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Stephanie Swofford Bolton @stephbolton.bsky.social · 10h

Hang on to your hopes, my friend That's an easy thing to say But if your hopes should pass away Simply pretend that you can build them again ~"Hazy Shade of Winter" by Simon & Garfunkel

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Dr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 21h

It’s always a good time to re-share this.

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Stephanie Swofford Bolton @stephbolton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Making dinner playlist: Green Day, because people were peopling too much today. 🫤

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Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This Supreme Court allowed Alabama to keep killing people in 2022 after the state repeatedly botched its executions and left inmates on gurneys, cut up by needles. Of all the Roberts Court’s sins, its death penalty rulings have been especially nihilistic.

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💀spooky eunuch™🕸️ @dommedeluise.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

you cant criticize men or theyll just get worse and join a fascist movement conveniently this mindset makes women the problem and absolves men of agency

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Stephanie Swofford Bolton @stephbolton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Since the news seems to be full of ridiculous today-- here's what's growing in my perfectly normal fall garden.

medium sized orange pumpkin still growing on the vine, some green leaves around it.

acorn squash, not fully ripened yet and still on the vine, garden dirt and more green vines nearby.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We don’t spend enough time talking about just how WEIRD all these people are. This is just an incredibly weird and insecure thing to say. Imagine any other SecDef ever being this weird and insecure?!

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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Stephanie Swofford Bolton @stephbolton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When you've lost an Alabama Senator... 😂

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T.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Never sell anyone out. In fact, if you're asked about banning 12-year-olds from softball, just say, "You're asking me to sell out kids for my political career. I'm not going to do that. Let's stop demonizing people in tougher circumstances than you or I will ever experience. They have guts."

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.

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Stephanie Swofford Bolton @stephbolton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Read the article. Especially if you're a guy.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It's already estimated that the richest 1% alone evade $163 billion in taxes every year. But Trump gutted the IRS — including the unit tasked with auditing billionaires. The agency's audit revenue fell 35%. Now, Trump's IRS is not publishing data on unpaid taxes. See the problem?

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Stephanie Swofford Bolton @stephbolton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Finally cooled off enough to sit by the firepit again!

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If you are overwhelmed by all the cruelty and tempted into hopelessness, you are a good person and on the right side of history. Those in power want nothing more than to steal your hope and drive you into apathy. Keeping your empathy and hope alive is an act of resistance.

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Stephanie Swofford Bolton @stephbolton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Grateful for understanding clients! Last week when I was in Vegas, I scheduled a client for this morning. Totally not remembering the time zone thing in the calendar...so she showed up 2 hrs earlier than I expected. Luckily, she's very gracious about my error. This is why I #needmorecoffee people! 😂

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Stephanie Swofford Bolton @stephbolton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There are two songs on my "do not ever play" list for deeply emotional reasons that I try my hardest to avoid, and dammit if one of them didn't pop up on the Voice tonight and catch me unawares. It was a good cover but ooof...

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Stephanie Swofford Bolton @stephbolton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Getting my steps in on vacation is vastly easier than it is at home... Walk to get coffee in Seattle? Yes! Wandering through resorts in Vegas? Yes! Taking a lap around the neighborhood at home? Ugh, borrrring.... 😂🤷

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In case you have any questions about why Trump declared war on higher education

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is the dumbest thing in the world. The fraud is that people are paying for insurance and they’re… healthy?

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Stephanie Swofford Bolton @stephbolton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Hubby (walks into kitchen): I'm beginning to think my problem is a hardware problem. Me: ..... are we talking computers or aging related breakdowns? 'Cause one of those is easier to fix than the other. 😜 #husbandtranslator

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Stephanie Swofford Bolton @stephbolton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It's a silly thing, but the flight from ATL to HSV is negative 5 minutes. I know it's due to time zone, but it always cracks me up and makes me feel like I'm somehow time traveling. 😂

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

1. This is a naked attack on press freedom by a president who hates it. 2. There are limits to the president's ability to carry out this threat thanks to the First Amendment. 3. It's also a threat to the "Other Fake News Media Outlets" who can face similar punishment based on their reporting.

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Stephanie Swofford Bolton @stephbolton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Vegas experience complete-- waiting on our Uber, and woman wearing a thong and hot pink feathers approaches hubby with a flyer for a show. ☑️😂

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Stephanie Swofford Bolton @stephbolton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

At the bar post- conference, and the dudes sitting next to us asked the bartender to put on the Bills/Lions game. I dropped some football knowledge, and they looked so shocked. Yeah, guys-- girls like football, too. 🙄 #andweknowthings

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Stephanie Swofford Bolton @stephbolton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Venice? There *are* gondolas and gondoliers... 😉

me in front of an indoor water canal with shops behind me, made to look like a Venetian square.

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Stephanie Swofford Bolton @stephbolton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Seeing virtual clients from the hotel room this morning, and this is my view. 😍. Resort wandering resumes this afternoon. 😂.

view from my hotel window looking northeast of Las Vegas at the mountains, some puffy clouds are overhead.

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Stephanie Swofford Bolton @stephbolton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I suppose it's good for my step count that I'm terrible at reading maps. 😂

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Hey folks: I’ll bet you feel REALLY represented now. They’re going home to serve themselves. NOT us. The ultimate accountability dodge. Elections are accountability. Let’s prove it.

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Stephanie Swofford Bolton @stephbolton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Day two of hubby conferencing and me wandering through resorts!

view of the Sphere in Las Vegas, it's entirely covered in yellow with a smiley face. Mountains in the distance.

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 15/09/2026

ICE is arresting a record number of pregnant women and teenagers, according to government documents obtained by the Guardian. At the same time, the agency appears to have lost count of how many suffered a miscarriage. 🧵

Two charts side by side. The first shows the number of pregnant people in ICE detention, which peaks in November 2025. The second shows the number of miscarriages recorded by ICE, until October 2025, when ICE said it has no updated information on the number of miscarriages.

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Stephanie Swofford Bolton @stephbolton.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Tagged along with hubby to his IT work conference, and it's a lot different than the work conferences I attend! Like, 10x more people! And they don't do drum circles until midnight. 😂

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Stephanie Swofford Bolton @stephbolton.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

On a flight with hubby and he dipped his Biscoff cookie into his Coke. I don't know who I married. 😂.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

EPA no longer tracking pollution but will track....checks notes..."America's drinking water for abortion medication & birth control"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Stephanie Swofford Bolton @stephbolton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Nooooooooo, my game just went to OT and I have somewhere to be!!!! #whodat

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Psychology Today @psychologytoday.com · 12/09/2026

AI therapy will never misunderstand you, get impatient, or ask anything of you in return. That frictionlessness may feel good but ultimately prevent you from healing. From @patrickwkelly www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind...

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Pretend Empathy Is Now a Product

Sherry Turkle calls what AI therapy offers "pretend empathy." Millions find it helpful. That's what makes it so hard to argue with, and so important too.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I remain convinced that the most effective response to a politician or a pundit who's pushing transphobia is "I'm not sure why you're obsessed with other people's genitals but it's really creepy"

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/09/2026

Abortion bans make exceptions for ectopic pregnancies, but some people still don’t get care. One doctor told a woman intervening in her pregnancy could land him jail time, according to a lawsuit. “I felt like my life was a risk he couldn’t afford.”

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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.

With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...

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lucaswaldron.bsky.social @lucaswaldron.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

New analysis from @propublica.org: Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans. www.propublica.org/article/ecto...

A chart showing the rate of deaths after an ectopic pregnancy, comparing states that banned abortion after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022 with those that did not. At the start of the chart, in 2014, the rate is higher in states with abortion bans, but the rates in the two groups of states are not far apart. The rate increases in both groups of states, but the climb is much steeper in states that banned abortion.

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Trumpian Doublespeak strikes again: The "Votesafe . org" website sounds like a helpful site intended to promote voting registration. It is actually a Musk and "America PAC" created monster for stealing data. Users must provide extensive personal information, and the site then plants trackers.

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I don’t remember whose insight this is, but it blew my mind when I first read that to understand American history you have to get that race law was designed to increase the number of enslavable people (one-drop rule) and decrease the number of claimants to indigenous land (blood quantum)

Jamelle Bouie writes: yeah this is a separate conversation but one of the things that hasn’t quite bubbled up from scholarship into mainstream thinking is that american slavery was a system centered principally on reproduction. forced birth for capital accumulation is what it was

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Stephanie Swofford Bolton @stephbolton.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It's national coffee ice cream day, so we grabbed some when we got groceries earlier. #smallwins

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Friendly Neighborhood Mouse @missmouse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Friday morning, I was gardening when I checked my phone. A request had gone out for help. For 25+ hours, ICE had been laying siege to a quiet neighborhood in Frederick, MD. Community members were afraid, some didn’t want to leave their homes. ICE vehicles seemed to be lurking on every corner.

ICE vehicle - black Nissan Maxima with plate cover - posted up in a spot that also serves as an elementary school bus stop.

Another ICE vehicle, black Dodge Durango, lurking around the community.

Two more ICE vehicles - black Dodge Durango and a white SUV, unclear on make, model - on a quiet residential street, being quietly creepy. Note that the white SUV has its plate covered.

Yet another ICE vehicle. Black Nissan Pathfinder. They were all over the neighborhood.

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