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Tides of Time

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Determined to fight MAGA/fascism in every way I can, in hopes that I live to see the US become a place where EVERYONE has rights, respect, and opportunity. I find solace in books, creativity, computer games, historical research, and small things of beauty.

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Tides of Time @tidesoftime.bsky.social · Mar 18

For anyone curious about my Bluesky name: As I'd originally intended to use Bsky mainly for my genealogy/history research, I chose a name that was an homage to the title of a poem written by one of my great-great-grandfathers, Harlan Ashley Pierce. Unfortunately, then politics took over the world.

The image shows a nighttime view of ocean waves "each chaining each", with the text of a poem over it:

The Tides of Human Life
So men and generations come and go,
Like tides in one unending flow,
And ebb, each chaining each upon the sea,
Of human life as waves succeed
Each other on the shores of time
To break and disappear fore'er
In spray or hidden undertow.
-- Harlan A. Pierce

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 12h

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Eric Swalwell @ericswalwell.bsky.social · 11h

Republicans want to be the party of healthcare? Open up the government. Put the subsidies back in place, and stop fucking with people’s health care.

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Tides of Time @tidesoftime.bsky.social · 9h

Not really the point but does anyone actually believe the drooling, incontinent, senile moron wrote this -- complex sentences, big words, punctuation and all? Peewee German Miller's not even hiding anymore that he's taken over.

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 18h

NEWS: Trump just announced the U.S. will impose a 100% tariff on all Chinese goods starting November 1

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CatWoman @catwomanresists.bsky.social · 12h

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Tides of Time @tidesoftime.bsky.social · 11h

The original Hamas terrorist attack was wrong, although understandable considering the land theft and apartheid by Israel for decades. But Netanyahu's response was horrific and disgustingly disproportionate by 10,000x. it is beyond unforgivable. I can't believe anyone still defends it.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 15h

Back when we had some standards still

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Oliver Markus Malloy @malloy.rocks · 1d

The GOP attracts criminally insane psychopaths,
because corruption is rewarded, not punished.
Greed is idolized as a virtue.
Selfishness is celebrated.
Obvious lies are treated as gospel truth.

To Republicans, politics is a game. The goal is to enrich yourself, and fuck everyone else.

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Maureen Berzanski 🧷🇺🇦🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🟧🌊 🐾 @moberzan.bsky.social · 18h

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Jules1212💜🌎☀️ @jules1212.bsky.social · 15h

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 15h

Peaceful assembly isn’t an insurrection.

Storming the Capitol to hang your own vice-president and end democracy is.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Independent C-SPAN caller to Rep. Mark Alford: "You're taking credit for $50b that you just gave to the hospital industry. That's after you took away $150b. You don't take credit for just giving back a little bit of money after taking away so much. So quit lying. It just makes you look horrible."

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Tides of Time @tidesoftime.bsky.social · 18h

Israel has done all those things to Palestinians. You know that, right?

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 18h

📌As we were saying ...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19h

“I’m worried about my community… I’m out here in a frog costume to show how ridiculous the notion that we’re violent terrorists is, and showcase how that narrative is wrong…”

Serious Q: is it too late to give this dude the Nobel Peace Prize? 🐸 🏆

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EuphoricFuzion @euphoricfuzion.bsky.social · 1d

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May Bee🌻🇺🇸🐝💙🌈 @maysurvivethis.bsky.social · 18h

Let’s stand up and fight back TOGETHER!
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barack obama is wearing a suit and tie with an american flag badge

ALT: barack obama is wearing a suit and tie with an american flag badge

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Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · 20h

Antifa is a bogeyman.
Remember “it” was supposedly around during Trump’s 1st term - but never appeared on Jan 6?
Or again, until ICE raids began?
Where’s its headquarters? Bank account? Comms director?
Antifa doesn’t exist.

What he’s really saying is “anyone w/a liberal ideology is a terrorist.”

Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 23h

Yesterday in the White House State Dining Room where the President hosted hand-selected online commentators and social media influencers, he promised to “use the full weight of the federal government” against ANTIFA.
Problem: Antifa is an ideology, not an organized national gang with a bank account.

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Tides of Time @tidesoftime.bsky.social · 21h

At least she's finally coming clean about being in communication with Putin (as an employee who was given the absolute crap job of having to sleep with Trump.)

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Melania Trump: "President Putin and I have had an open channel of communication."

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enrich12 @enrich12.bsky.social · 21h

Nothing says "Peace" like sending the military into American cities to terrorize the residents!

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Tides of Time @tidesoftime.bsky.social · 21h

HAHAHAHAHahahahahahahahaha -- Is Stephen Cheung a stand up comic or something? Surely even the most committed (or should-be committed) MAGA can grasp that not one word of this is true, right?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

RIGGED!!!

Tides of Time @tidesoftime.bsky.social · 21h

Dammit, I hate when wackadoodles actually say something I agree with--but I suppose it's the "broken clock" theory (except she isn't right anything like twice a day.)

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Marge Greene yesterday, Loomer today.

Tides of Time @tidesoftime.bsky.social · 21h

This insane regime's "because we said so" determination of who is criminal "don't need no stinkin' evidence." (And WTF does it think it did with cartels anyway?)

Sam @desertthorne.bsky.social · 21h

Bondi, 💀

Tides of Time @tidesoftime.bsky.social · 21h

There you go thinking again! Critical thinking is the bane of this regime. It counts on people being terminally gullible smooth-brains.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

they are clearly trying to terrify everyone out of showing up to the No Kings protest and I simply do not think it is going to work

see you all there

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 23h

Not sure who needs to hear this but your “physical” isn’t “annual” if you need it twice in six months.

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