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Retired air traffic controller, (tower) Grantifa coordinator, pirate, animal lover, master gardener, tinker, tailor, candlestick maker. Love is the answer.
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The big birdbath: A pretty incredible 20 minutes of owl watching in our backyard on a hot morning. About 10 minutes of cell phone footage edited to posting length and MB profile. Beautiful barred owls. Possibly a mated pair.
Button watching the food prep proceedings using her Christmas bear toy as a pillow.
December 25, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Button watching the food prep proceedings using her Christmas bear toy as a pillow.
Who's hot? @wired.com They are killing it with reports that matter & I'm far from a gear head.
Who's not? @theatlantic.com From breathless op-eds of Bari Weiss & other authoritarians (the Canada diss was a bridge too far) along side rational critique is their version of "both-siding". Nope.
Who's not? @theatlantic.com From breathless op-eds of Bari Weiss & other authoritarians (the Canada diss was a bridge too far) along side rational critique is their version of "both-siding". Nope.
The Enshittification of American Power
First Google and Facebook, then the world. Under Trump 2.0, US statecraft is starting to mimic the worst tendencies of Big Tech.
www.wired.com
December 25, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Who's hot? @wired.com They are killing it with reports that matter & I'm far from a gear head.
Who's not? @theatlantic.com From breathless op-eds of Bari Weiss & other authoritarians (the Canada diss was a bridge too far) along side rational critique is their version of "both-siding". Nope.
Who's not? @theatlantic.com From breathless op-eds of Bari Weiss & other authoritarians (the Canada diss was a bridge too far) along side rational critique is their version of "both-siding". Nope.
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If I decided it was too much bother to clean my house so I moved into an igloo in Antarctica for the rest of my life, you'd think I was awful stupid.
Tech bros deciding they'd lose too much profit if they stopped destroying the Earth because they can move to Mars someday is even stupider.
Tech bros deciding they'd lose too much profit if they stopped destroying the Earth because they can move to Mars someday is even stupider.
December 24, 2025 at 5:41 PM
If I decided it was too much bother to clean my house so I moved into an igloo in Antarctica for the rest of my life, you'd think I was awful stupid.
Tech bros deciding they'd lose too much profit if they stopped destroying the Earth because they can move to Mars someday is even stupider.
Tech bros deciding they'd lose too much profit if they stopped destroying the Earth because they can move to Mars someday is even stupider.
This is the best story I've read in a while.
One of the biggest moments of my career:
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
December 16, 2025 at 4:34 PM
This is the best story I've read in a while.
Fact! Come on @cnn.com, @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy @nytimes.com @washingtonpost.com all you supposed titans of news...
And everyone ignoring tRump bc he’s irrelevant. Talk about the deep state running the government bc POTUS has dementia. I demand an investigation!
December 16, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Fact! Come on @cnn.com, @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy @nytimes.com @washingtonpost.com all you supposed titans of news...
It's been a pretty bad weekend. Today I muted 3 supposed allies because they were incredibly rude and dismissive without cause. Hold it together folks. Direct your attacks at proper targets.
December 15, 2025 at 10:20 PM
It's been a pretty bad weekend. Today I muted 3 supposed allies because they were incredibly rude and dismissive without cause. Hold it together folks. Direct your attacks at proper targets.
I really hate waking up to a WTF!?! news morning.
December 15, 2025 at 12:41 PM
I really hate waking up to a WTF!?! news morning.
Button's first snow. Winter wonderland.
December 14, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Button's first snow. Winter wonderland.
My post of the day: Release the full unredacted (except underage victim names) FBI files of the Epstein investigation and release the DOD double strike "drug boat" video.
Let the people decide what they will or won't support being done in our name with our tax dollars.
Let the people decide what they will or won't support being done in our name with our tax dollars.
December 10, 2025 at 2:45 PM
My post of the day: Release the full unredacted (except underage victim names) FBI files of the Epstein investigation and release the DOD double strike "drug boat" video.
Let the people decide what they will or won't support being done in our name with our tax dollars.
Let the people decide what they will or won't support being done in our name with our tax dollars.
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Government actors who refuse to be bound by the rule of law are not morally entitled to its protection.
KARL: Did you know about the judge's order when you issued your order for the planes to continue?
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
December 1, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Government actors who refuse to be bound by the rule of law are not morally entitled to its protection.
Block all suspicious accounts. Do not amplify.
We are the many, and they are the few. Don’t forget that, no matter what the psyops on your screen say.
#50501movement #NoKings #PsyOps
#50501movement #NoKings #PsyOps
November 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Block all suspicious accounts. Do not amplify.
LOL!
November 25, 2025 at 3:02 AM
LOL!
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this is such a vibe
November 25, 2025 at 12:32 AM
this is such a vibe
In the 70s in our little town on the edge of the prairie a local automotive shop owner in his late 30s used high school guys to bring in HS girls for free shop time. He had alcohol, drugs, occasionally money and a space in the adult world to trade for sex. He secretly took photos/film. Very Jeffrey.
"Jeffrey Epstein is not unique": What his case reveals about the realities of child sex trafficking
Child sex trafficking perpetrators are primarily white men, with wealth and power.
www.salon.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:07 PM
In the 70s in our little town on the edge of the prairie a local automotive shop owner in his late 30s used high school guys to bring in HS girls for free shop time. He had alcohol, drugs, occasionally money and a space in the adult world to trade for sex. He secretly took photos/film. Very Jeffrey.
The harm done and being done by people in "media" that want in on the scene, abrogating their duty to report.
well, I read it, and the salient, non-gross part is Lizza alleging, midsentence and without elaboration, that Nuzzi ran numerous “catch-and-kill operations” on RFK’s behalf, which would give her a role in both his appointment and the untold preventable deaths he has abetted in office. Cool.
November 22, 2025 at 7:53 PM
The harm done and being done by people in "media" that want in on the scene, abrogating their duty to report.
Exactly!
November 22, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Exactly!
Hmmm....
Senators Want Extremism Researchers to Surrender Documents Linked to Right-Wing Grudges
The Senate homeland security committee's chair has asked researchers to turn over troves of documents related to the January 6 attack, vaccines, and more, according to a letter reviewed by WIRED.
www.wired.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Hmmm....
1/2 So I've had all night off/on sleep per normal to ponder on the MTG resignation. Something didn't add up until the date stuck out to me as singular. She will be out 5 years to the day of 1/6/21. Lots of crimes including bomb threats and placing a pipe bomb have 5 yr statutes of limitations. Hmm.
November 22, 2025 at 12:39 PM
1/2 So I've had all night off/on sleep per normal to ponder on the MTG resignation. Something didn't add up until the date stuck out to me as singular. She will be out 5 years to the day of 1/6/21. Lots of crimes including bomb threats and placing a pipe bomb have 5 yr statutes of limitations. Hmm.
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also we now have a “whites only” refugee policy. they aren’t trying to hide the white supremacy anymore. it’s overt and mainstream.
Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols.
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM
also we now have a “whites only” refugee policy. they aren’t trying to hide the white supremacy anymore. it’s overt and mainstream.
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If joking about Charlie Kirk is considered “violent rhetoric,” how do we describe open calls to hang members of Congress?
November 20, 2025 at 5:55 PM
If joking about Charlie Kirk is considered “violent rhetoric,” how do we describe open calls to hang members of Congress?
I just sent both of my blue state Senators a letter demanding the resignation of Schumer and the stripping of committee posts and Senate perks from the caving eight. It's the least they can do.
November 11, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I just sent both of my blue state Senators a letter demanding the resignation of Schumer and the stripping of committee posts and Senate perks from the caving eight. It's the least they can do.
On the menu now: Pain for EVERYONE not a high level millionaire or billionaire. This was nothing more than MAGA hostage taking, using federal employees as pawns in order to hurt we the people. The Ds won't get jack shit for caving. No healthcare, no Epstein files, nothing but a stronger MAGA. SMDH.
November 10, 2025 at 12:26 PM
On the menu now: Pain for EVERYONE not a high level millionaire or billionaire. This was nothing more than MAGA hostage taking, using federal employees as pawns in order to hurt we the people. The Ds won't get jack shit for caving. No healthcare, no Epstein files, nothing but a stronger MAGA. SMDH.