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Billbeaux

@billbeaux.bsky.social

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Once I thought I was a country doctor, until I learned they were extinct. Now I just drift, a stranger in a land growing stranger every day. Fan of diversity, individuality, empathy, candor, listening, mutual compromise, & humor. Pronouns: We/Us 🇺🇸🇺🇦

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Billbeaux @billbeaux.bsky.social · 5h

I would have thought the counter programming for Trump's reality show would have come from Hollywood or NYC, but no.

Way to go Portland!

Billbeaux @billbeaux.bsky.social · 5h

Yeah. They were preparing his deportation to Never Never Land.

He has never been there, & doesn't speak the language.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

A 15 year old boy with autism went missing earlier this week

He was selling fruit with his family in Springbranch when he disappeared

They filed a missing person’s report & begged the public to help find him

Turns out he was in a Houston ICE detention facility

They kidnapped a disabled child!

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Billbeaux @billbeaux.bsky.social · 7h

This will end sooner if
media don't let Trump control the lexicon.

Detainments are legal, Abductions are extrajudicial.

Protests have been peaceable assemblies, not war zones.

Lying is lying, not misinformation.

...and so on.

Billbeaux @billbeaux.bsky.social · 7h

Disagree.

Trump's smash & grab style of govt, & GOP jackals sniffing thru the rubble for carrion, is inspired by & benefits the billionaire class.

You are quite right, tho, that the dark side of American character, especially greed & racism/sexism, has played an essential role.

We must fix both.

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Oscar&Felix @oscar-felix.bsky.social · 8h

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Billbeaux @billbeaux.bsky.social · 8h

War Zone! 💥

gjabberbox.bsky.social @gjabberbox.bsky.social · 16h

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Elizabeth Pennysworth @epennysworth.bsky.social · 20h

Every bit of this mess that we’re currently enduring is because rich people need more money & they dgaf if you’re hungry or homeless or dead in order for them to get more money

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 20h

The President using the military as his personal police force to intimidate American citizens is deeply un-American. This is the behavior of an autocrat. Full stop.

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Billbeaux @billbeaux.bsky.social · 18h

There may be 2 sides to every issue. Sometimes one is good & the other evil

The side that dismantles govt willy-nilly; that shreds the safety net protecting children, the infirm & elderly; that kidnaps people & traffics them to for-profit prisons run by cronies; is the evil side

Trust me in this

Billbeaux @billbeaux.bsky.social · 18h

Trump lives in a different world from us, where different laws of economics & physics apply. Earth2

Legacy media live in a different world, too, where judgements are forbidden & there 2 equal sides to every question. Facts are subordinate to these principles. Earth3

Help! I am marooned on Earth1.

Billbeaux @billbeaux.bsky.social · 19h

I doubt that most of the costumed thugs of ICE have the sensitivity to see the message the costumed resistance is sending.

Their costumes are just silly as the ones ICE wears, w/o the sadomasichistc tone. They conceal their ethnic identities, which must drive those knuckle-draggers nuts.

Billbeaux @billbeaux.bsky.social · 19h

Cosplay in the resistance has a venerable history in America.

Remember the patriots who dressed as "Indians" when they dumped tea into Boston Harbor to protest unfair tariffs?

Taxation without representation is still tyranny.

Billbeaux @billbeaux.bsky.social · 19h

The counter-cosplay that the Portland resistance is doing may look silly, but it takes tremendous courage, & is important work.

By denying Trump the images of street violence he needs for a credible invocation of the Insurrection Act, they may be saving us all from martial law.

I salute them.

Billbeaux @billbeaux.bsky.social · 22h

Seriously.

Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 22h

“And there’s just a real, existential question of how do you write down a law that binds an actor who’s already demonstrated willingness to disregard the law?”

www.thebulwark.com/p/the-other-...

The OTHER Democratic Demand for Reopening the Government

It’s about stopping Donald Trump and Russ Vought—and it can’t happen soon enough.

www.thebulwark.com

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Kepano Kolohe @alala55.bsky.social · 23h

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Billbeaux @billbeaux.bsky.social · 22h

Attributed to Mark Twain:

"A good thing about always telling the truth is that you have so much less to remember."

Sometimes what looks like a lapse of memory is not due to dementia, but dishonesty.

Billbeaux @billbeaux.bsky.social · 22h

Remember what you thought the German people should have done in 1935 as Hitler was rising to power?

It's time for you to do that now.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

It’s the Feds making Portland look like a war zone— not the protesters.

And honestly, these protesters are brilliant. They’re flipping the whole authoritarian cosplay on its ass!

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Billbeaux @billbeaux.bsky.social · 1d

Mainstream media, in their quest for what they think is neutrality, are often unable to report events accurately.

Sometimes there just aren't good people on both sides.

Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 1d

Reporters: stop using the deferential term "detaining" when talking about ICE goons' abduction of innocent people from US streets. You proper term would indeed by "abduction", but if you want to pretend neutrality you could use "capture", which at least says nothing about the captors' motives.

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Thomas (TJ) Lawrence @bidder13.bsky.social · 1d

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Billbeaux @billbeaux.bsky.social · 1d

You better believe it. Frogs HATE Toadies.

Billbeaux @billbeaux.bsky.social · 1d

Uh oh. Looks like Antifa is organizing after all.

😲

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dianecmurphy.bsky.social @dianecmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

THIS is impressive and gives me hope! Go Ohio! Red State What???

Trixie 🌸🇨🇦 @trixie57.bsky.social · 1d

Peaceful (yet powerful) protest in Westerville, Ohio.💙💪
(posted yesterday)

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Billbeaux @billbeaux.bsky.social · 1d

There's something in the Epstein Files that Trump is willing to shut down govt to conceal

Its not photos of girls in sexy outfits fawning over him-he's proud of those

My guess is it has something to with KGB/FSB. He is scared of that

The GOP goes along because THEY'RE scared of pics w/ the girls