Gary Bastoky
nocturne9.bsky.social
Gary Bastoky
@nocturne9.bsky.social
Semi-Retired UX Designer, painter, photographer living in NW Arkansas after 45 yrs in the SF Bay Area and Seattle/Redmond.

Warning: If you're humor impaired, I occasionally write satire.

Feed your head, feed the Elves, stop fascism.

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Hi from Kyiv hallway. It’s 1:37 am and air raid alert is on for Kyiv. Russia has been attacking us with drones and now missiles .Heard multiple explosions , loud , couple of them loud enough to hit my back against the wall and now have a tighten up feeling in the chest stuck in there.
December 5, 2025 at 11:42 PM
How many people has this regime killed? How many did trump have killed — gangsters always have someone else to do their dirty work.
“I think” is how a system run by a king or a dictator works. Here, we have a rule of law that says no one, and that includes the government, can murder people on a whim because it “thinks” they’re up to no good.
December 3, 2025 at 11:27 PM
They're like a pack of rabid feral dogs!
jeezus fucking christ how do they keep getting away with this shit?! omigawd it's tearing me up, and I haven't even been threatened. #EndICE #Psychopathy
Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.

She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
December 3, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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How can we sit and watch Trump’s son in law and that US estate agent carve up Ukraine opposite a grinning Putin. This is Trump corruption.
Ukraine urgently needs funds and weapons, military support and a clear indication that the West means business
December 2, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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We’re in a hell of a lot of trouble.
December 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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substack.com/@demwinsmedi... -in total contrast to Trump and Hegseth!
Democratic Wins Media (@demwinsmedia)
BREAKING: LT. General Jay Silveria just delivered the best rebuke of MAGA and Donald Trump we’ve ever seen. Watch this.
substack.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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I’m livid! Imagine, sitting there in the final stage of your green card interview with your husband & child & having ICE yank your baby from your arms & drag you off to detention.

What happens now? Do you stay in America or self deport with the mother of your child?
November 26, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
November 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Class

From Newsom
🖖😭
November 24, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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Racial profiling is all they do. Lawless.
November 22, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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NEWS: Lawmakers receive thousands of threats, including bomb threats, because of Trump's call for their execution, Greene set to resign and shrink the GOP majority, Veterans turn on Trump over threats to lawmakers. 

A very serious update. Spread the word because people need to see this:
NEWS: Lawmakers Receive Thousands of Death Threats and Bomb Threats After Trump Called for Their Execution
Lawmakers receive thousands of threats, including bomb threats, because of Trump's call for their execution, Greene set to resign and shrink the GOP majority, Veterans turn on Trump over threats
open.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Pass this one. Everyone needs to know what this regime is doing to us behind the scenes.
How is this real life?
ICYMI Dept of Education will no longer considers these professional degrees:

Nursing
Public health
Social work
Physician assistant
Occupational therapy
Physical therapy
Audiology
Speech-language pathology
Social work
Counseling & therapy
Health Admin

A smaller health workforce makes us all sicker
November 22, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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How is this real life?
ICYMI Dept of Education will no longer considers these professional degrees:

Nursing
Public health
Social work
Physician assistant
Occupational therapy
Physical therapy
Audiology
Speech-language pathology
Social work
Counseling & therapy
Health Admin

A smaller health workforce makes us all sicker
November 21, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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Trump says Dems should be killed for warning about his illegal orders. Then in 48 hours:

—Judge finds Trump DC troop op is ILLEGAL
—Military lawyers: boat strikes ILLEGAL
—Probe into ILLEGAL mortgage inquiries
—Judge probes ILLEGAL ICE flights
—Study: DOJ defied courts 26 times
November 21, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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🇺🇦🎂🇺🇸 Joe Biden turns 83 today.

Mr. President, I want to personally thank you for your unwavering support for Ukraine — for standing with the Ukrainian people, for treating our President with respect and care, and for your courageous visit to Ukraine during wartime. 1/2
November 20, 2025 at 9:53 PM
This sounds like a plan, proportional representation:
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Two-party rule is not serving our nation well
Two-party rule is not serving our nation well
enewspaper.mercurynews.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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November 19, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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If you don’t know Lina Khan, now is a great time to know about her. She’s now on Zohran Mamdani’s transition team. She’s also the former FTC Chair, only 36, & committed to leveling the playing field for everyday Americans. She is an absolute star. This is what hope feels like.
November 6, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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In Ternopil, 9 people dіеd, dozens were injured. There may still be people under the rubble.
And as long as Russia remains unpunished, as long as the world allows it to avoid responsibility, it will continue to kіІІ.
November 19, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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Update on Russia's overnight drone and missile attack

Ternopil : 16 dead and 64 injured

Rescue operations are ongoing
November 19, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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Please don’t stay silent Americans? I know we’re all overwhelmed.
Ukraine is blееding again.
Today Russia attacked Ternopil. 19 people diеd. 66 іnjured. 16 of them are children.

Please don’t stay silent.
Tell the world .
November 19, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Morning… Children are getting ready for school, someone is rushing to work, someone is finishing their coffee.

And suddenly a Russian missile ends someone’s morning forever.

Today — the city of Ternopil. Another civilian home.
I will write: world, do not stay silent!
But will the world hear us?
November 19, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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Most of us have no idea how bad it is inside ICE detention centers because they have kept it hidden. Then a truth teller shows up and says it plain.

The conditions are filthy. The treatment is inhumane. The abuse is Systematic and routine.
November 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Mitch is at it again. Supposedly trying to save the dying alcohol industry in Kentucky, but most distilleries in the US today are owned by foreign companies.
thehill.com/policy/healt...
thehill.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:40 PM