Bob A
@onkelbob.bsky.social
Not your uncle Bob, someone else's uncle Bob.
A clear, complete, correct, and concise analysis of a famous image; worth the time to read and subsequently contemplate.
Occasional artwork: Because It’s The Dream — Crooked Timber
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November 28, 2025 at 5:25 PM
A clear, complete, correct, and concise analysis of a famous image; worth the time to read and subsequently contemplate.
The temper and zeitgeist of the country is more 1850's US then 1930's Germany.
Abraham Lincoln, 1855.
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![I am not a Know-Nothing. That is certain. How could I be? How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes, be in favor or degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes" When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics." When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy [sic].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:egd33s7iuqsmwlwab6mbtrqi/bafkreiaaicjid4jg3oongeah73ukqvwsqv4vwbp75q4f755nldtcfermhi@jpeg)
November 28, 2025 at 4:55 PM
The temper and zeitgeist of the country is more 1850's US then 1930's Germany.
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The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
November 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
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Happy Victory for US Arms and Down With Treasonous Slavers Day!
Uncomfortable with the First Thanksgiving Narrative? Good News, it’s Actually a Civil War Holiday
Take heart, all you who grow unsettled at the time of year where the narrative of friendly Pilgrims and American Indians is spread around to make us feel good about a brief moment in American histo…
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November 27, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Happy Victory for US Arms and Down With Treasonous Slavers Day!
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Happy Thanksgiving Eve to all of my followers who are exactly the type that would enjoy this
November 26, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Happy Thanksgiving Eve to all of my followers who are exactly the type that would enjoy this
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Two National Guardsmen were shot in Washington, D.C.
Democrats immediately express their sympathy for the victims and their families.
Republicans immediately spread conspiracy theories to blame Democrats for the shooting.
Anyone still believe both parties are the same?
Democrats immediately express their sympathy for the victims and their families.
Republicans immediately spread conspiracy theories to blame Democrats for the shooting.
Anyone still believe both parties are the same?
November 26, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Two National Guardsmen were shot in Washington, D.C.
Democrats immediately express their sympathy for the victims and their families.
Republicans immediately spread conspiracy theories to blame Democrats for the shooting.
Anyone still believe both parties are the same?
Democrats immediately express their sympathy for the victims and their families.
Republicans immediately spread conspiracy theories to blame Democrats for the shooting.
Anyone still believe both parties are the same?
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James Bond supervillains threaten to blow up the world with their big laser unless you pay them a trillion dollars.
Real American supervillains embed themselves in the economy and threaten to cause a depression unless you subsidize their sex robots and the weird chatbots they use to avoid humans.
Real American supervillains embed themselves in the economy and threaten to cause a depression unless you subsidize their sex robots and the weird chatbots they use to avoid humans.
November 26, 2025 at 7:25 PM
James Bond supervillains threaten to blow up the world with their big laser unless you pay them a trillion dollars.
Real American supervillains embed themselves in the economy and threaten to cause a depression unless you subsidize their sex robots and the weird chatbots they use to avoid humans.
Real American supervillains embed themselves in the economy and threaten to cause a depression unless you subsidize their sex robots and the weird chatbots they use to avoid humans.
Example infinity as to why polls are unreliable indicators of anything useful.
56% of Americans believe alien probably exists, and 47% — 83% of those who believe aliens exist — think they have probably visited Earth.
I want to know more — do 44% of Americans think humans are the only technological species ever to have existed in the entirety of the universe?
I want to know more — do 44% of Americans think humans are the only technological species ever to have existed in the entirety of the universe?
New polling on aliens
% of U.S. adult citizens who believe the following definitely or probably exist:
Aliens 56%
Bigfoot 28%
The Yeti 23%
The Loch Ness Monster 22%
Chupacabra 16%
today.yougov.com/health/artic...
% of U.S. adult citizens who believe the following definitely or probably exist:
Aliens 56%
Bigfoot 28%
The Yeti 23%
The Loch Ness Monster 22%
Chupacabra 16%
today.yougov.com/health/artic...
November 26, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Example infinity as to why polls are unreliable indicators of anything useful.
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Utterly ludicrous framing from @nytimes.com here, treating Pete Hegseth's arguments as if they're legitimate. The casual reader will be left with no inkling whatsoever of how unusual and corrupt an abuse of the process this truly is:
November 24, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Utterly ludicrous framing from @nytimes.com here, treating Pete Hegseth's arguments as if they're legitimate. The casual reader will be left with no inkling whatsoever of how unusual and corrupt an abuse of the process this truly is:
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All I'm sayin' is that we didn't bail out Ty when Beanie Babies crashed.
November 24, 2025 at 11:32 PM
All I'm sayin' is that we didn't bail out Ty when Beanie Babies crashed.
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We’re living through crazy times - it’s getting to the point where you can’t even go to an Al Jardine show with Eric Idle without being dragged up on stage to sing “Barbara Ann”!
November 24, 2025 at 9:41 PM
We’re living through crazy times - it’s getting to the point where you can’t even go to an Al Jardine show with Eric Idle without being dragged up on stage to sing “Barbara Ann”!
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You don't hate the press enough
Over many interviews, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Michael Scherer about how he plans to remake America’s public-health system. Can he lead the scientific establishment he’s spent much of his life crusading against?
Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
November 24, 2025 at 4:26 PM
You don't hate the press enough
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Most accounts on Twitter turn out to be Russian MAGA bots. Here’s why Bluesky has an intellectual diversity problem
November 23, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Most accounts on Twitter turn out to be Russian MAGA bots. Here’s why Bluesky has an intellectual diversity problem
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Heiltsuk First Nation set up video cameras to investigate why crab traps were being damaged. Cameras captured a sea wolf pulling a buoy with its mouth. Then it pulled the attached line to bring up the trap and opened it to eat the contents.
Possibly learned from watching the traps being set
Possibly learned from watching the traps being set
Cameras capture BC sea wolf raiding crab traps in first possible ‘tool use’
YouTube video by Global News
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November 23, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Heiltsuk First Nation set up video cameras to investigate why crab traps were being damaged. Cameras captured a sea wolf pulling a buoy with its mouth. Then it pulled the attached line to bring up the trap and opened it to eat the contents.
Possibly learned from watching the traps being set
Possibly learned from watching the traps being set
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If you stop all the vaccines tomorrow, in 10 years, the rates of autism would stay exactly the same but there would be about 30-40% less children in this country.
Breaking News: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he personally instructed the CDC to abandon its position that vaccines do not cause autism. The move underscores his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy — in this case, that vaccines save lives — and bend the health department to his will.
RFK Jr. Says He Instructed CDC to Change Vaccines and Autism Language on Website
In an interview, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited gaps in vaccine safety research. His critics say he is ignoring a larger point: Vaccines save lives.
nyti.ms
November 21, 2025 at 8:56 PM
If you stop all the vaccines tomorrow, in 10 years, the rates of autism would stay exactly the same but there would be about 30-40% less children in this country.
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I used to work at a suburban newspaper. Every week there were school superintendents exposed as embezzlers, police captains racking up DUIs, county officials doing favors for relatives' businesses. All that is less visible now, and the absence of shame leads to normalization.
one of the underrated factors for the rise in scamming across U.S. society is the death of local media.
It gets lost in the shuffle, but the Speaker of the House is someone who, by all rights, should’ve had his career ended a decade ago by a Shreveport TV news investigative team.
November 21, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I used to work at a suburban newspaper. Every week there were school superintendents exposed as embezzlers, police captains racking up DUIs, county officials doing favors for relatives' businesses. All that is less visible now, and the absence of shame leads to normalization.
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The total moral failure here is that he sees no difference between being “attracted” to someone and doing something about it (like creeping on a kid). He removes human agency and even executive brain function from the equation entirely. This is a big tell for these people on all manner of subjects.
November 18, 2025 at 10:38 PM
The total moral failure here is that he sees no difference between being “attracted” to someone and doing something about it (like creeping on a kid). He removes human agency and even executive brain function from the equation entirely. This is a big tell for these people on all manner of subjects.
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Bank robbery advocates have warned they if every bank refused to let people rob banks it would “financially ruin” the entire industry
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Bank robbery advocates have warned they if every bank refused to let people rob banks it would “financially ruin” the entire industry
Do yourself a favor, don't read it. Lizza has the wordsmithing skills of a freshman on hallucinogens and his subject is exceptionally uninteresting and stale. Your eyes will thank you for avoiding this drivel.
oh my god you have to read this until the end www.telos.news/p/part-1-how...
Part 1: How I Found Out
Olivia had just returned from a reporting trip—at least that’s what she told me it was—and her Herschel backpack, the one with the flap that never quite closed properly, was tossed beside our bed, its...
www.telos.news
November 18, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Do yourself a favor, don't read it. Lizza has the wordsmithing skills of a freshman on hallucinogens and his subject is exceptionally uninteresting and stale. Your eyes will thank you for avoiding this drivel.
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Look, I know we're all sick of hearing "if this had happened with any other president ..." but it's absolutely true and absolutely can't be forgotten.
For some reason, this nation gives this idiotic spoiled brat a free pass from things that would destroy the administration of any other person.
For some reason, this nation gives this idiotic spoiled brat a free pass from things that would destroy the administration of any other person.
When asked if there was anything "incriminating" in Epstein's emails, Trump pointed a finger in a female reporter's face and snapped. 'Quiet. Quiet, Piggy.'
people.com/donald-trump...
people.com/donald-trump...
Donald Trump Snaps at Female Reporter Who Asks About Epstein Files: 'Quiet Piggy'
Donald Trump Says 'Quiet Piggy' to Female Reporter Asking About Epstein Files
people.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Look, I know we're all sick of hearing "if this had happened with any other president ..." but it's absolutely true and absolutely can't be forgotten.
For some reason, this nation gives this idiotic spoiled brat a free pass from things that would destroy the administration of any other person.
For some reason, this nation gives this idiotic spoiled brat a free pass from things that would destroy the administration of any other person.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene was hired, trained, and paid by tech oligarchs & others from the very beginning to be a political troublemaker. With Trump’s downfall looming, Greene is now being strategically groomed to be JD Vance’s vice president.
Mark my words.
Mark my words.
November 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Marjorie Taylor Greene was hired, trained, and paid by tech oligarchs & others from the very beginning to be a political troublemaker. With Trump’s downfall looming, Greene is now being strategically groomed to be JD Vance’s vice president.
Mark my words.
Mark my words.
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A huge district court victory for the University of California.
District courts find facts. This one found "overwhelming evidence" that the Trump administration has pervasively violated the First Amendment in its efforts to coerce and intimidate the University of California.
News story here—
District courts find facts. This one found "overwhelming evidence" that the Trump administration has pervasively violated the First Amendment in its efforts to coerce and intimidate the University of California.
News story here—
‘Unlawful coercion’: Trump can’t withhold funds or demand payment from UC, federal judge rules
A federal judge ruled Donald Trump cannot demand that UCLA pay a $1.2 billion settlement that would have restricted academic freedoms.
calmatters.org
November 15, 2025 at 1:41 AM
A huge district court victory for the University of California.
District courts find facts. This one found "overwhelming evidence" that the Trump administration has pervasively violated the First Amendment in its efforts to coerce and intimidate the University of California.
News story here—
District courts find facts. This one found "overwhelming evidence" that the Trump administration has pervasively violated the First Amendment in its efforts to coerce and intimidate the University of California.
News story here—
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BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
November 14, 2025 at 11:55 PM
BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
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Heaven forbid the Republicans get rid of the filibuster…
November 12, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Heaven forbid the Republicans get rid of the filibuster…
Care more about helping people then about acquiring more things? See what happens?
"People are what count. A sympathetic understanding of the aspirations, the hopes and fears, the traditions and prides of other peoples and nations, is essential to the promotion of mutual prosperity and peace."
~President Dwight D. Eisenhower, May 25, 1956.
Photo: Eisenhower Presidential Library.
~President Dwight D. Eisenhower, May 25, 1956.
Photo: Eisenhower Presidential Library.
November 12, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Care more about helping people then about acquiring more things? See what happens?