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Vintage Tom

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I collect stuff, mostly records and glass. Valley of the Sun AZ 🌵

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 23h
Each election year, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) takes extra steps to ensure ballots sent through the mail arrive at election offices on time. This year, it’s delaying those efforts. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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USPS pushes back measures that ensure mail ballots arrive on time
“The shorter timeframe is noteworthy and I don’t know why they’re doing this,” Steve Hutkins, who writes for Save the Post Office, told Democracy Docket.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 3h
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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𝑬𝒓𝒊𝒏 🍕 @erinkelly323.bsky.social · 5h
Cast also includes @funkybeck.bsky.social and @emilykmarsh.bsky.social 💞 So you KNOW it's gonna be amazing. #MST3k
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.
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JoseyRider @joseyrider.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
He's bankrupting it like his casinos.
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New Details Show Trump Is Running the Kennedy Center Into the Ground
Donald Trump’s handpicked board has spent all the money the prestigious institution has.
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Vintage Tom @tomwvv.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
That TIME interview should scare the shit out of every decent American. He’s completely lost it.
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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The 988 suicide prevention hotline's Press 3 option — which provides specialized services to LGBTQ callers — has been restored more than a year after the Trump administration shut it down. Confirmed by HHS and the office of Senator Tammy Baldwin, who led on legislation that forced its restoration
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Renee Good's family filed two lawsuits today. The first, against, USG, is a standard wrongful death. The second is a Klan Act lawsuit against Jonathan Ross, AND STEPHEN MILLER and Greg Bovino. It names Nick Shirley and Christopher Rufo as non-party co-conspirators for their racist propaganda.
44. At all relevant times, Defendants Ross, Miller, Noem, Lyons, Homan,
Bovino, and the John Doe Federal Agents acted under color of federal law and within the
scope of a joint enterprise with the private actors described below. Defendant
Lewandowski acted in part under color of federal law and in part, as alleged below, as a
private person, his federal status having been limited to a temporary part-time designation
that his conduct exceeded. Shirley, Rufo, and Ben Bergquam, and the other non-party
private actors described below, agreed to and in fact participated in the conspiracy alleged
here: each acted in concert with, and with the knowledge and encouragement of, federal
officials.
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Vintage Tom @tomwvv.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I’ve just started reading and he’s already said that if he wasn’t doing a good job now - today, October 1 2026 - people wouldn’t have voted for him in 2024. Look up “dyschronometria in dementia patients”.
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The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · 30/09/2026
The Trump administration blocked funding for projects at Utah's popular national parks. Here's where that funding would have gone, and what won't get done.
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The Trump admin blocked nearly $2M for projects at Utah’s national parks. Here’s what won’t get done.
The Trump administration blocked funding for projects at Utah's popular national parks. Here's where that funding would have gone, and what won't get done.
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Gosh Shammgosh @goshshammgosh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I think it's important to note Schmitt has staff he relies on from both his personal office as well as the well-staffed Committee's majority office. This *big-Hawks-game-plan* had to have gone through a dozen people first and no one caught it as being, well, the dumbest god damn thing of all time.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026
They are shutting this down by the end of the day.
Can the president build a giant triumphal arch in Washington
DC without congressional authorization?

No. Not on federal park or public grounds in the District of Columbia without express authority of Congress. I
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Scott Gillispie @fsgillispie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Wish these turkeys cared as much about women's healthcare as "women's sports".
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
1. Jay Feely, a former NFL kicker and a GOP candidate for Congress in Arizona, has made “protecting women’s sports” a centerpiece of his election campaign. So I reviewed years of Feely’s podcast appearances to see what he actually thinks about female athletes. 🧵
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CorrinaLeeB 🇨🇦 @corrina.sheshed.rocks · 24/09/2026
🗳️Voting is underway in Illinois, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont & Virginia! This is your moment. Make your plan, cast your ballot & make your voice heard. Every vote is a voice. Every voice matters. Get out & VOTE💙 #Vote2026 #EarlyVoting #VivaHerAlliance #SheShed
🗳️Voting is underway in Illinois, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Virginia & Vermont!

This is your moment. Make your plan, cast your ballot and make your voice heard.

Every vote is a voice. Every voice matters. Get out & VOTE💙

#Vote2026 #EarlyVoting 
#VivaHerAlliance #SheShed
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
why is trump wearing a winter coat and one glove
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Vintage Tom @tomwvv.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Anybody in @petersagal.bsky.social “podcast” audience care to provide evidence?
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Celebrate the John Coltrane Centennial 🎂💯 📷 Lee Friedlander, 1960 #Trane100 "John was like a visitor to this planet. He came in peace and he left in peace; but during his time here, he kept trying to reach new levels of awareness, of peace, of spirituality." - Albert Ayler
Colour photo of Coltrane in a blue plaid sirt, with his saxophone.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
people defending the democratic establishment insist that the public wants workhorses not show horses this is a party who gave america - fdr - jfk - lbj - obama - clinton are you fucking kidding me?
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I want to be 100% clear: @gavinnewsom.bsky.social's fingerprints are all over this deal and he owns the consequences. He has handed control of America's media ecosystem to Trump's top enablers and he should have to answer for it every day for the rest of his career. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/b...
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Paramount Settles States’ Lawsuit, Clearing Way for Warner Bros. Merger
By resolving a lawsuit filed by a group of states, the media mogul David Ellison removed the last major hurdle he faced in buying Warner Bros. Discovery.
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Appalachia Comics Project @appalachiacomics.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Join us for a series of book signing events September 27-29 to commemorate two years since Hurricane Helene and the ongoing work to rebuild. These events support local comic shops, bookstores, and libraries, helping with the continuing recovery and celebrating the creativity of the region.
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@debbie156 @debbie156.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
#AZ02 Elect Jonathan Nez to Congress! The current Rep, Eli Crane has done nothing but harm to CD-02. Crane has passed ZERO legislation to help you, lives in the Oro Valley, doesn’t hold town halls, voted to cut Medicaid & SNAP, & said he doesn’t even want to serve in Congress! Vote for Nez! #Pinks
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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
but inevitably i find myself running a checklist: does this discourse conclude to rationalize harm? does this discourse ignore or manipulate some important facts, or does it work with those facts toward something bigger? does this discourse enhance or weaken my values?
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Vintage Tom @tomwvv.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Shouldn’t Choice A say “America Intelligence”?
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026
i am genuinely bewildered by people who say that the rise of white nationalism in the republican party is a response to the "woke left." like, did the woke left cause pat buchanan's 1992 presidential campaign? is the woke left why steve king had a long career in congress?
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
All in fewer than nine months. Extraordinary. Read the full stats here: www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...
nyc.gov
More Affordable, Safer, Better Run: Mayor Mamdani’s First Management Report Shows ‘Pothole Politics’ is Working Across City Government
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Vintage Tom @tomwvv.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The Holy Everlasting Gobstopper of Antioch.
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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 18/09/2026
UCS’s Julian Reyes analyzes the Trump administration’s continued attacks on forestry research, federal land management agencies, and the scientific workforce that supports effective decision-making. A must-read for National Public Lands Month. Read his blog:
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What Teddy Roosevelt Knew and Trump Doesn't Get: Public Lands Need Science  
US Forest Service founders Gifford Pinchot and President Teddy Roosevelt would be rolling in their graves knowing what has become of the world’s largest wildland fire research organization, the very institution they helped build. Teddy Roosevelt helped establish 230 million acres of public lands dur
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"Trump is seeking to destroy a memorial to a man because that man is not him. He is seeking to destroy a memorial to culture because culture does not embrace him. It’s really as simple as that."
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Matthias Syn @matthiassyn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Fuck Ed Sheeran.
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gwynnek @gwynnek.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Vintage Tom @tomwvv.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The FBI’s new theme song is “Nothing Compares To Ewe”.
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Margaret Morgan 🇪🇺🇳🇱🇦🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The incompetence, arrogance and deceit are breathtaking. These are figures from the Pentagon watchdog’s report. www.aljazeera.com/features/202...
Al Jazeera graphic showing losses and expenditure. 

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/9/15/dozens-of-aircraft-hundreds-of-buildings-us-loss-to-iran-attacks-revealed
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Larisa Aitch @llarisah.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
”[…] resulted in 500 arrests in southwest Florida. The footage I took […] the surge did not show violence against bystanders or protesters. There were no deployments of tear gas or explosions of flash bang grenades. And the footage, while sometimes heartbreaking, did not license to a single outlet.“
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Vintage Tom @tomwvv.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Ideological purity will not result in harm reduction. On Nov 3, you can vote for the Republican, the Democrat, a powerless third party or you can abstain. That’s it. Those are the choices. Even for Doomers and single issue voters. Please make the choice that causes the least harm.
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Vintage Tom @tomwvv.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I went to my first raga concert tonight. Sahana Banerjee on sitar and Amit Kavthekar on tabla. Astounding.
Amit Kavthekar on tabla and Sahana Banerjee on sitar, performing at the Musical Instrument Museum Theater, September 6, 2026.
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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 05/09/2026
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muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
every one of you who wasn't alive for the 2000 election, this is exactly what it was like
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Our elite press corps consistently refuses to state the obvious: that Illegality is something almost all of Trump’s major policy moves have in common: presswatchers.org/2025/04/the-trump…
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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
You currently have to work a full day just to be able to afford to fill up once.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This is why I find so enervating the old centrist two-step; “Republicans are an existential threat to our democracy, and we will work together with them to find bipartisan solutions—as the voters desire” the fuck we do. We desire consequences and repercussions. We desire investigations and trials.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Note for North Carolina voters: The GOP board of elections just approved new, restrictive guidelines on mail voters that are likely to lead to counties rejecting more ballots. www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...
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In split vote, NC approves new mail-in ballot guidelines hours before voting begins
The vote comes after similar proposed rules were blocked from taking effect in this year’s elections.
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Vintage Tom @tomwvv.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I assume you’re all over this, @megaran.com!
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Although Bernie Sanders, AOC and Zohran Mamdani use the democratic-socialist label, most policies they advocate would fit comfortably within European social democracy. American political terminology makes their economic programs sound further left than many of their policy proposals actually are.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
2. Highfalutin concepts in the same breath as Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth, Scott Bessent, Stephen Miller and Robert F Kennedy Jr – c'mon. These are small men with small minds who are trying to make nearly everyone in America smaller, meaner, sicker and poorer.
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Seriously the single biggest donor to the GOP posts Nazi shit on the regular and it’s not a thing covered in media at all
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
In keeping with fascist tradition of attacking modern art as “degenerate,” the Trump administration is removing the “Blue” sculpture from the grounds of the Kennedy Center.
nytimes.com
Kennedy Center Begins Removing Outdoor ‘Blue’ Sculpture (Gift Article)
The towering artwork, added to the campus in 2019, was targeted for elimination after President Trump’s takeover of the center.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I think it's time for a "tax revolt."
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Vintage Tom @tomwvv.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
For those of you playing at home, we’re at the “Entartete Kunst” phase of the Nazification of the US.
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