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Peter Steward Scholtes
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I’ve written and taught. Profile photos from Sapsucker Farms Yellow Belly Cidery, Mora, Minnesota, USA, 2022. He/him.
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Peter Steward Scholtes @petescholtes.bsky.social · May 25
Stepped into another world yesterday at Soulspace Sanctuary for farm animals in Wisconsin, where Mary Bue played to a crowd that included a nearby roaming donkey and honking peacock, and Stephanie Winter’s Mere Kats covered Kirsty MacColl’s “They Don’t Know” as chickens socialized across species!
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shefali.bsky.social
At The 19th, we've been highlighting stories other newsrooms might relegate to the back pages (if they cover them):

Consequences of abortion bans
Trans health & rights
Detention of pregnant immigrants
Child care

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December 9, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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jenlucpiquant.bsky.social
Operation Bluebird wants to relaunch “Twitter,” says Musk abandoned the name and logo arstechnica.com/information-...
Operation Bluebird wants to relaunch “Twitter,” says Musk abandoned the name and logo
“Abandonment” offers rare chance to reclaim one of tech’s most recognized brands.
arstechnica.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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cdelawalla.bsky.social
Proud to be supporting @rephaleystevens.bsky.social in filing articles of impeachment against RFK Jr.

WE NEED YOUR HELP for the long fight ahead of us.

Go to standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr and sign your name to our petition!

stevens.house.gov/media/press-...
Michigan Congresswoman Haley Stevens Introduces Articles of Impeachment Against RFK Jr.
Stevens: “Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has turned his back on science, on public health, and on the American people – spreading conspiracies and lies, driving up costs, and putting lives at risk” W...
stevens.house.gov
December 10, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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claraw.bsky.social
My weird hobby is following obscure US elections via this website and I'm happy to report this morning that the Democrats seem to be winning all of the ones from last night (not yet on the website but you can find the results here on Blue Sky if you look).

boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...
The 25 Elections to Watch This December - Bolts
On the heels of their sweeping wins in November, Democrats have opportunities to gain further ground in December runoffs and special elections. They’re hoping for upsets in conservative territory, fro...
boltsmag.org
December 10, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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courtneymilan.com
Re: LRT

A sex scene is an action scene.

Like an action scene, it is primarily about what is happening to the characters. Like an action scene, it will be boring as fuck if we have no idea what the stakes are or who we care about.
December 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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raskin.house.gov
Today, Rep. Don Beyer, Sen. Peter Welch and I are introducing a bill to expand ranked choice voting to all elections for Congress. RCV assures that winners have majority support, no candidate acts as a “spoiler,” and the voting process favors positive coalition-building.
December 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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rgoodlaw.bsky.social
This looks like a ploy for US domestic political purposes⤵️

To try to FALSELY pit the Int'l Criminal Court v. Trump administration.

One of the reasons there's no prospect of ICC war crimes prosecutions for boats strikes is that NO prosecutor or judge would consider it an armed conflict!
Exclusive: US threatens new ICC sanctions unless court pledges not to prosecute Trump
President Donald Trump's administration wants the International Criminal Court to amend its founding document to ensure it does not investigate the Republican president and his top officials, a Trump ...
www.reuters.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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nitishpahwa.com
meanwhile, Joe got the scoop on where Turner Classic Movies will reside, and it's also looking like Netflix … bsky.app/profile/tvmo...
tvmojoe.bsky.social Joe Adalian @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 1d
ICYMI from last night: WB Discovery confirmed that TCM will be part of the studios & streaming division that Netflix is trying to buy.

Here's looking at you, Ted? www.vulture.com/article/tcm-...
Netflix and TCM: The Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship?
Turns out, Turner Classic Movies is included in Netflix’s deal with Warner Bros.
www.vulture.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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nitishpahwa.com
thanks, Danny! for the morning crowd: I spoke with the great @maryharris.bsky.social about Netflix, Paramount, Warner Bros., the Davids (Ellison and Zaslav), and the entertainment industry's future of lesser evils, on this morning's What Next episode: slate.com/podcasts/wha...
December 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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ddayen.bsky.social
First BlackRock in Minnesota. Now Blackstone, the world's largest private equity firm, is buying a utility based in New Mexico. Blackstone also runs data centers in the state, and critics believe it will leverage its utility ownership to benefit those investments. James Baratta reports:
Private Equity’s Utility Spending Spree Threatens New Mexico - The American Prospect
Two firms are vying for control over much of New Mexico’s energy infrastructure, but consumer advocates are fighting back.
prospect.org
December 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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mn50501.bsky.social
Looking for a way to help those impacted by ICE in Minnesota? Here’s a handful of resources that we are aware of. Resources posted in comments!
December 10, 2025 at 2:26 PM
petescholtes.bsky.social
“Responding to ICE activity: Do’s and don’ts”

(From @miracmn.bsky.social on Facebook, 12/9)
Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee (MIRAC) poster (in slides format): ‘Responding to ICE activity Do’s and Don’ts: Do: Document and record ICE officers and their tactics [when outside]. Send confirmed sightings to MIRAC or other immigrant rights groups. Ask the person being detained their name and emergency contact phone number. Ask ICE agents, “Do you have an administrative warrant for this arrest?” Stay on scene to gather info from witnesses and try to identify family/friends. Follow direction from immigrant rights groups on the ground. ‘Don’t: Yell or whistle that ICE is present without confirmation. Livestream any ICE interaction. Record faces of people being arrested. Escalate without the permission of the detainee / family. Follow around every car with tinted windows / report this as ICE. Send reports of suspected ICE without time, date, location. Aimlessly shout “Where is your warrant?” over and over again.’ ‘When reporting: Report possible ICE sightings to MIRAC! Include as much information as possible. Email or message us on social media. @miracmn miracmn@gmail.com ‘ALERTA: Activity: What’s happening? Location: Where is it happening? Equipment: Weapons, vehicles, etc.? Request aid: Response requested? Time & date: When did it happen? Appearance: Who? How many? Looks? ‘Spread information, not panic. We protect one another by sharing useful and actionable information, not rumors.’ ‘Documenting: ‘How to document: video (don’t livestream), voice recording, noteboook or witness report sheet. Avoid subjective language. Contact MIRAC or another immigrant rights org or the arrestee’s attorney before posting video. ‘What to document: How did the agents present themselves? What did the agents say or do to get into the house / car / business? Who was present during the arrest? How many officers were present? Were they armed? How were they dressed? Did they say they were from ICE or a different agency? Did they lie? Did they claim they had authority to enter? Did they intimidate anyone? Did they use verbal or physical force? Were children, elderly, disabled, or other vulnerable people present? Did they handcuff anyone in front of children? Did they use discriminatory language or slurs? Did they draw weapons? Did they keep residents from moving freely? Did they search the location or belongings without permission?’ ‘Responding: ‘Take direction from impacted people! ‘Focus on listening to the needs of the community, not necessarily what you think or expect should happen. Ask consent at every turn from victims and their loved ones before taking any action that would draw attention. This includes making phone calls, talking to media, errands running, etc. ‘A note on best practices for neighborhood groups: Be aware that patrolling when not asked can freak people out and cause panic. Do not shout / whistle if you see a suspicious car that is not confirmed to be ICE! Many cars in the area have tinted windows and we don’t want to spread unnecessary panic! Don’t drive in circles around schools or areas you decide ‘need protection’ if that is not being asked for. Again, this can cause panic. Again, take direction from immigrants rights groups, and families.’
December 10, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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antlervel.vet
Tubi is such a crazy streaming service. It’s like if the Criterion Closet was in a gas station
December 9, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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dannyderaney.bsky.social
60 years ago today, A Charlie Brown Christmas aired on CBS.

Here is the original promo as it aired in 1965.

🎄 🌲🎄☃️🌲🎄🌲☃️🎄🌲🎄☃️🌲🎄🌲
December 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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taniel.bsky.social
BREAKING: Democrats have *flipped* a seat in Georgia's state House tonight.

Democrat Eric Gisler has won the seat, which was previously held by a Republican who resigned this fall.

This is a red territory: Trump won the district by 13% in 2024.
December 10, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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taniel.bsky.social
This Georgia flip is in a district that the GOP drew to drown Democratic voters in Athens into a neighboring red county, Oconee.

But tonight, Dems in Athens were out in FULL FORCE to swamp that gerrymander.
December 10, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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ninajankowicz.com
After MTG lied about me for weeks, she said that she felt bad for my unborn child because he'd have me as a mother. Her rhetoric led to threats against my family.

No one, even her, should receive threats like those, but I'd like to see her own up to the role she played in creating them for others.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Marjorie Taylor Greene: "I sent those deaths threats directly to him in a text message & informed him of what his name calling & words were doing - it was a direct assassination threat on my son. And he was extremely - I won't repeat what he said - but it was extremely unkind. No sympathy. No care"
December 9, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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pbump.com
The Trump administration says that it is constraining its national security priorities to direct threats to the U.S. — but also that it’s a national security issue that Europe is becoming less White.
www.ms.now/opinion/trum...
Opinion | Trump’s National Security Strategy puts anti-immigration policy on a global scale
Philip Bump: Protecting European racial purity is now U.S. government policy.
www.ms.now
December 9, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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carnage4life.bsky.social
America’s first Arab majority city of which 42% of votes went to Trump versus 36% for Kamala Harris is upset with Democrats for not doing more to stop Trump’s anti-immigrant actions.

I keep wondering, what did they expect? Did they sleep through his entire first term?
This Arab-majority city backed Trump. It's not going well.
“The targeting of immigrants, the targeting of Muslim communities—we’ve seen this rhetoric climb over the past several months and I anticipate it getting worse,” Dearborn Mayor Abdullah ...
www.dailykos.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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bsdtectr.bsky.social
Always read @willbunch.bsky.social.

This one in particular gave me chills, the good kind, despite what’s going on.

Thank you Bell for the gift link.
December 8, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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pocono.bsky.social
🎁

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In New Orleans and across U.S., anger over ICE raids sparks a 2nd American Revolution | Will Bunch
Everyday folks are rising up to resist immigration raids with whistles, car chases, and noisy protests. Revolution is in the air.
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December 7, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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lutzfernandez.bsky.social
"America 250 Civics Education" is a white supremacist, Christofascist project to whitewash history, serve MAGA, and break down the wall between church and state in public schools.

It is Project 2025 targeting children.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/n...

#GiftLink #GiftArticle
Hutz H. Hertzberg of Turning Point Education, an offshoot of Turning Point USA, said in a news release that his organization was “more resolved than ever to advance God-centered, virtuous education for students” through the America 250 Civics Education Coalition, which is sponsoring the “History Rocks!” program.
December 8, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social
Torture and Enforced Disappearances in the Sunshine State: Human Rights Violations at “Alligator Alcatraz” and Krome in Florida
Torture and Enforced Disappearances in the Sunshine State: Human Rights Violations at “Alligator Alcatraz” and Krome in Florida
Amnesty International visited “Alligator Alcatraz” and Krome detention centers to document human rights violations.
www.amnestyusa.org
December 8, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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eaterofsun.bsky.social
The only mention of climate in the new US National Security Strategy (NSS)
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
From the NSS: Energy Dominance – Restoring American energy dominance (in oil, gas, coal, and nuclear) and reshoring the necessary key energy components is a top strategic priority. Cheap and abundant energy will produce well-paying jobs in the United States, reduce costs for American consumers and businesses, fuel reindustrialization, and help maintain our advantage in cutting-edge technologies such as AI. Expanding our net energy exports will also deepen relationships with allies while curtailing the influence of adversaries, protect our ability to defend our shores, and—when and where necessary—enables us to project power. We reject the disastrous “climate change” and “Net Zero” ideologies that have so greatly harmed Europe, threaten the United States, and subsidize our adversaries. <last sentence emphasised by me]
December 8, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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drericding.bsky.social
⚠️RFK Jr appoints anti-vaxxer to head FDA drug research center—"Putting Tracy Beth in charge [of FDA’s CDER] is like dropping an atom bomb," says an agency source, & multiple top-level officials preparing FDA resignations. "It's an extinction level event."

www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-tra...
Appointment of controversial FDA official rocking agency like "an atom bomb," scientists there say
The Trump administration's elevation of Dr. Tracy Beth Høeg to lead a high-profile office within the Food and Drug Administration is raising alarm among multiple senior FDA officials.
www.cbsnews.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:34 AM