Greg Aden

Greg Aden

@gregaden.bsky.social

Focused on the Flow: Of Water, Of Books, Of Metadata, Of Wind, Of Cities, Of Jazz and Music, Of Words, Of Dogs, Of Librarians, Of Movement, Of Progressives, Of New Discoveries. Seattle, San Francisco, New York.

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I'm sorry but the key priority for the next US SecDef has to be extracting Elon Musk from every single thing related to US military contracting. No Musk company should receive any government contract of any kind from any Dem executive.

New speed limits on Starlink terminals, operated by billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX, disrupted drone attacks over Russian-occupied Ukraine, Ukrainian officials and military units said.

One must wonder if there's an actual threat against Los Angeles and San Diego. Trump lies constantly, but he also has a tendency to state certain truths as preposterous (Russia Hoax, etc).

Another tough lesson for China. I'm sure it will teach them something.

This is about as upset as a NYT reporter is allowed to get:”An admission that the American president offered to sell arms to China is extraordinary.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u...

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Hannity's list of "TRUMP'S TOP ACCOMPLISHMENTS" includes restoring Confederate names to military bases and releasing dietary guidelines

We need more people like this.

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social

Dolly Parton... -Gifted millions of free books to kids -Ensured musicians she worked with got union benefits -Helped fund medical research, including the COVID vaccine -Donated millions to communities hit by natural disasters -Quietly funded high school band programs We lost an incredible person.

The GOP, pre-fascism.

Republicans Against Trumpism@rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social

Ronald Reagan has a message for MAGA as Trump escalates the trade war with Canada: “We should beware of the demagogues who are willing to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world, all while cynically waving the American flag.”

Saved for those who claim Trump isn't racist.

Michael Harriot@michaelharriot.bsky.social

A few years ago, after reading the entire Agenda47 & all 922 pages of Project 2025, I compiled a list of their 10 worst policies for Black Americans Less than 2 years into his presidency, Trump has accomplished every single goal on his anti-Black MAGA checklist

Greg Aden reposted

I’ll can’t understand how people anywhere would be ok with this let alone him being president. His favorite people are the uneducated & he found 77M Americans that are pathetic, gullible idiots. Never in my wildest dreams would I have expected people to be stupid enough to do this a 2nd time!

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Dear Seattle, You occasionally frustrate me immensely, but then you do something that reminds me why I like you. “A property tax levy to fund the Seattle's public library system over the next seven years has passed with overwhelming support - nearly 3 out of 4 voters supported it.” 😍📚

The outright disregard for human life disgusts me. The fact remains that Iran doesn't have nukes. We assume they'll have nukes and they'll blow up Israel, but there is the deterrent of Mutually-Assured Destruction. BTW, North Korea has nukes. No war. Maybe M.A.D. works?

cnbc.comTrump considers ‘massive attack’ on Iran; Pakistan reportedly seeks to restart stalled peace talksThe president told Axios he was considering an operation "bigger than ever before" before Reuters reported Pakistan is seeking to restart peace talks.

So we're giving nukes to a Middle Eastern country that encouraged 9-11 through its Wahhabism schools and also murdered a Washington Post journalist. I wonder who will benefit.

Against all odds, including abandonment by the U.S., Ukraine will likely win the war against Russia, and Trump, a loser by so many measures, will continue to side with the leader of the losers, Putin.

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March 9: "We're now totally independent of the Middle East. We don't need their oil." April 1: "It doesn't really affect us. We have so much oil, much more than we need." June 17: If I didn't agree to the MOU, we "would run out of reserves at about 4 weeks..."

Only Wall Street believes him, and that's because they profit from this rollercoaster of misinformation.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

I had to double check that this wasn’t fake. Is there a single person in the world (other than Axios) who takes this utter nonsense seriously at this point?

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Very sad to hear of the passing of MARJANE SATRAPI. A lot of the 'graphic novels' produced since the format became popular, really are collections, not 'novels' at all. Persepolis was something special. A novel that lived in my mind long, long after I read it. A very sad loss.

Saxophone Colossus. I return to it often.

derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social

RIP Sonny Rollins, a great jazz talent and the last surviving musician in one of the best photos of men in suits during the 20th century

"And it’s like you’ve been digging, let’s say you’re a software engineer, the analogy I can give you is you’ve been digging out a basement for your house with a shovel, and somebody is about to hand you a bulldozer. You should be so happy." -Jeff Bezos talks A.I. with Andrew Ross Sorkin

How many more times will I see or hear the headline that "the clock is ticking on Iran" or that "Trump calls off attack on Iran due to serious peace negotiations?"

Hoping this is true and up into use

Anton Hur@antonhur.com

WE DON'T NEED PETROLEUM-BASED PLASTICS ANYMORE! "The [bamboo plastic] outperforms most commercial plastics and bioplastics in mechanical and thermo-mechanical metrics while maintaining full biodegradability in soil within 50 days and closed-loop recyclability with 90% retained strength."

Brilliant.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

COLBERT: How dumb do you think it is for people to say that I should run for president? OBAMA: Well, you know, the bar has changed. I think you would perform significantly better than some folks we've seen. COLBERT: Is that an endorsement? OBAMA: It was not

I am a big supporter of libraries.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com

NEWS: The Epstein files are now bound into 3,437 physical volumes in a new exhibition space in Tribeca. Millions of pages. Two stories tall. And yet only two people have ever faced accountability. Katie Phang discusses the rage she felt walking through the space.

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List of 9 websites where you can download unlimited books for free: 1. gutenberg .org 2. standardebooks .org 3. manybooks .net 4. openlibrary .org 5. bookboon .com 6. freecomputerbooks .com 7. internetarchive .org 8. digilibraries .com 9. librivox .org

"Not a Deal-Breaker: White House Downplays Iranian Action Near the Strait"- NY Times. "Why Did Trump Extend The Iran Ceasefire? Because Tehran Is Ghosting Washington" - CNN Report I'm anti-war with Iran, but Trump is a very weak president. It's shocking. #TrumpSurrender #USASurrender

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This is your periodic reminder that Democrats introduced legislation in 2021 to ban gerrymandering nationwide and every republican voted against it except two who were absent.