Ed Oliver
@edoliver1948.bsky.social
Proud GRITS (Gay Raised In the South) and Baby Boomer. Unscathed by Polio, AIDS, Covid and one Trump term. Practicing Episcopalian with a touch of pagan and openly Democratic in a deep red state.
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America hasn’t felt this upside down since I was a child in an internment camp.
March 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
America hasn’t felt this upside down since I was a child in an internment camp.
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It’s not going to be a fun week.
March 17, 2025 at 9:37 AM
It’s not going to be a fun week.
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Trump Says Recession Unfortunate But Necessary Step To Get To Depression
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Trump Says Recession Unfortunate But Necessary Step To Get To Depression
WASHINGTON—Warning that Americans should brace themselves for an economic “period of transition,” President Donald Trump told reporters Monday that a recession would be an unfortunate but necessary step on the way to all-out depression. “Look, what we’re doing is very big and will cause some pain, but that pain is necessary to cause total economic […]
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March 16, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Trump Says Recession Unfortunate But Necessary Step To Get To Depression
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Auchincloss on Fox News Sunday: "This economy is inflationary right now...you know what the GOP response is? Their response is, 'Well, get ready for a rocky ride & by the way, we're gonna give tax cuts to the top 20% of earners & pay for it by taking away healthcare from people who need healthcare'"
March 16, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Auchincloss on Fox News Sunday: "This economy is inflationary right now...you know what the GOP response is? Their response is, 'Well, get ready for a rocky ride & by the way, we're gonna give tax cuts to the top 20% of earners & pay for it by taking away healthcare from people who need healthcare'"
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How DOGE cuts are jeopardizing our national parks, "America's best idea"
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How DOGE cuts are jeopardizing our national parks, "America's best idea"
The Trump administration laid off approximately 1,000 employees of the National Park Service. Rangers and park employees say such cuts will be detrimental to the public's experience of these treasured...
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March 16, 2025 at 9:42 PM
How DOGE cuts are jeopardizing our national parks, "America's best idea"
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You think Hegseth can't be any more awful and then we discover his racist hunt for "DEI" labeled the highest ranking black Medal of Honor recipients award a 'DEI medal' on Arlington's website. MG Charles Rogers was ten times the man Pete will ever be. My latest: open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...
DoD sh*ts on a heroes memory
The Department of Defense has labeled the highest ranking black Medal of Honor recipient a "DEI" medal
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March 16, 2025 at 10:28 PM
You think Hegseth can't be any more awful and then we discover his racist hunt for "DEI" labeled the highest ranking black Medal of Honor recipients award a 'DEI medal' on Arlington's website. MG Charles Rogers was ten times the man Pete will ever be. My latest: open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...
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Musk is rich because you gave him $38 billion in tax money to make that.
He is happy to tell you what you don’t need.
He’s also picking a side in foreign policy, and it’s not our side
He is happy to tell you what you don’t need.
He’s also picking a side in foreign policy, and it’s not our side
March 17, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Musk is rich because you gave him $38 billion in tax money to make that.
He is happy to tell you what you don’t need.
He’s also picking a side in foreign policy, and it’s not our side
He is happy to tell you what you don’t need.
He’s also picking a side in foreign policy, and it’s not our side
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Two decades ago, Bush’s team chose to topple the far-off regime of Saddam Hussein and remake Iraq's government with 20-something neophytes. Only a short political lifetime later, the government that Trump has chosen to go after is our own, writes @sbg1.bsky.social link.newyorker.com/click/385133...
Elon Musk’s Revolutionary Terror
The evisceration of U.S.A.I.D. isn’t a policy fight—it’s an execution designed to strike fear in our own government.
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February 7, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Two decades ago, Bush’s team chose to topple the far-off regime of Saddam Hussein and remake Iraq's government with 20-something neophytes. Only a short political lifetime later, the government that Trump has chosen to go after is our own, writes @sbg1.bsky.social link.newyorker.com/click/385133...
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How can a single MAGA say with a straight face that they aren't concerned about what Trump and Musk are up to after their total explosion over Hillary's emails?
February 6, 2025 at 9:38 PM
How can a single MAGA say with a straight face that they aren't concerned about what Trump and Musk are up to after their total explosion over Hillary's emails?
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80% of the people who hold positions of power in America are christian. It was 95% for more than 200 years. The only anti-christian sentiment today is by Trump and the GOP towards people who authentically follow the words of Jesus.
February 7, 2025 at 12:33 PM
80% of the people who hold positions of power in America are christian. It was 95% for more than 200 years. The only anti-christian sentiment today is by Trump and the GOP towards people who authentically follow the words of Jesus.
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🚨🚨 26 Senate Dems, led by Sen. Blumenthal, DEMAND the Secretary of the VA step up and defend Veterans from Elon Musk’s data grab.
Elon has NO RIGHT to our private health information.
THANK YOU Senators for standing up for Veterans!
Elon has NO RIGHT to our private health information.
THANK YOU Senators for standing up for Veterans!
February 6, 2025 at 11:00 PM
🚨🚨 26 Senate Dems, led by Sen. Blumenthal, DEMAND the Secretary of the VA step up and defend Veterans from Elon Musk’s data grab.
Elon has NO RIGHT to our private health information.
THANK YOU Senators for standing up for Veterans!
Elon has NO RIGHT to our private health information.
THANK YOU Senators for standing up for Veterans!
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NEW: Shortly after Pam Bondi was sworn in Wednesday, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger asked her to drop the Department of Justice’s lawsuit challenging the state’s 2021 voter suppression law, S.B. 202.
I warned you, Raffensperger is no hero. He is a GOP vote suppressor.
I warned you, Raffensperger is no hero. He is a GOP vote suppressor.
Raffensperger Asks Federal Government for Help Suppressing Voters
Read more.
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February 6, 2025 at 6:01 PM
NEW: Shortly after Pam Bondi was sworn in Wednesday, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger asked her to drop the Department of Justice’s lawsuit challenging the state’s 2021 voter suppression law, S.B. 202.
I warned you, Raffensperger is no hero. He is a GOP vote suppressor.
I warned you, Raffensperger is no hero. He is a GOP vote suppressor.
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A judge ordered the naming rights of the extremist group the Proud Boys be given to the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C.
Historic Black church given 'Proud Boys' trademark calls for stand against hate
A judge ordered the naming rights of the extremist group the Proud Boys be given to the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C.
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February 7, 2025 at 12:02 AM
A judge ordered the naming rights of the extremist group the Proud Boys be given to the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C.
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The world's richest man is taking food and medicine from the world's poorest children
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Opinion | The World’s Richest Men Take On the World’s Poorest Children
I’ve seen U.S.A.I.D. operate around the world, and it’s not woke — it’s lifesaving.
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February 6, 2025 at 9:50 AM
The world's richest man is taking food and medicine from the world's poorest children
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This is your daily reminder that Democrats are failing their supporters. And America. More than ever. As they continue to fold, fragment and get rolled.
For all their tough talk, yesterday, more than half of them in the Senate still voted to confirm a radical election denier for VA Secretary.
For all their tough talk, yesterday, more than half of them in the Senate still voted to confirm a radical election denier for VA Secretary.
February 5, 2025 at 3:13 PM
This is your daily reminder that Democrats are failing their supporters. And America. More than ever. As they continue to fold, fragment and get rolled.
For all their tough talk, yesterday, more than half of them in the Senate still voted to confirm a radical election denier for VA Secretary.
For all their tough talk, yesterday, more than half of them in the Senate still voted to confirm a radical election denier for VA Secretary.
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New via NYT — The CIA sent the White House an unclassified email listing all employees hired by the spy agency over the last two years to comply with an executive order to shrink the federal work force. One former agency officer called the reporting of names a “counterintelligence disaster.”
February 5, 2025 at 6:27 PM
New via NYT — The CIA sent the White House an unclassified email listing all employees hired by the spy agency over the last two years to comply with an executive order to shrink the federal work force. One former agency officer called the reporting of names a “counterintelligence disaster.”
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Well, you get you comeupins and no one to blame but yourself!!!! #ChuckandJim #LoserTrump
February 5, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Well, you get you comeupins and no one to blame but yourself!!!! #ChuckandJim #LoserTrump
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Yes, It’s a Coup and Yes, It’s Targeting You
Yes, It’s a Coup and Yes, It’s Targeting You
January 6 was nothing compared to the current mob of thugs intent on tearing apart our country’s very system of government.
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February 4, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Yes, It’s a Coup and Yes, It’s Targeting You
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Leaders in Russia, Hungary and El Salvador welcomed the Trump administration’s assault on USAID, which many authoritarians have seen as a threat.
Foreign Strongmen Cheer as Musk Dismantles U.S. Aid Agency
Leaders in Russia, Hungary and El Salvador welcomed the Trump administration’s assault on U.S.A.I.D., which many authoritarians have seen as a threat.
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February 5, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Leaders in Russia, Hungary and El Salvador welcomed the Trump administration’s assault on USAID, which many authoritarians have seen as a threat.
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Trump’s move to blame the crash on diversity reflects his instinct to immediately frame major events through his political lens whether facts fit or not. After the terrorist attack in New Orleans, he blamed immigration even though the attacker was a US citizen born in Texas.
January 30, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Trump’s move to blame the crash on diversity reflects his instinct to immediately frame major events through his political lens whether facts fit or not. After the terrorist attack in New Orleans, he blamed immigration even though the attacker was a US citizen born in Texas.
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President Trump without evidence blamed FAA diversity programs and the Biden administration for the deadly midair aircraft collision in Washington, D.C., that took place Wednesday night. No cause has been determined yet.
President Blames D.E.I. and Biden for Crash Under Trump’s Watch
President Trump’s remarks, suggesting without evidence that diversity in hiring and other Biden administration policies somehow caused the disaster, reflected his instinct to immediately frame major e...
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January 30, 2025 at 6:23 PM
President Trump without evidence blamed FAA diversity programs and the Biden administration for the deadly midair aircraft collision in Washington, D.C., that took place Wednesday night. No cause has been determined yet.
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Trump’s instinct after the tragedy was yet again to choose divisiveness. He offered not condolences but conspiracy theories
Trump reacted to a crisis as an observer - and not as the president who had the responsibility of getting answers www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Trump reacted to a crisis as an observer - and not as the president who had the responsibility of getting answers www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Day Trump Became Un-President
The first press conference of Trump’s second term had a lot in common with the freewheeling, falsehood-packed sessions of his first.
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January 31, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Trump’s instinct after the tragedy was yet again to choose divisiveness. He offered not condolences but conspiracy theories
Trump reacted to a crisis as an observer - and not as the president who had the responsibility of getting answers www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Trump reacted to a crisis as an observer - and not as the president who had the responsibility of getting answers www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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