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@srspen.bsky.social
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Former prof of, at various times, philosophy, history, and theology, later an academic librarian. Former fundamentalist and evangelical, more liberal politically every day.

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srspen.bsky.social @srspen.bsky.social · 2h
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This Week In The Big Picture
Democrats are poised to retake the U.S.
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srspen.bsky.social @srspen.bsky.social · 3h
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What does a cycle of violation do to the soul?
A soul-rending culture of rape
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srspen.bsky.social @srspen.bsky.social · 3h
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We Wouldn’t Be on Fascism’s Precipice If We Believed Women
Recording at the end
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srspen.bsky.social @srspen.bsky.social · 3h
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Daily Update: Trump Rolls Over On AI, Senate Schitt-Show, Secret Trump-Bashing Caught On Tape, And More
Elon Musk Gets Cooked
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Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar.com · 4h
Iowa Hawkeyes. Atlanta Hawks. Not the same team, not even the same state. Get your facts straight before calling someone a dirtbag. Instead of this distraction, we should have hearings on health care costs, 8 million Americans losing coverage, and tariffs crushing our farmers.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Odd, that Donald Trump has latched onto things being done/built to protect "national security" when Donald Trump, a man who is said to have sold *highly* classified documents, is currently the nation's biggest security threat.
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srspen.bsky.social @srspen.bsky.social · 3h
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JAMM: Trump Crimes And Stupidity On Parade Edition
Big Day For Dumbassery
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srspen.bsky.social @srspen.bsky.social · 5h
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Rape Culture Is Still Here
It’s heartbreaking to have to repost this drawing from maybe ten years ago.
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srspen.bsky.social @srspen.bsky.social · 5h
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Courts Are Not Going to Save Voting Rights
🚨 34 Days to the Midterms 🚨
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srspen.bsky.social @srspen.bsky.social · 5h
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Watch Trump's new chatbot debunk his lies
Hours after its launch, America.gov's chatbot was censored.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future
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Lindy Williams @ljdubcan.bsky.social · 7h
Today’s Canadian painting is “Mother and Child” painted by Norval Morrisseau in 2005. This is Truth and Rconciliation Day in Canada, a day to remember the harms done to Canada’s first peoples.
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TheValuesVoter @thevaluesvoter.bsky.social · 21h
(Imagining the possible follow-up question) “ON NOVEMBER 12TH 2023, YOU WERE IN ATLANTA CONSPIRING WITH FANI WILLIS AND SAYING OUR COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF HAD NO DEFENSE! I HAVE PROOF, DIRTBAG!! YOU TEXTED ‘GET ‘EM, HAWKS!!’” Smith: “I was in Seattle. The Seahawks were beating the Commanders.”
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 6h
If there'd been just one man in that room or that chat who’d been raised to believe in consent, who’d been taught to see women as equals, who’d been told by their fathers how good men speak when no one else will, it would all have been different for her... johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/cornells-j...
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Cornell’s Jane Doe Needed One Good Man In That House And That Group Chat. She Would Find None.
Warning: this piece includes references to sexual assault, as well as words many may find offensive.
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Buffalo Temple of Music, Sports, and Whatever @sethfromthe716.bsky.social · 12h
Eric Schmitt is going to lose his shit when they tell him about the Chicago Blackhawks, Seattle Seahawks, Miami RedHawks, or the Kansas Jayhawks.
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S.J.💙🩵💙🦋🦓 @glimmers2.bsky.social · 20h
A study in valor. Imagine testifying against the most powerful criminal on the planet?
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2026
GOP Sen. Eric Schmitt accused Jack Smith of perjury, claiming he had evidence Smith secretly went to an Atlanta Hawks game. Then it all backfired in real-time.
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GOP Senator’s Jack Smith ‘Gotcha’ Blows Up in His Face
Eric Schmitt accused Jack Smith of perjury over supposed evidence placing him at an Atlanta Hawks game. There was just one problem: It was the Iowa Hawkeyes.
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 6h
LIVE SOON: How are voters feeling about AI and how can we expect the data center issue to impact the midterms? Jen and Norm will be joined by political strategist, Adrienne Elrod to discuss. Join the conversation at 9:15am ET on contrariannews.org
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Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar.com · 16h
The only person who needed “rehabilitation” in today's hearing was my colleague who didn’t know the difference between the Hawks and the Hawkeyes. Don't try to distract the American people from rising costs and people losing their health care, especially if you don't have your facts straight.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 20h
Imagine how luck Schmitt is that he doesn’t represent a state that has the Jets, Mets and Nets. He’d never figure out who was doing what.
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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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Florida Chris @chrislongview.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I didnt know it gets funnier than a whole ass United States Senator accusing a man of being at a Hawks game in ATL when he was at a Hawkeyes game in MD, BUT... He let every media outlet know he had a big moment coming so they all saw him clown himself and watched Amy Klobuchar clean up the pieces.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16h
I can smell this picture
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 15h
State Department employees were falsely accused of "censoring" Americans. When do they get justice? thehill.com/opinion/nati...
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We need accountability for federal employee purges made on false pretenses
I was grilling chicken on a sweltering summer night in the Washington, D.C. suburbs, when I peeked at my phone and saw that a senior official in the administration had just accused me of lying to C…
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18h
Did you go to Atlanta? Smith: No Did you meet Fani Willis? Smith: I’ve never met her. Did you go to the Atlanta Hawks game? Smith: I’ve never been to an Atlanta Hawks game. Perjury, dirtbag!!!
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 9h
Go For It Ladies.......
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Please vote, everyone!! 💙 @pammedina6.bsky.social · 16h
She needs to show that proof to congress. I'm sure she's looking for a pardon. She is a horrible person, but why is she the ONLY person in prison for this?!?!
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Gobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports.
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 6h
Attorneys representing the 18-year-old Wells' family have called for transparency, asking that the grand jury investigative materials and the official autopsy report be publicly released. www.mississippifreepress.org/lawyers-for-...
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Lawyers for Nolan Wells’ Family Highlight Cellphone Data and Push for Investigation
Civil rights attorney Ben Crump released details from a forensic examination of Nolan Wells’ cellphone as well as on the official autopsy on Sept. 24.
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victoria zeller🫛 (RISEBALL, summer ‘27) @dirtbagqueer.rocks · 6h
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 29/09/2026
You may have seen a few familiar MAGA faces distance themselves from Trump this past week. Marjorie Taylor Greene. Peter Thiel. Sen. John Kennedy. But hold your applause for now, because their courage just happened to show up when the cost of speaking out got cheap. (link below)
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 6h
If you’re not from Missouri, you may not know that Eric Schmitt got his start in MAGA politics by suing public schools for mask mandates while their teachers died during a pandemic. The really strange thing? He never sued his own kids’ school for their mask mandate. He’s a piece of Schitt.
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 20h
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ResJudicata22 @resjudicata22.bsky.social · 12h
Cartoonist: Mike Smith
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Theo Moudakis @theomoudakis.bsky.social · 7h
Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star
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Pocket News 📰 @jeanpocket.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Today before Senate.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 17h
Sen. Eric Schmitt is an international laughingstock. He’s up for reelection in 2028, so we’ll have to work on him later.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15h
“Morally binding” “Police yourselves” lol ok
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 12h
Imagine being Eric Schmitt and writing "I DON'T CARE!" on a notepad referring to the Epstein files, and then attempting to go nuclear over an Atlanta Hawks game where you accomplish nothing more than outing Jack Smith as a Caitlin Clark fan. We are in the dumbest timeline.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 6h
Following hacks by rogue AI agents, the government must evaluate systemic failures with an eye toward establishing meaningful regulation. Here are questions that Congress should be asking AI companies: bit.ly/4xLckHb
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How Congress Should Investigate Threat from Rogue AI Agents
The government must evaluate systemic failures with an eye toward establishing meaningful regulation.
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Four Legs Good @4legsrgood.bsky.social · 16h
Pretty funny that ESPN provided the video proving that Jack Smith was at the Iowa-Maryland game. The GOP is a clown car wreck.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The moment Jack Smith realized Eric Schmitt was talking about the wrong game.
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 23h
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 7h
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Ragnarok Lobster @eclecticbrotha1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Schmitt: "Did you attend a Hawks game on February 3rd?" Smith: "That is incorrect. I was in Hollywood attending a dinner gathering at the home of actor Ethan Hawke." Schmitt: "AHA! WE GOT YOU!"
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 19h
Eric Schmitt might actually be dumber than Tommy Tuberville.
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Michael de Adder @deadder.bsky.social · 6h
End of the world The Globe and Mail by @deAdder Substack: deadder.substack.com/p/end-of-the...
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End of the world
Globe and Mail
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Tedderman1🦋 @twj75.bsky.social · 16h
He wasn't kidding, he really is a shitty President.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: “it’s inconceivable to me how you can pardon people who beat police officers… and then vilify the officers”
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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 29/09/2026
Before calling someone a “dirtbag,” the Senator should have had his facts straight. An apology is in order. Glad one of us knew the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes!
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