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Leon Lowery

@alviel.bsky.social
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US Senate committee staff (Ret); Husband; you tube musician; grandpa; John Locke acolyte; Army brat; carpenter; short order cook; UTK grad (Philosophy); linguistic curmudgeon; chicken catcher (Ret.)

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Beth Humphreys 🌺 @producrgrl.bsky.social · 4h
👇👇👇 Vote EARLY & BLUE! Up & down the ballot! 🌊 #nokings
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Leon Lowery @alviel.bsky.social · 2h
Who Do You Love, Bo Diddley. 1956, Ronnie Hawkins and the Hawks, 1963, George Thorogood and the Delaware Destroyers, 1976. "I got a brand new house by the road side made out of rattlesnake hide. Got a little bitty chimney up on the top made out of a human skull"
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Leon Lowery @alviel.bsky.social · 2h
In the 50s shampoo companies started printing the instructions "Lather, rinse, repeat" on bottles to sell more shampoo. They only print instructions so the can print the "repeat" part.
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CCscott @ccscott.bsky.social · 10h
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Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 3h
Schmitt: Were you or were you not born in a crossfire hurricane? Smith: I was not. Schmitt: So you're telling us—under oath—that you weren't raised by a toothless, bearded hag? Smith: That is Jumpin' Jack Flash.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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AW Sylwester @aw-sylwester.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Leon Lowery @alviel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Cool! Is this the granny league?
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Leon Lowery @alviel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
No, Donnie. Zelensky doesn't want surrender. He doesn't want to be a Russian.
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Leon Lowery @alviel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The hard part is putting the key in the keyhole. You, of course, already got it out of your pocket before you picked up the bags.
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Good Samaritan @goodsamaritanhq.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I love when a recipe says “prep time: 10 minutes.” Ten minutes for WHO? A professional chef with eight hands? It takes me ten minutes to find the paprika. Then another five staring into the fridge hoping the ingredient I forgot to buy will spontaneously appear out of shame.
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Leon Lowery @alviel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
funny
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
MUST WATCH 😂😂😂
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Leon Lowery @alviel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Courts usually stay an action where irreparable harm can be done while the case is pending. Not this SCOTUS. They have allowed DJT to keep sending immigrants to third countries, some with horrible human rights histories, while deciding if it's legal. On the shadow docket. Destroying people's lives.
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
These are stunning
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Leon Lowery @alviel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Rep. John Dingell Sr. introduced a comprehensive health care bill in every Congress to which he was elected from 1932 until 1955 when his son (Jr.) took up the burden. Every Congress. HR 6. Now his wife, Debbie Dingel carries on the tradition.
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Leon Lowery @alviel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Also there is very little the House can do about inflation.wo a clear majority in the Senate. People don't understand. Inflation coming down doesn't mean lower prices, just the rate of increase slowing. Gas and diesel lowering would mean stopping the war and tariffs and getting a deal with Iran.
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Leon Lowery @alviel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Another explanation is that the GOP hasn't believed in the Constitution and democracy for a long time--that they have just been mouthing platitudes about freedom and rule of law while waiting for their dictator to come along.
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One artist, a rake, and a tide clock. Andres Amador's massive geometric sand drawings vanish before the day ends, and that's the whole point.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Leon Lowery @alviel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wait a minute. Even if he had gone to a basketball game in Atlanta, which seems not to be the case, what is illegal about that? A sitting president calling a secretary of state and telling him to find him 11,000 more votes? Now that's illegal
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Leon Lowery @alviel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
...t was his unshaken conviction that no man was chaste or pure in any part of his body, but that most of them concealed their vices and cleverly drew a veil over them; and that therefore he pardoned all other faults. Seutonius on Nero DJT. like Nero, thinks he's no more corrupt than anybody else.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith defends his team of prosecutors: "I'm extremely proud to have worked with them, and the fact that they have been targeted illegally, lost their jobs illegally, and had their lives turned upside down by this Department of Justice is an outrage."
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Lots of talk about defending "Western civilization" these days, so here's Richard Wright on what it means to be Western:
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Leon Lowery @alviel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hey! What are you fussing about. This guy was the top of his class at the Wharton School of Finance. He knows how bananas work.
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Leon Lowery @alviel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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The Most Amazing Sentence I have Ever Read?
Trump’s review of the Trumpal Arch under the National Historic Preservation Act
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Leon Lowery @alviel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
They should know that anybody who is harassing Katie Miller must be antifa and so a terrorist threat. I mean, who else would have a grudge against her?
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Leon Lowery @alviel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Don't you know, the Russians are our friends. This administration admires and aspires to their form of government: Dictatorship. If the Russians were spying on the Biden or Obama administrations, that's just fine with Kash--and Donnie.
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Leon Lowery @alviel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sorry, Cornell is in Ithaca, NY, not NYC. But rape is against the law in Ithaca too.
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Leon Lowery @alviel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Cornell does not have the right to dismiss felonies. Rape is a crime in NYC (and everywhere else.) NYPD should arrest the perpertrator(s), indict them and bring them to trial. Nothing Cornell decides about this should have any effect on the enforcement of the law.
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Reminder, please share this. ✌🏼💙
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Leon Lowery @alviel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If women (or men) are being pressured to do things they don't want to do there is something wrong with sex.
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Leon Lowery @alviel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
And you probably can't write or communicate worth a damn.
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Leon Lowery @alviel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Yes, you are missing something here:The Accumulated Wisdom of the Ages. What good is engineering if you don't know what it's for. If you don't know the problems that have arisen over time you don't know what to aim your technology at. If you don't know what's been tried you don't know what to avoid.
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Leon Lowery @alviel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Humanities (History, literature, art,etc.) contain the wisdom acquired by humanity through the ages. I don't care how technically capable you are if you don't know about the bad things and good things that have been tried though time. You don't know what to use the science for.
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Leon Lowery @alviel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The name says it all. SlutCon. Women are expected to debase themselves against their better judgment in order to advance (or keep) their careers. This is workplace sexual harassment and is repellent. The point is not networking. It's sexual exploitation.
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Leon Lowery @alviel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
These people are just gauche--or as my mother would have said--tacky.
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Wildly Imperfect @wildlyimperfect.bsky.social Saint Augustine, Florida
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Leon Lowery @alviel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If we have "total control" of the Strait, how can they open it?
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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
[non-linear narrative movie with Susan Collins trying to reconstruct her past and what she needs to do next through notes to herself and semi-cryptic tattoos about which bill and confirmation vote comes next and is supposed to lead to what]
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Leon Lowery @alviel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I was at that rally. It was the 1st campus event for Dicky after Kent State. It was a Billy Graham Crusade. When the hundred of so of us who were protesting saw that every GOP candidate for office in TN was on the stage we decided that it wasn't a religious and got vocal.
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1kr5ur43m.bsky.social @1kr5ur43m.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Leon Lowery @alviel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
odd that he doesn’t mention his removal from office. That’s the part of the deal that I like.
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Leon Lowery @alviel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
By "biblical voice" she means voice of condemnation. There is much to lament about modern culture, but I'll guarantee she is not going to talk about those things, just the culture wars that they thrive on. Think about the log that is in your eye before you condemn the atom that is in another's.
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Leon Lowery @alviel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This abundance stuff is just old GOP corporatism under a different name to make it sound hip and cool.
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