Andrew Deeringer
@drewsky-d.bsky.social
Human • Dad • Husband • Mr. Rogers Acolyte • Psychotherapist in Training • Sober • CA Water Lawyer • Sacramento ("It's a Dry Heat")
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"Daddy, is it true that water has memory?"
"I dunno, love. I think that's the sort of thing that would be hard to know for sure."
"But you *do* water, for your job. Right?"
"......."
^ A burn so bad I literally changed careers.
"I dunno, love. I think that's the sort of thing that would be hard to know for sure."
"But you *do* water, for your job. Right?"
"......."
^ A burn so bad I literally changed careers.
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Radical hypothesis:
If you're a reporter or even a columnist (umbrella 'journalist' camp), generally *least* useful thing you can do with your time and platform is tell political parties what their "messaging" should be.
-Reporters have the privilege of seeing things other people can't ...
Radical hypothesis:
If you're a reporter or even a columnist (umbrella 'journalist' camp), generally *least* useful thing you can do with your time and platform is tell political parties what their "messaging" should be.
-Reporters have the privilege of seeing things other people can't ...
November 3, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Radical hypothesis:
If you're a reporter or even a columnist (umbrella 'journalist' camp), generally *least* useful thing you can do with your time and platform is tell political parties what their "messaging" should be.
-Reporters have the privilege of seeing things other people can't ...
Radical hypothesis:
If you're a reporter or even a columnist (umbrella 'journalist' camp), generally *least* useful thing you can do with your time and platform is tell political parties what their "messaging" should be.
-Reporters have the privilege of seeing things other people can't ...
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2025’s official slogan is “It Gets Worse.”
September 10, 2025 at 1:21 PM
2025’s official slogan is “It Gets Worse.”
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"I read The Lorax aloud. By the end of the book, all the kids are radicalized and collectively devise a plan to dismantle capitalism."
A Day in the Life of a Woke Third-Grade Teacher, as Imagined by a Far-Right Politician
The alarm blares, and I wake up with a renewed vigor to indoctrinate America’s youth. I ride my bike to work, smugly turning up my nose at real Ame...
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August 31, 2025 at 2:30 PM
"I read The Lorax aloud. By the end of the book, all the kids are radicalized and collectively devise a plan to dismantle capitalism."
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So America is the mark?
August 29, 2025 at 6:29 PM
So America is the mark?
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"I don’t want a revolution of violence. I want a revolution of responsibility-one where we take care of each other, where people can raise a family without choosing between groceries and medicine, and where love doesn’t have to take a back seat to red tape."
August 20, 2025 at 3:48 PM
"I don’t want a revolution of violence. I want a revolution of responsibility-one where we take care of each other, where people can raise a family without choosing between groceries and medicine, and where love doesn’t have to take a back seat to red tape."
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On one hand, Republican officials call themselves "warfighters."
On the other, they become whiny crybabies at the thought of setting foot in DC streets and New York City subways that literal schoolchildren navigate every day without incident.
Real macho stuff.
On the other, they become whiny crybabies at the thought of setting foot in DC streets and New York City subways that literal schoolchildren navigate every day without incident.
Real macho stuff.
August 15, 2025 at 12:01 AM
On one hand, Republican officials call themselves "warfighters."
On the other, they become whiny crybabies at the thought of setting foot in DC streets and New York City subways that literal schoolchildren navigate every day without incident.
Real macho stuff.
On the other, they become whiny crybabies at the thought of setting foot in DC streets and New York City subways that literal schoolchildren navigate every day without incident.
Real macho stuff.
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social on our news media's failure to sound the alarm:
We've seen the mainstream media again and again, in good ways and corrosive ones, dogpile on a story they want the public to jump on. (1/3)
We've seen the mainstream media again and again, in good ways and corrosive ones, dogpile on a story they want the public to jump on. (1/3)
July 13, 2025 at 6:09 PM
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social on our news media's failure to sound the alarm:
We've seen the mainstream media again and again, in good ways and corrosive ones, dogpile on a story they want the public to jump on. (1/3)
We've seen the mainstream media again and again, in good ways and corrosive ones, dogpile on a story they want the public to jump on. (1/3)
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If America were a game of Monopoly we’re at the point in the game where one person owns 75% of the board and everyone’s just waiting for them to take everything everyone has left so the game can end
July 11, 2025 at 2:11 PM
If America were a game of Monopoly we’re at the point in the game where one person owns 75% of the board and everyone’s just waiting for them to take everything everyone has left so the game can end
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2025 feels like being awake during surgery
July 4, 2025 at 1:21 AM
2025 feels like being awake during surgery
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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Paramount has joined Disney in paying bribes to Donald Trump, the Washington Post killed its Harris endorsement, Fox News functions as Republican state media, and the X algorithm amplifies fascist content. Here's why the media has a liberal bias problem.
July 2, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Paramount has joined Disney in paying bribes to Donald Trump, the Washington Post killed its Harris endorsement, Fox News functions as Republican state media, and the X algorithm amplifies fascist content. Here's why the media has a liberal bias problem.
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“ICE gets a bigger budget than the Marine Corps” is a simple fact that should be communicated very widely because it clearly expresses how crazy and radical this is
With this budget, ICE alone would have nearly as large a detention operation as all 50 states' prison systems combined. Bigger budget than the Marine Corps. Police-state levels of spending
If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
June 29, 2025 at 2:26 PM
“ICE gets a bigger budget than the Marine Corps” is a simple fact that should be communicated very widely because it clearly expresses how crazy and radical this is
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quaker here. do i now have a right to have my children opt out of seeing any school books that relate to war?
🚨In its fourth decision, the Supreme Court holds that parents who object to LGBTQ books in the classroom have a First Amendment right to "opt out" their children from seeing those books. Alito writes for the 6-3 majority, with all three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
June 27, 2025 at 4:53 PM
quaker here. do i now have a right to have my children opt out of seeing any school books that relate to war?
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“and every June you’ll have to spend a day rapidly reloading the page to see how many of your rights have expired” -the Founders probably
June 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM
“and every June you’ll have to spend a day rapidly reloading the page to see how many of your rights have expired” -the Founders probably
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So to recap: Trump violated the War Powers Resolution, failed in his mission, lied and said he succeeded, made up a cease-fire between two countries in his head, then got mad and cursed when he found out it didn't exist.
June 24, 2025 at 8:26 PM
So to recap: Trump violated the War Powers Resolution, failed in his mission, lied and said he succeeded, made up a cease-fire between two countries in his head, then got mad and cursed when he found out it didn't exist.
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The callous opinions in Skrmetti last week and Dobbs three years ago today underscore that the Supreme Court keeps punting human rights to a democratic process that the Roberts court broke.
Wrote about it for @democracydocket.com:
Wrote about it for @democracydocket.com:
SCOTUS Says Human Rights Should Be Left to the Same ‘Democratic Process’ it Undermined
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
June 24, 2025 at 8:03 PM
The callous opinions in Skrmetti last week and Dobbs three years ago today underscore that the Supreme Court keeps punting human rights to a democratic process that the Roberts court broke.
Wrote about it for @democracydocket.com:
Wrote about it for @democracydocket.com:
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We live in a rogue and dangerous country.
Do what you need to do to maintain your internal peace. Hold the core of your spirit. Pray for peace. Commit yourself to justice. And just rest.
Do what you need to do to maintain your internal peace. Hold the core of your spirit. Pray for peace. Commit yourself to justice. And just rest.
June 22, 2025 at 2:52 AM
We live in a rogue and dangerous country.
Do what you need to do to maintain your internal peace. Hold the core of your spirit. Pray for peace. Commit yourself to justice. And just rest.
Do what you need to do to maintain your internal peace. Hold the core of your spirit. Pray for peace. Commit yourself to justice. And just rest.
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it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time
June 22, 2025 at 1:44 AM
it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time
My lovely wife got me real, quality oud oil for Father's Day and I will be making this my whole personality until further notice.
June 15, 2025 at 7:14 PM
My lovely wife got me real, quality oud oil for Father's Day and I will be making this my whole personality until further notice.
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It’s not hyperbole to say that the deaths in Minnesota are on the GOP’s hands. They’ve built this political environment and they’ve allowed a demagogue to spread hate. This is entirely on them.
June 14, 2025 at 5:19 PM
It’s not hyperbole to say that the deaths in Minnesota are on the GOP’s hands. They’ve built this political environment and they’ve allowed a demagogue to spread hate. This is entirely on them.
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The point is to create a world in which the authoritarians can simultaneously inhabit a position of victim and abuser, creating an imagined threat of persecution and violence in order to persecute and carry out violence.
This is how this always works. We cannot allow this to continue.
This is how this always works. We cannot allow this to continue.
June 14, 2025 at 3:38 PM
The point is to create a world in which the authoritarians can simultaneously inhabit a position of victim and abuser, creating an imagined threat of persecution and violence in order to persecute and carry out violence.
This is how this always works. We cannot allow this to continue.
This is how this always works. We cannot allow this to continue.
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💔 Heartbreaking reality of Russia's genocidal war on Ukraine.
June 9, 2025 at 5:33 AM
💔 Heartbreaking reality of Russia's genocidal war on Ukraine.
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This story exemplifies the reason people are outraged at ICE.
This guy did nothing wrong. He broke not a single law. He was a guard at a base that housed US troops. He came here legally through humanitarian parole. He had an asylum application pending. Yet the Trump admin had ICE grab him anyway.
This guy did nothing wrong. He broke not a single law. He was a guard at a base that housed US troops. He came here legally through humanitarian parole. He had an asylum application pending. Yet the Trump admin had ICE grab him anyway.
ICE arrested former Afghan Nat'l Army soldier—our ally against Taliban—at his home in TX.
He entered legally and atty says he has no criminal record. Was applying for asylum. Appears to be casualty of Trump decision de-documenting legal Afghan immigrants
www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/new...
He entered legally and atty says he has no criminal record. Was applying for asylum. Appears to be casualty of Trump decision de-documenting legal Afghan immigrants
www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/new...
Former Afghan soldier arrested at Houston-area home by ICE, stripped of asylum protections, attorney says | Houston Public Media
The soldier is one of at least 20,000 Afghans seeking asylum nationwide, having fled Afghanistan after aiding the U.S. military during the two-decades-long war there.
www.houstonpublicmedia.org
June 8, 2025 at 7:52 PM
This story exemplifies the reason people are outraged at ICE.
This guy did nothing wrong. He broke not a single law. He was a guard at a base that housed US troops. He came here legally through humanitarian parole. He had an asylum application pending. Yet the Trump admin had ICE grab him anyway.
This guy did nothing wrong. He broke not a single law. He was a guard at a base that housed US troops. He came here legally through humanitarian parole. He had an asylum application pending. Yet the Trump admin had ICE grab him anyway.
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Every person on Bluesky should know:
* Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever
* Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies
* Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured
* Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic
www.404media.co/the-200-site...
* Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever
* Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies
* Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured
* Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic
www.404media.co/the-200-site...
March 16, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Every person on Bluesky should know:
* Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever
* Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies
* Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured
* Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic
www.404media.co/the-200-site...
* Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever
* Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies
* Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured
* Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic
www.404media.co/the-200-site...