Mark Tapley
@marktapley.bsky.social
Librarian. Book- and cat-lover in Alabama. Not religious. Aspiring Stoic.
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A mayoral candidate saying maybe the city should cover the cost of bus rides gets the full socialism panic treatment before he even tries it.
A sitting president taking billions of dollars worth of shares in private companies gets “I must say, a tad unusual” after it’s been going for nearly a year.
A sitting president taking billions of dollars worth of shares in private companies gets “I must say, a tad unusual” after it’s been going for nearly a year.
November 25, 2025 at 2:23 PM
A mayoral candidate saying maybe the city should cover the cost of bus rides gets the full socialism panic treatment before he even tries it.
A sitting president taking billions of dollars worth of shares in private companies gets “I must say, a tad unusual” after it’s been going for nearly a year.
A sitting president taking billions of dollars worth of shares in private companies gets “I must say, a tad unusual” after it’s been going for nearly a year.
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Goodnight.
🖼️ Tove Jansson
🖼️ Tove Jansson
November 24, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Goodnight.
🖼️ Tove Jansson
🖼️ Tove Jansson
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The bill last numbered H.R. 9495 would empower the Treasury Secretary to designate any nonprofit the Secretary wishes to kill a “terrorist supporting organization” and revoke the tax-exempt status on which it depends for survival. Unconstitutional but lethal in the harm it would do while in force.
November 23, 2025 at 1:54 PM
The bill last numbered H.R. 9495 would empower the Treasury Secretary to designate any nonprofit the Secretary wishes to kill a “terrorist supporting organization” and revoke the tax-exempt status on which it depends for survival. Unconstitutional but lethal in the harm it would do while in force.
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Oh, ye foolish! throw all these thunder-heads overboard, and then you will float light and right.
November 22, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Oh, ye foolish! throw all these thunder-heads overboard, and then you will float light and right.
Fall persimmons in Alabama
November 22, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Fall persimmons in Alabama
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Of course masked secret police will destroy evidence of their crimes against humanity
November 21, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Of course masked secret police will destroy evidence of their crimes against humanity
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Senator Murphy sounds the alarm as Trump calls for the deaths of Dems who served the country to be killed for reminding the military their loyalty is to the constitution not to him 🇺🇸
November 20, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Senator Murphy sounds the alarm as Trump calls for the deaths of Dems who served the country to be killed for reminding the military their loyalty is to the constitution not to him 🇺🇸
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⭐️‘In the Future of Yesterday provides a delightful appreciation of [Stefan Zweig's] life and work.’
Rüdiger Görner's life of Stefan Zweig, IN THE FUTURE OF YESTERDAY, reviewed in @TheTLS
www.the-tls.co.uk/lives/biogra...
Rüdiger Görner's life of Stefan Zweig, IN THE FUTURE OF YESTERDAY, reviewed in @TheTLS
www.the-tls.co.uk/lives/biogra...
In the Future of Yesterday by Rüdiger Görner | Book review
“I am somehow an anticipated echo”, Stefan Zweig noted dejectedly in his diary in 1912. The thirty-year-old Austrian’s damning condemnation of his own writing – too premature, yet simultaneously a mer...
www.the-tls.co.uk
December 12, 2024 at 10:32 AM
⭐️‘In the Future of Yesterday provides a delightful appreciation of [Stefan Zweig's] life and work.’
Rüdiger Görner's life of Stefan Zweig, IN THE FUTURE OF YESTERDAY, reviewed in @TheTLS
www.the-tls.co.uk/lives/biogra...
Rüdiger Görner's life of Stefan Zweig, IN THE FUTURE OF YESTERDAY, reviewed in @TheTLS
www.the-tls.co.uk/lives/biogra...
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6/10
Alabama: record-setting poverty, awful healthcare outcomes, deeply unequal schools. But hey, they’re top-tier in book banning, criminalizing pregnancy, & attacking teachers. Who needs functioning policy when you’ve got culture war red meat? It’s not the trans kid who’s got you living in poverty
Alabama: record-setting poverty, awful healthcare outcomes, deeply unequal schools. But hey, they’re top-tier in book banning, criminalizing pregnancy, & attacking teachers. Who needs functioning policy when you’ve got culture war red meat? It’s not the trans kid who’s got you living in poverty
May 19, 2025 at 11:12 PM
6/10
Alabama: record-setting poverty, awful healthcare outcomes, deeply unequal schools. But hey, they’re top-tier in book banning, criminalizing pregnancy, & attacking teachers. Who needs functioning policy when you’ve got culture war red meat? It’s not the trans kid who’s got you living in poverty
Alabama: record-setting poverty, awful healthcare outcomes, deeply unequal schools. But hey, they’re top-tier in book banning, criminalizing pregnancy, & attacking teachers. Who needs functioning policy when you’ve got culture war red meat? It’s not the trans kid who’s got you living in poverty
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Remember, you're under no obligation to justify yourself to anyone if you choose to spend the entire weekend reading a riveting novel, drinking multiple kettles of tea, and indulging in a scandalous amount of croissants.
May 16, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Remember, you're under no obligation to justify yourself to anyone if you choose to spend the entire weekend reading a riveting novel, drinking multiple kettles of tea, and indulging in a scandalous amount of croissants.
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Big Food just got a pass jail free card. The Justice Department unit that handles criminal and civil enforcement of US food and drug safety is being dismantled. It's still against the law to sell or distribute adulterated or misbranded food or drugs. But who cares?
#MedSky
#HealthSky
#FitnessSky
#MedSky
#HealthSky
#FitnessSky
May 16, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Big Food just got a pass jail free card. The Justice Department unit that handles criminal and civil enforcement of US food and drug safety is being dismantled. It's still against the law to sell or distribute adulterated or misbranded food or drugs. But who cares?
#MedSky
#HealthSky
#FitnessSky
#MedSky
#HealthSky
#FitnessSky
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THERE ARE NO TRADE DEALS
THERE ARE NO TRADE DEALS
THERE ARE NO TRADE DEALS
THERE ARE NO TRADE DEALS
THERE ARE NO TRADE DEALS
THERE ARE NO TRADE DEALS
Trump isn't even negotiating. He's sending letters
90 Deals in 90 Days FAILED
THERE ARE NO TRADE DEALS
THERE ARE NO TRADE DEALS
THERE ARE NO TRADE DEALS
THERE ARE NO TRADE DEALS
THERE ARE NO TRADE DEALS
Trump isn't even negotiating. He's sending letters
90 Deals in 90 Days FAILED
May 16, 2025 at 8:03 PM
THERE ARE NO TRADE DEALS
THERE ARE NO TRADE DEALS
THERE ARE NO TRADE DEALS
THERE ARE NO TRADE DEALS
THERE ARE NO TRADE DEALS
THERE ARE NO TRADE DEALS
Trump isn't even negotiating. He's sending letters
90 Deals in 90 Days FAILED
THERE ARE NO TRADE DEALS
THERE ARE NO TRADE DEALS
THERE ARE NO TRADE DEALS
THERE ARE NO TRADE DEALS
THERE ARE NO TRADE DEALS
Trump isn't even negotiating. He's sending letters
90 Deals in 90 Days FAILED
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Evergreen
May 14, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Evergreen
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I’m so confused by the folks who said that raising the minimum wage would increase the price of every day goods while also being okay with tariffs raising the price of every day goods…
I reckon they are okay paying higher prices as long as it doesn’t help anyone making a minimum wage.
I reckon they are okay paying higher prices as long as it doesn’t help anyone making a minimum wage.
May 1, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I’m so confused by the folks who said that raising the minimum wage would increase the price of every day goods while also being okay with tariffs raising the price of every day goods…
I reckon they are okay paying higher prices as long as it doesn’t help anyone making a minimum wage.
I reckon they are okay paying higher prices as long as it doesn’t help anyone making a minimum wage.
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Pritzker: Time to stop wondering if you can trust the nuclear codes to people who don’t know how to organize a group chat. It’s time to stop ignoring the hypocrisy in wearing a big gold cross while announcing the defunding of children’s cancer research…
April 28, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Pritzker: Time to stop wondering if you can trust the nuclear codes to people who don’t know how to organize a group chat. It’s time to stop ignoring the hypocrisy in wearing a big gold cross while announcing the defunding of children’s cancer research…
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Scientists issue urgent warning after alarming collapse of bird populations across the US: 'We have a full-on emergency'
🚨 #MomSky
www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/dec...
🚨 #MomSky
www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/dec...
Scientists issue urgent warning after alarming collapse of bird populations across the US: 'We have a full-on emergency'
A report from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology shows that bird populations across every U.S. habitat are plummeting, with 229 species in urgent need of help.
www.thecooldown.com
April 29, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Scientists issue urgent warning after alarming collapse of bird populations across the US: 'We have a full-on emergency'
🚨 #MomSky
www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/dec...
🚨 #MomSky
www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/dec...
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This whole anti-DEI witch hunt has run-of-the-mill racists claiming to be constitutional scholars and MLK devotees.
When it serves.
It’s convenient to see the world in a vacuum. But it’s BS.
And speaking of such…
youtube.com/shorts/sr6eS...
When it serves.
It’s convenient to see the world in a vacuum. But it’s BS.
And speaking of such…
youtube.com/shorts/sr6eS...
As part of Donald Trump’s DEI purge, UAB has killed a scholarship program for Black med students.
YouTube video by Kyle Whitmire
youtube.com
April 29, 2025 at 1:33 PM
This whole anti-DEI witch hunt has run-of-the-mill racists claiming to be constitutional scholars and MLK devotees.
When it serves.
It’s convenient to see the world in a vacuum. But it’s BS.
And speaking of such…
youtube.com/shorts/sr6eS...
When it serves.
It’s convenient to see the world in a vacuum. But it’s BS.
And speaking of such…
youtube.com/shorts/sr6eS...
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Registries for pregnant women and children with autism, but no registry for guns?
April 23, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Registries for pregnant women and children with autism, but no registry for guns?
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The notion that any utility exec is doing anything worth 23 million f'ing dollars a year is just hilarious.
Today, we released our analysis on utility executive pay, with Southern Company CEO Christopher Womack taking the top spot with earnings totaling $23,885,173 in 2024. This comes as utilities across the country are raising customer rates. energyandpolicy.org/utility-ceos...
April 23, 2025 at 6:28 PM
The notion that any utility exec is doing anything worth 23 million f'ing dollars a year is just hilarious.
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🔥 WATCH: @jrclemmons.bsky.social rips @RepChrisTodd & Tennessee Republicans for criminalizing churches and charities that help immigrants by making them liable if someone they help commits a crime
April 23, 2025 at 3:20 PM
🔥 WATCH: @jrclemmons.bsky.social rips @RepChrisTodd & Tennessee Republicans for criminalizing churches and charities that help immigrants by making them liable if someone they help commits a crime
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While Trump flip flops again on China tariffs, says he will lower/end tariffs on China, China is not backing down, is negotiating with South Korea to stop Korea’s exports of China’s rare earth materials to the USA. Trump did this 👇
www.reuters.com/markets/comm...
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China asks Korea not to export products using rare earths to US defense firms, paper reports
Beijing recently asked South Korean companies not to export products containing China's rare earth minerals to U.S. defense firms, the Korea Economic Daily reported on Tuesday, citing government and company sources.
www.reuters.com
April 23, 2025 at 2:45 PM
While Trump flip flops again on China tariffs, says he will lower/end tariffs on China, China is not backing down, is negotiating with South Korea to stop Korea’s exports of China’s rare earth materials to the USA. Trump did this 👇
www.reuters.com/markets/comm...
www.reuters.com/markets/comm...
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to chase that white whale on both sides of land, and over all sides of earth, till he spouts black blood and rolls fin out
April 23, 2025 at 2:47 PM
to chase that white whale on both sides of land, and over all sides of earth, till he spouts black blood and rolls fin out