Martin
truemartin.bsky.social
Martin
@truemartin.bsky.social
Rockford (west siiiide)... nyc... Chicago... And now, rural nw Ohio... It's been a strange trip.

We succeed through community. Always.
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Amanda Gorman wrote this poem for Renee Good and that’s it for me tonight.
January 9, 2026 at 2:54 AM
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Reformed January 6th participant (who refused a pardon): “You can't gaslight me. I was there. I saw the officers being pepper sprayed. I watched one of them fall down and hit his head and his back. So don't be telling me it wasn't violent.”
January 6, 2026 at 8:11 PM
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Parker's piece nails why this matters. "Tech companies... would rather not answer for their products’ failures. Every headline that says “Grok apologizes” or “Grok admits” or “Grok says” creates a world where the chatbot takes the fall while Musk and his executives face no scrutiny whatsoever."
January 2, 2026 at 7:32 PM
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"we're here to inspect your daycare center"
January 1, 2026 at 3:35 PM
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This is why they want us talking about day care scams.
December 30, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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www.wsj.com/opinion/russ...

Not only is this a lie, but: "Speaking of targeting heads of state, Russia has repeatedly tried to assassinate Mr. Zelensky, including on NATO territory."

Russia's leadership belongs in a mass grave.
Opinion | Did Ukraine Target Putin’s Residence?
Kyiv denies an attack, but Moscow is already using it as an excuse against peace talks.
www.wsj.com
December 30, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Jo Ann Allen Boyce Dies at 84; She was one of the Clinton 12, a group of Black students who faced white mobs when desegregating a Tennessee high school in 1956 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/u...
Jo Ann Allen Boyce Dies at 84; Braved Mobs in Integrating a School
www.nytimes.com
December 26, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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RFK: “Where did all this autism come from? It never existed when I was a kid!”

“A Christmas Story”, a 1983 movie based on a 1971 memoir about a childhood in the 1930s: “This is my brother Ralphie. He has a ton of sensory issues and behaviors we don’t understand. Every family has a child like him.”
December 26, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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I count 10 cities in 2025 that are on track to have the fewest murders since at least 1970. Newark is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1956 (though only have data through Oct this year) and San Francisco is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1942.
December 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Blows my mind it hasn't even been a full year of congestion pricing in NYC yet. Years of cranks whining about it and then you just DO IT and everything is instantly better and everyone gets used to it and moves on. We should do good things more often!

PS - T-minus 12 days to Streets Mayor Mamdani!
I refuse to shut up about this: NYC started charging $9 to bring a car into our most transit-rich zone, the haters & trolls predicted doom, but traffic evaporated instantly and here’s Times Square tonite (even after the holiday tourists have left). For a better future, build transit & price driving!
December 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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The White House has been caught.

The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.

In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
December 20, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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guy on the left can barely stand upright at the start of the clip but is still thinking clearly enough to denounce "fucking holocaust shit"

cc: @democrats.senate.gov
December 19, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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It's ridiculously out of touch to treat "abolish ICE" as untouchable. This stuff is wildly unpopular! People hate them! It's an irredeemably rotten institutional culture of thuggery and criminality. Cutting this malignant tumor out altogether isn't just right on principle, it's a winning message.
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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When will America realize they can never work to end mass shootings until they end their love affair with the lies of republicanism which paralyses the motives of reasonable citizens?
December 14, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Honestly very difficult to figure out who is more corrupt between Trump and FIFA, it’s a real game respect game situation lol
We now learn that Fifa had a very specific "ask" in exchange for its "Peace Award" to Trump, with loads of gold trinkets, and that was dismissal of a criminal corruption case against senior Fifa officials. And Trump granted it. Another corrupt bargain, barely noticed (and ignored by US media).
December 11, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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Ossoff: "She got her new insurance quote & it's $700 more per month than what she's paying now. She's diabetic. She had surgery a few months ago for something else. She told me she cried again bc she realized she's gonna have to cancel her insurance. She believes she might die bc of a policy choice"
December 11, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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It is absolutely wild that the guy who won’t stop yelling about law and order is now personally stepping in to keep January 6 documents hidden from the police officers who were attacked that day. He knows exactly what’s in those files and he is terrified the country will see it.
December 9, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Roofing gear was left behind in Kenner, Louisiana, after an entire crew was abducted by ICE on December 3, 2025.
December 10, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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From The Betrayal of Anne Frank, by Rosemary Sullivan. #booksky
December 5, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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December 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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They want a recount for that Tennessee election. Some ballots mysteriously appeared towards the end of the Election Day. I say recount for sure. How many times did they recount when republicans believed there was fraud in an election? Many! Just do it.
December 5, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Rep. Grijalva says she was pepper-sprayed by ICE
December 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM