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Marvin Foltz

@mergeleft1954.bsky.social

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Retired Episcopal priest. Lex not Rex. Part of a nation of immigrants.

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Marvin Foltz @mergeleft1954.bsky.social · Jun 5

“For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be king; and there ought to be no other.”

—Thomas Paine

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Marvin Foltz @mergeleft1954.bsky.social · 21h

An evil enemy will burn a nation to the ground to rule over the ashes. Sun Tzu

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Marvin Foltz @mergeleft1954.bsky.social · 23h

Billionaire watchlist #1

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

So greasy fascist lunatic Peter Thiel thinks Greta Thunberg may be the Antichrist?

Guess whose name appears in the Epstein Files that have been released, Peter? No hers. Yours!

So that, technically, makes you more evil than the Antichrist.

Wilson Dizard III @wpd3.bsky.social · 1d

[Excerpt:] Tech billionaire Peter Thiel recently warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg & critics of tech or AI are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures on Christianity that linked government oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future.

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Marvin Foltz @mergeleft1954.bsky.social · 23h

Billionaire watchlist

Department of Class Solidarity @solidaritydept.bsky.social · 24d

Marc Andreessen, the billionaire ally of Trump who believes in a radical extremist ideology that crowns techno-oligarchs kings, now owns TikTok.

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Marvin Foltz @mergeleft1954.bsky.social · 23h

Billionaire watchlist

Department of Class Solidarity @solidaritydept.bsky.social · 15d

Jeff Bezos has been catching heat for his assault on the First Amendment and his craven support of the Trump administration. But here's another reason he should be on the hot seat: powering ICE's immigration disappearance machine.

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Marvin Foltz @mergeleft1954.bsky.social · 23h

Billionaire watchlist

Department of Class Solidarity @solidaritydept.bsky.social · 14d

Reminder that this is the billionaire who is profiting off of the deportation industrial complex.

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Marvin Foltz @mergeleft1954.bsky.social · 23h

Billionaire watchlist

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 4d

Larry Ellison:
—Second‑richest man on Earth
—Gave $16.6 million to Friends of the IDF
—Hosted Netanyahu on his private island
—Trump plan makes him co-own TikTok
—Son, David, just spent $150 million to buy The Free Press & make Bari Weiss Editor-in-Chief of CBS
—Wants Warner Bros (CNN, HBO)

Marvin Foltz @mergeleft1954.bsky.social · 23h

Disciples of Noem.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...

Marvin Foltz @mergeleft1954.bsky.social · 23h

Keep filming the fascists

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

A restraining order was issued YESTERDAY by a federal judge barring detention of journalists in this district unless they refuse to reposition themselves and are given adequate time to do so, or there’s probable cause they’ve committed a crime.

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

Marvin Foltz @mergeleft1954.bsky.social · 1d

Lying=breathing for Republicans like Bondi

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

“None of these statements are true.”

MEMPHIS DA Steve Mulroy FACT-CHECKS @AGPamBondi’s sworn testimony before Congress.

His post (with Spandau Ballet soundtrack 🎵): www.instagram.com/p/DPmv-WKEil...

Marvin Foltz @mergeleft1954.bsky.social · 1d

Algorithms=price fixing

Dan Miller @dan--miller.bsky.social · 9d

"On the consumer side, monopoly control over platforms and interfaces allows a single firm to decide what products appear first, which content is amplified, or which services are accessible at all."

jacobin.com/2025/10/algo...

The Algorithms That Dictate Our Lives Are Not Neutral

Algorithms are not apolitical tools that simply improve efficiency in online transactions or workplace coordination. They are instruments of control and should be regulated like other tools of control...

jacobin.com

Marvin Foltz @mergeleft1954.bsky.social · 1d

Our future? Stand up! Fight back!

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Marvin Foltz @mergeleft1954.bsky.social · 1d

Pay the troops! Release the files!

Marvin Foltz @mergeleft1954.bsky.social · 1d

If you've lost Kevin Stitt your days are numbered, we hope.

Marvin Foltz @mergeleft1954.bsky.social · 1d

I suggest that the Nobel prize committee create a new award called the Nobel Appeasement Prize and give it to that knucklehead just to shut him up. Then he can retire and rest on his big fat... laurels.

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Marvin Foltz @mergeleft1954.bsky.social · 1d

There are always reasons to bail out your friends and cheat the American people out of healthcare.

Marvin Foltz @mergeleft1954.bsky.social · 1d

"Oh, ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose, not only the tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth!" Thomas Paine

Marvin Foltz @mergeleft1954.bsky.social · 1d

Bullies will bullly

Marvin Foltz @mergeleft1954.bsky.social · 1d

Crooks. Every last one of them.

ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

www.propublica.org

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Marvin Foltz @mergeleft1954.bsky.social · 1d

We may have lost our Republic

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Marvin Foltz @mergeleft1954.bsky.social · 2d

And AR-15s

Marvin Foltz @mergeleft1954.bsky.social · 2d

Quack quack quack quack

David Gorski, MD, PhD @gorskon.bsky.social · 5d

In a seven-minute video RFK Jr. posted last week, he demonstrated that he is truly antivaccine, weaponizing an old one deceptive antivax trope claiming that vaccines didn’t do that much to improve global health. sciencebasedmedicine.org/robert-f-ken...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. weaponizes an old antivax trope in his quest to eliminate vaccines

People who keep whistling past the graveyard (of vaccines) to assure themselves the RFK Jr,. won't take away their vaccines are deluding themselves. One seven-minute video he posted last week shows th

sciencebasedmedicine.org

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Marvin Foltz @mergeleft1954.bsky.social · 2d

A day that will live in infamy

Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 2d

🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon who incites political violence, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did 🩸🩸🩸

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Marvin Foltz @mergeleft1954.bsky.social · 2d

Chicago is my kind of town

Marvin Foltz @mergeleft1954.bsky.social · 2d

Quack quack quack quack

Marvin Foltz @mergeleft1954.bsky.social · 2d

That's not how it's done. One tests hypotheses without presupposition of proof.