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Aaron Smith
@aaronsmith377.bsky.social
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Songwriter, guitarist, reluctant singer, occasional poet, writer of mysteries, Democrat, comics fan. From New Jersey.
https://aaronsmith4.bandcamp.com/
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aaronsmith377.bsky.social
Good morning, my friends.

☕️☕️☕️☕️ ❄️ ☕️☕️☕️☕️

It’s snowing a little bit!
November 11, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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negativebliss.com
8 Park Street, Montclair, NJ JANUARY 31st Doors: 9 PM $15 at the door cash only Meatlocker presents Negative Bliss Ragdoll Goblin 3 Dollars
November 11, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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adavelikeanyother.bsky.social
This could be Anywhere, USA. And it will be if it isn't stopped.
bgrueskin.bsky.social Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1d
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 11, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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nancyannn.bsky.social
How insecure do you have to be that even dead black soldiers, buried in THE NETHERLANDS make you feel so inadequate you must remove the memorial to their service and sacrifice?
biggienotsmalls.bsky.social Biggie @biggienotsmalls.bsky.social · 21h
Give an inch and they will take 100 years.....
November 10, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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luizsantosmusic.bsky.social
Led Zeppelin on their first photo shoot, 1968
#rock #art
November 10, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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phileil.bsky.social
This @literaryhub.bsky.social post includes the Joyce Carol Oates tweet about Elon Musk that some folks are discussing today.

It's tasty -- and Musk deserves every bit of it.
Elon Musk gets roasted on his own platform by Joyce Carol Oates.
Like an ancient cyborg culling through the ruins of a post-apocalyptic planet (twitter, derogatory), Joyce Carol Oates recently fired her full-power death ray at aspiring trillionaire Elon Musk, wh…
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November 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
aaronsmith377.bsky.social
It still seems strange that there’s no Ozzy Osbourne in the world.
November 10, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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aaronsmith377.bsky.social
I put the songs on this album in a very specific order, and made sure they all connect to each other in ways that I see, although I can never be certain if listeners detect all the connections.
It’s all about time, history, and memory.
#Bandcamp #MusicSky
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Sand in the Hourglass, by Aaron Smith
10 track album
aaronsmith4.bandcamp.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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jasondidner.bsky.social
"When we play together, we are more than white and Black"

My song "Come Across the Tracks," inspired by the true story of 2 future E Street Band members coming together in de facto segregated Asbury Park in the mid-60s. 🎸🎷

youtu.be/-ZtH3Cvbj9I

#BruceSpringsteen #EStreetBand #RacialIntegration
Come across the Tracks (Live from Cafe Artiste, Ocean Grove, NJ) - by Jason Didner
YouTube video by Jason Didner
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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buf2srq2.bsky.social
The Supreme Corrupt did something decent for a change?

Good. Now this miserable thrice-divorced wretched waste of a carbon footprint can disappear back into her hate-filled life and work on another divorce while treating people like garbage and screaming about "protecting the sanctity of marriage".
November 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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whyzayker.bsky.social
Congressional Democrats,
He just pardoned everyone who tried to overthrow a free and fair election.

THESE are the fucking psychopaths who are making the promises you’re believing.
November 10, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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alana807.bsky.social
The Supreme Court has rejected to hear the case to overturn gay marriage.

Big Win today.
November 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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ianzpotter.bsky.social
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
It's an artistic representation of a circulatory system walking through a kitchen, as drawn by Dave Gibbons and written about by Alan Moore. It happens a lot 'round here.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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katmabu.bsky.social
This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful.

Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.

This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.
November 10, 2025 at 12:43 PM
aaronsmith377.bsky.social
I put the songs on this album in a very specific order, and made sure they all connect to each other in ways that I see, although I can never be certain if listeners detect all the connections.
It’s all about time, history, and memory.
#Bandcamp #MusicSky
aaronsmith4.bandcamp.com/album/sand-i...
Sand in the Hourglass, by Aaron Smith
10 track album
aaronsmith4.bandcamp.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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untidymusic.com
Friday's show with Buzzard is up on Mixcloud now.
@buzzarddoomfolk.bsky.social

#metal #metalsky #doom-folk #musicsky #music

www.mixcloud.com/UntidyMusic/...
An Untidy Mind Episode - Buzzard Special
www.mixcloud.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:08 PM
aaronsmith377.bsky.social
Good morning, everyone.

☕️☕️☕️☕️ 🌧️ ☕️☕️☕️☕️
November 10, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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gregsargent.bsky.social
This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.
November 10, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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randulo.com
I'm looking forward to mid-November when the 3-track EP of work I did with Komo Blastik will be released.

ffm.to/afterjune7

#OriginalMusic #Music #AfroFusion #AfroBeat
After June 7
3 tracks from Komo Blastik
ffm.to
November 10, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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slangwordscott.bsky.social
I am sure I will vote for Democrats again, but I will sure as hell adjust my donations to exclude those Senators who want to give Trump another win.

@ossoff.senate.gov That means you run the risk of losing a regular monthly donation.
November 9, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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thegodpodcast.com
Thou Shalt Never Again Complain About Egg Prices If You Voted For The Guy Who Canceled Food.
November 9, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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aaronsmith377.bsky.social
People!
Stop shooting each other!

#ProtestSong #MusicSky #Bandcamp
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The Gun Song, by Aaron Smith
track by Aaron Smith
aaronsmith4.bandcamp.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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thetirednurse.bsky.social
This is honestly unreal. “You must starve people (and their children) until we get our way.” Just unconscionable. What a bunch of good Christians.
tonyromm.bsky.social tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 2d
NEW: The Trump admin told states it must immediately "undo" the work to provide full food stamp benefits, or face penalties. The feds sent this in a late-night memo, only adding to the chaos and confusion around SNAP. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/b...
Trump Administration Demands States ‘Undo’ Work to Send Full Food Stamps
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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colinsmith.bsky.social
A gloriously unsettling illustration by Rovina Cai for K. M. Ferebee’s 2016 short story “Tom, Thom”.
November 9, 2025 at 3:38 PM
aaronsmith377.bsky.social
Was just pondering what I’d swear on if I had to take an oath of office for something.
Certainly not the Bible!
What best symbolizes my moral stance about life?
Maybe Star Trek DVDs.
November 9, 2025 at 3:46 PM