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Steve Lionel @stevelionel.com · 21h

Nashua, NH. Crowd overflowed the original area, spilled onto surrounding streets.

Some of the protesters at the Nashua NH No Kings

Steve Lionel @stevelionel.com · 21h

Nashua NH had half a dozen inflatable costumes on display today, including frog, squirrel, gingerbread man, two unicorns and a dog, plus something I can't identify.

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Popehat Or Danger of Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 12d

It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 12d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Popehat Or Danger of Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · Sep 14

"You are being musically mean to me and it's hurting my feelings so I am going to call the police department that we are supposed to be supporting to report a feels violation."

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · Sep 14

A man in Washington, DC, plays the Imperial March from Star Wars while following patrolling soldiers. One of the soldiers threatens to call the police.

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Steve Lionel @stevelionel.com · Sep 8

Windows? Just use the built-in Microsoft service - it's fine for nearly everyone.

Steve Lionel @stevelionel.com · Jul 24

I subscribed earlier based on Wired's excellent reporting in recent months. I enjoy the printed version too.

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Steve Lionel @stevelionel.com · Jul 19

Santo Stefano di Sessanio, Italy, 2025 #caturday

Two kittens, one white with black, one gray tiger, on a cobblestone walkway.

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · Jul 9

I told you MAGA was rewriting the Bible and some of you mocked me

Anthony Oliveira @meakoopa.bsky.social · Jul 9

AI slop now making up saccharine Bible verses that do not exist

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"He prayed for her, she prayed for him and God smiled knowing that their names are already written next to each other."

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Steve Lionel @stevelionel.com · Jul 5

Giglio Island, Italy, May 2025 #caturday

Cat, mostly white but with black cap and markings on back, lays on its siide on stone steps, lazily looking at the camera through slitted eyes.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jul 2

AOC: "On this point of tax on tips, as one of the only people in this body who has lived off of tips, I want to tell you a little bit about the scam ... the cap on that is $25,000 while you're jacking up taxes on people who make less than $50,000 across the US ... while kicking them off the ACA."

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · Jul 2

Republicans are motivated by hurting and bored by helping.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · Jun 21

just saw a group of masked men stuffing masked ICE agents into an unmarked car, who were saying "we're ICE we're ICE!" but the abductors shouted to the crowd "no we're ICE!" no one knew who was ICE, so no one in the crowd said anything.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · Jun 13

Oh, shit, this is perfect

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Congrats, Dipshit, You’re a Dad Now

Listen up, soup for brains. Yesterday, you were just a man. But today, a doctor snipped the umbilical cord off an angry, gray alien with your name ...

www.mcsweeneys.net

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Steve Lionel @stevelionel.com · May 5

I feel sorry for residents of four of those states who fall for clickbait misleading articles such as this one - and I have seen others. Only in Washington state are all driver licenses EDLs - in the other four EDLs are an extra cost option that many don't get.

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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · Apr 25

Janet Mills becoming more popular in Maine after very publicly defending the trans community is a big fuck you to all those Democrats who said we had to abandon them.

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Steve Lionel @stevelionel.com · Apr 21

Ah - found it. www.npr.org/2025/04/21/n...

Exclusive: The White House is looking to replace Pete Hegseth as defense secretary

The White House has begun the process of looking for a new secretary of defense, according to a U.S. official who was not authorized to speak publicly.

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Steve Lionel @stevelionel.com · Apr 21

Why can't I find this in NPR's feed, on its web site, or in Rozen's Bluesky posts? I am not willing to go search on Xitter.

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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · Apr 6

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · Mar 29

Thank goodness for the efficency

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Steve Lionel @stevelionel.com · Mar 30

This was a LOT of fun! John is as delightful a speaker as he is a writer, and he is very approachable. There were maybe 70-80 people there. He read a chapter from the upcoming Old Man's War book 7, which had me wanting to reread the rest. I highly recommend attending if he comes your way.

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Steve Lionel @stevelionel.com · Mar 30

At a book signing for @scalzi.com ‘s latest, in Concord NH. First one of these I’ve attended. Starts soon.

Holding up “When the Moon Hits Your Eye”

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Steve Lionel @stevelionel.com · Mar 22

Koroni Castle, Greece, 2015 #caturday #photography #PhotographersOfBluesky

Shorthair orange and white cat sunning itself on rocks.

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Steve Lionel @stevelionel.com · Mar 18

I will pick mine up at your author signing in Concord, NH. Looking forward to it!

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Steve Lionel @stevelionel.com · Mar 3

"For all the doubt that antivaccine advocates have sowed around childhood immunizations, for all the political proclamations of conscientious objection and the freedom to choose, this child did not have a choice."

Teddy Wilson @reportbywilson.bsky.social · Mar 2

"Too many people view the risks of illness from the vaccine as outweighing the risk of getting measles itself, and what’s abundantly clear now is that the risk of getting measles is increasing."

The Measles Outbreak in Texas Is Why Vaccines Matter

Opting against vaccines may uphold ideas of personal freedom, but it has doomed the county at the center of the Texas measles outbreak

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Steve Lionel @stevelionel.com · Mar 1

This seems so appropriate in today's world: "The short term, soggy biscuit approach to marketing is to make people feel bad about themselves, then offer a solution to their artificially constructed problem."

Schwartz, Jenny. Cajole (The Adventures of a Xeno-Archaeologist Book 4) (p. 84).

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