Tim LXVII
@graben57.bsky.social
NC Democrat. Retired Medic. Campbell Geology. Married to Kathy.
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Our viral front page today was very simple. We told the facts about Donald Trump, a man who doesn't like the facts 👇
'Is this real?!': America reacts to The National's viral front page
www.thenational.scot
July 25, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Our viral front page today was very simple. We told the facts about Donald Trump, a man who doesn't like the facts 👇
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We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman.
June 22, 2025 at 12:24 AM
We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman.
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The No Kings protest map will help you find a place to exercise your First Amendment rights this weekend. (It's also a pretty good argument against the Electoral College.) www.nokings.org
June 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The No Kings protest map will help you find a place to exercise your First Amendment rights this weekend. (It's also a pretty good argument against the Electoral College.) www.nokings.org
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Today's art: the political cartoon 'Throwing Down the Ladder by Which They Rose', by Thomas Nast, 1870, in Harper's Weekly. Descendants of immigrant denying other immigrants the same opportunities the former were afforded. Will we ever learn?
March 25, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Today's art: the political cartoon 'Throwing Down the Ladder by Which They Rose', by Thomas Nast, 1870, in Harper's Weekly. Descendants of immigrant denying other immigrants the same opportunities the former were afforded. Will we ever learn?
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History does not repeat itself. But sometimes it rhymes.
1978; Poland on the brink… John Paul II, first Polish Pope elected.
2025; America on the brink… Leo XIV, first American Pope elected.
1978; Poland on the brink… John Paul II, first Polish Pope elected.
2025; America on the brink… Leo XIV, first American Pope elected.
May 8, 2025 at 6:14 PM
History does not repeat itself. But sometimes it rhymes.
1978; Poland on the brink… John Paul II, first Polish Pope elected.
2025; America on the brink… Leo XIV, first American Pope elected.
1978; Poland on the brink… John Paul II, first Polish Pope elected.
2025; America on the brink… Leo XIV, first American Pope elected.
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📸 @DrBiden just dropped a new pic with @JoeBiden in NYC, captioned: “Date Night.”
Man, I miss them.
Man, I miss them.
March 23, 2025 at 10:42 PM
📸 @DrBiden just dropped a new pic with @JoeBiden in NYC, captioned: “Date Night.”
Man, I miss them.
Man, I miss them.
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The foundation of democracy is not voting, essential as it is, it is an informed citizenry. That is why one of the paramount jobs of autocrats is to attack education, free thought, ideas, speech, knowledge & facts themselves. And that is just what Trump, Musk and MAGA are doing. Everywhere you look.
March 8, 2025 at 4:07 PM
The foundation of democracy is not voting, essential as it is, it is an informed citizenry. That is why one of the paramount jobs of autocrats is to attack education, free thought, ideas, speech, knowledge & facts themselves. And that is just what Trump, Musk and MAGA are doing. Everywhere you look.
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Did you know David Gilmour once sold his £3 million London mansion and donated every penny to a homeless charity called Crisis? He said, "I don't need all this luxury while others are fighting for a roof."
No media catwalk, no rockstar egos-just pure generosity.
He quietly changed lives❤️
No media catwalk, no rockstar egos-just pure generosity.
He quietly changed lives❤️
March 6, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Did you know David Gilmour once sold his £3 million London mansion and donated every penny to a homeless charity called Crisis? He said, "I don't need all this luxury while others are fighting for a roof."
No media catwalk, no rockstar egos-just pure generosity.
He quietly changed lives❤️
No media catwalk, no rockstar egos-just pure generosity.
He quietly changed lives❤️
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French Senator Claude Malhuret:
"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
March 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
French Senator Claude Malhuret:
"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
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Republicans have been advised to avoid in-person town halls after confrontations over layoffs go viral.
Meaning those fucking cowards are ashamed to look their constituents in the eye after what they did.
Don’t take no for an answer. If they refuse to talk to you go to them and demand answers...
Meaning those fucking cowards are ashamed to look their constituents in the eye after what they did.
Don’t take no for an answer. If they refuse to talk to you go to them and demand answers...
March 5, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Republicans have been advised to avoid in-person town halls after confrontations over layoffs go viral.
Meaning those fucking cowards are ashamed to look their constituents in the eye after what they did.
Don’t take no for an answer. If they refuse to talk to you go to them and demand answers...
Meaning those fucking cowards are ashamed to look their constituents in the eye after what they did.
Don’t take no for an answer. If they refuse to talk to you go to them and demand answers...
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We seem now to be isolated on the world stage, with an improved relationship only with Russia in exchange for demolished relationships with all our main allies. Has there ever been a time in human history when a national leader has undermined so many alliances so quickly? 
March 1, 2025 at 8:22 PM
We seem now to be isolated on the world stage, with an improved relationship only with Russia in exchange for demolished relationships with all our main allies. Has there ever been a time in human history when a national leader has undermined so many alliances so quickly? 
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The foreign policy of a nation often reflects its leader. Our foreign policy is now churlish, acquisitive, brutish, impulsive, reckless, callous, boorish, expansionist, shallow, ignorant, exploitive, nasty, dishonest, manipulative, corrupt and unethical. A reflection of our president.
March 1, 2025 at 12:23 PM
The foreign policy of a nation often reflects its leader. Our foreign policy is now churlish, acquisitive, brutish, impulsive, reckless, callous, boorish, expansionist, shallow, ignorant, exploitive, nasty, dishonest, manipulative, corrupt and unethical. A reflection of our president.
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Annual flu shots save 10s of thousands of lives in the US.
Trump's FDA has cancelled the VRBPAC meeting which would have selected strains for inclusion in next fall's vaccines, leaving the question of when or even if this will happen. Could cost thousands of lives.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...
Trump's FDA has cancelled the VRBPAC meeting which would have selected strains for inclusion in next fall's vaccines, leaving the question of when or even if this will happen. Could cost thousands of lives.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...
F.D.A. Cancels Meeting of Vaccine Experts Scheduled to Advise on Flu Shots
The cancellation plays into fears among scientists who worry that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will use his position as health secretary to sow doubts about vaccines.
www.nytimes.com
February 27, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Annual flu shots save 10s of thousands of lives in the US.
Trump's FDA has cancelled the VRBPAC meeting which would have selected strains for inclusion in next fall's vaccines, leaving the question of when or even if this will happen. Could cost thousands of lives.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...
Trump's FDA has cancelled the VRBPAC meeting which would have selected strains for inclusion in next fall's vaccines, leaving the question of when or even if this will happen. Could cost thousands of lives.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...
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President Zelenskyy has more courage, principle and honor in his right pinky than Trump has displayed in his whole, vile lifetime.
February 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
President Zelenskyy has more courage, principle and honor in his right pinky than Trump has displayed in his whole, vile lifetime.
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Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)
February 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)
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Just a reminder that fascists, authoritarians, dictators of all stripes destroy archives— books, museums, databases, &c— because those things provide windows onto a plurality of other ways we might organize the world.
And so preserving, defending, and spreading that knowledge harms those regimes.
And so preserving, defending, and spreading that knowledge harms those regimes.
February 19, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Just a reminder that fascists, authoritarians, dictators of all stripes destroy archives— books, museums, databases, &c— because those things provide windows onto a plurality of other ways we might organize the world.
And so preserving, defending, and spreading that knowledge harms those regimes.
And so preserving, defending, and spreading that knowledge harms those regimes.
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While you were so worried Socialism would take your freedoms, Capitalism stole your pension, took your savings, sent your jobs abroad, robbed you of health care, put you in debt, destroyed the environment, and told you to worship billionaire fascists, leaving you only your racism, hate, & bitterness
February 12, 2025 at 10:46 AM
While you were so worried Socialism would take your freedoms, Capitalism stole your pension, took your savings, sent your jobs abroad, robbed you of health care, put you in debt, destroyed the environment, and told you to worship billionaire fascists, leaving you only your racism, hate, & bitterness
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Our VP met with far-right German party AfP while in Europe. In case you don’t know who they are, I wrote about it when Musk argued that party, Nazi leanings & all, was Germany’s future. joycevance.substack.com/p/musk-in-di...
Musk in Die Welt
It did not take long for Eva Marie Kogel, the opinion editor at Die Welt, Germany’s paper of record, to decide what the right thing for her to do was.
joycevance.substack.com
February 15, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Our VP met with far-right German party AfP while in Europe. In case you don’t know who they are, I wrote about it when Musk argued that party, Nazi leanings & all, was Germany’s future. joycevance.substack.com/p/musk-in-di...
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Most people in the US have no idea about the attacks on federally funded science or our government institutions. Many (or most!) of your family, coworkers, neighbors, and friends have no idea. My own MAGA dad thinks DOGE is just identifying waste, and that nothing has been cut. We have to tell them.
February 15, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Most people in the US have no idea about the attacks on federally funded science or our government institutions. Many (or most!) of your family, coworkers, neighbors, and friends have no idea. My own MAGA dad thinks DOGE is just identifying waste, and that nothing has been cut. We have to tell them.
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Btw you know why judges keep forcing the Administration to restore things they’ve vaporized?
Because they keep breaking the fuc-ing law over and over again.
Because they keep breaking the fuc-ing law over and over again.
BREAKING
Federal Judge Amy Berman Jackson just issued an order preventing the Trump administration from:
1. Deleting CFPB data
2. Firing CFPB employees
3. Transferring money from CFPB's reserve fund
Right after the order was issued, nearly all CFPB employees were placed on administrative leave
Federal Judge Amy Berman Jackson just issued an order preventing the Trump administration from:
1. Deleting CFPB data
2. Firing CFPB employees
3. Transferring money from CFPB's reserve fund
Right after the order was issued, nearly all CFPB employees were placed on administrative leave
February 14, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Btw you know why judges keep forcing the Administration to restore things they’ve vaporized?
Because they keep breaking the fuc-ing law over and over again.
Because they keep breaking the fuc-ing law over and over again.
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Trump firing the 300 people who oversee our nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile and then realizing the gravity of his mistake before trying to backtrack is a perfect encapsulation of how is dangerous incompetence is putting the entire world at risk.
Don’t let anyone forget it.
Don’t let anyone forget it.
February 15, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Trump firing the 300 people who oversee our nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile and then realizing the gravity of his mistake before trying to backtrack is a perfect encapsulation of how is dangerous incompetence is putting the entire world at risk.
Don’t let anyone forget it.
Don’t let anyone forget it.