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Peter Cawdron

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Science fiction author from New Zealand, living in Australia. https://www.amazon.com/stores/Peter-Cawdron/author/B00600L9FO

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Peter Cawdron @pcawdron.bsky.social · Nov 8

Your ability to reason is more important than any fact you know.

Quote by Einstein saying Education is not the learning of facts but the training of the mind to think.

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TheColfaxxx 🐢 @thecolfax.bsky.social · 17h

The opposite of poverty is not wealth. The opposite of poverty is justice. - Bryan Stevenson

Pic of the day

#photography

Loutro Beach on the island of Crete. A small boat with a man in it hovers on top of turquoise water. In the distance, brilliant white stores and homes line the cove. There are no roads to get here. Boat is everything.

#greece
#travel
#sea
#holiday
#crete

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 15h

Chris Christie: “Thie is no longer, the Department of Justice, is no longer the premier prosecuting office in America. What it is now is a capo regime who goes out and executes hits when directed by the Don to do so. That’s what it is.”

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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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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 21h

ICE has been deployed to *provoke* civilians, not to protect them. They want to throw tear gas canisters and get people on the streets riled up, all to create footage for Fox News and Newsmax, et al., that will be used as a pretext for imposing martial law to lower voting rates in Democratic cities.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

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svart flagg @svartflagg.bsky.social · 1d

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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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 2d

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.

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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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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2d

And people tell me the libs have no knack for messaging.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d

A library director in Wyoming who was fired two years ago because she refused to remove books with sexual content and LGBTQ themes from a library's children and young adult sections has just been awarded $700,000 in a settlement. t.co/EA5L1kOZfV

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/us/wyoming-library-settlement-book-bans-terri-lesley.html?smtyp=cur&smid=fb-nytimes&fbclid=IwdGRjcANWLXdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHhlnY6nKj_j4zuP3VjNSstXWBaV1t8-sPQ5C3b_jS6WN...

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Peter Cawdron @pcawdron.bsky.social · 2d

It’s a sweeeet irony. We’re reclaiming the frog!

kermit the frog is dancing in front of a red curtain on a stage .

ALT: kermit the frog is dancing in front of a red curtain on a stage .

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ᑕ ᕼ ᓰ ᗷ 〇 ᒪ 乇 @chibole.bsky.social · 3d

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

Imagine that

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2d

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

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Mat @thatnuttyfanboy.bsky.social · 3d

There's a certain irony in the right wing hijacking Pepe the frog as their mascot, and now frog costumed people standing up to fascists.

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Peter Cawdron @pcawdron.bsky.social · 3d

I love the concept of First Contact with an alien intelligence. US book critic Mal Warwick has this to say about the series... "Together they constitute one of the most ambitious and successful projects in all of science fiction"https://malwarwickonbooks.com/first-contact-book-series/

Peter Cawdron's insightful First Contact book series

First Contact has been in the science fiction lexicon since 1935. According to the Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction, Murray Leinster first

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Peter Cawdron @pcawdron.bsky.social · 3d

Who knew the preservation of democracy would come down to comic resistance?

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 4d

Meanwhile in #Portland

Kermit faces off with Hopper in The Muppet Movie

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 3d

Imagine being mad you didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize while you’re busy stirring up Civil War in your own country.

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 3d

hell yeah

Cover of the classic children's book Frog And Toad Are Friends.

Drawing of Toad, a brown toad, sitting on a bench, dressed in a green jacket and slacks. He is reading a book to his friend Frog, a green frog dressed in a brown jacket and slacks. They are surrounded by green plants and mushrooms. There is a silver Caldecott Medal in the corner.

Text has been altered from original. It reads
Fiftieth Anniversary
Frog and Toad Are Antifa
by Arnold Lobel

Commemorative Edition

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Peter Cawdron @pcawdron.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you for your kind support of independent science fiction. I consider it a privilege... this is book 34. If I can, I'd like to reach 50

a black and white cat is sitting in a hallway next to a wall

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 5d

Big presence on the beaches of Normandy in 1944 too.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 5d

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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Peter Cawdron @pcawdron.bsky.social · 4d

This one is something special... it's a fascinating story. I'm sure you're going to love it

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Peter Cawdron @pcawdron.bsky.social · 4d

The Oracle.

Carl Meier is a private in the German Army. He's been sent to occupied Greece on a secret mission in late 1944 as the Wehrmacht is withdrawing from the country, little does he know, First Contact waits in the ruins www.amazon.com/Oracle-First...

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 4d

If you rename the Department of Defense the Department of War, then bomb fishing boats in the Caribbean, and shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper bullet, you should automatically be barred from receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for the rest of your life.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 4d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Shoshana 🏳️‍⚧️ @shoshana.bsky.social · 5d

Asking artists for use permission would kill Limewire

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