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Chris Basil
@cbasil.bsky.social
Old lefty, reader, meditator, nature lover, low tolerance for BS
August 13, 2025 at 2:05 AM
June 2, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Trump posted this, he has no shame
May 3, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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We live on a breathtaking planet.

Happy Earth Day.

Source: www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/fulldis...
April 22, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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If our current dystopian situation were an HBO series!

H/T @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social
April 22, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Happy Earth Day! Let's make every day Earth Day!
April 22, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.
April 15, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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AOC: I saw on Fox, Jeanine Pirro says that they found so many babies and two year olds and four year olds receiving social security. I got a notice for you Jeanine Pirro: those babies receive social security because their parents died. That’s not a waste. That’s humanity. That’s America.
April 16, 2025 at 2:20 AM
April 16, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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Social Security offices closing down, economy in a tailspin, and your 401k is up in smoke. They know you counted on these things but they just don't care. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Va2T...
Their Game, Your Life
YouTube video by The Lincoln Project
www.youtube.com
April 15, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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“If you are neutral in a situation of injustice, you have chosen the side of oppressor.”

- Martin Luther King Jr
April 13, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Imagine you were dealing with a person who would report that there was two and there was also this other two but didn't want to add them up to get to four, because getting all the way to four felt like making a statement and they didn't want to alarm anybody or be accused of making an accusation.
Stupid Coup Month Three: Two Plus Two Is Still Four
Imagine you were on a ship, and reports kept coming to you that the new captain and his crew had done a series of strange things--jettisoned the anchor, blew some holes in the hull, shredded the sails...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
April 13, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Happy St Patrick's Day!
March 17, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Seen outside a restaurant in Canada
March 8, 2025 at 10:48 PM
March 6, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Is performative cruelty, still just cruelty? Or is it somehow a lesser form of cruelty?
March 5, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Long, but worth watching, it gives me hope
youtu.be/QSa52TR9tCA?...
How the Elite rigged Society (and why it’s falling apart) | David Brooks
YouTube video by Alliance for Responsible Citizenship
youtu.be
March 2, 2025 at 6:43 PM
March 2, 2025 at 5:12 AM
This article in the New York Times suggests a way forward for Democrats with regard to immigration
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/m...
How Denmark’s Social Democrats Are Succeeding With Stricter Immigration Policies
Around the world, progressive parties have come to see tight immigration restrictions as unnecessary, even cruel. What if they’re actually the only way for progressivism to flourish?
www.nytimes.com
February 24, 2025 at 11:17 PM
This was at CPAC in case there was any doubt that Trump wants to be president for life
February 23, 2025 at 6:37 PM
An escalation of violence against anyone who opposes the current administration cannot be far off
February 16, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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February 14, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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February 1, 2025 at 10:49 PM