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Eric Engle

@ezwv.bsky.social

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WV Climate Activist☕️AtheistHumanist🍺Union Chief Steward🥃 Appalachian⛰️Proud Dad & Husband🏡Dog Person 🐾 Amateur Bird Watcher 🐦‍⬛ Substack Writer ✍🏼 https://open.substack.com/pub/ericengle

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Eric Engle @ezwv.bsky.social · 1d

Happy #IndigenousPeople’sDay

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West Virginia elected officials blocked efforts to tighten ethics rules and increase lobbying transparency mountainstatespotlight.org/2025/10/12/l...

State elected officials killed multiple ethics bills targeting more transparency in lobbying

Lawmakers and the governor killed ethics bills that would have made lobbyists’ pay public and banned nepotism in state offices.

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Eric Engle @ezwv.bsky.social · 3d

Me as a grandpa.

Eric Engle @ezwv.bsky.social · 4d

Avian decompression. #Birds🪶🪶

Eric Engle @ezwv.bsky.social · 4d

I stand with Professor @mark-bray.bsky.social and his family as they are targeted by TurningPointUSA and other far-right fascist sympathizers. I’m sorry the Bray family feels (justifiably) that they must leave this country for safety. I am an antifascist and proud of it. #ANTIFA

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 5d

This administration is flooding the zone so furiously that people have largely lost track of the lethal attacks on boats in the Caribbean, the gov’t shutdown, the economy, failed release of the Epstein files & so much else. It’s a tactic of would-be strongmen.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 6d

What will it take for regular people to understand that if they refuse to stand up against fascism they will not be spared? Fascism is a serial killer with no restrictions on who it targets.

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Eric Engle @ezwv.bsky.social · 6d

My latest Substack entry. Subscribe today! #FascistState

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Eric Engle @ezwv.bsky.social · 7d

Write and call, write and call, write and call while you still can. Let congressional Republicans know this can’t continue the way I’ve tried to let Congressman Riley Moore, Senator Shelley Moore Capito and Senator Jim Justice know here. #InsurrectionAct

Eric Engle @ezwv.bsky.social · 8d

This. #Republicans

Eric Engle @ezwv.bsky.social · 9d

Avian decompression. #Birds 🪶🪶

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Eric Engle @ezwv.bsky.social · 9d

Reading this gem right now and absolutely loving it. 10/10 would recommend. #BookSky 📖

Eric Engle @ezwv.bsky.social · 10d

“YoU ShoULd Be MoRe CivIL, ERIC!” Yea…it’s the Democrats and political left who are just so terrible 🙄. #TrumpDelusion

Eric Engle @ezwv.bsky.social · 10d

#Project2025

Eric Engle @ezwv.bsky.social · 13d

My latest Substack entry. Subscribe today! #Shutdown

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Eric Engle @ezwv.bsky.social · 13d

Avian Decompression…
#Birds🪶🪶

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 14d

Some guy on TikTok is threatening to release the Grindr profile of Mike Johnson. Please human, please don’t let God down. 🙏

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Eric Engle @ezwv.bsky.social · 14d

Federal employee unions are putting Americans’ well-being first in this shutdown fight while the Trump regime is willing to shut the government down to protect the massive healthcare cuts they passed in July to give billionaires more tax breaks. #Shutdown

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Federal workers unions call on Schumer, Jeffries to hold the line even if it means a shutdown

“Federal workers will willingly forego paychecks in the hopes of preserving the programs we have devoted our lives to administering,” the unions said.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 14d

It certainly appears the United States murdered an innocent fisherman who was a husband and father to four children, claimed he was a "narco-terrorist," posted a video of the execution, and then made jokes about it

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Eric Engle @ezwv.bsky.social · 14d

This is what that son of a bitch Vought has been waiting for…
#Shutdown

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The ultra risks of a routine shutdown

COMMENTARY | If Democrats risk a government shutdown this week, they may unwittingly play into the most dramatic shift of power to the executive branch in recent history.

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Eric Engle @ezwv.bsky.social · 17d

My latest in the Parkersburg News & Sentinel. #Patriarchy

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Op-ed: Old men dismantling women’s gains

A must-read essay written recently for The Guardian newspaper by Adrienne Matei titled “From Nazi Germany to Trump’s America: Why Strongmen Rely on Women at Home” offers an important analysis of what ...

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Eric Engle @ezwv.bsky.social · 18d

#FederalEmployees #UnionLabor

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Eric Engle @ezwv.bsky.social · 19d

Tylenol was a test run. The real end goal now comes into view. #Mifepristone

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Eric Engle @ezwv.bsky.social · 19d

My latest in the Charleston Gazette-Mail. #EnergyPolicy

Eric Engle: WV needs political will for new energy policy (Opinion)
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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 19d

🚨 218 votes is what is needed to bring the Epstein files to light and that may be what we will have next week. The WH seems to be having a conniption fit. 1/2

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