Chuck Taggart, Private Eye
@sazeracla.bsky.social
I enjoy cocktails, French fries, and science fiction. Queer. 🏳️🌈 He/him. Trekkie. 🖖🏻 Former KCRW & KCSN radio host & music programmer, Angeleno from New Orleans. Growing luminous by eating light. Retired. http://mixcloud.com/safeathome
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Andy spotted my shirt after the show and I got a photo with him! #squeeeee 💚🤍🧡
Neko Case and John Grant were FANTASTIC tonight! We really needed some joy.
And the roaring cheers when she called out “those ICE motherfuckers!” and dedicated a song to the people who stand up to them. 💞
And the roaring cheers when she called out “those ICE motherfuckers!” and dedicated a song to the people who stand up to them. 💞
November 11, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Neko Case and John Grant were FANTASTIC tonight! We really needed some joy.
And the roaring cheers when she called out “those ICE motherfuckers!” and dedicated a song to the people who stand up to them. 💞
And the roaring cheers when she called out “those ICE motherfuckers!” and dedicated a song to the people who stand up to them. 💞
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If you feel overwhelmed, remember that you can still make a difference doing little things. A compliment or word of encouragement, a tip to a favorite takeout place, a donation to a local charity, an email to your favorite author, time with a pet, a walk outside, or a phone call to a loved one.
November 11, 2025 at 3:39 AM
If you feel overwhelmed, remember that you can still make a difference doing little things. A compliment or word of encouragement, a tip to a favorite takeout place, a donation to a local charity, an email to your favorite author, time with a pet, a walk outside, or a phone call to a loved one.
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I’m sure banning an extremely popular vice will go great. Absolutely no precedent in human history for what happens when you do that lol
November 11, 2025 at 4:15 AM
I’m sure banning an extremely popular vice will go great. Absolutely no precedent in human history for what happens when you do that lol
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Oh good I’m glad we got absolutely nothing AND are banning weed, somehow. How did you all manage to LOSE MORE????
🚨 With a 60-40 vote (the same breakdown as yesterday’s vote), the Senate has PASSED their negotiated federal budget deal.
The deal now goes to the House. Floor vote is expected on **WEDNESDAY**
Call your House Rep 🔥📞🔥
The deal now goes to the House. Floor vote is expected on **WEDNESDAY**
Call your House Rep 🔥📞🔥
November 11, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Oh good I’m glad we got absolutely nothing AND are banning weed, somehow. How did you all manage to LOSE MORE????
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This is a fantastic series of posts about subsistence farming and why your ancestors will rise from the grave and smack you if you return to it after they got out.
@bretdevereaux.bsky.social did a fantastic series on that reality recently.
acoup.blog/2025/07/11/c...
acoup.blog/2025/07/11/c...
Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part I: Households
This is the first post in a series discussing the basic contours of life – birth, marriage, labor, subsistence, death – of pre-modern peasants and their families. Prior to the industria…
acoup.blog
November 10, 2025 at 12:17 AM
This is a fantastic series of posts about subsistence farming and why your ancestors will rise from the grave and smack you if you return to it after they got out.
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Imagine killing 600,000 black and brown people with a few keystrokes and not having a care in the world but one little old white lady drags you on Twitter and you spiral for a week.
November 11, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Imagine killing 600,000 black and brown people with a few keystrokes and not having a care in the world but one little old white lady drags you on Twitter and you spiral for a week.
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“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 3:05 AM
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
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If true...where ever they go next...organize and fight like Chicago did
News: Feds are said to be on their way out of Chicago in the near future. Via @jmetr22b.bsky.social and me www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/10/f...
Federal Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino and agents said to be leaving Chicago, sources say
Cmdr. Gregory Bovino was expected to depart Chicago within days, while most Border Patrol agents under this command would soon be redeployed elsewhere, three sources told the Tribune Monday.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:39 AM
If true...where ever they go next...organize and fight like Chicago did
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“If Schumer really wanted to use his considerable influence and leverage to stop this, he could have done that,” a senior Democratic Senate aide tells Zeteo. “He didn’t.”
Furious Liberals Call for Schumer to Step Aside, Senate Dems Mostly Quiet
After their shutdown surrender, liberal lawmakers are begging their base to unite behind them anyway – as Trumpland celebrates that their opposition is a bunch of 'p*ssies.'
zeteo.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:23 AM
“If Schumer really wanted to use his considerable influence and leverage to stop this, he could have done that,” a senior Democratic Senate aide tells Zeteo. “He didn’t.”
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“Resist little, obey much” - Democratic proverb (with apologies to Whitman)
November 11, 2025 at 4:20 AM
“Resist little, obey much” - Democratic proverb (with apologies to Whitman)
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Rick Scott was CEO of a large, for-profit healthcare company called HCA. While Rick Scott was CEO, HCA stole so much money from Medicare they were fined $1.7 Billion.
Rick Scott told me his plan would be to take all of the remaining ACA subsidies and redistribute them to HSA accounts and people can then buy whatever insurance a state certifies. Basically a repeal/replace.
He denied when I asked wouldn’t that create two-tiered system where sick pay much more…
He denied when I asked wouldn’t that create two-tiered system where sick pay much more…
November 11, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Rick Scott was CEO of a large, for-profit healthcare company called HCA. While Rick Scott was CEO, HCA stole so much money from Medicare they were fined $1.7 Billion.
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Schumer shot himself in the dick twice, the second time by giving every single person involved in the dem victories on tuesday a very clear idea of what their next organizing goal should be.
November 10, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Schumer shot himself in the dick twice, the second time by giving every single person involved in the dem victories on tuesday a very clear idea of what their next organizing goal should be.
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"I didn't need him when he was busy ratfucking Mamdani in favor of a rapist endorsed by Trump, Musk, and Miller. And then a week later he guaranteed I lose my healthcare."
And, each person thinking that has literally just come off an *extremely* successful campaign organization.
And, each person thinking that has literally just come off an *extremely* successful campaign organization.
November 10, 2025 at 1:28 PM
"I didn't need him when he was busy ratfucking Mamdani in favor of a rapist endorsed by Trump, Musk, and Miller. And then a week later he guaranteed I lose my healthcare."
And, each person thinking that has literally just come off an *extremely* successful campaign organization.
And, each person thinking that has literally just come off an *extremely* successful campaign organization.
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Millions and millions of people getting very excruciatingly clear proof that Schumer and all the other dem leaders are completely worthless pieces of shit *they don't fucking need*, all at once.
November 10, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Millions and millions of people getting very excruciatingly clear proof that Schumer and all the other dem leaders are completely worthless pieces of shit *they don't fucking need*, all at once.
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A whole lot of people finished Tuesday night going "hell yeah, what the fuck good is dem leadership? What the fuck are they actually doing here?"
And then 5 days later Schumer slams his dick in the car door and gives a double thumbs up, erasing any lingering doubt.
And then 5 days later Schumer slams his dick in the car door and gives a double thumbs up, erasing any lingering doubt.
November 10, 2025 at 1:21 PM
A whole lot of people finished Tuesday night going "hell yeah, what the fuck good is dem leadership? What the fuck are they actually doing here?"
And then 5 days later Schumer slams his dick in the car door and gives a double thumbs up, erasing any lingering doubt.
And then 5 days later Schumer slams his dick in the car door and gives a double thumbs up, erasing any lingering doubt.
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Millions of active, engaged people, who literally less than a week earlier won massive and unexpected victories across the entire country, have now thoroughly learned the lesson that they don't fucking need dem leaders.
That they have to view dem leadership as much of an enemy as the republicans
That they have to view dem leadership as much of an enemy as the republicans
November 10, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Millions of active, engaged people, who literally less than a week earlier won massive and unexpected victories across the entire country, have now thoroughly learned the lesson that they don't fucking need dem leaders.
That they have to view dem leadership as much of an enemy as the republicans
That they have to view dem leadership as much of an enemy as the republicans
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And then, less than a week later, with that victory very fresh on their minds, Schumer shoots himself in the dick once again.
With his non-endorsement weaselly bullshit about Mamdani still ringing in their ears.
With his non-endorsement weaselly bullshit about Mamdani still ringing in their ears.
November 10, 2025 at 1:17 PM
And then, less than a week later, with that victory very fresh on their minds, Schumer shoots himself in the dick once again.
With his non-endorsement weaselly bullshit about Mamdani still ringing in their ears.
With his non-endorsement weaselly bullshit about Mamdani still ringing in their ears.
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Consider that Tuesday's elections showed that dems could win *despite* dem leadership, despite Schumer relentlessly ratfucking them even up to the very last minute.
Millions of people volunteered, and saw for themselves how totally fucking useless dem leaders were compared to themselves.
Millions of people volunteered, and saw for themselves how totally fucking useless dem leaders were compared to themselves.
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Consider that Tuesday's elections showed that dems could win *despite* dem leadership, despite Schumer relentlessly ratfucking them even up to the very last minute.
Millions of people volunteered, and saw for themselves how totally fucking useless dem leaders were compared to themselves.
Millions of people volunteered, and saw for themselves how totally fucking useless dem leaders were compared to themselves.
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We deserve a Democratic Party that is willing to fight as hard as we are.
We need new leadership in this moment and to get there, we need a chorus of support for change. Tell your Democratic senators to call on Senator Schumer to step aside as Minority Leader. It’s time for drastic action.
We need new leadership in this moment and to get there, we need a chorus of support for change. Tell your Democratic senators to call on Senator Schumer to step aside as Minority Leader. It’s time for drastic action.
CALL NOW: Tell Your Democratic Senator It's Time for Chuck Schumer to Step Aside
indivisible.org
November 10, 2025 at 7:14 PM
We deserve a Democratic Party that is willing to fight as hard as we are.
We need new leadership in this moment and to get there, we need a chorus of support for change. Tell your Democratic senators to call on Senator Schumer to step aside as Minority Leader. It’s time for drastic action.
We need new leadership in this moment and to get there, we need a chorus of support for change. Tell your Democratic senators to call on Senator Schumer to step aside as Minority Leader. It’s time for drastic action.
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100% this. If you wanna post, post. Just make sure it’s not all you’re doing.
I waited a day to say this bc I respected everyone's right to vent some anger, but *remember to focus on what you can do*. Whether it's defending your community, taking action around what you've been venting about, whatever — but don't let all of your energy get captured in the social media space.
November 10, 2025 at 11:48 PM
100% this. If you wanna post, post. Just make sure it’s not all you’re doing.
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I use CBD to control my PTSD symptoms. It helps nobody to criminalize this plant or its products.
More than 15 Senate Democrats join GOP to advance nationwide ban on hemp products, including CBD gummies,
oh the paul amendment is going down 78-22
November 11, 2025 at 2:45 AM
I use CBD to control my PTSD symptoms. It helps nobody to criminalize this plant or its products.
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Trump literally says "shhhhhhhh" after Laura Ingraham notes that the cost of beef, coffee, and auto repairs have gone up.
November 11, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Trump literally says "shhhhhhhh" after Laura Ingraham notes that the cost of beef, coffee, and auto repairs have gone up.
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The worst part is, he'd be this stupid even if he wasn't this senile and brain cooked.
Trump says that HBCUs would be "all be out of business" if fewer Chinese students were allowed to go to American universities
November 11, 2025 at 2:46 AM
The worst part is, he'd be this stupid even if he wasn't this senile and brain cooked.
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When you let a bunch of thugs out of prison, you should expect they’re going to be involved in more crime.
NEW: Jan 6 riot defendant arrested outside a Burger King in Cicero, Illinois.
Prosecutors allege a DNA test in August linked him to 2018 kidnapping and sex assault
Just filed:
www.cbsnews.com/news/high-pr...
Prosecutors allege a DNA test in August linked him to 2018 kidnapping and sex assault
Just filed:
www.cbsnews.com/news/high-pr...
High-profile Jan. 6 defendant facing charges of kidnapping and sexually assaulting woman
John Banuelos' case was unique among Capitol riot prosecutions because he was the only defendant accused of pulling and firing a gun while on Capitol grounds.
www.cbsnews.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:38 AM
When you let a bunch of thugs out of prison, you should expect they’re going to be involved in more crime.
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LOT going on here obviously so i will add my own specialist knowledge, which is the penguin classics versions of the odyssey and iliad are terrible prose translations that do not benefit from being read aloud
*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.
November 11, 2025 at 2:13 AM
LOT going on here obviously so i will add my own specialist knowledge, which is the penguin classics versions of the odyssey and iliad are terrible prose translations that do not benefit from being read aloud