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Charles Perez @coperez.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Obama (both of you), Bush, Clinton (both of you): if you were “keeping your powder dry”, now is the time. We need your voices - not measured, not politic. Full-throated, emotional, barely controlled: call out the illegality, the fascism of this regime. Call for a General Strike. Now is the time.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

When the president is destroying national landmarks, murdering fishermen, raising prices because he's angry over a Reagan video, and kidnapping parents in front of their crying children is probably not an ideal time to have a lazy, completely incompetent legislative branch perpetually on vacation.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Something people aren't talking about enough is how often Charlie Kirk invoked the Fifth Amendment when testifying before Congress about the domestic terrorists he provided buses to get to Washington on January 6, 2021.

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Charles Perez @coperez.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Alexander Hamilton, in one of his many essays during the lead-up to the Revolution, presciently described today’s Republicans/MAGA:

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Both of the co-founders of Turning Point USA died from things that were preventable, but which they mocked and urged this nation to ignore. Bill Montgomery was killed in 2020 by COVID and Charlie Kirk was killed in 2025 by gun violence.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 06/09/2025

Where are the red Make America Great Again hats out in the fields? You know, the same people who swore immigrants were “taking their jobs.” Keep snatching hard-working folks who are just trying to support their families and don’t be shocked when this becomes the new norm.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/09/2025

Every once in a while I tell people from other countries about how the health insurance system works in the US and they are aghast. Yesterday a guy straight up didn’t believe me when I said people can die because of not being able to afford medicine. He was sure I meant in the distant past.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

"The lunatics are running the asylum."

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.

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Charles Perez @coperez.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

The last (maybe…) edited shot of hummingbirds in the rain. Zoom in and you can see beads of water that rolled off his back. I will miss these little aerobats when they head south… soon.

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Charles Perez @coperez.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

I spent about an hour sitting barely out of the rain in our backyard. My patience was rewarded with 30-some shots of hummingbirds in our gardens. Here are the first couple I’ve edited.

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

“As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism, or hatred of the vulnerable – then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.” Noam Chomsky

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Bill Sheehan @marsisblu.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Max Planck once said that physics advances one funeral at a time. The same is true of a society and culture. I would add that some funerals make more difference than others, and one, right now, would make a very big difference indeed.

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Charles Perez @coperez.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

For all you “manly men” who love to watch men in tight pants who regularly slap each other on the @ss and are big-mad about male cheerleaders in the NFL: I give you the West Point cheerleading squad (The “Rabble Rousers”). This group was all male until about 1979 and men are still half the squad.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Do you have access to the EPSTEIN Files? Want to be inducted into the Whistleblower's Hall of Fame, be glorified in history as the Savior of Democracy & have an annual holiday named in your honor? All of this can be yours if you simply: #LeakTheEPSTEIN-Files!* *victim's names redacted, of course

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Charles Perez @coperez.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Went outside this morning and saw something scurrying up an apple tree in the neighbors’ yard. Looked up and knew I’d have to grab my camera. Caught this little Trash Panda in the morning light.

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Charles Perez @coperez.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Re-edit of a photo from the 2021 partial solar eclipse. I was one of the first to arrive at Sodus Bay Lighthouse Museum in the pre-dawn darkness. Eventually there were several dozen photographers and others waiting for the rising sun already partially eclipsed by the moon.

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Charles Perez @coperez.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Mid-summer Columbine against dreamy bokeh. This photo is from a couple of years ago: this year we’re in a serious drought and few of our flowers look this good.

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Charles Perez @coperez.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

“We love our origin stories clean. We celebrate the eloquence of Jefferson while ignoring the calluses of those who picked his tobacco.”

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The Conditioned Republic and the Baptism That Never Was ...

Jefferson, the Missing Revolution, and the Condition of American 'Blackness'.

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Charles Perez @coperez.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

White Admiral Butterfly in the afternoon sun.

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Charles Perez @coperez.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Red Tailed Pennant in our backyard.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

CNN: The Wall Street journal is reporting that in May, AG Pam Bondi and her deputy informed the president at a meeting in the white house that his name was in the Epstein files.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

ICE goons in Spring Valley, CA, a guy with a knee on someone’s head and a woman screaming in pain during a kidnapping.

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

You elect a sexual predator whose closest friend was a child rapist and you doubted he was in on the action? Now you’re surprised that he doesn’t want any new evidence of his involvement to get out? Really?

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Charles Perez @coperez.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

At this past weekend’s Geneseo (NY) Airshow: the F/A-18F of the Rhino Demo Team and the F-35A of the Lightning II Demo Team. Both in a hard right turn, pulling vapor from the hot (100°), humid air.

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Now THAT's a cease and desist letter

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

NEW: Newly revealed messages from fired DOJ attorney Erez Reuveni show in real time how DOJ officials handled court orders related to the Alien Enemies Act, Kilmar Abrego Garcia and more — as well as Emil Bove's alleged suggestion to say "fuck you" to the courts. www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Breaking: per FEMA sources Kristi Noem was responsible for THREE DAY DELAY in deploying search-and-rescue in Texas Fire her. Blood on her hands.

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