@spartan68
@spartan68.bsky.social
Retired Optometrist. Practiced in downtown Pittsburgh for 47 years. Love movies and books. “Hope is the warrior emotion.”
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Happy Birthday to "The Chief," Art Rooney Sr., born this day in 1901. The one-man play by the same name starring Phil Winters opens at the Pittsburgh Playhouse at Point Park University Feb. 4 and runs through Super Bowl Sunday.
January 27, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Happy Birthday to "The Chief," Art Rooney Sr., born this day in 1901. The one-man play by the same name starring Phil Winters opens at the Pittsburgh Playhouse at Point Park University Feb. 4 and runs through Super Bowl Sunday.
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Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"
January 25, 2026 at 8:24 PM
Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"
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No one can be watching this Davos speech and reach any conclusion but that the President of the United States is mentally disturbed and that something is deeply wrong with him. This is both embarrassing and extremely dangerous.
January 21, 2026 at 2:49 PM
No one can be watching this Davos speech and reach any conclusion but that the President of the United States is mentally disturbed and that something is deeply wrong with him. This is both embarrassing and extremely dangerous.
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Yes!
Kristi Noem has been a complete and total failure at her job. She has violated her oath and has allowed ICE agents to terrorize our communities.
That’s why I’m joining @robinkelly.house.gov in calling for her impeachment.
We deserve better, she’s gotta go.
That’s why I’m joining @robinkelly.house.gov in calling for her impeachment.
We deserve better, she’s gotta go.
January 14, 2026 at 9:45 PM
Yes!
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So, true story, I was home alone at about 15 reading "Salem's Lot." My parents were gone somewhere on travel. And I read it through to the end and oof, it creeped me out - and then there was a banging at the window.
(My cat used to do that to let us know he wanted to come back in.) Nearly died.
(My cat used to do that to let us know he wanted to come back in.) Nearly died.
I grew up in a farmhouse with one tv channel. When night gallery was on and my parents weren’t home, I’d turn the tv off because it scared me. All I had then was a radio. Looking back those days weren’t bad because I had to find something else to do…like read a book. Egads. Read?
January 12, 2026 at 4:48 AM
So, true story, I was home alone at about 15 reading "Salem's Lot." My parents were gone somewhere on travel. And I read it through to the end and oof, it creeped me out - and then there was a banging at the window.
(My cat used to do that to let us know he wanted to come back in.) Nearly died.
(My cat used to do that to let us know he wanted to come back in.) Nearly died.
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Has anyone else noticed that the EPSTEIN FILES are still being held back. Less than 1% have been released. Another blatant refusal to accept oversight from our pitifully weak congress. 🗽
January 10, 2026 at 12:33 PM
Has anyone else noticed that the EPSTEIN FILES are still being held back. Less than 1% have been released. Another blatant refusal to accept oversight from our pitifully weak congress. 🗽
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“IT WAS MURDER”
Several hundred people have formed a human banner at San Francisco’s Ocean Beach today (Sat Jan 10, 2026)
👏👏
(📸 Erik Castro)
Several hundred people have formed a human banner at San Francisco’s Ocean Beach today (Sat Jan 10, 2026)
👏👏
(📸 Erik Castro)
January 10, 2026 at 8:57 PM
“IT WAS MURDER”
Several hundred people have formed a human banner at San Francisco’s Ocean Beach today (Sat Jan 10, 2026)
👏👏
(📸 Erik Castro)
Several hundred people have formed a human banner at San Francisco’s Ocean Beach today (Sat Jan 10, 2026)
👏👏
(📸 Erik Castro)
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The goal here is martial law. It’s martial law. Let’s be clear about that.
January 10, 2026 at 6:22 PM
The goal here is martial law. It’s martial law. Let’s be clear about that.
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All across the country, we want to give a huge shout-out to everyone who showed up, organized, and stood together in the streets Minneapolis, St. Paul, Chicago, New York City, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Miami, Los Angeles,
January 11, 2026 at 2:12 AM
All across the country, we want to give a huge shout-out to everyone who showed up, organized, and stood together in the streets Minneapolis, St. Paul, Chicago, New York City, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Miami, Los Angeles,
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DAVE MATTHEWS: “I don’t want my taxes to pay for masked thugs to roam our streets & terrorize our communities... She was trying to get away. He shot her 3x in the head. Murdered in cold blood. They’re trying to tell us not to believe what we see. FUCK ICE.”
(H/T @marcofoster.bsky.social )
(H/T @marcofoster.bsky.social )
January 10, 2026 at 6:11 PM
DAVE MATTHEWS: “I don’t want my taxes to pay for masked thugs to roam our streets & terrorize our communities... She was trying to get away. He shot her 3x in the head. Murdered in cold blood. They’re trying to tell us not to believe what we see. FUCK ICE.”
(H/T @marcofoster.bsky.social )
(H/T @marcofoster.bsky.social )
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Trump's ICE thug Jonathan Ross murdered Renee Good not because he was in danger. He murdered her because his fragile MAGA male ego was insulted.
The moment ICE thug Jonathan Ross switched his phone (he was recording the verbal exchange) from his LEFT hand to his RIGHT hand to reach for his gun was the moment he decided to murder Renee Good. He was not in danger. He was an angry white MAGA man trying to put a woman "in her place".
January 10, 2026 at 6:03 PM
Trump's ICE thug Jonathan Ross murdered Renee Good not because he was in danger. He murdered her because his fragile MAGA male ego was insulted.
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Veteran journalist Jennifer Schulze @newsjennifer.bsky.social says on my podcast about citizens recording ICE "the video documentation of what is happening is really essential to us understanding what our government is doing to us." Clips by @chattjazz.bsky.social www.patreon.com/c/PoliticsWi...
January 9, 2026 at 7:42 PM
Veteran journalist Jennifer Schulze @newsjennifer.bsky.social says on my podcast about citizens recording ICE "the video documentation of what is happening is really essential to us understanding what our government is doing to us." Clips by @chattjazz.bsky.social www.patreon.com/c/PoliticsWi...
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It’s like it’s the first time anyone has ever seen the state try to cover the asses of poorly trained, trigger happy cops
I'm not trying to be oppositional, but I mean... The state is endorsing her murder as justified. It took them 5 minutes to fall lockstep behind calling this dead woman a domestic terrorist. I don't see how it's not fascism.
January 8, 2026 at 2:09 AM
It’s like it’s the first time anyone has ever seen the state try to cover the asses of poorly trained, trigger happy cops
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“It’s dead on arrival,” Gene Fidell, an expert on the Uniform Code of Military Justice who teaches at Yale Law, told me. “If this ever gets in front of a judge, the judge is going to say, ‘Fuck you.’”
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
The Military Isn’t MAGA
The Trump administration attempts to silence veterans.
www.theatlantic.com
January 7, 2026 at 7:54 PM
“It’s dead on arrival,” Gene Fidell, an expert on the Uniform Code of Military Justice who teaches at Yale Law, told me. “If this ever gets in front of a judge, the judge is going to say, ‘Fuck you.’”
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Sometimes I think mockery is a very good tool to show how people in a bubble believe really nutty things
January 5, 2026 at 1:18 AM
Sometimes I think mockery is a very good tool to show how people in a bubble believe really nutty things
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I understand this but I don't think the rest of us should leave because of mediocre college seminar gadflies, failed grapic novelists, middle-aged faux revolutionaries, and other griefers who want to use social media as their instrument of self-actualization.
I’m going to be taking a break from Bluesky for a while.
There’s a lot of good here but increasingly this place just makes me sad and angry and, increasingly, foul tempered and mean. It’s not good for me or anyone else.
I’ll check DMs occasionally but otherwise I’ll be away for a bit. Take care.
There’s a lot of good here but increasingly this place just makes me sad and angry and, increasingly, foul tempered and mean. It’s not good for me or anyone else.
I’ll check DMs occasionally but otherwise I’ll be away for a bit. Take care.
January 6, 2026 at 6:13 AM
I understand this but I don't think the rest of us should leave because of mediocre college seminar gadflies, failed grapic novelists, middle-aged faux revolutionaries, and other griefers who want to use social media as their instrument of self-actualization.
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It would be so cool if the United States Congress still existed.
January 4, 2026 at 5:04 AM
It would be so cool if the United States Congress still existed.
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The United States has now given Russia, China, and anyone else who wants to give it a try an even clearer road map for invading countries that displease them.
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
Maybe Russia and China Should Sit This One Out
Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping are just shocked—shocked!—by the American attack on Venezuela.
www.theatlantic.com
January 3, 2026 at 8:29 PM
The United States has now given Russia, China, and anyone else who wants to give it a try an even clearer road map for invading countries that displease them.
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
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Trump won’t lie. He started a social media company called Truth Social. 🤦🏻♀️
January 3, 2026 at 2:34 AM
Trump won’t lie. He started a social media company called Truth Social. 🤦🏻♀️
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CBS News and the whole MAGA lot:
January 3, 2026 at 3:32 AM
CBS News and the whole MAGA lot:
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His "Golden Fleet" is has lead hulls.
Trump’s press conference today was among his more haywire performances, and his slushy delivery and meandering answers will not halt speculation about his cognitive health.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Trump’s Vanity Fleet
The Trump-class ships are about branding, not strategy.
www.theatlantic.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:14 PM
His "Golden Fleet" is has lead hulls.
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Sometime around 2029
Hours before 60 Minutes was set to air a story on deportees who were sent by the Trump administration to prison in El Salvador, describing “brutal and torturous conditions,” 60 Minutes announced that it has pulled the segment and will air it in the future.
December 22, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Sometime around 2029
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This is some really bleak shit, folks. Take a hard look at your president.
December 20, 2025 at 2:28 AM
This is some really bleak shit, folks. Take a hard look at your president.
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WATCH-- Former AG Eric Holder says Congress should consider impeachment for the DOJ officials responsible for holding back the Epstein files: “That's a nuclear option that Congress has.”
December 20, 2025 at 1:43 AM
WATCH-- Former AG Eric Holder says Congress should consider impeachment for the DOJ officials responsible for holding back the Epstein files: “That's a nuclear option that Congress has.”