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Howdy! I’m a former roughneck, truck driver, English teacher, & political apathist. Now deeply concerned for Ukraine and the global geopolitical nightmare in which we live
I’m a Full Time Dad to 3 great kids a dog and a cat, a husband to an amazing, talented Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon 👩⚕️
I’m a Full Time Dad to 3 great kids a dog and a cat, a husband to an amazing, talented Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon 👩⚕️
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REST C.S.A. FROM EVERY STRIFE
YOUR DEATH IS BETTER THAN YOUR LIFE
AND THIS ONE LINE SHALL GRACE YOUR GRAVE
YOUR DEATH GAVE FREEDOM TO THE SLAVE
YOUR DEATH IS BETTER THAN YOUR LIFE
AND THIS ONE LINE SHALL GRACE YOUR GRAVE
YOUR DEATH GAVE FREEDOM TO THE SLAVE
November 29, 2025 at 6:16 PM
REST C.S.A. FROM EVERY STRIFE
YOUR DEATH IS BETTER THAN YOUR LIFE
AND THIS ONE LINE SHALL GRACE YOUR GRAVE
YOUR DEATH GAVE FREEDOM TO THE SLAVE
YOUR DEATH IS BETTER THAN YOUR LIFE
AND THIS ONE LINE SHALL GRACE YOUR GRAVE
YOUR DEATH GAVE FREEDOM TO THE SLAVE
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Happy World Kindness Day!
Remember to spread a little love today, and every day.
Remember to spread a little love today, and every day.
November 13, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Happy World Kindness Day!
Remember to spread a little love today, and every day.
Remember to spread a little love today, and every day.
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Removing a monument honoring Black US soldiers has nothing to do with DEI. It’s erasure of history and it’s straight-up racism.
November 13, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Removing a monument honoring Black US soldiers has nothing to do with DEI. It’s erasure of history and it’s straight-up racism.
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Macron warns of 'brutalization' of space warfare and unveils France's new strategy
Macron warns of 'brutalization' of space warfare and unveils France's new strategy
At the inauguration of the new French Space Command headquarters in Toulouse, the president announced plans to give the military more aggressive means, notably to protect satellites.
www.lemonde.fr
November 13, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Macron warns of 'brutalization' of space warfare and unveils France's new strategy
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*coffee mug shatters in slo mo*
*violin music intensifies*
*violin music intensifies*
November 13, 2025 at 12:47 AM
*coffee mug shatters in slo mo*
*violin music intensifies*
*violin music intensifies*
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November 7, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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speaks volumes that Trump's response to tonight's resounding defeat is to demand Republicans redouble efforts to rig elections
November 5, 2025 at 4:01 AM
speaks volumes that Trump's response to tonight's resounding defeat is to demand Republicans redouble efforts to rig elections
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Newly released footage captured by the dashcam of a truck driver, showing today’s crash of UPS Flight 2976.
🕯️All 3 crew members and at least 4 people on the ground were ki//ed; 11 others on the ground were injured.
🕯️All 3 crew members and at least 4 people on the ground were ki//ed; 11 others on the ground were injured.
November 5, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Newly released footage captured by the dashcam of a truck driver, showing today’s crash of UPS Flight 2976.
🕯️All 3 crew members and at least 4 people on the ground were ki//ed; 11 others on the ground were injured.
🕯️All 3 crew members and at least 4 people on the ground were ki//ed; 11 others on the ground were injured.
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What if we could work with our public libraries to create + sustain convivial infrastructures for local news, local 🎶, digital equity, and more? I wrote abt lots of communities that are doing this work, bldg networks of solidarity + resistance, modeling alternatives to extractive commercial systems.
I wrote about public libraries as spaces of civic solidarity, common knowledge, and public infrastructure — all endangered by commercial and federal saboteurs
Extralibrary Loan: Making the Civic Infrastructure We Need
Amid a war on public knowledge, libraries are pushing outward, enlarging the commons through new configurations of civic and creative life.
placesjournal.org
November 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
What if we could work with our public libraries to create + sustain convivial infrastructures for local news, local 🎶, digital equity, and more? I wrote abt lots of communities that are doing this work, bldg networks of solidarity + resistance, modeling alternatives to extractive commercial systems.
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The International Space Station marks a quarter-century of continuous occupancy this weekend, boasting a guest list of nearly 300 — mostly professional astronauts but also the occasional space tourist and movie director. https://to.pbs.org/3X43jZT
International Space Station marks 25 years of nonstop human presence in orbit
With only five years left at the complex, NASA is counting on private companies to launch their own orbiting stations with an even bigger and wider clientele.
www.pbs.org
October 31, 2025 at 12:33 AM
The International Space Station marks a quarter-century of continuous occupancy this weekend, boasting a guest list of nearly 300 — mostly professional astronauts but also the occasional space tourist and movie director. https://to.pbs.org/3X43jZT
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More than 20 Epstein survivors are demanding Speaker Mike "Trump's Puppet" Johnson swear-in Rep-Elect Adelita Grijalva immediately
Johnson has been complicit in Trump's Epstein cover-up. He knows once he swears-in Grijalva, Congress will override his roadblocks and vote to release the Epstein files
Johnson has been complicit in Trump's Epstein cover-up. He knows once he swears-in Grijalva, Congress will override his roadblocks and vote to release the Epstein files
October 31, 2025 at 12:34 AM
More than 20 Epstein survivors are demanding Speaker Mike "Trump's Puppet" Johnson swear-in Rep-Elect Adelita Grijalva immediately
Johnson has been complicit in Trump's Epstein cover-up. He knows once he swears-in Grijalva, Congress will override his roadblocks and vote to release the Epstein files
Johnson has been complicit in Trump's Epstein cover-up. He knows once he swears-in Grijalva, Congress will override his roadblocks and vote to release the Epstein files
The snake poem he likes to read really tells us everything we need to know about who he cares for and trusts and it’s disgusting
Trump's administration drastically limits refugee admissions to mostly white South Africans
Trump's administration drastically limits refugee admissions to mostly white South Africans
'This bizarre presidential determination is not only morally indefensible, it is illegal and invalid,' top-ranking Democratic lawmakers said.
www.lemonde.fr
October 31, 2025 at 12:34 AM
The snake poem he likes to read really tells us everything we need to know about who he cares for and trusts and it’s disgusting
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Went to a prayer service tonight at St. Mary of the Lake, where they have cardboard cutouts throughout the church representing parishioners afraid to come to Mass because of ICE.
October 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Went to a prayer service tonight at St. Mary of the Lake, where they have cardboard cutouts throughout the church representing parishioners afraid to come to Mass because of ICE.
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"At this moment in time, of course, the release of the TRUMPSTEIN Files is really the public's main priority."
October 24, 2025 at 6:07 PM
"At this moment in time, of course, the release of the TRUMPSTEIN Files is really the public's main priority."
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The 14th Amendment was adopted after the Civil War to protect the rights of Black Americans. An argument being made at the Supreme Court invites a return to the era when race was a barrier to entry for political representation. bit.ly/4qeZmz4
A Bizarro Take on the 14th Amendment for the Voting Rights Act
The justices consider tossing a decades-old tool to fight racial discrimination when it comes to fair representation.
www.brennancenter.org
October 24, 2025 at 9:36 PM
The 14th Amendment was adopted after the Civil War to protect the rights of Black Americans. An argument being made at the Supreme Court invites a return to the era when race was a barrier to entry for political representation. bit.ly/4qeZmz4
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NO KINGS EXCEPT STEPHEN
Also NO:
CONVICTED FELON
ADJUDICATED RAPIST
CONGENITAL LIAR
CON MAN
PUTIN PUPPET
PEDOPHILE
BEST FRIEND OF EPSTEIN
LIFELONG RACIST
MALIGNANT NARCISSIST
SHORT-FINGERED VULGARIAN
SICK SOCIOPATH
FRAGILE WHINEY MAN-BABY
FAILED BUSINESSMAN
ORANGE ATROCITY
PARDON POWER
A*HOLE
👑 👎 👑
Also NO:
CONVICTED FELON
ADJUDICATED RAPIST
CONGENITAL LIAR
CON MAN
PUTIN PUPPET
PEDOPHILE
BEST FRIEND OF EPSTEIN
LIFELONG RACIST
MALIGNANT NARCISSIST
SHORT-FINGERED VULGARIAN
SICK SOCIOPATH
FRAGILE WHINEY MAN-BABY
FAILED BUSINESSMAN
ORANGE ATROCITY
PARDON POWER
A*HOLE
👑 👎 👑
October 18, 2025 at 9:00 AM
NO KINGS EXCEPT STEPHEN
Also NO:
CONVICTED FELON
ADJUDICATED RAPIST
CONGENITAL LIAR
CON MAN
PUTIN PUPPET
PEDOPHILE
BEST FRIEND OF EPSTEIN
LIFELONG RACIST
MALIGNANT NARCISSIST
SHORT-FINGERED VULGARIAN
SICK SOCIOPATH
FRAGILE WHINEY MAN-BABY
FAILED BUSINESSMAN
ORANGE ATROCITY
PARDON POWER
A*HOLE
👑 👎 👑
Also NO:
CONVICTED FELON
ADJUDICATED RAPIST
CONGENITAL LIAR
CON MAN
PUTIN PUPPET
PEDOPHILE
BEST FRIEND OF EPSTEIN
LIFELONG RACIST
MALIGNANT NARCISSIST
SHORT-FINGERED VULGARIAN
SICK SOCIOPATH
FRAGILE WHINEY MAN-BABY
FAILED BUSINESSMAN
ORANGE ATROCITY
PARDON POWER
A*HOLE
👑 👎 👑
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The Trump admin is laying off nearly 200 CISA employees & forcing dozens more to take new jobs at other agencies (sometimes across the country) or quit.
Morale & productivity are sinking at the already-depleted agency, further jeopardizing US cybersecurity.
My story w/ new details: bit.ly/3KLoptn
Morale & productivity are sinking at the already-depleted agency, further jeopardizing US cybersecurity.
My story w/ new details: bit.ly/3KLoptn
Layoffs, reassignments further deplete CISA
Some CISA staffers have been pushed out, while others are being told to move across the country for jobs outside their skill sets.
www.cybersecuritydive.com
October 14, 2025 at 3:53 PM
The Trump admin is laying off nearly 200 CISA employees & forcing dozens more to take new jobs at other agencies (sometimes across the country) or quit.
Morale & productivity are sinking at the already-depleted agency, further jeopardizing US cybersecurity.
My story w/ new details: bit.ly/3KLoptn
Morale & productivity are sinking at the already-depleted agency, further jeopardizing US cybersecurity.
My story w/ new details: bit.ly/3KLoptn
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The Candidate Caught in a Nazi Porn Scandal Is Today’s GOP Personified
Meet John Reid, the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor in Virginia. There’s a lot to learn.
Meet John Reid, the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor in Virginia. There’s a lot to learn.
The Candidate Caught in a Nazi Porn Scandal Is Today’s GOP Personified
Meet John Reid, the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor in Virginia. There’s a lot to learn.
newrepublic.com
October 10, 2025 at 1:48 PM
The Candidate Caught in a Nazi Porn Scandal Is Today’s GOP Personified
Meet John Reid, the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor in Virginia. There’s a lot to learn.
Meet John Reid, the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor in Virginia. There’s a lot to learn.
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New blockbuster reporting on the secretive map drawing process in Texas. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
New Details Emerge in Federal Court About Texas’ Secretive Redistricting Map
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
October 10, 2025 at 10:41 AM
New blockbuster reporting on the secretive map drawing process in Texas. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Post this everywhere‼️
-and-
RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES
-and-
RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES
October 10, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Post this everywhere‼️
-and-
RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES
-and-
RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES
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"Instead of expecting the apocalypse to come, we need to understand that we are already living in it. The apocalypse has already commenced."
— László Krasznahorkai, Nobel Prize in Literature 2025.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
— László Krasznahorkai, Nobel Prize in Literature 2025.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
October 10, 2025 at 9:26 AM
"Instead of expecting the apocalypse to come, we need to understand that we are already living in it. The apocalypse has already commenced."
— László Krasznahorkai, Nobel Prize in Literature 2025.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
— László Krasznahorkai, Nobel Prize in Literature 2025.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
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Trump ran a great campaign for Machado’s Peace Prize.
October 10, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Trump ran a great campaign for Machado’s Peace Prize.
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I’m sure this is very comforting to American federal workers not getting paid right now.
Secretary Scott Bessent says the U.S. has “directly purchased Argentine pesos,” and the Treasury Department has “finalized a $20 billion currency swap framework with Argentina’s central bank.”
October 9, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I’m sure this is very comforting to American federal workers not getting paid right now.