justafarmer
@justafarmer.bsky.social
retired after more than 40 years with tiny town newspapers and about a decade as a university adjunct professor of journalism and media. my dogs and my cats, grudgingly tolerate the wildlife here in TheBackwoods of Appalachia in eastern Kentucky. #Food
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On this eve of fifty Novembers
the winds still howl
the bell still tolls.
My breath turns heavy
as we drift into the long cold night.
The Fitzgerald stirs beneath.
I harbor their echoes
and cradle her steel.
My waves bear the sorrow
of all I have taken.
the winds still howl
the bell still tolls.
My breath turns heavy
as we drift into the long cold night.
The Fitzgerald stirs beneath.
I harbor their echoes
and cradle her steel.
My waves bear the sorrow
of all I have taken.
November 10, 2025 at 12:45 AM
On this eve of fifty Novembers
the winds still howl
the bell still tolls.
My breath turns heavy
as we drift into the long cold night.
The Fitzgerald stirs beneath.
I harbor their echoes
and cradle her steel.
My waves bear the sorrow
of all I have taken.
the winds still howl
the bell still tolls.
My breath turns heavy
as we drift into the long cold night.
The Fitzgerald stirs beneath.
I harbor their echoes
and cradle her steel.
My waves bear the sorrow
of all I have taken.
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Quick thread on timing of reopening the government, if they’re able to invoke cloture on MTP. (That’s a 60 voter, so you need 8 Dems assuming Rand Paul is still a no.)
For timing, if they invoke cloture today (assume after 6pm), that begins the 30 hours of debate. Takes us to Tuesday for MTP vote.
For timing, if they invoke cloture today (assume after 6pm), that begins the 30 hours of debate. Takes us to Tuesday for MTP vote.
November 9, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Quick thread on timing of reopening the government, if they’re able to invoke cloture on MTP. (That’s a 60 voter, so you need 8 Dems assuming Rand Paul is still a no.)
For timing, if they invoke cloture today (assume after 6pm), that begins the 30 hours of debate. Takes us to Tuesday for MTP vote.
For timing, if they invoke cloture today (assume after 6pm), that begins the 30 hours of debate. Takes us to Tuesday for MTP vote.
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JD Vance's brother is losing by SIXTY points for mayor of Cincinnati.
He's getting hammered so badly I thought he was Pete Hegseth at a 10AM meeting.
He's getting hammered so badly I thought he was Pete Hegseth at a 10AM meeting.
November 5, 2025 at 1:20 AM
JD Vance's brother is losing by SIXTY points for mayor of Cincinnati.
He's getting hammered so badly I thought he was Pete Hegseth at a 10AM meeting.
He's getting hammered so badly I thought he was Pete Hegseth at a 10AM meeting.
Evergreen tweet
if u do not have anything nice to say well sometimes u are not wrong
November 4, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Evergreen tweet
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Meanwhile, Mr. Cuomo was on the phone to every Democratic donor he could reach in Nassau and Westchester counties wailing about impending communism just over the city line. He couldn't find Grand Street without a motorcade or give a shit what happens to anyone actually living there.
I visited Grand Street Senior Housing on the Lower East Side today and tried a little Bomba y Plena…
October 31, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Meanwhile, Mr. Cuomo was on the phone to every Democratic donor he could reach in Nassau and Westchester counties wailing about impending communism just over the city line. He couldn't find Grand Street without a motorcade or give a shit what happens to anyone actually living there.
Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth 1967
YouTube video by PettyYou007
www.youtube.com
October 24, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Love how this asshat yells at her that she "shouldn't be here". No asshole, YOU shouldn't be there. Also love how she is ready to jump out of the vehicle and go after him. My heroine.
October 23, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Love how this asshat yells at her that she "shouldn't be here". No asshole, YOU shouldn't be there. Also love how she is ready to jump out of the vehicle and go after him. My heroine.
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As first lady, Jacqueline Kennedy undertook a restoration of the White House, to show the evolving history of the people who had lived and worked there, calling the work “a question of scholarship.”
Read more about the White House Restoration: jfklibrary.org/whrestoration
Read more about the White House Restoration: jfklibrary.org/whrestoration
October 22, 2025 at 3:47 PM
As first lady, Jacqueline Kennedy undertook a restoration of the White House, to show the evolving history of the people who had lived and worked there, calling the work “a question of scholarship.”
Read more about the White House Restoration: jfklibrary.org/whrestoration
Read more about the White House Restoration: jfklibrary.org/whrestoration
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"A blueprint for what a short dramatic film should be. It’s focused, direct, and perfectly accurate in its details.”— Afterimage
Watch the film here: https://loom.ly/h1mWsoE
📸 Appalshop, “Fat Monroe,” Andrew Garrison, 1990
Watch the film here: https://loom.ly/h1mWsoE
📸 Appalshop, “Fat Monroe,” Andrew Garrison, 1990
October 21, 2025 at 1:30 PM
"A blueprint for what a short dramatic film should be. It’s focused, direct, and perfectly accurate in its details.”— Afterimage
Watch the film here: https://loom.ly/h1mWsoE
📸 Appalshop, “Fat Monroe,” Andrew Garrison, 1990
Watch the film here: https://loom.ly/h1mWsoE
📸 Appalshop, “Fat Monroe,” Andrew Garrison, 1990
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She doesn’t need a hero, she is the hero we need. 🤩
August 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
She doesn’t need a hero, she is the hero we need. 🤩
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🗃️🙌 #BookSquad pride! so enjoying @kawulf.bsky.social’s @mhs1791.bsky.social @americanancestors.bsky.social chat with Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
about her #Lineage research, esp this #archives moment in the reading room where it happened… www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what...
about her #Lineage research, esp this #archives moment in the reading room where it happened… www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what...
This Long-Ignored Document, Written by George Washington, Lays Bare the Legal Power of Genealogy
In Washington’s Virginia, family was a crucial determinant of social and economic status, and freedom
www.smithsonianmag.com
October 15, 2025 at 10:36 PM
🗃️🙌 #BookSquad pride! so enjoying @kawulf.bsky.social’s @mhs1791.bsky.social @americanancestors.bsky.social chat with Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
about her #Lineage research, esp this #archives moment in the reading room where it happened… www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what...
about her #Lineage research, esp this #archives moment in the reading room where it happened… www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what...
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This Saturday, October 18, we’re exercising our right to dissent and taking to the streets.
Prepare for No Kings protests with our virtual Know Your Rights training this Wednesday, October 15 at aclu.org/october15_training
Prepare for No Kings protests with our virtual Know Your Rights training this Wednesday, October 15 at aclu.org/october15_training
October 14, 2025 at 10:46 PM
This Saturday, October 18, we’re exercising our right to dissent and taking to the streets.
Prepare for No Kings protests with our virtual Know Your Rights training this Wednesday, October 15 at aclu.org/october15_training
Prepare for No Kings protests with our virtual Know Your Rights training this Wednesday, October 15 at aclu.org/october15_training
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October 14, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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There are some people who like to erase history. We are going to record history. Whether it be in Philadelphia, Chicago, or Portland, we are going to #BringTheLight.
October 14, 2025 at 3:33 PM
There are some people who like to erase history. We are going to record history. Whether it be in Philadelphia, Chicago, or Portland, we are going to #BringTheLight.
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Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a Black transgender woman and longtime activist who once lived in the Bay Area, died October 13. She was 78....
www.ebar.com/story/159150...
www.ebar.com/story/159150...
Trans leader Miss Major Griffin-Gracy dies
Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a Black transgender woman and longtime activist who once lived in the Bay Area, died October 13.
www.ebar.com
October 13, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a Black transgender woman and longtime activist who once lived in the Bay Area, died October 13. She was 78....
www.ebar.com/story/159150...
www.ebar.com/story/159150...
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Before laser pointers we had to just point at the wall with a stick. Photo from my collection, no date/info.
October 13, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Before laser pointers we had to just point at the wall with a stick. Photo from my collection, no date/info.
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ICE agents blocked an ambulance that was trying to take an injured protester to hospital.
"We are still not being allowed to leave by ICE officers.” an EMT said on radio
When driver tried to get out, an agent yelled, "DON’T YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN, I WILL SHOOT YOU"
www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...
"We are still not being allowed to leave by ICE officers.” an EMT said on radio
When driver tried to get out, an agent yelled, "DON’T YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN, I WILL SHOOT YOU"
www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...
Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver
Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.
www.wweek.com
October 13, 2025 at 4:05 PM
ICE agents blocked an ambulance that was trying to take an injured protester to hospital.
"We are still not being allowed to leave by ICE officers.” an EMT said on radio
When driver tried to get out, an agent yelled, "DON’T YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN, I WILL SHOOT YOU"
www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...
"We are still not being allowed to leave by ICE officers.” an EMT said on radio
When driver tried to get out, an agent yelled, "DON’T YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN, I WILL SHOOT YOU"
www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...
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Under federal law, registered foreign nationals must carry proof of registration with them at all times. But prior to a second Trump administration, it was rarely enforced.
ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fined Rueben Antonio Cruz $130 for not having his papers with him.
trib.al
October 13, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Under federal law, registered foreign nationals must carry proof of registration with them at all times. But prior to a second Trump administration, it was rarely enforced.
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This is my family’s cemetery. Generations of us are here. DHS thugs attacked the workers who laid my father to rest and tend to his gravesite. i dont know whether to cry or yell. I hope these DHS thugs find no peace in this life and the next.
ICE attacks cemetery workers trying to help a man in the Des Plaines river www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMUmUjPs/
Caught on camera… ICE agents clash with suburban cemetery workers trying to help man in Des Plaines River… #wgn9 #ice #operationmidwayblitz #immigration
TikTok video by WGN9Chicago
www.tiktok.com
October 12, 2025 at 7:07 PM
This is my family’s cemetery. Generations of us are here. DHS thugs attacked the workers who laid my father to rest and tend to his gravesite. i dont know whether to cry or yell. I hope these DHS thugs find no peace in this life and the next.
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Today's Low Quality Ad is for this Cat Pin. There's a reason why there are police dogs and not police cats. Cats wouldn't only let the criminals get away, they'd help bury the bodies too.
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October 13, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Today's Low Quality Ad is for this Cat Pin. There's a reason why there are police dogs and not police cats. Cats wouldn't only let the criminals get away, they'd help bury the bodies too.
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A President threatening to jail a sitting Governor is unacceptable and is the opposite of what this country stands for and was founded on. I stand with Gov. Pritzker and for the rights of each state across our great nation.
October 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
A President threatening to jail a sitting Governor is unacceptable and is the opposite of what this country stands for and was founded on. I stand with Gov. Pritzker and for the rights of each state across our great nation.
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If you rename the Department of Defense the Department of War, then bomb fishing boats in the Caribbean, and shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper bullet, you should automatically be barred from receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for the rest of your life.
#FuckTrump
#FuckTrump
October 9, 2025 at 9:27 PM
If you rename the Department of Defense the Department of War, then bomb fishing boats in the Caribbean, and shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper bullet, you should automatically be barred from receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for the rest of your life.
#FuckTrump
#FuckTrump
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