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C.A. Dietrich

@ohiohamlet.bsky.social

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Books 📚 Guitar🎸 The Bard 🎭 #MeganMan I make artless art. Illegitimi non carborundum.

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C.A. Dietrich @ohiohamlet.bsky.social · 11d

What I love about America is no longer the political nor economic systems. Rather it’s the land itself. The waters, the trees, the mountains. I’m thinking like a hobbit.

a close up of a man 's face with the words " i miss my books and my armchair and my garden "

ALT: a close up of a man 's face with the words " i miss my books and my armchair and my garden "

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C.A. Dietrich @ohiohamlet.bsky.social · 2h

There it is.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 2h

"We took the freedom of speech away," says the president

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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C.A. Dietrich @ohiohamlet.bsky.social · 2h

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

The Black Loyalists

Thousands of African Americans fought for the British—then fled the United States to avoid a return to enslavement.

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RevDaniel 🇨🇦 @revdaniel.bsky.social · 11h

This is why I deleted my Facebook account.

Yes I can be friends with people who I disagree with politically. But that means disagreements like “should more or less tax money go to this department or that one?”

It doesn’t mean “are these people human, or not?”

Meme saying: It depressed the hell out of me that people I used to consider friends have turned into people I wouldn’t tell where Anne Frank was hiding.”

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C.A. Dietrich @ohiohamlet.bsky.social · 17h

@timmiller.bsky.social Thanks for, I believe, John Prine at the end. Great song.

C.A. Dietrich @ohiohamlet.bsky.social · 20h

I come from hunting families. When you pointed your rifle at a deer you intended to shoot it. You never point your gun at people.

C.A. Dietrich @ohiohamlet.bsky.social · 1d

It’s better to be *lucky* than good.

*Kansas City

#MNF #NFL

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 1d

A Trump-appointed federal judge slams the Trump Administration TWO SEPARATE TIMES for its illegal attempts to deploy the National Guard in Portland.

Oregon’s AG @agdanrayfield.bsky.social joins me fresh off of a rare, late night hearing with the latest!

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Trump SMACKED DOWN in Court TWICE As Invasion Stunt BACKFIRES

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C.A. Dietrich @ohiohamlet.bsky.social · 1d

@cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy Good Night and Good Luck. #BariWeiss

C.A. Dietrich @ohiohamlet.bsky.social · 1d

www.thelongmemo.com/p/people-thi...

People think Trump wants martial law? Ok, "Challenge Accepted."

As always, my admonition is this - "Skin that smoke wagon and see what happens."

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C.A. Dietrich @ohiohamlet.bsky.social · 2d

The roadblocks can be literal!

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ShannonB @shannonbuz.bsky.social · 2d

“15 blue trifectas (states where Democrats control the governor’s mansion and both houses of the state legislature), with their larger state budgets and more generous pensions, have state investments that total almost 75 percent more than the 23 red trifectas,”

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

It’s time for soft secession

How blue states can use their economic clout to stand up to Trump’s agenda—starting with California.

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C.A. Dietrich @ohiohamlet.bsky.social · 2d

www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...

Taylor Swift’s Fairy Tale Is Over

The singer has everything she ever wanted—her new album suggests that it’s all sort of a drag.

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C.A. Dietrich @ohiohamlet.bsky.social · 2d

SMH

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scha·den·freu·de @blisterpearl.bsky.social · 2d

"Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared."

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943