Butch C
@butchsnewname.bsky.social
Bridge painter and Boatswain’s Mate in a former life. Currently retired. Second act incoming.
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If she’d been a better swimmer, she’d be much poorer today.
But MAGA is a grift machine for losers
But MAGA is a grift machine for losers
NEW: Riley Gaines, the former collegiate swimmer turned right-wing media figure, made $474,313 last year from the conservative nonprofit org, the Leadership Institute. More striking than her total comp was the way it was structured.
For @sportico.bsky.social 👇
www.sportico.com/business/med...
For @sportico.bsky.social 👇
www.sportico.com/business/med...
Leadership Perks: Riley Gaines Scored Big Bonus From Nonprofit
Gaines, the former Kentucky swimmer turned OutKick commentator, banked $474,313 from the conservative political organization in 2024.
www.sportico.com
December 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM
If she’d been a better swimmer, she’d be much poorer today.
But MAGA is a grift machine for losers
But MAGA is a grift machine for losers
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Every year I make a #christmas card with a selection of festive creatures. I seems december is a full-blown image campaign for Santa and the elves but there are all kinds of other christmas creatures who also wants some attention.
#christmastime #ArtAdventCalendar
#art #drawing #illo_advent
#christmastime #ArtAdventCalendar
#art #drawing #illo_advent
December 24, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Every year I make a #christmas card with a selection of festive creatures. I seems december is a full-blown image campaign for Santa and the elves but there are all kinds of other christmas creatures who also wants some attention.
#christmastime #ArtAdventCalendar
#art #drawing #illo_advent
#christmastime #ArtAdventCalendar
#art #drawing #illo_advent
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December 24, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 24
Oil painting of a winter scene, on 18-inch by 24-inch canvas. An early, light snow covering high mountains, with pine forests and rolling hills in the foreground.
Oil painting of a winter scene, on 18-inch by 24-inch canvas. An early, light snow covering high mountains, with pine forests and rolling hills in the foreground.
December 24, 2025 at 12:55 PM
#ArtAdventCalendar Day 24
Oil painting of a winter scene, on 18-inch by 24-inch canvas. An early, light snow covering high mountains, with pine forests and rolling hills in the foreground.
Oil painting of a winter scene, on 18-inch by 24-inch canvas. An early, light snow covering high mountains, with pine forests and rolling hills in the foreground.
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A spilled ink phoenix for #ArtAdventCalendar day 24! Made with polymer clay, an empty fountain pen ink bottle, and chameleon powder to make the feathers shimmer in the light.
December 24, 2025 at 12:58 PM
A spilled ink phoenix for #ArtAdventCalendar day 24! Made with polymer clay, an empty fountain pen ink bottle, and chameleon powder to make the feathers shimmer in the light.
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Phoenix
Day 24
And Merry Christmas! ❣️
#ArtAdventCalendar #birds #stylization #phoenix #digitalart #art #illustration #painting #artistsonbluesky #ArtYear #BlueSkyArtShow #OpenHouse
Day 24
And Merry Christmas! ❣️
#ArtAdventCalendar #birds #stylization #phoenix #digitalart #art #illustration #painting #artistsonbluesky #ArtYear #BlueSkyArtShow #OpenHouse
December 24, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Phoenix
Day 24
And Merry Christmas! ❣️
#ArtAdventCalendar #birds #stylization #phoenix #digitalart #art #illustration #painting #artistsonbluesky #ArtYear #BlueSkyArtShow #OpenHouse
Day 24
And Merry Christmas! ❣️
#ArtAdventCalendar #birds #stylization #phoenix #digitalart #art #illustration #painting #artistsonbluesky #ArtYear #BlueSkyArtShow #OpenHouse
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The final #ArtAdventCalendar post: My most involved artwork of 2025:
3D Lissajous Figures, constructed exactly from their 2D projections. Watercolor pencils on canvas.
#SciArt #MathArt
See the evolution of this painting step-by-step on my blog:
elkement.art/2025/09/17/l...
Happy Holidays!
3D Lissajous Figures, constructed exactly from their 2D projections. Watercolor pencils on canvas.
#SciArt #MathArt
See the evolution of this painting step-by-step on my blog:
elkement.art/2025/09/17/l...
Happy Holidays!
December 24, 2025 at 1:03 PM
The final #ArtAdventCalendar post: My most involved artwork of 2025:
3D Lissajous Figures, constructed exactly from their 2D projections. Watercolor pencils on canvas.
#SciArt #MathArt
See the evolution of this painting step-by-step on my blog:
elkement.art/2025/09/17/l...
Happy Holidays!
3D Lissajous Figures, constructed exactly from their 2D projections. Watercolor pencils on canvas.
#SciArt #MathArt
See the evolution of this painting step-by-step on my blog:
elkement.art/2025/09/17/l...
Happy Holidays!
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I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:
WATCH: Segment CBS News Pulled From "60 Minutes"
YouTube video by Phil Lewis
www.youtube.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:
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!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social:
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
December 22, 2025 at 10:39 PM
!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social:
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
is.gd/paU8Ko
(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
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Pure fanaticism, just objectively bad policy especially while building all these new data centers. But also an opportunity for Democrats to say loudly, over and over again, that Trump and Republicans are making everything more expensive. Higher electricity costs impact everything.
Trump Halts Five Wind Farms Off the East Coast
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Pure fanaticism, just objectively bad policy especially while building all these new data centers. But also an opportunity for Democrats to say loudly, over and over again, that Trump and Republicans are making everything more expensive. Higher electricity costs impact everything.
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Please read @lollardfish.bsky.social’s column on what it means for all of us when the worst people in the world face zero consequences for gleefully flinging around “the r-word.” No paywall.
Perry: The return of the r-word
"These days, the r-word slur has become a staple of the American right wing, uttered with few professional or social consequences," David M. Perry writes.
www.startribune.com
December 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Please read @lollardfish.bsky.social’s column on what it means for all of us when the worst people in the world face zero consequences for gleefully flinging around “the r-word.” No paywall.
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So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
December 22, 2025 at 3:05 AM
So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
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"Wander", oil on watercolour paper, 5 1/4 x 7 1/4", 2025- $150 (Cdn) & "Diet (croak)", oil on Strathmore watercolour paper, 5 1/4 x 7 1/4", 2025- $150(Cdn) #art
December 21, 2025 at 2:54 PM
"Wander", oil on watercolour paper, 5 1/4 x 7 1/4", 2025- $150 (Cdn) & "Diet (croak)", oil on Strathmore watercolour paper, 5 1/4 x 7 1/4", 2025- $150(Cdn) #art
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The long nights are over, the Light begins its journey home
December 21, 2025 at 8:34 PM
The long nights are over, the Light begins its journey home
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You’re sitting in an inflatable life raft with a bunch of imbeciles punching holes in it because they like the sound it makes. That’s not conducive to mental health.
December 21, 2025 at 4:35 PM
You’re sitting in an inflatable life raft with a bunch of imbeciles punching holes in it because they like the sound it makes. That’s not conducive to mental health.
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Soon we're going to get a new count for homelessness in the US and I'm calling it now: the new count is going to register a massive drop.
That's because there was a surge in shelter counts in January 2024 due to migrant shelters, which have since been dismantled.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
That's because there was a surge in shelter counts in January 2024 due to migrant shelters, which have since been dismantled.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Migrant Crisis Pushed US Homelessness to Record High in 2024
Biden administration officials say the increase in the annual point-in-time homelessness count was driven by a surge of asylum seekers in January.
www.bloomberg.com
December 21, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Soon we're going to get a new count for homelessness in the US and I'm calling it now: the new count is going to register a massive drop.
That's because there was a surge in shelter counts in January 2024 due to migrant shelters, which have since been dismantled.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
That's because there was a surge in shelter counts in January 2024 due to migrant shelters, which have since been dismantled.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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The time to demand Bondi’s resignation or impeachment is NOW. Press them hard, put them on the defensive, and make this a key issue in the midterms.
It highlights everything wrong with the GOP — cult like loyalty to Trump, complete lawlessness, elite entitlement, etc.
It highlights everything wrong with the GOP — cult like loyalty to Trump, complete lawlessness, elite entitlement, etc.
#EpsteinCoverup is so blatantly hamfisted, it's political malpractice if Dems don't attack full bore: Impeach Bondi as the means to make it a defining issue next year in run-up to midterms.
Removing this obviously distributed-a-billion-times photo of Trump w/Melania, Epstein, & Maxwell from the DOJ release of files only points out the FBI team's foolish, slapdash attempt to cover up *any existence* of the adjudicated sexual assaulter FOTUS in them.
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December 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
The time to demand Bondi’s resignation or impeachment is NOW. Press them hard, put them on the defensive, and make this a key issue in the midterms.
It highlights everything wrong with the GOP — cult like loyalty to Trump, complete lawlessness, elite entitlement, etc.
It highlights everything wrong with the GOP — cult like loyalty to Trump, complete lawlessness, elite entitlement, etc.
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“Yes, I suppose we exist in the same space. But my mind — that’s another matter! My memory contains lengthy poetic narratives on chaos, authority, and urban alienation. By geniuses like Pink Floyd, The Who, and Rush.”
- Ian the iPod
medium.com/@leni.quinn/...
#writingcommunity #technology #humor
- Ian the iPod
medium.com/@leni.quinn/...
#writingcommunity #technology #humor
I’m a Roll of Duct Tape Trapped in a Junk Drawer With an iPod That Thinks It’s Better Than Me
There’s no such thing as “Duct Tape v16.12218”
medium.com
December 21, 2025 at 3:43 PM
“Yes, I suppose we exist in the same space. But my mind — that’s another matter! My memory contains lengthy poetic narratives on chaos, authority, and urban alienation. By geniuses like Pink Floyd, The Who, and Rush.”
- Ian the iPod
medium.com/@leni.quinn/...
#writingcommunity #technology #humor
- Ian the iPod
medium.com/@leni.quinn/...
#writingcommunity #technology #humor
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How it started vs. How it’s going NOW 👀
LA tow truck driver who towed ICE’s car found NOT GUILTY 🦸🏽♂️
LA tow truck driver who towed ICE’s car found NOT GUILTY 🦸🏽♂️
December 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM
How it started vs. How it’s going NOW 👀
LA tow truck driver who towed ICE’s car found NOT GUILTY 🦸🏽♂️
LA tow truck driver who towed ICE’s car found NOT GUILTY 🦸🏽♂️
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December 20, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Mixing it up for #ArtAdventCalendar with a little advice 🐡
December 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Mixing it up for #ArtAdventCalendar with a little advice 🐡
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#ArtAdventCalendar Day 20
Night of the Lepus
#linocut ##blockprint #art #artsky #printsky #printmaking #crafts #traditionalart #prints #ink
Night of the Lepus
#linocut ##blockprint #art #artsky #printsky #printmaking #crafts #traditionalart #prints #ink
December 20, 2025 at 7:03 PM
#ArtAdventCalendar Day 20
Night of the Lepus
#linocut ##blockprint #art #artsky #printsky #printmaking #crafts #traditionalart #prints #ink
Night of the Lepus
#linocut ##blockprint #art #artsky #printsky #printmaking #crafts #traditionalart #prints #ink
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This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
Opinion | Obama Supported It. The Left in Canada and Norway Does. Why Don’t Democrats?
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
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Jack Smith has requested that Jim Jordan release the entire video of his 8-hour closed-door testimony which he gave this week to the House Judiciary Committee.
Will Jordan release the video to the public?
If not, why not?
Will Jordan release the video to the public?
If not, why not?
December 19, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Jack Smith has requested that Jim Jordan release the entire video of his 8-hour closed-door testimony which he gave this week to the House Judiciary Committee.
Will Jordan release the video to the public?
If not, why not?
Will Jordan release the video to the public?
If not, why not?
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The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.
December 18, 2025 at 7:42 PM
The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.