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Sara Foss @sarafoss.bsky.social · 1h

Late season garden haul

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 1h

I have taken
the freedom of speech
that was in
the Constitution

and which
you were probably
using
for peaceful protest

Forgive me
the courts said they were
so agitating
and so irritating

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Sara Foss @sarafoss.bsky.social · 2h

Heard my son singing in the other room and wondered what he’s up to.

He’s happily drawing comics in his sketch book.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 2h

The President of the United States is living in an alternate reality and it's long past time for media outlets to start talking about it.

We're beyond "Trump said without evidence." Trump is governing a world that only exists in his warped mind.

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Sara Foss @sarafoss.bsky.social · 2h

I'm getting pretty close to carrying a copy of the Bill of Rights around in my pocket

Sara Foss @sarafoss.bsky.social · 2h

Absolute gibberish coming out of Trump's mouth

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Sara Foss @sarafoss.bsky.social · 3h

nysfocus.com/2025/10/08/b...

New York’s Biggest ICE Detention Center Bans Book Deliveries

Rejected books include a Spanish-English dictionary, a Spanish translation of a George R.R. Martin novel, and "The Seven Principles for Making Marriage…

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Sara Foss @sarafoss.bsky.social · 3h

dizzy at times - and it can feel a little slow. But it's also thought-provoking, worthwhile viewing at a time when we live much of our everday lives in public.

Sara Foss @sarafoss.bsky.social · 3h

surveillance state, decades before the War on Terror, Edward Snowden and all of our contemporary concerns about the erosion of privacy and the ubiquitousness of cameras recording our every move.

That said, "The Giant" isn't always easy to watch - the grainy, jerky footage made me feel a little

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Sara Foss @sarafoss.bsky.social · 3h

Watched the 1983 experimental documentary "The Giant (Der Riese," a feature-length film composed entirely of security camera footage taken from various places in West German cities - the highway, a gated estate, a department store, a train station.

"The Giant" is a fascinating critique of the

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Sara Foss @sarafoss.bsky.social · 6h

#NowListening

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Sara Foss @sarafoss.bsky.social · 6h

A friend who worked at the Post-Herald with me writes:

"It is bizarre, but probably less bizarre than Sen. Tuberville."

Sara Foss @sarafoss.bsky.social · 6h

Paul Finebaum was still writing for the Birmingham Post-Herald when I worked there circa 1999-2000. He has never struck me as a right-wing firebrand. Could he win an Alabama Senate race? I don't know.

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He’s One of ESPN’s Most Popular Hosts. It’s Bizarre That He’s Pivoting to Right-Wing Politics.

He built a sports empire on ESPN. Now he wants to see if it’ll win him an Alabama Senate seat.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 8h

We’re not dealing with brilliant strategists cleverly laying traps, we’re dealing with impulsive whiners whose advantage is contempt for laws, norms, and morality.

They’re not pulling some elaborate trick, they’re just willing—even eager—to do things regular, principled people consider off limits.

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 12h

The Unofficial Jobs Numbers Are In and It’s Rough Out There

In a federal data blackout, Wall Street numbers and surveys are filling the void

WSJ: www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11h

“.. a swift reversal of what had been a hopeful sign of a revival in the US housing market.”

@bloomberg.com $XHB
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Sara Foss @sarafoss.bsky.social · 19h

Wikipedia has a whole entry on the butt fumble.

I remember watching this game.

Truly, a hilarious game of football!

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Butt Fumble - Wikipedia

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Sara Foss @sarafoss.bsky.social · 19h

My dad was like, "Remind me - who is Mark Sanchez?"

And I was like, "Remember the butt fumble?"

This incident in Indianapolis looks worse than the butt fumble

Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 20h

Yikes. www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...

Sanchez now facing felony charge for altercation

Mark Sanchez is facing a felony battery charge over the altercation between the former NFL quarterback and 69-year-old truck driver Perry Tole early Saturday in Indianapolis.

www.espn.com

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 20h

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 22h

Here’s video of the incident

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Sara Foss @sarafoss.bsky.social · 22h

“Lee Greenwood or role models”

OK, loser

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Listening Habit @listeninghabit.bsky.social · 22h

Hudson Valley folx, here’s an exciting concert announcement for next spring at Basilica in Hudson. Tix go on sale on Thursday for retro-garage-psych rocker Ty Segall in April 2026.
#hudsonvalley #concerts

www.eventim.us/event/ty-seg...

Ty Segall concert poster with vector image of him holding a guitar colored by a rainbow gradient from top to bottom. April 29, Basilica, Hudson is on the lower left side.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

It isn’t surprising that this would be happening with a 79-year-old man. The crazy and dangerous part is that there’s an entire political movement and media ecosystem that rationalizes, justifies, and tries to retroactively validate every synapse misfire that escapes his mouth.

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 1d

I know invoking Latin terms can be a bit esoteric, and "dementia" is fine and accurate, but I think there's real merit in zeroing in on the relevant legal concept: he is non compos mentis. Not just that he's a batty old man, he is debilitated in a concrete legal sense, fit for conservatorship.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

Ruben Gallego on whether Trump is talking to Democrats:

“Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia, so I think there's a he's probably talking to himself, or think he's talking to a Democrat, but I sincerely doubt that that's actually he's actually physically talking to a Democrat.“

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Sara Foss @sarafoss.bsky.social · 1d

My parents live in Maine. They like Mills. But they don’t want her to run for the Senate.

Axios @axios.com · 1d

Scoop: Maine Gov. Janet Mills is poised to jump into Maine Senate race

Scoop: Mills poised to jump into Maine Senate race

Gov. Janey Mills' entry into the race would set off another complicated Democratic primary.

trib.al

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Sara Foss @sarafoss.bsky.social · 1d

threes or tens or twenties. It means that there were exponentially more people in positions of tremendous power and influence who either willfully ignored the exploitation of girls and young women, or basked fully in it."