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Retired space architect, technologist, celestial mechanic, inventor, and entrepreneur. Live in truth. Defeat autocrats, external or domestic.

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knock knock @upwardfalling13.bsky.social · Jul 16

I am a retired rocket scientist frustrated with the state of our democracy.

My frustration led me to develop an idea for an opposition organization based on @timothysnyder.bsky.social idea for a “shadow cabinet”.

This thread describes a well-funded war room on steroids.
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knock knock @upwardfalling13.bsky.social · 12h

Hey @governor.ca.gov @gavinnewsom.bsky.social when are you going to take more aggressive action on out of control ICE agents stopping them from indiscriminate arrests?

Take a page from Trump’s playbook and order state police to protect CA residents from their unlawful acts. Let Trump fucking sue.

knock knock @upwardfalling13.bsky.social · 12h

How many were pardoned J6 rioters?

knock knock @upwardfalling13.bsky.social · 12h

You listening MAGAs?

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 13h

Pope Leo in new letter to Catholic Charities USA: Migrants are "living witnesses of hope" with an "intrinsic human dignity" who should be "invited to participate fully in community life."

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 12h

Reup: After deportation "Where's Waldo" figurehead Greg Bovino promised a "Shitshow" on September 27, DHS claimed 11 people were arrested.

Almost two weeks later, only two charges survive, an 18% success rate.

www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/08/g...

Greg Bovino's September 27 "Shitshow:" Batting 18% - emptywheel

Of the eleven people the government charged in conjunction with a "shitshow" Chief Custom and Border Patrol Greg Bovino staged at Chicago's ICE facility on September 27, the publicly filed charges aga...

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knock knock @upwardfalling13.bsky.social · 12h

I see future lying and obstruction to Congress charges here. Comey be damned.

knock knock @upwardfalling13.bsky.social · 13h

Good question regarding state police arresting federal officials. I didn’t like JB’s answer.

I think he also needs to take a page from Trump’s playbook and stop ICE from illegal activities and then let the courts rule on who’s acting illegally. Remember TACO!

Same question for Portland Mayor.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Only a strong and powerful leader like Trump can bring this war ravaged city back from the brink of destruction and anarchy.

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knock knock @upwardfalling13.bsky.social · 13h

Next it will be little green men.

knock knock @upwardfalling13.bsky.social · 13h

Also Oregon State Police & Portland Police need to be ordered by the Gov and Mayor to protect people from injury.

Sure, there is a conflict of rights, but residents of a sovereign state need to be protected from out of control federal agents.

Let a court decide who is on the right side of the law.

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suzette sommer @suzette.bsky.social · 14h

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Really American (@reallyamerican)

BREAKING: In a stunning moment, Rep. Ted Lieu blasts Republicans, saying it's "insane not to pay our troops. House Democrats are here. Republicans are on vacation." It's why people say #TrumpShutUSDow...

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knock knock @upwardfalling13.bsky.social · 14h

Unhinged.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

knock knock @upwardfalling13.bsky.social · 14h

Where is #SCOTUS when you need it?

Michael Steele @michaelsteele.bsky.social · 14h

This has always been the end game. It's how Trump gets to Marshall Law and ultimately suspending the '26 Elections. The fact they are "debating" it should have alarms sounding off. It won't help to wake up to this fact after he does it.
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Trump administration officials seriously discussing invoking Insurrection Act, sources say

A decision is not expected to be imminent, one source said, but debate within the administration has shifted recently to more deeply exploring how and when the act might be invoked.

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knock knock @upwardfalling13.bsky.social · 14h

I agree, not great. I’d like to hear more from the legal eagles.

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Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 15h

"The irony was not lost on the faculty: The university was censoring its own conference about censorship." Amazing stuff!

Thomas M. Keck @tmksyracuse.bsky.social · 18h

Weber State administrators told student they couldn't present their research on the state's anti-DEI law at an on-campus conference on censorship(!) unless they removed all mentions of DEI from their slides

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Weber State Censors, Then Cancels, Censorship Conference

University officials said that several planned presentations violated a Utah state law banning diversity, equity and inclusion at public universities.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 15h

NEW: The 9th Circuit has lifted Judge Immergut’s FIRST restraining order, but NOT her second one. So the national Guard still can’t be deployed to Portland despite this 9th circuit administrative stay because the SECOND TRO is still in place.

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Alicia @alicialou.bsky.social · 15h

Portland is being overrun with vermin!

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knock knock @upwardfalling13.bsky.social · 16h

Isn’t Illinois a sovereign state?

Can’t they deploy their State Police to deflect the TX National Guard?

knock knock @upwardfalling13.bsky.social · 16h

Putin is a war criminal and a terrorist.

The US should give Ukraine what it needs to bring Russia to the negotiating table.

This includes long range weapons.

24Hours Ukraine @24hoursukraine.bsky.social · 1d

😡A Russian drone hit a house in Krasnopillya, Sumy region. A 4-year-old girl, her mother, and grandmother were injured. The child suffered severe burns — doctors are fighting for her life and may transfer her to Kyiv.

knock knock @upwardfalling13.bsky.social · 18h

Hey @govpritzker.illinois.gov today Trump posted that you should protect ICE agents in Chicago.

I suggest you deploy the State Police to place ICE officers under protective custody so they will be safe.

And everybody else in Chicago will be safe from Trump’s #ICEstapo.

Try it!

knock knock @upwardfalling13.bsky.social · 19h

According to the shop owner, both men that were detained are working guys and neither are criminals. One guy just got out of the hospital and will need meds.

@govpritzker.illinois.gov needs to deploy State Police to stop this illegal activity. Let Trump complain and file a lawsuit.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19h

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19h

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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Matthew Budman, book guy @matthewbudman.bsky.social · 22h

“Millions of dead children” will be in the first line of Marco Rubio's obituary.

Nice that the only State Department comment here is that “the U.S. 'continues to stand with the people of Burma.'” Myanmar hasn't been called Burma since 1989, but since Trump is forever stuck in 1983, that checks.

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 1d

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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knock knock @upwardfalling13.bsky.social · 20h

These #ICEstapo goons are shooting peaceful protestors, which is illegal.

@govpritzker.illinois.gov should take a page from Trump and deploy State Police to stop or moderate such actions. Miller will scream that it’s illegal, but let Americans press the boundaries for a change!

knock knock @upwardfalling13.bsky.social · 20h

Western troops should deploy to Ukraine, now. There will be no better time to end Putin’s war & threat to Europe. These soldiers could all be volunteers in the same model as the Flying Tigers prior to the US entry into WWII. They could form an Ukrainian Corps & initially replace defensive UAFs.

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knock knock @upwardfalling13.bsky.social · 20h

Hey Gov, why not take a page from Trump’s playbook and order Illinois State Police to moderate #ICEstapo actions B4 raids requiring: 1) signed warrants, 2) visible IDs w/no masks, 3) planned raid locations, 4) limited weapons use, and 5) after raids, names of detainees.

Let Trump try to sue you!