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Bill Baxter

@bqbd.bsky.social
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Bill Baxter @bqbd.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Lessons from history; Drive the stake deep, and make it lasting. www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6QNKVaF/
tiktok.com
The 14th and 15th Amendments — the most important constitutional changes in U.S. history — only happened because the resistance refused to play by the abuser's rules. #ResistanceHistory #constitution...
TikTok video by Tad Stoermer
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Bill Baxter @bqbd.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Many of the asylum-seekers are Christians who fled Iran and its intolerant views toward non-Muslim religions.
nbcnews.com
Iranian woman suffers severe panic attack as ICE agents arrest her husband
He was among several Iranian Christian asylum-seekers detained this week by federal agents in Los Angeles, an immigration lawyer said.
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Bill Baxter @bqbd.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
The Trump administration,,, appears to have created a deadly trap for immigrants who fear torture in their home nations.
vox.com
The Supreme Court just stripped thousands of immigrants of their right to due process
The decision nullifies a treaty designed to protect immigrants from torture.
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Bill Baxter @bqbd.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
"The fight and its expected outcome are viewed through the prism of familiar antecedents: Hitler’s Germany overwhelmed, defeated, willing to acquiesce to the victor’s demands; Japan following suit. "
foreignaffairs.com
The Perils of Middle East Triumphalism
Iran, Israel, and the ghosts of history.
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Bill Baxter @bqbd.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Secret Pentagon memo on China, Homeland has Heritage (Foundation) fingerprints.
washingtonpost.com
Secret Pentagon memo on China, homeland has Heritage fingerprints
An secret memo from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth focuses on deterring China’s seizure of Taiwan and shoring up homeland defense. The guidance mimics language of a report from the conservative think ...
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Bill Baxter @bqbd.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
The real estate developer Steve Witkoff, whom President Trump made his plenipotentiary in foreign conflicts, is either foolish, mendacious or naive — or perhaps all of the above.
thehill.com
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Bill Baxter @bqbd.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
peoplesforum.org
Fight for our Rights! Free Mahmoud!
Join us on Saturday, March 22nd, NYC for a crucial event in support of Mahmoud Khalil, Palestine, and civil liberties.
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Bill Baxter @bqbd.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Add your name to the petition to say NO to Tony Hinchcliffe's offensive comedy special with Netflix! sign.moveon.org/petitions/no...
sign.moveon.org
Say NO to Tony Hinchcliffe's offensive comedy special with Netflix!
Tony Hinchcliffe, the comedian who got on stage at a Trump rally and mocked Puerto Rican, Latinx, Black, Jewish, and Palestinian communities, just secured a lucrative Netflix deal for multiple new com...
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Bill Baxter @bqbd.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
This is what a country that cares about its citizens looks like.
wecb.fm
In 2019, Iceland Approved the 4-Day Workweek: Nearly 6 Years Later, All Predictions by Generation Z Have Come True
In 2019, Iceland made headlines by becoming one of the first countries to officially approve a four-day workweek. But rather than passing a blanket law,
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Drop everything you’re doing and read this piece. It’s that good and that important. “We’re in the midst of an authoritarian takeover of the US gov’t… [but it’s] not yet an accomplished fact.” -@joshtpm.bsky.social 1/5
talkingpointsmemo.com
Observe, Orient, Decide, and Act: Notes on Preserving the American Republic
A short time ago former US Attorney Barb McQuade posted this passage...
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Physghoul 👻 🎃 @physgal.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
#AcademicSky #HigherEd
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Bill Baxter @bqbd.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
mysanantonio.com
This Texas superintendent makes $870K. His district serves 1K students.
This charter school superintendent makes $870,000. He leads a district with only 1,000 students.
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D A V I D @spoilt.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Randy Rainbow, fabulous as always. 😂
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Bill Baxter @bqbd.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
themarshallproject.org
Operation Lone Star: 7 Times Texas Leaders Misled the Public
As reporters investigated Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s border initiative, they repeatedly found instances where Abbott and DPS officials cited accomplishments that lacked crucial context or were misleadin...
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Caroleeena @caroleeena.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
The Amish are cranking out tiny homes for people living in tents in and around Boone, North Carolina. 50 men built 12 homes in two days.
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Nanette Suzanne Danielsson @nanettedanielsson.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
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CALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
BREAKING NEWS: Donald Trump orders all federal employees identified as DEI hires to placed on leave by 5pm. The order is said to target trans federal employees and some people of Color. This is arbitrary and evil. No other way to describe it.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 22/01/2025
if the world's richest man can afford to make a nazi salute but a 31 year old meterologist can't afford to criticize him for doing so, it suggests that the price of speech may in fact be slightly higher than "free"
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Bill Baxter @bqbd.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Great article!
organizingmythoughts.org
A Brutal Beginning: Orienting Ourselves Amid the Shock and Awe
We must be prepared to live and act defiantly, deriving no legitimacy from the illegitimate brutes who would govern us.
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Bill Baxter @bqbd.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
When Thomas Jefferson was broke because he had an addiction to imported wine, books, furniture and paintings, it was either sell his enslaved people or his books. He sold his books.
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Bill Baxter @bqbd.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
I just cannot deal with the inconveniency of living without them (enslaved people). Patrick Henry, in. correspondence with Robert Pleasants.
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Bill Baxter @bqbd.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
thedispatch.com
No, the Panama Canal Did Not Double Its Transit Fees for U.S. Warships
Claims circulating on social media are false.
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Bill Baxter @bqbd.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
kxan.com
Feds refer Texas’ Harvey funding discrimination case to Justice Department
Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham dismissed the move as a stunt by “political activists embedded in HUD by the Biden Administration.”
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Bill Baxter @bqbd.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
nytimes.com
Opinion | Texas Has a Perverse Idea of Religious Freedom
MAGA’s cruelty toward immigrants and its disregard for civil liberties are on full display in the Lone Star State.
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Bill Baxter @bqbd.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
They had no excuse to reject Medicaid expansion either.
share.newsbreak.com
Texas has no excuse to reject federal meal program for 1.3 million students | Opinion - NewsBreak
For more than a million kids across Texas, summer break isn’t a time of carefree fun — it’s a time of hunger. When schools close for the summer, so do the
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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
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Bill Baxter @bqbd.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Here's how it's going down.
reuters.com
Exclusive: German ambassador warns of Trump plan to redefine constitutional order, document shows
Germany's ambassador to the United States has warned that the incoming Trump administration will rob U.S. law enforcement and the media of their independence and hand big tech companies "co-governing power", according to a confidential document seen by Reuters.
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Bill Baxter @bqbd.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Make your disgust known.
change.org
Sign the Petition
Demand the Resignation of Senator Tom Cotton
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Bill Baxter @bqbd.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
The leader of the AFD, the German far right nazi party , as well as the head of the British nazi party, will be attending trumps inauguration.
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Bill Baxter @bqbd.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Every person in Texas needs to be aware. youtube.com/shorts/N9BlN...
youtube.com
Two billionaires are trying to take over our state government
YouTube video by James Talarico
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black-butterfly00.bsky.social @black-butterfly00.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
I’m just saying, DUI HIRE
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JimCook@JimCook.bsky.social @jimcook.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
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Bill Baxter @bqbd.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Just nuts!
gizmodo.com
Peter Thiel-Backed Startup That Wanted to Buy Greenland Is Thrilled That Trump Wants to Buy Greenland
A techno-colonialist project sees Greenland as the perfect opportunity to trial its utopian ambitions.
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Bill Baxter @bqbd.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Just great. Instead of funding our public schools, a significant portion of the Texas budget surplus will probably be used to fund school vouchers for the wealthy and crypto currency "infrastructure". www.kxan.com/news/texas-p...
kxan.com
Budget estimate opens path for ‘life-changing decisions for Texans’ by lawmakers
From education savings accounts to border security to property tax reform, lawmakers have big plans for the legislative session. Those plans come with big price tags.
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Bill Baxter @bqbd.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Fascinating! Does dark matter exist? I hope to know one day. I'm not a researcher, so I hope this is appropriate for me to post. www.universetoday.com/170380/is-th...
universetoday.com
Is There a Fifth Force of Nature?
Could a new, fifth force of nature provide some answers to our biggest questions about dark matter and dark energy? We’re working on it.
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Joseph D. Ortiz @earthsciinfo.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
More funding is being poured into deployment of renewable energy globally now than fossil fuel infrastructure. And as of 2018 it took about half as long to build a renewable power plant (<2 years) than to build a thermal (fossil fuel) power plant (~4 years). 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🔋 www.iea.org/data-and-sta...
iea.org
Average power generation construction time (capacity weighted), 2010-2018 – Charts – Data & Statistics - IEA
Average power generation construction time (capacity weighted), 2010-2018 - Chart and data by the International Energy Agency.
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Bill Baxter @bqbd.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
When the rich rob the poor, it's called business. When the poor fight back, it's called violence. Mark Twain
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Bill Baxter @bqbd.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
This was 1968, and it's as true now as then. How long mf's? You gonna be tools forever?
tiktok.com
gore vidal (1968) #fyp #lgbtq🏳️‍🌈 #queer #transgender #oldhollywood #history #dragqueen #lesbiansoftiktok #gorevidal
TikTok video by marky monroe
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Bill Baxter @bqbd.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Very British, irreverent and laugh out loud hilarious. Just brilliant!
theguardian.com
Philomena Cunk on Life review – Diane Morgan is absolutely peerless
The comic actor returns as the worst-informed person on TV for a one-off that tackles the big issues – and quite possibly causes permanent damage to the baffled academics she interviews
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Bill Baxter @bqbd.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Don't look here, everything's fine!
socialeurope.eu
Living conditions: Germany outperforms the US
Gross domestic product is often presented as encapsulating US success. But on broader benchmarks Germany performs better.
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Bill Baxter @bqbd.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Texas passed the most restrictive woman's health bill in the nation, and Abbott said "we will eliminate rape in Texas ". No legislative effort in that direction, no punitive window dressing even. They are not even trying to pretty it up.
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Bill Baxter @bqbd.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Texas passed the most restrictive woman's health bill in the nation, and Abbott said "we will eliminate rape in Texas ". No legislative effort in that direction, no punitive window dressing even. They are not even trying to pretty it up.
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Bill Baxter @bqbd.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Where there's smoke, there's sometimes a crack pipe.
share.newsbreak.com
Don Jr. trashes New Year's at Mar-a-Lago: Dad's pals treat me like a 'freaking imbecile' - NewsBreak
Donald Trump Jr. revealed that he dreaded attending the annual New Year's Eve party at Mar-a-Lago because his father's drunk friends treat him like a "freaking imbecile." While speaking on Monday's Tr...
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Bill Baxter @bqbd.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Prisoners in Alabama can work at McDonald's for the state but are considered too dangerous for parole? Holy Slavery Batman!
apnews.com
Alabama profits off prisoners who work at McDonald’s but deems them too dangerous for parole
No state has a longer, more profit-driven history of contracting prisoners out to private companies than Alabama.
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Bill Baxter @bqbd.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Canada wants to ban the captivity of elephants and great apes for entertainment and performance.
aol.com
A New Law Protects Two Beloved Species From Being Held in Captivity
Bumble Bee Joins Endangered Species List Suckley’s cuckoo bumble bee may be classified as endangered under the Endangered Species Act after a recommendation from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Th...
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Bill Baxter @bqbd.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
m.jpost.com
Stone Age artifacts from a land that sank 9,000 years ago were retrieved from the seabed
An average of 50 square miles of land were lost every year between 8000 BCE and 6500 BCE.
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Bill Baxter @bqbd.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
RIP to kindness and integrity.
cnn.com
Jimmy Carter, the 39th US president, dies | CNN Politics
Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, has died. Follow here for live updates as tributes pour in for the former farmer, lawmaker and humanitarian.
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Bill Baxter @bqbd.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
It shouldn't cost more to be poor, disabled or elderly. Why are you okay with it?
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