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West Coast Cliche

@westcoastcliche.bsky.social
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Short story writer. Retired academic cardiologist. I teach at Writers Studio. I live in San Francisco and west Sonoma County with my wife Bobbi and Kerry Blue terrier Trey. Socialist, sentimentalist, grew up in Canada near Toronto but American now too.

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
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Lisa Bellamy @lisalbellamy.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/141852...
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She Had Some Horses
She Had Some Horses She had some horsesI She had horses who were bodies of sand. She had horses who thought they were the sun and their bodies shone and…
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LindaFly @lindafly.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Canadian plane dropping water on the Los Angeles forest fire. Neighbors helping neighbors. Thank you so much Canada, we are sorry our current leader is an idiot.
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Daniel Miller @danielmiller.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I FEEL SO LUCKY
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Art & Nature @capecodfairytales.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
#Poetry #Painting #Morning I start the morning gently In a quiet sort of way Just grateful for the time And another beautiful day 🎨 Edward Hopper
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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Ito Yuhan (Japanese, 1882–1951) "Full Moon over Miyajima", 1930. Woodblock Print, 41 × 27.5 cm. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
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mmothnadine.bsky.social @mmothnadine.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
OMG 😱 did you hear how bad socialism is? It’s so bad that it feeds the poor, takes care of the sick, makes our streets safer, life less stressful +more affordable and costs the majority little and the Uber wealthy only their fair share in taxes that they have gotten away with not paying for decades!
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Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦 @perevaa.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
At 11:00 p.m., more than 1,000 vehicles were stuck in line waiting to leave Crimea, with wait times exceeding 3 hours. By 11:50 p.m., an air raid alert forced the Kerch Bridge to close – and it remains shut. Next time, think twice before vacationing in occupied territory.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
An astonishing expose of the secret directives Tulsi Gabbard received throughout her political career. They appear to have come from the leader of the cult to which she belonged.
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Tulsi Gabbard, her guru and the mysterious messages that helped shape her political career — The Washington Post
I obtained hundreds of confidential memos detailing politics and policy guidance for Gabbard from her years in Congress, then embarked on a quest to identify who was behind them.
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Pat G🇨🇦 🍁🏳️‍🌈🍉 @pguist.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Netanyahu is a War Criminal with 🩸 on his hands. 🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼
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Miz Anthrope @mizanthrope01.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Harvard and Princeton graduate, Grammy winner, and former First Lady Michelle Obama appreciation post
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Democrats Organizing For America @democratsofa.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
RFK Jr demanded the *retraction* of a 20 yr Danish study that showed aluminums in vaccines do not cause health issues. The journal REFUSED saying the study has been peer-reviewed and found to have no significant flaws. Imagine asking science to un-science itself.
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Ciapamia @ciapamia.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Joni Mitchell and David Hockney at the L.A. Louver gallery in Los Angeles, Photo Credit Jacob Sousa, via L.A. Louver, Venice, CA, February 13, 2019.
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Lisa Bellamy @lisalbellamy.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Writers Studio Poetry for Everyone starts July 15 - 6-week live, unrecorded Google Meet class. Using Writers Studio exercise-based method, the class also covers basic poetic craft. 7:30 - 9:30 pm Eastern time. Open to all, beginners warmly welcomed - courses.writerstudio.com/courses/onli...
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The Writers Studio Online Poetry for Everyone - Summer 2026
The Writers Studio--founded by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Philip Schultz--offers advanced poetry classes. This class taught by poet Lisa Bellamy features weekly assignments that introduce students to...
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
World Cup players are being denied entry to the US. Some are being detained, searched and treated like criminals. They have one thing in common…. They’re not white. The US has no business hosting the World Cup when it’s hostile to those from other parts of the world.
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bob barker 🍸 @insortediaboli.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Any time a Spanish speaking government does right by its poorest the New York Times summons the ghost of United Fruit
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
This is by far the worst World Cup ever, people were more hyped to go to Qatar and play in stadiums built by slaves than to go to Donald Trump's fascist USA. FIFA has to stop giving the World Cup to War Criminals. Or more likely, we need a new FIFA.
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scubapopeye.bsky.social @scubapopeye.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Went to visit one of my uncles a few years ago. We had beers and laughed. Then he got very quiet. He told me about his experience going to Normandy in WW2. He spent a year there. We are not the same people anymore. We do nothing to help anyone. Kinda fucked up if you ask me.
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The Sgt Joker @thesgtjoker.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
During my service of our Empire in the Marines, I spent a chunk of time in Israel. Seeing how Netanyahu and his prior cronies treated Palestinians then changed my entire opinion about the cause of unrest in the region. It was shocking then and even more shocking that it continues unabated.
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Xelpherpolis @xelpherpolis.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Very cool! Enjoyed listening to Pete talk about the Erie Canal!
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Diane @dyn13.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
I am loving these bite-size bits of delicious American history from @hcrichardson.bsky.social In these troubled times, especially, it is important to be reminded of how great we can be if we choose to. 250 to 250! youtu.be/_Z5yXXMJ4WQ?...
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Yellowstone, Narrated by Jon Tester
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
One ate lunch, one freed a rapist...
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
oh so they’re SCARED scared
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 29/05/2026
It's beyond lying, beyond vulgar
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Julie Roginsky @julieroginsky.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Why is a 76-year-old man doing all the hard work in this moment? Where are the Millennial/Gen Z artists (ahem, Taylor Swift) to shake their audiences into sobriety about what is going on? open.substack.com/pub/saltypol...
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Why is Springsteen Doing All the Hard Work?
What today's generation of best-selling artists refuses to do
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
President Obama: “We pulled it off without firing a missile. We got 97% of their enriched uranium out. There’s no dispute that it worked and we didn’t have to kill a whole bunch of people or shut down the Strait of Hormuz.”
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Steve Hofstetter asking the obvious question...
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Johnny 🫧 Cowlick @jefferycowlick.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Donald Trump is suing the Internal Revenue Service for $10 billion. That's two-thirds of the entire IRS annual budget. Only a traitor tries to extort money from his own government and people.
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Ulrica Hume @uhume.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too. ~Vincent van Gogh
[The Sea Hath Its Pearls by William Henry Margetson (1897)]
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Christina🌊🌊 @sassycc.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I could not have said it better!!!❤️💯
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
im sick of the media describing a potential “deal” in iran, there is no “deal,” trump is begging them to let him surrender and they wont let him
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
It is interesting how Trump quietly accepted the Gulf states denying U.S. military access to their airspace for Iran operations after blasting NATO countries for doing the same thing. www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...
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Trump’s abrupt U-turn on a plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz came after backlash from allies
Saudi Arabia, a key Gulf ally, suspended the U.S. military’s ability to use its bases and airspace to carry out the operation, sources say.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Look at the presentation of JD Vance's speech in Iowa (1) in NYT, (2) in a leading London paper. The latter presents what actually happened. The Times glamorizes Vance, presenting him just as he would want to be presented. One of these is journalism, the other is an exercise in sycophancy.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Don't forget: my old Yale Law classmate Clarence Thomas refused to recuse from Jan. 6 cases despite his wife's involvement in the plot. And he's taken at least 100 gifts worth over $2 million while serving, including from GOP donor Harlan Crow. He's a disgrace to the Court.
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🌹WeegieFromWA 🍀 @onefussyone.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
By the same token, can you imagine the super-rich doing the same in the US?
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 30/04/2026
EXCLUSIVE: Melissa Hortman Died in a Shocking Act of Political Violence. This Is the Story of Her Life.
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Melissa Hortman Died in a Shocking Act of Political Violence. This Is the Story of Her Life
Melissa Hortman died in a shocking act of political violence. This is her story
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 04/05/2026
🔴 Russia has returned the bodies of 375 Ukrainian prisoners of war that show clear signs of severe torture and abuse. united24media.com/war-in-ukrai...
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Russia Returns 375 Bodies of Ukrainian POWs Showing Signs of Torture and Abuse
Russia returned 375 Ukrainian POWs showing signs of torture and abuse. Ukraine is documenting evidence of war crimes for the ICC.
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Karen's no longer exhausted 🇵🇹🇺🇦🙏🏼💔 @karenoia.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
This is what treason looks like. I saw it in 2015 and left the GOP. He had our marines on their knees rolling out the red carpet for Putin,no one else got that honor. Putin's picture is hanging in the oval office above his grandchildren. Private 90 minute phone calls with our sworn enemy? Come on!😩
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Joshua G. Schraiber @jgschraiber.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
This means that hundreds, if not thousands of labs all over the country will close. Tens of thousands of jobs will be lost. This is in defiance of Congress's will and in defiance of good stewardship of the US economy. This is entirely because Russ Vought hates science
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PhillipUSA @phillipusa.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
We are not the same…
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/r/Habs @habsonreddit.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
GOODNIGHT TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING 💤
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ZekeDaHefe @zekedahefe.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
❤️‍🔥 If your barn doesn’t look like this, when your players aren’t even playing in the building, you’re not a hockey mecca. #GoHabsGo
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
🇸🇪 Sweden detained yet another Russian “shadow fleet” vessel in Baltic Sea — tanker Jin Hui! Ship was sailing under fake flag, known for transporting Russian oil, and is under sanctions imposed by Ukraine, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and EU. Bravo, Sweden! Keep it up!
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Imagine the ancestral shame people are going to feel decades from now, as they go through a deceased relative's attic and discover a taboo MAGA hat.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
The actual finding here is that a huge percentage of the population believes things that are not true. Democrats objectively did not spend significant time on climate change or LGBTQ issues in the last election campaign.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
These people are of unsound mind.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Who the hell is Some Worry, the fretful conservative voice who shows up in NYT headlines all the time?
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