budgie14.bsky.social
@budgie14.bsky.social
Retired English auto engineer living in New Zealand,plays around with drones,3d printers,e bikes,Segway,enjoys bluesky and meeting people,even tho I'm an introvert.
Reposted
ICYMI — “I identified myself as a U.S. citizen and a veteran, but that didn't matter. ICE Agents smashed my window, sprayed tear gas and pepper spray into my car, dragged me out… this experience violated the very principles I fought to defend.”
December 11, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Reposted
Seven German journalism students tracked Russian-crewed freighters lurking off the Dutch and German coast—and connected them to drone swarms over military bases. (Hank Van Ess)
December 12, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Reposted
Adam Kinzinger “The founders assumed a guy like #Trump would come along — They never assumed a Congress would so willingly give up their power—“

And by extension, a Supreme Court
December 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Reposted
Ilhan Omar: "When I think about Stephen Miller & his white supremacist rhetoric — it reminds me of the way the Nazis described Jewish people in Germany—"
December 8, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Reposted
We are dealing with such corruption in every aspect of our government, I don't know how we undo the damage.
December 9, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Reposted
Interesting. End The Fed.
December 9, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Reposted
The Supreme Court, Presidency, Senate and two party system are all quite anti-democratic institutions as presently constructed.

Our institutions are not only incapable of preventing tyranny—they’re currently enabling it.

When democracy returns, we need to reform our political system.
December 8, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Reposted
31 years ago this month, I warned that America was becoming a two-tiered society composed of a few winners and a larger group left behind, whose anger and disillusionment could be easily manipulated.

I took a lot of heat for this speech. Watch and tell me if I was wrong.
A Warning from 1994 of a Two-Tiered Society | Robert Reich
Robert Reich
youtu.be
November 29, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Reposted
The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker.
Just to level set
November 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Reposted
🎩 Get This POS Out Of The White House!
November 26, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Reposted
Impeach, convict, remove.

And if our current leaders won’t do it, they need to step aside for people who will.
November 25, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Reposted
If telling the troops not to follow illegal orders is “sedition,” what do we call colluding with the Kremlin to manipulate the U.S. President into advancing Russian interests over America’s?
November 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Reposted
No matter how long I live after we get through this dark chapter, I will never get over the immorality, the amorality, the corruption, the criminality and the cruelty in service to one of the worst humans to ever walk the earth.
November 26, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Reposted
ICYMI
Our Department of Education, which is helmed by a woman connected to a scandal involving child abuse, who was appointed by a man connected to a scandal involving child abuse, is now refusing to recognize the professions of our country’s mandated reporters of… child abuse.
November 22, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Reposted
November 16, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Reposted
Donald Trump thinks you’re all fucking stupid.
open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...
Trump Thinks You’re Fucking Stupid
So the question is… are you?
open.substack.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Reposted
November 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Reposted
Hispanics kidnapping other Hispanics? Make this make sense? Is it greed or is he a pardoned criminal?
November 17, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Reposted
Kind of wild that while food assistance was withheld from millions of families, one Trump-supporting billionaire (Ellison) saw his net worth grow more this year than the entire SNAP budget. And the YTD gains of the other four richest men would’ve fully covered salaries for all 2M federal employees.
November 11, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Reposted
November 12, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Reposted
November 12, 2025 at 5:20 PM