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Made by West Virginia. Writer, sometimes a talking head, frequent VA patient Writer/M.E. https://ordinary-times.com/ Commentary for WV Watch https://westvirginiawatch.com/ Subscribe to heardtell.substack.com
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On @heardtell.bsky.social headlines from the Middle East, change in Syria, Trump's trip & sovereign wealth fund "soft power" Listen iTunes podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g... Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/7rJp... Watch Substack heardtell.substack.com/p/heard-tell... YouTube youtu.be/f5Y87jzg0gI

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Good piece of legislation @caitycoyne.bsky.social reports westvirginiawatch.com/2025/05/15/m...

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If AI really is the future to the degree many believe, then the owner of one of the few big publicly-accessible AIs manipulating it to fixate on a false conspiracy theory the owner likes, instead of responding according to the widespread data it trained on, should be considered a watershed moment.

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On @heardtell.bsky.social on Middle East, change in Syria, Trump's trip & harding edges of sovereign wealth fund "soft power" Listen iTunes podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g... Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/7rJp... Watch Substack heardtell.substack.com/p/heard-tell... YouTube youtu.be/f5Y87jzg0gI

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Oh look, this years installment in the 90 years and counting version of "airships are back, BABY"... www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...

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Roll Up Pricing signs would be the biggest political ads of the modern era... www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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as well he should be www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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FACTS

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need to see proof of expertise. need footage of andy doing 4 hours on the line.

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Folks, as far as on-screen tv graphics packages go... I HAVE ARRIVED ...according to @fox5dc and @Lokay Watch the full clip here👇 www.fox5dc.com/video/1641527

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Taking a slam-dunk political win and doing the lamest possible thing for lots of attention but no lasting importance is a crippling disease with the DNC right now

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LOLZ All the LOLZ www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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New @heardtell.bsky.social Middle East, change in Syria, Trump's trip, & harding edges of sovereign wealth fund "soft power" Listen iTunes podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g... Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/7rJp... Watch Substack heardtell.substack.com/p/heard-tell... YouTube youtu.be/f5Y87jzg0gI

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Thanks to @four4thefire.bsky.social for joining me on #TheFinal5: here's a clip of our conversation about President Biden's media blitz ahead of that controversial new book from Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson. www.fox5dc.com/video/1641527

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Morning you stark raving heathens

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Clips incoming. Had to milk the fact that Andrew and I are the same age for seven more days.

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If you are up, join @jimlokay.com and I on The Final 5 on Fox 5 DC www.fox5dc.com

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Did some talking heading for our Canadian news friends on background and context of what's going on in Syria, Saudi & Qatari money heading that way, and how President Trump's trip to the Middle East has layers that intersect all that in various ways youtu.be/WMnxDiWujXg?...

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I keep saying it cause it's true: @amelianews.bsky.social is as good a reporter as you will find anywhere, and West Virginia is fortunate she is on our side westvirginiawatch.com/briefs/west-...

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So cool www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/s...

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ICYMI @heardtell.bsky.social we're talking congress as the center of American political dysfunction, and who to blame for it Listen iTunes podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a... Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/6b1R... Watch YouTube youtu.be/ayAKd2sq6pQ Substack heardtell.substack.com/p/heard-tell...

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Brined, blasted, and slow roasted pork in a mushroom cream sauce. #blueskysupperclub

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I hate the state controlling local boards but Nicholas-my home county-had this coming. 9 years of fail in getting the school buildings from 2016 floods squared away due to greed & incompetence, plus current Supt Terrance Beam should be up on charges for lying re: hiring his sex offender grandson

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Oh my bad, angry nerds at-ing me, there have been 11 different actors that have portrayed Superman thus far. Terribly sorry for missing it by 3. Great shame upon me and my family... Still not interested

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Blithering idiot puffed up by unearned privilege whi has left a large swath of personal destruction theough his life, and now kids have to pay for it with their health and lives so their gullible moron politically ate up parents can win internet arguments Damn the lot of them

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"Work requirements don't make people work. They make people do paperwork."

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Out Im sure it's a fine film but this is, what, the 14th version of Superman in my lifetime? Just kind of over it...

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Harsh, but fair

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Even the Pope couldn't save them

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New on @heardtell.bsky.social we're talking congress as the center of American political dysfunction, and who to blame for it Listen iTunes podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a... Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/6b1R... Watch YouTube youtu.be/ayAKd2sq6pQ Substack heardtell.substack.com/p/heard-tell...

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From me @ordinarytimes.bsky.social "The “accepting their word” thing is a particularly egregious bit of rhetoric even by Trumpian standards, and a far cry from braggadocios sharing of bombing clips & blowhard promises to “completely annihilate” the Houthis from the long, long ago of… last month."

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New @heardtell.bsky.social we're talking congress as the center of American political dysfunction, and who to blame for it Listen iTunes podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a... Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/6b1R... Watch YouTube youtu.be/ayAKd2sq6pQ Substack heardtell.substack.com/p/heard-tell...

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Homemade pizza after a day at the ER. #FoodSky #BlueSkySupperClub #BskySupperClub

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Fried polenta with shrimp and a garlic tomato and basil cream sauce for #blueskysupperclub

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Garlic herb and cheese couscous for vegan kid #blueskysupperclub

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From @four4thefire.bsky.social "For an administration that has done a lot of crowing about “warfighting” being deterred from winning a fight because of optics, attention span, self-induced errors & dollar signs on PowerPoint briefings stands testament to same old reluctance to see through anything"

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Let's talk about President Trump, the Houthis, & yet another example of the now-normal American tradition of declaring victory on tv when there ain't one on the ground, which is going to bite us in the butt sooner rather than later, again @ordinarytimes.bsky.social ordinary-times.com/2025/05/13/a...

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I am not participating in relitigating the decline of President Joe Biden for the profit and benefit of folks to whom it profited and benefited to not cover it the first time. Same folks will run same game in reverse roles as President Donald Trump declines as oldest POTUS ever

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Commiserating with technically adult kid over cheese sticks #blueskysupperclub

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The usage of "potential" there has more load strain on it that the Dutch boy with his finger in the dyke... www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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We are 40 years into the "multimillion dollar ordnance to blow up a tent in the desert" era - which followed the Vietnam era of bombing jungles - and still haven't had an honest conversation about it

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It wouldn't have mattered...

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"I have a master degree in anthropology from the University of Chicago...it was a big mistake, I can't stand primative people, they're so stupid." - Kurt Vonnegut

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Yes, that was the prerequisite for the job "Attorney General Pam Bondi has adopted a conspicuously performative approach, willing to execute White House directives with little fuss." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/u...

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An especially-dangerous implementation of the passive voice, OF COURSE by NPR.

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“I can understand that market conditions change. If that’s the case and you’re just losing money and you can no longer live up to things, well, ok, that’s one thing, just tell me that." wvmetronews.com/2025/05/12/c...

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The tech lords where on the dais for the inauguration for a reason, part eleventy-billion

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