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@bxe123.bsky.social
lefty folk singer-songwriter in MD. (https://open.spotify.com/artist/2KIbMonEkiGoiBogMu1iWv?si=ofrnRW3YRxKwDlvNZcZv-g)
Gripes about NIMBYs/Pedestrian Safety.
Folk Fest: https://www.tpff.org
DYK: Americans w/disabilities do not have marriage equality?
Gripes about NIMBYs/Pedestrian Safety.
Folk Fest: https://www.tpff.org
DYK: Americans w/disabilities do not have marriage equality?
Pinned
Beyond These Walls (demo), by Brad Engler
track by Brad Engler
bradengler.bandcamp.com
Beyond These Walls is among three tunes I recorded this summer that will be released as an EP…sometime…likely after they’re done. Right?
I have someone working on this a whole other state, now. Hot damn.
bradengler.bandcamp.com/track/beyond...
I have someone working on this a whole other state, now. Hot damn.
bradengler.bandcamp.com/track/beyond...
What if Sabrina Carpenter is the second coming of Jesus Christ of Nazareth? I spotted the clue.
December 7, 2025 at 1:37 AM
What if Sabrina Carpenter is the second coming of Jesus Christ of Nazareth? I spotted the clue.
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Also rich people know that no matter what they can get vaccines. Everything they are doing is making vaccines financially inaccessible. They aren't making them flat out illegal.
December 7, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Also rich people know that no matter what they can get vaccines. Everything they are doing is making vaccines financially inaccessible. They aren't making them flat out illegal.
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A neat thing about birthright citizenship is how it tests whether a person cares at all about the Constitution. There's no argument against it, birthright citizenship is the unambitious text, the obvious intent of the drafters, and the undisputed way it was followed for the past 150+ years.
I continue to think that Matty coming out against birthright citizenship a few months ago should have been taken as a major warning sign that the group chats have already decided to surrender on this.
December 6, 2025 at 9:47 PM
A neat thing about birthright citizenship is how it tests whether a person cares at all about the Constitution. There's no argument against it, birthright citizenship is the unambitious text, the obvious intent of the drafters, and the undisputed way it was followed for the past 150+ years.
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I actually sincerely think this stuff should be understood as unconstitutional
Tacky ass un-American anti-republican pre-1776 royalist trash. We don't do the f----- King's Birthday here. He's about half a step away from putting his face on all the coins and stamps.
December 6, 2025 at 6:21 AM
I actually sincerely think this stuff should be understood as unconstitutional
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We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over
December 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over
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In stock, shipping now and stocking ready: the blue canary nightlight at www.TMBGshop.com.
December 6, 2025 at 4:12 PM
In stock, shipping now and stocking ready: the blue canary nightlight at www.TMBGshop.com.
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A new CNN report uncovers that the IDF knowingly:
•Shot starving Palestinians trying to collect flour
•Bulldozed their bodies into shallow, unmarked graves
•Left them to decompose, scavenged by dogs
•Never documented these murders & tried to hide them
This is what genocide looks like. Horrific.
•Shot starving Palestinians trying to collect flour
•Bulldozed their bodies into shallow, unmarked graves
•Left them to decompose, scavenged by dogs
•Never documented these murders & tried to hide them
This is what genocide looks like. Horrific.
December 6, 2025 at 2:53 AM
A new CNN report uncovers that the IDF knowingly:
•Shot starving Palestinians trying to collect flour
•Bulldozed their bodies into shallow, unmarked graves
•Left them to decompose, scavenged by dogs
•Never documented these murders & tried to hide them
This is what genocide looks like. Horrific.
•Shot starving Palestinians trying to collect flour
•Bulldozed their bodies into shallow, unmarked graves
•Left them to decompose, scavenged by dogs
•Never documented these murders & tried to hide them
This is what genocide looks like. Horrific.
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Learn about the Black Zine Fair & please help us to fund it: gogetfunding.com/black-zine-f...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTYJ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTYJ...
Black Zine Fair
YouTube video by Sojourners for Justice Press
www.youtube.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Learn about the Black Zine Fair & please help us to fund it: gogetfunding.com/black-zine-f...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTYJ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTYJ...
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This is great. Very few people want to go to jail, get disbarred or die for this regime. Make them fight you. They will cave.
www.ms.now/news/minneap...
www.ms.now/news/minneap...
Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job
Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.
www.ms.now
December 6, 2025 at 1:51 PM
This is great. Very few people want to go to jail, get disbarred or die for this regime. Make them fight you. They will cave.
www.ms.now/news/minneap...
www.ms.now/news/minneap...
I just read the name of a couple, “Joyce and John Wanda”, and I love that they have four first and four last names between them. I love it for them.
And, now I can never meet them, because I would crack a smile too big to explain.
And, now I can never meet them, because I would crack a smile too big to explain.
December 6, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I just read the name of a couple, “Joyce and John Wanda”, and I love that they have four first and four last names between them. I love it for them.
And, now I can never meet them, because I would crack a smile too big to explain.
And, now I can never meet them, because I would crack a smile too big to explain.
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It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.
December 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.
Wait, hang on, regular person turned working actress turned princess turned not princess. But she’s not allowed to be a working actress anymore? It’s like my niece. And my other niece. Several nieces are just like that.
Column by Monica Hesse: I would wager that “With Love, Meghan” is not exactly the future that Meghan Markle imagined. And mostly, I would speculate that this is because her repatriated future would have been unimaginable to anyone. https://wapo.st/48w3DpK
December 6, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Wait, hang on, regular person turned working actress turned princess turned not princess. But she’s not allowed to be a working actress anymore? It’s like my niece. And my other niece. Several nieces are just like that.
“Betrayal of the gospel” is for evangelicals, IMO. In my experience, they love the word “gospel”.
In remarks already sparking MAGA backlash, Pope Leo XIV called anti-Muslim panic a political weapon against immigration — and a betrayal of the Gospel.
His message directly challenges Elon Musk and MAGA leaders who frame Christian empathy as weakness.
His message directly challenges Elon Musk and MAGA leaders who frame Christian empathy as weakness.
Pope Leo to MAGA: Christians Must Stop Fearing Islam
On his first trip abroad, Pope Leo XIV extols Muslim-Christian friendship — delivering a pointed rejoinder to MAGA pundits who deride compassion as “suicidal empathy.”
www.thelettersfromleo.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:47 PM
“Betrayal of the gospel” is for evangelicals, IMO. In my experience, they love the word “gospel”.
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This lays it all out well. #giftlink
Trump’s Security Strategy Focuses on Profit, Not Spreading Democracy
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:22 PM
This lays it all out well. #giftlink
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They’re going to use greed and disinformation - increasingly via AI - to take a libertarian eugenicist playbook worldwide, and I don’t see anyone prepared to stop them
December 5, 2025 at 11:42 PM
They’re going to use greed and disinformation - increasingly via AI - to take a libertarian eugenicist playbook worldwide, and I don’t see anyone prepared to stop them
THE FIGHTING QUINCES
probably not
Good job ballers, regardless.
probably not
Good job ballers, regardless.
Quince Orchard wins back-to-back state football championships
Quince Orchard wins back-to-back state football championships
The Cougars beat Wise 26-21 in the 4A final.
buff.ly
December 6, 2025 at 1:39 PM
THE FIGHTING QUINCES
probably not
Good job ballers, regardless.
probably not
Good job ballers, regardless.
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Totally thought it was this, with a few more hands.
December 5, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Totally thought it was this, with a few more hands.
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Person who actually deserves a trophy is the artist who made the FIFA peace prize trophy look like everyone in the entire world holding their head in their hands out of secondhand embarrassment
December 5, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Person who actually deserves a trophy is the artist who made the FIFA peace prize trophy look like everyone in the entire world holding their head in their hands out of secondhand embarrassment
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“Save the smokestack” lmao look at that fake petition rendering of what the area actually looks like
NIMBYism for polluting infrastructure Fairfield County is incredible
NIMBYism for polluting infrastructure Fairfield County is incredible
December 6, 2025 at 1:30 PM
“Save the smokestack” lmao look at that fake petition rendering of what the area actually looks like
NIMBYism for polluting infrastructure Fairfield County is incredible
NIMBYism for polluting infrastructure Fairfield County is incredible
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you know how i know im a 44yo dad? how much i laughed at this shit
December 6, 2025 at 3:31 AM
you know how i know im a 44yo dad? how much i laughed at this shit
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Bitesize is super fun, I dig these records, well worth the ten bucks!
hey, it's Bandcamp Friday! which means that if you buy artists' music today, we get all the proceeds w/o them taking a cut. here is my previous band Bitesize. if you like what you hear, you can buy our entire discography (36 songs) for a mere $10.40, pls give it a listen! bitesize.bandcamp.com
Bitesize
From 1997-2009, the San Francisco Bay Area’s Bitesize brought a little bit of sickness to indie-pop, filling their otherwise perfect two-minute long pop gems with awkward stops and starts, weird burst...
bitesize.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Bitesize is super fun, I dig these records, well worth the ten bucks!
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it so cool that there is myths about going up in a tax bracket causing the money you have to go down but its totally true for government programs and welfare
December 6, 2025 at 1:41 AM
it so cool that there is myths about going up in a tax bracket causing the money you have to go down but its totally true for government programs and welfare
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I have been given the shiny and very real War Stopper Award by
USA Pickleball because I have stopped so many dozens of wars and whatnot. I am honored that my war stopping has been noticed by the foremost pickleball organization in the world.
USA Pickleball because I have stopped so many dozens of wars and whatnot. I am honored that my war stopping has been noticed by the foremost pickleball organization in the world.
December 6, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I have been given the shiny and very real War Stopper Award by
USA Pickleball because I have stopped so many dozens of wars and whatnot. I am honored that my war stopping has been noticed by the foremost pickleball organization in the world.
USA Pickleball because I have stopped so many dozens of wars and whatnot. I am honored that my war stopping has been noticed by the foremost pickleball organization in the world.
Look, maybe it’s good, but what unfinished business are we supposed to remember from the Brothers McMullen, or…what characters are we supposed to remember from the Brothers McMullen, other than…I guess there were brothers. I can’t remember how many though. Was it Ricky Marky Terry Johnny Davy Kenny?
December 6, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Look, maybe it’s good, but what unfinished business are we supposed to remember from the Brothers McMullen, or…what characters are we supposed to remember from the Brothers McMullen, other than…I guess there were brothers. I can’t remember how many though. Was it Ricky Marky Terry Johnny Davy Kenny?