Doug Tayek
@doug-out-of-focus.bsky.social
Father to an angel - husband - multi-award winning & published amateur photographer - hockey goalie coach - project manager - CLE against the world. I miss my dogs.
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The last time JD Vance was around the two people in charge of him fighting like this, he was traded for a half a bottle of Percocets.
June 5, 2025 at 9:56 PM
The last time JD Vance was around the two people in charge of him fighting like this, he was traded for a half a bottle of Percocets.
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JD Vance wondering if he's to blame for this divorce too
June 5, 2025 at 10:10 PM
JD Vance wondering if he's to blame for this divorce too
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I am 100% convinced that a JD Vance administration would collapse in 2 weeks
And herein lies the closing act of the tech billionaires’ plot.
Dump the useful idiot (Trump).
Replace him with Thiel’s groomed puppet (JD Vance)
Complete the tech coup.
Build the network state.
Dump the useful idiot (Trump).
Replace him with Thiel’s groomed puppet (JD Vance)
Complete the tech coup.
Build the network state.
June 5, 2025 at 10:59 PM
I am 100% convinced that a JD Vance administration would collapse in 2 weeks
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This is what an authoritarian regime would do. Hidden deep in Trump’s 1,100-page bill that passed the House today is a provision that would block federal courts from enforcing contempt charges against government officials who violate court orders.
May 23, 2025 at 12:50 AM
This is what an authoritarian regime would do. Hidden deep in Trump’s 1,100-page bill that passed the House today is a provision that would block federal courts from enforcing contempt charges against government officials who violate court orders.
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If “Barack Hussein Obama” had accepted a plane from a Muslim country… he would have been impeached before he could even finish the sentence.
May 22, 2025 at 3:04 AM
If “Barack Hussein Obama” had accepted a plane from a Muslim country… he would have been impeached before he could even finish the sentence.
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BREAKING: Supreme Court sidesteps religious charter school question for now with 4-4 vote, creating no national precedent and letting the Oklahoma Supreme Court decision — which does not allow the religious charter school — stand. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
![SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
Nos. 24–394 and 24–396
OKLAHOMA STATEWIDE CHARTER SCHOOL
BOARD, ET AL., PETITIONERS
24–394 v.
GENTNER DRUMMOND, ATTORNEY GENERAL
OF OKLAHOMA, EX REL. OKLAHOMA
ST. ISIDORE OF SEVILLE CATHOLIC VIRTUAL
SCHOOL, PETITIONER
24–396 v.
GENTNER DRUMMOND, ATTORNEY GENERAL
OF OKLAHOMA, EX REL. OKLAHOMA
ON WRITS OF CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT
OF OKLAHOMA
[May 22, 2025]
PER CURIAM.
The judgment is affirmed by an equally divided Court.
JUSTICE BARRETT took no part in the consideration or decision of these cases.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreifnlr6ihmie37y4oxjqaa3fc4ihyzc3xmp4gpt2k23zvurpg467hm@jpeg)
May 22, 2025 at 2:13 PM
BREAKING: Supreme Court sidesteps religious charter school question for now with 4-4 vote, creating no national precedent and letting the Oklahoma Supreme Court decision — which does not allow the religious charter school — stand. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
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Trump is such an unbelievable chump — the Qataris have been trying to unload this lemon for 5 years. Now they found their sucker.
May 22, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Trump is such an unbelievable chump — the Qataris have been trying to unload this lemon for 5 years. Now they found their sucker.
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You don’t need disaster assistance, pull yourself up by those bootstraps! Thoughts and prayers! Daddy needs a big new plane!
— The President
— The President
May 18, 2025 at 11:19 AM
You don’t need disaster assistance, pull yourself up by those bootstraps! Thoughts and prayers! Daddy needs a big new plane!
— The President
— The President
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As the daughter of a prostate cancer survivor, I know the pain this heartbreaking diagnosis brings all too well.
I also know that President Biden is a fighter to his core. It’ll be a difficult road ahead, but he can and will beat this.
I’ll be praying for him until he does.
I also know that President Biden is a fighter to his core. It’ll be a difficult road ahead, but he can and will beat this.
I’ll be praying for him until he does.
Biden Is Diagnosed With an Aggressive Form of Prostate Cancer
www.nytimes.com
May 18, 2025 at 9:20 PM
As the daughter of a prostate cancer survivor, I know the pain this heartbreaking diagnosis brings all too well.
I also know that President Biden is a fighter to his core. It’ll be a difficult road ahead, but he can and will beat this.
I’ll be praying for him until he does.
I also know that President Biden is a fighter to his core. It’ll be a difficult road ahead, but he can and will beat this.
I’ll be praying for him until he does.
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Pope Leo XIV presided over his inaugural Mass in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/w...
May 18, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Pope Leo XIV presided over his inaugural Mass in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/w...
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RFK Jr. undermines the importance of vaccines and canceled over $12 billion in federal grants to states for vaccines and other issues.
Senator Murphy correctly argues that Sec. Kennedy has consistently undermined the importance of the measles vaccination. We KNOW how important childhood vaccinations are: www.americanprogress.org/article/chil...
Childhood Vaccination Has Saved Millions of Lives, but Rising Hesitancy Could Reverse Decades of Progress
Growing vaccine hesitancy, driven by misinformation and disinformation, threatens the health of American children and communities.
www.americanprogress.org
May 14, 2025 at 6:46 PM
RFK Jr. undermines the importance of vaccines and canceled over $12 billion in federal grants to states for vaccines and other issues.
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The Qatari plane that Trump wants is already at the San Antonio International Airport, where it’s undergoing refurbishment by defense contractor L3Harris Technologies, potentially in partnership with ST Engineering.
May 15, 2025 at 2:41 AM
The Qatari plane that Trump wants is already at the San Antonio International Airport, where it’s undergoing refurbishment by defense contractor L3Harris Technologies, potentially in partnership with ST Engineering.
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The ideology that says it’s acceptable or even desirable to cut programs like this is rooted in social Darwinism and eugenics.
Senator Blunt Rochester: You committed to radical transparency and responding to all congressional queries.
You’re cutting funding for maternal and child health, including the Safe to Sleep program. None of these policies are based on compassion and will have painful impacts on people’s lives.
You’re cutting funding for maternal and child health, including the Safe to Sleep program. None of these policies are based on compassion and will have painful impacts on people’s lives.
May 14, 2025 at 8:19 PM
The ideology that says it’s acceptable or even desirable to cut programs like this is rooted in social Darwinism and eugenics.
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Republicans have just proposed defunding Planned Parenthood nationwide.
In doing so, they are telling women and people across the country that our healthcare doesn’t matter and that we are undeserving of care.
It’s time to stop this bill in its tracks.
In doing so, they are telling women and people across the country that our healthcare doesn’t matter and that we are undeserving of care.
It’s time to stop this bill in its tracks.
May 14, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Republicans have just proposed defunding Planned Parenthood nationwide.
In doing so, they are telling women and people across the country that our healthcare doesn’t matter and that we are undeserving of care.
It’s time to stop this bill in its tracks.
In doing so, they are telling women and people across the country that our healthcare doesn’t matter and that we are undeserving of care.
It’s time to stop this bill in its tracks.
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
Three Yale professors who have written extensively on authoritarianism are leaving the U.S. “We’re like people on the Titanic saying our ship can’t sink,” Marci Shore said. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”
Three Yale professors who have written extensively on authoritarianism are leaving the U.S. “We’re like people on the Titanic saying our ship can’t sink,” Marci Shore said. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”
Opinion | We Study Fascism at Yale. We’re Leaving the U.S.
The decision by these three Yale professors to move to Canada is both a warning and a call to action.
www.nytimes.com
May 14, 2025 at 7:03 PM
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
Three Yale professors who have written extensively on authoritarianism are leaving the U.S. “We’re like people on the Titanic saying our ship can’t sink,” Marci Shore said. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”
Three Yale professors who have written extensively on authoritarianism are leaving the U.S. “We’re like people on the Titanic saying our ship can’t sink,” Marci Shore said. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”
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Pathetic.
Putin isn't even on Truth Social but it'll get back to him, and he will just laugh his ass off. Just like the rest of the world is laughing at us right now.
Putin isn't even on Truth Social but it'll get back to him, and he will just laugh his ass off. Just like the rest of the world is laughing at us right now.
April 24, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Pathetic.
Putin isn't even on Truth Social but it'll get back to him, and he will just laugh his ass off. Just like the rest of the world is laughing at us right now.
Putin isn't even on Truth Social but it'll get back to him, and he will just laugh his ass off. Just like the rest of the world is laughing at us right now.
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I want a president who is tougher on Putin than he is on Harvard.
April 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I want a president who is tougher on Putin than he is on Harvard.
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Our cover this week.
April 24, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Our cover this week.
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RIP U.S. Department of Education. Education Secretary Linda McMahon introduced herself to department employees with an email calling on them to join her in a “historic final mission” to downsize the agency and shift control to the states.
March 4, 2025 at 4:43 PM
RIP U.S. Department of Education. Education Secretary Linda McMahon introduced herself to department employees with an email calling on them to join her in a “historic final mission” to downsize the agency and shift control to the states.
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The State of the Union speech will be laced with lies by the Orange Snake Oil Salesman.
March 5, 2025 at 1:37 AM
The State of the Union speech will be laced with lies by the Orange Snake Oil Salesman.
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Trump has already been an unmitigated disaster as president. #JointSession #SOTU
March 5, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Trump has already been an unmitigated disaster as president. #JointSession #SOTU
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This is all you'll be missing when you boycott the SOTU.
March 5, 2025 at 1:50 AM
This is all you'll be missing when you boycott the SOTU.
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March 5, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Officials at the FAA have directed staff to identify tens of millions of dollars to fund a Starlink deal for upgrading air traffic control communications. Staff has been instructed to find the funds while minimizing documentation and avoiding a paper trail.
March 3, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Officials at the FAA have directed staff to identify tens of millions of dollars to fund a Starlink deal for upgrading air traffic control communications. Staff has been instructed to find the funds while minimizing documentation and avoiding a paper trail.
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Seems like Hegseth's Stand Down Our Defenses Against Russia order should be getting a bit more attention.
March 2, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Seems like Hegseth's Stand Down Our Defenses Against Russia order should be getting a bit more attention.