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steverago.bsky.social

@steverago.bsky.social
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Samsara surfer. Turning pro. A former ink-stained newspaper wretch who likes photography, similes and the Vajrayana view of the world. New York Times, John Wiley & Sons, Thomson, Ottaway Newspapers/WSJ. Republican turned Independent turned Democrat.

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 13/04/2025
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro said his official residence in the state capital was targeted in an arson attack while he and his family were asleep early Sunday morning
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Pennsylvania Governor Says Arson Attack Targeted His Residence
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro said his official residence in the state capital was targeted in an arson attack while he and his family were asleep early Sunday morning, forcing them to evacuate.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
He was always a used car salesman at heart.
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steverago.bsky.social @steverago.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
It's clear the Administration is on road to self-immolation. They have over-played their thin hand (not Aces high as they fantasize) - and the gated golf-club dandies who salivate for their tax cuts will sour as the potential for destruction becomes manifest. They already see the writing on wall.
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steverago.bsky.social @steverago.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Holy crap. How long before there's irreparable damage here and abroad?
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.
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steverago.bsky.social @steverago.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
It's getting to look a lot like chaos.
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steverago.bsky.social @steverago.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Anyone still on Twitter is complicit in the Trump-Musk clusterfuck.
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 03/02/2025
"The White House neglected to mention that the new president agreed to stop U.S. guns crossing the border, CNBC confirmed."
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Mexican president reveals U.S. concession Trump failed to mention as tariffs paused
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo issued a "read-out" of her call with U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday — but her list of what the two leaders agreed to is different from his in one major...
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 19/01/2025
I wish Americans cared as much about the loss of democracy as the loss of TikTok.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 19/01/2025
There is a reason TikTok is so good at figuring out what you want to see, and why it’s better than everything else: it’s a weapon, and the best weapon is one you don’t know exists, or worse, one you think you can’t live without
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steverago.bsky.social @steverago.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
I don't need nor want Word for Mac to show its annoying CoPilot icon on every new doc and paragraph. (It's about Microsoft getting users to run out of AI credits and buy more.) ANYONE have a way to disable this for Mac?
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Brown Eyed Susan @browneyedsusan.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Does anyone have documentation that Taylor Swift and her boyfriend donated money to the fires? For some reason insults are coming from this thread, which is disheartening.
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steverago.bsky.social @steverago.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
China's shameful erasure of Tibetan and Buddhist culture begins by forcing Tibet's children from their homes and into nationalistic indoctrination schools. Long live HHDL. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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In Tibet, Chinese Boarding Schools Reshape the ‘Souls of Children’
Across China’s west, the Communist Party is placing children in boarding schools to assimilate a generation of Tibetans into the national mainstream and mold them into loyal citizens.
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steverago.bsky.social @steverago.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
“Narcissism is a bad basis for foreign policy, to say nothing of life.” And a warning about Trump: “Brace for impact.” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/o...
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Opinion | ‘Trump Is at His Absolute Worst in a Crisis’: Three Columnists Imagine the World Ahead
What are the biggest challenges and opportunities facing Trump and his team in foreign policy and national security?
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steverago.bsky.social @steverago.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
This is it, the key. Trump's ugly reliance on distortion and complete fabrication -- validated and abetted by the right-wing fever-dream factory. How do we cope with America's. break with reality? www.nytimes.com/2025/01/05/u...
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Trump Sees the U.S. as a ‘Disaster.’ The Numbers Tell a Different Story. (Gift Article)
President Biden is bequeathing his successor a nation that by many measures is in good shape, even if voters remain unconvinced.
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steverago.bsky.social @steverago.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Do you know how many F'ing videos there are to show how to use a new gas can??? An absurdity. Also do you know that you probably can't get your plug into a tamper-proof outlet with wiggling and angling? WTF
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
To much fanfare, Trump announced today that SoftBank was going to invest $50 billion in the US because they had confidence in Trump. Except the two of them made the same announcement after Trump won in 2016. And it never happened.
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steverago.bsky.social @steverago.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
ProPublica request to hear about your health insurance denials.
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steverago.bsky.social @steverago.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
What to make of an invitation to join the illuminati via a Bluesky dude? The "illuminati brotherhood organization" will help me achieve my dreams of "fame, power, wealth, peace, protection in life." Illuminati > Q, right?
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steverago.bsky.social @steverago.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Trump's disastrous and incompetent selection process is on full display.
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steverago.bsky.social @steverago.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Trump really knows how to pick em.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
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steverago.bsky.social @steverago.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
@maggiehaberman.bsky.social had it right in 2022 (and before). "Trump is usually focused above all else on whether something or someone has “the look,” reflecting his view of life as a show he was casting." From Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America.
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steverago.bsky.social @steverago.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Loving similes... "The husband was a specimen of tidy manhood, with black, tightly clipped hair, blue eyes, and ears like little seashells .…" By Thomas McGuane in Vicious Circle from Gallatin Canyon.
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steverago.bsky.social @steverago.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
I refuse to be complicit in the MAGA, Trump and Musk delusion. De-activated my Twitter account today.
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steverago.bsky.social @steverago.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
An acute issues is the imbalance of right-wing vs all-other media. Propagandist Fox is and has been the outrage-as-entertainment machine abetted in this cycle by right-wing shit talkers, internet platforms, podcasts and other outlets. CNN's problem? It's boring.
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steverago.bsky.social @steverago.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Loving similes... "Salt and pepper hair, skin like wilted lettuce." By Daniel Woodrell, The Bayou Trilogy.
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steverago.bsky.social @steverago.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Perverse symmetry ...
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steverago.bsky.social @steverago.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Honestly it's less "4D chess" and more Chutes & Ladders.
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steverago.bsky.social @steverago.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
This is just a bizarre take on Gaetz withdrawal.
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Ladies and gentlemen, the new Secretary of Education… Oh, and she’s one of the normal ones compared to the other Trump cabinet picks 🤦‍♂️
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steverago.bsky.social @steverago.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Hey, the guy has 9 Daytime Emmys!
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steverago.bsky.social @steverago.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
"... a genius at understanding weakness."
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steverago.bsky.social @steverago.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Loving the simile... "You ought to hear him describe heaven. It sounds like Filene's Department Store." By Thomas McGuane in Cloudbursts: Collected and New Stories.
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steverago.bsky.social @steverago.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Loving the simile ... "The General pretended not to hear Madame. She had a mind like an abacus, the spine of a drill instructor, and the body of a virgin even after five children." -- By Viet Thanh Nguyen in The Sympathizer: A Novel.
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steverago.bsky.social @steverago.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Loving the similes... "Advice to anyone with the plan of naming your kid Junior: Going through life as a mini-you will be as thrilling as finding dried-up jizz on the carpet." -- Barbara Kingsolver in Demon Copperhead.
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Actually a Craptocracy
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Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
The President of the United States will come into office with his own social media platform. That, combined with X, means Trump will have turnkey state-run media. I don’t think the media has fully grasped that yet.
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steverago.bsky.social @steverago.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Anybody like similes? How bout: “Rudy, you’re a baby,” Trump said loudly. “I’ve never seen a worse defense of me in my life. They took your diaper off right there. You’re like a little baby that needed to be changed. When are you going to be a man?” —Bob Woodward in Fear: Trump in the White House
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steverago.bsky.social @steverago.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
West Yellowstone.
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steverago.bsky.social @steverago.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Little community rodeo outside West Yellowstone. I’ll post some images here and see what happens or not. Tired on the IG routine. Any photogs out there?
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steverago.bsky.social @steverago.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I don’t know. Maybe post some photographs? This near the Crazy Mountains of Montana. First try here with an image.
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steverago.bsky.social @steverago.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
A provocative read on the lopsided balance of power in the media world -- and how it didn't matter what Harris actually said or stood for. (Anyone remember the newspaper "industry"?)
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