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therealodysseus.bsky.social
Odysseus
@therealodysseus.bsky.social
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Retired former Intelligence and Information Technology professional. Democrat and proud veteran. PNW.

There’s a kite blowing out of control on the breeze…
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"Leftists are rigging elections!" Girl... if we were, you'd have free healthcare, affordable rent, and a solar powered flying car by now.
November 13, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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SHAME!!!!!!!
From top left: Democratic Sens. Dick Durbin, Jacky Rosen, John Fetterman and Catherine Cortez Masto. From bottom left: Democratic Sens. Jeanne Shaheen, Maggie Hassan and Tim Kaine, with independent Sen. Angus King.
November 10, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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Unfettered capitalists, especially those who espouse authoritarian and fascist values, don’t care to understand Keynesian economics. It is counterintuitive to their thought process. There are just too many uninformed souls who don’t understand how it works, but would support it if they did…
Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social Medicare for All would save $450B a year. Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity. Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall. It's not about what this country can or can't afford. It's about priorities.
November 9, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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Something’s on the floor of the chicken coop… doo doo, doo doo…
Cartoon image of Foghorn Leghorn.
October 21, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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Enough of this tail-wagging-the-dog nonsense. Get serious!
Photo of JFK, caption: ASK NOT WHAT YOUR COUNTRY CAN DO FOR YOU ASK WHERE ARE THE EPSTEIN FILES
October 21, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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Bernie Sanders: No Speaker Johnson, you're not going to frighten us. You're not going to silence us. We will continue to stand up for American democracy. The millions of Americans who have been rallying across this country, and the millions more who are planning to protest on October 18th, do not "hate America." They are not "Hamas." Quite the contrary. They love America, our Constitution and those who have fought to maintain American freedom. These protesters are ordinary Americans who are disgusted by your plan to take health care away from 15 million and double premiums for 20 million in order to provide a trillion dollars in tax breaks for the 1%. They are Americans who oppose Trump rapidly moving our country toward authoritarianism by threatening to arrest his political opponents, intimidating the media, slashing funds for states who voted against him, deploying the military into American cities and illegally firing tens of thousands of federal employees. You may not be familiar with the Constitution of the United States, but the First Amendment and peaceful protest have always been an essential part of what makes us a democracy. Too many Americans have fought and died to defend that democracy. We will not betray them.
October 14, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Yes, but it will be another good distraction from the EPSTEIN FILES!

EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN! EPSTEIN!
"A shutdown falls on the president's lack of leadership. I mean problems start from the top and they have to get solved from the top. A shutdown means the president is weak." Donald J. Trump 2013
September 27, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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RELEASE THE DAMN EPSTEIN FILES!!!!!
Thomas Massie: Tonight, Congress will vote to lower the age to prosecute minors as adults from 16 down to 14 in DC. Let me get this straight: Congress wants to prosecute 14 yr. olds as adults, but they don't want to prosecute adults who sexually abuse 14 year olds? Release the Epstein files.
September 17, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Men crammed into elevator cars. This photo was taken of miners at the end of their shift during the Gilded Age before they were unionized. Somewhere there were people at the top of the company who felt there was nothing wrong with this picture. This Labor Day remember the blood, sweat, and tears that those before us paid to give the working class the basic rights we enjoy today. h/t John Koehlor
September 1, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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ANOTHER DISTRACTION, FOR THE EPSTEINTH TIME.
August 31, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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ANOTHER DISTRACTION, FOR THE EPSTEINTH TIME.
August 31, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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Alt National Park Service We see all the MAGA comments asking, "what freedoms are you giving up?" If you have to ask, you're not paying attention. The freedoms under attack aren't vague or abstract. They're the very foundation of this country. The right to assemble and protest without being met with force, the freedom of speech and press without fear of being silenced, the guarantee that civilians (not the military) police our communities, the right to privacy without constant surveillance, and the promise of due process under the law. Every time these liberties are handed over for the illusion of safety, we move closer to losing both liberty and safety altogether.
August 28, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Eddie Foley • If you're using undocumented people's tax records to find them and kidnap them, then it was never about them not paying taxes. If you're showing up at their place of employment, then it was never about them not working. If you're showing up at courthouses, it was never about getting them to do it the right way. If you're kidnapping women and children, it was never about criminals. If you're not giving them due process, it was never about the Constitution. And if you're spending billions of dollars to do it, it was never about the economy. And if you're doing all of this in the name of a 34-time convicted felon, then it was never about following the law.
August 28, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Shame…
I'M JUST FOLLOWING ORDERS.
July 11, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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How the hell did we get where we are? The dumbing down of America…
Out of the blue I asked, "Have you ever read Reinhold Niebuhr?" Obama's tone changed. "I love him. He's one of my favorite philosophers." So I asked, What do you take away from him? "I take away," Obama answered in a rush of words, "the compelling idea that there's serious evil in the world, and hardship and pain. And we should be humble and modest in our belief we can eliminate those things. But we shouldn't use that as an excuse for cynicism and inaction. I take away ... the sense we have to make these efforts knowing they are hard, and not swinging from naive idealism to bitter realism." brainstatic I just want to remind everyone that we once had presidents who talked like this and we still can again.
July 8, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Boat
June 29, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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NEWS: Latest update from the nonpartisan budget office says the Senate Republican bill now cuts nearly $1 TRILLION from Medicaid.
June 29, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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I do believe Jesus is weeping…
Wyden NEWS: Latest update from the nonpartisan budget office says the Senate Republican bill now cuts nearly $1 TRILLION from Medicaid.
June 29, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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Veteran White House reporter Brian J. Karem chimed in, "You just started a war without Congressional authorization or even a shred of understanding and you are demanding the end of it?"
June 22, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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June 15, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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It seems to be all about marketing…
June 8, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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Hmmm….
thebetterbull Breaking News President Trump will sign an executive order tomorrow at 9 a.m. to cut prescription drug prices in the U.S. between 30-80% Plan includes a "Most Favored Nation" rule-tying U.S. drug prices to the lowest globally. Somehow Democrats will find this horrible because of their hate for Trump politicsinthewild Biden signed an Executive Order that did this very thing. Trump then signed an EO, which reversed that previous Biden EO. Trump now signs an EO that reverses his reversal, so that he can take credit for it. Sure, it's objectively good. But it is also objectively stupid.
May 13, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Cult of personality…
@ PawlowskiMario Trump officially entered the psychotic emperor phase. He's not coming back. The Pope image was it. That was the line. He crossed it and kept walking. This isn't trolling anymore. This is clinical delusion. The tariffs on movies. Reopening Alcatraz. These aren't policies. This is a man deep in a psychotic loop thinking revenge is leadership and trolling is governance. He's in a feedback loop with his cult. Every time he does something more insane, MAGA cheers louder. And every cheer convinces him he's still the chosen one. So he takes it further. And further. He's not trying to win. He's trying to feel worship. He's not making decisions. He's playing dress-up in his own hallucination. And the worst part? His cult loves it. Because they're broken like him. Because in their minds, every delusion he has is another way to "own the libs." This is the loop now. The psychotic, delusional, final act. And MAGA is clapping along like it's a church revival. No one's driving the bus anymore. They're just throwing gasoline and screaming kumbaya and Hallelujah.
May 5, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Fixed it…
Portrait of Trump as pope.
May 3, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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Trump and the pope.
April 22, 2025 at 1:58 AM