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Alfred Stanley @alfredstanley.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

I'm looking for a photograph from Robert F. Kennedy’s 1967 visit to Mississippi. I recall seeing it in Look magazine in 1967 — likely the May 23 or June 6 issue.

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Alfred Stanley @alfredstanley.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Trumpy Government at work. No Kings here either, MoFos! White House and Government Agencies Join Bluesky, Then Attack Democrats www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

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White House and Government Agencies Join Bluesky, Then Attack Democrats

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Alfred Stanley @alfredstanley.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Here’s a Democrat who’s not afraid to run in the redrawn Congressional District 35 (Bexar, Guadalupe, Karnes, and Wilson Counties): Marine combat veteran and recent senior presidential advisor on Americorps, John Lira! Find out more at LiraforCongress.com

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Alfred Stanley @alfredstanley.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

This lays out the GOP opening move to destroy the Voting Rights Act starting in Texas this summer. Four Congressional seats targeted: Garcia’s, Green’s, Veasey’s, and the late Sylvester Turner’s.

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Houston Congressman Al Green threatens lawsuit, impeachment over Texas redistricting plan – Houston Public Media

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Alfred Stanley @alfredstanley.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

“In the Post, Dana Milbank took in Trump’s pleasure at some sycophantic Republicans’ suggestion that the D.C. Metro be renamed the “Trump Train”:

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Alfred Stanley @alfredstanley.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Happy birthday, Berke Brethed. You were antiracist from the beginning.

Hippie holding white briefs on a stick as a truce flag: "With white flag billowing, I, Dancer Reilly, President of the Independent's Animal House … Do 'ere call and beseech the honorable Steve Dallas, president of the inter-fraternity council for a peaceful summit.

Dallas: "What the hell you up to?"

Reilly: "Say no more ole chap … just a solution to these negative waves flowing twixt you Greeks and us heathens.

Reilly (his arms across the shoulders of an African-American student: "Meet Louis here. 'Ee's looking forward to going through your spring rush."

Dallas: "This your idea of a bad joke, Dancer?

Reilly: (Looking backward toward others waiting to step up to meet Dallas): "No! Hey—Listen Dallas. We've got your whole bloody '79 pledge class lined up. Hey boys, send out Manuel, Ung-Chow and Nanook."

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Alfred Stanley @alfredstanley.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Be prepared to help maintain the peace. Above all, be safe. This isn’t a “who’s angrier?” contest. It’s a test of our dedication to the rule of law and right to protest peacefully. Carry on.

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Bystander Intervention Toolkit

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Alfred Stanley @alfredstanley.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Currently reading. #booksky The intro concerning 14-year-old Moses Mendelssohn entering Berlin through the gate reserved for "cattle and Jews" grabbed me immediately. As Jews integrated themselves into German society, it flourished. Cultures disdaining diversity inevitably fail.

Amos Elon, "The Pity of It All; A portrait fo the German-Jewish Epoch, 1743-1933." "Brillaint, far-reaching, passionate … a book for the ages."—The New York Times

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Alfred Stanley @alfredstanley.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

As the grandson of Anthony Mazzalin, a Croatian immigrant who arrived in 1902 hoping to follow in his countryman Nikola Tesla’s footsteps, I read this article with a heavy heart.

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World Scientists Look Elsewhere as U.S. Labs Stagger Under Trump Cuts

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Alfred Stanley @alfredstanley.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

I'm glad to see David Brooks good and pissed off about Trumpism. Lord knows, he's had that effect on me often enough. Kathy and I are both children of WW II vets, and, yeah, we know damn well that our dads were in the Pacific out of love for their country. Damn straight.

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Opinion | I’m Normally a Mild Guy. Here’s What’s Pushed Me Over the Edge.

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Alfred Stanley @alfredstanley.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

“It is not your duty to finish the work, but neither are you free to desist from it.” — Rabbi Tarfon, Pirkei Avot 2:16, c. 100 CE

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Alfred Stanley @alfredstanley.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Nixon tried to cover up secret campaign cash. Trump is openly auctioning off face time in the White House for crypto purchased by foreigners. Nixon resigned in disgrace. Trump revels in it.

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Auction to Dine With Trump Creates Foreign Influence Opportunity

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Alfred Stanley @alfredstanley.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

In response to this devastating New York Times piece about ICE detention in Louisiana, I’ll be donating to ISLA (Immigration Services and Legal Advocacy). They’re on the front lines, providing legal help to people trapped in these American gulags and fighting to shut them down.

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Opinion | Immigrants From Around the Country Keep Getting Detained in Louisiana (Gift Article)

Louisiana is a legal black hole for immigrants.

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Alfred Stanley @alfredstanley.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Looks like January 20 was the heil point.

Graph showing Trump’s approval rating falling from 52 percent one week after he took office to about 44 percent and his disapproval rating climbing from Around half of the country now disapproves rising from 43% to 52% in the same period.

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Alfred Stanley @alfredstanley.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Hint to natalists: Want more babies? Try offering a less bleak future. Start by lifting the burden of non-dischargeable student debt from young workers. Guarantee healthcare for all, so no one hesitates to have children for fear of medical bankruptcy.

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Trump Aides Solicit Ideas to Raise Birthrate, From Baby Bonuses to Fertility Planning

Baby bonuses and menstrual cycle classes are among the ideas pitched to Trump aides as they consider plans to try boosting the birthrate.

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Alfred Stanley @alfredstanley.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Happy Patriots' Day to those who celebrate. (Official in CT, ME, MA, & ND but available wherever due process is defended.)

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Alfred Stanley @alfredstanley.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Published in 1998 and even more relevant today! After he lost to Andrew Jackson, former President John Quincy Adams returned to Congress, where he took issue with the "gag rule" that prevented citizens' petitions against slavery from being "taken up" in the House.

Book cover. Background is an etching of John Quincy Adams standing up in Congress holding a petition in his hand arguing with an opponent across the well. other men look on or look about with stern or angry expressions. At top is a small etching within a circle of an enslaved African on bended knee pleading. Below that is the book title, "Arguing About Slavery; John Quincy Adams and the Great Battle in the United States Congress" At the bottom of the etchin is the author, "William Lee Miller" and below that a review: "Miller deserves a medal for recovering and retelling a lost episode of our history.—San Diego Union Tribune"

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Alfred Stanley @alfredstanley.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Saturday morning marks the quarter-millennial of "the shot heard round the world." Take a stand for our imperfect union at a Capitol near you. May we ever strive for our nation's perfection, free from tyrants, foreign and domestic.

Concord Hymn
by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1837)
By the rude bridge that arched the flood, their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood and fired the shot heard round the world.
The foe long since in silence slept; alike the conqueror silent sleeps;
And Time the ruined bridge has swept down the dark stream which seaward creeps.
On this green bank, by this soft stream, we set today a votive stone;
That memory may their deed redeem, when, like our sires, our sons are gone.
Spirit, that made those heroes dare to die, and leave their children free,
Bid Time and Nature gently spare the shaft we raise to them and thee.

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Alfred Stanley @alfredstanley.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

They called it “deportation.” The trains went to Chelmno, Treblinka, Sobibor, Belzec, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Majdanek.

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Alfred Stanley @alfredstanley.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

"[The President] shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed." — U.S. Constitution, Article 2, Section 3

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Alfred Stanley @alfredstanley.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

“It takes no small amount of imagination to understand that this is a path of perfect lawlessness.” — Judge James Harvie Wilkinson, III, Appellate decision in Abrego Garcia v. Noem

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Alfred Stanley @alfredstanley.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

I have identified dark matter and dark energy in the person of Elon Musk—dibs on the Nobel Prize in Physics.

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Alfred Stanley @alfredstanley.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen will travel to El Salvador this week to seek Kilmar Abrego Garcia's release. May both he and Sr. Abrego Garcia return in peace and safety in the spirit of Tefilat HaDerech and Acheinu.

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Alfred Stanley @alfredstanley.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Hot mic: "Home-growns are next." 0:15

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Alfred Stanley @alfredstanley.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

USA: the Universal Surveillance of America.

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Alfred Stanley @alfredstanley.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Cory Booker: clear, compelling, forceful.

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Alfred Stanley @alfredstanley.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Trump gutted the labs with a grin, Deported the scholars within. While China advanced, He ranted and danced— And proudly declared it a win. 🧪

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Alfred Stanley @alfredstanley.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

100 days between the Nazis taking power and the book burning at the University of Berlin. 70 days from the inauguration to purging anti-racist classics from the Naval Academy's library. Books too patriotic for the new Pentagon. The caged bird sings—but not at the Nimitz Library.

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Who’s In and Who’s Out at the Naval Academy’s Library? (Gift Article)

An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office resulted in a purge of books critical of racism but preserved volumes defending white power.

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