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Jack Long

@coltrane21.bsky.social
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Addicted hiker, bookstore and jazz junkie. "Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life." - Mark Twain.

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Josh Cowen @joshcowenmi.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Among the many awful aspects of Orban’s government and the many good things about its defeat: Its targeting of universities to push right-wing politics and policy was the Heritage Foundation’s explicit model here. And for JD Vance when he said “the professors are the enemy.”
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Strikes on Iran Damage Fabled Heritage Sites, Infuriating Iranians Revered cultural icons that have withstood the upheavals of history are being hit hard in the war being waged by Israel and the United States.
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Strikes on Iran Damage Fabled Heritage Sites, Infuriating Iranians
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10/03/2026
NEW: A recently developed Defense Department program was meant to reduce civilian harm during military operations. But months before the Iran war, the mission was dissolved as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made “lethality” a top priority. By @hannahallam.bsky.social
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The U.S. Built a Blueprint to Avoid Civilian War Casualties. Trump Officials Scrapped It.
The Pentagon dismantled its civilian protection mission as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made “lethality” a top priority and the Trump administration reorganized national security around two principl...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
So he’s surrendering without accomplishing any of his stated objectives while declaring victory. Exactly what we said would happen.
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TheCatMan @bigbrohem.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Today's post from Jeff Tiedrich. Brilliant, as usual, but angrier than usual - understandably.
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Preznit Fuckwit golfs while oil hits a hundred dollars a barrel
don’t disturb Donny while he’s enjoying his ‘executive time'
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
A year ago we were supposed to be getting $2,000 rebate checks, DOGE was going to find $2 trillion in waste to balance the budget, we were going to pay no income taxes because tariffs would pay for everything, gas and home electric bills would be cut in half, and no new wars.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
I’m just curious if any of the disgusting juvenile delinquents making the ridiculous war glorification videos for the White House ever served in combat. Or even served in the military at all.
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🌹WeegieFromWA 🍀 @onefussyone.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Your reminder that Trump withdrew U.S. from the Iran nuclear deal in 2018 because - Obama. Sen. Tim Kaine yesterday: “Is he too mentally incapacitated to realize that we had a diplomatic agreement with Iran that was keeping its nuclear program in check, until he ripped it up during his first term?”
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Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
A country that can instantly fund endless wars but debates every dime for healthcare and education doesn’t have a budget issue—it has a values issue.
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Senator Mazie K. Hirono @hirono.senate.gov · 02/03/2026
The Pentagon confirmed there was NO sign that Iran was going to attack the U.S. No imminent threat. No authorization from Congress. No reason our service members should be dead. And no exit plan or strategy. This war on Iran is a reckless and deadly mistake by this regime.
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Purple Teacher @peaceandteachin.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
The irony of a Trump labeling Iran a sponsor of wrongful detention when US citizens are being imprisoned without due process or warrants would be funny if it wasn’t so outrageous. Trump is bombing a country that is doing what he aspires to be. #ProudBlue#Voices4Victory #OneV1 apple.news
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Trump administration labels Iran a state sponsor of wrongful detention — CBS News
Ahead of the decision to launch military strikes, the U.S. issued a designation that enables punishing Iran for detaining Americans for political leverage.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Donald is now killing kids to distract from his raping them.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19/02/2026
American not only becoming a cult of personality but becoming the dumbest cult of personality in the history of the human species is a lot to process
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sher12.bsky.social @sher12.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Not sure who needs to hear this but the voter fraud rate is a mere 0.000003%. Anyone telling you otherwise is making shit up so they can take away your right to vote.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
If you are a foreign president who commits crimes overseas, America will come get you, arrest you, and lock you up. But if you are a US president who commits crimes here in the United States, America will give you immunity from prosecution, reelect you, and bribe you with billions of dollars.
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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Because the job of journalism is apparently to keep inventing new euphemisms to avoid having to call greed, corruption or lawlessness by their name…
Article in the New York Times with the headline:
A Pardon and a Prosecution in New York Show Trump's Personal Geopolitics

The facts in the cases of Nicolás Maduro and Juan Orlando Hernández are strikingly similar. The men's fates are not.
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Jack Long @coltrane21.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Loved this book. #BookSky
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Valerie Bertinelli @wolfiesmom.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
This is me at 15. I’m a child. I’m a CHILD.
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TP @tpat10.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
You can count on the Dems to fold like a sheet every single time. They will squander all the goodwill they've gained. The wins on Tuesday night? Fuck em. The No Kings protest? Fuck it. This is why we can't ever seem to get anywhere. It's infuriating!
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Vicki Bryan's Bond Angle @bondangle.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
OK. Taking a breath…
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present Karma?
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AltSSA @altssa.altgov.info · 04/11/2025
#GOPShitdown Day 35. Y’all hanging in there? Please check on your friends and family members that are Feds. Pretty much everybody is struggling in some way right now (mentally, emotionally, financially, all of the above) so please, be the village and check on each other. We’re in this together ✊✊✊
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 31/10/2025
Trump isn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer, but even he knows Republicans could’ve kept the government open all along. Now he wants the Senate to nuke the filibuster to fix the mess he made, because red states are getting hit hardest & their voters are getting too loud to ignore. Today’s day 31.
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Brett Meiselas @bmeiselas.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
The same people who lost their minds over renovations to Cracker Barrel are totally fine with the White House getting bulldozed
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
The most reckless, stupid administration E-V-E-R. Nothing comes close.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
OK, so our "Secretary of War" currently has two big priorities: (1) murdering innocent fishermen in the Caribbean, and (2) endangering the lives of commuters in Southern California. Perhaps, we are seeing one of the downsides to having a drunk TV talk show chatterbox running our military.
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Laurie Loves Data @laurelann.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
If you make more than $360,000 annually, congratulations. The GOP has given you a tax cut. If you make less than that amount, tough luck for you.
tax change by income graph
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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 19/10/2025
"Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered, but we have this consolation: The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph." —Tom Paine
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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 17/10/2025
I’m deeply concerned that the military is losing yet another highly decorated commander—especially as Trump expands unlawful military action in the Southern Hemisphere. Everyone should be worried by Trump’s pattern of prioritizing loyalty over competence.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
“There’s a baby!” Guns drawn. Windows smashed. With a 1 month old in the car. (They did this as he was coming home from an immigration court appointment— which is illegal in Colorado: coloradosun.com/2025/10/01/i...)
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RetiredBPDmurdercop @chiefmlt.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
If you allow a government to break the law because of an “emergency”, it will create an emergency to break the law.
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 05/10/2025
ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
It was clear from the beginning that ICE staffing up was going to be a full employment program for racists, barroom bullies and wife beaters
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
How do these men and women look their children in the eye. How do they hug their daughters knowing they are protecting men who raped girls their age? open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...
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God, Greed and Groomers
The party that preaches "family values" has become a sanctuary for pedophiles.
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Rev Peter W Nimmo @peternimmo.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Ms Dean, a Democrat, has been a member of Congress since 2019. Mr Johnson is the Republican Speaker. Why does he simply defect her concerns with irrelevant comments?
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Rep. Jim McGovern @repmcgovern.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Republicans clearly flunked civics in high school. Undocumented immigrants CAN'T get Medicare, Medicaid, or healthcare tax credits. It’s against the law. These guys lie because the facts are not on their side.
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Explaining the G.O.P.’s Misleading Talking Point on the Looming Shutdown
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
This is the secret the Trump regime tried so hard to keep about the Dallas ICE shooting The names of the dead and wounded Jose Andres Bordones-Molina Miguel Ángel García-Hernandez Norlan Guzman-Fuentes Fight Trump's dehumanization. Say their names. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/dall...
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What the Trump regime doesn’t want you to know about Dallas ICE shooting
The Trump regime's refusal to say the names of the Dallas ICE victims exposes the inhumanity of American fascism.
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Steph59Renee 👠 @steph59renee.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
You know these goons Donald is hiring to be ICE agents are nothing but just that; goons. Untrained MAGA idiot criminals are all they are. They really think they’re tough, but one day they’re going to grab the wrong irate person and we’re going to have our first dead ICE agent. I’m here for it. 👠
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🇺🇦Noelle🇺🇦Dem Good @ Everything. DeICE America @nreveillee.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
This is a fascinating website with many link buttons taking you to more information. Sometimes the link buttons might not be obvious as a link button. There's much information on this website. Jump in and learn where we are and what we should be doing. fascismclock.org#inputs
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FascismClock.org - Tracking the USA's path to fascism
How close is 🇺🇸 to being a fascist state? We calculate that metric. Learn what data we monitor.
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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 🇨🇦 🍁 🇸🇪 🇵🇷 @vero1986.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
JD's portrayal of Appalachia exploited their heritage for political gain. He cosplayed a hillbilly and tokenized himself as the golden child who worked hard to overcome adversity, JD ignores the systemic political issues that plagued Appalachian industries and
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
this is fucking horrifying
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ChuckCjmmn @chuckcjmmn.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Should there be a statue erected at the White House honoring all of the school children who sacrificed their lives for 2A? According to MAGA logic wouldn’t they be patriots or were they disposable?
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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 11/09/2025
You people trying to rewrite the history of who Charlie Kirk was are pathetic. He used his organization to bully, dox and attack people he didn't agree with. Free speech my ass. He was one of the worst aspects of American politics. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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US rightwing group targets academics with Professor Watchlist
Turning Point USA’s list gains fresh attention after it expands and some notice it disproportionately names academics of color
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Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Thank you Michael Fanone. For those who do not recognize the name, Michael is one of the officers who defended America on January 6th and was left permanently injured as a result. He is a true hero of our Democracy.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
For everyone saying political violence has no place in this country… Remember two Democratic legislators were shot in Minnesota just this year. And America shrugged and moved on.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
I'm hearing "political violence has no place in America" from people who were more than OK with what happened on Jan 6, 2021.
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Adrienne LaFrance @adriennelaf.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Spectacularly brilliant cover story—just published in The Atlantic—by the one and only Jill Lepore. To understand democracy and power in America, every American should read this: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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How Originalism Killed the Constitution
A radical legal philosophy has undermined the process of constitutional evolution.
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