Thom Bowers
@thombowers.bsky.social
Voice actor. Musician. Cat dad. Toy robot enthusiast. Recovering cynic.
Just another jerk taking pride in his work.
http://www.thombowers.com
http://www.sonsofnothing.com
http://www.thespoonradio.com
Just another jerk taking pride in his work.
http://www.thombowers.com
http://www.sonsofnothing.com
http://www.thespoonradio.com
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I don't keep doomers in my feed but since apparently some folks do: "celebrate each and every win, loudly" is Organizing 101
January 27, 2026 at 4:13 AM
I don't keep doomers in my feed but since apparently some folks do: "celebrate each and every win, loudly" is Organizing 101
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As a famous philosopher once said:
January 27, 2026 at 12:37 AM
As a famous philosopher once said:
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Certainly appears moms with whistles won the Battle of Minneapolis.
January 27, 2026 at 12:10 AM
Certainly appears moms with whistles won the Battle of Minneapolis.
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It is amazing how quickly a handful of Minnesotans proved Trump isn’t just mortal but weak. Immense amount of civic pride right now.
January 27, 2026 at 12:26 AM
It is amazing how quickly a handful of Minnesotans proved Trump isn’t just mortal but weak. Immense amount of civic pride right now.
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when you structure your entire political narrative around invincibility, it turns out that backing down even slightly is in fact a massive thing.
January 27, 2026 at 1:19 AM
when you structure your entire political narrative around invincibility, it turns out that backing down even slightly is in fact a massive thing.
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The correct answer to this is "Yes, and everyone else too."
Should artists get a basic income like they do in Ireland?
Could the government pay salaries to musicians and artists - no strings attached like they do in Ireland?
www.bbc.com
January 26, 2026 at 2:49 PM
The correct answer to this is "Yes, and everyone else too."
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Hurting people is easy. It's lazy. Anyone can do it with the right tools and the wrong morals.
Protecting people is hard. It takes restraint and courage and empathy. They will never have that. So they can never win, in the end. Minneapolis will win.
Protecting people is hard. It takes restraint and courage and empathy. They will never have that. So they can never win, in the end. Minneapolis will win.
January 26, 2026 at 2:48 AM
Hurting people is easy. It's lazy. Anyone can do it with the right tools and the wrong morals.
Protecting people is hard. It takes restraint and courage and empathy. They will never have that. So they can never win, in the end. Minneapolis will win.
Protecting people is hard. It takes restraint and courage and empathy. They will never have that. So they can never win, in the end. Minneapolis will win.
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Minnesota National Guard members have arrived at a federal building and were directed to distribute donuts, coffee, and hot chocolate to anti-ICE protesters. Guard members were issued reflective vests so they would not be mistaken for federal agents.
January 25, 2026 at 8:55 PM
Minnesota National Guard members have arrived at a federal building and were directed to distribute donuts, coffee, and hot chocolate to anti-ICE protesters. Guard members were issued reflective vests so they would not be mistaken for federal agents.
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a snow day message from Inferno
January 25, 2026 at 9:46 PM
a snow day message from Inferno
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Genuinely the only thing keeping me going—but it really is keeping me going—is how good it is to see people link arms and push for this to end.
I cannot stop thinking about how much love people can have for their neighbors, and how much work and money is poured into breaking that love apart.
I cannot stop thinking about how much love people can have for their neighbors, and how much work and money is poured into breaking that love apart.
January 24, 2026 at 10:03 PM
Genuinely the only thing keeping me going—but it really is keeping me going—is how good it is to see people link arms and push for this to end.
I cannot stop thinking about how much love people can have for their neighbors, and how much work and money is poured into breaking that love apart.
I cannot stop thinking about how much love people can have for their neighbors, and how much work and money is poured into breaking that love apart.
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I can't put into words the feeling of watching our government, a hive of evil antisocial filth, the absolute worst humanity has to offer, colliding with the best. Ordinary people trying to help each other, risking everything to stand up for what's plainly, unambiguously fair and right. It's unreal
January 25, 2026 at 1:34 AM
I can't put into words the feeling of watching our government, a hive of evil antisocial filth, the absolute worst humanity has to offer, colliding with the best. Ordinary people trying to help each other, risking everything to stand up for what's plainly, unambiguously fair and right. It's unreal
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Every bit of western culture popular narrative underlined what is right and wrong and that so many just entirely missed it is so disheartening.
January 25, 2026 at 1:42 AM
Every bit of western culture popular narrative underlined what is right and wrong and that so many just entirely missed it is so disheartening.
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Minnesotans are showing the soul of the United States to the world.
January 25, 2026 at 12:11 AM
Minnesotans are showing the soul of the United States to the world.
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So many people are like, "Well this administration wants to be Hitler, so obviously they have already succeeded at being Hitler."
If you want to understand what’s going on you need to be able to tell when a projection of strength is masking great weakness and hoo boy is this ever a time when that’s happening. It doesn’t mean it’s not dangerous, but don’t assume this means they’re winning.
January 25, 2026 at 3:27 AM
So many people are like, "Well this administration wants to be Hitler, so obviously they have already succeeded at being Hitler."
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Nonviolence is, in fact, working. This administration is weaker than it was a year ago. More and more of the public is becoming galvanized against it; its agents are being impeded.
Do you honestly think people in the civil rights movement and other nonviolent movements faced no violence themselves? They practiced nonviolence because it works, because the oppressor wants a shooting war, which is the war it will win
How's your non-violent working Mr Gandhi stancil? They will kill each and everyone of you right if they had the chance and you will still be writing Kumbaya.
January 24, 2026 at 9:53 PM
Nonviolence is, in fact, working. This administration is weaker than it was a year ago. More and more of the public is becoming galvanized against it; its agents are being impeded.
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Everyone is justifiably pissed today & I'm not an ecstatic camper myself, but you don't need me saying the same things that everyone else has been screaming into the void. So I will post dumb shit to give you a momentary distraction whenever I can. Here's my cat drinking out of a dinosaur footprint
January 24, 2026 at 9:14 PM
Everyone is justifiably pissed today & I'm not an ecstatic camper myself, but you don't need me saying the same things that everyone else has been screaming into the void. So I will post dumb shit to give you a momentary distraction whenever I can. Here's my cat drinking out of a dinosaur footprint
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/3 In this moment of horror, look at the people of MN. They’re not an army. Few are trained for urban combat, through there are many veterans. They are young and old and rich and poor. They are standing up at great personal danger, defying a despicable Gestapo government and its vile apologists.
January 24, 2026 at 7:27 PM
/3 In this moment of horror, look at the people of MN. They’re not an army. Few are trained for urban combat, through there are many veterans. They are young and old and rich and poor. They are standing up at great personal danger, defying a despicable Gestapo government and its vile apologists.
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Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.
January 24, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.
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Correct, though I'd be remiss not to add that the bigger absurdity is that they're not even responding to anything that ACTUALLY HAPPENED in 2020; they're responding to the imaginary thing ("CITIES BURNED TO THE GROUND!!!") that FoxNews made up and TOLD THEM happened in 2020.
Utterly bizarre that the authorities keep responding to ICE murders by acting like protesters are smashing windows and burning police stations. They seem to be responding to the 2020 protests, not what's happening now
O'Hara: "We ask everyone to remain calm and to please not destroy our own city"
January 24, 2026 at 6:51 PM
Correct, though I'd be remiss not to add that the bigger absurdity is that they're not even responding to anything that ACTUALLY HAPPENED in 2020; they're responding to the imaginary thing ("CITIES BURNED TO THE GROUND!!!") that FoxNews made up and TOLD THEM happened in 2020.
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Yes. And this is the moderate position.
Abolish ICE. Fire them all. Prosecute *every single abuse*.
January 24, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Yes. And this is the moderate position.
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Yesterday, Minneapolis gave us hope. That’s what they’re trying to kill: the will of a people who are willing to fight them.
January 24, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Yesterday, Minneapolis gave us hope. That’s what they’re trying to kill: the will of a people who are willing to fight them.