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Bruce-the-Blue
@bruce-the-blue.bsky.social
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Navy veteran, Trekkie, Wiccan, Progressive, Civil Libertarian, PATRIOT, Science advocate, FREEDOMphile, 🏳️‍🌈 & 🏳️‍⚧️ Ally.

Don't blame me, I voted for Kamala🪷Harris.
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With a third freaky artist, Ron Cobb, doing the Nostromo herself, including the graphic labels, called "Semiotic Standard" for information & warning (like the "Airlock" & "Cryo-sleep systems" labels). He also designed the patches worn by the crew.
November 14, 2025 at 2:47 AM
bruce-the-blue.bsky.social
"Citizens United" made bribery perfectly legal.
You may not like this, but nothing can be done about the problems in this country until we reform campaign finance. You can't solve problems if the people you send to Washington are being bought off by those benefitting from the problems.
November 13, 2025 at 11:47 PM
bruce-the-blue.bsky.social
Billionaires need us, we don't need them.
Left panel: "If Billionaires Disappeared" - life in a city goes on without so much as a hiccup. A merchant has a full market stall, everything is intact. Right panel: "If Essential Workers Disappeared" - the same city grinds to a halt with pure chaos everywhere. Market stall is empty, cars are damaged, every window broken, etc.
November 13, 2025 at 11:41 PM
bruce-the-blue.bsky.social
Forgot to add - those who refuse to extend tolerance to others forfeit BEING tolerated.
November 13, 2025 at 10:35 PM
bruce-the-blue.bsky.social
Exactly right.
November 13, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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raisedbyvalaya.bsky.social
Conservatives when it's a 15 year old in library; "These are children and I can't believe we are letting them read smut like Twilight!!!"

Conservatives when it's a 15 year old sex trafficking victim; "Looks, these people are practically legal. Barely legal even"
November 13, 2025 at 6:40 PM
bruce-the-blue.bsky.social
If I lived in New York City, I would've voted in a New York Minute for Zohran LaGuardia, I mean Fiorello Mamdani, well, I'd have voted for either Fiorello LaGuardia or Zohran Mamdani because the former had the same governing philosophy the latter has, and the same kind of people hate them both.
November 13, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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Here it is from another post:
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trevorpk.bsky.social trevorpk.bsky.social @trevorpk.bsky.social · 20d
Someone also made a Darth Vader gargoyle in Washington DC. I wonder if, in 100 or 200 years, people will know who those characters are.
Darth Vader gargoyle
November 13, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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scarsandhearts.bsky.social
See & I feel I have the perfect campaign to ensure Republicans NEVER WIN AGAIN with 4 EASY WORDS. The irony of course is I have done nothing but put THEIR BEST ideas in one place. I will make you all LAUGH I pay for this on a dog-walker's salary & I make NO $. No, really
republicanswantyoudead.com
The Rich Have Won The Rest Have Lost
We represent the 99%
republicanswantyoudead.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:02 AM
bruce-the-blue.bsky.social
I completely agree; too bad right wingers never learned that. Of course, a lot of the more sociopathic oligarchs like Trump & Musk see working-class people in general as more property than people, theirs to exploit any way the oligarchs see fit.
Wealth breeds a class of people for whom human beings are disposable commodities. … Once oligarchs achieve unchecked economic and political power, as they have in the United States, the citizens too become disposable. - Chris Hedges
November 13, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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That's why sensible people use tiny video cameras on VERY long poles.
November 12, 2025 at 11:47 PM
bruce-the-blue.bsky.social
"How do you give away a woman?" By believing ancient misogynistic bullshit & wrongly seeing women as property instead of people. That Trump & his buddies hold those attitudes makes his support among rightwing Christians like Hegseth & his pastor perfectly understandable.
November 12, 2025 at 10:39 PM
bruce-the-blue.bsky.social
Or as the saying attributed to Anglo Saxons during the Viking era: "Once you pay the Danegeld, you'll never be rid of the Dane." Fo those not up on English history before the year 1000, Danegeld referred to the bribe the Saxons paid the Danish Vikings in the Danelaw (northern England) to stop raids.
November 12, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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christhecatsmum.bsky.social
Clearly an orchestrated attack.
October 11, 2025 at 2:36 PM
bruce-the-blue.bsky.social
Exactly right.
A hand is tracing a line in an open Bible. Caption reads, "Let's play a game! Open the Bible to a random passage and do exactly what it says. Last one to go to jail wins!"
November 11, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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vivekgani.bsky.social
Previously: bsky.app/profile/caro... (May 2025, Michelle Goldberg on USAID cuts which also referenced the Brooke Nichols model)
carolecadwalla.bsky.social Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · May 30
Elon Musk’s actions have already killed an estimated 300,000 people since January.

Read this. (Gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:38 AM
bruce-the-blue.bsky.social
I think it was more like removing the doors and hinges so that the entire suggestion is literally "unhinged". Although it still falls short of being as unhinged as the actually serious Mamdani opponents.
November 3, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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That's what automatically, even inherently, makes Progressive folks more decent than conservatives.
Tweet from Tom Partridge @silvercoug Many years ago I interviewed an older gentleman as part of a study I was conducting. He said, "Republicans are people who will withhold food from 100 people out of fear that 1 might not need or deserve it. Democrats will feed 100 out of concern that 1 might really need it."
November 3, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Holy Grifters, Batman! Osteen's a Holy Grifter!
November 3, 2025 at 10:53 PM
bruce-the-blue.bsky.social
He's playing his big hit, "Blue Öyster Cult."
November 3, 2025 at 8:46 PM
bruce-the-blue.bsky.social
The paradox is easily resolved if we view tolerance as a social contract rather than a moral imperative; if someone violates the terms of the contract by being intolerant, they forego any claim to being tolerated.
Mutual tolerance: a social contract that intolerant people violate with their intolerance. The Paradox of Tolerance disappears if you look at tolerance not as a moral standard, but as a social contract. If someone does not abide by the terms of the contract, then they are not covered by it. In other words: The intolerant are not following the rules of the social contract of mutual tolerance. Since they have broken the terms of the contract, they are no longer covered by the contract, and their intolerance should NOT be tolerated. Under the words "Unlimited tolerance will lead to the disappearance of tolerance" is a picture of a giant rocklike monster threatening a small, armored figure with a horned helmet and a sword. Picture of Kirk Cameron with the top caption reading, "Stop oppressing our right to oppress others," and the bottom caption reading, "Be more tolerant of our intolerance."
November 2, 2025 at 1:30 AM