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Old Dog, Vieux Chien - On Behalf of the Fool

@onbehalfofhefool.bsky.social

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Retired: All-over-the road lawyer for 40 years - US, Canada & every continent but the cold one. LGBTQ+/neurodivergent family. 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇪🇪🇺🇦🇬🇱🏳️‍⚧️ In D.C., the circus is always in town, Suspicious of posts that overuse "I" or "me."

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Old Dog, Vieux Chien - On Behalf of the Fool @onbehalfofhefool.bsky.social · 3d

The U.S. minimum wage is so much lower than other western democracies, it stands out as an effective tool in keeping a beleaguered labor force powerless.

Plus, the U.S. is unique in ransoming access to healthcare - and withholding it completely who cannot pay.

It is beyond time for real change.

ACH4DC @ach4dc.bsky.social · 3d

Hit the meme wage

4 Days a week, for a total of 20 hours
At the rate of $69 per hour as a minimum

Kayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 3d

I know that a lot of people have to turn hobbies into hustles for survival, but we shouldn’t make that the standard expectation to make ends meet. Jobs need to pay more. You deserve to have time to do things simply bring you joy.

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Brian O @proudcanadaveteran.bsky.social · 6h

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Politics Explained @politicsexplained.bsky.social · 12h

For context his Donnie bro ..

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Eykyu - The solution is unification🏴󠁵󠁳󠁣󠁡󠁿🌊🇺🇸🦅 @eykyu.bsky.social · 6h

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Tam-Rah @blue-fire1.bsky.social · 6h

www.govexec.com/pay-benefits...

OMB deletes reference to law guaranteeing backpay to furloughed feds from shutdown guidance

An Office of Management and Budget FAQ document now states that only excepted employees forced to work without pay are guaranteed backpay at the conclusion of a lapse in appropriations.

www.govexec.com

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Tam-Rah @blue-fire1.bsky.social · 6h

'MIT Did the Right Thing': First School Rejects Trump Extortion Compact www.commondreams.org/news/mit-did...

'MIT Did the Right Thing': First School Rejects Trump Extortion Compact | Common Dreams

MIT became the first school to reject President Donald Trump's "extortion" agreement for federal funding. Critics of his compact urge other universities to follow suit.

www.commondreams.org

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omgisme @omgisme.bsky.social · 6h

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Old Dog, Vieux Chien - On Behalf of the Fool @onbehalfofhefool.bsky.social · 5h

That being said, we have to do what we can to bring them to justice so they can experience a degree of hell on earth.

Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 6h

There is no empirical evidence that hell exists.

Nevertheless, for my own mental health, I choose to believe that it does, and that it is populated with abusers of men, women, children and animals.

All persons who enjoy the suffering of others will end up there.

That is all.

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Eykyu - The solution is unification🏴󠁵󠁳󠁣󠁡󠁿🌊🇺🇸🦅 @eykyu.bsky.social · 6h

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Eykyu - The solution is unification🏴󠁵󠁳󠁣󠁡󠁿🌊🇺🇸🦅 @eykyu.bsky.social · 6h

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Alliance Against Gun Violence and Gun Violence Ticker. @gunviolenceticker.bsky.social · 6h

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 5h

I think the only thing Chief Justice John Roberts and I both enjoy is a gay dinner party on Martha's Vineyard. Glory!

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Eykyu - The solution is unification🏴󠁵󠁳󠁣󠁡󠁿🌊🇺🇸🦅 @eykyu.bsky.social · 5h

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 6h

Love this so much
📸 Respective Collective

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svart flagg @svartflagg.bsky.social · 6h

Today in Portland, a fed shooting pepper balls from the roof of the ICE facility was so eager to aim for people’s heads, that after shooting one photographer in the head and another in the upper arm, they accidentally shot a DHS agent in the head. This photo shows the moment of impact;

Riot cops standing a street with less-lethal weapons, and one in a gas mask has a cloud of pepper dust around his helmet.

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 6h

Don't tell me he hasn't recently been given a poor prognosis:

"I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven – I really don't. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

Donald Trump

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ShoeHog @shoehog.bsky.social · 6h

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 6h

ICE GOONS, laughing and pepper spraying Pastor after shooting him in the face with pepper balls, proceeded to gas the crowd who were trying to protect him.

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 9h

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Old Dog, Vieux Chien - On Behalf of the Fool @onbehalfofhefool.bsky.social · 8h

Best protest video ever.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 9h

Portland continues to amaze me 👏

Old Dog, Vieux Chien - On Behalf of the Fool @onbehalfofhefool.bsky.social · 8h

Are these the anti-Kamala assholes that helped elect Trump?

How did that turn out for them?

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 9h

Kamala is all out of f*cks and I’m here for it 🔥

We see you, @codepink.bsky.social

Your paid performative agitators pop up on her book tour like they think we don’t know the VP’s job.

The VP doesn’t set Middle East policy, the President does. The VP’s role is to support the President, period.

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Old Dog, Vieux Chien - On Behalf of the Fool @onbehalfofhefool.bsky.social · 8h

This sounds like a kidnapping in violation of the Mann Act

Imagine if the FBI was still run by a man to enforce it.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 9h

Sick

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 11h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Old Dog, Vieux Chien - On Behalf of the Fool @onbehalfofhefool.bsky.social · 8h

GOP Congress and Senate - Trump calls you all out as geldings.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 9h

Per WSJ, the Trump regime and Bannon are bragging they’re “ruling Congress with an iron fist” and that it is “largely ceremonial” like the Russian Duma.

Shameful. Not what the founders intended. 🇺🇸 @MarshaBlackburn @RepTimBurchett @AndyOgles

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Old Dog, Vieux Chien - On Behalf of the Fool @onbehalfofhefool.bsky.social · 8h

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Old Dog, Vieux Chien - On Behalf of the Fool @onbehalfofhefool.bsky.social · 8h

Joni Ernst essentially poisoned their crops and ruined their farms.

She’ll retire in comfort. They won’t.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 9h

Except when Trump bankrupts them with tariffs. Then she will say nothing except for asking the rest of the country for welfare to bail them out.

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Old Dog, Vieux Chien - On Behalf of the Fool @onbehalfofhefool.bsky.social · 8h

The Justices of the Supreme Court should be above suspicion. The current Justices are not.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8h

if we are going to have a supreme court that is as powerful as it is, i basically think justices should be forbidden from public comment on their work as well as any supplemental source of income while they are on the bench. (they should also ride circuit again but that's a bit separate.)

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 16h

The substance of what she's saying is bad and unconvincing, but more fundamentally, I really don't think Supreme Court justices should be going on book tours where they publicly comment on their work and respond to criticism of it. Either put it in a written opinion or hold your peace.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 8h

blah blah Hunter Biden blah blah Burisma yada yada

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