The Bob (aka AFNIman)
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The Bob (aka AFNIman)
@bobcoxauthor.bsky.social
Retired NIH scientist. Caltech grad. Sci-fi author. Hiker: especially Nepal and the American Southwest.
Happily married.
Out of the blue DMs better be damn impressive.
I used to be a centrist. Now I see there is no going back. AOC for Prez!
January 21, 2026 at 3:49 PM
To be fair, they're spending all their time raising campaign money. That's their primary job function. Grab it while you can!
January 21, 2026 at 3:45 PM
It is true in one limited way. ICE does not (yet) have legal authority to murder anyone they want without any hearing or trial, which the Gestapo did. Instead, ICE has to gin up some legal-nonsense reason for their killings:
"Suicide".
"Fear of being killed by a 2 mph SUV."
"She looked at me funny."
January 20, 2026 at 9:45 PM
Maybe Lamarck can help this leaf out?
January 20, 2026 at 9:36 PM
That would be a big and fireproof scale. And what provides the gravity to "weigh" these things? Physics is hard!
January 19, 2026 at 9:49 PM
Don't bother. The tax withholding rate for "agitators" is ruinous.
January 19, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Woke Nazis. Now we've seen everything.
January 19, 2026 at 12:10 AM
It didn't have that many miles on it. Practically like new!
January 19, 2026 at 12:08 AM
"gunpoint" == "gunboat" ... oopsie
January 19, 2026 at 12:06 AM
Some people disagree. To them, "freedom" includes their (supposed) God-given right to demean and dominate those from disfavored ("inferior") groups. That's exactly what the word "liberty" meant to Southerners in the slavery and Jim Crow eras. (And to some Northerners as well.)
January 18, 2026 at 10:11 PM
I believe that's a quote from Fetterman, actually.
January 18, 2026 at 1:07 PM
But the uber rich don't care.
January 16, 2026 at 12:41 AM
And when they let you out, they steal your valuables.
January 16, 2026 at 12:39 AM
"Proof" that the government won't supply for free, but requires? Does KN carry proof of citizenship at all times? In the swimming pool, for example?
January 16, 2026 at 12:38 AM
All I've got now is a quiet retirement and the freedom to do just about whatever I want. Who needs THAT?
January 15, 2026 at 2:29 PM
Damn. I should have clung to the power I had as the AFNIman. Think of the bennies! Cheese and wine receptions. A sofa in my office. The adulation of ... okay, not so much adulation but at least a little respect.
January 15, 2026 at 2:28 PM
The second and third shots are clearly criminal. The first shot is obscured and will be argued over endlessly.
January 12, 2026 at 4:13 AM
Kidnapping. Assault and Battery.
January 10, 2026 at 6:15 PM
30+% of adult Americans are solidly for violent dictatorship. They don't every want to "lose" again. This is the hard-to-eradicate root of Trumpism.
January 10, 2026 at 6:13 PM