown Drumming in the Rain
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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
10/12 is impressive this week!
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5hour Energy Shot: Money Dance
ALT: 5hour Energy Shot: Money Dance
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Guy @speechwriterguy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Excited Traffic Puppet
ALT: Excited Traffic Puppet
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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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