@wombat-12.bsky.social
USAF Veteran, retired A&P mechanic/toolmaker. Explorer, mountain biker, hiker, cat wrangler.
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One of the lessons I discuss in "On Tyranny":
Listen for dangerous words.
Listen for dangerous words.
October 5, 2025 at 2:48 PM
One of the lessons I discuss in "On Tyranny":
Listen for dangerous words.
Listen for dangerous words.
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🚨RED ALERT: Donald Trump’s Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says that the bill Trump recently signed into law contains a "backdoor to privatizing Social Security."
July 30, 2025 at 8:37 PM
🚨RED ALERT: Donald Trump’s Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says that the bill Trump recently signed into law contains a "backdoor to privatizing Social Security."
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"I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
May 4, 2025 at 2:22 PM
"I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
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I got animated. (For a reason.)
April 24, 2025 at 11:55 PM
I got animated. (For a reason.)
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On this day, April 14, 2025, the President of the United States openly defied the Supreme Court’s unanimous opinion of April 10, 2025, ordering him to “facilitate Abrego Garcia’s release from custody in El Salvador
April 15, 2025 at 1:49 AM
On this day, April 14, 2025, the President of the United States openly defied the Supreme Court’s unanimous opinion of April 10, 2025, ordering him to “facilitate Abrego Garcia’s release from custody in El Salvador
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Keep talking about the Signal security lapse at the Pentagon. The media may have forgotten about it, but the voters have not.
April 12, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Keep talking about the Signal security lapse at the Pentagon. The media may have forgotten about it, but the voters have not.
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Republicans in the House just passed the SAVE Act.
It tells Troops overseas, disabled Veterans, and Military Families: We don’t want you to vote.
That’s not “election security.”
That’s voter suppression.
It tells Troops overseas, disabled Veterans, and Military Families: We don’t want you to vote.
That’s not “election security.”
That’s voter suppression.
April 10, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Republicans in the House just passed the SAVE Act.
It tells Troops overseas, disabled Veterans, and Military Families: We don’t want you to vote.
That’s not “election security.”
That’s voter suppression.
It tells Troops overseas, disabled Veterans, and Military Families: We don’t want you to vote.
That’s not “election security.”
That’s voter suppression.
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Your voices were heard! Most SSA services will continue to be available over the phone.
But we MUST keep fighting to ensure that SSA is fully staffed and that local field offices remain open and accessible to the public.
Read our statement: tinyurl.com/SSAPhoneServ...
But we MUST keep fighting to ensure that SSA is fully staffed and that local field offices remain open and accessible to the public.
Read our statement: tinyurl.com/SSAPhoneServ...
April 9, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Your voices were heard! Most SSA services will continue to be available over the phone.
But we MUST keep fighting to ensure that SSA is fully staffed and that local field offices remain open and accessible to the public.
Read our statement: tinyurl.com/SSAPhoneServ...
But we MUST keep fighting to ensure that SSA is fully staffed and that local field offices remain open and accessible to the public.
Read our statement: tinyurl.com/SSAPhoneServ...
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SpaceX just landed a $5.92B contract with the Pentagon for Space Force rocket launches — the largest contract among the three firms who secured deals to send satellites into orbit.
While DOGE cuts essential services for you, Musk is getting a taxpayer-funded windfall.
Hello?
While DOGE cuts essential services for you, Musk is getting a taxpayer-funded windfall.
Hello?
April 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
SpaceX just landed a $5.92B contract with the Pentagon for Space Force rocket launches — the largest contract among the three firms who secured deals to send satellites into orbit.
While DOGE cuts essential services for you, Musk is getting a taxpayer-funded windfall.
Hello?
While DOGE cuts essential services for you, Musk is getting a taxpayer-funded windfall.
Hello?
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Trump’s VA is killing a program that’s helped 17,000 Veterans keep their homes.
You read that right: Republicans are shutting down a rescue plan that’s literally kept Veterans from losing everything.
Cruel doesn’t begin to cover it. This is deliberate.
MORE: www.npr.org/2025/04/03/n...
You read that right: Republicans are shutting down a rescue plan that’s literally kept Veterans from losing everything.
Cruel doesn’t begin to cover it. This is deliberate.
MORE: www.npr.org/2025/04/03/n...
April 4, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Trump’s VA is killing a program that’s helped 17,000 Veterans keep their homes.
You read that right: Republicans are shutting down a rescue plan that’s literally kept Veterans from losing everything.
Cruel doesn’t begin to cover it. This is deliberate.
MORE: www.npr.org/2025/04/03/n...
You read that right: Republicans are shutting down a rescue plan that’s literally kept Veterans from losing everything.
Cruel doesn’t begin to cover it. This is deliberate.
MORE: www.npr.org/2025/04/03/n...
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Musk's DOGE lapdogs are threatening the foundations of Social Security.
A system that generations of Americans have built to preserve our ability to retire with dignity– all to give billionaires a bigger tax cut.
CONGRESS MUST ACT!
A system that generations of Americans have built to preserve our ability to retire with dignity– all to give billionaires a bigger tax cut.
CONGRESS MUST ACT!
April 4, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Musk's DOGE lapdogs are threatening the foundations of Social Security.
A system that generations of Americans have built to preserve our ability to retire with dignity– all to give billionaires a bigger tax cut.
CONGRESS MUST ACT!
A system that generations of Americans have built to preserve our ability to retire with dignity– all to give billionaires a bigger tax cut.
CONGRESS MUST ACT!
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Elon Musk is trying to buy our elections.
Every American should be outraged.
I’ve introduced the End Dark Money Act to root out corruption & close loopholes allowing billionaires to hide their political contributions.
Every American should be outraged.
I’ve introduced the End Dark Money Act to root out corruption & close loopholes allowing billionaires to hide their political contributions.
April 1, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Elon Musk is trying to buy our elections.
Every American should be outraged.
I’ve introduced the End Dark Money Act to root out corruption & close loopholes allowing billionaires to hide their political contributions.
Every American should be outraged.
I’ve introduced the End Dark Money Act to root out corruption & close loopholes allowing billionaires to hide their political contributions.
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Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
snyder.substack.com
March 30, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
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Millions of you, around the world, have put the lessons I wrote in #OnTyranny in late 2016 to good use. It has been humbling to learn how from courageous and creative dissenters, protestors, and oppositionists. I was honored when John Lithgow volunteered to read them aloud.
Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
snyder.substack.com
March 30, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Millions of you, around the world, have put the lessons I wrote in #OnTyranny in late 2016 to good use. It has been humbling to learn how from courageous and creative dissenters, protestors, and oppositionists. I was honored when John Lithgow volunteered to read them aloud.
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Secretary Hegseth must resign. He lied.
Now, we have new reporting about Hegseth’s wife. If the White House doesn't provide more facts, then this raises all sorts of red flags.
Now, we have new reporting about Hegseth’s wife. If the White House doesn't provide more facts, then this raises all sorts of red flags.
March 29, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Secretary Hegseth must resign. He lied.
Now, we have new reporting about Hegseth’s wife. If the White House doesn't provide more facts, then this raises all sorts of red flags.
Now, we have new reporting about Hegseth’s wife. If the White House doesn't provide more facts, then this raises all sorts of red flags.
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Bless you, Greenland! 🇬🇱
Greenland Trip Cancelled After Locals Refuse to Meet Usha Vance
Revenge is a dish best served cold.
www.thegodpodcast.com
March 27, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Bless you, Greenland! 🇬🇱
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Wow. Not a good look to say you "love" the SSA field office closures, staff reductions, and general chaos caused by DOGE.
What does Joni Ernst think about DOGE's attacks on the Social Security Administration which has left Americans with long waits, web crashes, and general chaos? #IASen
"I'm loving what they are doing..."
"I'm loving what they are doing..."
March 25, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Wow. Not a good look to say you "love" the SSA field office closures, staff reductions, and general chaos caused by DOGE.
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Trump's Social Security nominee just lied to the Finance Committee, claiming he hasn't been involved in any DOGE plans to gut Social Security. My office has a whistleblower that says otherwise. We brought the receipts.
BREAKING: BISIGNANO LIES UNDER OATH
@wyden.senate.gov: Were you involved in discussions about DOGE or any of the operations, personnel or management decisions with those working at Social Security?
Bisignano: No, sir.
Wyden: That sounds like a reassuring response. Unfortunately, it's not true.
@wyden.senate.gov: Were you involved in discussions about DOGE or any of the operations, personnel or management decisions with those working at Social Security?
Bisignano: No, sir.
Wyden: That sounds like a reassuring response. Unfortunately, it's not true.
March 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Trump's Social Security nominee just lied to the Finance Committee, claiming he hasn't been involved in any DOGE plans to gut Social Security. My office has a whistleblower that says otherwise. We brought the receipts.
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NONE of this is normal
March 22, 2025 at 3:28 PM
NONE of this is normal
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If Republicans want a partisan power grab for Donald Trump and Elon Musk, they won’t be getting any help from me.
March 14, 2025 at 2:29 AM
If Republicans want a partisan power grab for Donald Trump and Elon Musk, they won’t be getting any help from me.
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Trump: DOGE, which is headed by Elon Musk...
DOJ lawyers, who've said that's not the case in court, 🤯
DOJ lawyers, who've said that's not the case in court, 🤯
March 5, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Trump: DOGE, which is headed by Elon Musk...
DOJ lawyers, who've said that's not the case in court, 🤯
DOJ lawyers, who've said that's not the case in court, 🤯
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No, Trump has destroyed America in the eyes of the world.
February 28, 2025 at 7:18 PM
No, Trump has destroyed America in the eyes of the world.
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DOGE uses the word "fraud" to destroy in at least 6 ways:
1) The bait and switch. When Musk says "fraud," people who benefit from government programs are supposed to think "that applies to others, but not to me." The idea of "fraud" creates a sense of us-and-them.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-fraud-...
1) The bait and switch. When Musk says "fraud," people who benefit from government programs are supposed to think "that applies to others, but not to me." The idea of "fraud" creates a sense of us-and-them.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-fraud-...
The "Fraud" Fraud
How DOGE destroys
snyder.substack.com
February 26, 2025 at 4:09 PM
DOGE uses the word "fraud" to destroy in at least 6 ways:
1) The bait and switch. When Musk says "fraud," people who benefit from government programs are supposed to think "that applies to others, but not to me." The idea of "fraud" creates a sense of us-and-them.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-fraud-...
1) The bait and switch. When Musk says "fraud," people who benefit from government programs are supposed to think "that applies to others, but not to me." The idea of "fraud" creates a sense of us-and-them.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-fraud-...
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Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)
February 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)