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Alan 💙⚖️⚛️🥁

@birdieguy.bsky.social

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Statistician, pawpaw, brother, humanist, musician, and resister. 👉 Truth, justice, equality, and sensibility. ❤️ Animals, golf & course design, R'n'R (prog), & sports 🚫 MAGAts/Hate/MisInfo Not religious - 🔵TX - GenX 💛 😷 💛 💙Ally💙

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Alan 💙⚖️⚛️🥁 @birdieguy.bsky.social · Nov 13

And the higher value of education is proven by the fact that they know not what they've done, but we do.

JPerryFarm 🐾 @jperryfarm.bsky.social · Nov 12

We just experienced this lesson.....

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 23h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Alan 💙⚖️⚛️🥁 @birdieguy.bsky.social · 23h

...he says, while wearing his cheap cowboy hat, Detroit Tigers jacket, blue blockers, and two chains.

Alan 💙⚖️⚛️🥁 @birdieguy.bsky.social · 1d

"The trickle-down effect of Trump’s behavior allows people to get away with bad behavior, just as he does. Below, therapists share why this is happening and why they find it so troubling."

Therapists Warn This Normalized Trump Behavior Is Causing Real-World Harm

People often look up to the president — and in this case, that’s clearly a problem.

www.huffpost.com

Alan 💙⚖️⚛️🥁 @birdieguy.bsky.social · 1d

"In May of this year, North Texas law enforcement officials utilized thousands of license plate surveillance cameras in an attempt to find and prosecute a woman who had recently had an abortion, despite repeated claims that the query had merely been a welfare check, new information shows."

83,000 License Plate Cameras Later, North Texas Cops Exposed for Abortion Hunt

Law enforcement officials and the surveillance company previously told reporters the camera queries were to aid a missing persons investigation.

www.dallasobserver.com

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Alan 💙⚖️⚛️🥁 @birdieguy.bsky.social · 1d

WTF?

"Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday announced an agreement to build a Qatari Emiri Air Force facility at a U.S. Air Force Base in Idaho."

Qatar Air Force facility to be built at USAF base in Idaho, Defense Secretary Hegseth says

Hegseth The Defense secretary made the announcement at a Pentagon press conference with Sheikh Saoud bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, Qatar's defense minister.

www.cnbc.com

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 1d

BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.

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Alan 💙⚖️⚛️🥁 @birdieguy.bsky.social · 1d

Via @briantylercohen.bsky.social

Image shows Marco Rubio, the felonotus, and Pete Hegseth sitting at a desk. Behind them is a row of flags, and there is a set of horns on the wall behind felonotus's head. The perspective makes it appear as if the horns are ON felonotus's head.

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 3d

🚨There goes the last of Governor Pritzker’s fucks. 🪦
He took that threat of being arrested to heart… and the people of Chicago are marching in the streets because the Chicago mayor and their governor have their backs. ✊🏼
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 3d

This administration is flooding the zone so furiously that people have largely lost track of the lethal attacks on boats in the Caribbean, the gov’t shutdown, the economy, failed release of the Epstein files & so much else. It’s a tactic of would-be strongmen.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 3d

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Alan 💙⚖️⚛️🥁 @birdieguy.bsky.social · 2d

Fa

I still can't believe there are people who have a hard time understanding this. I don't remember what grade it was, but at some point we all learned that -(-x)=x.

This idiot's shirt says "Say no to Communism! Choose Fascism!" 🙄

Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 3d

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 5d

Journalist Edward R. Murrow used his platform on CBS to criticize the witch hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s.

This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 5d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 5d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 5d

Love this. Superbly done. Please send this far and wide. @donwinslow.bsky.social

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Jon Keegan @jonkeegan.com · 5d

WOW! Rush going back on tour www.youtube.com/watch?v=koiX...

Geddy and Alex Send a Message to Rush Fans

YouTube video by Rush

www.youtube.com

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Alan 💙⚖️⚛️🥁 @birdieguy.bsky.social · 5d

"Rush will be embarking on a new Fifty Something Tour performing old songs, new arrangements, and possibly some new songs that they have been working on together."

They have connected with and are currently practicing with German virtuoso, Anika Nilles.

Rush Announces Fifty Something Tour: A New Chapter and Tribute to Neil Peart

Rush Announces Fifty Something Tour: A New Chapter and Tribute to Neil Peart Since 1977, the world's most widely read drum magazine: in print, online, and the Modern Drummer app. Where the world's gre...

www.moderndrummer.com

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 5d

Literally a sign of the times: Plenty of people, not nearly enough soul.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 5d

Bonta: Just minutes before the hearing, we got word that the Texas National Guard has been federalized.

We asked the judge to issue a broad order — one that applies to every National Guard unit in every state — stating that none of them can be deployed to Oregon.

She issued that order

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Alan 💙⚖️⚛️🥁 @birdieguy.bsky.social · 6d

Dr. Jane Goodall - "Famous Last Words" (Netflix) - Recorded March 2025

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 6d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 7d

Which judges have ruled against the Trump admin?

Reagan appointed judges .
Clinton appointed judges.
Bush appointed judges.
Obama appointed judges.
Biden appointed judges.
Trump appointed judges.

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Alan 💙⚖️⚛️🥁 @birdieguy.bsky.social · 6d

No words.

Border Patrol shoots woman on Southwest Side; agents, protesters battle for hours

The shooting occurred Saturday in Brighton Park when federal patrols were "rammed by 10 cars," according to a statement from the Department of Homeland Security, which has yet to be verified. In the p...

www.wbez.org

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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 7d

the people who told us to calm down because Roe was settled law are the same people now telling us to calm down because the military would never open fire on Americans

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 7d

Federal agents hurled tear gas at people on a busy Logan Square street, outside a grocery store and near an elementary school.

Reckless, undertrained ICE hires are a danger to everyone. This is terrorism against US citizens.

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Susan @suziqleathers.bsky.social · 9d

General Mattis dropped this Statement today.

Read through to completion below as it is long.

And please Share.

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