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Patrick

@patrickstaley.bsky.social

1.8K followers 730 following 2.4K posts

Progressive, first and foremost. Thinker, reader, farmer, and smart-ass. 🚫 scammers, bots, or pimps, please.

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“While we seek mirth and beauty and music light and gay,
There are frail forms fainting at the door;
Though their voices are silent, their pleading looks will say: Oh, hard times, come again no more.”

Stephen Foster, 1854

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Radio Free America @radiofreeflorida.bsky.social · 1d

“There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and shame the devil.” - Walter Lippmann

#RadioFreeAmerica

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Patrick @patrickstaley.bsky.social · 1d

He is, truly, a man of the people.

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Patrick @patrickstaley.bsky.social · 1d

Truth. And it fucking hurts to say, too.

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Eric Alper @thatericalper.com · 3d

On this day in 1978, "Mother" Maybelle Carter passed away at 69. A founding member of The Carter Family, she shaped country music with her revolutionary "Carter scratch" guitar style and timeless influence on generations of musicians.