Artie Langston
@bassweasel.bsky.social
Retired, union pro musician all my life, performing around the world with symphony orchestras to jazz, rock, and blues groups. Formerly Instructor of Jazz Bass, UT Austin TX. Private pilot, SCUBA diver, 3rd Black Belt Taekwondo. Amateur Radio KD0GY.
It isn’t the infotainment bloatware, wireless key-fobs, power seats, or over-the-air subscription services they’re blasting, but safety systems that the NHTSA says have saved 860,000 lives since 1968.
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Republicans Complain That Cars Have Become Too Safe, Say It Must Be Reversed
What are they cooking?
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December 1, 2025 at 5:26 PM
It isn’t the infotainment bloatware, wireless key-fobs, power seats, or over-the-air subscription services they’re blasting, but safety systems that the NHTSA says have saved 860,000 lives since 1968.
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Are Hegseth and Trump essentially committing the same thing in Venezuela as happened at My Lai with those involved also culpable?
November 28, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Are Hegseth and Trump essentially committing the same thing in Venezuela as happened at My Lai with those involved also culpable?
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Starting off the season with my favorite holiday-themed cover.
November 28, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Starting off the season with my favorite holiday-themed cover.
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Let’s see if one single pundit who said there was some great realignment of American sentiment with this last election, based on what they saw on the Nazi-owned platform overrun by foreign actors, offers any retractions or corrections for their gullibility.
It’s hilarious and revelatory that a bunch of giant MAGA/America First X accounts are actually based in Eastern Europe and Nigeria.
Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Actors
A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given deeper insight into the online “America First” movement.
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November 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Let’s see if one single pundit who said there was some great realignment of American sentiment with this last election, based on what they saw on the Nazi-owned platform overrun by foreign actors, offers any retractions or corrections for their gullibility.
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I never believed in the concept of an “Alpha male” until now.
November 22, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I never believed in the concept of an “Alpha male” until now.
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'Your only future is ICE'
November 22, 2025 at 5:14 PM
'Your only future is ICE'
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What will Mike Johnson's new excuse be for not swearing in Grijalva?
November 10, 2025 at 4:24 AM
What will Mike Johnson's new excuse be for not swearing in Grijalva?
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This is another watercolour painting I did of my niece's cat, Molly. I just love those eyes!
#cats #catsofbluesky #petportraits #art #watercolours #paintings #kittyloafmonday
#cats #catsofbluesky #petportraits #art #watercolours #paintings #kittyloafmonday
November 10, 2025 at 10:55 AM
This is another watercolour painting I did of my niece's cat, Molly. I just love those eyes!
#cats #catsofbluesky #petportraits #art #watercolours #paintings #kittyloafmonday
#cats #catsofbluesky #petportraits #art #watercolours #paintings #kittyloafmonday
The moves continued a pattern of Trump, a Republican, using his second term to bestow unlikely pardons on political allies, prominent public figures and others convicted of defrauding the public.
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Trump pardons former Tennessee House speaker convicted of federal public corruption charges
President Donald Trump has pardoned the former Tennessee House speaker and a onetime aide of public corruption charges after the White House said the Biden administration Justice Department “significa...
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November 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
The moves continued a pattern of Trump, a Republican, using his second term to bestow unlikely pardons on political allies, prominent public figures and others convicted of defrauding the public.
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This is what a lame duck looks like. The entire country knows it, even the GOP. If they don’t separate themselves from him - they’ll go down on the Trumptanic. 👇
November 6, 2025 at 12:43 PM
This is what a lame duck looks like. The entire country knows it, even the GOP. If they don’t separate themselves from him - they’ll go down on the Trumptanic. 👇
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Listen, I’m a damn hick, but I’m not hick enough to believe people from New York City will want to move to Missouri because the city elected Mamdani…
November 6, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Listen, I’m a damn hick, but I’m not hick enough to believe people from New York City will want to move to Missouri because the city elected Mamdani…
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A thing that I think is good is when a human creates a piece of art
November 6, 2025 at 4:22 AM
A thing that I think is good is when a human creates a piece of art
Agents pulled him out of his vehicle, tackled him to the ground and kneeled on top of him, allegedly breaking six ribs and causing internal bleeding. Residents say the agents disrupted a children’s Halloween parade amid an immigration enforcement operation.
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US citizen, 67, ‘has ribs broken’ by Border Patrol agents after being dragged out of car while driving home into street they’d blocked off
The incident unfolded Saturday in Chicago’s Old Irving Park neighborhood, where residents say federal agents disrupted a children’s Halloween parade
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October 30, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Agents pulled him out of his vehicle, tackled him to the ground and kneeled on top of him, allegedly breaking six ribs and causing internal bleeding. Residents say the agents disrupted a children’s Halloween parade amid an immigration enforcement operation.
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‘We’ve Got to Do Something!’ GOP Lawmakers Call Out Party’s ‘Morally Bankrupt’ Inaction On Health Care Costs.
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GOP Melting Down About Party Not Acting to Lower HealthCosts
Manu Raju has been talking to GOP lawmakers who are worried about there being no definitive plan to address rising health care costs over tax credits.
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October 27, 2025 at 1:59 PM
‘We’ve Got to Do Something!’ GOP Lawmakers Call Out Party’s ‘Morally Bankrupt’ Inaction On Health Care Costs.
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I hear people all around me saying, “They are going to crash the economy. Surely they don’t mean to crash the economy.”
I beg to differ. This is curated failure.
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I beg to differ. This is curated failure.
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I Know Exactly What They Are Doing
Rural foresight
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October 28, 2025 at 12:54 PM
I hear people all around me saying, “They are going to crash the economy. Surely they don’t mean to crash the economy.”
I beg to differ. This is curated failure.
jesspiper.substack.com/p/i-know-exa...
I beg to differ. This is curated failure.
jesspiper.substack.com/p/i-know-exa...
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Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.
'Washington Post' editorials omit a key disclosure: Bezos' financial ties
Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.
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October 28, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.