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Airmechldr

@airmechldr.bsky.social
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Occasional poster to Daily Kos and Tremr. Past local IAM lodge president. Aviation professional. Vietnam Era Veteran USN. SMS and Human Factors instructor for Aviation Maintenance. Recipient of FAA Taylor Master Mechanic Award. 🚫 crypto 🚫 porn/dating 🚫DM

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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 04/10/2026
A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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A Reckoning in Springfield
A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.
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dindin6.bsky.social @dindin6.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"We ask women why they don't come forward when sexually assaulted. It's because we live in a world where an abuser can become president.
Disgusting. Trump says he feels bad for the seven Cornell students accused of rape, and his biggest worry is that they "won't get a fair shake" with Letitia James as special prosecutor.

Not one word for the victim.

THE WHITE HOUSE LIVE 14:02 PM 

BREAKING NEWS

NOV: TRUMP TAKES QUESTIONS FROM REPORTERS
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
No, Nope. No.🤦‍♀️ A female lab tech has died in Siberia of pneumonic plague. Darya Shipilova, 28, was working at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute, where she likely contracted the illness after possibly dropping a test tube. Around 200 people have been quarantined. kyivindependent.com/plague-death...
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Plague death triggers quarantine, mask mandates in Russia's Irkutsk region in Siberia
The measures come after Darya Shipilova, a lab technician at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute in Shelekhov, died after reportedly contracting plague on Oct. 2.
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Jack Smith….man of the people at the Power to the People concert hanging out on the lawn….no fancy pavilion seats or backstage laminate pass
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Thom Hartmann @hartmannreport.com · 04/10/2026
The Hidden History of American Healthcare: The “Advantage” is Theirs, Not Yours Well-Read Troublemakers Book Club hartmannreport.com/p/october-4-...
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October 4 — The Hidden History of American Healthcare: The “Advantage” is Theirs, Not Yours
Medicare open enrollment starts October 15. Here’s what the ads won’t tell you, from The Hidden History of American Healthcare.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 325-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.
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David C in Tennessee @dactn63.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Carla 💔 Pro-Democracy #BLM 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 ✍🏼 ✌🏼 @bright8694.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🚨 ATTENTION GEORGIA! 🚨 Register and/or check your voter registration today! The last day to register is October 5th. Let’s show them what a blue wave looks like! mvp.sos.ga.gov/s/ #SheShed #DemCast
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Good on you Sister's 👏
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Doug Hammond @hammie777.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Journey with us now to a land beyond imagination where a man who represents the worst humanity has to offer is seen as a god like figure to his followers.
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Elizabeth Sofia 💙🐈🐶🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @skippjon1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Thom Hartmann @hartmannreport.com · 02/10/2026
The surest way to escape oil shocks, dictatorial petrostates, and endless energy wars is brutally simple: stop consuming and subsidizing their oil…. hartmannreport.com/p/did-trumps...
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Did Trump’s Iran War Just Blow a Hole in Big Oil’s Future?
The surest way to escape oil shocks, dictatorial petrostates, and endless energy wars is brutally simple: stop consuming and subsidizing their oil….
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
UNREAL: Senate Republicans and John Fetterman Block Measure To Probe Killings of Nine Americans by Israelis in West Bank. Yep these Republicans and Fetterman voted to protect Israel over US citizens. This is TREASONOUS! www.mediaite.com/media/news/s...
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Senate Republicans and John Fetterman Block Measure To Probe Killings of Nine Americans by Israelis in West Bank
Senate Republicans voted almost unanimously against a measure that would require the State Department to investigate Israeli violence in the West Bank that, since 2022, has resulted in the deaths of a...
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
GOP Sen. Eric Schmitt is so F'ing Dumb he doesn't even get that his attempt to go after Jack Smith failed miserably. Even Fox News is mocking him. www.mediaite.com/politics/rep...
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Reporter Confronts Republican Senator on the Street Over Viral Blunder: ‘What Happened in There?’
TMZ DC’s Charlie Cotton confronted Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) outside the Capitol over his failed attempt to catch former special counsel Jack Smith in a contradiction, asking the senator, “What happene...
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Thom Hartmann @hartmannreport.com · 28/09/2026
Create the crisis, make working Americans suffer, reward the billionaires, blame Democrats for the wreckage, then campaign as the only people who can fix it. hartmannreport.com/p/the-republ...
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The Republican Playbook: Break America, Blame Democrats, Then Promise to Save It
Create the crisis, make working Americans suffer, reward the billionaires, blame Democrats for the wreckage, then campaign as the only people who can fix it.
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Thom Hartmann @hartmannreport.com · 29/09/2026
From Harding’s trickle-down promises to Hoover’s prosperity pitch to Reagan’s tax cut hustle to Trump’s factory announcements, Republicans have a long history of pushing scams before Election Day… hartmannreport.com/p/trump-has-...
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Trump Has Trotted Out the Old Republican “Chicken in Every Pot” Scam Again: Who Will Fall For It This Time?
From Harding’s trickle-down promises to Hoover’s prosperity pitch to Reagan’s tax cut hustle to Trump’s factory announcements, Republicans have a long history of pushing scams before Election Day…
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Thom Hartmann @hartmannreport.com · 30/09/2026
The attacks on Jack Smith expose something far bigger than one ugly Senate hearing: a collision between personal political loyalty and America’s constitutional system… hartmannreport.com/p/the-final-...
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The Final Stage of a Strongman’s Takeover Is Turning the Law Against the People Who Defended It
The attacks on Jack Smith expose something far bigger than one ugly Senate hearing: a collision between personal political loyalty and America’s constitutional system…
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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm not really going to post a lot about this because we already know that the squatter in the People's House is guilty as fuck. But, you can see Jack Smith's full opening statement here: youtu.be/B1esQRfJupM?...
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WATCH: Jack Smith's full opening statement in Senate Judiciary hearing on Trump investigations
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
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Thom Hartmann @hartmannreport.com · 29/09/2026
From Harding’s trickle-down promises to Hoover’s prosperity pitch to Reagan’s tax cut hustle to Trump’s factory announcements, Republicans have a long history of pushing scams before Election Day… hartmannreport.com/p/trump-has-...
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This aired just the once in 1998 on the live SNL show for which McKay wrote it. It was effectively banned as it never aired again. I wonder why. MEDIA-OPOLY
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Abortion Access Front is live from a living room on Capitol grounds for 24 hours on International Safe Abortion Day—because people who have abortions deserve more airtime than the politicians trying to control them. Hope you check out my friend Lizz Winstead and more www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK3V...
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Medication Abortion Stories: The Science, Policy & People | 24-Hour Livestream Part 1
YouTube video by Abortion Access Front
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Analisa Swan (she/her) @analisaswan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Our hard earned tax payer $ goes to corrupt Trump/GOP, friends, family, & billionaires! They give NOTHING of value to the American people, not even a working reflecting pool! All they give us is high costs, inflation, Iran war, trade wars, jobs being wiped out by AI & data centers! Vote them out!!!
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If we want to clean up Trump's mess — and prevent it from happening again — here are 10 reforms every midterm candidate should support. Call them the “10 Commandments for a Better Government.”
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The 10 Commandments (for Cleaning Up After Trump)
How will we clean up Trump's unholy mess?Here are my 10 Commandments for Congress.These are major structural reforms tha
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PHL SportsNut @ispw8842.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I get your point, but are sure, I would bet there is another like scott. If you lower it to 100 million that shit is a gurantee.
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joneson/dead bird site survivor. @joneson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇
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The Economist @economist.com · 26/09/2026
A mighty Democratic wave in the midterms might create a new moderating force within the party—and with it, more motivation for the hard work of bipartisanship in the Senate
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As goes Maine, so goes the Senate
The Senate race there could herald the end of split districts nationally—or, just possibly, a resurgence
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David C in Tennessee @dactn63.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What an asshole
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bluevoter24.bsky.social @bluevoter24.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck the GOP. #politics
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Blue Oleta @blue-oleta.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Sums it up perfectly.
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Just Lynn 💙🦋✌️🇺🇦 @shoredweller7.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Airmechldr @airmechldr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Republicans are guilty of elder abuse, a felony. Stop this madness. Give Democrats a veto proof congress in the midterms. #GDAVPC
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
China is LITERALLy helping Iran kill US service members yet Trump is giving him a huge dinner. This is TREASONOUS!
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Thom Hartmann @hartmannreport.com · 25/09/2026
Taxpayers are footing the bill for a Fox “News” ad glorifying the president, as lawmakers question whether federal law has been crossed… hartmannreport.com/p/trump-orde...
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Trump Orders America to “Love Me” and Sends Us Taxpayers the Bill
Taxpayers are footing the bill for a Fox “News” ad glorifying the president, as lawmakers question whether federal law has been crossed…
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 24/09/2026
NEW TROY JACKSON AD 🔥 Susan Collins spent years perfecting that “reasonable moderate” act. Then ProPublica dropped the receipts: A defense contractor funneled $150,000 through a shell company to a pro-Collins super PAC while Collins pushed for $32 MILLION in naval contracts.
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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller September 24,1943
NANCY IS STILL STAYING WITH THE SPUTTERS WHILE HER AUNT FRITZI IS OUT OF TOWN 
P1- MR SPUTTER FINDS SOME PILLOWS AT THE FOOT OF THE STAIRS , 
MR.SPUTTER: WHAT ARE THOSE PILLOWS DOING THERE ?
HE REMOVES THE PILLOWS 
P2- NANCY LANDS ON THE FLOOR WITH A THUD
MR.SPUTTER: OH. I BEG YER PARDON!
HEH HEH HEH
P3- MR.SPUTTER WALKS AWAY AS NANCY IS FROWNING AT HIM
MR.SPUTTER:A LITTLE SURPRISE IS GOOD FOR THE SYSTEM
P4- MR. SPUTTER GETS READY TO SIT DOWN IN A CHAIR, AS HE STILL LAUGHS AT NANCY HITTING THE FLOOR 
MR. SPUTTER: HEH HEH HEH
P5- NANCY PULL THE CHAIR AWAY AND MR. SPUTTER LANDS ON THE FLOOR 
NANCY: A LITTLE SURPRISE IS GOOD FOR THE SYSTEM!
HEH! HEH!
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A Voice Crying in the Wilderness @cryingwilderness.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Passive collaboration is a nice way of saying you're bending the knee and kissing the ass. Words matter.
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Pops @pops131.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What an incredible example to set! To create something that not only saves lives and alleviates suffering, but also does so without any desire for personal gain—now that is a truly rare and commendable character!
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Airmechldr @airmechldr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Vote Mad! Give Democrats a veto proof congress!
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pissed-off-g.bsky.social @pissed-off-g.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/09/2026
Please stop overestimating what a democratic Congress can do. The oligarchs are spending money to make you think a Dem Congress can arrest people and hold trials and pass laws without a POTUS signature so that you’ll be disappointed when they don’t do stuff they can’t do. Don’t fall for it.
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Airmechldr @airmechldr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is why we need a veto proof congress. Every law passed then veto by trump can become law when congress overturns his veto. #GDAVPC
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Thom Hartmann @hartmannreport.com · 24/09/2026
Prices didn’t leave working Americans behind all by themselves. Decades of weakened unions, stagnant wages, billionaire tax cuts, and policies favoring capital changed who gets the money… hartmannreport.com/p/the-bigges...
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The Biggest Lie About America’s Affordability Crisis Is Hiding in Your Paycheck
Prices didn’t leave working Americans behind all by themselves. Decades of weakened unions, stagnant wages, billionaire tax cuts, and policies favoring capital changed who gets the money…
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What Say You,Senator Collins.....?
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