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Anne Spiro
@annespiro.bsky.social
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Energy efficiency PM. Lover of democracy, sports, books, movies, and video games.

I am not a cat.
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Anne Spiro @annespiro.bsky.social · Nov 10
This may be an unpopular take but why is it the Dems sole responsibility to save America from Trump??

We live in a democracy where the other major party, the judiciary, the media, and (gasp!) our fellow citizens all have agency.

Trump is returning to office. That means we all failed not just Dems
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crampell.bsky.social
What does it mean when your doctors keep insisting you redo the cognitive exam
January 2, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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austen1stdrafts.bsky.social
I take no leave of you, 2025. I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.
December 31, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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annabower.bsky.social
For those who prefer video: m.youtube.com/watch?v=lR-b...
December 31, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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kylec.bsky.social
NEW: President Trump's first veto of his second term kills a unanimous bill to fund a major drinking water project in Colorado. Trump had threatened punishment for Colorado for imprisoning his ally Tina Peters. www.9news.com/article/news...
Trump vetoes bill to fund Arkansas Valley conduit in Colorado
President Trump vetoed a bill to fund a pipeline project to bring clean drinking water to communities on the Eastern Plains between Pueblo and Lamar.
www.9news.com
December 31, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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joycewhitevance.bsky.social
This opinion is bad news for the Trump administration, which is going to have to defend itself against Abrego Garcia’s claim he’s being vindictively prosecuted. But that claim is supported by some of the government’s own emails. Read the details here: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
Unsealed: Abrego Garcia
The sealed order in the Abrego Garcia case that I wrote about in Sunday night’s “The Week Ahead” column was unsealed today.
open.substack.com
December 31, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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baseballhall.org
Join us in wishing Sandy Koufax a happy 90th birthday!

Some Hall of Fame advice from the legendary lefty: “I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.”
Sandy Koufax, wearing a blue jacket and patterned tie, greets fans at the 2025 Induction Ceremony. (Mary DeCicco/MLB Photos)
December 30, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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sifill.bsky.social
Imagine watching Sinatra, son of Dolly & Antonini born in Genoa & Sicily, respectively, and Martin, son of Gaetano & Angela, born in Montesilvano, Italy & Ohio respectively, (Angela to parents born in Monasterolo, Italy), and crusading against the value of children of immigrants to the U.S.
December 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM
annespiro.bsky.social
Man, Lions do not have their mojo working today...
December 26, 2025 at 12:02 AM
annespiro.bsky.social
Merry Christmas to everyone...except for the little drummer boy. You know what you did.

⛄❄️🎄
a little boy is playing a drum and the words merry christmas are on the bottom .
Alt: a little boy is playing a drum and the words merry christmas are on the bottom .
media.tenor.com
December 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
annespiro.bsky.social
Agree that this article is fascinating and worth a read.
colasante.bsky.social Cola @colasante.bsky.social · 10d
Entirely possible that this will end up being total bullshit, but this article detailing the theory that the Black Dahlia and Zodiac murders were done by the same man had me riveted, and while I'm sure there are many holes to pick in it, it does sound convincing on its face. archive.ph/m9mzE
archive.ph
December 24, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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catmomemma.bsky.social
If you’ve ever loved an animal like family, you’ll understand this.

Luna needs urgent surgery so she can eat and live without pain.

I hate asking, but I won’t stay silent while she suffers.

Please help if you can. 💛
A black and white tuxedo cat with a distinctive black spot on its pink nose sits upright on a pink cushion, looking off to the side. A woman with long blonde hair and bangs smiles at the camera while her black and white cat stands on a cat tree behind her, sniffing toward her head.
December 24, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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aclu.org
Wrong.

The First Amendment protects our right to record law enforcement activity in public — full stop.
DHS says recording or following law enforcement 'sure sounds like obstruction of justice'
Seven federal circuit courts have upheld the First Amendment right to record and monitor the police.
reason.com
December 22, 2025 at 8:12 PM
annespiro.bsky.social
No good reason I can see to pull this story.

Seems like all CBS News product is suspect until it's clear that decisions are no longer being made to coddle the Trump Administration and cover up it's wrongdoing.
bubbaprog.xyz Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 11d
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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sandy174.bsky.social
Loves the outdoors, Peaceful walks, enjoys car rides, playing, can live with cats, sweet, smart, around 50 lbs and only 3.5 years old. MELIA needs a low traffic adult only home, no dogs. Please give her a life!

Hempstead Animal Shelter
(516) 785-5220
3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793
December 22, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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muellershewrote.com
Support independent media.
December 22, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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newsjennifer.bsky.social
It’s impossible to overstate what a big deal this is for this legendary Kentucky brand. The last time Jim Beam closed down like this was during Prohibition. Trump’s tariffs & fight with Canada are surely to blame.

www.kentucky.com/news/busines...
Major Kentucky bourbon maker Jim Beam shuttering distillery for 2026
The move comes as Kentucky’s $9 billion bourbon industry is dealing with a glut of supply and slipping sales.
www.kentucky.com
December 20, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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jamalgreene.bsky.social
NB: When I, a professor of law, profess that an act is unlawful, I am not doing it to inform the lawbreaker, but rather to inform you, the reader.

So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.
December 18, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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kerrykennedy.bsky.social
(2/2) President Kennedy proudly stood for justice, peace, equality, dignity, diversity, and compassion for those who suffer. President Trump stands in opposition to these values, and his name should not be placed alongside President Kennedy's.
Trump's handpicked board votes to rename Washington performing arts center the Trump-Kennedy Center
President Donald Trump’s handpicked board has voted to rename Washington’s leading performing arts center as the Trump-Kennedy Center.
apnews.com
December 18, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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kerrykennedy.bsky.social
(1/2) President Trump and his administration have spent the past year repressing free expression, targeting artists, journalists, and comedians, and erasing the history of Americans whose contributions made our nation better and more just.
December 18, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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billkristolbulwark.bsky.social
In light of the Epstein Blackout, shouldn’t Khanna and Massie demand Johnson call the House back into session? (If he won’t, can they somehow hijack the pro forma session scheduled for Tuesday Dec. 23?) And Senators should make a similar demand of Thune.
December 19, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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craigcalcaterra.bsky.social
The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story.

Holy. Shit.

www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Were there moments that you missed? Anything that happened that’s on the cutting room floor? I don’t think there’s anything I missed that I wish I’d gotten. I’ll give you a little anecdote: Stephen Miller was perhaps the most concerned about the portrait session. He asked me, “Should I smile or not smile?” and I said, “How would you want to be portrayed?” We agreed that we would do a bit of both. And then when we were finished, he comes up to me to shake my hand and say goodbye. And he says to me, “You know, you have a lot of power in the discretion you use to be kind to people.” And I looked at him and I said, “You know, you do, too.”
December 17, 2025 at 8:34 PM
annespiro.bsky.social
The first time I'm seeing this but it rings incredibly true.

What a hollow man our president is. It's almost sad how little he stands for. Seemingly his only interest is self-interest.
emilynussbaum.bsky.social Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 18d
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
THIS is what makes my head spin: The president is not a moral figure in any idiom, any land, any culture, any subculture. I'm not talking about the liberal enlightenment that would make him want the country to take care of the poor and sick. I mean he has no Republican values either. He has no honor among thieves, no cosa nostra loyalty, no Southern code against cheating or lying, none of the openness of New York, rectitude of Boston, expressiveness and kindness of California, no evangelical family values, no Protestant work ethic. No Catholic moral seriousness, no sense of contrition or gratitude. No Jewish moral and intellectual precision, sense of history. He doesn't care about the life of the mind OR the life of the senses. He is not mandarin, not committed to inquiry or justice, not hospitable. He is not proper. He is not a bon vivant who loves to eat, drink, laugh. There's nothing he would die for - not American values, obviously, but not the land of Russia or his wife or young son. He has some hollow success creeds from Norman Vincent Peale, but Peale was obsessed with fair-dealing and a Presbyterian pastor; Trump has no fairness or piety. He's not sentimental; no affection for dogs or babies. No love for mothers, "the common man"" veterans. He has no sense of military valor, and is openly a coward about war. He would have sorely lacked the pagan beauty and capacity to fight required in ancient Greece. He doesn't care about his wife or wives; he is a philanderer but he's not a romantic hero with great love for women and sex. He commands loyalty and labor from his children not because he loves them, even; he seems almost to hate them — and if one of them slipped it would be terrifying. He does no philanthropy. He doesn't - in a more secular key - even seem to have a sense of his enlightened self-interest enough to shake Angela Merkel's hand. Doesn't even affect a love for the arts, like most rich New Yorkers. He doesn't live and die by aesthetics and health practices like some fascists; he's very ugly and barely mammalian. Am I missing an obscure moral system to which he so much as nods? Also are there other people, living or dead, like him?
December 16, 2025 at 7:52 AM
annespiro.bsky.social
Best thing I have read in a while:

"There is no reason to watch this team other than to try to coax state secrets from an enemy combatant. And even then, the Geneva Convention is purposefully vague in its stance on Arizona football." 😂
December 16, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social
Yellow-Red-Blue, by Wassily Kandinsky, 1925 (detail, rotated), 📸 by @riogiancarlo.bsky.social
December 16, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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billkristolbulwark.bsky.social
Two babies were born in New York within a year of each other, soon after WWII.

One, Rob Reiner, lived a life of humanity and achievement. He brought us delight and joy. His memory will be a blessing.

The other, Donald Trump, will be remembered as an embarrassment to our nation.
December 15, 2025 at 10:52 PM