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John Metcalf ⚛️

@jymetcalf.bsky.social

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Mid-Michigan progressive 💙, secularist ⚛️, exhibit designer👨‍💻, ally 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸, good without gods—ask me how.

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John Metcalf ⚛️ @jymetcalf.bsky.social · Nov 17

“Travel is fatal to prejuidce, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
— Mark Twain

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John Metcalf ⚛️ @jymetcalf.bsky.social · 19m

Nah, I’m madder at the people who didn’t vote. 🤷‍♂️

John Metcalf ⚛️ @jymetcalf.bsky.social · 22m

The one on the left is a dead ringer for Elizabeth Moss. 😳

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John Metcalf ⚛️ @jymetcalf.bsky.social · 26m

Didn’t she take a bribe years ago to not prosecute Trump over Trump University in Florida? 🤔

John Metcalf ⚛️ @jymetcalf.bsky.social · 28m

Is the narrator a cat, too?

Or better yet, a skunk?

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John Metcalf ⚛️ @jymetcalf.bsky.social · 32m

Oh! The Humanity! 😭

John Metcalf ⚛️ @jymetcalf.bsky.social · 3h

The US is not a signatory to the INC, and therefore is outside its jurisdiction. 🤷‍♂️

John Metcalf ⚛️ @jymetcalf.bsky.social · 1d

President Miller. Time to impeach.

John Metcalf ⚛️ @jymetcalf.bsky.social · 1d

I just assumed it’s because—like so many MAGA women—she’s had one too many injections in her face for cosmetic reasons. 🤷‍♂️

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

NOTABLE -- Pam Bondi refuses to answer direct questions about if the FBI has incriminating photos of Trump with half-naked young women, but instead deflects from them by attacking Sen. Whitehouse

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John Metcalf ⚛️ @jymetcalf.bsky.social · 1d

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John Metcalf ⚛️ @jymetcalf.bsky.social · 1d

I’m not hearing a “no.”

Why does her face look like it’s not working right? 🤔

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John Metcalf ⚛️ @jymetcalf.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t fall for the notion that @realdonaldrump.bsky.social has any real power. It’s Miller pulling the strings. Trump is just a dancing (golfing) monkey. 😂

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

Cartoon by @ivan-ehlers.bsky.social.

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John Metcalf ⚛️ @jymetcalf.bsky.social · 1d

Milestone reached.

electrek.co/2025/10/06/i...

In a first, renewables generate more power than coal globally

For the first time ever, renewables generated more power than coal as solar and wind outpaced global demand growth in early 2025.

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John Metcalf ⚛️ @jymetcalf.bsky.social · 1d

But lying is all they have. 😭

John Metcalf ⚛️ @jymetcalf.bsky.social · 1d

Just a natural progression from living too close to the North Pole. 😄

John Metcalf ⚛️ @jymetcalf.bsky.social · 1d

Are we ready to impeach President Stephen Miller yet? 🙄

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 1d

There it is

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John Metcalf ⚛️ @jymetcalf.bsky.social · 1d

Old enough. 😄

John Metcalf ⚛️ @jymetcalf.bsky.social · 2d

And don’t forget the mustard. THE MUSTARD JERRY! 😳

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John Metcalf ⚛️ @jymetcalf.bsky.social · 2d

But they’re all about “merit”—they said it!

No more DEI—merit based hiring only!
(As they put another Fox News talking head in a position of power.)

MERIT!

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John Metcalf ⚛️ @jymetcalf.bsky.social · 2d

And all because a Black man became President, and we let gay people marry.

🤦‍♂️

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John Metcalf ⚛️ @jymetcalf.bsky.social · 2d

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John Metcalf ⚛️ @jymetcalf.bsky.social · 2d

A distraction from the Epstein files? 🤔