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Galen W
@galen1.bsky.social
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We have the right to be treated equally before the law. We have the right to have a say in our government. No 👑
Tries to be kind. Leaning left in western Colorado.
No DMs unless agreed upon in advance. Really.
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JD is willing to lie to you to make a point. He doesn’t respect you.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
JD Vance admits he is willing to create stories to get media attention.
August 28, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Monopoly guy and the current occupant happily watch fireworks with figures representing the elderly, the working class, the poor, and veterans strapped to them before bursting in air.
July 5, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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My little guy loves his perch by the window but spent yesterday evening huddled in this tunnel placed as far from windows as I could find.
Kitty with black and white markings tucked into a snug tunnel during the blowing things up phase of 4 July.
July 5, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Our society is being impoverished on many levels.
By exacerbating economic inequality, plundering state assets, favoring ideology over expertise, and killing, imprisoning, and forcing into exile large numbers of talented people, strongmen impoverish the societies they rule. — Ruth Ben-Ghiat in ”Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present”
April 19, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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The strongman does not care about you. He never has. He never will.
Hitler moved into his Berlin bunker and left Germans to their fate. Like Mussolini, he blamed his own people for the unfolding catastrophe. But he also felt they should be obliterated due to their unworthiness. “Let it perish and be annihilated by some stronger power. …I shall shed no tears for the German nation” — from Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present by Ruth Ben-Ghiat
April 18, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Hannah Arendt on totalitarianism. Sound familiar?
Hannah Arendt’s 1951 observation: the ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (I.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (I.e. the standards of thought) no longer exist. — Ruth Ben-Ghiat, “Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present”
April 13, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Quoting Norman J Ornstein and Thomas E Mann
The GOP has become an insurgent outlier in American politics. It is ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence, and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition. — Ruth Ben-Ghiat in “Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present”
April 9, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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All this mess has really been getting to me today. Stopped doom scrolling and did some work in the yard. I found the first flower, a Siberian Iris. I thought they were all gone but this one popped up about 10 feet from where I planted some years ago.
A tiny purple Siberian iris blooms in the winter leaf litter.
March 2, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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My mom would have been 100 today. I miss her.
Me (left) and Mom in the early 1970s. A mother and daughter, heads touching. I have braces. Mom is wearing glasses. We both have unfortunate bangs.
February 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Sorry I can’t read the text in the thumbnail so as to type it out. It’s a Pearls Before Swine cartoon about how the wealthy divide us for power and control.
January 31, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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This dude is pretending to be journalist Gil Duran @gilduran.com Report and block this fake and give the real Gil a follow.
January 18, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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What Rebecca Solnit says
People often suggest we quit our platforms; I stopped using Twitter because it's become a heavily manipulated right-wing hellscape, but THE IDEA WE SHOULD ALL GO SILENT AND BE UNABLE TO COMMUNICATE WITH EACH OTHER JUST AS AN INCOMING ADMINISTRATION THAT WOULD LOVE US TO BE SILENT, UNCONNECTED, AND DISENGAGED ARRIVES SEEMS LIKE AN INCREDIBLY BAD IDEA. Yeah, that boycott FB starting Sunday thing going around: No. Nope. Definitely not. I've known Zuckerberg was evil and FB was a mess since at least 2016 (and have been telling you so on this very platform) and I'm not going anywhere. A lot of boycott ideas amount to "disengage, stand aside" and I want to see everyone do the opposite. There are boycotts that have an impact; this does not look like one either in impact or scale; a mid-size bunch of anti-Trumpists being very quiet is not powerful. p.s. Don't click on ads and do keep criticizing Zuck and Meta. Be noisy.
January 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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January 4, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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It’s Caturday and it’s hot. #Caturday
Black and white harlequin cat snoozing on a cat tree with his floofy white belly up and paws akimbo. There are beans visible on the right rear paw. The cat tree has seen better days.
June 8, 2024 at 7:07 PM
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American fascism isn’t new but it has taken over a major party.
March 12, 2024 at 2:37 PM
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I found this in my driveway today. It clearly time travelled here.
Sunday comics page dated Sunday, January 21, 2024.
January 15, 2024 at 11:24 PM
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November 30, 2023 at 4:59 PM