Wes Chadwick
@byomission.bsky.social
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Life seen through a dim and distant mirror. Affiliated with Mocking Moon Observatory, @wickedlywhen.bsky.social
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I just finished the Audible audiobook "Grant," by Ron Chernow. I highly recommend that all Americans, and anyone who reads this, read about the life of General Grant, and learn how much higher you have still to aspire.
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Don’t let the frogwater that’s boiling us alive let you skip over this: we murdered another country’s citizens in cold blood, and when their leader objected, we called him a drug dealer and cut off aid to his country. That’s freakish.
Petro objected to the US bombing a Columbian fishing vessel that had the emergency beacon on because they were broken down, that we subsequently bombed. One Columbian fisherman survived the attack.

This is the official US response to Petro's comments.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall
I would laugh if this wasn't so true 😭
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Trump's literal AI slop shitpost is, if nothing else, an attempt to push the wonderful and encouraging images of millions of protesters out of the feeds and timelines. Flooding the zone with shit also means burying everything beautiful and hopeful under the flood. We should not support him in this
Outstanding! Literally
Hero’s of the day - In a small town of Beckley, WV, Kendra Sullivan staged a one-woman No Kings protest. She was confronted, had the police called on her, but stood her ground. She was physically threatened. Police came more than once and protected her right to protest. This is how we do it.
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If your newspaper doesn't have no kings as the top us story today, throw it in the trash and don't look back
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“So it looks like you’re flying a fighter jet and wearing a crown, but it turns out it’s really a bomber and the bombs are poops. You’re up there pooping on all the cities in America because you’re the king of America, and so of course you shit on it when it doesn’t behave. It’s high concept, sir.”
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My posters for this mornings No Kings rally in Clarksville, Tennessee. 802 democracy loving Americans showed up! I love you all. 💙💙💙💙
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They told us 840 showed up
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For Tolkien fans, a timely passage for No Kings Eve, from WH Auden’s review of Lord of the Rings.
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The frogs have spawned!

Dublin represent! #NoKings
A significant number of those accounts have violated the law, not just one or two.

I'm willing to bet that @safety.bsky.app won't bother to ban them for posting illegal content.
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I think it’s good in the sense that it’s still out there and offensive. There is no doubt about Terry - his directing is genius.
Unpopular Opinion:

The Meaning of Life is the best Python film.

Terry Jones is a genius, especially at directing.
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For all the chatter abt the Santos pardon, these details are some of the most insightful.
Reminder: Ed Martin, Trump's US Pardon attorney (R) and George Santos, whose sentence he just helped commute (L) were both speakers at the Stop the Steal rally the day before the Jan 6 Capitol attack. The next day, they both sat in the VIP section at Trump's Ellipse rally. 1/
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This makes my blood boil! A citizen and US military veteran violently abducted by ICE for simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

I hope that the many service members I know that gained their citizenship through military service aren't subjected to this.

abc7chicago.com/post/george-...
Disabled veteran who is a US citizen was taken during SoCal immigration raid, family says
Concerned family members are desperate for answers after they say a disabled U.S. veteran and citizen was taken during a federal immigration raid at a cannabis farm in Southern California.
abc7chicago.com
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Prices will continue to rise and will disproportionately hurt the working class. My main priorities if I'm elected is to raise wages in the city to $20 an hour through a combination of policies. In addition, lowering the price of rent; 6/10 of people spend 30% - 50% of their income on.
Speaker Johnson has thrown his hat in with defending all of the pedophiles and collaborators (including President Trump) that are in the Epstein Files. The Democrats and few Republicans should remove Johnson and get a new Speaker of the House that's willing to play ball.

apnews.com/article/cong...
House ending session early as Republicans clash over Epstein vote
The House is leaving Washington early as Republicans clash over the Jeffrey Epstein files. House Speaker Mike Johnson is rebuffing pressure to act on the investigation into Epstein as some Republicans...
apnews.com
Straka got Santos into politics? Explains a lot, or at least a little
I had been thinking that the expressed bias of the administration would make selective prosecution claims likely.
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Thus far, LaMonica McIver and the Subway Sandwich guy have cited Jan6 pardons in their selective prosecution motions.

W/McIver, DOJ argued that DOJ had no choice in the matter.

But here, Eagle Ed is literally playing both roles, Pardon Attorney and prosecute Trump's enemies.
Chansley was literally armed with (what seemed to be) a functional spear. Bad cartoonist, bad.
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"If you’re a Trump-backing Republican, there is nothing you can say vile enough that the party will cut you loose. If you’re publicly opposed to Trump, it doesn’t matter how peacefully and patriotically you express that opposition."

Today's Morning Shots:
Trump’s Very Own Basket of Deplorables
The president and his movement are dropping the fig leaf and declaring half the country the enemy. How can this go on?
www.thebulwark.com