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Peter Steward Scholtes@petescholtes.bsky.social |
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I’ve written and taught. Profile photos from Sapsucker Farms Yellow Belly Cidery, Mora, Minnesota, USA, 2022. He/him.
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Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl
@deardara.bsky.social
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Just peeking at different people as co I walked along Lake Harriet—two kids fishing, friends, a couple. I found this so touching. #minnesota
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Max Berger
@maxberger.bsky.social
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I get why this is the case, but it’s so wild that one million Americans died of COVID because of Trump’s handling of the pandemic, and it’s not even remotely an issue in this election. What a country!
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Gabe Ortíz
@tusk81.bsky.social
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Just signed up ✨
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Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility (ACCR)
@accr.bsky.social
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In the first week of a new Trump administration, President Joe Biden’s climate wins would get put through the shredder. edition.cnn.com/2024/07/03/c...
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Mr. Am I Being Detained
@gonebabygone.bsky.social
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There is particular power in such an ideologically diverse coalition rejecting the French right because fascists should be reminded often that they’re repugnant to a broad swath of society, not just getting outmaneuvered by the wily left
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Peter Steward Scholtes
@petescholtes.bsky.social
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Ilhan Omar is also effectively the political author of free school lunch for all — for as long as it lasted federally, and now passed by Democratic trifecta states. The fact that she hasn’t run that way makes me think she also knows her lightning rod effect, too.
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You're Wrong About
@yourewrongabout.bsky.social
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NEW EPISODE! This week, @taylorlorenz.bsky.social fights our latest moral panic. Are phones really making kids anxious, or are kids just good at noticing what’s going on?
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Mike Galsworthy
@mikegalsworthy.bsky.social
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Vive La France! 🇫🇷
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wade of mutilation
@waderockett.bsky.social
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I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:
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James Kenney
@jfkenney.bsky.social
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Happy 75th birthday to the one and only Shelley Duvall!
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Anne Lutz Fernandez
@lutzfernandez.bsky.social
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“Sometimes I wonder if all this coverage is because the media know how to cover a normal problem like a sub-par candidate; they don’t know how to cover something as abnormal and unprecedented as the end of the Republic. So for the most part they don’t.”
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Alfred Soto
@sotoalfred.bsky.social
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So much garbage Ringo has had to endure over the years. But he was the only player showing in GET BACK whom the other members didn't order around. His choices were almost always correct. humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2021/07/07/r...
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Aaron Sojourner
@aaronsojourner.org
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www.motherjones.com/environment/...
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RainSurname
@rainsurname.bsky.social
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I do captioning for a living, & a big part of my job is cleaning up false starts & filler words. That has always been the norm at every media outlet. Print media edits Trump so carefully that you would never know what he actually sounds like. Doing this to Biden is a 180 from decades of policy.
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Paul Crider
@paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com
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This is super important work. And it looks like it's actually having an effect. Normal people learn about Project 2025 and are scared as shitless as they should be. The Nation, The New Republic, Rolling Stone, Boston Review and others are doing the work that NYT and WaPo are neglecting.
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Matt Novak
@paleofuture.bsky.social
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“Separate Israeli airstrikes killed at least six people Friday in central Gaza, including two children at a home and at least one United Nations worker…”
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Peter Steward Scholtes
@petescholtes.bsky.social
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Quick copy correction: ‘That's now how this’ should be ‘That's not how this.’ :)
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Peter Steward Scholtes
@petescholtes.bsky.social
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‘The monument to the First Minnesota Infantry Regiment is moving not simply because it regales battlefield heroics but also because of what those heroics meant: When slaveholders sought to tear the country apart, Americans gave their lives to stop them.’
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Steve Silberman
@stevesilberman.bsky.social
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It's as if our press just can't process a threat as grave as Trump. They no longer have the skills or backing from their top editors to grapple with such a grand-scale horror as the death of our democracy. So they've shrunk the issues down to a size they feel comfortable with: Shaming an old man.
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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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I'm incredibly bullish on America's future. I get it's a bit hard to see these days--the death throes of unpopular authoritarianism is pretty scary and there are real problems in the immediate term--but I definitely think America's best days are still very much ahead.
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Teddy Wilson
@reportbywilson.bsky.social
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“If our democracy falls, one key enabler will have been the most consequential failure to date of a vital institution doing its job: journalism.”
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drow zelensky
@dov.bsky.social
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if i hear a single person say that the SNP did badly because of "trans ideology" or whatever when joanna cherry lost her seat despite recruiting Abla turncoats to help her campaign I will actually [redacted] both them and myself
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Kevin J. Maroney, he/him
@womzilla.bsky.social
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"The root problem appears to be that we can't get the people who want problems to give us permission to fix the problems, and we can't get the people who claim to want to fix the problems to stop asking those people for permission."
--A.R. Moxon ( @juliusgoat.bsky.social )
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Teddy Wilson
@reportbywilson.bsky.social
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On a day to celebrate US democracy, many Americans are worried about it www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics...
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David Fortin
@davidwfortin.bsky.social
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Finally this Is getting some play! www.rawstory.com/project-2025...
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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social
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Constitution: People involved in insurrections should not be President. Roberts court:...hmm, no, I don't see it. Constitution:.... Roberts court: but the president should have immunity for crimes
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@2damntrans.bsky.social
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WALES IS NOW OFFICIALLY A TORY-FREE ZONE 🏴 🥳
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John Chivall
@johnchivall.bsky.social
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Cherry's vote share dropped by significantly more than the national SNP vote, and her buddy Duffield down south managed to lose votes too even though she kept her seat. Rabid transphobia is not popular with the electorate.
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Bex
@bexcommunicated.bsky.social
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Ah fuck. Everyone who told me Chevron being overturned wouldn’t matter can kindly have a seat now. I don’t really consider myself an expert in much but considering I’ve been working in health regs for the past almost 8 years, I knew this was 100% coming. I just didn’t think it would be so fast 😭
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Taniel
@taniel.bsky.social
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It’s official: the majority of the UK House of Commons has now been called for Labour, ending 14-year of Tory rule.
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Rosemary Joyce
@rajoyce.bsky.social
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Freedom will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear. I have as much right As the other fellow has To stand On my two feet And own the land.
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Joe Slater
@joeinaustralia.bsky.social
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This coherence and comprehensiveness of this essay just blew me away. I can't recommend it highly enough.
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Peter Steward Scholtes
@petescholtes.bsky.social
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‘Superman’ (1978) is a great 4th of July movie — where the being sent to Earth to save it… becomes a newspaper reporter.
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Daniel Feldman
@dfeldman.bsky.social
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Mississippi is the poorest state in the US.
Even though the state gets federal welfare funds, it is difficult to get welfare.
The money was all getting stolen, and they got away with it.
Now the journalists who exposed the story are facing a lawsuit and jail.
www.nbcnews.com/investigatio...
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Miles Grant
@milesgrant.bsky.social
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Cat 6 hurricanes didn’t arrive We made them by burning fossil fuels Will we quit now, or go for Cat 7
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Katie Mack
@astrokatie.com
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Keeping Trump out of the White House isn’t the only thing that needs doing and it isn’t enough to solve all problems facing the country & world but if it isn’t done then all those problems get exponentially worse in ways I don’t even know how to express and it scares me when people pretend otherwise
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David Brauer
@dbrauer.bsky.social
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~o~l~d~~p~e~o~p~l~e~~d~o~n~’~t~~w~a~n~t~~b~i~k~e~~l~a~n~e~s~
#bryantbikepath
#winning
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Max Kennerly
@maxkennerly.bsky.social
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It's a bit problematic how Biden has (a) narrow, limited power to have his agency draw up a student loan forgiveness process consistent with the statutes passed by Congress; but (b) complete immunity to tell everyone at Dept of Edu, "mark those loans as $0 or I'll put you in a pine box."
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Celeste Ng
@pronounced-ing.bsky.social
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Giving up hope is also complying with authoritarians in advance. It’s saying that fascism is inevitable, that there is no other way to be. I know it’s hard to keep hope alive, but I hope you find a way. ❤️