Peyton Gresham
@ownerofh.bsky.social
"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth." -- Thoreau, from Walden
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Peyton Gresham
@ownerofh.bsky.social
· Jul 22
Tardy #QOTD for May 27, 2023, is from #SummerMeditations by #VaclavHavel. The US needs a leader like Havel, a playwright and peaceful dissident during communism, then a reluctant first President of post communism Czechoslovakia. Not a complete turd like #Trump.
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Venezuela isn't about fentanyl or national security. It's about oil and Epstein.
January 6, 2026 at 1:00 AM
Venezuela isn't about fentanyl or national security. It's about oil and Epstein.
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Tardy #QOTD for July 23, 2023, is from #FannieLouHamer: "I am sick and tired of being sick and tired."
January 4, 2026 at 7:06 PM
Tardy #QOTD for July 23, 2023, is from #FannieLouHamer: "I am sick and tired of being sick and tired."
Tardy #QOTD for July 22, 2023, is from #Meditations by #MarcusAurelius "No other care has he in life but to keep his mind from straying into paths incompatible with those of an intelligent and social being."
January 4, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Tardy #QOTD for July 22, 2023, is from #Meditations by #MarcusAurelius "No other care has he in life but to keep his mind from straying into paths incompatible with those of an intelligent and social being."
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If we can capture another country's president, can another country come and capture ours? Asking for a friend.
January 3, 2026 at 6:41 PM
If we can capture another country's president, can another country come and capture ours? Asking for a friend.
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It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad.
The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.
The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.
January 3, 2026 at 5:08 PM
It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad.
The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.
The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.
Tardy #QOTD for July 21, 2023, is from #Weather by #JennyOffill "But it's America. You don't even get on the news if you shoot less than three people."
January 3, 2026 at 11:43 AM
Tardy #QOTD for July 21, 2023, is from #Weather by #JennyOffill "But it's America. You don't even get on the news if you shoot less than three people."
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Whenever we're out of this shit the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau should be built into an absolutely nightmare bureaucratic goliath. Increase the original funding by a million times and hire thousands of staffers trying to fuck shit up for business.
December 30, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Whenever we're out of this shit the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau should be built into an absolutely nightmare bureaucratic goliath. Increase the original funding by a million times and hire thousands of staffers trying to fuck shit up for business.
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This is my favorite sentence in a long while. From Doug Varone, whose dance company lost $40,000 by canceling two Kennedy Center gigs planned for next April:
“It is financially devastating but morally exhilarating.”
#courage
“It is financially devastating but morally exhilarating.”
#courage
New Year’s Eve Concerts at Kennedy Center Are Canceled
www.nytimes.com
December 30, 2025 at 4:30 PM
This is my favorite sentence in a long while. From Doug Varone, whose dance company lost $40,000 by canceling two Kennedy Center gigs planned for next April:
“It is financially devastating but morally exhilarating.”
#courage
“It is financially devastating but morally exhilarating.”
#courage
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Millions of Americans remain at jobs they hate for one reason: the health insurance they receive. That’s absurd.
Universal health care will give Americans the freedom to choose the work they want without worrying about health care coverage.
Another reason for Medicare for All.
Universal health care will give Americans the freedom to choose the work they want without worrying about health care coverage.
Another reason for Medicare for All.
December 28, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Millions of Americans remain at jobs they hate for one reason: the health insurance they receive. That’s absurd.
Universal health care will give Americans the freedom to choose the work they want without worrying about health care coverage.
Another reason for Medicare for All.
Universal health care will give Americans the freedom to choose the work they want without worrying about health care coverage.
Another reason for Medicare for All.
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A nice thread in which an actual expert patiently explains why the Secretary of Health and Human Service is not simply a liar, but an especially stupid one.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy
December 28, 2025 at 6:06 PM
A nice thread in which an actual expert patiently explains why the Secretary of Health and Human Service is not simply a liar, but an especially stupid one.
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If people don’t like you, it’s fine. If dogs don’t like you… it’s time for some serious self-reflection
December 26, 2025 at 5:48 PM
If people don’t like you, it’s fine. If dogs don’t like you… it’s time for some serious self-reflection
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This is profoundly un-American.
No—that's not right.
It's *anti*-American.
It's hatred of the United States and its founding documents and all its people and all its traditions.
The person who wrote and approved this is a weirdo who detests everything that America stands for.
No—that's not right.
It's *anti*-American.
It's hatred of the United States and its founding documents and all its people and all its traditions.
The person who wrote and approved this is a weirdo who detests everything that America stands for.
December 25, 2025 at 10:12 PM
This is profoundly un-American.
No—that's not right.
It's *anti*-American.
It's hatred of the United States and its founding documents and all its people and all its traditions.
The person who wrote and approved this is a weirdo who detests everything that America stands for.
No—that's not right.
It's *anti*-American.
It's hatred of the United States and its founding documents and all its people and all its traditions.
The person who wrote and approved this is a weirdo who detests everything that America stands for.
Everyday I feel more and more European.
We condemn the scandalous US visa ban on former EU Commisioner Breton and digital activists. Protecting democracy isn’t censorship. ✋🏼
Disinformation isn’t free speech. Europe won’t take lessons from those undermining democracy and free speech.
Here in Europe we set our own laws. 🇪🇺✊🏼
Disinformation isn’t free speech. Europe won’t take lessons from those undermining democracy and free speech.
Here in Europe we set our own laws. 🇪🇺✊🏼
December 24, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Everyday I feel more and more European.
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Reminder that we are a year into aggressive ICE raids and concentration camps, and there’s not a single example of local cops protecting people against this violence, kidnapping, or death.
December 23, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Reminder that we are a year into aggressive ICE raids and concentration camps, and there’s not a single example of local cops protecting people against this violence, kidnapping, or death.
There is the term #MurderByPublicPolicy. Republicans have always been very good at it, but this administration of the unevolved continues to prove they are the worst humanity has to offer.
It is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines.
It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States.
And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).
It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States.
And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).
December 20, 2025 at 6:01 PM
There is the term #MurderByPublicPolicy. Republicans have always been very good at it, but this administration of the unevolved continues to prove they are the worst humanity has to offer.
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Sounds about right.
December 15, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Sounds about right.
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Someday he will be gone. But we will never forgive or forget the people who supported him.
December 16, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Someday he will be gone. But we will never forgive or forget the people who supported him.
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That is the problem with many private charities in the USA, isn't it? They're quite often run by religious outfits with ties to conservative, right wing groups that actively create the problems the charities are ostensibly trying to fix in some sort of weird, symbiotic relationship.
December 13, 2025 at 3:32 AM
That is the problem with many private charities in the USA, isn't it? They're quite often run by religious outfits with ties to conservative, right wing groups that actively create the problems the charities are ostensibly trying to fix in some sort of weird, symbiotic relationship.
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This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him.
I don’t know how else to say it…
I don’t know how else to say it…
December 12, 2025 at 4:21 AM
This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him.
I don’t know how else to say it…
I don’t know how else to say it…
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When the House and Senate marked up stablecoin legislation, we raised all of these concerns - their anonymity, their nearly perfect design for money laundering. All the barn doors were left wide open. It’s used for crime because that is its purpose. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/t...
How a Cryptocurrency Helps Criminals Launder Money and Evade Sanctions
www.nytimes.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:03 PM
When the House and Senate marked up stablecoin legislation, we raised all of these concerns - their anonymity, their nearly perfect design for money laundering. All the barn doors were left wide open. It’s used for crime because that is its purpose. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/t...