Doug Reed
@baronvr.bsky.social
Madison, Wisconsin. He/him. Playwright. Actor. Rideshare driver. Beatles obsessive. Atheist. Politically lefty. Writer's block sufferer. Trying to live a low-key life of gratitude and do some good where I'm able.
Recently, a big Formula One fan.
Recently, a big Formula One fan.
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Where do our rights come from? Believe it or not, the United States has been rolling back our rights for 40 years. The biggest expansion of the peoples' rights in American history actually occurred between 1953 and 1969, during the period of American history known as the "Warren Court."
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November 18, 2024 at 7:59 PM
Where do our rights come from? Believe it or not, the United States has been rolling back our rights for 40 years. The biggest expansion of the peoples' rights in American history actually occurred between 1953 and 1969, during the period of American history known as the "Warren Court."
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If we really want to “make America healthy again,” we’d have Medicare for All.
September 4, 2025 at 5:31 PM
If we really want to “make America healthy again,” we’d have Medicare for All.
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Just a random reminder that trickle-down economics was invented by conservatives in the 1980s to justify massive tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations. It’s been nothing short of a disaster.
August 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Just a random reminder that trickle-down economics was invented by conservatives in the 1980s to justify massive tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations. It’s been nothing short of a disaster.
@500songspodcast.bsky.social The unexpected discussion of Frank Sinatra (in the Zeppelin episode, no less!) dearly makes me wish there were an Andrew Hickey/Tyler Mahan Coe-type historian doing a podcast on jazz/pop.
August 28, 2025 at 2:36 PM
@500songspodcast.bsky.social The unexpected discussion of Frank Sinatra (in the Zeppelin episode, no less!) dearly makes me wish there were an Andrew Hickey/Tyler Mahan Coe-type historian doing a podcast on jazz/pop.
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If you'd like to celebrate Julia Child's birthday, 167 episodes of THE FRENCH CHEF (1962-1973) are streaming free on YouTube.
youtube.com/playlist?lis... #BOTD #PBS #JuliaChild #Streaming
youtube.com/playlist?lis... #BOTD #PBS #JuliaChild #Streaming
August 16, 2025 at 3:18 AM
If you'd like to celebrate Julia Child's birthday, 167 episodes of THE FRENCH CHEF (1962-1973) are streaming free on YouTube.
youtube.com/playlist?lis... #BOTD #PBS #JuliaChild #Streaming
youtube.com/playlist?lis... #BOTD #PBS #JuliaChild #Streaming
I didn't think it was possible for KISS to be any more disappointing than they are just by being KISS.
August 13, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I didn't think it was possible for KISS to be any more disappointing than they are just by being KISS.
If you'd asked me in my late teens, "What movies are you most excited about right now?" I'd have rattled off Naked Gun, This Is Spinal Tap, Spaceballs...
If you asked me in my late fifties "What sequels/remakes are you least excited about right now?" - you'd get the exact same list.
If you asked me in my late fifties "What sequels/remakes are you least excited about right now?" - you'd get the exact same list.
August 11, 2025 at 1:11 PM
If you'd asked me in my late teens, "What movies are you most excited about right now?" I'd have rattled off Naked Gun, This Is Spinal Tap, Spaceballs...
If you asked me in my late fifties "What sequels/remakes are you least excited about right now?" - you'd get the exact same list.
If you asked me in my late fifties "What sequels/remakes are you least excited about right now?" - you'd get the exact same list.
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Look you just have to make the cool weird shit that excites you. You must. In this world besieged by bland, scrubbed boring, computer slop, you must. Make the thing you’re embarrassed to make, the thing that feels “too much” because otherwise we get drowned in a sea of cowardly work made by a button
August 6, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Look you just have to make the cool weird shit that excites you. You must. In this world besieged by bland, scrubbed boring, computer slop, you must. Make the thing you’re embarrassed to make, the thing that feels “too much” because otherwise we get drowned in a sea of cowardly work made by a button
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my considered opinion is that the framers would have had most of congress, all of this white house, and most of the supreme court hanged
lots of bad things you can say about the founders but they wrote a constitution that actually handles the trump problem pretty well, but no one is doing anything about it. what good is this document? the supreme court says the only thing it can actually do is make us feel pain.
July 9, 2025 at 9:07 PM
my considered opinion is that the framers would have had most of congress, all of this white house, and most of the supreme court hanged
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This is what the NY Times chose to highlight from the Netanyahu/Trump meeting, compared to Al Jazeera.
You decide which is the important news.
You decide which is the important news.
July 8, 2025 at 5:32 PM
This is what the NY Times chose to highlight from the Netanyahu/Trump meeting, compared to Al Jazeera.
You decide which is the important news.
You decide which is the important news.
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Broom Street Theater's Reconstituting opens on Friday!
July 8, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Broom Street Theater's Reconstituting opens on Friday!
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People living under fascism didn’t survive by giving up joy—they protected it.
They held onto the things fascism tried to erase: art, friendship, jokes, rituals, language, memory.
Not as escapism but as resistance. As proof they were still human.
Joy isn’t frivolous under fascism. It’s strategic.
They held onto the things fascism tried to erase: art, friendship, jokes, rituals, language, memory.
Not as escapism but as resistance. As proof they were still human.
Joy isn’t frivolous under fascism. It’s strategic.
July 4, 2025 at 5:01 AM
People living under fascism didn’t survive by giving up joy—they protected it.
They held onto the things fascism tried to erase: art, friendship, jokes, rituals, language, memory.
Not as escapism but as resistance. As proof they were still human.
Joy isn’t frivolous under fascism. It’s strategic.
They held onto the things fascism tried to erase: art, friendship, jokes, rituals, language, memory.
Not as escapism but as resistance. As proof they were still human.
Joy isn’t frivolous under fascism. It’s strategic.
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Extremely dark that the entire U.S. government is lying down to be steamrolled by something called the Trump agenda for fear of some force called "Donald Trump" while the actual Donald Trump has no idea what's happening
Helluva @notusreports.bsky.social scoop showing that Trump has no idea what's in his budget bill. Seems like something that ought to get a lot more attention.
Also this: a republican house member actually admits that they are attacking medicaid. Yes, they are.
www.notus.org/congress/rec...
Also this: a republican house member actually admits that they are attacking medicaid. Yes, they are.
www.notus.org/congress/rec...
July 2, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Extremely dark that the entire U.S. government is lying down to be steamrolled by something called the Trump agenda for fear of some force called "Donald Trump" while the actual Donald Trump has no idea what's happening
It's not "Alligator Alcatraz".
The residents of Alcatraz all got due process.
It's "Alligator Auschwitz".
The residents of Alcatraz all got due process.
It's "Alligator Auschwitz".
July 2, 2025 at 12:39 PM
It's not "Alligator Alcatraz".
The residents of Alcatraz all got due process.
It's "Alligator Auschwitz".
The residents of Alcatraz all got due process.
It's "Alligator Auschwitz".
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Thinking about the tut-tutting Democratic politicians who spent their two years in power warning that Supreme Court expansion was too radical an idea to even think about taking seriously. You absolute fucking rubes. You gigantic, credulous losers. I hope you are ashamed of yourselves today.
June 27, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Thinking about the tut-tutting Democratic politicians who spent their two years in power warning that Supreme Court expansion was too radical an idea to even think about taking seriously. You absolute fucking rubes. You gigantic, credulous losers. I hope you are ashamed of yourselves today.
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A tourist finds himself locked in a vault with the original copy of the Constitution and James Madison's quill pen. With help from the reanimated corpse of Benjamin Franklin, and a wisecracking chorus, he's got one hour to make all the changes he can before security drags him away.
Opens July 11.
Opens July 11.
June 27, 2025 at 11:34 AM
A tourist finds himself locked in a vault with the original copy of the Constitution and James Madison's quill pen. With help from the reanimated corpse of Benjamin Franklin, and a wisecracking chorus, he's got one hour to make all the changes he can before security drags him away.
Opens July 11.
Opens July 11.
Making Wisconsinites ashamed of our home state since 2010.
Maybe because consultation with Congress is required by law, RoJo?
June 23, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Making Wisconsinites ashamed of our home state since 2010.
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Wild to think that everyone could be free and happy and their true selves and have a basic income and healthcare and have their needs understood and met by society and not be displaced or killed and instead we’re choosing this
June 23, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Wild to think that everyone could be free and happy and their true selves and have a basic income and healthcare and have their needs understood and met by society and not be displaced or killed and instead we’re choosing this
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At least the Gestapo showed their faces. These guys are all cowards.
Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons: "If you look before January 20, and even after January 20, the men & women of ICE did not have to have masks on their face. Me personally, I don't want those officers having to wear masks bc it's hot, it's dangerous. But ICE agents are being doxxed at a horrible rate"
June 23, 2025 at 2:53 PM
At least the Gestapo showed their faces. These guys are all cowards.
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Impeach Trump for illegally bombing Iran
June 22, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Impeach Trump for illegally bombing Iran
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If you think it can’t happen here, remember that it already did. In 1942 soldiers came with rifles to our home and ordered us out. They put us in internment camps. Most of us were citizens.
June 20, 2025 at 8:10 PM
If you think it can’t happen here, remember that it already did. In 1942 soldiers came with rifles to our home and ordered us out. They put us in internment camps. Most of us were citizens.
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ICE looking more and more like the American Gestpo.
June 19, 2025 at 4:22 PM
ICE looking more and more like the American Gestpo.
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A conservative is someone who has Juneteenth off and is really mad about that
June 19, 2025 at 12:20 PM
A conservative is someone who has Juneteenth off and is really mad about that
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Secret police forces typically meet 5 criteria:
targeting political opponents & dissidents
answer directly to dictator
the identity of members / operations are secret
surveillance operations
arbitrary searches, arrests, interrogations, detentions, disappearances & torture.
So yeah: ICE= Gestapo
targeting political opponents & dissidents
answer directly to dictator
the identity of members / operations are secret
surveillance operations
arbitrary searches, arrests, interrogations, detentions, disappearances & torture.
So yeah: ICE= Gestapo
June 17, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Secret police forces typically meet 5 criteria:
targeting political opponents & dissidents
answer directly to dictator
the identity of members / operations are secret
surveillance operations
arbitrary searches, arrests, interrogations, detentions, disappearances & torture.
So yeah: ICE= Gestapo
targeting political opponents & dissidents
answer directly to dictator
the identity of members / operations are secret
surveillance operations
arbitrary searches, arrests, interrogations, detentions, disappearances & torture.
So yeah: ICE= Gestapo
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I think it would be good to get some women in charge of the countries that have nuclear weapons. Women talk to each other. Women can be reasonable. Enough with the macho men and swinging dicks.
June 14, 2025 at 11:15 AM
I think it would be good to get some women in charge of the countries that have nuclear weapons. Women talk to each other. Women can be reasonable. Enough with the macho men and swinging dicks.