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Andy Dimock

@adimock.bsky.social
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New Englander in California Literature, History, Philosophy Trail running and road races Red Sox Nation Girl Dad «Que sais-je?»

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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This Labor Day, ask yourself: Whose labor do I depend upon? Who depends on mine?
Book cover photo of a crowd of strikers, Lawrence (MA) and the 1912 Bread and Roses Strike
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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Odd how US District Judge Jeanine Pirro is going to be fired for her single competent act in that role, one grounded in reality and the law
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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
LA Dodgers ownership, in bid to make team easier to hate, visits WH and gifts Trump a World Series ring Proud to see that Mookie Betts blew the event off The chairman of the team, Mark Walter, owns a financial services firm that’s under federal investigation That ring was a good investment
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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Everyone’s dunking on the WH lawn cage-match, but admit it: the symbolism’s perfect If today really is the day the Iran deal goes through, we’re celebrating what they call, in MMA lingo, the mullahs “submitting” Trump
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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Finite Jest
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Of all the Donald Trump tweets Speaker Mike Johnson won't see, today's will be the one Speaker Mike Johnson didn't see the most.
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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
You’re not safer with a gun in the house “SecWar” Hegseth just lifted the ban on private firearms on military bases. Lethality! But most of it will be aimed at the gun owners themselves, or the people around them
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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
America doesn't belong to strongmen, greedy billionaires, or those who rule through fear — it belongs to us. We're taking to the streets again on March 28 to say NO KINGS. app.sosha.ai/s/8rj8IwBX
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Join me at the next No Kings Day
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
146 workers died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire on this day in 1911. The bosses responsible were never held accountable for the awful working conditions that sparked the blaze. Remember this today as politicians and their corporate backers attack workplace safety.
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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
The scene at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware today: Six soldiers arrive in coffins. POTUS is sporting a USA baseball cap Head Ferret Maintenance takes precedence over the Dignified Transfer of Remains ceremony Trumps it, you might say
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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Oh, Christ. Here we go again. Luckily, bombing Southwest Asia always works out great for us, and the people who live there
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Jonathan @jonathansocials.com · 11/01/2026
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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Old enough to remember how much harder things were in the Cold War days You couldn’t just take phone calls in the White House from your KGB handler. You couldn’t announce them to the public in print, either
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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Brace yourself for a wave of MAGA voices insisting that Portugal isn’t Europe
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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Bari, stop trying to make Erika Kirk happen. She’s not going to happen!
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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
“Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.” - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...
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Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter
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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Armistice Day is Remembrance Day
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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Is it possible the Senate Dems are doing this because they know the Rs won’t honor the deal, so that the party in power gets 100% of the responsibility in the eyes of midterm voters when the crushing ACA hikes come through?
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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Hegseth attacks body fat, declares open season for war crimes, announces the purge of non-white and female personnel Your mission? Go after your unarmed fellow citizens This spectacle is for the type of online man-child whose idea of soldiering comes from drunken rewatches of Zach Snyder’s 300
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Reminder that support for war crimes on TV was Hegseth's only qualification for the job; it's the only reason Trump knew he existed. Secretary of War Crimes is the job he was auditioning for during his career as a drunken talking head on Fox.
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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
An oversize Chevy pickup, festooned with the Stars and Stripes? Rammed through a brick wall, so that the driver can gun down people with an assault rifle and set the church afire? It’s a perfect tableau of America in our moment, somehow
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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Because “Kinetic Strike” sounds way cooler than “murder” Like how bros love the terms “ballistic” and “tactical” Pair that with a snuff film? Goosebumps
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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Why is it amateur hour with the FBI search in Utah? Because the heads of the Federal Bureau of Investigation are, quite literally, amateurs Even if they were competent, flying out into the field to chase views and the press is nothing but a distraction for the agents working the case
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
About this Florida vaccine story: When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough. We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. “Oh, they’d have died.”
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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
This Labor Day, ask yourself: Who depends on my labor? Whose do I depend on?
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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Never fear! Todd Blanche (former Trump personal attorney and now, inexplicably, Deputy U.S. Attorney General) is on the case! Tom Hagen’s about to visit Frankie Pentangeli in federal lockup. He’ll make him an offer he can’t refuse
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AyJay @dcvet.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Carl Sagan predicted this. He was truly ahead of his time. bsky.app/profile/saga...
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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Sure feels strange rooting for the Dodgers organization www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
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Dodgers block ICE agents from entering stadium in Los Angeles
​The MLB organization reportedly had plans to announce assistance for immigrant communities in L.A. today.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Lesson 13 of "On Tyranny": Practice corporeal politics. Find your No Kings protest, June 14th.
Text card, reads: "Practice corporeal politics. Power wants your body softening in your chair and your emotions dissipating on the screen. Get outside. Put your body in unfamiliar places with unfamiliar people. Make new friends and march with them."
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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Are insurgents hitting ICE agents with RPGs? Is the CA National Guard taking casualties from IEDs and suicide bombers? No? Then why in hell is a battalion of Marines headed to LA? This ain’t Fallujah
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California Fast Food Workers Union @cafastfoodunion.org · 09/06/2025
This is the spirit of Los Angeles. This is California. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. #FreeDavidEndRaids
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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
I’ll be there with my 1776 flag and attached “No Tyrants,” “No Oligarchs” pennants. They don’t own the flag of our Republic. I’m attending No Kings's event, “From Palo Alto to Sunnyvale: Historic 7x7k Rally on El Camino Real” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
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From Palo Alto to Sunnyvale: Historic 7x7k Rally on El Camino Real · Mobilize
PLEASE READ COMPLETELY FOR DETAILS! NO KINGS DAY is a National Day of Action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allies. 7X7K is...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Our trade deal so far is no tariffs on Rolls Royces and Bentleys and our refugee policy is white South Africans only.
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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Habemus papam A 9th grader sitting in my class had a live feed of St Peter’s Square up on his screen. (He was supposed to be watching Romeo and Juliet) Over his shoulder, I saw the puff of black smoke I know this kid. Not the theological type “Did you BET on the next Pope?” Yes indeed! A wager
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Steve Bear @steveberry72.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
American citizens still have power as consumers Keep hammering. Your Tesla funds MAGA www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/b...
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Elon Musk Vows to Spend Less Time in Washington as Tesla’s Profit Drops 71%
The carmaker reported the sharp decline in quarterly earnings after its brand suffered because of its chief executive’s role in the Trump administration.
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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
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Trump Administration to defund suicide hotline for LGBTQ+ youth starting in October
A leaked budget draft shows the federal government's plans to eliminate all funding for the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline’s LGBTQ+ Youth Specialized Services.
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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
As for the whole Blue Origin/bachelorette spat, there’s one thing I know: anyone who leaves the atmosphere atop a rocket is risking their lives. The whole ‘lifestyle’ angle makes me grit my teeth, but what they did is more than mere tourism, if less than true space exploration.
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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
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Trump official to Katy Perry and Bezos’ fiancée: “You cannot identify as an astronaut”
It turns out the FAA now takes no role in identifying who is an astronaut.
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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Centenary
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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
I figured that this regime might kill me over the long haul. You know: air pollution, climate change, toxic chemical spills, bacteria-laced meat in the supermarket, mass shooters, preventable viruses, that kind of thing. But they may get me in July, the next time I travel by plane
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
This is how Kaganovich talked about Stalin.
Screenshot of a post from Stephen Miller's twitter account, @StephenM
"You have been watching the greatest economic master strategy from an American President in history."
3:29PM, 4/9/25, 487k views, 2.2k comments, 4.5k retweets, 26k likes
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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
bsky.app/profile/npr.... Trump’s inner circle doesn’t give a damn about antisemitism, except as a weapon to cudgel this nation’s universities with. What they hate are dissenters and protestors of any kind. But watch this part, because it’s about more than the universities.
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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Good thing we’ve got ten years to go to retirement
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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
cc @joshtpm.bsky.social
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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Meanwhile, in Real America
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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Your Tesla funds MAGA
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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it. - Upton Sinclair thehill.com/homenews/sen...
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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Most Americans oppose the sweeping pardons for hundreds of J6 rioters. Asked about the felons convicted of beating police officers, the first convicted felon to be a sitting president claimed, “Those were very minor incidents.” Violent crime isn’t unlawful when it’s aimed at his enemies.
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Andy Dimock @adimock.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
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Elon Goes Full Sieg Heil In Clarifying Moment
I was at the gym this afternoon when I saw out of...
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