David
@m8647.bsky.social
It’s 3 O’clock Somewhere! 🥃 🍸Retired and happy. 😊 Michigan 1973 〽️
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David
@m8647.bsky.social
· Sep 24
In a future shaped by yesterday’s choices, I see the toxic roots of authoritarianism choking the life out of our planet and our spirits. The creeping shadows of fascism seek to silence dissent and bury the truth, but we must rise like wildflowers from the cracks.
Poetic Truth
Absolutely…The leaders we had, on both sides of the aisle, valued disagreement with respect. Gingrich and the Moral Majority changed that.
We who grew up in the postwar era in the 20th century came to believe that democracy and freedom were inevitable.
We were wrong.
If we are to preserve our experiment in self-governance, we have to bend that arc of justice ourselves.
We were wrong.
If we are to preserve our experiment in self-governance, we have to bend that arc of justice ourselves.
December 13, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Absolutely…The leaders we had, on both sides of the aisle, valued disagreement with respect. Gingrich and the Moral Majority changed that.
So there are pictures of Trump and Epstein praying in a church, handing out food to the poor, building Habitat for Humanity houses?
December 13, 2025 at 2:50 PM
So there are pictures of Trump and Epstein praying in a church, handing out food to the poor, building Habitat for Humanity houses?
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The Lt. Gov. of Indiana has now deleted this post which confirmed that the Trump admin threatened to withhold federal funding from Indiana if they didn’t gerrymander.
December 12, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The Lt. Gov. of Indiana has now deleted this post which confirmed that the Trump admin threatened to withhold federal funding from Indiana if they didn’t gerrymander.
Trump-proofing the Fed 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
The board of the Federal Reserve System says that it has reappointed all regional Fed bank presidents, just days after the Trump administration began suggesting that it wanted to make major changes to the reappointment process.
Federal Reserve reappoints regional bank presidents after Trump officials float changes
The presidents of the 12 regional Federal Reserve banks across the country wield nearly as much influence over interest rates as permanent Fed governors.
nbcnews.to
December 12, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Trump-proofing the Fed 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
@weightlifter77.bsky.social So where ate you, Buddy?
December 12, 2025 at 12:04 AM
@weightlifter77.bsky.social So where ate you, Buddy?
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Elections have consequences. A man like this never belonged near the levers of power. Not the first time. And certainly not this second time when everything was knowable. We are trapped in a tragedy and must fight our way out.
December 11, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Elections have consequences. A man like this never belonged near the levers of power. Not the first time. And certainly not this second time when everything was knowable. We are trapped in a tragedy and must fight our way out.
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"At least as outlined in this document, the administration’s agendas for Europe seem to be “Make Europe white again” and “Make Russia great again.” It’s not just abdication from leadership of the free world; it’s an open embrace of the forces of unfreedom."
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
New Trump Security Strategy Turns Against the Free World
... and toward racialism, Russia, and the right wing.
open.substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:12 AM
"At least as outlined in this document, the administration’s agendas for Europe seem to be “Make Europe white again” and “Make Russia great again.” It’s not just abdication from leadership of the free world; it’s an open embrace of the forces of unfreedom."
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
Stephen, you ignorant slut.
Stephen Miller: "If you subtract immigration out of test scores, all of the sudden our test scores skyrocket"
December 10, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Stephen, you ignorant slut.
Not expecting any of them to do what’s right.
This week, the Senate will vote on Democrats' clean, three-year extension of the ACA tax credits.
Republicans have a choice: stop health insurance premiums from skyrocketing or abandon their constituents.
Republicans have a choice: stop health insurance premiums from skyrocketing or abandon their constituents.
December 10, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Not expecting any of them to do what’s right.
Of fucking course 🤦♂️
SCOOP — Gregg Phillips, a conspiracy theorist with no emergency management experience who helped produce the election-denying documentary ‘2000 Mules’ with Dinesh D’Souza and has faced numerous legal inquiries, has been named head of FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery.
My story:
My story:
Conspiracy theorist election denier given FEMA’s second-most important role
Gregg Phillips will lead the Office of Response and Recovery, “the heart of what FEMA does.”
www.thehandbasket.co
December 10, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Of fucking course 🤦♂️
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The rank bigotry of today’s nativism is striking, but the utter stupidity of today’s nativism is almost as impressive.
Stephen Miller: "If you subtract immigration out of test scores, all of the sudden our test scores skyrocket"
December 9, 2025 at 11:52 PM
The rank bigotry of today’s nativism is striking, but the utter stupidity of today’s nativism is almost as impressive.
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After MTG lied about me for weeks, she said that she felt bad for my unborn child because he'd have me as a mother. Her rhetoric led to threats against my family.
No one, even her, should receive threats like those, but I'd like to see her own up to the role she played in creating them for others.
No one, even her, should receive threats like those, but I'd like to see her own up to the role she played in creating them for others.
Marjorie Taylor Greene: "I sent those deaths threats directly to him in a text message & informed him of what his name calling & words were doing - it was a direct assassination threat on my son. And he was extremely - I won't repeat what he said - but it was extremely unkind. No sympathy. No care"
December 9, 2025 at 9:40 PM
After MTG lied about me for weeks, she said that she felt bad for my unborn child because he'd have me as a mother. Her rhetoric led to threats against my family.
No one, even her, should receive threats like those, but I'd like to see her own up to the role she played in creating them for others.
No one, even her, should receive threats like those, but I'd like to see her own up to the role she played in creating them for others.
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Anti vaxxers are losing their minds!!
December 9, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Anti vaxxers are losing their minds!!
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TEXAS CAN GERRYMANDER ALL THEY WANT, BUT THE RIGHT KIND OF POLITICIAN WILL STILL WIN.
James Talarico, Texas State Representative, former middle school teacher, and Presbyterian seminarian running for the U.S. Senate to take power back for working people. 🗽
James Talarico, Texas State Representative, former middle school teacher, and Presbyterian seminarian running for the U.S. Senate to take power back for working people. 🗽
December 8, 2025 at 11:50 PM
TEXAS CAN GERRYMANDER ALL THEY WANT, BUT THE RIGHT KIND OF POLITICIAN WILL STILL WIN.
James Talarico, Texas State Representative, former middle school teacher, and Presbyterian seminarian running for the U.S. Senate to take power back for working people. 🗽
James Talarico, Texas State Representative, former middle school teacher, and Presbyterian seminarian running for the U.S. Senate to take power back for working people. 🗽
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Every time Butker misses a field goal, a woman gets a PHD.
December 8, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Every time Butker misses a field goal, a woman gets a PHD.
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They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.
December 5, 2025 at 2:28 AM
They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.
“And, kids,” she continued, “I don’t give a fuck about Chreesmas decorations.”
Melania Trump: "Santa's reindeer -- Rudolph, Dasher, Comet, all of them -- they're resting in the North Pole. They need to save all of their energy for their great flight around the world on Christmas Eve. Santa told me they're snuggling beneath warm, fluffy blankets."
December 8, 2025 at 9:50 PM
“And, kids,” she continued, “I don’t give a fuck about Chreesmas decorations.”
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It's not "free-market conservatism" when Trump uses government power to sabotage farmers' markets and then spends taxpayer money to bail them out, making them more dependent on the government. It's what dictators want: everyone dependent on their personal whims.
Trump is proposing a $12B aid package for farmers hit hard by his trade war with China
A White House official says President Donald Trump is planning a $12 billion aid package for U.S. farmers who have struggled to sell their crops while getting hit by rising costs after the president r...
apnews.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM
It's not "free-market conservatism" when Trump uses government power to sabotage farmers' markets and then spends taxpayer money to bail them out, making them more dependent on the government. It's what dictators want: everyone dependent on their personal whims.
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The GOP enacted civil service reform.
The GOP will destroy civil service reform.
The GOP is NOT the same party that it was. Keep this in mind when they claim Lincoln as their own
The GOP will destroy civil service reform.
The GOP is NOT the same party that it was. Keep this in mind when they claim Lincoln as their own
December 8, 2025 at 3:12 PM
The GOP enacted civil service reform.
The GOP will destroy civil service reform.
The GOP is NOT the same party that it was. Keep this in mind when they claim Lincoln as their own
The GOP will destroy civil service reform.
The GOP is NOT the same party that it was. Keep this in mind when they claim Lincoln as their own
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“GIGANTIC MISTAKE” — “Bill Gates has criticized the Trump administration for the alarming increase in child mortality rates. Gates attributes this rise to the dissolution of the US Agency for International Development (USAID).”
www.aol.com/finance/here...
www.aol.com/finance/here...
December 8, 2025 at 3:18 PM
“GIGANTIC MISTAKE” — “Bill Gates has criticized the Trump administration for the alarming increase in child mortality rates. Gates attributes this rise to the dissolution of the US Agency for International Development (USAID).”
www.aol.com/finance/here...
www.aol.com/finance/here...
Welp, that sentiment has been blown to smithereens…
John Adams wrote this to his wife Abigail in 1800. It was engraved in the mantel in WH State Dining Room in 1945 at the request of FDR
‘I Pray Heaven To Bestow The Best Of Blessings On This House And All that shall hereafter Inhabit it. May none but Honest and Wise Men ever rule under This Roof.”
‘I Pray Heaven To Bestow The Best Of Blessings On This House And All that shall hereafter Inhabit it. May none but Honest and Wise Men ever rule under This Roof.”
December 8, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Welp, that sentiment has been blown to smithereens…
Here’s a quarter. Call someone who cares, bicth
December 8, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Here’s a quarter. Call someone who cares, bicth
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Reject any and every lie of this regime that they are fighting the drug trade. Their boss pardons a drug kingpin who helped bring 400 tons of cocaine into the U.S.
December 8, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Reject any and every lie of this regime that they are fighting the drug trade. Their boss pardons a drug kingpin who helped bring 400 tons of cocaine into the U.S.
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As awful as this, the focus on whether the woman was complying obscures the more important issue: in a democracy, there should not be armed agents demanding to see papers of every passing person.
“Traumatized, humiliated, degraded.”
The nurse, a US citizen, 4’11”, 85 lbs, says she was following orders when she was dragged out of her car by masked immigration agents in Florida.
It was the 3rd time she had been stopped and told to produce ID.
Free link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
The nurse, a US citizen, 4’11”, 85 lbs, says she was following orders when she was dragged out of her car by masked immigration agents in Florida.
It was the 3rd time she had been stopped and told to produce ID.
Free link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Exclusive: Woman detained by feds in Keys says she was following agents’ orders
“This is not the America that I grew up in, and this is not the America that we represent.”
www.miamiherald.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:27 PM
As awful as this, the focus on whether the woman was complying obscures the more important issue: in a democracy, there should not be armed agents demanding to see papers of every passing person.
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He’s so pathetic. Trump drops his false claim about a rigged election right into the middle of Christmas tree lighting ceremony.
December 5, 2025 at 3:37 PM
He’s so pathetic. Trump drops his false claim about a rigged election right into the middle of Christmas tree lighting ceremony.