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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 · 22/09/2026
It would be a bonus if you would include the postmark dated on these.
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complextailor.bsky.social @complextailor.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
We are going to need those wins if Michigan throws away its Dem Senate seat by nominating El Sayed next week.
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complextailor.bsky.social @complextailor.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Never heard of him before. Thanks for the introduction.
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complextailor.bsky.social @complextailor.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Amazing
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complextailor.bsky.social @complextailor.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Wow
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complextailor.bsky.social @complextailor.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
This is a fake. Pls delete
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complextailor.bsky.social @complextailor.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Kalamazoo
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complextailor.bsky.social @complextailor.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Some American patriots at sea near New Zealand.
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complextailor.bsky.social @complextailor.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Awesome. Thanks for posting.
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complextailor.bsky.social @complextailor.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
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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complextailor.bsky.social @complextailor.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
He's been on fire lately! I'll take it.
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complextailor.bsky.social @complextailor.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Love these.
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complextailor.bsky.social @complextailor.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
pancakes
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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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complextailor.bsky.social @complextailor.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
"blame the dame" , a phrase I picked up watching movies from the 1930's.
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complextailor.bsky.social @complextailor.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Really interesting. Thanks for posting
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complextailor.bsky.social @complextailor.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Not 666 people?
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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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complextailor.bsky.social @complextailor.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Awesome
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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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complextailor.bsky.social @complextailor.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
It matters if we don't.
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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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complextailor.bsky.social @complextailor.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Outstanding.
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complextailor.bsky.social @complextailor.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
The people will be commenting via the No Kings protests the same day, organized by Indivisible. Go to their website to find the closest one.
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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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complextailor.bsky.social @complextailor.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
That's an amazing photo.
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complextailor.bsky.social @complextailor.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Thanks for the gift link. Good article.
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complextailor.bsky.social @complextailor.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Probably a lot of it coming from former Catholics.
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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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complextailor.bsky.social @complextailor.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
I watched the Foyle's War series a few years ago, and it struck me how they portrayed everyone depressed in the immediate post war years, and that time even darker than war time. I didn't expect that. It was eye opening.
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complextailor.bsky.social @complextailor.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Looks like a song sparrow to me with that dark spot on the chest.
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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
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