@orangepants.bsky.social
Trying to be a decent human being is all. Calling out injustice as and where I see it, with no motive but humanity and (by extension) a fair and democratic society. (My name reflects a favorite pair of faded orange bell bottoms I owned in the early 1970s.)
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This is what Presidential Leadership looks like at the time of an unfathomable American tragedy.
#BarackObama
#BarackObama
December 15, 2025 at 8:20 PM
This is what Presidential Leadership looks like at the time of an unfathomable American tragedy.
#BarackObama
#BarackObama
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Can you just, like... "these aren't the droids you're looking for"? Just a quick little hand wave? It's not like they're particularly strong-minded.
November 10, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Can you just, like... "these aren't the droids you're looking for"? Just a quick little hand wave? It's not like they're particularly strong-minded.
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There’s still time to call senators. Let me explain. Sorry not sorry about the cat. He’s also really upset about this deal.
November 10, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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"Let me be clear: The president has both the funding and the authority to fund SNAP during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.”
Gov. Andy Beshear
Gov. Andy Beshear
November 6, 2025 at 4:38 AM
"Let me be clear: The president has both the funding and the authority to fund SNAP during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.”
Gov. Andy Beshear
Gov. Andy Beshear
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Excessive force. PERIOD!
They called them “violent mobs,” but the violence came from the guys with badges and body armor.
📌 Keep sharing videos, everyone, because they’re evidence.
They called them “violent mobs,” but the violence came from the guys with badges and body armor.
📌 Keep sharing videos, everyone, because they’re evidence.
November 6, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Excessive force. PERIOD!
They called them “violent mobs,” but the violence came from the guys with badges and body armor.
📌 Keep sharing videos, everyone, because they’re evidence.
They called them “violent mobs,” but the violence came from the guys with badges and body armor.
📌 Keep sharing videos, everyone, because they’re evidence.
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LA: “They took a US citizen father out and left a toddler in the backseat. Two heavily armed border patrol agents got in that car and drove the child and the vehicle away.”
What are we doing?
What are we doing?
November 5, 2025 at 11:07 PM
LA: “They took a US citizen father out and left a toddler in the backseat. Two heavily armed border patrol agents got in that car and drove the child and the vehicle away.”
What are we doing?
What are we doing?
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Still awaiting my George $oros payment for showing up at #NoKINGS_Day & staying until noon.
Somebody slipped this 20 under my door, but something about it seems fake.
Somebody slipped this 20 under my door, but something about it seems fake.
October 29, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Still awaiting my George $oros payment for showing up at #NoKINGS_Day & staying until noon.
Somebody slipped this 20 under my door, but something about it seems fake.
Somebody slipped this 20 under my door, but something about it seems fake.
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Never in the history of the US has any president openly and repeatedly called for the investigation, arrest & prosecution of his political opponents. While many continue to shrug these things off and normalize them, I will never stop pointing out that this is what autocrats do.
October 29, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Never in the history of the US has any president openly and repeatedly called for the investigation, arrest & prosecution of his political opponents. While many continue to shrug these things off and normalize them, I will never stop pointing out that this is what autocrats do.
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I’m tired of watching hardworking folks beg for the basics while billionaires keep cashing in.
Being able to put food on your table should never be a luxury.
You can’t call yourself pro-life while letting families go hungry.
You can’t shout “America First” while putting Americans last.
Being able to put food on your table should never be a luxury.
You can’t call yourself pro-life while letting families go hungry.
You can’t shout “America First” while putting Americans last.
October 28, 2025 at 2:54 AM
I’m tired of watching hardworking folks beg for the basics while billionaires keep cashing in.
Being able to put food on your table should never be a luxury.
You can’t call yourself pro-life while letting families go hungry.
You can’t shout “America First” while putting Americans last.
Being able to put food on your table should never be a luxury.
You can’t call yourself pro-life while letting families go hungry.
You can’t shout “America First” while putting Americans last.
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BREAKING: A Department of Homeland Security officer shot at an unarmed black man during a traffic stop in DC, and the DC police officer said he was told by superiors not to mention the shooting in his incident report. 1/ www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Lawyers allege cover-up after fed shoots at man during D.C. traffic stop
Neither D.C. police nor the Department of Homeland Security have explained why the Homeland Security agent fired his weapon.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:33 AM
BREAKING: A Department of Homeland Security officer shot at an unarmed black man during a traffic stop in DC, and the DC police officer said he was told by superiors not to mention the shooting in his incident report. 1/ www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
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KAINE: Were you instructed by the secretary of HHS to not speak to senators?
MONAREZ: I was instructed to not speak directly to senators
KAINE: So Senate-confirmed CDC director instructed not to speak to senators
MONAREZ: I was instructed to not speak directly to senators
KAINE: So Senate-confirmed CDC director instructed not to speak to senators
September 17, 2025 at 4:44 PM
KAINE: Were you instructed by the secretary of HHS to not speak to senators?
MONAREZ: I was instructed to not speak directly to senators
KAINE: So Senate-confirmed CDC director instructed not to speak to senators
MONAREZ: I was instructed to not speak directly to senators
KAINE: So Senate-confirmed CDC director instructed not to speak to senators
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Please get as many vaccines as you can for you and your family before the ACIP meeting on Thursday.
September 17, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Please get as many vaccines as you can for you and your family before the ACIP meeting on Thursday.
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The Natural. Grizzly Adams. The Way We Were. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. The Sting. The Candidate. All the President's Men. Founder of Sundance. Environmentalist. Humanitarian. Some folks just seem immortal because they define a culture and their works live on. RIP Robert Redford. Well done.
September 16, 2025 at 6:16 PM
The Natural. Grizzly Adams. The Way We Were. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. The Sting. The Candidate. All the President's Men. Founder of Sundance. Environmentalist. Humanitarian. Some folks just seem immortal because they define a culture and their works live on. RIP Robert Redford. Well done.
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The amount of shit I got for this segment at the time was astronomical, and it was all from people who now stalk CVS employees to get them fired for insufficient online sadness.
Cheering on political violence is both evil and not new, an outgrowth of an internet intentionally dismantled years ago.
Cheering on political violence is both evil and not new, an outgrowth of an internet intentionally dismantled years ago.
September 16, 2025 at 12:56 AM
The amount of shit I got for this segment at the time was astronomical, and it was all from people who now stalk CVS employees to get them fired for insufficient online sadness.
Cheering on political violence is both evil and not new, an outgrowth of an internet intentionally dismantled years ago.
Cheering on political violence is both evil and not new, an outgrowth of an internet intentionally dismantled years ago.
I need to check out before I lose my mind at the level of bamboozling right now. I want my elected official to band together and speak out about this ludicrous “cracking down” on so called “far left terrorism”, when they’ve done nothing but. Everyone is so afraid of them, no one says anything.
September 16, 2025 at 1:53 AM
I need to check out before I lose my mind at the level of bamboozling right now. I want my elected official to band together and speak out about this ludicrous “cracking down” on so called “far left terrorism”, when they’ve done nothing but. Everyone is so afraid of them, no one says anything.
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Via @jennifershutt.bsky.social: Planned Parenthood clinics throughout the country began telling Medicaid patients Friday that their routine health care appointments will no longer be covered as a federal court order takes effect.
Appeals ruling threatens routine care access for Medicaid enrollees at Planned Parenthood | Alabama Reflector
The change will likely impact the hundreds of thousands of Medicaid enrollees who go to Planned Parenthood clinics for health care not related to abortion.
alabamareflector.com
September 12, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Via @jennifershutt.bsky.social: Planned Parenthood clinics throughout the country began telling Medicaid patients Friday that their routine health care appointments will no longer be covered as a federal court order takes effect.
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A London march organized by far-right activist Tommy Robinson drew more than 100,000 people and became unruly on Saturday as a small group of his supporters clashed with police officers who were separating them from counterprotesters.
https://to.pbs.org/3I701Br
https://to.pbs.org/3I701Br
London protest organized by far-right activist exceeds 100,000 as clashes break out
A London march organized by far-right activist Tommy Robinson drew more than 100,000 people and became unruly on Saturday as a small group of his supporters clashed with police officers who were separating them from counterprotesters.
www.pbs.org
September 13, 2025 at 9:01 PM
A London march organized by far-right activist Tommy Robinson drew more than 100,000 people and became unruly on Saturday as a small group of his supporters clashed with police officers who were separating them from counterprotesters.
https://to.pbs.org/3I701Br
https://to.pbs.org/3I701Br
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Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."
September 11, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."
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Charlie Kirk called me a ‘lunatic’ and a ‘prostitute’ and demanded I be deported.
Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad.
We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.
Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad.
We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.
September 10, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Charlie Kirk called me a ‘lunatic’ and a ‘prostitute’ and demanded I be deported.
Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad.
We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.
Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad.
We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.
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August 12, 2025 at 12:07 PM