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Colin Rowntree
@colin-rowntree.bsky.social
Independent Film Director. Political and Civil Rights Activist.
Rapid Response Team volunteer for Committee to Protect Journalists and Amnesty International USA domestic operations.
April 25, 2025 at 7:44 PM
On Saturday, Elon Musk emailed federal employees and asked them to respond with their top five accomplishments during the previous workweek or risk being fired.

“It’s like the government is being run by BuzzFeed,” Jimmy Kimmel said on Monday.
February 25, 2025 at 2:52 PM
James Carville may have the uncomfortable but correct strategy….

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/o...
Opinion | James Carville: The Best Thing Democrats Can Do in This Moment (Gift Article)
There’s nothing Democrats can legitimately do to stop Trump, so we need a tactical pause in our fight to plan for the future.
www.nytimes.com
February 25, 2025 at 2:38 PM
February 20, 2025 at 2:11 PM
January 11, 2025 at 3:15 PM
When generations collide….
January 4, 2025 at 7:47 PM
January 1, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Memo to Trump: If your spokespeople are having to issue public declarations that no, really, you’re the one in charge, then it’s only because that isn’t as obvious as it should be.

Is it the South African Oligarch or you?
December 21, 2024 at 10:06 PM

Everyone knows who is running this show.

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Vice President Trump
YouTube video by The Lincoln Project
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December 21, 2024 at 2:34 PM
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and a close adviser to President-elect Donald J. Trump, on Friday endorsed Germany’s far-right party, a group with ties to neo-Nazis whose youth wing has been classified as “confirmed extremist” by German domestic intelligence.

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/w...
Musk Expresses Support for Far-Right Party in Germany’s Election
It was not the first online intervention by Elon Musk, the entrepreneur and adviser to Donald Trump, on behalf of once-fringe anti-immigrant parties in Europe.
www.nytimes.com
December 21, 2024 at 2:27 PM
Reposted by Colin Rowntree
Bro committed to the assignment:
December 10, 2024 at 5:59 PM
Reposted by Colin Rowntree
Every few weeks I wonder about whatever became of the stock photo model who’s the go-to illustration for “problematic use of pornography”:
December 10, 2024 at 5:58 PM
December 9, 2024 at 12:46 PM
December 5, 2024 at 9:42 PM
Holiday Shopping Tip:
December 5, 2024 at 9:42 PM
December 5, 2024 at 7:32 PM
And here we go! There’s even an old Tom Lehrer theme song for Trump on this one. youtu.be/pklr0UD9eSo?...
December 2, 2024 at 9:19 PM
Here’s the meme I have pinned in my photo app that I roll out on Facebook at least once a day now that Trump voters are realizing what they voted for:
December 2, 2024 at 9:15 PM
Social Anthropology time! Good read on our slide into becoming the Republic Of Gilead due to declining birth rates. Related: As the Dictionary.com word of the year is “Demure” apparently the allure of "trad-wifery" is now a thing.

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/30/o...
Opinion | Our Messed-Up Dating Culture Gave Us Donald Trump. Let Me Explain.
A generation of resentful young men has arisen from the cultural norm dictating that men must be the breadwinners.
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2024 at 7:45 PM
Thanksgiving survival tips:
November 28, 2024 at 8:01 PM
Just add Canada and Mexico to China on this cartoon and it sums it all up perfectly:
November 27, 2024 at 9:46 PM
I'm now volunteering for this vital organization. Read the story to see why this is important and see how too you can help protect journalists in the USA.
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On Edge: What the US election could mean for journalists and global press freedom - Committee to Protect Journalists
Journalists are bracing for the outcome of the 2024 U.S. presidential election. CPJ’s research ahead of the November vote finds that the hostile media climate fostered during Donald Trump’s presidency...
cpj.org
November 25, 2024 at 7:33 PM
Something to send to anyone you know in the US on a green card for future reference next year. Whoever made it as MAGA propaganda thinks that immigrants are dog and cat-eating criminals, but thanks to them for the handy visual reference for legal immigrants who get caught up in the coming madness.
November 23, 2024 at 5:30 PM
An essay that really sums up how liberal Americans are feeling about BlueSky. It’s the same feeling we all had during the fleeting 107 days of Kamala Harris’ campaign: Hope, freedom, and the joy of feeling that way for the first time in recent memory.

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November 23, 2024 at 3:52 PM