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complextailor.bsky.social

@complextailor.bsky.social
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Birder & bird photographer, mitten maker, reader, cat guardian, nature walker, puzzler. Current Michigander, former Hoosier, interested in US History & politics, esp. the New Deal and World War II. Older than I would like.

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complextailor.bsky.social @complextailor.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Bill Gates 'took responsibility' over Epstein ties in staff meeting, foundation says
A newspaper reports Gates apologised to staff over his links to Epstein and said: "I did nothing illicit. I saw nothing illicit."
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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
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complextailor.bsky.social @complextailor.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Kalamazoo Michigan representing today for January 20 protests. Cold as hell here.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Native Americans protested in Minneapolis today after the ICE abducted four Oglala Sioux Tribal Members. Three of them are still missing. (1/17|26)
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Best sign nominee.
A tweet from John Pavlovitz reads “chef’s kiss.” It includes a photo of a woman wearing a gray beanie and scarf, holding a cardboard protest sign that says “Not Today SprAyTAN,” with “A” and “TAN” highlighted in orange. The scene appears to be a street demonstration outside a theater with other people and cars in the background.
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RogueResistanceKnitter 🥄🐸 @rogueresistknitter.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Holy shit!! This makes a statement.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Well, you can finally cross “I’ve seen a handcuffed, inflatable penis” off your bucket list
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complextailor.bsky.social @complextailor.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
#nokings Kalamazoo. Just a portion of the crowd lining both sides of Drake Road
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 05/10/2025
The thing that makes me the sickest is that these folks don’t even have a shred of compassion. It’s one thing to enforce laws and rules. It’s another to do it gleefully and celebrate the suffering of someone born into poverty and desperation
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2025
It's increasingly clear that the president lives in a constructed bubble of unreality designed by aides who are manipulating him in order to take control of US policy. Seems like an important story - wish media would cover it.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/08/2025
Wes Moore on Fox & Friends: "Our National Guards are not trained for this ... we know the missions that they are trained for. Municipal policing is not one of them. If we want to be serious about making people safe, let's actually do the things that make people safe."
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Indivisible Greater Kalamazoo ❌👑 @kzooindivisible.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
8,000 people lined over a mile of Drake Road in Kalamazoo, Michigan for No Kings Day! Well done, Kalamazoo!
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Carolyn Barber, MD @cbarbermd.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
They told Minnesotans to stay home. After the murder of Speaker Hortman and her husband—and the failed attempts on Senator Hoffman and his wife—fear was the official message. But the people came anyway. In defiance. In grief. In purpose. This was the #NoKings rally in MN. #BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky
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🦋FightForDemocracy!🦋 @budahsbaker.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
From No Kings March in Indy!
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complextailor.bsky.social @complextailor.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Kalamazoo Michigan. Huge crowd.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
“I was a Yale-educated lawyer before I ever heard people say bad things about the traitors who killed American soldiers in defense of slavery.”
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/06/2025
This is dictator shit right here. www.military.com/daily-news/2...
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Bragg Soldiers Who Cheered Trump's Political Attacks While in Uniform Were Checked for Allegiance, Appearance
As President Donald Trump viciously attacked his perceived political foes, he whipped up boos from the gathered troops directed at California leaders, including Gov. Gavin Newsom.
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 05/06/2025
Always labeling things as good or bad? That habit might be shrinking your world. Drop the snap judgments. Choose “interesting” instead (and don’t even think about clicking that heart below this post).
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Stop the ‘good’ vs ‘bad’ snap judgments and watch your world become more interesting
Instant evaluations narrow your perspective and limit your mind’s potential to connect and engage with other aspects of your experiences.
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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
“The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow.” Carson McCullers, "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter," published on this day in 1940
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Citizen Screen @citizenscreen.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Joan Crawford photographed by Edward Steichen for Vanity Fair in 1931.
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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
There was a rather charming trend in the 1910s to introduce the actor at the beginning of the film by showing them first in their street or evening clothes and then dissolving into the costume of their characters. Here we see recent stage import William S. Hart become a bandit in THE BARGAIN (1914).
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Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
#VEDay in Britain saw a momentary outbreak of celebration, but the overall mood according to Mass-Observation that spring/summer was one of “war weariness, disappointment, and bewilderment” at the state of the world and the country. Extracts from M-O’s File Report 2268, compiled in late 1945.
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complextailor.bsky.social @complextailor.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
At the #indivisible protest in Kalamazoo today.
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Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
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complextailor.bsky.social @complextailor.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Was photographing a sandhill crane family today (see the colt bottom right) in Michigan and a red-winged blackbird dropped by. I suspect he was trying to drive them away from his nest, but it didn't work. #birds
Two sandhill cranes with small colt feeding in a marsh.  Red-winged blackbird is landing on one of the cranes.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Keep speaking up, speaking out, pushing back. The administration has had a bad week because of it.
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
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1946 News @80yearsago.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: Thank you guys for 400 wonderful followers! If we could reach 500 followers before V-E Day, that would be great! All you have to do to make this happen is to inform your friends about this account and tell them to follow. Even donating helps too. (1/2)
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Republicans R Evil 👿 @republicansrevil.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Pope Francis’s "Urbi et Orbi" Easter speech: “How much contempt is stirred up at times towards the vulnerable, the marginalized and migrants...I appeal to all those in positions of political responsibility in our world not to yield to the logic of fear which only leads to isolation from others.”
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complextailor.bsky.social @complextailor.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Eastern Comma butterfly, Michigan today. Spring is coming! #butterflies
orange butterfly with dark markings and silver edges resting on leaf litter.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/04/2025
Van Hollen on Fox News Sunday: "I'm not vouching for the man. I'm vouching for the man's rights. His constitutional rights to due process."
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Frango ❌️👑 @frangoandfriends.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
@maddow.msnbc.com My dad is 98, WWII USNavy Veteran. Showed up for democracy in San Diego today. "I fought for it once, I'll fight for it again!" 💙🇺🇸💙 THIS is what democracy looks like!!!!
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complextailor.bsky.social @complextailor.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Great protest today in Paw Paw, Michigan, in a rural red county. Easily 300 people.
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
A Chicago Bulls hoodie makes Kilmar Garcia a gang member the same way a shiny gold cross makes Karoline Leavitt a Christian.
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complextailor.bsky.social @complextailor.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Rush hour resistance on the I-94 overpass in Kalamazoo
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Lincoln Square @lincolnsquare.media · 15/04/2025
Constituents to Chuck Grassley: "Are you bringing back that guy from El Salvador?" Senior Citizen: “If I get an order to pay a ticket to pay $1200 and I just say ‘no’, does that stand up? Because he just got an order from the Supreme Court and he just said ‘screw it’” “I’M PISSED!”
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 14/04/2025
No one should be above the law, most especially the President. Ignoring a Supreme Court ruling to facilitate Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return isn't just cruel; it's unconstitutional. They're saying the quiet part aloud — if they get away with it now, they'll do it to anyone.
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complextailor.bsky.social @complextailor.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
We're not here because there is HOPE. There's HOPE because we're here. NYC Hands Off protest.
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complextailor.bsky.social @complextailor.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
My favorite sign today at the NYC Hands Off March, held by two little girls. It's time to use our outside voices.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
After crashing the stock market, Trump is now in FL for the rest of the week hosting the Saudi-owned LIV golf league at his course.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
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Indivisible Greater Kalamazoo ❌👑 @kzooindivisible.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Next Meeting for Indivisible Greater Kalamazoo is Wednesday! March 26, 6:30 - 8:00 pm at People's Church, 1758 N 10th Street, Kalamazoo, MI. Join us!
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1946 News @80yearsago.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
[March 24th, 1945] "PATTON CROSSES RHINE IN A DARING DRIVE WITHOUT BARRAGE, EXPANDS BRIDGEHEAD; NAZIS SAY RUSSIANS ARE MOVING ON BERLIN" (New York Times) #history #OTD #WWII #1940s
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complextailor.bsky.social @complextailor.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
I was part of a bridge takeover over interstate 94 in Kalamazoo tonight. One of 6 protests this week in our community. NO KINGS!
No kings sign and protestors on interstate overpass
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State Wide Indivisible Michigan @mi-swim.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Thank you @slotkin.senate.gov for listening to your constituents and voting NO to Cloture on the CR to fund the government. We have your back. Thank you for having ours. #DCMI
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
these are our party leaders now, ignore all other opinions
Rep. Jasmine CrockettRep. Alexandria Ocasio-CortezGov. JB PritzkerGov. Tim Walz
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Can’t emphasize this enough: if you’re feeling overwhelmed by the debased assault on our country, the antidote is connecting with other people in the flesh who are feeling the same way. There are millions of us.
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