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Eclectablog/Chris Savage
@chrissavage.bsky.social
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Formerly Eclectablog and Chair of the Washtenaw County Democratic Party, increasingly old, always hyper-liberal. In general, I'd rather be disc golfing and gardening. Based in Dexter, MI, just outside of Ann Arbor. Married to @savage-girl.bsky.social.
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Kash Patel always looks like he's wearing a giant remote-controlled butt plug that someone just turned on and Pam Bondi always looks like she's the one who turned it on.
November 3, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Florida, where compassion and empathy go to DIE.
Headline from The Washington Post that reads "Florida teacher loses job for calling student by preferred name" with a sub-headline reading "It’s the first known dismissal stemming from the conservative campaign to limit schools' recognition of transgender identity."
April 10, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Turns out Kid Rock is an expert in tariffs and international trade. Who knew? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Picture of Kid Rock smiling and wearing a brightly-colored shirt with the text "Kid Rock on President Trump's tariffs: 'Great news for Detroit in my opinion'".
April 3, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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HE’S BLAMING SIGNAL!!! 😫😆
Screenshot of article that reads: “That doesn’t bother me,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “I want to find if there’s any mistake or if Signal doesn’t work — it could be that Signal is not a very good company, and maybe it’s not very good. I think we’d rather know about it now.”
March 27, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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It's hard to put into words how disgusting it is that he did this with these children as props. What an incredibly sick toad he is.
President Donald Trump holds an executive order after signing it Thursday at the White House. (image from Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images). In the background are six children who appear to be signing and then holding up their own executive orders.
March 20, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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I assume we all agree?
March 5, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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This is the scope of the USAID defunding relative to the federal budget (it's 0.65%.) It's also a national security issue.
Bar chart showing the annual budgets of USAID and the US government. The US government's bar dwarfs the USAID bar because USAID is only 0.65% of the US government's annual budget.
February 8, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Nothing terrifying about this at all 😬
Headline from The Washington Post that reads "Elon Musk’s DOGE is feeding sensitive federal data into AI to target cuts". Subheading reads "At the Education Department, the tech billionaire’s team has turned to artificial intelligence to hunt for potential spending cuts --- part of a broader plan to deploy the technology across the federal government.".
February 6, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Hmm. Interesting.
Screenshot of an AP news article titled "Pro-Trump Arab American group changes its name after the president’s Gaza ‘Riviera’ comments". The text from the article says: LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A group that played a key role in Donald Trump’s voter outreach to the Arab American community alongside his allies is rebranding itself after the president said that the U.S. would “take over” the Gaza Strip. Bishara Bahbah, chairman of the group formerly known as Arab Americans for Trump, said during a phone interview with The Associated Press on Wednesday that the group would now be called Arab Americans for Peace. The name change came after Trump held a Tuesday press conference alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House and proposed the U.S. take “ownership” in redeveloping the area into “the Riviera of the Middle East.”
February 5, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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This should go over well with all those Dearborn Trump voters who couldn’t vote for Harris because of the war on Gaza.
Screenshot of a Washington Post Breaking News email with the headline “Trump proposes permanent displacement of Gazans as he welcomes Netanyahu to White House” and the following text: President Donald Trump framed the vision as a practical and humane response to the physical destruction of Gaza after 16 months of intense bombardment from Israel. His comments threatened to inflame the Arab world as Trump prepared to welcome Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House on Tuesday afternoon.
February 5, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Listen to a good Republican from the Deep South, Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, when it comes to the confirmation of RFK Jr to head up all of our health care-related agencies.
Picture of Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana) with a quote from him about Robert F Kennedy Jr's anti-vax position: "If there is any false note, any undermining of a mama’s trust in vaccines, another person will die from a vaccine-preventable disease."
February 4, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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When you take these two images side by side, it's a bit terrifying.
Timeline from January 16th when a SpaceX rocket exploded and January 17 when the FAA called them "reckless" to Trump being sworn in, the FAA Administrator being forced out by Elon Musk and Trump, the Aviation Safety Commission being disbanded and finally the mid-air collision that killed 67 people on January 29 and Trump blaming it on Biden and DEI on January 30.
February 2, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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I'm sure this is just fine 😬
Screenshot from the New York Times Headline: F.A.A.’s Main Warning System for Pilots Is Down, U.S. Official Says Sub-headline: Administration was using a backup system while it worked to address the problem.
February 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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A patriot speaks.
February 1, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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A patriot's opinion of Trump and the people who voted him back into office.
"Despite what we all witnessed four years ago, the American people voted [Trump] back in office, and one of the first things that he does is pardon the criminals who nearly took my life. It’s a desecration to our service and the sacrifices made to keep everyone safe." - Sgt. Aquilino Gonell of U.S. Capitol Police
January 23, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Ah. THERE it is.
Text image that says: Greenland has a major military facility to assist NATO in protecting Europe from foreign aggression...like Ukraine, and Poland next in Putin's sights -Panama has sanctions against Russian vessels travelling through the Canal, Putin wants those sanctions lifted -Canada has territorial rights in the Arctic oil/gas reserves and the maritime routes, Putin wants those rights demolished. -Who is Trump working for? NOT the US when he treats American allies like adversaries in furthering Putin's interest
January 9, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Here are some amazing things about President Jimmy Carter you may not know.
List that reads thusly: * Created the Department of Energy * Created the Department of Education * Negotiated treaties that returned control of the Panama Canal to Panama * Brokered a historic peace agreement between Egypt and Israel * Won a Nobel Peace Prize * Was the first U.S. president to be born in a hospital * Was the first U.S. president to live in public housing * Was the first U.S. president to graduate from a public high school
January 9, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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I've been meaning to move this OG full-sized Carter campaign poster from my podcast studio to my office. This seemed like the right day to do it. I have to say this is one of my prized possessions.
Photo of a framed original campaign poster for Jimmy Carter showing him in a casual button-down shirt with the sleeves rolled up leaning on a fence with the words "Jimmy CARTER for President" under it. There are three USA flags stuck into the top of the poster.
January 9, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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I actually don't think Uncle Joe is finished yet.
White text on a grey background that reads, "When you see who Trump picked to lead the Justice Dept. and the FBI, you'll understand why he pardoned Hunter."
December 4, 2024 at 3:38 PM
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Let's keep things in perspective when the Trump clowns start talking about their so-called overwhelming mandate. Yeah, screw that.
A bar graph showing the popular vote margin of victory for 26 U.S. presidential elections. The one for Trump's 2024 victory shows that he won by only 1.7% and that is one of the lowest margins in history.
November 29, 2024 at 5:25 PM
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This is our crew. Greta, Bug!, and Pepper (l-r). Bug! is a tripod.
Three very cute pit bulls, a light brown one, a white one with a black spot over his right eye, and a white one with a black spot over her left eye, all hungrily eyeing a bowl of popcorn.
November 23, 2024 at 5:50 PM
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This is actually an amazing and powerful argument for maintaining the resistance in a time of chaos and uncertainty.

Coherence > chaos.
A quote from Ilya Prigogine, a Nobel Prize-winning chemist that reads, "When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order."
November 23, 2024 at 5:46 PM
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Woof.
Image of a cat with a text box that has the following quote from Vet Tech Maddie Volante: "Just as an FYI your dog and cat have access to better reproductive healthcare than you do right now. Your dog can get its uterus removed without question. Your cat will be rushed to surgery if its uterus is infected and becoming septic. We will perform late stage abortions on your pets to save the mother without hesitation. I've never heard a surgeon or doctor say, 'save the babies at the expense of the mother' once in my career. I tell owners all the time not to worry if the puppies make it because MOM is the priority. But half these things are no longer possible for lots of humans in American right now. Just let that sink in."
November 23, 2024 at 4:27 PM
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Front cover of the book "Infinite Jest" by David Foster Wallace (RIP).
November 23, 2024 at 4:14 PM
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The Northern Hemisphere is ALL lit up right now 😬
[Source: earth.nullschool.net#current/wind... ]
Global wind map showing Planet Earth from over the north pole.
November 23, 2024 at 3:57 PM