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Paul Amirault
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Los Angeles TV producer, writer, and Resister/Opposer happy to be breathing the clean air here at BlueSky

I'm not usually such a potty mouth, but fascists piss me off. Also, I just binge watched Ted Lasso.
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True.
Meme text reads: "What I thought Ice Monsters were growing up…What they really are." Top photo: The Abominable Snowman. Bottom photo: One of Donald Trump's ICE agents.
November 16, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Yes, I voted.

California peeps, please return your ballots ASAP for the November 4th Special Election to thwart Republican gerrymandering. #YesOnProp50
White-haired, bearded man wearing a green shirt, a green baseball cap and glasses shows off his ballot for the California Special Election, right before it's placed in the collection box. In the background, a patch of sunlight illuminates a tan building with several cars in the parking lot.
October 16, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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This week's Skyfeed cleanse. A colorful tapestry of sunset clouds stretching over Big Tujunga Canyon in the Angeles National Forest northwest of Los Angeles.
Colorful sunset at Big Tujunga Canyon in the Angeles National Forest northwest of Los Angeles.
October 1, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Guess I'm overdue for a Skyfeed cleanse. This shot I took on Labor Day weekend down at Venice Beach.

Hope to step away again and connect with nature this weekend...and wishing my Bluesky friends will have the opportunity to do the same. 💙
An early September 2025 sunset from Venice Beach, CA. In the background, the orange orb of the sun sets behind the distant hills. Beneath the horizon, a breaking wave cuts across the photo at an angle, and in the impact zone below it, several layers of pale blue-and-orange-tinged water can be seen. To the right, four distant bathers (seen in silhouette) gaze at the setting sun.
September 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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One of the many things I love about living in California is you always find the best bathroom graffiti. 😍
Sticker found on bathroom wall in an undisclosed location in Southern California. It reads: "HE'S WRONG! DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT"
August 5, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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Time for another Skyfeed cleanse. This was last night's sunset in the Angeles National Forest.

For much of yesterday, smoke from the massive Gifford Fire north of Santa Barbara was funneled south to the L.A. area, ultimately creating the backdrop for an exceptionally brilliant sunset.
Sunset photo taken in the San Gabriel Mountains of Southern California on August 3, 2025. The view is from SR 2, aka the Angeles Crest Highway. A brilliant orange sunset can be seen in the distance beyond several different layers of blue and green hills and mountains. Yellow and orange clouds lay low across the horizon, and a powerful orange sunbeam passes diagonally through the center of the image. Thin stalks of a spiky green plant are seen popping up at the bottom of the frame.
August 4, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Fun fact: I created this protest sign in November of 2016...and almost a decade later, the message--sadly--is still valid. 🤬
Photo from the "Rage Against The Regime" protest on Saturday, August 2, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. Pictured is a bearded, white-haired man in a cowboy hat holding a sign that reads, "THERE IS NOTHING GREAT ABOUT "TRUMP'S AMERICA." In the lower-right hand corner of the sign is cartoon image of an angry/distressed piece of "poo."
August 2, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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One of my favorite signs from this morning's "Rage Against The Regime" protest in Los Angeles.
Protest sign from "Rage Against the Regime" protest on Saturday, August 2, 2025 in Los Angeles, CA. In the center is a colorful cartoon effigy of Donald Tr*mp inside a prison cell clutching the bars. The text reads, "Lock the Liar UP!"
August 2, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Since I'm overdue for a Skyfeed cleanse, here's a shot I took this afternoon in Redondo Beach, California. Seeing the dramatic clouds over the ocean, I had to pull over.

Hope everyone's getting a chance to de-stress a bit this weekend. 😍
A gray beach day in Redondo Beach, California. In the foreground is a strip of brown sand containing a few scattered people. Behind it, a line of breaking waves, a strip of blue-green water, and a wall of dramatic storm clouds punctuated by sunbeams shooting through the occasional openings. .
July 20, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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A Thread: Bunker Hill—One Week Later

Just days after the Battle of Bunker Hill on June 17, 1725, the bodies of the colonists killed in the action—including my relative, John Hammond, of Newburyport, MA—were buried on Breed’s Hill by the victorious English troops.

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The masthead of the Colonial Massachusetts newspaper, the "Essex Journal and Merrimack Packet," published on Friday, June 23, 1775. This edition of the paper included an account of the Battle of Bunker Hill, which had occurred the previous week in Charlestown. Article about the Battle of Bunker Hill, which the Colonial Massachusetts newspaper, the "Essex Journal and Merrimack Packet," published on Friday, June 23, 1775. Unfortunately, the paper's editors chose to bury the story on page 3.
June 24, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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Enjoying the small pleasures of life....

(I wish there was a fly-swatter emoji)

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Screen cap from Bluesky showing an account I recently blocked that purported to be Hillbilly Excrement, JD Vance.
June 19, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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250 years ago tonight, my 5th Great Grandfather, a resident of Newbury (Newburport, MA), took part in the battle commemorated by this granite obelisk. His 25-year-old brother, John, did as well. Their unit provided cover after the fortification on this hill was overwhelmed

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A shot of Bunker Hill Monument in Charlestown, MA. In the rear, the granite monument commemorating the battle rises near the crest of the hill against a clear blue sky. In the foreground, some trees, a light post, a black fence, and a white car are seen.
June 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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I don't know about you, but I'm really liking this "War of the Gargantuas" remake so far.
Still from "War of the Gargantuas," a 1966 Japanese kaiju film where giant, ugly, humanoid monsters fight each other to the death while trampling Tokyo. In this scene, the brown-orange one (to the left) splashes water to goad the green one (on the right) into throwing a giant tugboat at him.
June 6, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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This week's Sky Feed cleanse:

A late afternoon view at Devil's Punchbowl County Park in the Angeles National Forest north of L.A.
In the foreground, a bushy bed of native grasses is speckled with white flowers. In the background, various granite rock formations can be seen to the left, and a series of distant, folding hills to the right, all bathed in the reddish-orange glow of the approaching sunset. Furthest back is a strip of cloudy sky reflecting the sun's golden hue.
May 29, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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A little humor to take the edge off the series finale of "The Handmaid's Tale." 🤣
Handmaid's Tale's June Osborne sits on a couch hugging her young daughter, Nicole, while glancing wryly into the camera. In the backgound, a night cityscape is seen through large windows that have been decorated with strings of holiday lights.
May 28, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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As a timeline cleanse, here's a photo I took last night at Venice Beach.

Overnight, I seem to have acquired a lot of new followers (Thanks, Pete!) Welcome, everybody, and please be patient as I vet and follow back.
View at sunset from Venice Beach, California on May 10, 2025. On the left is the Venice Fishing Pier. In the distance near the water's edge, the silhouettes of several people can be seen checking out the view. In the far distance, a sail boat passes in front of the red-orange and peach-colored clouds that rise above the scene.
May 11, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Still my favorite Trump baby blimp meme.

And a great metaphor for what he's doing to the country.
Meme widely circulated in 2017 of the Trump Baby balloon standing in for the Hindenberg airship, which exploded in Lakehurst, NJ in 1937.
May 10, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Another thing about Musk I frankly find astonishing is that many of the arguments he's used to rail against the federal government--that it's "inefficient," that regulations "stifle innovation," etc.--were the SAME falsehoods Ocean Gate founder Stockton Rush used to justify skimping out on

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Underwater video screen grab of the detached tail cone of the Titan submersible, which was found near the Titanic wreck site standing upright in the sand. Public domain mage retrieved from Wikipedia
May 8, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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The fact that this simpering headline was published by the same paper that risked everything to reveal the truth about the unjust war in Vietnam...and whose aggressive Watergate- scandal reporting in the 70s forced the criminal GOP president, Richard Nixon, from office...will never not sicken me.
Headline from the Washington Post from 5-5-2025 that reads: "Alcatraz's lore captivated America. Now it's inspiring Trump." It's accompanied by an aerial shot of the island prison in San Francisco bay, which is now administered by the National Park Service.
May 6, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Grogu's here with a message:

Happy Star Wars Day to all who celebrate. #Maythe4th be with you!
May 4, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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While scrolling on social media, I'm always on the lookout for fun moments of (unintentional) newsfeed synchronicity. Here's the first one I've come across on Bluesky.... 🤣
First post reads "Donald & Elon" and shows a cartoon image of an armed Trump and Musk in a convertible Cybertruck making a "Thelma and Louise" style suicide jump into the Grand Canyon; the second post simply reads, "ice road fuckers."
May 2, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Bullshitting around the Campfire

A thread

As the Trump administration continues its relentless assault on the truth, I’ve been thinking a lot about a camping trip from long ago. The year was 1978, in New Hampshire’s White Mountains at the peak of fall foliage season, which was an

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Moody shot of a circular campfire at night with glowing orange coals and yellow flames licking pieces of dark wood View of the Swift River in Albany, NH in autumn on a sunny day with two white birch trees in the foreground and a mountain peeking out over the forest in the background. An assortment of red, yellow, and orange leaves are visible throughout. The area is part of the White Mountain National Forest, along the scenic Kancamagus Highway, where my family made our annual fall campout for decades.
May 2, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Thanks to @northjules.bsky.social, it appears I got a lot of new followers today. Thanks so much! (Please be patient and I'll follow back soon!) Otherwise, I spent the day off the grid rejuvenating in the mountains north of LA. Def what the doc ordered. Here are the highlights from the trip. 😍
Joshua trees and desert grasses mingle in Walker Pass in northeastern Kern County. The Sierra Nevada Mountains stretch in the distance beneath a moody sky. A closer view of the Sierra Nevada range, as seen from Walker Pass in northeastern Kern County. In the foreground, Joshua trees and desert grasses and Joshua trees mingle beneath a moody sky. The grassy shoreline of Lake Isabella with the Sierra Nevada mountains in the background. The windswept water reflects the dramatic cloudy sky. Dusk in the San Gabriel mountains north of Los Angeles near Mt. Wilson Road. Storm clouds roil the background sky, while a patch of fresh snow covers the hillside in the foreground.
April 28, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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Also, Pete: Is that a line of make-up bleed on your white color?

('Course, If you had a decent producer, they never would've let you out looking like that....But anyhoo. 🤣 )
Screen capture of Trump Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth from a recent White House event. An uneven, flesh-colored line appears where Hegseth's neckline meets the collar of his white shirt, suggesting some of his make-up rubbed off.
April 24, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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A thread.

This weekend marks the 250th Anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, and numerous celebrations will take place honoring the ordinary citizens who risked their lives standing up to the army of a despotic king.

But the fact that this all is happening at a time when

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Sign from Lexington, Massachusetts reading "Welcome to Lexington Battle Green" with a cloudy sky in the background. This marks the site where British troops fired on Lexington residents who were assembled in the town's center (called "the Green") at the start of the American Revolution on April 19, 1775.
April 17, 2025 at 10:59 PM