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Thomas Adderbrook

@denealus.bsky.social

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Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. Calmer. Motivator. Proud server of the Veteran and local community.

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Thomas Adderbrook @denealus.bsky.social · Feb 10

Just so we're perfectly clear:
I'm not going to be lock step with you. I am going to challenge your beliefs if I disagree with it. But if you fail to address my arguments or present anything other than hyperbole or examples, I'm going to move on real quick.

"Be challenging. Don't be an asshole."

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Jon Cooper

@joncooper-us.bsky.social

👇👇👇👇

December 12, 2025 at 3:53 PM

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Democracy Docket

@democracydocket.com

BREAKING: With a contempt inquiry looming, DOJ has now named DHS Secretary Kristi Noem as the Trump official who approved transferring hundreds of people to a notorious Salvadoran megaprison, despite a federal judge’s order forbidding the removals.

DOJ Says Noem Made Final Decision on El Salvador Removals in Breach of Court Order

Read more here.

bit.ly

November 26, 2025 at 7:04 PM

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Jarsai Var

@jarsaivar.bsky.social

If you are willing to be educated out of your emotional attachment to racism welcome.

If not, we are going to shove you back under the rock you were living in before 2015.

Racism is taught. You can re teach egalitarianism.

November 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM

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Bob Geiger

@bobgeiger.bsky.social

Kimmel after Trump again demanded his firing:

“If you’re watching tonight, which I presume you are, how about this: I’ll go when you go. OK? It’ll be a team. Let’s ride off into the sunset together, like Butch Cassidy and the Suntan Kid.

"Until then, if I may borrow your phrase: Quiet, piggy.”

November 21, 2025 at 6:34 PM

Thomas Adderbrook

@denealus.bsky.social

I've just hard a disappointing revelation:

LLM AI doesn't research or deep dive, because it can't understand the complexity and nuances of deeper scientific or journalistic rigor. It just skims the surface level of things and acts like an expert in so many tools its under qualified to perform. 1/2

November 16, 2025 at 4:08 PM

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Ryan L

@pnwry.bsky.social

If you have to explain the clever nickname, maybe it’s a sign it’s not all that clever.

November 15, 2025 at 2:45 PM

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Bud

@budthebirdman.bsky.social

Impeach Speaker Johnson for denying Arizona representation,
to protect President Trump from the public release of The Epstein files.
To obstruct justice & witness tamper by quid pro quo. To engineer a pardon for, coconspirator & convicted sex offender Ghislane Maxwell.

File Articles of Impeachment

November 14, 2025 at 11:26 AM

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Jon Cooper

@joncooper-us.bsky.social

🤬🤬

November 14, 2025 at 4:13 PM

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Kyle Griffin

@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

Jeffrey Epstein in 2018: "i know how dirty donald is."

November 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM

Thomas Adderbrook

@denealus.bsky.social

"We can't afford this..."

A tagline whenever people talk about the budget...

They dont realize what theyre really saying is "we dont have the money to save your life."

And when billionaires have access while others are condemned to death, well...

That's the story of soooo many mutinies...

November 4, 2025 at 7:05 PM

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Rhuta Bhayga

@rhutabhayga.bsky.social

I don't know if this is a real story, but it is real.

We are going through scary times; scary because a lot of that fear is borne from ignorance. But knowledge has nothing to hide.

It's the same with bullies. They cannot terrorize those who embraces joy. Those who laugh rather than shout back.

At 3:17 PM, a Facebook post from a local parents' group called me a poisoner of children.
By 5:00 PM, they were threatening to call the school board and the local news. My crime? I'm Margaret Miller, but the kids just call me Ms. Peggy. I’m the high school librarian at Jefferson High.
Most days, my job is whispering. I help freshmen understand what a "primary source" is. I find quiet kids a fantasy series to escape into. I teach seniors how to spot fake news on their feeds.
Yesterday, my job required a microphone.
The post that went viral in our small Ohio town was from a parent leader, Karen Fields. She wrote that our library shelves were hiding “graphic filth” and “anti-American propaganda.” The screenshots she shared were torn from context, just like they always are. A single paragraph from a novel about slavery. One illustrated panel of two boys holding hands.
Screenshots move faster than context. By 4:00 PM, my inbox was full of rage.
I could have locked the doors. I could have written a defense. Instead, I brewed a large pot of coffee, straightened my cardigan, and taped a handwritten sign to the glass doors:
OPEN SHELF NIGHT. 8 PM. ASK ME ANYTHING. ALL BOOKS ON TRIAL.

The first to arrive were the quiet ones. A few teachers, exhausted after grading. Our local pastor. A grandparent who’d donated the beautiful quilt that hangs above our reading nook.
Then came the heat.
A man filming with his phone on a selfie stick. Four parents wearing matching "Parents for Principles" t-shirts. A handful of others clutching those printed-out screenshots like they were arrest warrants. And finally, Karen Fields herself.
Beside her, silent and drowning in his hoodie, was her son, Tyler. He clutched a sketchbook to his chest.
I stood by the circulation desk. The room was tense.
"Thank you all for coming," I said, my voice steadier than I felt. "There are no secrets here. Here's the plan. First, I'll explain how we choose our books. Second, we will look at any book, any page, you want to see. I will answer every question. If I don't know the answer, I'll say so."
"Do you have a parental control option?" a man in the back called out.
"We do," I said, nodding. "It's an opt-out form. You can list specific titles, authors, or entire genres you don't want your child to check out. We keep it on file, and we honor it. Period. Your rights as a parent always come first in this library."
I saw a few people blink. They hadn't expected that. The man with the camera looked disappointed.

I clicked to a slide. Our policy. The review journals we use (from School Library Journal to Kirkus). The committee that approves new books: two teachers, a counselor, two parents, a student, and me. No secret society, just long meetings and spreadsheets.
"Let's see the filth," Karen said, holding up her phone. "Page 90."
"Great choice," I said. I retrieved five copies of the novel. "Page 90 is a scene where the main character, a teenage boy, is describing his depression. It's raw, and it's hard to read."
I waited as they read it.
"Now," I said gently, "please read page 92."
A man scoffed. "What's on page 92?"
"That's where he calls a suicide hotline," I said. "And page 93 is where he tells his mom. We don't stock this book to show kids the poison. We stock it to show them the antidote."
The room was quiet.
We kept going. The graphic novel with the same-sex crush. "It's two panels," I explained. "No 'smut.' Just two awkward kids figuring out who they are. It's sweet."
A history book was labeled "anti-American" for a chapter on the Japanese-American internment camps during World War II.

"It is American history," I said. "It's a hard part of our history, but it's ours. We can't be proud of our triumphs if we choose to be ignorant of our failures. Our job isn't to make kids comfortable. It's to make them think."
I explained that we shelve novels about the Vietnam War that show both heroism and horror, because truth is rarely just one thing.
We were an hour in when a small voice came from the back.
"Do you have... do you have anything about feeling... stuck?"
It was Tyler. His hoodie was down now, his face pale. He was looking at his shoes. "Like, you draw," he mumbled, holding up his sketchbook. "But it feels like your head is just... full of static. And you can't... you know."
Karen grabbed his arm. "Tyler, not now."
"Stuck," I repeated, walking toward him. "I know that feeling."
I went to the YA graphic novel section and pulled a book. Not a "problem" book, just a story about a teen who uses his art to climb out of a dark place after his parents' divorce.
"This one's helped a few of our art kids," I said softly, handing it to him. "You can read the first few chapters right here. Your mom can sit with you. If she hates a page, you can skip it."
Karen Fields stared at the book in her son's hands. The anger on her face, so certain and hot, finally cracked. It collapsed into a mother's worry, which looks a lot like fear.
"I'm just trying to protect him," she whispered.

November 1, 2025 at 11:54 PM

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Bradley P. Moss

@bradmossesq.bsky.social

This is the motion that should kill that whole case. Doesn’t matter if someone else steps in to bring the case in place of Halligan.

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · Oct 30

NEW: James Comey asks the court to dismiss the indictment against him because he responded to Ted Cruz’s "fundamentally ambiguous questions with literally true answers." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

INTRODUCTION
Count One of the indictment seeks to punish Mr. Comey for seconds of testimony he
gave in response to compound and ambiguous questioning. But longstanding principles of
criminal law make clear that the government cannot prove a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1001(a)(2)
unless it establishes that the defendant gave false answers to precise questions. Here, the indictment conspicuously omits the lengthy, confusing questions that prompted Mr. Comey's testimony. Specifically, after speaking for more than a minute, Senator Ted Cruz asked Mr.
Comey to recall statements he had made three years earlier and to simultaneously address
statements that Senator Cruz incorrectly claimed were made by Andrew McCabe, the former Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI. In doing so, Senator Cruz never indicated that he wanted Mr. Comey to address the statements or activities of any person except for Mr. McCabe. Viewed in context, Senator Cruz's questions cannot form the basis for a violation of Section 1001(a)(2) because they were fundamentally ambiguous. And, regardless, Mr. Comey's answers to them were literally true.
Count One thus must be dismissed under
Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 12(b)(3)(A). Count Two should be dismissed for the same
reason to the extent it rests on those same alleged false statements, and for the independent
reason that it deprives Mr. Comey of his right to notice of the charge against him.

October 30, 2025 at 9:59 PM

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Noah Dahl

@noahdahl.bsky.social

Yes - and that is in part an effect of the Dem gerontocracy we're living under.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · Oct 28

One compelling conclusion in the report: Biden admin was reluctant to pick “fights worth having” and settled for incremental gains out of “risk aversion.”

Former Labor Sec Julie Su is candid to me about failure to do more to reverse 50 years of worker backsliding:

newrepublic.com/article/2023...

October 28, 2025 at 12:41 PM

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Elizabeth Pearce

@elizabethpearce.bsky.social

This is what I said. No one is following any rules. Get another ranking House member to swear her in and move on. Dare Johnson to do something about it because then he’d have to explain why he hasn’t sworn her in

October 21, 2025 at 6:39 PM

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gracierudylou.bsky.social

@gracierudylou.bsky.social

Like this idiot Mike Lee? Yeah this guys can really- what is that?

a man in a suit and tie is dancing in front of a crowd

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is dancing in front of a crowd

media.tenor.com

October 19, 2025 at 7:12 PM

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸

@gtconway.bsky.social

October 19, 2025 at 7:05 PM

Thomas Adderbrook

@denealus.bsky.social

Gross.

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · Oct 19

Here is a map showing the exact spot a CHP vehicle was struck by shrapnel after a shell detonated over I-5 during the Trump-Vance missile firings at Camp Pendleton:

October 19, 2025 at 10:40 PM

Thomas Adderbrook

@denealus.bsky.social

October 19, 2025 at 4:15 PM

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Winnowing

@morganafare.bsky.social

October 18, 2025 at 2:49 AM

Thomas Adderbrook

@denealus.bsky.social

"So the No Kings rallies were smaller than intended..."

"Oh, so youre saying there's not a lot of pro-Hamas, Marxist who hate America around...?

"Well I..."

Hoping for this exchange ... more pretzel twisting please...

October 19, 2025 at 2:40 PM

Thomas Adderbrook

@denealus.bsky.social

It's a beautiful day outside....

Birds are singing....

Flowers are Blooming...

And Dictators everywhere....?

Are going to learn why we hold these truths to be self evident.

a purple background with an american flag and the words flag day is also no kings day

ALT: a purple background with an american flag and the words flag day is also no kings day

media.tenor.com

October 18, 2025 at 6:25 PM

Thomas Adderbrook

@denealus.bsky.social

It's funny that the side getting on others for (the perception of) not being able to define a woman can't define what a Marxist is.

October 18, 2025 at 5:02 PM

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Jane Voter

@janevoter2018.bsky.social

So many on the right don’t understand why this protest is called “No Kings”. The list of grievances from the Declaration of Independence is in one column, followed by a partial list of ways Trump is similar. If you have better examples than ones listed here, you can include them in replies.