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Tom Kimmerer, PhD @tomkimmerer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Joshua trees are uncommon, with a limited range, and threatened by climate change. Read what scientists are doing to stabilize the species.
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James Martin, SJ @jamesmartinsj.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Andrew Garfield on the need for prayer in confusing times. Listen to our whole conversation on "The Spiritual Life" here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yxe...
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Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Google Maps app, 10 pm ET. I stand corrected. Google is a disgrace.
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Tom Ryan @tom-sam-emi.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Postcards from the Open Road: Joshua Tree National Park From a stop on our long road trip before the crash, when the car was totaled exiting Yosemite.
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Postcards from the Open Road: Joshua Tree National Park
I couldn't help but lead with an iconic shot of the member of our traveling party who won’t be returning to New England.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
“What kind of man would cheat at this golf?” 😂
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Michael C. Bailey - Indie Author, Stage Combat Guy @mbaileywriter.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
TIRED: Fireworks. Outdated, scares pets, pollutes air and water, causes fires, limited variety. WIRED: Drone shows. Quiet, colorful, versatile, pet friendly, environmentally friendly, won't burn down hundreds of acres due to flaming debris.
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Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
The relevant portion of the Jason Collins discussion
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
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KeithSmithNBA @keithsmithnba.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Given the circumstances, this is one of the worst games Jaylen Brown has played this season. He's struggled with his handle, gotten called for a couple of pushoffs, has missed jumpers and layups. Celtics have come to expect a lot more from him and they need it now.
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Pasquinel 🦇🎃👻 @pasquinel.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Hungarians celebrated the landslide defeat of Orban by singing "We Are the Champions" out in the streets
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James Martin, SJ @jamesmartinsj.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
I doubt that Pope Leo XIV will lose any sleep over this, before he begins his pilgrimage to Africa tomorrow. But the rest of us should. Because it is unhinged, uncharitable and unchristian. Is there no bottom to this moral squalor?
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hardbap @hardbap.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Maine what can't you do? First you give us Cooper Flagg and now you're telling the data center scumbags to piss off. 🫡
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Millions of American voters wanted to be villains. They came to believe it’s the key to success, while goodness is weak, woke, loser stuff, done only to signal. Offered the option of unvarnished villainy, they enthusiastically took it. Seeing others suffer more made them feel big. And here we are.
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Tom Ryan @tom-sam-emi.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
I tossed my beloved Ultra Fine Point Sharpies after yesterday. We take stands where and when we can. Sometimes in the smallest ways. Letters will still be written.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 25/03/2026
NEWS: Bette Midler just released a remake of Woody Guthrie’s classic protest song “All You Fascists Bound to Lose,” updated to fit the current moment and urge action ahead of the midterms. You have to listen to this.
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Bob Socci @bobsocci.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Excited to share some personal news, and an answer when asked, "So Bob, what are you doing this offseason?" Extremely grateful to Joe Perry at Perry Literary, Peter Wolverton @stmartinspress.bsky.social and everyone who has helped me to reach this project's starting line. A long way to go! #BookSky
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Dan Kennedy @dankennedy.net · 22/03/2026
In Haverhill, Mass., WHAV Radio had already decided to drop CBS News and expects to announce an agreement with a different news service soon. “It is a sad end for what was once called the ‘Tiffany Network,’” says station president and CEO Tim Coco. #journalism whav.net/2026/03/21/w...
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WHAV Reports No Local Impact From Coming End of Nearly Century-Old CBS Radio - WHAV
(Additional photograph below.) Friday’s reporting of the demise of the nearly century-old CBS News Radio will have no effect on WHAV or its listeners. WHAV President and CEO Tim Coco said in a stateme...
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Tom Ryan @tom-sam-emi.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
“Only yesterday . . . I looked so poorly the casual observer might have taken me for a Republican.” ~ Frank Skeffington, the lead character in Edwin O’Connor’s The Last Hurrah (1956).
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Tom Ryan @tom-sam-emi.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
The first Substack letter of March. National Park Road Trip planning begins. An important anniversary approaches.
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March Greetings from the Cape Cod National Seashore
Recipes, a gift for a reader, planning the next coddiwomple, Route 66 celebrates a birthday, and my big 10th anniversary
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Sam Pfeifle @sampfeifle.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
I guarantee that huge swaths of "good people" in New Hampshire have NO IDEA this is happening. People are incredibly checked out of even state politics now, let alone the municipal stuff.
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Historical Marker Ahead @historicalmarker.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
New omissions to the Medgar Evers home tour include why there are bloodstains in the driveway, and who killed him, and why mississippitoday.org/2026/02/12/m...
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Medgar Evers home visitors question omissions to his story - Mississippi Today
Medgar Evers home visitors said park rangers told them they can no longer discuss bloodstains on the driveway or refer to his assassin as a racist.
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Tom Ryan @tom-sam-emi.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Today on Race Point Beach, Provincetown, Massachusetts
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
This is a great piece. Loved this anecdote.
Pioli: Another player that we brought from the Patriots to the Chiefs is Ryan O'Callaghan.
In 2011, he came out to me that he was gay. He didn't come out publicly for another six years.
He had told me, "Scott, I need you to keep this secret." The day that that article came out in Outsports by Cyd Zeigler, I heard from two former players from the Chiefs: Ryan Lilja, one of the offensive linemen, and Mike Vrabel.
Mike said, "Is he OK? Can I please get his contact information? I need to check on him."
Now, everyone sees Mike Vrabel, tough guy.
And he is tough to the death, and he's a man's man and all of that crap. But Mike just wanted to make sure Ryan was OK. That's Mike Vrabel.
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Susan Glasser @sbg1.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
This is who he is, and who he always was.
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
As these teens describe, AI can diminish human relationships; devalue art; threaten the environment; lead to laziness; give unreliable results; pose privacy concerns; and be misused. So, please, stop with the narratives of inevitability and let's embrace a pedagogy and politics of refusal.
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7 Reasons Teens Say No to AI
Some young people only turn to artificial-intelligence chatbots as a last resort, citing concerns about relationships, creativity, the environment and more.
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Leigh Montville @lmontville.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
I’m just going to pretend Bruce Springsteen owns the Patriots. That’s my plan.
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
"If the Minnesota resistance has an overarching ideology, you could call it “neighborism”—a commitment to protecting the people around you, no matter who they are or where they came from. [T]heir neighbors whether they were born in Minneapolis or Mogadishu."
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Dan Kennedy @dankennedy.net · 26/01/2026
Interesting essay by Jonathan Rauch on why he's concluded that Trump is an actual fascist. I've been calling Trump an authoritarian for a long time, and a racist hate-monger for even longer, but I wasn't quite sure how you'd go about defining fascism. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Yes, It’s Fascism
Until recently, I thought it a term best avoided. But now, the resemblances are too many and too strong to deny.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 25/01/2026
Pretti died after asking a woman he was with if she was OK. Good died after telling the man who killed her that she wasn’t mad at him.
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
really wish we'd opted against having the worst people in the world run my country
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Someday corporations and technology companies will pretend they were always against this
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 17/01/2026
you know this guy is a FOR REAL photographer because he's telling the story of his brutal, unconditional arrest by federal goons and can't help but slip in a gear review
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Tom Ryan @tom-sam-emi.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
That 31% is forever Trump’s base.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Trump accepting Machado's Nobel Peace Prize is a great insult to the FIFA Peace Prize committee
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Me, reading and studying history: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Me, realizing I am living through a historical event: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
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Cathy Fuller @cathyclassical.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
www.thebostoncalendar.com/events/6-bos...
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6 Boston-area Museums & Zoos Offering Free Admissions in Honor of MLK Day 2025 [01/19/26]
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is an opportunity to reflect on the work of a great civil rights leader. It’s also a day off from work (hopefully) and a day when many Boston museums open their doors f...
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Tom Ryan @tom-sam-emi.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
In a world where Tr*mp’s jackboot icy thugs are an example of the worst of us, Provincetown is a heart healthy alternative, and seeks the best of us.
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Just a reminder that you've never seen a Calvin & Hobbes animated movie or cartoon is because Bill Watterson didn't want to give Hobbes a voice so he could always live inside your head exactly the way you imagined him. And to this day you have no idea who he ever has voted for. But you can guess.
Calvin & Hobbes, sitting on a rock, Hobbes (a stuffed tiger) reading a treasure map and Calvin in a pith helmet holding a flag.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 13/01/2026
Deranged. bsky.app/profile/notu...
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Tom Ryan @tom-sam-emi.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
My morning routine of letter writing grounds me during these fractured, post-truth times. It centers my soul. The quiet and stillness is everything. “The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.” ~ Rachel Carson
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Home Alone 3 looks awful
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
I watched an interview of a woman from Greenland. The interviewer asked her about Trump. She replied that she didn’t like Trump because he interrupts her sleep. I mean…same.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/01/2026
"This was a family that could've been like mine" -- Philip Bump breaks down crying on MS NOW when talking about the stuffed animals in Renee Good's car when she was killed
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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Losing the vocabulary to capture the grotesquerie we're witnessing.
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Bob Socci @bobsocci.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Coach of the Year? The Patriots Mike Vrabel, who regularly signs autographs and interacts with fans, took a moment before Sunday’s game for a selfie (or, for fellow Ted Lasso fans, an “ussie”). Then his team went out and gave the entire home crowd a 14th win to celebrate.
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Renée Graham 🏳️‍🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Man, please.You're Bari Weiss's handpicked boy. Your whole job will be kowtowing Trump and corporate interests.
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