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@brucealeksander.bsky.social
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TV Lighting Designer (retired), Columnist (mostly retired), concerned citizen (active). I believe that diversity, inclusion, and equity are good, that science trumps superstition, and that truth matters. None of this used to be controversial.

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Earth One @brucealeksander.bsky.social · 5h
This already looks like an SNL skit.
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Earth One @brucealeksander.bsky.social · 8h
This what "merit promotions" look like under Trump.
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Earth One @brucealeksander.bsky.social · 8h
Trump will be funding the country that US intelligence said helped Iran target US bases. Russia provided Iran w/ satellite imagery and targeting data to help locate U.S. military assets, troops, ships, and aircraft in the Middle East. Russia helped kill US troops, and Trump is rewarding them. WTF!
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 20h
“Gifts to Putin will not bring peace or any benefit to the civilized world. Russia will ‘repay’ the diesel with further terror and perfidy.” —Volodymyr Zelensky about Trump’s insidious diesel deal that helps fund Russia’s murder campaign www.americaamerica.news/p/another-be...
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The Deepening Betrayal By Putin’s Servant
In his deal with Vladimir Putin for Russian diesel, Donald Trump assists Russia’s war against Ukraine and our democratic ally’s fight for survival
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 9h
Please remember to vote! Your voice matters. 🌊
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Earth One @brucealeksander.bsky.social · 9h
Anyone care to list the ways that the US government under Trump has lowered their guard to cyber attacks? At least the UK has their guard up. www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
MI5 tackling more state threats than during Cold War, warns intelligence chief
Sir Ken McCallum says more is being done to tackle state threats than since the Cold War - and warns AI could be used to develop drones and potentially bioweapons.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The Omar story today and the Talarcio story yesterday are the same story of rat-fucking your opponents before an election. Except now the government does it, out in the open.
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Earth One @brucealeksander.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Looking at his latest mouthpiece, Trump clearly has a type.
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Earth One @brucealeksander.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
"Show me the man, and I'll furnish the case against him." These are the actions of a despotic regime, echoing how Stalin's henchmen dealt with anyone who threatened them. Sadly, this is where the DOJ is at today.
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Earth One @brucealeksander.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
“... at this point, how much more evidence is necessary to assess that Trump has undermined U.S. national security and is working for Russia? And how much longer will Republicans in Congress continue to protect him as he does it?” Heather Cox Richardson podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...
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How Much Longer?
Podcast Episode · Letters from an American · October 11 · 14m
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Earth One @brucealeksander.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Still? I think it's pretty clear that he might as well have been a Manchurian Candidate. Russia groomed and supported him for years. This is their payoff.
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Earth One @brucealeksander.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The regime just increase ICE's daily quota by one thousand. Doing this right before the election probably isn't just a coincidence. They're purposely ramping up the random violence and cruelty. To what end? I'm afraid we'll see.
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Earth One @brucealeksander.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
He's only in it for himself.
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Earth One @brucealeksander.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
With Putin diesel agreement, Trump is providing financial & material assistance to the very country that US intelligence said helped Iran target US bases. Russia provided Iran w/ satellite imagery and targeting data to help locate U.S. military assets, troops, ships, and aircraft in the Middle East.
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Earth One @brucealeksander.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
With Putin diesel agreement, Trump is providing financial & material assistance to the very country that US intelligence said helped Iran target US bases. Russia provided Iran w/ satellite imagery and targeting data to help locate U.S. military assets, troops, ships, and aircraft in the Middle East.
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Earth One @brucealeksander.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
With Putin diesel agreement, Trump is providing financial & material assistance to the very country that US intelligence said helped Iran target US bases. Russia provided Iran w/ satellite imagery and targeting data to help locate U.S. military assets, troops, ships, and aircraft in the Middle East.
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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 10/10/2026
This is outrageous. Donald Trump just announced a deal with Vladimir Putin to import Russian diesel, and Treasury immediately lifted sanctions on Russian diesel exports through April. Those sanctions exist for one reason. They limit the money Putin can use to wage his brutal war on Ukraine.
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Earth One @brucealeksander.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Ukraine has launched a new offensive against Russian invaders that employs advanced technology called Operation Vivaldi. Ukrainians have proved themselves exactly the kind of resourceful and dedicated people we should help, have on our side in the future, and never let them fall to Russia.
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Earth One @brucealeksander.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
If this is how Trump behaves less than a month before the midterms, what will he do when there are no elections left during his term?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026
It’s really remarkable to me that 10 years into this people feel compelled to “clarify” Trump’s homicidal and often genocidal fantasies. It is deranged for the president to daydream about American cities in states he hates getting blown up. Full stop.
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Earth One @brucealeksander.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It looks so clumsy when they've got nothing to support their defense of a lie.
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The Big Picture @readthebigpicture.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The algorithm doesn't want you calm, informed, or connected. It wants you angry, addicted, and isolated. Because that's what lines the pockets of folks like Musk and Zuckerberg.
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The Steady State @thesteadystate.org · 06/10/2026
Promises vs. Reality. “And therein lies the crux of the crisis that is driving a seismic political change: it has become crystal clear that Trump never intended to address the real problems he identified.” History and the current facts don’t lie. Thank you, HCR bit.ly/4jFRiX4
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October 2, 2026
Trump held a campaign rally tonight in Mobile, Alabama, the city where, as Shawn McCreesh of the New York Times recalled, his MAGA rallies really took off in August 2015, when more than 30,000 people showed up at a football stadium to hear the televisio...
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Earth One @brucealeksander.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Any autocrat would do much the same. Trump plans to fence off traditional protest areas near the White House. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Inside Trump's Plan to Fence Off a Historic Protest Site (Gift Article)
The president’s proposal to enclose a park in Washington could alter how the space has been used for generations.
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 06/10/2026
Republicans accounted for 80% of the $80 million spent on AI-generated political ads tracked by researchers this year, with deepfakes of politicians like AOC appearing in multiple spots across the country, as well as AI-generated crowds.
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We’ve tracked $80M of spending on almost 170 AI-generated political ads this year – it’s weird
Almost 170 ads and $80 million in spending and only 31% with a disclaimer: Here’s what researchers found when they tracked AI in this year’s campaign ads.
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This playful cat completely made the window cleaner’s day. Original post
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Earth One @brucealeksander.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The foolish people were worried about shariah law overriding civil law, while putting Christian Nationalists in government. I think we've found the real problem here.
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Earth One @brucealeksander.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Preaching a perversion of religion for profit and politics.
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Earth One @brucealeksander.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If Tiffany wins he'll claim to be a "man of the people," but always in the debt of the three billionaires who put him there.
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Earth One @brucealeksander.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
There are laws against state-sponsored propaganda aimed at the domestic population. Trump's regime is ignoring those laws, and we're footing the bill. www.cnn.com/2026/09/29/m...
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Trump’s ads have cost taxpayers at least $2.5 million, with funding from Customs and Border Protection | CNN Business
Millions of taxpayer dollars have already been spent on President Donald Trump’s hagiographic ads, according to estimates by a leading political ad-tracking firm. And a total of $20 million has been a...
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Earth One @brucealeksander.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is such a sad period for America. History will not be kind to this regime.
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Earth One @brucealeksander.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Russia’s war on Ukraine has now gone on longer than WW1, and did not “end on day one” of the Trump administration.
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Earth One @brucealeksander.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Can anyone explain why we're "reassigning" Washington's top two counter-terrorism experts in the middle of a war? It can't just be for aggravating Steven Miller's wife, can it? www.scrippsnews.com/us-news/two-...
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Two FBI agents ousted over investigation into alleged harassing calls to wife of Trump adviser Stephen Miller
Two senior FBI agents were removed after investigators found harassing calls to Katie Miller, wife of White House adviser Stephen Miller, didn't meet the threshold for investigation.
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Earth One @brucealeksander.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I expect that every major power has tasked a group of their people to study Trump and suggest how to best manipulate him.
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Every single claim by DHS of non-citizen voting in Nevada, each and every 16K of them, was wrong. Story: buff.ly/zdQ2c5e
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We are paying for his campaign ads now. State-run media and force-fed propaganda are quickly becoming the norm.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“we are witnessing a rare, very possibly once-in-a-lifetime political liar” Credit to Daniel Dale for this deep dive into Trump’s lies, the topics he lies about most; why MAGA loves the lies & the impact of the press failure to consistently fact check Trump. www.cnn.com/2026/09/27/p...
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I started fact-checking Trump 10 years ago. Here are 15 things I’ve learned | CNN Politics
Ten years ago this month, in my old job as Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star, I started what I believed would be a quick little side project: fact-checking underdog presidential candidate ...
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 27/09/2026
Why is so much untraceable dark money flooding elections? Because the Supreme Court demolished campaign finance laws. bit.ly/4d1GYVr
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$1 Billion in Secret Cash Is Reshaping the Midterms
We may never know where most of the money came from.
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Earth One @brucealeksander.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
As if Xi needed further confirmation that Trump was childish.
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Earth One @brucealeksander.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Most of the institutions that the public and world depend on have been hollowed-out by the Trump regime. The senior leadership and a third of the staff are gone from the CDC. Ebola is spreading, measles cases are rampant, and food-borne pathogens are slipping though the cracks.
nytimes.com
‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)
The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.
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Kelly Guinan @kellyguinan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
One-minute learning, the modern School House Rock® of American History, by @hcrichardson.bsky.social team #250to250 Stonewall Uprising Narrated by Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde #WeAreAmerica250 #GayRights #HumanRights #YourVoiceMatters youtu.be/zI-8pG1uWJo?...
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Stonewall Uprising, Narrated by Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Everything the pro-Trump billionaire Ellison family will now own: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central And more... With this comes the power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told. Shameful.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This is strong response. Other media orgs and news outlets all need to step up as well.
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Earth One @brucealeksander.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Tyrants always go for the free press.
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Earth One @brucealeksander.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
But they were so nice about paying for the wedding. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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DoJ accuses Russia of trying to kill Ukraine allies in US and Europe
The FBI says five men "conspired to intimidate, threaten, or murder people on US soil and around the world".
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/09/2026
Ossoff: "Here are Qs I have: is it the case that Kremlev was in China with Putin just days before he attended the wedding and gave what appears to have been a lavish gift to the president's son? And what are his ties to Russia's security services?...these folks are not just corrupt. They're clowns."
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Earth One @brucealeksander.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
So... perhaps running a country with people that LOOK like they came out of "central casting" isn't as good as selecting actually competent people?
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 12/09/2026
The administration’s efforts to undermine the 2026 election are failing. They will succeed only if citizens stay home. bit.ly/4r1RAZY
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Election Interference Won’t Work If Americans Vote
The administration’s attack on elections has failed in Congress and courts. Now it’s up to voters.
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Wolf Hour @wolfhour.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
"No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level - I mean the wages of decent living." .. (Franklin. D. Roosevelt) ..(cartoon Nick Anderson)
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 12/09/2026
Normal, healthy political party.
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