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Alan 💙⚖️⚛️🥁
@birdieguy.bsky.social
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Statistician, pawpaw, brother, humanist, musician, and resister.
👉 Truth, justice, equality, and sensibility.
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My sister and I were proud to have visited the FDR memorial in DC a few years ago, and this was one of the many highlights!
Engraved in a stone wall at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt memorial in Washington, D.C. is his quote, "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." In front of the wall stand hungry people waiting in line.
November 22, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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More metaphorical imagery of the current administration from late last night, as the White House flag was captured on the ground.
The White House flag lying on the ground as captured by a photographer. In the background the White House flag lying on the ground as captured by a photographer. FELONOTUS is in the foreground appearing as if he couldn't care less.
November 17, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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The perfect summation of the personality of one particular living being in one photograph. Think DILLIGAF.
The acting FELONOTUS captured in a photo immediately following a coworker having a health incident in the oval office. While others are focused on the individual, who is lying on the floor, he who shall not be named is standing behind the desk, looking annoyed and aloof, while showing no empathy or care whatsoever about the emergent circumstances.
November 6, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Via @briantylercohen.bsky.social
Image shows Marco Rubio, the felonotus, and Pete Hegseth sitting at a desk. Behind them is a row of flags, and there is a set of horns on the wall behind felonotus's head. The perspective makes it appear as if the horns are ON felonotus's head.
October 10, 2025 at 10:58 PM
birdieguy.bsky.social
Dr. Jane Goodall - "Famous Last Words" (Netflix) - Recorded March 2025

(2:56)
October 5, 2025 at 7:39 PM
birdieguy.bsky.social
Here you go, Jennings:
An MSNBC graphic showing the comparison between right-wing and left-wing political violence over the last three decades. The ratio is approximately 9:1 (right:left).
September 27, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Whatever they're "doing" to address the issue isn't working. Are they even paying attention to facts?
Since 1966, 1,714 people have been killed and 2,657 injured in mass public shootings. These statistics translate to an average of 3.4 people killed and 5.3 people injured in each mass public shooting event. The risk of becoming a victim of a mass shooting, whether being killed or injured, remains low. When individuals are impacted by mass shootings, they are more likely to be injured than killed, a trend that has continued since the mid-1980s. Included is a graph showing the rise in gun violence over the years. The graph is titled "Mass shootings have been steadily increasing in frequency since 1966."
August 28, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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It's a good time for this reminder:
An image of General Mark Milley next to his 2024 quote: "We don't take an oath to a king, or queen, or a tyrant or a dictator, and we don't take an oath to a wannabe dictator... We take an oath to the Constitution... And we're willing to die to protect it."
August 11, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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RIP Ozzy
Displayed by a pond at the estate of Ozzy Osbourne, during his funeral service, is a memorial reading "Ozzy Fucking Osbourne."
August 1, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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Here he is describing Epstein stealing something that "belonged" to him.
July 30, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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Enjoyed some fabulous speakers as the sun set at the Good Trouble event at Austin's Pan Am Park yesterday!

#GoodTrouble
People gathered for Good Trouble at Pan Am Park in Austin. An Austin sunset from Pan Am Park's Good Trouble event.
July 18, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) describes the conditions inside Florida's new concentration camp. "Wall-to-wall humans inside cages..."

Completely inhumane.
July 13, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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Only in the USA...

Source: www.reddit.com/r/interestin...
July 8, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-CA), looking defeated, and sitting on the steps of the Capitol with his head in his hand - feeling the way we all feel today.
July 3, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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This image makes me so proud! More people needs to see it, take it in, understand it, and then reflect.
President Joe Biden paying respects to public servant Minnesota state representative Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark, who were killed in a shameful political assassination.
June 29, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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Beto O'Rourke!
Beto O'Rourke
June 28, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Castro and Talarico at Stable Hall at the Pearl in SA.
Joaquin Castro James Talarico
June 28, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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A poster saying, "Honoring Juneteenth - Freedom Day"
June 19, 2025 at 9:38 AM
birdieguy.bsky.social
Here are some interesting #smartphone statistics that correspond with this insane timeline we're on:
A graph showing the breakdown of smartphone sales year by year according to Wikipedia (and gartner.com?). A nearly identical infographic from Statista itself, showing an incline from 2008 to 2016, where it peaks, and gradually declines ever since.
June 19, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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A few more from Austin

July 14, 2025 - #NoKings

People like you & me protesting on their Saturday.
A protester in a crowd with a sign reading "Five Months of Cruelty & Failure." A man holding a sign that reads, "Immigrants are not criminals." The Texas State Capitol With west, evening sunlight, and an east wind. Protesters are in the foreground. A lady with a sign reading "The power of the people is stronger than the people in power."
June 15, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Tons of people showed up in Austin for #NoKings
Crowd of protesters at the Capitol in Austin for NoKings.
June 15, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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President Barack Obama Appreciation Day!
Portrait of President Barack Obama dressed in a classy suit and tie, and a US Flag pinned to his lapel. Hands are crossed in front of him as he looks off a little to the left.
June 14, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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A Florida Sheriff holding a candid press conference about protests in his county.

From r/PublicFreakout
June 13, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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There are #NoKings protests all over the country on Saturday June 14, 2025. Find one, make a plan, and go participate!

Remember you're either rejecting this tyranny or you're allowing it -- There is no in between.

👉 NoKings.org 👈
Image of a flag containing a fist of solidarity at the top, and the American flag at the bottom. In between are the words "Rejecting Kings since 1776."
June 12, 2025 at 10:28 PM
birdieguy.bsky.social
New York City earlier tonight.

Not sure of context.

Source: www.reddit.com/r/PublicFrea...
June 11, 2025 at 6:15 AM