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Alan!

@o2bnobx.bsky.social

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DC based; lived/worked in 40+ countries. Built/run tech companies; at home in the woods. Single Dad to 2 (now adult) amazing women. Spent 3 years trying to stop the fascists.Travel is the antidote to prejudice. All my dogs are rescues; car guy who builds

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Alan! @o2bnobx.bsky.social · Feb 18

Personally I think Ukraine and Mexico should start negotiating the return of Texas to Mexico. They could hold talks in Cuba.

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Alan! @o2bnobx.bsky.social · 6h

The Aussies are doing the work that our own media won’t.

soapybhoy.bsky.social @soapybhoy.bsky.social · 6h

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The Trump corruption is outrageous! It is unbelievable that any normal person cannot see it.
This reporting from Australia needs to be done in USA

Investigating how crypto is making the Trumps hundreds of millions | Four Corners Documentary

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Full of Contempt @m-theory3.bsky.social · 13h

This is the nation that we are now. This nation is unbelievably sick.

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Alan! @o2bnobx.bsky.social · 9h

Get out of this primary @dscc.bsky.social or you’ll never see another penny from me!

Alan! @o2bnobx.bsky.social · 11h

Blaming the CDC for Americans’ chronic health conditions they brought upon themselves by largely ignoring government advice on diet and exercise and using that as an excuse to gut their undeniably life saving work against urgent infectious diseases will go down as the most insane thing we’ve done.

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Alan! @o2bnobx.bsky.social · 1d

Republican lawmakers like Mike Lee, Nancy Mace, Andy Biggs, Eli Crane, and Dan Crenshaw, along with major political figures like Elon Musk, share this MAGA accounts’ voter fraud posts on X. It’s run by a Macedonian who has never been to the U.S.

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The Viral MAGA Accounts Run by a Man Who Has Never Been to America

Two influential MAGA social media accounts are run by Rumen Naumovski, a Macedonian who may have illegally donated to a U.S. election.

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Alan! @o2bnobx.bsky.social · 1d

Well there’s finally an actual war on Christians, and it’s being waged by the Republican Party.

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

"After the warning, neighbors showed up and formed a human chain outside the church to guide parishioners home. NBC Chicago found more organizers doing the same for the beginning of the 6 p.m. mass..."

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Chicago priest urges parishioners to leave mass with caution after ICE agents reported nearby

Chicago's Rogers Park community remained vigilant after reports of federal agents near a Catholic church during Sunday mass.

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Alan! @o2bnobx.bsky.social · 1d

All I can say is for folks to take public transportation to the No Kings rallies and turn off your phone’s cell service and internet service while you are there unless an emergency arises. They’ll be logging your cell phone and reading your license plates. You can video and post afterwards.

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Alan! @o2bnobx.bsky.social · 1d

Americans have no idea how many of our innovations that actually made America great were based on early research funded by the government. It’s now all been gutted, and our children are about to experience being 2nd or 3rd or 4th to China.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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Alan! @o2bnobx.bsky.social · 1d

Trump is the actual, living proof of why the unitary executive theory is trash.

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Alan! @o2bnobx.bsky.social · 1d

Columbus discovered America like I just discovered that wallet in your pocket.

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Alan! @o2bnobx.bsky.social · 1d

We’ve reached the 1,000 monkeys at typewriters stage.

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Alan! @o2bnobx.bsky.social · 1d

It all seems good but wait until MAGA hears about the new Hamas Naval base in Texas.

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Alan! @o2bnobx.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t have any desire to live in a white Christian nation.

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Harry Foster @harryfoster.bsky.social · 3d

Sammy Blue Jay taking off from the feeder this morning showing those amazing colours and designs.

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Alan! @o2bnobx.bsky.social · 2d

Trump had to have an emergency procedure prior to his colonoscopy to remove Mike Johnson.

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Alan! @o2bnobx.bsky.social · 2d

Over 50% of newspapers are owned by vulture capital or private equity firms in the U.S., and they aren’t buying them to make them better, they are gutting them. www.npr.org/2021/10/18/1...

When this hedge fund buys local newspapers, democracy suffers

NPR's A Martínez talks to McKay Coppins of The Atlantic about how a hedge fund, Alden Global Capital, is buying and then gutting newspapers — and the implications for democracy.

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Alan! @o2bnobx.bsky.social · 2d

In at least 2 of the cases I read, the owners of the businesses followed all the rules, including using the Government’s E-Verify system for every employee. The systems are useless as it’s fairly easy to fake credentials that pass.

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Alan! @o2bnobx.bsky.social · 3d

I thought this must be mistaken report as AARP just isn’t that large an organization. It would warp their financials. Here’s their financial filing, they mention it on page 15. They amortized the income over the life of the agreement so it doesn’t show in the numbers. www.aarp.org/content/dam/...

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Alan! @o2bnobx.bsky.social · 3d

Systems, the largest provider of electronic voting machines in the U.S. This is not a coincidence. This is the end of real elections. Period.

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Alan! @o2bnobx.bsky.social · 3d

A few elections ago I was VERY involved with CISA and their efforts to ensure a secure election. Under Chris Krebs this was a completely nonpartisan, all hands on deck effort where they called in the best of the best. This week Trump gutted CISA, and a Republican election denier bought Dominion 1/

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Alan! @o2bnobx.bsky.social · 3d

Get ‘em Sylvester. If you need any help navigating law enforcement assistance you know my number.

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