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dougmuder.bsky.social @dougmuder.bsky.social · 2d

We can only imagine what the generals and admirals were thinking as they heard Trump describe his fantasy world.
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The Silence of the Generals

Lack of response leaves a lot of room for projection. Tuesday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth hosted an unusual meeting: America’s top generals and admirals, 800 or so of them, were called to…

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dougmuder.bsky.social @dougmuder.bsky.social · 2d

This week: Trump and the generals, Chicago, shutdown, Gaza, dementia, Argentina, and 20 great dances. weeklysift.com/2025/10/06/c...

Companions and Instruments

A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive, will not long be safe companions to liberty. The means of defence [against] foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at ho…

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SoBoBob @sobobob.bsky.social · 2d

dougmuder.bsky.social @dougmuder.bsky.social · 2d

We can only imagine what the generals and admirals were thinking as they heard Trump describe his fantasy world.
weeklysift.com/2025/10/06/t...

The Silence of the Generals

Lack of response leaves a lot of room for projection. Tuesday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth hosted an unusual meeting: America’s top generals and admirals, 800 or so of them, were called to…

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dougmuder.bsky.social @dougmuder.bsky.social · 2d

The regime’s invasion of Chicago cuts deeper if you know something about the city. weeklysift.com/2025/10/06/t...

Trump Comes for Chicago

Whatever this is about, it’s not public safety. I went to graduate school in Chicago during the 80s and lived there for six years. I’ve been back many times since and marveled at how mu…

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SoBoBob @sobobob.bsky.social · 2d

Monday!

dougmuder.bsky.social @dougmuder.bsky.social · 2d

This week: Trump and the generals, Chicago, shutdown, Gaza, dementia, Argentina, and 20 great dances. weeklysift.com/2025/10/06/c...

Companions and Instruments

A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive, will not long be safe companions to liberty. The means of defence [against] foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at ho…

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SoBoBob @sobobob.bsky.social · 3d

Also appeared in the Albuquerque Journal.

SoBoBob @sobobob.bsky.social · 3d

An opinion piece in the grands junction sentinel by @cclusa.org volunteer. www.gjsentinel.com/opinion/colu...

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 3d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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diaminedave.bsky.social @diaminedave.bsky.social · 5d

Distributed energy networks are far more secure for energy supply than centralised systems

Energy security in the widest sense.

What's not to like and why do the Right seem to like the more controlling centralised systems? Maybe they have shares in them!!

Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 5d

As Russia is discovering, a drone can wreck an oil refinery
Not so much a solar farm, since silicon doesn't explode
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It's hard to drone a solar panel

The war in Ukraine may be adding resilience to the list of clean energy's virtues

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 7d

Jane Goodall was not only a pioneering primatologist, she also campaigned more relentlessly and selflessly for the natural world than anyone I know.

A great soul if ever there was one
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91

Jane Goodall Institute says ‘tireless advocate’ for natural world died in California during US speaking tour

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 7d

Pope Leo--weirdly normal Midwesterner--gave a key climate speech yesterday that couldn't have been more different from Trump's disturbing and dangerous harangue of the generals
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A different kind of leader gives a different kind of speech

An afternoon with the Pope

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 6d

"There was a boy who had been robbed of so many muscles that he could not sit up. Every day, his mother and our teacher hooked him into a sling and fastened him to his desk." Want that again?

Shelley Fraser Mickle on the miracle of the polio vaccine:

The Polio Vaccine Was a Miracle—and We Must Not Forget It

As a polio survivor, I am a dinosaur today. My great hope is that our country’s living memory of the disease ends with my generation.

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Becky Lomax @beckyjlomax.bsky.social · 8d

Upon reaching the second lake in the Chain of Lakes, we set up at our campsite overlooking the water. It's the only campsite there...lovely #solitude. Sunset brought exquisite #brainlaundry.

Voyageurs National Park
#nationalparks #Minnesota #lakes #paddling #canoeing #camping #sunsets #parkchat

The sun sets behind the horizon while casting an orange glow in the sky that reflects in the glassy lake. In the foreground, the canoe also picks up some of the orange sunset glow.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 8d

The generals and admirals at Quantico today should be forgiven if they walked out of the auditorium and wondered: What on earth is wrong with the commander in chief?

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The Commander in Chief Is Not Okay

Trump put on a disturbing show for America’s generals and admirals.

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 8d

Why is this even possible?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 8d

Mike Johnson continues to refuse to swear in a Democrat who won in a landslide.

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CCLInclusion @cclinclusion.bsky.social · 15d

This Sept. 26 & 27, join us for @cclusa.org's 4th #Inclusion Conf!

🌺 Theme: "Rooted in Care, Growing in Community."

🗣️ Speakers: #JacobShoresArguello, #VanessaNakate, #JulianCauzae, #UkemeAwakessienJefer, @clarafang.bsky.social & @pamelabensonowens.bsky.social

Register: cclusa.org/inclusion

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WWF UK @wwf.org.uk · 10d

Take a peek! 👀

This week, we’re joined by talented young photographer Jamie Smart, also known as ‘Eagle Eyed Girl’, over on our Instagram feed.

From rutting deer to diving gannets, this award-winning photographer certainly knows how to capture the character of UK nature. 💙

A harvest mouse pushing strands of grass apart as it peeks through, its hands gripped tight around the strands.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 9d

One person having the power to upend entire industries and economic sectors on a whim every day that puts companies out of business and workers out of jobs with no legislative input is an autocracy, regardless of whether that person initially acquired power through an election.

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 9d

Do not normalize our military on our streets. It is antithetical to America. It is fascist. Don’t normalize it. Don’t accept it. Today’s show, have a listen.👇 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Don’t Beat Around The Bush. Putting Troops On American Streets Is Fascism. Plain & Simple

Podcast Episode · The Social Contract with Joe Walsh · 09/29/2025 · 32m

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dougmuder.bsky.social @dougmuder.bsky.social · 9d

I’m catching up on the news of the last three weeks. Most of what I’ve seen about Kirk is way too shallow, so I thought I’d give my own impression. weeklysift.com/2025/09/29/w...

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SoBoBob @sobobob.bsky.social · 9d

An important read!

dougmuder.bsky.social @dougmuder.bsky.social · 9d

Due to a vacation, I haven't posted a summary for three weeks. Has anything happened? weeklysift.com/2025/09/29/t...

The Show Must Go On

This show is not important. What is important is that we get to live in a country that allows us to have a show like this. – Jimmy Kimmel This week’s featured posts are “What to M…

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SoBoBob @sobobob.bsky.social · 9d

Monday!

dougmuder.bsky.social @dougmuder.bsky.social · 9d

Can we read anything more into Jimmy Kimmel’s victory over Trump? weeklysift.com/2025/09/29/i...

Is Kimmel’s return a turning point?

For the first time, Trump used autocratic power in a way that the public couldn’t ignore, and a popular pushback forced a big corporation to stand up to him. Is that an anomaly or the start o…

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 10d

U.S. Border Patrol agents tried and failed to detain a man in downtown Chicago (via Christopher Sweat)

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Citizens' Climate Lobby @cclusa.org · 21d

Even if you don't have a senator on the Agriculture committee, you can still take action! We're raising awareness about Fix Our Forests one social media post at a time ☝️

Visit cclusa.org/forests to share key posts from our coalition partners with your network.

Support the Fix Our Forests Act | Citizens' Climate Lobby

Tell your senator on the Agriculture Committee you support healthy forests, wildfire management, and bipartisan climate solutions.

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Citizens' Climate Lobby @cclusa.org · 14d

Thankfully, this kind of rhetoric is not what we hear from Congress—on either side of the aisle.

Most Republican & Democratic lawmakers know climate change is happening & clean energy offers major economic benefits.

We'll keep working to advance bipartisan climate laws. Join us! ➡️ cclusa.org/join

Environmental Volunteering Opportunities | Join Citizens' Climate Lobby

Environmental volunteering opportunities are near you! Find a local chapter and help us end climate change!

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