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@rusty-baxter.bsky.social

80 yo retired teacher. Ham radio operator. Computer tech. Poetry, history, music, photography. Atheist, liberal, straight, widowed, living alone, neither a veteran nor a draft dodger. Remembers when America was great, and we ain’t headed back there.

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Trump SCOURS White House Roof for Epstein Files? | The Tony Michaels Podcast #963 YouTube video by The Tony Michaels Podcast

youtube.com/live/uzpZPQE...

Tony Michael's Podcast

06.08.2025 01:42 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Because you needed a video of a group of doggies playing with bubbles... You're welcome. ☺️ #dog #dogday #bluesky

05.08.2025 09:38 — 👍 8584    🔁 1385    💬 200    📌 108
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I enjoyed chatting with Stephen Colbert on "The Late Show."

My thoughts on how we save our democracy are the same today as when we last spoke on "The Colbert Report" in 2010.

We must get big money out of politics.

05.08.2025 20:59 — 👍 8060    🔁 2108    💬 223    📌 103
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Trump wants to open the Western Arctic to reckless drilling—endangering wildlife, traditional subsistence uses, and the climate.
 
I led a letter with @rephuffman.bsky.social and 27 colleagues demanding the Interior Department reject this disaster-in-the-making.

06.08.2025 01:21 — 👍 136    🔁 43    💬 3    📌 1

Or we handcuff the asshole before that happens he’s on the list clearly time is wasting.

06.08.2025 01:42 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 3    📌 0
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What, Exactly, Is the ‘Russia Hoax’? To start with, it’s not a hoax.

www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/... What, Exactly, Is the ‘Russia Hoax’? - The Atlantic

One of Donald Trump’s tells is his talk of the “Russia hoax.” When that phrase passes his lips, it’s a sign that the president is agitated about something. Secondly, it’s NOT a hoax!

06.08.2025 01:42 — 👍 54    🔁 13    💬 2    📌 2

Fuck us, evidently.

06.08.2025 01:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is so wrong. Utility costs are rising and we're cutting solar grants. This is NOT for the people.

06.08.2025 01:42 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0

Two we should be ashamed of. If Clarence Thomas were white, he would be in prison.

06.08.2025 01:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Can’t wait to see how Sexual Predator Brett Kavanaugh and Sexual Predator Clarence Thomas rule on the legal fate of Sexual Predator Ghislaine Maxwell.
Real impartial system we’ve got going.

05.08.2025 07:29 — 👍 1164    🔁 360    💬 44    📌 18

Hello fellow educators! Stuart is a great connection and he works hard to support smaller accounts as well as the big ones! I encourage you to join a starter pack to begin finding your people here!

06.08.2025 01:42 — 👍 4    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

This almost completes a sweep! What the hell is left?

06.08.2025 01:42 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I’m Not Panicking. I’m Outraged. Read more here.

I have been the subject of many spurious accusations and politically motivated attacks, but this one is in a class by itself. According to Tulsi Gabbard — the nation’s top intelligence official — my refusal to post on Twitter is being reviewed by the Department of Justice as evidence of wrongdoing.

06.08.2025 01:05 — 👍 6167    🔁 1658    💬 558    📌 128
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The people are sick of being lied to. We can’t afford NOT to do it. #MedicareForAll

05.08.2025 17:58 — 👍 4948    🔁 1963    💬 221    📌 83

No

06.08.2025 01:40 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

No brainer, except for the MAGA with no brains.

06.08.2025 01:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Sen. Slotkin on impact of 'big beautiful bill': 'Everyone's going to pay'
YouTube video by MLive Sen. Slotkin on impact of 'big beautiful bill': 'Everyone's going to pay'

I'm deeply worried that every single Michigander is going to get that letter saying that private employer-provided insurance you have is going up. Everyone's going to pay. You're either at risk of losing your care, or you're at risk of paying more for the insurance you already have.

04.08.2025 19:55 — 👍 310    🔁 98    💬 44    📌 8

Mine too. Diabetes. I am sorry for you.

06.08.2025 01:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Same💙

06.08.2025 01:36 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

He’ll w don’t need whiskey. We have Coke.

06.08.2025 01:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Three Kentucky Distilleries, Including Luca Mariano, File for Chapter 11 Amid Mounting Debt - WineMixture.com Three emerging whiskey and bourbon distilleries, including the Luca Mariano Distillery, have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as financial pressures

Three Kentucky whiskey distilleries - including Kentucky Owl and craft names like Luca Mariano - have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, citing mounting debt. Major job losses may loom.

TACO's tarrifs are having an effect. On American businesses.

https://www.winemixture.com/archives/34950

03.08.2025 21:35 — 👍 51    🔁 29    💬 6    📌 2

oooh, Siri just reminded me that Abbott is running for re-election in 2026.

06.08.2025 01:33 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Pam Bondi orders grand jury probe of Obama administration review of 2016 election Past probes, including two conducted by Republicans, found no such crimes. Democrats have accused Bondi of trying to distract attention from the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.

Nice try. Now release the Epstein files!

05.08.2025 01:41 — 👍 9    🔁 7    💬 2    📌 0

Is anybody more worthless than this woman?

06.08.2025 01:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Mayme Agnew Clayton.

Mayme Agnew Clayton.

#ResistanceRoots

Mayme Agnew Clayton was born on this day in 1923 in Van Buren, Ark. Clayton was a librarian and, in 1975, founded the Western States Black Research and Education Center, the largest privately held collection of African American literary and historical materials in the world. /1

05.08.2025 00:47 — 👍 518    🔁 154    💬 12    📌 3

Exactly

06.08.2025 01:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
History of Tesla, Inc. - Wikipedia

The original owners of the startup Tesla were Martin Eberhard, an electrical engineer, and Marc Tarpenning, a computer scientist. Until Melon bought it and implemented chaos like everything he touches.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History...

06.08.2025 01:16 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0

And both sides get burned. Sounds fair.

05.08.2025 15:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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🔥 MUST-WATCH: @jessicatarlov.bsky.social reminds Fox’s audience Dems have tried to nationalize fair districting, but Republicans blocked HR1 because they want to keep rigging it — leaving Dems with no choice but to fight fire with fire.

04.08.2025 21:41 — 👍 932    🔁 309    💬 22    📌 18

Republicans support a dictator. Don’t direct your questions to them. Direct your questions to Mein Trumpf!
And ask about Epstein.

05.08.2025 15:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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