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Poet (BULLETPROOF - Jacar Press in 2019 and LITTLE JOY - Cornerstone Press in 2026), retired school librarian, and Midwest transplant from Florida long, long ago. he/him/his More at https://www.matthewmurrey.net/ #poetsonbluesky
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This is how Republican Senators like @senjoniernst.bsky.social and @chuckgrassley.bsky.social "serve" their hard-working constituents. www.npr.org/2025/02/17/n...?

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​"The single most un-American and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an American president." www.commondreams.org/news/trump-q...

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JD Vance met the head of the German party with roots in and affinities for Nazism. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... This fits with his praise for a book that celebrates dictators who use of murder, torture & repression against opponents of the far right. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-hor...

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Oof, @nytimes.com #SpellingBee, some blunders are harder to rehabilitate than others. www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/h... And it's a pangram.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Nine paragraphs into today's NYT story on the situation with the Gaza ceasefire, readers are informed that Israeli officials and international mediators "said that Hamas’s claims were accurate."

submitted 11 days ago • 7 comments

Just got the dreaded email. University of Iowa is halting all NIH grant submissions. Losing a generation of scientists here will send the state backwards. What a travesty.

submitted 12 days ago • 65 comments

He's still going to try to take you off the air you shameful quislings.

submitted 12 days ago • 26 comments

wondering if @edgeofsports.bsky.social has seen this?

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

NEW: The Trump administration has approved more than $7 billion in arms to Israel without the sign off of the ranking member of the House foreign affairs committee, per sources, bypassing the typical arms review process

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Dexter Filkins says on @nprfreshair.bsky.social with NO pushback from Gross: "there's a lot of destruction there right now but...it's an opportunity because there's so much destruction & because these really evil actors like Hamas & Hezbollah are dead in the water." www.npr.org/2025/02/05/g...

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⚠️ Civil Defense Warns of Worsening Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza Amid Heavy Storms Gaza’s Civil Defense says severe storms are worsening conditions for displaced civilians, exposing the scale of suffering amid international inaction.

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

English has an expression for that look.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

All this is happening without Congressional authorization. And if Trump, Musk, and Vance can do this to one agency, they're coming for much more: Labor. Your education. Clean air and water. Congress could have an emergency vote to stop this. But they're gonna have to be forced.

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This evening, every Democrat on the Senate Agriculture Committee backed the nomination of MAGA wingnut climate denier Brooke Rollins for Secretary of Agriculture, who admitted to a lack of basic knowledge of the department's workings. Every. Single. One. Led by @amyklobuchar.com. #Assistance

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I really do try to be hopeful, but sometimes, sigh. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Good good good

submitted 19 days ago • 5 comments

WIRED is tracking numerous reports of Musk-related shenanigans across the federal govt. We're looking for fed employees open to discussing the activity they're seeing or to help confirm other reports. Anonymity offered. Please use @signal.org (contact dell.3030). Do not use work networks/devices.

submitted 19 days ago • 141 comments

Arctic sea-ice extent fell again yesterday and is now over 400,000 square kilometers below the previous record daily low for Feb. 2. The heat is on!

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From Verdun "Franz Marc wrote on March 3 [1916]: 'For days I have seen nothing but the most terrible things that can be painted from a human mind.' On the following day Marc was killed by a French shell." -- Martin Gilbert, The First World War, 1994. Here's one of my favorite paintings ever.

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Feels like we're just steps away from Trump DOJ going after voters who didn't vote for Trump in 2024. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.

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