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Dave J. 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🏳️‍🌈

@hrlyrdr57.bsky.social

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Retired USPS Mailhandler and US Army Veteran. Very happily married in the PNW. Love my wife, my dog, music, and books. World-class over-thinker. Equal rights for all! #Resist!

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Dave J. 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🏳️‍🌈 @hrlyrdr57.bsky.social · 8h

The treasonous kumquat currently trespassing in the White House and all of the butt nuggets in his orbit don’t do anything that isn’t going to further enrich them.

Vicki Jared @vjared.bsky.social · 23h

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Dave J. 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🏳️‍🌈 @hrlyrdr57.bsky.social · 9h

Yeah. That too.

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 15h

Cartoon by @edwexler.bsky.social.

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Lincoln Democracy 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 @stef47.bsky.social · 19h

How soon we forget.

Of the 220 hostages that survived,
all but 20 were released while Biden
was in office.

Trump got 20 hostages released.

Timeline of Hostage Releases During Biden's
Presidency:
• Late 2023: The first significant batch of around 105 hostages, mostly civilians, women, and children, was released during a ceasefire in November 2023. wikipedia
• 2024 to early 2025: Additional smaller batches, including some foreign nationals and elderly, were released intermittently through negotiations, humanitarian efforts, and Israeli military rescues.
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• January 2025: A ceasefire agreement facilitated the release of approximately 30 more hostages, mainly women and civilians. the-independent
• Throughout 2024-2025: Various humanitarian releases continued, often involving exchanges for Palestinian prisoners or other diplomatic negotiations, summing to about 135 hostages.
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Hawkeye8 @hawkeye8.bsky.social · 13h

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Dave J. 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🏳️‍🌈 @hrlyrdr57.bsky.social · 13h

Swell bunch of folks. Just swell.

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CCscott @ccscott.bsky.social · 1d

😡😡😡😡

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Dave J. 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🏳️‍🌈 @hrlyrdr57.bsky.social · 14h

Good going Zebby! 😂😂😂

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JoJo is no longer on Twitter/X @jojo196847.bsky.social · 16h

Nice to have friends:

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Dave J. 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🏳️‍🌈 @hrlyrdr57.bsky.social · 19h

If that hateful, narcissistic, androgynous, lying, vengeful piece of excrement gets a Nobel Peace prize all credibility for the prize committee and the prize itself will be gone.

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Dave J. 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🏳️‍🌈 @hrlyrdr57.bsky.social · 1d

Sheesh. My bedtime falls before you would even leave the house to get to a 9:45 pm movie.

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Dr Oddman - Fighting Fascism @droddman.bsky.social · 1d

Happy indigenous peoples day

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Dave J. 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🏳️‍🌈 @hrlyrdr57.bsky.social · 1d

I get that same look from Freeman. He seems incredulous that I didn’t share without being asked.

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 2d

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Dave J. 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🏳️‍🌈 @hrlyrdr57.bsky.social · 1d

I think he knows perfectly well how furious he makes people and I firmly believe that he takes great delight in it.

Dave J. 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🏳️‍🌈 @hrlyrdr57.bsky.social · 1d

😂😂😂

RIDGE @1av8ter.bsky.social · 1d

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Dave J. 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🏳️‍🌈 @hrlyrdr57.bsky.social · 2d

I know what I’m doing. Do you?

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

Do you know what you are doing on Saturday, October 18?

If the answer is no, you are deserving of nonlethal, but firm slap. #NoKings

Dave J. 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🏳️‍🌈 @hrlyrdr57.bsky.social · 2d

For sure. Probably the newly created Director of Entertainment.

Dave J. 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🏳️‍🌈 @hrlyrdr57.bsky.social · 2d

Summed up nicely.

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Dave J. 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🏳️‍🌈 @hrlyrdr57.bsky.social · 2d

😂😂😂cats. Gotta love ‘em.

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Swavay Deboner @mr-swavay.bsky.social · 2d

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yolanda7712.bsky.social @yolanda7712.bsky.social · 3d

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Dave J. 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🏳️‍🌈 @hrlyrdr57.bsky.social · 2d

The resemblance is undeniable 😁Congrats on rescuing Ziggy. He’s a little cutie!

a man is sitting in a chair with his hands folded in front of him .

ALT: a man is sitting in a chair with his hands folded in front of him .

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Dave J. 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🏳️‍🌈 @hrlyrdr57.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve made 68 trips around the sun now, and I know the wheels of justice turn almost imperceptibly slowly, but I really hope I’m still around to see each and every one of these soulless barfbags get what is most certainly coming to them.