John Metcalf ⚛️
@jymetcalf.bsky.social
Mid-Michigan progressive 💙, secularist ⚛️, exhibit designer👨💻, ally 🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸, good without gods—ask me how.
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John Metcalf ⚛️
@jymetcalf.bsky.social
· Nov 17
“Travel is fatal to prejuidce, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
— Mark Twain
— Mark Twain
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A reminder: Trump 1.0 ordered the Afghanistan withdrawal, and Trump 2.0 granted the shooter asylum this past April. Trump 2.0 also dismantled the joint terrorism task force, and gutted our national security apparatus.
CIA statement about the Afghan man identified as the gunman who shot two National Guardsmen in Washington
November 27, 2025 at 6:59 PM
A reminder: Trump 1.0 ordered the Afghanistan withdrawal, and Trump 2.0 granted the shooter asylum this past April. Trump 2.0 also dismantled the joint terrorism task force, and gutted our national security apparatus.
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This Thanksgiving, I'm thinking of our neighbors with an empty seat at the dinner table.
Those with loved ones abducted & deported from their families.
Those we lost due to gun violence, mass incarceration, & more.
A more just America is possible, if we fight for it.
Those with loved ones abducted & deported from their families.
Those we lost due to gun violence, mass incarceration, & more.
A more just America is possible, if we fight for it.
November 27, 2025 at 4:44 PM
This Thanksgiving, I'm thinking of our neighbors with an empty seat at the dinner table.
Those with loved ones abducted & deported from their families.
Those we lost due to gun violence, mass incarceration, & more.
A more just America is possible, if we fight for it.
Those with loved ones abducted & deported from their families.
Those we lost due to gun violence, mass incarceration, & more.
A more just America is possible, if we fight for it.
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I'm old.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
If you're not, listen to this.
Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.
Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.
It's literally never been more important.
November 27, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Our hearts go out to the families of the two West Virginia National Guardsmen murdered in DC today.
Was a heinous and cowardly act.
Was a heinous and cowardly act.
November 26, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Our hearts go out to the families of the two West Virginia National Guardsmen murdered in DC today.
Was a heinous and cowardly act.
Was a heinous and cowardly act.
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🎩 Get This POS Out Of The White House!
November 26, 2025 at 12:14 PM
🎩 Get This POS Out Of The White House!
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CARTOON OF THE DAY 🇺🇸
November 25, 2025 at 8:53 PM
CARTOON OF THE DAY 🇺🇸
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As the holidays draw nigh, here is how I do it. To Christian friends, Merry Christmas. Jewish friends, Happy Hanukkah. Friends who mark Kwanzaa, Happy Kwanzaa. Atheist/Agnostic friends, Happy Holidays. These greetings are expressions of good will. Don't use them as weapons. We have plenty of those.
November 25, 2025 at 2:37 AM
As the holidays draw nigh, here is how I do it. To Christian friends, Merry Christmas. Jewish friends, Happy Hanukkah. Friends who mark Kwanzaa, Happy Kwanzaa. Atheist/Agnostic friends, Happy Holidays. These greetings are expressions of good will. Don't use them as weapons. We have plenty of those.
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@adamzyglis.bsky.social
Kleptocracy
Kleptocracy
November 22, 2025 at 5:59 PM
@adamzyglis.bsky.social
Kleptocracy
Kleptocracy
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“Mum, Dad... I’m a homo sapien”
From the Private Eye archive.
Issue 865, Feb 1995.
From the Private Eye archive.
Issue 865, Feb 1995.
November 24, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Exactly ⬇️ This 💯......
November 23, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Exactly ⬇️ This 💯......
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Just a reminder to all Defense Force members, if you commit a crime and you are prosecuted, “I was just obeying orders” will not be an acceptable defense if it was an illegal order.
You are expected to know the Constitution that you’ve sworn to protect.
You are expected to know the Constitution that you’ve sworn to protect.
November 22, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Just a reminder to all Defense Force members, if you commit a crime and you are prosecuted, “I was just obeying orders” will not be an acceptable defense if it was an illegal order.
You are expected to know the Constitution that you’ve sworn to protect.
You are expected to know the Constitution that you’ve sworn to protect.
Brilliant. This is what we need today. ✊
November 22, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Brilliant. This is what we need today. ✊
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Military ethicist here. I used to be Associate Chair of Leadership, Ethics, and Law at USNA. We consistently taught our midshipmen that they should refuse to obey illegal orders. The Uniform Code of Military Justice makes this obligation clear. “I was just following orders” is not an excuse, period.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Military ethicist here. I used to be Associate Chair of Leadership, Ethics, and Law at USNA. We consistently taught our midshipmen that they should refuse to obey illegal orders. The Uniform Code of Military Justice makes this obligation clear. “I was just following orders” is not an excuse, period.
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Is Piggy referring to his attempted coup on January 6th?
November 20, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Is Piggy referring to his attempted coup on January 6th?
