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JoseyRider

@joseyrider.bsky.social

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Lifetime Democrat. Retired. Women's rights, civil rights, environment/climate change, permaculture. Politics matter. Pay attention. TX to Rosebud Rez, SD to Ecuador. Equine specialist for Equine Assisted Therapy.

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JoseyRider @joseyrider.bsky.social · Nov 9

For anyone else wanting to stop your Medicare coverage (& the payment coming out of your Social Security check),
I'll save you some hours on hold.
This is the form you need to complete. Return it by hand, mail or fax to your closest SS office.

FORM: CMS-1763
www.cms.gov/Medicare/CMS...

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Sarah Primate @langurlover.bsky.social · 1h

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Bird migration is changing. What does this reveal about our planet? – visualised

Bird migrations rank as one of nature’s greatest spectacles. Thanks to GPS tracking, scientists are uncovering extraordinary insights into ancient and mysterious journeys – and new threats that are re...

www.theguardian.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

VITALI: What I'm hearing from you is it might be be enough that Thune is now saying I could do a vote on ACA subsidies

JEFFRIES: Republicans have tried to repeal the ACA more than 70 different times. They can't be trusted on a wing and a prayer. We need a real path forward.

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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 1h

enjoying living in Arlington more and more these days

www.arlnow.com/2025/10/15/t...

Top White House official selling Arlington home after activists write chalk messages on sidewalk | ARLnow.com

White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller is selling his Arlington home after it was repeatedly targeted by activists. The nearly 6,000-square-foot house, custom built with interiors that "embr...

www.arlnow.com

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 1h

"I want to be happy Mike" has gotta be one of the most embarrassing lines out of Servile Mike's mouth.

We want fired Mike.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Mike Johnson: "I don't like being mad Mike. I want to be happy Mike. I want to be the happy warrior. But I am so upset about all this. God bless America."

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Punchbowl News @punchbowlnews.bsky.social · 4h

Wednesday was the last FEC filing day of 2025 — and the midterm money picture is coming into focus.

Senate Dems crushed GOP rivals in key races, while younger Dem challengers outraised longtime incumbents.
punchbowl.news/article/fina...

Takeaways from a big FEC filing day

Wednesday was the last FEC filing day of 2025, offering a trove of fundraising data that helps bring the midterms into focus.

punchbowl.news

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2h

If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education.

We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.

Vlad 🐸 Țepeș @porcupunk.bsky.social · 15h

Wow. Just wow.

"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."

When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For?

Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do

www.forbes.com

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 2h

Rep. Bryon Donalds (R-Fla.) is running for governor.

In the last quarter, his congressional campaign spent $101,000, per new filing.

Almost half of it went to security.

For his wife.

Schedule B for ALL Line #'s Schedule B for ALL Line #'s

docquery.fec.gov

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1h

Johnson: That is not the principles of the Republican Party. You want me to articulate them? We fought the Nazis, we defended that evil ideology.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14h

AOC: You're damn right that it's a Democratic priority to keep people from getting poisoned, from dangerous chemicals

You're damn right that it's a Democratic priority to bring down the cost of housing

If they want to say that that's a Democratic priority, they're right,

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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 2h

“Congress and the public simply can’t follow what the Trump administration has done with federal spending. And now the fiscal year is over, with untold sums unaccounted for.”

The Administration has no idea what happened to American tax dollars. Sheer incompetence.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Not Even Congress Knows How Much Money DOGE Cut

www.nytimes.com

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1h

Remind me again, what was Ted Cruz’s take on the right wing funded rally on the DC ellipse in January 2021 that turned into a riot at the US Capitol? Is he advocating RICO investigations of those folks?

Shoe + @shoe.bsky.social · 1h

RICO Deeze Nuts

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 19h

BREAKING: Journalists exited the Pentagon after refusing to agree to the Trump administration's new restrictions on access.

Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules

Journalists at the Pentagon turned in access badges and cleaned out their workspaces on Wednesday, the price for refusing to agree to new restrictions on their jobs being removal from being at the seat of U.S. military power.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva on Mike Johnson refusing to swear her in: "The excuses depending on the day keep changing ... the timing is the fact that I am the 218th signer to the discharge petition for the Epstein files"

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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 1h

Only about one-fifth of applicants for federal disaster assistance from Kerr County have been deemed eligible to get financial help so far, leaving hundreds without governmental aid more than three months after deadly floods ravaged the county on July 4.

FEMA denied or didn’t advance most Kerr County flood requests

Advocates are questioning why so many applicants from the flood-ravaged county have not received federal disaster help. Nonprofits are trying to fill in the gaps.

www.texastribune.org

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 1h

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 27d

The best way to look at the Trump Administration has always been that of an organized crime syndicate. They operate the same way. Threats. Kicking up to the boss. Side hustles. Extortion. Protection money. Harsher treatment for disloyal allies. Indiscriminate violence.

Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 27d

“Jawboning” doesn’t really adequately sell what is happening here, this isn’t a question
over public “policy” per se, this is the state just straight up saying if you slightly hurt the feelings of one guy and his well connected pals, it will come for you, it’s just obscenely cultish in a way that…

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 12h

Drones flying around Chicago suburban houses and apartments to peer through their windows in search of Latino people to target for assault and arrest by federal agents is not a world we should accept. And Chicagoans are not accepting it. This is an anti-fascist city.

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Jason Herbert @herberthistory.bsky.social · 1d

This week Historians At The Movies never says die. Join us on Netflix this Sunday, October 19 at 8pm eastern for THE GOONIES.

Keep #HATM good enough by sharing and we’ll see you soon!

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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 1h

Trump’s border czar's story about taking a $50,000 payment from an undercover FBI agent has changed again after being confronted about it on a live TV panel.

Homan Confronted on Live TV Over Bribery Scandal

President Trump’s border czar said he had “no idea” where people got the idea that he had accepted a $50,000 payment.

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Stephanie Mencimer @smencimer.bsky.social · 2h

No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"

We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.

www.motherjones.com

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CN Lester 🏳️‍⚧️ @cnlester.bsky.social · 21h

I still have the letter I got back from William Hague when I wrote to him as a queer teenager arguing for the end of Section 28 and the equalisation of the age of consent - he confidently asserted that Section 28 would never be repealed and age of consent never equalised.

Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 1d

Not once have I seen an explanation for why teenagers must hear things that upset them in virtue of the unspecified speech-acts being upsetting, nor have I ever seen an explanation for why teenagers will be forbidden to express displeasure with upsetting things.

William Hague: Why I’ll banish ‘safe spaces’ at Oxford
The new chancellor tells Cheltenham Literature Festival that there will be no ‘cancel culture’ and students should expect to hear things that upset them
October 14 2025, The Times
The new chancellor of Oxford University has said there will be no safe spaces for students and warned would-be undergraduates that they will “hear things that will upset and offend them”.

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Social Security Works @socialsecurityworks.org · 1h

Every day that Republicans keep the government shut down sends a clear message.

The GOP would rather fight tooth and nail to give billionaires a handout than save health care and lower costs for working families.

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Senator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · 1h

Finally some good news for federal employees… a judge paused these indiscriminate, illegal firings. Russ “Grim Reaper” Vought may try again, but we will keep beating him in court.

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 1h

The marketing of AI-driven surveillance solutions to schools is outpacing administrators’ capacity to establish reasonable and clear policies to ensure that new technology is used safely, write a team of researchers who looked at data related to vape detection technologies installed in US schools.

Unproven Vape Detection Tech Expands Surveillance in Schools, Threatening Privacy | TechPolicy.Press

Tech Policy Press is a nonprofit media and community venture intended to provoke new ideas, debate and discussion at the intersection of technology and democracy. We publish opinion and analysis.

www.techpolicy.press

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 1h

House Oversight Committee Democrats ask Atty Gen. Pam Bondi for info by Oct. 30 on rationale for Ghislaine Maxwell prison transfer

"Months-long failure by the BOP to respond to urgent & deeply troubling questions concerning the preferential treatment that BOP has accorded to.. Maxwell"

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