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Ned Wilcox

@nedwilcox.bsky.social

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Old fashioned liberal, northern CA. Photographer, carpenter, atheist, copy editor, animal lover, Trump hater, women's rights hardliner. Pro Zelensky 🇺🇦. I block dickheads reflexively. DMs disabled due to abuse.

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Ned Wilcox @nedwilcox.bsky.social · 3h

Hilarious.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4h

Reporting live from Chicago, there’s no “hellscape” I’d rather be in.

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Ned Wilcox @nedwilcox.bsky.social · 3h

I hear you. And I wish a bunch of the MSM was better. But people can vote with their feet. CBS News wouldn't exist if people didn't watch it. The problem is mainly the citizens. We're not teaching our kids about civics, and community, and critical thinking.
Or morality, apparently (Trump).

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Ned Wilcox @nedwilcox.bsky.social · 3h

Nice.

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Habu @flyinghabu.bsky.social · 16h

Two nights of 3:45am alarms, blazing full moon lighting the sky like daytime and washing out the light of everything else, comet included. Then two days of post-processing battles, as comet processing is maddeningly tricky.

But I finally pulled it off: here is C/2025 A6 Lemmon. 🔭

#Astrophotography

Comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon taken from my backyard

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 5h

One thing we've learned from the American judicial system: The first 34 felonies are on the house*.

*Terms and conditions may apply. See prosecutors for details if you're not white. Or rich.

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Ned Wilcox @nedwilcox.bsky.social · 5h

Totally.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3d

Everything Trump is doing now is a preamble for his regime's real goal: to invoke the Insurrection Act.

I don’t want to unduly alarm you, but you need to be aware of this imminent danger. It’s unfolding very rapidly. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-plan

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Ned Wilcox @nedwilcox.bsky.social · 8h

If you want to call genital mutilation, that's fine. But let's not put it in the same category as female genital mutilation. That's a whole 'nother kettle of fish.

Ned Wilcox @nedwilcox.bsky.social · 8h

Oh my god, this man is a complete loon. How can anyone not see that?

Ned Wilcox @nedwilcox.bsky.social · 8h

You're not a broken record. You're doing a great job. Your posts are right on.

Ned Wilcox @nedwilcox.bsky.social · 8h

I'm scared *and* angry.

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Ned Wilcox @nedwilcox.bsky.social · 8h

Indeed. Garland was a disaster. And Biden didn't help by running for a second term, when he was clearly not up to it.

Ned Wilcox @nedwilcox.bsky.social · 8h

Well you figured it out, right? Did you get everything first hand, from Trump, and Harris, and everyone else? No, you got it from media. So let's not pretend "the media" is a monolith. There's plenty of information out there for people who are interested in learning and critical thinking.

Ned Wilcox @nedwilcox.bsky.social · 8h

Indeed. A third didn't vote, 1/3 voted for the criminal--and only 1/3 of us came out to stop him. Pathetic, lazy and deplorable.

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Mark Sorvari @sorvarimark.bsky.social · 19h

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Ned Wilcox @nedwilcox.bsky.social · 8h

Your average person on the street appears to be getting less and less bright, with each passing year, I'm afraid.

Ned Wilcox @nedwilcox.bsky.social · 8h

Psycho criminal:
"Hours earlier Thursday, Trump signed a memorandum directing his Republican administration to target backers of what they dubbed 'left-wing terrorism' as he alleged without evidence a vast conspiracy by Democrat-aligned nonprofit groups and activists to finance violent protests."
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Ned Wilcox @nedwilcox.bsky.social · 15h

This is beyond dangerous:
"President Donald Trump on Wednesday said the Illinois governor and Chicago mayor should be jailed as they oppose his deployment of National Guard troops for his immigration and crime crackdown in the nation’s third-largest city." -AP