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islandguy007.bsky.social @islandguy007.bsky.social · 4h

islandguy007.bsky.social @islandguy007.bsky.social · 9h

A president who believes he can declare war without Congress, spy on citizens without warrants, and suppress journalists without consequence. A DOJ that treats oversight as optional. A Pentagon press shop that treats the First Amendment like a draft notice.

Oil, Lies, and Videotape

Inside the administration’s phantom war on “drug traffickers,” the media blackout around Epstein’s finances, and the steady unmaking of democracy, one OLC memo at a time.

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islandguy007.bsky.social @islandguy007.bsky.social · 16h

“They were careless people,” Fitzgerald wrote, “they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”

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November 1, 2025

Yesterday I wrote that President Donald J.

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islandguy007.bsky.social @islandguy007.bsky.social · 16h

HYPOCRITES.... the whole damn bunch !!! 🤬😡

islandguy007.bsky.social @islandguy007.bsky.social · 18h

Young people say, ‘What good can one person do? What is the sense of our small effort?’ They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time

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Bricks, Mortar, the Day of the Dead and Romance

This is our 40th wedding anniversary — the 43rd year of us living together.

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islandguy007.bsky.social @islandguy007.bsky.social · 18h

The Constitution explicitly says states and Congress set the rules for elections, not the president. Donald Trump cannot do whatever he wants to, because Donald Trump is not a king. The rule of law still stands.

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Good News: A Court Rejects Trump's Effort To Suppress The Vote

In March, Donald Trump issued an executive order titled “PRESERVING AND PROTECTING THE INTEGRITY OF AMERICAN ELECTIONS.” Predictably, it was designed to do anything but that.

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islandguy007.bsky.social @islandguy007.bsky.social · 1d

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Jennifer Shin @jennifershin.bsky.social · 1d

I remember, and they treated it like it was a stupid argument. Ask the families of the Venezuelan and Colombian victims who were killed while fishing their how they feel about it. Not so stupid or hypothetical now, huh?!

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islandguy007.bsky.social @islandguy007.bsky.social · 1d

And perhaps that’s the most fitting metaphor for Trump’s America 2.0, a country run by men who think the world is their stage, the Constitution their prop, and the truth just something you can edit out in post.
If this is what counts as national security now, the terrorists can take a long weekend.

Wag the Dog, Fetch the Jet

How Kash Patel turned a taxpayer-funded love story into a national-security press stunt—and proved Kyle Seraphin right in record time.

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islandguy007.bsky.social @islandguy007.bsky.social · 1d

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GrandmaDeb @deebee54.bsky.social · 1d

Why is he still President?

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islandguy007.bsky.social @islandguy007.bsky.social · 1d

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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 1d

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islandguy007.bsky.social @islandguy007.bsky.social · 1d

Coming soon to a planet we all know! 😢

islandguy007.bsky.social @islandguy007.bsky.social · 1d

Thoughts and prayers ring hollow when your home has been destroyed by a Category 5 hurricane made four times more likely by climate change. New pipelines and LNG terminals are no part of the solution.

Beyond Thoughts and Prayers: Horrific Images of Hurricane Melissa Connect Climate Change with Fossil Industry’s Strangehold

Thoughts and prayers ring hollow when your home has been destroyed by a Category 5 hurricane made four times more likely by climate change. New pipelines and LNG terminals are no part of the solution.

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islandguy007.bsky.social @islandguy007.bsky.social · 1d

The government isn’t shut down because of gridlock, it’s shut down because Trump is terrified of the Epstein files and will hold the nation hostage to keep them sealed.

In the end, a president who “doesn’t give a shit” only survives when no one else does either.
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Breadlines and Ballrooms

A Jazz-Age masquerade for the ruling class, a can of lentils for everyone else, and a president who still “doesn’t give a shit.”

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islandguy007.bsky.social @islandguy007.bsky.social · 2d

Monsters are real, and they live among us... ! 🤬😡

islandguy007.bsky.social @islandguy007.bsky.social · 2d

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islandguy007.bsky.social @islandguy007.bsky.social · 2d

“I was part of the internal Trump administration team trying to convince the president to end the shutdown in 2018–2019, for 35 days, before people went hungry, workers lost pay, and government services collapsed. Here’s what I learned: he doesn’t give a shit.”

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Judges Order Trump to Feed America

The courts had to do what the president refused, keep 41 million people from going hungry.

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