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Retired Navy, still a soccer player. Learning to live life in the vast lane near family for the first time in my life
Came for the pet pics, stayed for the soul balm

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Senator Scott Wiener

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We’re announcing new legislation — the No Secret Police Act (SB 627) — to ban local/state/federal law enforcement, w/ some exceptions, from covering their faces when interacting w/ the public & require them to wear identifying info.

The secret police behavior we’re seeing destroys trust & must end🧵

June 16, 2025 at 2:25 PM

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Harry Eccles

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Repost if BlueSky is now your main social media 🙏

January 29, 2025 at 12:26 PM

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Peter Sagal

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This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.

benion
Grieving a wasted life
At a point in life when there are far too many days behind than ahead, one tends to
re-elected in contrast to standing up for the
reflect on a life lived. In my lifetime decades
greater good?
were devoted to protecting America. Sacri
A compromised Supreme Court recently
fices were made both by myself and my fam-
trotted out a shallow token standards of
Ily in military service. The tip of the spear:
conduct for themselves. Apparently it's
Countless weeks over the years were spent
not a bribe to accept favors after a deci-sion; only before. Corporations are people?
living at the end of a runway on alert with an Really? Whatever happened to Superman's armed B-52 as generations of aviators have motto of "truth, justice, and the American done before and since.
way?"
The purpose: if required, be airborne
Pay-to-play is the theme of the day. Un-
in minutes on a one-way trip bringing a
challenged and uncontested blatant conflicts
nuclear Armageddon to an adversary. Fly:
of interest abound. The rule of law is situ-
ing the unfriendly skies over North Viet-
ational if adhered to at all. America can no
nam provided a brief interlude, but overall,
longer be trusted. The unbridled pursuit of
this long line of silent sentinels stood firm
power and wealth driven by unquenchable
to protect America by deterring external
greed has left service above self and Con-
threats to our freedoms and way of life
stitutional norms in the dustbin of a quaint
across the decades. I was privileged to serve past. with men and women of integrity imbued
Recently the VA said exposure to Agent
with a sense of service.
Orange is the probable cause of the can-
I'm truly grateful that the B-52s we flew, which were built tough, were engineered
cers I live with. Actually I suspect it's more from yet unspecified sources, which cause
on scientific principles and fabricated by experienced, skilled workers rather than
military pilots to have significantly higher
founded on mere beli…

March 11, 2025 at 10:04 PM

ndsoccermomma.bsky.social

@ndsoccermomma.bsky.social

Great bullet points describing what's going on right now
"... the first step towards changing the system is to understand it"
www.alternet.org/your-job-sav...

The terrifying reality of Trump's second term: Your job, savings and freedom are at risk

As we come to the end of a difficult year, it’s important to establish a baseline for seeing how much worse Trump will make the American system starting January 20. Here are 20 current realities for w...

www.alternet.org

January 2, 2025 at 12:12 PM

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Jess Piper

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It’s really not left vs right.

It’s a class war. The billionaires vs the rest of us.

December 12, 2024 at 4:23 PM

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Donna Schwartz Mills

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Trygve Hammer was a Democratic candidate for the House in North Dakota. It turns out that he's also a fantastic writer. Here he explains the correlation between tariffs, mass deportations, & inflation and what to expect in rural red states like his.

open.substack.com/pub/trygveha...