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@wcshaw.bsky.social
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Writer, editor, teacher. Sacred Monkey River, WWNorton; The Power Line, A Novel, and novel The Manager, from Miller Pond Editions. Cshaw.net. Adirondacks/VT. (Guaranteed 100% AI-free.)

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Ambassador Greg Delawie @gregdelawie.bsky.social · 12h
According to Reuters it was the Trump White House that ordered Ukraine's Starlink disabled, so Republicans were lying when they denied that. Trump and the GOP work for Russia. It's so embarrassing to be an American these days. www.reuters.com/world/europe...
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EXCLUSIVE: Order to limit Starshield for Ukraine came from inside White House, sources say
The order to limit a satellite system used by Ukraine ​for battlefield communications and drone operations came from inside the White House, according to two US officials and a Western official briefe...
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 14h
Are we Russia now? Did we become Russia and I just missed it?
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Beefeater Fella @beefeaterfella.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Fucking legend @ZelenskyyUa "The restrictions have been lifted. We've had enough" - Zelenskyy says Ukraine is ready to resume strikes on Russian oil refineries. 1/4
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
We must crush Elon Musk and the oligarchs. It's either us or them. They are playing for all the marbles.
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Brooke Jarvis @brookejarvis.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
My piece for the Voyages issue of NYTM, in which much idyllicness ensues www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/m...
nytimes.com
Sweden Has 267,570 Islands. I Walked Across 20 of Them. (Gift Article)
Traveling through the Stockholm Archipelago on foot meant watching everyone else sail by. It also meant unraveling the maze of lives and experiences that shaped it.
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Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 21h
I've been asked to get permissions for my epigraphs for TYPO. But in case it doesn't happen: "Error is one of my inevitable ways of working."—Clarice Lispector "Honor thy error as a hidden intention." —Brian Eno "These are not misprints but beauties of my style hitherto undreamt of." —James Joyce
"Error is one of my inevitable ways of working."
—Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.


"Honor thy error as a hidden intention." 
—Brian Eno, Oblique Strategies


"These are not misprints but beauties of my style hitherto undreamt of."
—James Joyce
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 23h
The latest news on Trump's attempts to turn the US into a sponsor of russian terrorism. They're not even trying to hide it anymore.
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Diamond Life @diamondlifeca.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
More of this
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I don't know that it makes him presidential material but Ossoff's ability to just be honest about how much of a pile of shit these people really are should be a model to the party.
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Rep. Jim McGovern @repmcgovern.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Trump’s stupid trade war with Canada is destroying American businesses & livelihoods. Today, @balint.house.gov & I heard directly from small business owners in Vermont & Massachusetts, alongside Canadian Consul General Bernadette Jordan & Olivia Dion from the Quebec Government Office.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Trump has cut off intelligence to Ukraine so that Putin can more easily bomb civilians including children.
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wcshaw.bsky.social @wcshaw.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
This is what the barbarians do when they destroy the Capitol.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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Martin Napier @mnapier76.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
thehill.com/homenews/613... #context
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Kelly calls to remove Hegseth ‘immediately’ over public execution plan
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) called on the Trump administration to remove Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth from his post “immediately” over the Pentagon chief’s plan to livestream the …
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Alleen Brown @alleenbrown.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
“Disgusting ecoterrorists is what I call all them. Next time it happens I say everybody should be on rooftops & wear masks & be protected & take ’em out.” That’s what a bar patron in ND said when I asked his feelings about the Standing Rock protests 10 years later 1/ drilled.media/news/the-pro...
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What Standing Rock’s Propaganda War Means Today - Drilled
Ten years after the standoff, exclusive documents reveal that digital mercenaries targeted local communities and stirred up anti-protest sentiment.
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Lery Boy 🇨🇦 @leryboy.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Dunning-Kruger Barbie
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 13/10/2026
Several leaders of India’s “cockroach” youth movement are detained in New Delhi after entering a historic protest site in defiance of a police order, calling for the resignation of India’s election chief over the removal of 130 million people from the country’s voter lists.
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Why a wave of ‘cockroach’ protesters are defying India’s bid to stamp out their movement
Demonstrators are demanding the resignation of India’s election chief over the removal of 130 million names from voter lists, which they say favors Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party.
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I wrote about the one-man disinformation vector that we need to worry about between now and November: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Elon Musk is the midterms' biggest disinformation risk
The world’s wealthiest man pours money into GOP candidates while backing a floridly fake story about a Democrat on the platform he owns.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/10/2026
is there anyone thinking/writing about the actual mechanics of disentangling the US government from elon musk?
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Starting tomorrow on Indigenous Peoples’ Day federal contractors are scheduled to begin removing thousands of saguaros and other desert plants from Tohono O’odham land in Arizona for Trump’s border wall, according to tribal officials.
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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Fix your economy with this one weird trick
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 09/10/2026
Putin throws lifeline to try to save Trump in the midterms. In return, American dollars go to Russia and get put toward killing innocent Ukrainians. Trump/Russia right out in the open. www.dailymail.com/news/article...
dailymail.com
Putin throws Trump midterm lifeline as Russia agrees to supply diesel
Donald Trump announced today that Vladimir Putin has agreed to supply the US with hundreds of thousands of tons of diesel.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
People forget that J6 was successful. Everyone who participated was let out of jail and the guy who perpetrated it is President again. There were no consequences. They have plenty of incentive to do a much bigger and worse version.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Zelenskyy issues a statement responding to Trump’s deal with Putin to lift sanctions to purchase Russian oil and diesel.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Ossoff: "They've unleashed federal agents to kill Americans on the streets of our cities with impunity. That's Mike Collins's immigration policy. And that's what you'd expect from the bigot congressman who called for executed immigrants by throwing to their deaths out of helicopters."
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This. This is important. They’re hoping fear will hold us back because they don’t have the numbers. But it will make us stronger. It will bring people out.
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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Take the next 28 days to do EVERYTHING you can to help elect Democrats. There's a surge of #ICELawlessness happening across the country putting us all in danger. The Psychopath in Chief is offering the annihilation of 2 of the country's most important cities & we have to hold him accountable.
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Mickey Kuhns @mickeykuhns.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Trump administration refuses international election monitors for first time in over 2 decades. The decision not to invite observers from the OSCE puts the U.S. alongside Russia and Belarus, while the Justice Department prepares to deploy its own poll monitors. www.ms.now/news/trump-m...
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Trump administration refuses international election monitors for first time in over 2 decades
The decision not to invite observers from the OSCE puts the U.S. alongside Russia and Belarus, while the Justice Department prepares to deploy its own poll monitors.
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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 05/10/2026
Follow tierralibre_noborders on IG for updates. Donate to the legal fund at: givebutter.com/stop-destruc...
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Protect The Borderlands
Help us stop them from destroying ancient cottonwood trees and cultural sites at the border
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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 05/10/2026
They cut down the "grandmother" tree.
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
ICE's shameless stupid cruelty continues unabated. Here's a truly wrenching account from our wonderful local Vermont newspaper, which I imagine could be multiplied a thousandfold every day across America. Many thanks to Liza Cochran, its author bravelittlevoices.substack.com/p/terror-in-...
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Terror in the Backyard:
ICE’s Shadow Surge in Vermont
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 02/10/2026
Breaking News: A judge halted border wall construction across the Big Bend region in Texas, a project that has faced fierce local opposition.
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Judge Blocks Border Wall Construction in Big Bend in Texas
The ruling dealt a setback to the Trump administration’s plans for hundreds of miles of barriers that have drawn local opposition.
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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — Court prohibits Trump administration from building border wall in Texas’ Big Bend region, for now.
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wcshaw.bsky.social @wcshaw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Judge Blocks Border Wall Construction in Big Bend in Texas
The ruling dealt a setback to the Trump administration’s plans for hundreds of miles of barriers that have drawn local opposition.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 02/10/2026
TODAY: New SNAP cuts are kicking in because of Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill." 5 million people have already lost food assistance, including 1.5 million+ kids since the bill was enacted. No kid deserves to go hungry so Trump can give his billionaire buddies another tax handout.
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mikeymomo.bsky.social @mikeymomo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Bill Bramhall / New York Daily News Bill Bramhall's editorial cartoon for Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2026.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
You wouldn't know it from reading the headlines, but the president's downward mental health spiral is the biggest story in America right now We won't salvage democracy unless the media and pols start speaking the truth about Trump's damaged mind My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
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We need to find the words for Trump’s madness before things blow up | Will Bunch
The media and politicians haven’t pinned down anything resembling a suitable description for a president’s downward spiral or the looming battle for U.S. democracy.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 27/09/2026
Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/kQdKbY1
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Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees
Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.
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Ms. Winston Smith @judenmarysmomma.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I don’t wanna do no kings again, 1 day? No thanks. I want us to recreate occupy Wall Street on the White House lawn. These people need ousted
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Second Great Bisexual Awakening @suesswassersee.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Rahm should be launched from a giant trebuchet strung between the Sears Tower and the Hancock Building, aimed away from Lake Michigan so as not to contaminate our drinking water. Anyone pushing for him to run for president should join him
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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 26/09/2026
War destroys more than lives and cities: it scars ecosystems for decades. Oil and gas dependence makes conflict more deadly, toxic and volatile, while fuelling more power struggles. We need peace and stability. Modern renewable energy systems are part of the solution.
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Greenpeace says oil slick in Strait of Hormuz spreading rapidly
An oil slick in the Strait of Hormuz has roughly doubled in size within a day, the environmental organization Greenpeace said, adding that the pollution may have originated from a tanker recently atta...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Baddies will destroy liberal order to play chicken with climate disaster. They don’t care about the rest of us. We can build better but the window to get in the fight is closing. We have to stop appealing to moral authority here.
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 25/09/2026
I guess that the best argument, for me, against AI is that everyone advocating it seems to be a psychopath.
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Just a reminder that you can go millions of miles between oil changes when you drive an EV www.wsj.com/business/ret...
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Iran War Is Driving Up the Cost of Your Next Oil Change
Higher gas prices were just the warm-up act for drivers, repair shops and retailers like Walmart and Costco.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 25/09/2026
Republicans made climate partisan. Republicans are keeping climate partisan. The exact words & tone that people who give a shit about reality use to talk about climate are not the reason climate is partisan. Using different words will not make climate less partisan.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The love affair continues …
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: Democrats filed a lawsuit late Wednesday asking a federal court to prevent the Trump administration from deploying armed federal agents to voting sites during the midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Democrats sue Trump admin to keep armed agents from polls during midterms
Democrats filed a lawsuit late Wednesday asking a federal court to prevent the Trump administration from deploying armed federal agents to voting sites during the midterm elections.
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