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Left-of-center, retired, horticultural oracle living in a Victorian farmhouse infested with cats.
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Cloudy Skies @blues-harp-gal.bsky.social · Sep 21
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #461,159! That makes me one in a million
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georgetakei.bsky.social
Can’t make this up.
July 4, 2025 at 7:15 PM
blues-harp-gal.bsky.social
I can't believe this is happening to MY country.
altyellonatpark.org AltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · Jul 4
Today doesn't mark independence day. Not anymore. It'll forever mark the day democracy died.

While we usually try and keep a brave face, todays reality is sufficiently grim as to demand exception.

The dream that was once America, has fallen to the @GOP

How we respond, echos in eternity.
Fox standing in a field of flowers.
July 4, 2025 at 7:28 PM
blues-harp-gal.bsky.social
This
June 17, 2025 at 10:19 PM
blues-harp-gal.bsky.social
This makes me sick to my stomach
janessagoldbeck.bsky.social Janessa Goldbeck @janessagoldbeck.bsky.social · Jun 16
These aren’t just any lands.
They include:

🌱 Wilderness study areas
🌲 Roadless national forests
🫎 Big game migration corridors
🥾Local recreation lands
❤️‍🔥 Tribal homelands and sacred sites (with NO right of first refusal)
June 17, 2025 at 10:18 PM
blues-harp-gal.bsky.social
#hands-off #resist
keymonster.bsky.social key-lime pie @keymonster.bsky.social · Apr 25
Working through feelings. I’m so angry. Organize.

#resist #50501movement
A digital illustration of a black and white cat on its hind legs holding a sign that says “resist”. The illustration is high contrast and red black and white.
April 25, 2025 at 5:05 AM
blues-harp-gal.bsky.social
Reminds me of someone...
grandiloquentwords.bsky.social Grandiloquent Word of the Day @grandiloquentwords.bsky.social · Nov 27
Rodomontade [roh-duh-mon-TEYD]
(n.) Arrogant, vainglorious boasting; pretentious blustering, ranting, or bragging.
(adj.) Boasting, bragging.

Used in a sentence:
“Dear Leader's rodomontade sounded like a carnival barker boasting of the impossible wonders of his latest sideshow attraction.”
November 27, 2024 at 10:10 PM
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lettersofnote.com
On this day in 1970, Charles Schulz replied to a 10-year-old kid who had written and asked, “What makes a good citizen?"
November 9, 2024 at 9:40 PM
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kikidoodle.bsky.social
Oh hey, it's me.
News article title : "crows good grudges for up to 17 years"
November 8, 2024 at 1:44 AM
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number10cat.bsky.social
At the end of The Empire Strikes Back the rebels are desolate. Han Solo is frozen in carbonite. Luke Skywalker has been defeated in battle by Darth Vader, losing a hand in the process. The Emperor's victory was total.... until the Jedi returned.

Not sure what made me think of that.
November 6, 2024 at 7:52 PM
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katzish.bsky.social
WaPo columnist and former acting editorial board head Ruth Marcus in a state of steely fury (gift link) wapo.st/4e3xvuc
Opinion | For The Post, the wrong choice at the worst possible time
The Post blundered by not endorsing a candidate for president.
wapo.st
October 26, 2024 at 12:38 AM
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jamellebouie.net
this was 100% a decision made to curry favor with trump www.thewrap.com/la-times-cas...
LA Times Planned 'Case Against Trump' Series Alongside Kamala Harris Endorsement Before Owner Quashed It | Exclusive
Patrick Soon-Shiong's interference with the paper's editorial freedom has sparked a crisis that includes canceled subscriptions and several high profile resignations
www.thewrap.com
October 25, 2024 at 11:32 PM
blues-harp-gal.bsky.social
Democracy Dies in Darkness ...
Cowardly bastards
marisakabas.bsky.social Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Oct 25
Several WaPo columnists have published a letter responding to the paper’s decision not to endorse a presidential candidate. wapo.st/3YBAy8E
Opinion Post columnists respond The newspaper’s refusal to endorse a presidential candidate is a mistake. 1 min 0 By E.J. Dionne Jr., David Ignatius, Ruth Marcus, Dana Milbank, Eugene Robinson, Jennifer Rubin and Karen Tumulty October 25, 2024 at 6:50 p.m. EDT The Washington Post’s decision not to make an endorsement in the presidential campaign is a terrible mistake. It represents an abandonment of the fundamental editorial convictions of the newspaper that we love, and for which we have worked a combined 218 years. This is a moment for the institution to be making clear its commitment to democratic values, the rule of law and international alliances, and the threat that Donald Trump poses to them — the precise points The Post made in endorsing Trump’s opponents in 2016 and 2020. There is no contradiction between The Post’s important role as an independent newspaper and its practice of making political endorsements, both as a matter of guidance to readers and as a statement of core beliefs. That has never been more true than in the current campaign. An independent newspaper might someday choose to back away from making presidential endorsements. But this isn’t the right moment, when one candidate is advocating positions that directly threaten freedom of the press and the values of the Constitution.
October 26, 2024 at 2:32 AM
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jamellebouie.net
something tells me a certain newspaper is going to treat this as a non-story. i mean, it’s not like we’re talking about a black lady at harvard or an old president.
13 former Trump administration officials sign open letter backing up John Kelly's criticism of Trump
Kelly told the New York Times that Trump meets the definition of a fascist and also said he observed the former president on multiple occasions praising Adolf Hitler.
www.nbcnews.com
October 25, 2024 at 1:48 PM
blues-harp-gal.bsky.social
Cowardly bastards
scalzi.com John Scalzi @scalzi.com · Oct 26
It's not good to have newspapers run by cowards and preemptive capitulators
October 26, 2024 at 2:30 AM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
If Harris wins (and succeeds in assuming the presidency) actions like Bezos and Musk make it clear that the US has to capitalism-proof its democracy.
October 26, 2024 at 1:27 AM
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dell.bsky.social
Letters from readers published by Wapo are blistering
Sash Goswami, Deanwood, Maryland A disingenuous decision Throughout the election cycle, The Post has covered things relatively fairly. And more recently, the articles and the balance of coverage have been more pointed about the vast differences between the candidates, which can be nothing but helpful to people who aren't following the news cycles as avidly as someone like me (to my increasing despair and dread). To then refuse to endorse one candidate over the other, in such a stark contest, feels disingenuous. Of course I would want you to endorse the candidate I am supporting, but not to support any candidate at all is cowardly, because there is no way your editorial board doesn't have a strong opinion on the matter. And if you are going to stand behind that act of cowardice, please be brave enough to be absolutely and unrelentingly truthful in your coverage in the last few days before we head to the polls. Donald Trump is morally, intellectually, mentally and emotionally unfit to serve as president. His own former chief of staff and others in his administration attest to this. He led a multilayered attempt to overturn the last election despite being told repeatedly that he lost. He incited his followers to march on the Capitol, which resulted in predictable violence. He is 78 years old and will not release his medical records. His policies, as incoherent as they are, would be highly inflationary, destabilize the world and result in a country where opposition will not be tolerated and the free press will be a fiction. Even if The Post does not endorse, the paper can lay out these facts clearly and bluntly - unless you really think this dangerous man is fit. Rita Whalen, Silver Spring The Post's editorials have made clear that Donald Trump is an existential threat to our democracy. To consciously stand aside when the nation needs moral and intellectual clarity undermines The Post's expressions of urgency. It is such a tremendous failure, on every possible level, that I (and others, I imagine) now question the integrity of the newspaper as a whole. You have brought ignominy to a once-proud institution. Roger Shih, Glen Allen, Virginia So much for press freedom The Post won a well-deserved Pulitzer Prize for public service in 2022 for the paper's coverage of Jan. 6, 2021, and now you can't manage an endorsement for the candidate running against the perpetrator of that attack on democracy? Jeremy Powlus, Blandon, Pennsylvania A broader decline In light of the decision not to endorse in the presidential election, I just canceled my subscription, after being a loyal reader for more 50 years. I am very sad to have to do this, but The Post has been declining so much recently that this decision felt inevitable. The Post's leaders seem to wonder why it is struggling financially, while successive executives have systematically destroyed the paper it once was. From the lame right-wing editorial cartoons, to the elimination of the Outlook section, to the departures of informative local columnists, this is no longer The Post I loved. There just isn't much to read in The Post anymore, and it is no longer a local paper in any meaningful sense. The New York Times will now be my morning read. To capitulate to Donald Trump with this non-endorsement is the last straw. Steve Miller, Rockville
October 26, 2024 at 2:10 AM
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liamjdillon.com
Myself and 180 of my @latimes.com colleagues signed this open letter to our owner and executive editor on the circumstances surrounding our owner's decision to override the Editorial Board and not endorse in the presidential election latguild.com/news/2024/10...
Open letter from L.A. Times staff — L.A. Times Guild - Los Angeles Times Guild
Our ethics policy clearly states: “Credibility, a news organization’s most precious asset, is arduously acquired and easily squandered. It can be maintained only if each of us accepts responsibility f...
latguild.com
October 25, 2024 at 11:06 PM
blues-harp-gal.bsky.social
Democracy Dies in Darkness

Cowardly bastards.
w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · Oct 26
Pulitzer Prize recipient Ann Telnaes' cartoon on The Washington Post not endorsing a presidential candidate. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/25/ann-telnaes-cartoon-donald-trump-kamala-harris-washington-post/
October 26, 2024 at 2:21 AM
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slack2thefuture.bsky.social
If the press is restrained by billionaire oligarchs — then the press is not free.
October 26, 2024 at 2:11 AM
blues-harp-gal.bsky.social
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #461,159! That makes me one in a million
A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #461,159, Cloudy Skies ‪@blues-harp-gal.bsky.social‬, joined on Aug 3, 2023"
September 21, 2024 at 3:32 AM
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keymonster.bsky.social key-lime pie @keymonster.bsky.social · Dec 12
We are in the time of year when small business owners have to stand in lines at the post office for literal hours because of the influx of holiday mail. Please be kind to us and understanding of any delays. Also, be kind to the postal workers. We are all doing our best.
💌
December 12, 2023 at 4:58 AM