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Christopher K.
@colonel-ck.bsky.social
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Father, husband, artist, dreamer, brown ajah, jam band listener.
“There's not enough ale in the world to deal with this.”
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scalzi.com
Beware anyone who loudly labels themselves a "truth-teller."
November 23, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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sarahvb.bsky.social
And Greg he writes letters and burns his CDs
They say you were something in those formative years
November 21, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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volts.wtf
In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ...

... listen to Steve Wozniak.
November 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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thecontentkid.bsky.social
This is the best fucking thread of the week and it’s only Monday. 😎
Read.
Every.
Reply. 💙
kevinmkruse.bsky.social Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11d
You don't often see this at the end of a whistleblower story:
November 18, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
The press contact for FACE THE NATION is amanda.leonard@paramount.com if anyone wants to explain to them why people might care about a massive pedophile sex trafficking ring that apparently implicates the president and several other powerful men.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12d
Margaret Brennan to Tom Suozzi: "Can you explain the focus this past week in the House by Democrats on the Jeffrey Epstein files? Is this a tactic to distract from the failure to extract healthcare changes?"
November 16, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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theunyeti.bsky.social
Oooh, good idea! Where can people do that again? I don't have the link. #WheelofTime #savewot
sarahskiles.bsky.social Sarah Skiles @sarahskiles.bsky.social · 15d
A big move of support would be to sell out the wot costume show. Most people can’t fly to prague but they can buy a ticket.
November 13, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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ala-pla.bsky.social
ONE MONTH LEFT to complete our 2025 survey: Tell us how your library supports its community, and you could win:

-$100 gift card to Bookshop.org
-Free PLA 2026 conference registration + travel stipend for a library staff member

The deadline is Dec. 13! https://bit.ly/3tbLInh
Promotional poster for the Public Library Association's 2025 survey, featuring a colorful illustration of diverse individuals in front of a library building, with text stating 'One Month Left!' and inviting participation by December 13, 2025. Visit librarybenchmark.org for details.
November 13, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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sahilkapur.bsky.social
A direct email exchange from 2011 between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, just released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.
November 12, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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mollyjongfast.bsky.social
Time for @chrismurphyct.bsky.social to replace @schumer.senate.gov
November 10, 2025 at 9:06 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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balint.house.gov
Under Biden, the IRS launched a program for people to file their taxes FOR FREE (finally!)

Well, Trump ended it because TurboTax donated $1 million to him. This White House is just one big grift while the rest of us pay more for everything.
propublica.org ProPublica @propublica.org · 24d
The IRS is reportedly not offering its Direct File program next year. Here’s a look back at how TurboTax owner Intuit spent two decades fighting to prevent Americans from filing their taxes online for free:

(Published 2019)
Inside TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans From Filing Their Taxes for Free
Using lobbying, the revolving door and “dark pattern” customer tricks, Intuit fended off the government’s attempts to make tax filing free and easy, and created its multi-billion-dollar franchise.
www.propublica.org
November 9, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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goldlikejoel.bsky.social
Thanks to everyone who made our @umphreysmcgee Indy weekend so special. What a finish to an incredible touring year for us.

Here’s a little surprise for you- a free stream of my show with Jake from 10/10 in Traverse City debuting tonight exclusively on @nugsnet!
November 9, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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todd-draws.bsky.social
Todd Draws The Wheel of Time, Book 11
Knife of Dreams - Chapter 27 - A Plain Wooden Box
#ToddDrawsWoT #TheWheelofTime #WheelOfTime
#WoTSkies #WoTSky #WoTBookSpoilers
Semirhage throws a fireball at Rand who puts up a hand to block it while pushing Min away.
November 4, 2025 at 2:34 PM
colonel-ck.bsky.social
You're journey on this hunk of space rock is over, now time to soar through the stars Donna Jean. 😢🌹
relix.com/news/detail/...
Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, Feminine Force Behind the Grateful Dead's 70s Era, Passes Away at 78
Photo: Vernon Webb Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, the feminine force and vocal powerhouse behind the Grateful Dead from 1971 to 1979, passed away yesterday,
relix.com
November 3, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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mattnegrin.bsky.social
I will venmo any reporter $400 to ask trump "what does SNAP stand for"
November 3, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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no-id-lady.bsky.social
#Idaho peeps,

With everything going on everywhere, PLEASE remember to VOTE!

In Moscow, we’re fighting FOR great candidates for the mayor & city council and AGAINST infiltration attempts by Kirkers & collaborators.

LOCAL ELECTIONS MATTER!

Dropped off our absentee ballots this AM 😁
October 31, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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radleybalko.bsky.social
Multiple accounts on ICE Watch Facebook pages are reporting that agents pulled a couple out of their vehicle in Aurora, Illinois, arrested them, and then abandoned the couple’s toddler in the backseat.
October 30, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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leahgreenberg.bsky.social
OK folks, here's the deal. Spotify is running ICE recruitment ads and has ignored asks to stop. It's time to tell them we won't stream fascism - by cancelling our subscriptions. Here's how to get started: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify
October 28, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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justinbaragona.bsky.social
This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.
October 29, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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monkeyes2.bsky.social
Tyranny what’s that?!?
NRA leader Wayne LaPierre holding gun with caption “ NRA accidentally forgets to rise up against tyrannical government. An embarrassed national rifle association says it totally forgot to do the one thing it has been saying for years it is solely there to do”
October 29, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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markjacob.bsky.social
The Republicans' shutdown message is abundantly clear:
Let us jack up millions of people's health care costs or we'll starve the poor.
I wish that was an exaggeration. It's not.
October 28, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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malaiseforever.bsky.social
reading slaughterhouse 5 for the first time and i was absolutely knocked senseless by this passage, which is so true and relevant that it feels like it was pulled from a history book
“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.' It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: 'if you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?' There will also be an American flag no larger than a child’s hand – glued to a lollipop stick and flying from the cash register. Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say Napoleonic times. Many novelties have come from America. The most startling of these, a thing without precedent, is a mass of undignified poor. They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.”
October 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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ghostmode.bsky.social
Weirdly this is also what being an American is feeing more and more like.
dieworkwear.bsky.social derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · Oct 26
it's crazy that if you're a cat, your only two life outcomes are eating out of a trash can or getting treated like a little baby
October 27, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 84th day out of the last 96.

12 days of work in over 3 months.

With full pay and benefits.

The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.

It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
October 27, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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anthonymkreis.bsky.social
Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
October 27, 2025 at 1:11 AM