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Retired COO/CFO Intl manf, problem solver, USAF Vet, ⬆️🌎Climate Crisis ⬆️Science ⬆️ The Commons | 🚫MAGA25 🚫1% “The idea that we can enjoy the benefits of society while owing nothing in return is literally infantile. Only children owe nothing" S Junger

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Tom of Bedlam 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇲🇽🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @t595.bsky.social · Feb 17

Concord NH
23f Windy

No Kings
No Coup
No Musk - Traitor
No Maga25
No Trump - Felon

People have the Power
@50501movement.bsky.social
@indivisible.org
#fiftyfiftyone
#noking

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Tom of Bedlam 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇲🇽🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @t595.bsky.social · 20m

She’s a politician.
This is what they do.
I would rather have her criticizing MAGA than Dems and if she convinces some others to do the same, that’s good.

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Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 10h

Unbearably violent images from Downtown Chicago where a classical music concert was played on the Chicago River. This is too elegant and magical to be seen.

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Magas just shorting the markets again.

Tom of Bedlam 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇲🇽🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @t595.bsky.social · 3h

I will not be surprised if the MAGAs try to use next weekends national NO KINGS day demonstrations to implement the Insurrection Act, and they will not have sworn in Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva so no Epstein files vote.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 3h

Full interview and more from MeidasTouch here:

youtu.be/ahAkRoMmSKk

GOP Leaders CANCEL VOTES for ALL NEXT WEEK as PANIC SETS IN

YouTube video by MeidasTouch

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Tom of Bedlam 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇲🇽🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @t595.bsky.social · 3h

I would not be surprised if they try to use next weekends national NO KINGS day demonstrations to implement the Insurrection Act, and they will not have sworn in Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva so no Epstein files vote before then.

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Tom of Bedlam 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇲🇽🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @t595.bsky.social · 3h

Cruelty and chaos, destruction then domination.

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

Imagine that

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Tom of Bedlam 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇲🇽🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @t595.bsky.social · 9h

Landlords don't pay property taxes; tenants pay property taxes.

Tom of Bedlam 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇲🇽🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @t595.bsky.social · 9h

We know there are better governance and social models. Maybe someday...

Toks Nilhaw 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🇰🇷🇯🇵🇬🇱🇵🇦 @toksnilhaw.bsky.social · 10h

Tom of Bedlam 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇲🇽🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @t595.bsky.social · 9h

Same here. We do the best we can.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 1d

If you like my work, please share and subscribe. I'm trying to override a variety of shadowbans and broken algorithms. Thank you!

Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 1d

New Q & A answers are up! Readers sent in thoughtful questions on city raids, digital surveillance, the disappearing internet, and much more: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/panopticon...

PanoptiCon Artists: Your Questions Answered

On digital surveillance, ICE city raids, the need for new parties, and more.

sarahkendzior.substack.com

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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.

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Tom of Bedlam 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇲🇽🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @t595.bsky.social · 1d

Well written!!!

Finding the grace and maturity to recognize these biases is fundamental to our success and survival as multi-cultural society and undo the magafication of our government.

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d

Wrote a thing. Again. Telling the truth is generally regarded as a matter of intention and moral character, but it's also a skill: the ability to delineate accurately what's going on out there and who exactly the parties are....

Categories Are Leaky (Over-Generalizations are Dangerous)

Many people seem to love sweeping generalizations. Not all people, but lots of people I come across trying to discuss the politics of our time fall back on pretending that a category of people is homo...

www.meditationsinanemergency.com

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Tom of Bedlam 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇲🇽🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @t595.bsky.social · 1d

Well written!!!
Finding the grace and maturity to recognize these biases is fundamental to our success and survival as multi-cultural society and undo the magafication of our government.

Tom of Bedlam 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇲🇽🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @t595.bsky.social · 2d

Rabid. They are all rabid and there are many cures.

Tom of Bedlam 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇲🇽🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @t595.bsky.social · 2d

Rabid racist right wing paid propagandists.

Call them by their true names.

Tom of Bedlam 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇲🇽🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @t595.bsky.social · 2d

AI is a dumb idea. In fact, its artificial! The real thing is so much better.

AI is IP theft of the many for the enrichment of the few.

The tech industry needs to dismantled and regulated for more reasons than this. It spawned Musk, Theil, Sacks, Yarvin and their entire cohort.

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 2d

A lovely (and recent) performance.

Daryl Hall and Nick Lowe - Cruel To Be Kind

YouTube video by Daryl Hall

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Tom of Bedlam 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇲🇽🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @t595.bsky.social · 2d

I agree and would add that I’m an atheist and think the policy of shooting an unarmed citizen who isn’t doing anything wrong is immoral, unethical and illegal.

#Epsteinfiles

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Tom of Bedlam 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇲🇽🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @t595.bsky.social · 2d

Fixed it for you.

…“right-wing propaganda” celebrate and call protests an “insurrection”.

#epsteinfiles

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Tom of Bedlam 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇲🇽🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @t595.bsky.social · 2d

There is Country and Alt-Country music, and then there is Pop Country. There was and there is a difference.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

Country fans are upset with Zach Bryan after he criticized ICE in a song.

But don't let it be known that Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, and Johnny Cash all despised fascism and leaned heavily to the left.

Tom of Bedlam 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇲🇽🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @t595.bsky.social · 2d

This is unprovoked assault and is not legal.
MAGA is a cancer.

#Epsteinfiles

The Sgt Joker @thesgtjoker.bsky.social · 2d

The Republican Orcs need to be prosecuted for domestic terrorism.

Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 2d

Without provocation, masked federal agents indiscriminately shoot peaceful protesters with rubber bullets from the rooftop of the Portland ICE facility.

Tom of Bedlam 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇲🇽🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @t595.bsky.social · 2d

Venal turncoat without integrity who whose wife is from South America votes to murder South Americans.

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This is good.

Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 3d

Zach Bryan, one of the biggest stars in country music, has been criticized by DHS over a new song in which he sings about immigration raids by Ice.

Country superstar Zach Bryan criticised by US Homeland Security over Ice lyrics

www.theguardian.com

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This is worth reading and especially if you are an elected or hope to be elected representative.

@shaheen.senate.gov
@hassan.senate.gov
@goodlander.house.gov
@repchrispappas.bsky.social
@maurasullivan.bsky.social
@karishmaforsenate.bsky.social

#nhpolitics
#epsteinfiles
#impeachconvictremove

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 3d

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

newrepublic.com

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