Ego
@ego-001.bsky.social
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Retired PhD, devout atheist, militant socialist. Deviant. Raider Nation for Life. Hail from the Commonwealth.
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50 years on this planet. Plenty of personal and professional success. If my opinion means anything… know that The Big Lebowski might just be the perfect comedy. No notes.
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iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social
Country fans are upset with Zach Bryan after he criticized ICE in a song.

But don't let it be known that Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, and Johnny Cash all despised fascism and leaned heavily to the left.
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wutangforchildren.bsky.social
The Dude has spoken:

"ICE? Let's get ICE off our streets and into our beverages. This aggression will not stand. Let's just abide together"
ego-001.bsky.social
Strands #584
“Now, hear this!”
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Puzzle #850
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Puzzle #849
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ego-001.bsky.social
Strands #583
“Unusual companions”
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ego-001.bsky.social
This. Kamala Harris was essentially Reagan Lite and they still called her communist.
katmabu.bsky.social
We can’t out-Republican Republicans, nor should we want to.

Democrats need to say what they believe — and actually believe in something.
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lordaslan.bsky.social
"we need to protect kids!! Wait no! Not like that..."
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bencollins.bsky.social
history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed

student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism

teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.
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pptsapper.bsky.social
Wore my “don’t argue with anyone John Brown would’ve shot” T-shirt today

Bartender at a casual prominent DC bar

“Who’s John Brown?”

Reader, I despair.
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hntdove.bsky.social
Everything we try seems to break down at last, and the only answer to that which we ever find is the brute simplicity of Caesar.

--Poul Anderson, THE PEOPLE OF THE WIND

This sentence has haunted me for 50 years now.
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hntdove.bsky.social
See the happy moron.
He doesn't give a damn.
I wish I were a moron.
My God! Maybe I am!
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.
ego-001.bsky.social
It’s so horrible paying attention.
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adamkinzinger.substack.com
News today that ICE shot a woman is chilling. The videos online show that there are some abusive, masked thugs masquerading as law enforcement.

Nobody deserves this. The courts need to step in.
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hntdove.bsky.social
On a day when ICE is doing its very best Brownshirt impression in Chicago and elsewhere, I'm gonna remind you I write about fascism...and other flavors of totalitarianism.
ego-001.bsky.social
I was drinking at a VFW with friends a few days ago. This is a staunchly conservative haven typically. Elderly women next to me went off on trip for being sexist racist and homophobic when he came on the news. The tide is turning.
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ego-001.bsky.social
Dunning Krueger booger eating motherfucker. Walking prostate cancer.
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govpritzker.illinois.gov
In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it?

If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say?

Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.
ego-001.bsky.social
Do not fuck this up.