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TofBend

@bend13.bsky.social
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Husband, Dad, veteran, a fighter for truth and social justice, and a believer in science based research.

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TofBend @bend13.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
More of this please!
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TofBend @bend13.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
This! I have been saying this for years! How is Harvard, Yale, and these other supposed Ivy League schools not being trashed for teaching complete incompetence?! They should be embarrassed by this. Why would anyone pay to go to a college that produces this kind of incompetence?
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TofBend @bend13.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Hey, could you highlight the fact very publicly that the administration is using an equation for tariffs that has a fundamental math error in it? Please?! The US and global economy are being tanked over this!
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TofBend @bend13.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
This is a pretty cool tool that was posted on a Reddit thread. Very helpful and provides citations of sources. And yes, the tariffs formula that Trump is using has a fundamental math error. Destroying the global economy with a known math error. And congress is doing nothing.
truthorfake.com
TruthOrFake | Verify Claims with Free Artificial Intelligence Tool
Use Free AI-powered fact verification to analyze claims instantly. Separate fact from fiction with reliable sources and detailed explanations.
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TofBend @bend13.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Sure would be great if we had a way to stop, slow, interfere, interrupt, disrupt, him. Oh that’s what you’re elected for and you rolled out the red carpet for him to trample us. Seriously, what the hell are you going to do?! I know what I would do and it’s not posting the obvious.
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April Glick Pulito @aprilglick.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
what if it just took one though
Screenshot of tweet from @realDonaldTrump, 6 Nov 2012, reading: "If the Dow drops 1,000 points in two days the President should be impeached immediately!"
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TofBend @bend13.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Amazing how Republicans have screamed for years against raising taxes, yet they are touting these tariffs for bringing in up to 6 trillion in revenue. If that ends up being true (it won’t) THAT’S A NEW TAX AND DOUBLE THE CURRENT FEDERAL BUDGET! How is this not obvious?! Fucking morons!
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TofBend @bend13.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
I believe the majority of Americans don’t understand how insignificant it is for a billionaire to spend 24M on a campaign. If you assume Musk has 300B available to him to spend, that is the equivalent of a nice dinner for your family of four. It’s an obscene amount of wealth that makes him immune.
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TofBend @bend13.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
I’m thrilled Susan Crawford won in Wisconsin. But I’m lost at headlines calling her liberal. Isn’t this part of the problem? Law should not be liberal or conservative, it should be focused on justice for all people. No judge or lawyer should be looking at justice through a political lens.
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Scottie @scottie51.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Schumer, you up to this? Or is opening your flip phone enough????
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TofBend @bend13.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
What many don’t understand about cuts to research grants is, it takes decades of tedious work to develop something that can fix medical conditions. Cuts today are denying people decades from now their ability to reduce suffering.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
If we really want to “make America healthy again,” we’d have Medicare for All.
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TofBend @bend13.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
You are still playing by old rules that no longer exist. You are like the British General marching into an open battlefield and being upset that you are being ambushed from the forests and from behind. The rules you are following no longer apply.
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TofBend @bend13.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
You can’t redeem yourself on this one. You sold us out.
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TofBend @bend13.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
I thought business schools taught about the buggy whip industry in the era of cars? So now we want to revive coal burning in the era of clean energy. This is truly a government that is working backward. I think a business would fail with this thinking. Oh, wait he did multiple times.
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TofBend @bend13.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Two funny things about this. One is that it flys in the face of the Capitalism at any cost belief that Musk holds. The second is that when the means to support the family disappears that housewife becomes the cheetah that will eat people like Musk.
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TofBend @bend13.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
As someone who spent almost my entire professional career in public service working across local, state, and federal government, the thing people don’t understand is government is not designed for profit. That makes it a very difficult thing to manage compared to businesses. They are not equivalent
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TofBend @bend13.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Can somebody get this to Congress to do what the crusty orange man has ordered?
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TofBend @bend13.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Among the dumbest of moves, the administration is saying they won’t provide power from hydroelectric to Canada. The problem is Canada releases water for the US to make power and grow crops. Did they not learn how gravity works?
theguardian.com
US pauses water-sharing negotiations with Canada over Columbia River
Break in talks comes as Trump escalates trade war with Canada and threatens its sovereignty
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TofBend @bend13.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
@schumer.senate.gov So now what? Our courts have already failed us, congress has failed and it’s clear your aligned with Trump. The rest of us will suffer so your DC home stays comfy.
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TofBend @bend13.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Let’s make sure Vance’s cowardly behavior is not lost!
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This JD Vance' video was deleted from Twitter by Elon Musk, you know what to do!
This JD Vance' video was deleted from Twitter by Elon Musk and my account (220k followers) was suspended. You know what to do ! Protect yourself from EMF, 5G and Wifi radiations with a tested and prov
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TofBend @bend13.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
This is worth the read to better understand the people who work at PP
open.substack.com
Yes, Planned Parenthood workers are tired
No, they are not routinely "botching" IUD insertions or abortions
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TofBend @bend13.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I happen to think the world of this writer and hopefully you will too!
open.substack.com
"Hope is not the thing I'm feeling. Hope is the thing I just keep doing."
I’m currently devouring the brilliant book, You or Someone You Love: Reflections from an Abortion Doula, by Hannah Matthews.
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TofBend @bend13.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Just a reminder to all those that may have family or friends who supported Trump but now say they regret it. Please make sure to tell them that is not enough, they need to call their reps. Their voice carries weight, and they must help fix this not just regret their decision.
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TofBend @bend13.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
We need to know their names and hold them accountable.
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TofBend @bend13.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
@notateslaapp.com if you want to protect Tesla let the Board know. Send them a message at: ir.tesla.com/contact-us#c...
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Contact Us | Tesla Investor Relations
Contact Tesla, Inc.'s Board of Directors to provide comments, to report concerns or to ask a question.
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TofBend @bend13.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
For those of us who have read history, studied government systems, worked in and with governments, we deeply understand and appreciate this analogy.
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TofBend @bend13.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
The great duh! Of all time. The farmers will be the ones who get hurt by this, so stupid.
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TofBend @bend13.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
I think we do 😁. It’s Tom in case you didn’t know.
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TofBend @bend13.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
If you’re a demoralized white man, you’re also probably a single white man, which is why you’re a demoralized white man.
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TofBend @bend13.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
As someone who spent a career working in the water industry, including CA State water supplies, this is truly the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen. These systems are so carefully balanced, releasing water now can have devastating consequences this summer. Moron doesn’t even come close.
politico.com
Trump says he opened California’s water. Local officials say he nearly flooded them.
The Army Corps of Engineers moved to release massive quantities of water in Central California, panicking local officials.
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Cath RN, PhD @headdoc35.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
“It's almost impossible to believe he exists. It's as if we took everything that was bad about America, scraped it up off the floor, wrapped it all up in an old hot dog skin, and then taught it to make noises with its face.”
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TofBend @bend13.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
When there is a tragedy like a plane crash, why can’t it be full of Republicans returning from a round of golf with Trump?
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TofBend @bend13.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
This is why we can’t react to the insanity. It feeds them. As Mark Cuban stated in his post we must be strategic in our response.
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TofBend @bend13.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Define, like any job, what are the minimum qualifications for the job? Compare and contrast Gabi’s qualifications against predecessors.
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TofBend @bend13.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Praise the Broken Promise of America open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
open.substack.com
Praise the Broken Promise of America
Friends,
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TofBend @bend13.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Yes, and who can we financially support to help develop the Democratic version of the 2025 plan. Without a plan we are simply dreaming and wishing for things to change.
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TofBend @bend13.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Here is the plan to reduce the price of eggs!
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TofBend @bend13.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
So I want to know what group is writing the Democratic version 2025? What exactly is our playbook? Republicans spent 40+ years assembling their machines. Democrats need to do something similar. I think it should be the Brookings Institution with the ACLU.
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TofBend @bend13.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
So do Republicans realize if Trump is allowed to end birthright citizenship with a stroke of his pen, it allows future presidents to do the same? Except next time it will be the 2nd amendment that is arbitrarily modified. I thought conservatives have said we can’t change the constitution.
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TofBend @bend13.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
On January 20th, and on every single patriotic day after, I will be flying this flag. As a veteran, from a family of veterans, this to me is more symbolic of freedom than any red white and blue that now symbolizes our loss of freedoms.
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TofBend @bend13.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
I’m really questioning all your posts now. Sometimes knowing what you don’t know anything about and staying silent is a form of intelligence. In fire storms air temperature reaches the point of combustion for things like curtains. The wind carries embers into vents and the fire gets in. Try harder.
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TofBend @bend13.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
You don’t know WTF you’re talking about. Water is a limited resource, you can’t just water everything to make it green.
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TofBend @bend13.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
When it comes to understanding fire and climate change all you need to know is evapotransporation. As temperatures rise the amount of evt also increases drying out plants. There is simply not enough water to offset this loss on a large scale. Fires will continue to increase.
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TofBend @bend13.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
I’m ready to be part of Canada! Anyone else on the West Coast interested?
reddit.com
From the vermont community on Reddit: Canada isn’t fucking around; we just received an open invite
Posted by SaleFit1980 - 4,230 votes and 941 comments
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TofBend @bend13.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
So wait a minute, another school shooting?! At a Christian school? I thought that was the religion that taught us how sacred life is that we are banning abortions but making sure they are armed once they are born. Seems consistent with their teachings. Those kids should have had weapons!
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TofBend @bend13.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Been fighting for decades, and will continue. Including not just writing representatives but meeting with them in their offices in DC. I pick carefully where I spend my dollar, but at the end of the day I don’t have authority to regulate, congress does. And it has just been defanged.
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TofBend @bend13.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
I seriously appreciate your efforts and years of service. But how do we move from this type of report and knowledge to actions that stop it? If the government can’t do more than document wrongs what is the point? We have become a government that has no regulatory authority or teeth.
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TofBend @bend13.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Not running anywhere asshole. Unafraid of any of you. As a veteran I actually took my oath to defend the constitution literally, read all of it and the supporting documents. I know the dangers of blind patriotism, my father fought it.
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