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bobstep.bsky.social
Former journalist, tech writer, academic, media historian, now retired in sw Va, playing oldtime-style music (mandolin, uke, guitar), exploring the Blue Ridge, writing a little, including https://jheroes.com https://boblog.blogspot.com
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This is precisely correct.

submitted 21 hours ago • 454 comments

Thanks for the free Atlantic article from someone who knows the military and the law: "Perhaps nothing would please Trump more than to replace weird stories about Elon Musk with video of masked protesters burning cars as lines of helmeted police and soldiers march over them..."

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

Catching up with last week's reading... www.newsfromthestates.com/article/trum...

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

Virginia hasn’t let you file taxes on its own site since 2010, when lawmakers killed the free iFile system and handed the task to private companies like TurboTax (which now charges $64). A new bill to bring it back passed — but Youngkin vetoed it. virginiamercury.com/2025/06/09/f...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Deploying the military on U.S. soil as law enforcement against Americans was on page 555 of Project 2025. So don’t say “I didn’t vote for this,” because you did. This isn’t a response. This was always their plan.

submitted 2 days ago • 328 comments

Yes! And at some libraries, the handwritten notations on the catalog cards!

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

WATCH: “That’s what this is all about.” On IG LIVE @aoc.bsky.social just called out @CoreCivic and other private prison companies for profiting off these ICE detentions after donating big bucks to Trump (and other Republicans). An all-too-familiar story for us here in Tennessee.

submitted 30 days ago • 48 comments

The effect of ChatGPT on students’ learning performance, learning perception, and higher-order thinking: insights from a meta-analysis www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

I know Great Barrington well and it is extremely hard to imagine any scenario on this earth in this small town that would require cops to roll out like they're going to war.

submitted 30 days ago • 451 comments

CARTOON OF THE DAY #AmericanPope

submitted 31 days ago • 117 comments