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Garrett Petersen

@gpetersen.bsky.social

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ID/DD Clinician & Islip Town Democratic Committee Deputy Chair. Dad & Husband. Reconstruction Dem. Paintball, Metal, and Gaming Guy. Takes my own and often not serious. LGM.

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Garrett Petersen @gpetersen.bsky.social · Jul 4

I feel like instead of doomering or just yelling at people to get in the fight I'd try and help some folks through the darkness in my own way.

This is a collection of 14 songs that when played cohesively I think can help people work through tough times, like *gestures).

1/x?

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Garrett Petersen @gpetersen.bsky.social · 6h

Oh shes obviously setting herself up for after

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7h

Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?

Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10h

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 10h

Live from the Emergency Naked Bike Ride 🚲 where the crowd hase just erupted in cheers with the arrival of the Unipipier

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Garrett Petersen @gpetersen.bsky.social · 8h

God thinking back to my old Palm Pilot

Garrett Petersen @gpetersen.bsky.social · 8h

And pretty clearly had a stroke or stroke like event a month ago!

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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 13h

the biomedical advances of the past twenty years have also been incredible. in a way, it really feels like we’ve been slouching towards utopia, so to speak, while society collapsed out from under us bc of changes in information technology/media diets

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 15h

This is dangerously close to the pope turning to camera and specifying he's the exact kind of lib I am

Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 19h

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 16h

I'm loving this Pope.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

seems like a non-insignificant percentage of rage against the machine's fanbase are young republican men driving SUVs bopping their head to anti-oil, pro-immigrant songs thinking the lyrics are about how they wish their suburban parents would get off their back

Tom Morello tweets: "Fascinating that all those “don’t tread on me” posers and their AR-15’s are nowhere to be seen and government tyranny is instead being opposed by a guy in an inflatable frog suit."

Someone named Manny replies: "@grok
why do some people say Tom Morello and band mates are RAGE FOR THE MACHINE and not against ?"

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The Alternate Historian @althistorian.bsky.social · 15h

This has become a load bearing tweet to me.

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Garrett Petersen @gpetersen.bsky.social · 16h

I mean this hasn't been a consideration I've had for over two decades but like, I clearly managed okay!

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 16h

"you should do good and not evil" is not delivered with a particularly high degree of subtlety in Watchmen. like the writing is very good, and layered, but I don't see how you misread it this badly

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marcy and the banshees🦇 @beneprism.rip · 16h

It is a very heavy-handed reiteration of the most important theme of the book, something that Jon gives a whole speech about to Laurie on Mars, and it clearly completely whizzed by him. He was probably too busy thinking about how he'd do Veidt's plan better

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 17h

we're due for the 100 year anniversary of the NYT's Stalin and Hitler apologias

Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 1d

Trump straight up murdering people in the Caribbean and the NYT writes this

The Trump Split Screen: A Peacemaker Abroad, a Retribution Campaign at Home

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Garrett Petersen @gpetersen.bsky.social · 16h

This is objectively insane

Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 22h

this is sociopathic behaviour and I think we need to treat it as such! just because something has become easy to do doesn't mean it has become less creepy, or more acceptable!

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 16h

"caeser-papist fusion"

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 19h

lmao

In his last lecture, Thiel also responds during the Q&A portion to a question about potential 2028 presidential candidates and whether they are antichrist or katechon. When asked about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Thiel says that he worries about there being a “woke American pope”– Pope Leo XIV – and a “woke American president”, creating a “Caesar-Papist fusion”. He goes on to talk about Ocasio-Cortez in relation to Thunberg:

One of the ways these things always get reported is, I denounce Greta as an antichrist. And I want to be very clear: Greta is, I mean she’s maybe sort of a type or a shadow of an antichrist of a sort that would be tempting. But I don’t want to flatter her too much. So with Greta, you shouldn’t take her as the antichrist for sure. With AOC, you can choose whether or not you want to believe this disclaimer that I just gave.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17h

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 18h

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 17h

i cannot imagine the soul withering misery of finally claiming your freedom after 43 years of confinement only to be snatched up for indefinite confinement somewhere else on even flimsier grounds

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17h

They cannot talk about the shutdown without lying.

There is no connection between troop payments and federal employee layoffs. Zero.

They are paying the troops with multiyear R&D allocations within DOD. This is also illegal by the way! But completely disconnected to the layoffs.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

WELKER: During the 2019 shutdown when Trump was president, no federal workers were laid off. Why are these firings necessary?

VANCE: Who do we care more about- federal bureaucrats or the troops getting the payment they need?

WELKER: But layoffs are a priority?

VANCE: They have forced us to choose

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 1d

Like I know there are edgelord leftists out there who look down their noses at shit like No Kings but sorry you guys, the more mass protest looks fun and family-friendly, the bigger it gets and the better its chances of being broadly effective

Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 1d

Portland does not own the patent on inflatable animal costume protests, come on people

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 1d

Ironically, about 75% of The Art of War is just stuff like “I cannot overemphasize that your army needs to eat”

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 2d

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 1d

I understand its disorientating for some to look around with their own eyes and accept the reality of the situation, ('that's not supposed to happen here, that's supposed to happen over there') but unless reporters start aggressively covering this regime like they would any foreign authoritarian?

Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 1d

If you wanted to get rid the DC office to weaken CDC's presence inside the beltway, to weaken support for CDC in Congress, this is what you would do — fire a shit ton of highly trained professionals who stop infectious diseases due to "coding errors" and then re-hire them, but not the DC office

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

TRUMP CDC REVERSAL: Trump administration racing to reverse some CDC layoffs. Disease detectives, measles responders, MMWR staff RIF’s are revoked. DC office still shuttered. w/ @apoorvanyt.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 1d

Taking a position on American military involvement in WW2 which is more Russophilic than the views of Kruschev and Zhukov is campist behavior

Weird Al Jazeera @cyberstalin.bsky.social · 1d

Genuinely asking how this is a tankie position when the entire third world has a fairly negative view of you people.

Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 1d

Amazing how tankies will just go on the internet and post lies

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Garrett Petersen @gpetersen.bsky.social · 1d

RETVRN

👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 1d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 1d

Basic support for special ed was a key part of the bipartisan consensus around disability rights dating back decades. Current gop lawmakers and scotus judges have played key roles recently in supporting those rights. But what use are rights without enforcement?

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 1d

It's incredible the extent to which Congress just utterly refuses to defend itself. You'd think for entirely self-interested reasons you would stridently oppose having the power of the purse arbitrarily ripped from you, ya know?

Why would you allow yourself to become the Roman Senate circa 27 BC.

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1d

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Garrett Petersen @gpetersen.bsky.social · 1d

I'm going to suggest you considered that "comrades in arms" doesn't literally always mean "we fought back to back" and could quite clearly extend to "we fought in the same struggle"

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