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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 12d

A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Just a couple days ago, these two Swedish musicians—classical guitarist Emil Ernebro and harmonicist Filip Jers—released this cover of the Beatles' "While My Guitar Gently Weeps." It's jammin' and it's lovely. See you around.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAmh...

”While My Guitar Gently Weeps” - harmonica and guitar cover by Filip Jers & Emil Ernebro

YouTube video by Filip Jers Music

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Lee Wheelock Butz @americandn.bsky.social · 15d

She didn't testify, she performed. Read a script, sorted by Dem names. She looked idiotic looking them up.

Lee Wheelock Butz @americandn.bsky.social · 16d

He's not lying. They're concerned about (paying for) healthcare and doing all they can to fix (eliminate) it.

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Lee Wheelock Butz @americandn.bsky.social · 16d

I'm old enough to remember when Political Correctness was born. Gov. publications were no longer he/him. Had to rotate/w she/her, even in the same publication. We all became '[X]-Americans😡,' and the garbage man became a 'sanitation engineer'. Not about weakness, war, or backing down from a fight.

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Glenn Kirschner @glennkirschner.bsky.social · 17d

A federal judge just ruled that Donald Trump is trying "to deny Americans their birthright." Trump is a serial violator of the Constitution. But Congress CAN STOP HIM & save the republic. Call your elected officials early and often. Red states, blue states, it doesn't matter.
Pressure bursts pipes.

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Lee Wheelock Butz @americandn.bsky.social · 17d

They're vastly outnumbered, but too many wanna-be's (who never will be) who think they're protecting their future are sympathic.

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Tony Michaels 🎙 @thetonymichaels.bsky.social · 17d

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Lee Wheelock Butz @americandn.bsky.social · 20d

Please address the absurdity that Dems want to fund healthcare for "illegal aliens" when that is not allowed by law. Address their lies, dont just keep repeating talking points.

Lee Wheelock Butz @americandn.bsky.social · 21d

I wonder if he realized he was addressing actual antifa warriors when he spoke of the enemies within.

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Jennifer Van Goethem @jennvg.bsky.social · Aug 31

The thing about a lot of these never Trump Republicans is that, unlike a lot of institutionalist Dems who think the fever will break and we can all return to comity or whatever, these guys saw the rot up close and know the only appropriate response is to tear them out of government root and branch.

29 U.S.C. § 157 @organizingpower.bsky.social · Aug 30

If you had told me in 2012 that Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign manager would be posting like this 13 years later i would not have believed you

Tweet from Stuart Stevens:

When Democrats take the House, they must understand they are not a governing party.
They are a dissident movement.
Act like it.
First day:
- cut off all funding of Exec. Branch
-vote to nationalize Starlink and SpaceX
-defund ICE
That's the first day.
On the second, get more aggressive.
There is nothing in the middle of the road but yellow lines and dead armadillos.

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · Aug 31

Just finished the Spike Lee documentary released 20 years after Hurricane Katrina. Make time if you can.

New Orleans’ Own Tell Their Stories in Katrina: Come Hell and High Water

Twenty years after the disaster, docuseries gathers fresh reflections from survivors.

www.netflix.com

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · Aug 31

New Mexico is overriding the federal government on the topic of COVID19 vaccines to ensure their residents can access them.

States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it.

State steps in to ensure access to COVID-19 vaccine

Public health order counters potential limitations set by the USFDA

www.koat.com

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Hyperlexic @hyperlexic.bsky.social · Aug 30

They’re doing all this to prevent people from MEMORIALIZING A MASS SHOOTING

Jason Garcia @jasongarcia.bsky.social · Aug 30

The DeSantis administration currently has at least seven Florida Highway Patrol troopers just on anti-chalk duty: Two watching from a Dunkin Donuts next door and five more parked in the lot right behind them.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · Aug 31

Who voted for war with Venezuela?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · Aug 31

Release the Epstein files.

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"Velshi" on MSNBC @velshimsnbc.bsky.social · Aug 30

It’s “theological malpractice” to "pray for something you have the power to change" said @brotherjones.bsky.social‬ in response to lawmakers offering prayers after the MN shooting.

Facts from @gregoryjacksonjr.bsky.social: “There are more gun stores than there are McDonald's in our country"

‘More gun stores than there are McDonald's’: Gun violence is a ‘dark stain on American history’

The tragic mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic School’s church this week “brought back flashbacks,” says Tennessee State Representative Justin Jones. “This is cruelty, and we should be outraged,” connecting this latest tragedy to the school shooting his own community endured two years ago. Fmr. deputy director of the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention Gregory Jackson, stressed the urgent need for stronger oversight of the gun industry, and all the recent progress that has been actively dismantled by the Trump administration. “President Trump is protecting an industry that now his family is profiting from.”

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"Velshi" on MSNBC @velshimsnbc.bsky.social · Aug 30

Americans are begging for Democratic leadership to get off the mat and back into the fight.

If you’re a political leader in this country and are not prepared to fight with both hands, not prepared to make “good trouble”, then perhaps you should step aside and make space for those who will. #Velshi.

Where is the Party?: time for Democratic leaders to ‘fight with both hands’ or ‘step aside’

Even in easy times, this democracy needs care. And right now it is in dire need of defense. And it needs defenders who are willing to do whatever it takes. Americans are begging for more. Begging for Democrats to get off the mat and back into the fight. If political leaders in this country are not prepared to fight with both hands, and are not prepared to make “good trouble”, then perhaps they should step aside and make space for those who will.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · Aug 22

NEW: Leaders of a small Arizona city ramped up affordable housing & services like soup kitchens for homeless people. In response, a former mayor got angry & tried to recall them. But they survived the recalls this month.

Bolts reports on what's happening—& the warring responses to homelessness:

Facing Arizona’s Crackdown on Homelessness, Two Cities Offer Different Responses - Bolts

Fewer than 250 voters cast a ballot in a South Tucson recall election this month targeting the mayor and two allies in city council. The three officials, Mayor Roxy Valenzuela... Read More

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · Aug 20

You can’t bend reality; you can shatter trust. Politicized stats fool no one—markets, the Fed, and CEOs will ignore propaganda—but they will all suffer without reliable data. Break the thermometer, and you still have a fever. And without reliable diagnostic tools, you won't get the right medicine.

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Lee Wheelock Butz @americandn.bsky.social · Aug 20

The thing about living a long life is watching history repeat, good and bad. We grew up in a whites-only subdivision, which were common at the time. We were allowed in because the association president went to the same church, and our dad lead the county Boy Scouts.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · Aug 20

Coffee prices are soaring under Trump. He doesn't want you to wake up.

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · Aug 20

Brief thread.👇

Miles Taylor @milestaylor.bsky.social · Aug 20

The White House has a secret blacklist of U.S. companies — basically based on how loudly they praise Trump, according to Axios.

I know folks are nervous about the word “authoritarian.”

But a “loyalty scorecard” sounds pretty damn authoritarian to me.

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · Aug 20

This growth in AI’s energy demand is not sustainable, notwithstanding Trump’s attacks on alternative energy sources

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · Aug 20

MELIUS: “.. data centers could consume up to 12% of total US electricity by 2028, tripling from 2023's 4.4%

“.. the availability of power is going to be everything for tech investors.” (And, one might add, consumers.)

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · Aug 20

Although you may not realize it, AI is demanding energy and water thereby increasing prices for everyone, and even creating shortages, all while destroying the environment www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/t...

Their Water Taps Ran Dry When Meta Built Next Door

www.nytimes.com

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Alina Poliakova 🇺🇦 @poliakova.bsky.social · Aug 18

Russians are advancing in Zaporizhzhia oblast under the American flag.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 17

Gallego on Mamdani: "It's okay to say 'I disagree with this, this, and this, but I agree with that.' But the idea that we're just gonna throw out people that are really bringing in new ideas to the fold, exciting people, just because they're slightly to the right or to the left of us is dumb."

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