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Craig

@clggmf.bsky.social

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Deep in the heart of Boomerdom. Resident of the Colorado mountains, father of 3 grown daughters, mapping sales guy, member of a United Chuch of Christ congregation, supporter of LGBTQ+ people everywhere, singer, piano player, very amateur composer

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Craig @clggmf.bsky.social · May 26

My avocation/hobby is that I very occasionally write music on the side. This is something I wrote about six months ago. Feedback is appreciated.

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Lament

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Craig @clggmf.bsky.social · 4h

Sergeant Schultz: "I know NOTHING!"

Craig @clggmf.bsky.social · 9h

Who remembers the Twilight Zone episode, "It's A Good Life"? For some reason, that came to mind this morning. Trump is exactly like the little boy, Anthony. Capricious, cruel (and reveling in his cruelty), and with total power.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 21h

Republicans are willing to starve poor children to protect rich men who raped children.

It's just another form of child abuse.

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Beyond Fossil Fuels @beyondfossilfuels.bsky.social · 1d

New polling on data centres finds 72% of Europeans want a measure requiring new data centres be built only if they’re powered by new and additional renewable energy.

⚠️ People aren’t willing to trade the climate for unsustainable data centre growth.

Read more 👉 beyondfossilfuels.org/2025/10/27/e...

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Craig @clggmf.bsky.social · 1d

Here it comes, folks. I volunteer at a food pantry twice a month. We got slammed today - twice our usual number of households, a bunch we'd never seen before, and people lined up waiting for us to open. It's gonna get bad fast.

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Craig @clggmf.bsky.social · 1d

I thought it would be a UCC church, and it is. So is mine.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2d

TEN YEARS AGO

WRITER: "How about a novel with a crazy president who can't stop talking about his new $300 million gold ballroom while millions of Americans go without food."

AGENT: "That's a little heavy-handed. No politician would be that stupid. Come up with a more subtle, believable scenario."

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 4d

Everyone is 12 theory undefeated

Marc Randazza eats shit for breakfast and sucks his own cock afterwards

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 6d

My friend told me that her 14 year old son started doing laundry on Sundays for some of his elderly neighbors. He doesn't charge for the labor. And now he is the most popular person in the building and has non stop pies, cookies, and cake. The 14 year old should be our model of modern masculinity.

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redherringbear @qutzupalotl.bsky.social · 14d

You know what makes a city look like a war zone? armed soldiers.

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Craig @clggmf.bsky.social · 16d

I still remember phone numbers of people from school whom I didn't even like.

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 16d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

Craig @clggmf.bsky.social · 16d

If they wrote a long opinion, it also might give the impression that they're doing their jobs.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17d

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

Craig @clggmf.bsky.social · 16d

I'm trying to figure out how anyone thinks he's competent to order his own lunch, let alone be the leader of what we used to refer to as "the free world".

Craig @clggmf.bsky.social · 16d

So, we can ignore decisions on the shadow because they're not final? Cool.

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LESams @lsam22.bsky.social · 18d

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18d

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18d

Hey, you idiotic propagandists at the New York Post:

God Bless America isn't the national anthem. It's a SHOW TUNE written by Irving Berlin.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 19d

“we are telling you right now that we do not intend to honor anything we agree to” is certainly a negotiating position one can take

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19d

Q: Rescission are something Dems have said is a reason for a lack of trust. What rescissions are you discussing?

JOHNSON: We have more than $37t in debt. We're doing everything we can to get us back to sound fiscal responsibility. What does that include? A rescission package is part of our process

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 21d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Monica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 26d

My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

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scott daGHOSTino @scottdagostino.ca · Sep 27

Seeing eugenics back is infuriating because we all figured out the scam *decades* ago.
“We just want to weed out inferior genes and create the perfect man, a true leader!”
“Oh, like Martin Luther King!”
“No, he will have superior physical traits as well.”
“Like Michael Jordan!”
“No…it’s…get out.” 😡

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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · Sep 26

We’re at a point where ICE is the President’s personal secret police, the DOJ is the President’s personal inquisitor & tormentor of his enemies & the National Guard is the President’s personal army to occupy Black & brown communities.

2025 America

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Tiger Elephant Giraffe Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · Sep 25

If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.

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Craig @clggmf.bsky.social · Sep 22

Hard to believe this is the same company that ate Ron DiSantis' lunch a few years back.

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · Sep 19

It is kinda funny that trump is the exact caricature of who the founding fathers designed an entire ass system of government to prevent

Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · Sep 19

This is wildly illegal and he has no authority to do this

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