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Angry Blue Man

@angryblueman.bsky.social

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Atheist. Progressive. Engineer. 🇺🇸 -> 🇲🇽 Supports 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇬🇧 We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties. -James Madison MAGA, commies, neoliberals, KHive fanatics, and DM senders cheerfully blocked

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Angry Blue Man @angryblueman.bsky.social · Nov 29

Disposable income per capita adjusted for inflation has gone down every administration regardless of party since LBJ. We are losing hard

LBJ: $130,520
Nixon: $110,961
Ford: $95,602
Carter: $67,143
Reagan: $60,887
Bush: $54,005
Clinton: $53,895
W: $49,141
Obama: $48,811
Trump: $48,286
Biden: $46,557

Angry Blue Man @angryblueman.bsky.social · 2h

All that smoking. Was it lung cancer?

Eric Alterman @ericalterman.bsky.social · 1d

May his memory be a blessing:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/d...

Saul Zabar, Smoked Fish Czar of Upper West Side, Dies at 97

www.nytimes.com

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 3h

You’ll never be able to convince me ripping an American citizen out of their Chicago apartment in the dead of night, zip tying their hands and refusing to let them call their lawyer is ‘America First’

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 7h

Angry Blue Man @angryblueman.bsky.social · 2h

He has the resources to fund his own military grade security force.

Angry Blue Man @angryblueman.bsky.social · 2h

Aren’t there still missing flood victims?

Angry Blue Man @angryblueman.bsky.social · 12h

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Angry Blue Man @angryblueman.bsky.social · 12h

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LindaFly @lindafly.bsky.social · 1d

Angry Blue Man @angryblueman.bsky.social · 16h

Trump should be arrested and removed now for disobeying court rulings. He is in contempt.

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 18h

Tried it.

Angry Blue Man @angryblueman.bsky.social · 16h

Outrageous.

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 16h

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 18h

Here’s video of the incident

Angry Blue Man @angryblueman.bsky.social · 18h

Get on with it!

Carol Ruth Weber 🦋 @weberlifedesign.bsky.social · 1d

Get it done

Angry Blue Man @angryblueman.bsky.social · 18h

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

The AI Boom Is Draining Water From the Areas That Need It Most

A Bloomberg News analysis finds that roughly two thirds of new data centers built or in development in the US since 2022 are in places with high levels of water stress.

www.bloomberg.com

Angry Blue Man @angryblueman.bsky.social · 20h

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...

Opinion | Trump Is Not Afraid of Civil War. Neither Is Stephen Miller.

www.nytimes.com

Angry Blue Man @angryblueman.bsky.social · 20h

www.rawstory.com/supreme-cour...

'Not our friend': Supreme Court excoriated for playing 'handmaiden' to Trump's 'regime'

A high-profile Supreme Court watcher excoriated the court on Monday because of its efforts to play "handmaiden" to President Donald Trump's "regime."Elie Mystal, a columnist for The Nation, argued in ...

www.rawstory.com

Angry Blue Man @angryblueman.bsky.social · 20h

MAGA wants ZERO immigration ever.
Inbreeding forever!

www.reddit.com/r/CringeTikT...

From the CringeTikToks community on Reddit: Trump supporters admit they don’t want ANY immigration… wow

Explore this post and more from the CringeTikToks community

Angry Blue Man @angryblueman.bsky.social · 20h

We know! Delete your FB.

www.businessinsider.com/alexandria-o...

AOC says people are being 'algorithmically polarized' by social media

"There are people that are living in a MAGA universe online," Ocasio-Cortez said. "And that happens as well in progressive content and algorithms."

www.businessinsider.com

Angry Blue Man @angryblueman.bsky.social · 21h

I think people are over it.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/b...

Craft Breweries Struggle as Sales and Appetites Wane

www.nytimes.com

Angry Blue Man @angryblueman.bsky.social · 21h

Trump's Tariffs have backfired spectacularly for one of his key support bases (farmers).

www.elhayat-life.com/2025/10/07/t...

Trump Forced to Admit How Much His Key Crusade Has Backfired

President Donald Trump will unveil a rescue plan this week for farmers whose markets have been severely affected by his signature economic policies.

www.elhayat-life.com

Angry Blue Man @angryblueman.bsky.social · 21h

Self inflicted.

www.kff.org/quick-take/m...

More Than Half of ACA Marketplace Enrollees Live in Republican Congressional Districts

Since the enhanced premium tax credits became available in 2021, ACA Marketplace enrollment has increased significantly in some red states, and 57% of enrollees now live in Republican congressional di...

Angry Blue Man @angryblueman.bsky.social · 21h

slate.com/news-and-pol...

With One Damning Question, Ketanji Brown Jackson Defined the Supreme Court’s New Term

The justice stripped the veneer of constitutional principle from the court’s latest blatant culture war.

Angry Blue Man @angryblueman.bsky.social · 21h

What an incredible surprise! (yawn)

www.metrotimes.com/news/michiga...

Michigan Republican pushing pornography ban linked to porn site, records show - Detroit Metro Times

A Republican state lawmaker leading a campaign to ban pornography in Michigan appears to have had an account on a pornographic hook-up website that promised users they could “find sex” and “get laid t...

www.metrotimes.com

Angry Blue Man @angryblueman.bsky.social · 21h

Me neither. Stuff on the Daily Show here, or the odd YouTube indy.

Angry Blue Man @angryblueman.bsky.social · 21h

She should be impeached.

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Annette @resistnow2024.bsky.social · 1d

TOTALLY. AGREE 💯

Angry Blue Man @angryblueman.bsky.social · 21h

I guess I call them "dumbnews" from now on.