FaultyRanger
@faultyranger.bsky.social
Chiefs Kingdom for 30+ years. Absolute nerd.
Banner photo: Brad Henson Productions
Banner photo: Brad Henson Productions
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I know many of you dislike politics, but I'll be honest, I needed tonight. I needed to be reminded that most Americans didn't want this orange nightmare we are in. That people were willing to show up at the polls, not just on social media, to push back on the 1937 referendum. Keep resisting.
November 5, 2025 at 5:17 AM
I know many of you dislike politics, but I'll be honest, I needed tonight. I needed to be reminded that most Americans didn't want this orange nightmare we are in. That people were willing to show up at the polls, not just on social media, to push back on the 1937 referendum. Keep resisting.
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Need hope in this mess In Americ? Don’t know what you can do? Professor @hcrichardson.bsky.social has sage advice right here:
October 30, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Need hope in this mess In Americ? Don’t know what you can do? Professor @hcrichardson.bsky.social has sage advice right here:
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Shit is a lot right now. I hear ya. But can I just adjust your perspective for a moment?
If you're reading this, you have survived every goddamned thing this timeline, this Universe, has thrown at you.
You can do it again.
I'm proud of you, even if you aren't right at this moment. 💙🤘💙
If you're reading this, you have survived every goddamned thing this timeline, this Universe, has thrown at you.
You can do it again.
I'm proud of you, even if you aren't right at this moment. 💙🤘💙
October 30, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Shit is a lot right now. I hear ya. But can I just adjust your perspective for a moment?
If you're reading this, you have survived every goddamned thing this timeline, this Universe, has thrown at you.
You can do it again.
I'm proud of you, even if you aren't right at this moment. 💙🤘💙
If you're reading this, you have survived every goddamned thing this timeline, this Universe, has thrown at you.
You can do it again.
I'm proud of you, even if you aren't right at this moment. 💙🤘💙
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Longtime HCR readers will know that “What are we doing here, folks?” is basically her screaming profanities at the current situation. It’s dire.
October 26, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Longtime HCR readers will know that “What are we doing here, folks?” is basically her screaming profanities at the current situation. It’s dire.
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October 18, 2025
October 18, 2025
Today, millions of Americans and their allies turned out across the United States and around the globe to demonstrate their commitment to American democracy and their opposition to a president and an ...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
October 19, 2025 at 3:06 AM
October 18, 2025
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To be clear, 20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke this information is the acknowledgement that Stephen Miller is driving the invocation of the Insurrection Act.
invocation of the insurrection act will be the key moment for everyone. the white house, any state where it's invoked, especially the supreme court. all public officials are ultimately responsible for acting in line with the constitution. a false invocation of the insurrection act, itself a ...
Nothing remotely resembling an insurrection is happening anywhere in the country. Any violence associated with protest has been isolated, mild, and, in nearly every case, instigated by federal law enforcement. If we let Trump get away with calling dissent an insurrection, our republic is over.
October 9, 2025 at 2:45 PM
To be clear, 20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke this information is the acknowledgement that Stephen Miller is driving the invocation of the Insurrection Act.
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An unprecedented violation of our civic and Constitutional traditions. Calling every military leader in the world back to the U.S. to hear a wildly inappropriate partisan campaign speech followed by a fascist call to use the military against Americans.
September 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
An unprecedented violation of our civic and Constitutional traditions. Calling every military leader in the world back to the U.S. to hear a wildly inappropriate partisan campaign speech followed by a fascist call to use the military against Americans.
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So:
Fascism is bad
The First Amendment is good
Genocide is an actual fucking crime
And also:
It's appalling to be in 2025 where each of these is not, in fact, taken as part of the baseline shared reality anymore
Fascism is bad
The First Amendment is good
Genocide is an actual fucking crime
And also:
It's appalling to be in 2025 where each of these is not, in fact, taken as part of the baseline shared reality anymore
September 21, 2025 at 8:13 PM
So:
Fascism is bad
The First Amendment is good
Genocide is an actual fucking crime
And also:
It's appalling to be in 2025 where each of these is not, in fact, taken as part of the baseline shared reality anymore
Fascism is bad
The First Amendment is good
Genocide is an actual fucking crime
And also:
It's appalling to be in 2025 where each of these is not, in fact, taken as part of the baseline shared reality anymore
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The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased.
Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power.
Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable.
But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless.
Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power.
Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable.
But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless.
September 20, 2025 at 11:00 PM
The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased.
Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power.
Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable.
But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless.
Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power.
Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable.
But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless.
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For me, it's surrounding myself with loved ones, being proud of what I do, and focusing on the things I can do to make this world a better place. I hope you do the same. See you next go around the Sun.
September 17, 2025 at 2:54 AM
For me, it's surrounding myself with loved ones, being proud of what I do, and focusing on the things I can do to make this world a better place. I hope you do the same. See you next go around the Sun.
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45 and still alive. Seemed impossible when you're not supposed to make it past 3. Many of us don't like aging up, but I say, embrace it. You're not promised tomorrow. So be happy when it comes.
September 17, 2025 at 2:54 AM
45 and still alive. Seemed impossible when you're not supposed to make it past 3. Many of us don't like aging up, but I say, embrace it. You're not promised tomorrow. So be happy when it comes.
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To describe the current state of the world as a daily show of deepening horrors is a massive understatement.
However, I read something today that I think more people should see and read.
I hope she doesn't mind my me sharing it here.
I'd rather be an X-Men by @gailsimone.bsky.social
However, I read something today that I think more people should see and read.
I hope she doesn't mind my me sharing it here.
I'd rather be an X-Men by @gailsimone.bsky.social
September 13, 2025 at 4:38 PM
To describe the current state of the world as a daily show of deepening horrors is a massive understatement.
However, I read something today that I think more people should see and read.
I hope she doesn't mind my me sharing it here.
I'd rather be an X-Men by @gailsimone.bsky.social
However, I read something today that I think more people should see and read.
I hope she doesn't mind my me sharing it here.
I'd rather be an X-Men by @gailsimone.bsky.social
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Government not by fact but by ideology. Always a disaster because officials try to make reality fit their vision. Lysenkoism in the USSR, which tried to change the laws of nature, created famines that killed tens of millions of people in the USSR and China.
TAPPER: Hepatitis A, whooping cough, & chickenpox cases are rising in Florida. Before you made this decision to lift vaccine mandates, did your dept do any analysis of how many new cases there will be?
LADAPO: Absolutely not
T: You didn't even do a projection?
L: It's an issue of right & wrong
LADAPO: Absolutely not
T: You didn't even do a projection?
L: It's an issue of right & wrong
September 7, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Government not by fact but by ideology. Always a disaster because officials try to make reality fit their vision. Lysenkoism in the USSR, which tried to change the laws of nature, created famines that killed tens of millions of people in the USSR and China.
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Never before in our history has one man exercised such unbridled discretion affecting the lives of so many of us, while simultaneously preventing others — Congress, the courts, the American people — from having a say or even knowing what he’s going to do next.
This is what dictatorship looks like.
This is what dictatorship looks like.
August 27, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Never before in our history has one man exercised such unbridled discretion affecting the lives of so many of us, while simultaneously preventing others — Congress, the courts, the American people — from having a say or even knowing what he’s going to do next.
This is what dictatorship looks like.
This is what dictatorship looks like.
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There was an interesting question I saw from someone recently that was asking why there are no historians writing "for the other side." Essentially, why are there no "pro-Trump Heather Cox Richardsons?" The answer lies in our training.
August 24, 2025 at 12:01 PM
There was an interesting question I saw from someone recently that was asking why there are no historians writing "for the other side." Essentially, why are there no "pro-Trump Heather Cox Richardsons?" The answer lies in our training.
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I think it’s high time we take back the national narrative. For centuries Americans of all races, genders, religions, and abilities have worked to create a more perfect union, and we should shout from the rooftops that WE are America. Not these idiot white supremacist authoritarians.
August 18, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I think it’s high time we take back the national narrative. For centuries Americans of all races, genders, religions, and abilities have worked to create a more perfect union, and we should shout from the rooftops that WE are America. Not these idiot white supremacist authoritarians.
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He didn't get to the moon but he got his crew home, and that was the more remarkable task.
www.nbcnews.com/news/rcna223...
www.nbcnews.com/news/rcna223...
Astronaut Jim Lovell, famed Apollo 13 commander, dies at 97
Lovell was also the first astronaut to go to space four times and part of the Apollo 8 crew, the first to launch on the Saturn V rocket and first to orbit the moon.
www.nbcnews.com
August 8, 2025 at 8:10 PM
He didn't get to the moon but he got his crew home, and that was the more remarkable task.
www.nbcnews.com/news/rcna223...
www.nbcnews.com/news/rcna223...
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A little bit of a bump for the new stuff in my shop ♥️
Shares are a huge way to help support your favorite artist or crafter!
Shares are a huge way to help support your favorite artist or crafter!
Up early and in the studio working. Just got all of those pieces that I finished yesterday listed in the shop.
Limited quantities on each. Come on by and check them out!
All proceeds going directly to my landlord Jeremy's boat payment 😒 it be what it be lol.
ko-fi.com/mcetching/shop
Limited quantities on each. Come on by and check them out!
All proceeds going directly to my landlord Jeremy's boat payment 😒 it be what it be lol.
ko-fi.com/mcetching/shop
August 7, 2025 at 12:25 AM
A little bit of a bump for the new stuff in my shop ♥️
Shares are a huge way to help support your favorite artist or crafter!
Shares are a huge way to help support your favorite artist or crafter!
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Picard morality tip: The moment you consider yourself morally superior to someone due to your genetics is the moment you prove you are not.
July 16, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Picard morality tip: The moment you consider yourself morally superior to someone due to your genetics is the moment you prove you are not.
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Picard civics tip: If there is one truth, one constant that history shows us over and over, it is that resistance is never futile.
July 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Picard civics tip: If there is one truth, one constant that history shows us over and over, it is that resistance is never futile.
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Picard social tip: A Vulcan can laugh. A Klingon can soothe. A Ferengi can give. Your preconceptions are not facts.
July 8, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Picard social tip: A Vulcan can laugh. A Klingon can soothe. A Ferengi can give. Your preconceptions are not facts.
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Listen, I'm tired of being diplomatic on social media about this. This guy doesn't care how many disabled people are kicked off government insurance. JD Vance said the Medicaid cuts are "immaterial." Elon called us parasites. Let's stop pretending this administration doesn't hate disabled people.
Russ Vought: "There's like, no downside to this bill. This is not one where you have to say pros and cons. It's all good."
July 7, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Listen, I'm tired of being diplomatic on social media about this. This guy doesn't care how many disabled people are kicked off government insurance. JD Vance said the Medicaid cuts are "immaterial." Elon called us parasites. Let's stop pretending this administration doesn't hate disabled people.
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APOLLO 13 was released 30 years ago today. One of the most popular films of Tom Hanks, and a huge hit on its release, the tale of how the film came to the screen is worthy of the extraordinary real life mission…
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June 30, 2025 at 10:01 AM
APOLLO 13 was released 30 years ago today. One of the most popular films of Tom Hanks, and a huge hit on its release, the tale of how the film came to the screen is worthy of the extraordinary real life mission…
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Stoke fear. Exploit desperation. Suspend the rule of law. Fan brutality.
Every time the stronger brutalize the weak, it’s fundamentally the same playbook.
Our duty is to stand up to brutality.
Our moral obligation is to protect the vulnerable and hold the powerful accountable.
Every time the stronger brutalize the weak, it’s fundamentally the same playbook.
Our duty is to stand up to brutality.
Our moral obligation is to protect the vulnerable and hold the powerful accountable.
June 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Stoke fear. Exploit desperation. Suspend the rule of law. Fan brutality.
Every time the stronger brutalize the weak, it’s fundamentally the same playbook.
Our duty is to stand up to brutality.
Our moral obligation is to protect the vulnerable and hold the powerful accountable.
Every time the stronger brutalize the weak, it’s fundamentally the same playbook.
Our duty is to stand up to brutality.
Our moral obligation is to protect the vulnerable and hold the powerful accountable.