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Dick Altavista
@dickaltavista.bsky.social
560 followers 260 following 600 posts
Husband, Father, Grandfather, CKCU radio host, Musician.
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Dick Altavista @dickaltavista.bsky.social · Jan 1
My 2024 “wrapped”
9543km on my bike(up from 5703km in 2023)
32 books read
2057 news articles read on my “lunch hour “ and at least as many during breakfast.
Over 70 live bands.
At least 157 hours of @ckcu931 content created.
Countless hours of musical instrument practice.
Welcomed one grandchild
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 17h
Is it cancel culture when they threaten to kill you?

www.nj.com/news/2025/10...
Sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates speaker appearance in N.J. canceled over security reasons
Organizers canceled a sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates event in Montclair citing undisclosed security concerns.
www.nj.com
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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 22h
after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
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Michael de Adder @deadder.bsky.social · 8h
Nice move, by @deAdder open.substack.com/pub/deadder/...
Nice move
The Globe and Mail
open.substack.com
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T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel (Retired)" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 5h
The next administration needs guillotines running 24/7
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 21h
This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.

This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 4h
Stand strong and stay safe, Portland. 💙🐸
#FuckICE
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Dick Altavista @dickaltavista.bsky.social · 19h
Today’s reward for practicing .
@jerrydaviddecicca.bsky.social
CARDIAC COUNTRY
I will always be thankful @bloodshotrecords.bsky.social for introducing me to this amazing artist.
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Erin Burnett OutFront @outfrontcnn.bsky.social · 1d
“We could hear them laughing.”

Rev. David Black, the minister of the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, speaks to #CNN’s Erin Burnett in his first television interview since he was shot in the head with pepper balls while praying in front of an ICE facility.

#OutFrontCNN #News #ICE #Chicago
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d
Do they have a prize for blowing up boats in the Caribbean and then bragging that people who made their livelihood fishing there for generations are now afraid to go out on the water?
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Dick Altavista @dickaltavista.bsky.social · 23h
Today’s reward for overcast, cool, intermittent rainy cycling is a trip back to 2003.
Jim Guthrie
NOW, MORE THAN EVER
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jen sometimes aph 🌻 @bunnibytz.bsky.social · 1d
ht: @nocontextmr.bsky.social
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d
Seems like a bad idea to fire air traffic controllers when there's already a shortage but what do I know
Sean Duffy Threatens to Fire Air Traffic Controllers as 10% Call Out Sick During Shutdown
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Independent C-SPAN caller to Rep. Mark Alford: "You're taking credit for $50b that you just gave to the hospital industry. That's after you took away $150b. You don't take credit for just giving back a little bit of money after taking away so much. So quit lying. It just makes you look horrible."
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d
🤞 @ericswalwell.bsky.social
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 2d
If you live in & around beautiful Muskoka, join me for this amazing conference on building equity in the Muskoka region!

I'll be teaching bystander intervention & the practical skills of community care.

Hosted at the Canada Summit Centre in Huntsville, it's a free event but you gotta register!
Hate Free Muskoka Two Day Symposium (Nov 7th & 8th)
Two days dedicated to deepening inclusion, diversity, equity, anti-racism, and belonging in the District of Muskoka.
www.eventbrite.ca
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 2d
Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.

ICE thugs.
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 2d
We are not powerless in the face of rising hate, harassment and violence. If we take the time to learn effective de-escalation and intervention skills, we CAN keep each other safe.

Give me 1 hour of your time and I'll teach you how. It's free and open to anyone aged 12+ ✊

zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Image of multicoloured hands pointing at the words "Together we're strong"
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 2d
@warnock.senate.gov: "You know that it's a critical moment any time Raphael Warnock and Marjorie Taylor Greene are essentially saying the same thing. That doesn't happen often... She saw that the premiums of her own adult children will go up so much in 2026 that their healthcare is unaffordable."
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Dick Altavista @dickaltavista.bsky.social · 2d
Today’s reward for practicing (and do my fingers hurt!)
Old 97’s
FIGHT SONGS
I kinda miss 1999 when all we had to worry about was Y2K (IYKYK)
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 3d
I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.
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Dick Altavista @dickaltavista.bsky.social · 2d
Today’s reward for sunny cycling celebrates living above the library.
Dion DiMucci
BLUES WITH FRIENDS
Great songs, amazing singers and world class guitar players.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d
really can’t say enough about how mike johnson is a sniveling little coward of a man. a bayou-bred pushover with a dignity deficit that would embarrass renfield
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d
Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that
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Dick Altavista @dickaltavista.bsky.social · 3d
Too impatient to wait for the FM broadcast.
Attic Thoughts streams Live and On Demand cod.ckcufm.com/programs/589...
Clifton Chenier Project, Both Kinds of Rawk: Soft & Harder - Attic Thoughts - 2025-10-07
Clifton Chenier Project, Both Kinds of Rawk: Soft(including NEW Emma Swift) & Harder(including NEW Birddog, Lynn Jackson, Acapulco Lips and Everett LaRoi).
cod.ckcufm.com
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 4d
Oh look the party that screams “family values” every five minutes is silent when one of their megachurch darlings pleads guilty to child sex abuse. But they’ll trip over themselves to ban books and attack drag shows. Tells you everything you need to know.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 4d
Today marks the two-year anniversary of the horrific October 7 attack.

As we mourn the 1,218 lives lost that day, let us also keep alive the dream of a lasting peace and a better future for all.

Ceasefire now. Every hostage must come home. And a safer world for everyone.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d
#AZ07
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d
RAJU: You swore in 2 GOP members during pro forma session. Why not swear in Grijalva? Does it have to do w/her signature on Epstein petition?

JOHNSON: It has nothing to do with that. We'll swear her in when everybody is back

R: Why not now?

J: Uh - we'll schedule it, I guess, as soon as she wants
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