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M.S. Bellows, Jr.
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Twitter diaspora. Agamemnon sucks: we do the fighting, he gets the girls. (Oregonian. Mediator/lawyer/writer; bylines in The Guardian, Alternet, HuffPost/OffTheBus […]

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parkermolloy.com
And in 2014, they did the same to Obama www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014...
Why major US TV networks didn't show Obama's immigration address
CBS, NBC, ABC and Fox stick with hit primetime shows but viewers saw the president’s address on Spanish-language channel Univision
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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parkermolloy.com
You'll remember that when Biden delivered an address in 2022, networks refused to air it because they said it was "political" www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/0...
As Biden warned about democracy’s collapse, TV networks aired reruns
Broadcasters NBC, CBS and ABC usually air presidential prime-time addresses live. But they found Biden's Philadelphia speech more "political" than newsworthy.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 17, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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parkermolloy.com
So are the networks going to take Trump's address live on TV tonight?
December 17, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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karenattiah.bsky.social
The U.S. is giving dying mall vibes.

I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.
December 17, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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ai6yr.m.ai6yr.org.ap.brid.gy
[Politics]

😂 (their meme/trolling game is strong over at the Newsom office. Not a fan in general, but I approve of this stuff.)
Governor Newsom Press Office: posts "OLD MAN YELLS AT CLOUD" meme
December 18, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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parkermolloy.com
Had the three Dems who voted for this held the line and voted no, they could have blocked it.
The vote tally: 216-211
December 18, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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chariselee.bsky.social
Give that photographer a Pulitzer‼️
December 17, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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msbellows.c.im.ap.brid.gy
Watching Trump lying about the Biden economy, so here's a reminder of where we were under Biden right before the election:
Cover of The Economist magazine, headlined "The Envy Of The World."
December 18, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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oldlaphotos.palewi.re
Festive https://tessa.lapl.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/58987
Photograph caption dated December 15, 1964 reads, "Three Sylmar High School students, Mari Branch, Janiece Reece and Francis Nau, are shown as they will appear tonight in the school's annual Christmas Festival. The program, including orchestra and choral presentations, will be offered to the public at 7:30 p.m. in the school social hall. Students will view it at tomorrow's assembly."
December 18, 2025 at 3:26 AM
msbellows.c.im.ap.brid.gy
Watching Trump lying about the Biden economy, so here's a reminder of where we were under Biden right before the election:
Cover of The Economist magazine, headlined "The Envy Of The World."
December 18, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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3fecta.bsky.social
This is going to be a big deal that is going to get more pushback than this incompetent twerp can ever realize. @jackjenkins.me have you seen this yet?
December 17, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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msbellows.c.im.ap.brid.gy
A holiday story in three pictures:
Photo taken from a second story window of a lemon cypress tree that was supposed to stop at 8' (2.5m) tall but actually is about 20' (6m). Photo taken from the ground showing a tall ladder leaning against the tree, with the top several feet of leader chainsawed off so the tree is now a more oval bush shape like it was supposed to be. Our 2025 Christmas tree.
December 17, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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gottalaff.bsky.social
Intriguing #EpsteinFiles thread. Read.
wyden.senate.gov Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 15h
My investigators are back with more on our follow the money investigation into Epstein.

Here’s a thread for anyone interested in learning about another major Epstein mystery:
Exclusive | Senators Press FBI Over Failure to Investigate Epstein’s Lawyer and Accountant
The FBI never interviewed Darren Indyke or Richard Kahn about their work for Epstein; they deny knowing about Epstein’s crimes.
www.wsj.com
December 17, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy
If a 4000 year old statuary fragment can be this chill then so can you
An ancient fragment of a chill af guy with a beard
December 17, 2025 at 7:19 PM
msbellows.c.im.ap.brid.gy
A holiday story in three pictures:
Photo taken from a second story window of a lemon cypress tree that was supposed to stop at 8' (2.5m) tall but actually is about 20' (6m). Photo taken from the ground showing a tall ladder leaning against the tree, with the top several feet of leader chainsawed off so the tree is now a more oval bush shape like it was supposed to be. Our 2025 Christmas tree.
December 17, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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anamariecox.bsky.social
This level of pettiness in a movie would inspire a legion of drag performers and applause in midnight showings.
carlquintanilla.bsky.social Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16h
He honestly thinks it’s his house.
December 17, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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densaer.bsky.social
Australia competes worlds largest battery-electric ferry. Carries 2100 pax, 220 cars.

Very cool. Can we get some for us in the PNW?

thedriven.io/2025/12/15/r...
thedriven.io
December 17, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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ai6yr.m.ai6yr.org.ap.brid.gy
Aha, it's the anniversary of the most famous bicycle modification by bicycle mechanics working out of their bicycle shop! #BikeTooter
Bicycle shop Flying machine built by bicycle mechanics flying off a sand dune Shop: The Wright Cycle Co.
December 17, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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shanmonster.c.im.ap.brid.gy
Got a clean bill of health for my shitty, industrially-poisoned lungs. They're doing as well as they can, which is great. Too bad my fantastic lung doctor is being forced into retirement. He's not allowed to work fulltime or just at the lung clinic. He must also work in emergency, which has […]
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December 17, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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jopabinia.bsky.social
In 2025 we got a #Crustmas update on the most enigmatic parsasitic barnacle, the y-larva, whose adult remains unknown.

The free living larva has hooks and spines to pierce the host. It might be injected as this sluglike ypsigon that apparently hardly moves 🦑🧪

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Live ypsigon recently exited from a y-cypris cuticle. This is the larval stage that we presume is entering into the unknown host. It has only 4 cell types (B) SEM of unknown y-cypris morphotype displaying putative attachment system with hooked antennules and labrum. Insert between (B) and (C) CLSM image of ventral side of y-cypris with green showing phalloidin staining of labral and antennular muscles. Note the tiny antennular hook muscle. (C) Zoom of SEM micrograph in (B), displaying cuticular hook on the ventral side of the 3rd antennular segment. (D) TEM micrograph of labral complex of Hansenocaris itoi y-cypris. Showing a large vesicle reservoir with putative secretory cells leading to a pore opening with an exceedingly thin cuticle. (E) Live image of ypsigon (vermiform larva) exiting y-cypris (free living larva) cuticle. (F) SEM micrograph of the same specimen in (E).
December 17, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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aphelion.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy
It is bravery
To stay open
In a world full of
Locked doors

#poetry
December 17, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy
“The FCC is not an independent agency,” its chairman, Brendan Carr, responds to a question from Senator Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) who notes that the commission’s website says it is independent.
December 17, 2025 at 4:47 PM
msbellows.c.im.ap.brid.gy
I'm one of the two luckiest people on Earth, because I just realized that every single love story happy ending is basically the beginning of what Lyricdancer and I have shared since 1988.

Blessed. Grateful. I wish everyone could find what we've found.
December 17, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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ai6yr.m.ai6yr.org.ap.brid.gy
Washington State is going for blackout on the "weather bingo" today.

https://www.weather.gov/sew/

#wawx
Blizzard Warning High Wind Warning Storm Warning Flood Warning Gale Warning Winter Weather Advisory Coastal Flood Advisory High Surf Advisory Small Craft Advsory (and several more!!)
December 17, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy
The Trump administration is moving to
dismantle the
National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado,
taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs […]
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December 17, 2025 at 3:24 AM