Hal 🦋
@hoobot.bsky.social
Gen-X dad, husband, humanist, in Texas
I swear a lot but it’s for a good cause
💫Trekkie, Reader, Sci Fi is the best fiction 💫
I swear a lot but it’s for a good cause
💫Trekkie, Reader, Sci Fi is the best fiction 💫
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“Americans are mostly paying for the tariffs,” says George Saravelos, global head of FX research at Deutsche Bank: Here’s your Evening Briefing.
Americans Seem to Be the Ones Paying Trump’s Tariffs
Get caught up.
bloom.bg
July 22, 2025 at 10:30 PM
“Americans are mostly paying for the tariffs,” says George Saravelos, global head of FX research at Deutsche Bank: Here’s your Evening Briefing.
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The morning that Cmdr. Elizabeth Nakagawa was scheduled to have a D&C to remove fetal tissue after losing a very wanted pregnancy, she learned the surgery had been canceled because the military’s health insurance plan refused to pay for it.
(Published Dec. 2024)
(Published Dec. 2024)
A Coast Guard Commander Miscarried. She Nearly Died After Being Denied Care.
U.S. service members have long faced strict limits on abortions, even when used to resolve miscarriages. Under federal law, the military will only pay for abortions in cases of rape, incest or to…
www.propublica.org
July 23, 2025 at 3:00 AM
The morning that Cmdr. Elizabeth Nakagawa was scheduled to have a D&C to remove fetal tissue after losing a very wanted pregnancy, she learned the surgery had been canceled because the military’s health insurance plan refused to pay for it.
(Published Dec. 2024)
(Published Dec. 2024)
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🚨🚨🚨UNDERSTAND THIS:
THEY SHUT DOWN CONGRESS for a PEDOFILE‼️🤬🤮
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THEY SHUT DOWN CONGRESS for a PEDOFILE‼️🤬🤮
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Congress didn’t shut down to help you. Not for rent, not for schools, not for justice. They shut it down to stall the Epstein files. To protect the powerful.
To buy silence. Call it what it is:
they shut it down for a pedophile.
To buy silence. Call it what it is:
they shut it down for a pedophile.
July 22, 2025 at 7:59 PM
🚨🚨🚨UNDERSTAND THIS:
THEY SHUT DOWN CONGRESS for a PEDOFILE‼️🤬🤮
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THEY SHUT DOWN CONGRESS for a PEDOFILE‼️🤬🤮
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BREAKING: Trump “actively looking at” suspending habeas corpus — which would allow government to arrest, exile, detain, and even kill ANY of us.
With NO trial, NO lawyer, NO judge ever hearing from you.
It would be the death of freedom in America.
With NO trial, NO lawyer, NO judge ever hearing from you.
It would be the death of freedom in America.
May 10, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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AND Given Authority by a Complicit Supreme Court........🤔
May 9, 2025 at 2:13 AM
AND Given Authority by a Complicit Supreme Court........🤔
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Time to start sharpening the pitchforks…
They are literally trying to kill us
www.washingtonpost.com/transportati...
www.washingtonpost.com/transportati...
FAA suspends work of independent panel reviewing air traffic control
The FAA ordered an independent panel hired to recommend ways to strengthen oversight of its air traffic control operations to stop work.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 8, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Time to start sharpening the pitchforks…
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"We can't ever let this happen again." I mean that with every fiber of my being. Democracy is not self-sustaining. It needs defenders. It needs truth-tellers. It needs people who will stand up — and stay standing — even when it’s hard, even when it's dangerous."
open.substack.com/pub/harrydun...
open.substack.com/pub/harrydun...
We Will Not Stand Down
This week, I stood on stage at the Tulsa Air and Space Museum, looking out at a room full of people who believe in this country as deeply as I do.
open.substack.com
April 29, 2025 at 1:28 AM
"We can't ever let this happen again." I mean that with every fiber of my being. Democracy is not self-sustaining. It needs defenders. It needs truth-tellers. It needs people who will stand up — and stay standing — even when it’s hard, even when it's dangerous."
open.substack.com/pub/harrydun...
open.substack.com/pub/harrydun...
@sanfrancisco49ers.bsky.social you idiots could have drafted Sanders and you didn’t?? Morons.
April 26, 2025 at 11:26 PM
@sanfrancisco49ers.bsky.social you idiots could have drafted Sanders and you didn’t?? Morons.
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As abortion restrictions continue to curtail access to basic reproductive health care, and the largely unregulated crisis pregnancy center industry’s presence has drastically expanded, some lawmakers from Florida to Hawaii are pushing back with legislation.
Lawmakers are trying to hold crisis pregnancy centers to account
Post-Dobbs the GOP has given them millions in taxpayer dollars.
www.motherjones.com
April 10, 2025 at 5:07 PM
As abortion restrictions continue to curtail access to basic reproductive health care, and the largely unregulated crisis pregnancy center industry’s presence has drastically expanded, some lawmakers from Florida to Hawaii are pushing back with legislation.
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A GOP-controlled state appeals court ruled last week that over 65,000 lawful votes cast in North Carolina's Supreme Court race can be thrown out — potentially handing the race to the Republican candidate.
This is what stealing an election actually looks like.
This is what stealing an election actually looks like.
April 7, 2025 at 6:15 PM
A GOP-controlled state appeals court ruled last week that over 65,000 lawful votes cast in North Carolina's Supreme Court race can be thrown out — potentially handing the race to the Republican candidate.
This is what stealing an election actually looks like.
This is what stealing an election actually looks like.
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This is absolutely horrifying. People can't afford to file Habeas petitions. And how is anyone going to enforce that this actually happens? And what about the people there that did NOT get due process?
#BREAKING: 5-4 Court, with Barrett joining the three Dem. appointees in dissent *vacates* Chief Judge Boasberg’s temporary restraining orders in the Alien Enemy Act cases. Judicial review must be available, Court holds, but has to come through habeas petitions:
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
www.supremecourt.gov
April 7, 2025 at 11:50 PM
This is absolutely horrifying. People can't afford to file Habeas petitions. And how is anyone going to enforce that this actually happens? And what about the people there that did NOT get due process?
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The government is slashing public health jobs, gutting vaccine programs, and fueling a measles comeback. This is not reform—it’s sabotage.
adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/make-ameri...
adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/make-ameri...
Make America Sick Again
RFK Jr.’s War on Public Health Is Putting Lives at Risk
adamkinzinger.substack.com
April 7, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The government is slashing public health jobs, gutting vaccine programs, and fueling a measles comeback. This is not reform—it’s sabotage.
adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/make-ameri...
adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/make-ameri...
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Pete Hegseth Calls For Steep Cuts To Number Of Steps In AA Recovery
Pete Hegseth Calls For Steep Cuts To Number Of Steps In AA Recovery
WASHINGTON—Lambasting the current program as wasteful, bloated, and entirely unnecessary, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called for steep cuts Monday to the number of steps in the Alcoholics Anonymous...
theonion.com
March 31, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Pete Hegseth Calls For Steep Cuts To Number Of Steps In AA Recovery
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Vaccines. 💪🏻💪🏻
And yet Joe Rogan puts guests on who say "Vaccines aren't actually responsible for the reduction in infectious diseases.”
March 30, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Vaccines. 💪🏻💪🏻
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There is no moral equivalence between bullies and the bullied, between tyranny and democracy, or between brutality and decency. No individual can be free in a society devoid of justice. There can be no liberty where brutality reigns.
March 29, 2025 at 9:00 PM
There is no moral equivalence between bullies and the bullied, between tyranny and democracy, or between brutality and decency. No individual can be free in a society devoid of justice. There can be no liberty where brutality reigns.
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The Speaker of the House is living in a house in DC rent free…
And guess what?
It’s owned by the HERITAGE FOUNDATION!
Are you surprised?!
And guess what?
It’s owned by the HERITAGE FOUNDATION!
Are you surprised?!
March 28, 2025 at 4:35 PM
The Speaker of the House is living in a house in DC rent free…
And guess what?
It’s owned by the HERITAGE FOUNDATION!
Are you surprised?!
And guess what?
It’s owned by the HERITAGE FOUNDATION!
Are you surprised?!
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Infinity pool atop a Bangkok skyscraper during today's earthquake.
March 28, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Infinity pool atop a Bangkok skyscraper during today's earthquake.
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“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
time.com
March 22, 2025 at 8:52 PM
“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
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Like the Koch brothers and other conservative billionaires, Dunn and Wilks want to slash regulations and taxes.
Their endgame, however, is more radical: not just to limit the government but also to steer it toward Christian rule.
(Published Oct. 2024)
Their endgame, however, is more radical: not just to limit the government but also to steer it toward Christian rule.
(Published Oct. 2024)
A Pair of Billionaire Preachers Built the Most Powerful Political Machine in Texas. That’s Just the Start.
Tim Dunn and Farris Wilks are poised to take their Christian nationalist agenda nationwide.
propub.li
March 23, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Like the Koch brothers and other conservative billionaires, Dunn and Wilks want to slash regulations and taxes.
Their endgame, however, is more radical: not just to limit the government but also to steer it toward Christian rule.
(Published Oct. 2024)
Their endgame, however, is more radical: not just to limit the government but also to steer it toward Christian rule.
(Published Oct. 2024)