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oldclown.bsky.social
@oldclown.bsky.social
Believer in freedom, not tyranny. Retired professional clown. I’m a happy, muddled mess.
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April 13, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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"Hundreds of military children who are students at Defense Department schools across the globe walked out of class to protest book bans, curriculum changes and restrictions on extracurricular activities that have resulted from Trump's crackdown on diversity." www.military.com/daily-news/2...
Hundreds of Students at Military Base Schools Walk Out to Protest Trump Administration’s Anti-Diversity Policies
The walkouts, which included about a dozen schools on U.S. military bases in Europe, Asia and at least one stateside, represent the biggest collective action military children have taken since the sta...
www.military.com
April 12, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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In a 12-1 vote, Boston City Council approved a resolution making the city a sanctuary for transgender and gender diverse people #NOH8
March 13, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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"No Other Land," the powerful joint Palestinian-Israeli film on the destruction and removal of Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank, has won the Academy Award for best documentary.
March 3, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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"Most of EPA’s work happens behind the scenes, like when one of its enforcement teams raided a warehouse in Colorado full of mislabeled oil barrels that had been prepared for a landfill and discovered they contained nuclear waste..."

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/o...
Opinion | Three Former E.P.A. Leaders: You’ll Miss It When It’s Gone
When the next environmental catastrophe arrives, who will be there to deal with the emergency and its aftermath?
www.nytimes.com
February 27, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Heard from inside the National Cancer Institute, part of NIH — travel through April is canceled. Purchasing with government card is frozen. All public comms are off limits. Can’t even submit abstracts to future meetings. Can’t submit *manuscripts* for publication. All hiring activity frozen. Fuck.
January 25, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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March 7, 1965 it was a crisp 41 degrees as John Lewis marched peacefully, with head high and shoulders back, across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, AL. Knowing what was waiting on the other side John Lewis did what was right. I hope, if tested, I have this kind of bravery.
January 19, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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January 12, 2025 at 11:08 PM
How’s it going, Blue Sky, Peeps!
November 21, 2024 at 4:19 PM
Hi, there! Happy hump day!
November 13, 2024 at 2:33 PM