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Don Watkins

@linuxnerd.bsky.social

I am a writer, educator, lifelong learner,tech-nerd, Linux and macOS user, library fan, progressive, US Navy veteran, and grandfather. I blog at https://donwatkins.info and write for allthingsopen.org. Living in Western New York state.

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An actual birdhouse@nelsonlong.bsky.social · last wk.

Ppl don’t like Bernie, but his making Medicare For All a well known “kitchen table” issue is sincerely one of the greatest political achievements of my lifetime

Jen Taub@jentaub.bsky.social · last wk.

“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Mamdani: "If a New Yorker looks at what ICE is doing and wants to see more of it, they should vote for Bruce Blakeman, who has created his own militia in Nassau County. If they look at what ICE is doing and they are shocked by the inhumanity and cruelty, they should vote for Gov. Kathy Hochul."

Rachel Maddow@maddow.bsky.social · 2w ago

"The report did not contain a section on Trump’s personal ties to Russia and whether he was compromised or represented a counterintelligence threat. "He acknowledged that he had not examined whether Russian oligarchs had laundered money through Trump’s businesses... www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/u...

How a Counterintelligence Inquiry Into Trump’s Russia Ties Was Derailed

Documents released by the White House shed new light on the demise of an often-overlooked 2017 F.B.I. investigation.

nytimes.com

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

El-Sayed: "Imagine if instead of paying that to your health insurance company, whose CEO makes $20m a year, you paid a little bit more in taxes for healthcare you wouldn't lose. I think all of us would a lot more interested in that system if we knew our healthcare would be free at point of care"