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Author: The Relevance of Kabir, Truth Like Fire & The Paradox of Self Realization. https://linktr.ee/toddvickers Dancer, Burner, skeptic, philosophical and lil kinky. A free humanity needs free people. The people who love more, should love more people.

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Todd Vickers 🇺🇸💙🇨🇦🇺🇦 @toddvickers.bsky.social · 3h

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Department of Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 3h

Biden administration didn't even revoke 1/6 sympathizer clearances.

Anyway, the Right has moved on, Secretary McDrunk.

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Todd Vickers 🇺🇸💙🇨🇦🇺🇦 @toddvickers.bsky.social · 4h

This video should have millions of views. Professor Elizabeth Minnich discusses her book The Evil of Banality.

The distinction between intensive and extensive evil is something everyone should grasp.

youtu.be/xIiDLeBXdaY?...

Episode Seven w/ Elizabeth Minnich

YouTube video by Carolyn Crane and Whimsy Farm

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Todd Vickers 🇺🇸💙🇨🇦🇺🇦 @toddvickers.bsky.social · 7h

I don't think this is what it was like in the aftermath of Dresden.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Todd Vickers 🇺🇸💙🇨🇦🇺🇦 @toddvickers.bsky.social · 7h

One more proof of the debasement of the pretense of this administration.

If they can't use them, there's no reason for them to exist and certainly no reason to help them. What MAGA Americans don't realize is they will do the same thing with them. Just look at the growing betrayal of Vets.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Todd Vickers 🇺🇸💙🇨🇦🇺🇦 @toddvickers.bsky.social · 7h

"As could be expected, they immediately brought into play against... a whole set of slanders, distortions, abuse, half truths and absolute falsehoods which all represent the dismal range of their capacity."

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~ Václav Černý,
The Power of the Powerless

By Václav Haval ET AL. (and others)

Todd Vickers 🇺🇸💙🇨🇦🇺🇦 @toddvickers.bsky.social · 21h

Just think of the IMPRESSIONABLE MAGA men who see themselves as a little Trump. Why wouldn't the men indulge in all his vices too? After all MAGA women rewarded him with the greatest power and access to wealth!

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 22h

Mike Johnson isn't happy that Bad Bunny is performing at the Super Bowl: It sounds like he's not someone who appeals to a broader audience. There's so many eyes on it. A lot of young, impressionable children. In my view, you would have Lee Greenwood or role models doing that. Not somebody like this.

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Todd Vickers 🇺🇸💙🇨🇦🇺🇦 @toddvickers.bsky.social · 21h

Again: Nothing says your city is war ravaged and burning like a naked bicycle protest!

I ❤️ Portland

www.oregonlive.com/nation/2025/...

Suiting up for Portland's ‘emergency’ Naked Bike Ride? Here’s what to expect

Bring a buddy. Wear sensible shoes. Avoid duct tape.

www.oregonlive.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23h

Update from the war zone in Portland.

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Todd Vickers 🇺🇸💙🇨🇦🇺🇦 @toddvickers.bsky.social · 1d

Excellent point, the situation literally changes the meaning. Have you ever heard the ancient Chinese anecdote of The Old Man and the Horse?

In this link, it was written in a sexual context, to break habitual thinking, but it is worth considering in other areas.

noshameinsex.com/culture-crit...

Our Sexual Value Judgments

In American culture, we typically put down harmless affections and pleasure of great intrinsic value and treat them as superficial

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Todd Vickers 🇺🇸💙🇨🇦🇺🇦 @toddvickers.bsky.social · 1d

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 1d

This is Adelita Grijalva.

She was elected to Congress two weeks ago, officially making her the final vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files.

She has still not been sworn in because Mike Johnson refuses to do so.

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Todd Vickers 🇺🇸💙🇨🇦🇺🇦 @toddvickers.bsky.social · 1d

The Roger Stone Doctrine:

1. Admit nothing

2. Deny everything

3. Make counter accusations

This tactic isn’t new, it’s been used for centuries. Sadly, Americans now confuse the facts themselves, the people who state them, and opinions about those facts. Those are 3 different things.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Just as a reminder, Bondi’s origin story in Trump world is that she said she was going to investigate Trump University, Trump sent her a $25K check and the investigation disappeared. She later became Trump’s personal defense lawyer. So yeah, don’t challenge her integrity.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi to Blumenthal: "You lied. How dare you? I'm a career prosecutor. Don't you ever challenge my integrity. Do not question my ability to be fair and impartial."

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saltylibpdx.bsky.social @saltylibpdx.bsky.social · 1d

This is yesterday! And I haven’t forgotten about the Ardenwald location. I’ll do a video of that soon. Please share this! I have more videos on my page💙💙💙

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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Todd Vickers 🇺🇸💙🇨🇦🇺🇦 @toddvickers.bsky.social · 1d

I see your point, but I think it goes the other way. If people change what they do to trick the computer system, that means the system isn’t really in charge. Behaviorism doesn’t work when people think about what they’re doing and change it on purpose. It proves that "an outside" the system exists

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Todd Vickers 🇺🇸💙🇨🇦🇺🇦 @toddvickers.bsky.social · 1d

He'll pardon her.

Todd Vickers 🇺🇸💙🇨🇦🇺🇦 @toddvickers.bsky.social · 1d

He wasn't bowing to, or creating public opinion. He gave facts for you to make a judgment.

Fact
Occasionally effective protests are like the ticking of a clock, to be filtered out of a billionaire's ear.

It's the general strike and boycot that has power. Why aren't we discussing it more❓️

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

Journalist Edward R. Murrow used his platform on CBS to criticize the witch hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s.

This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.

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Todd Vickers 🇺🇸💙🇨🇦🇺🇦 @toddvickers.bsky.social · 1d

When colon polyp becomes a real boy!

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

282 Ex DOJ officials open letter: “We believe it’s our duty to sound the alarm about this administration’s degradation of DoJ’s vital work, and its assault on the public servants who do it”

www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/e...

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