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doned.bsky.social

@doned.bsky.social
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Lifetime Californian. Retired from career in law. Happily married. Avocation -- indie films. (www.imdb.com/name/nm13300140/) I believe in justice, equal rights, individual freedom, regulation of business, progressive taxes.

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doned.bsky.social @doned.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Into every life, at least a little sunshine must fall. 😁 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/u...
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Judge Blocks National Parks From Removing ‘Negative’ Signs
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doned.bsky.social @doned.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
He lies ALL THE TIME! Every article that begins "Trump says" is a waste of time.
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doned.bsky.social @doned.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
I'm so disappointed in you. Impeachment is meaningless because we're never going to get the supermajority needed to remove him. Without removal, impeachment just ends up showing that he can get away with anything. And I think you know this.
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doned.bsky.social @doned.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Just SOP for the GOP.
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doned.bsky.social @doned.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
SCOTUS has ruled that the President is free to ignore almost all laws because of something the Founders never intended, called the "Unitary Executive". Since the President executes the law, whatever he does cannot be challenged.
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doned.bsky.social @doned.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
(2) We have a federal army of thugs, called ICE, who brutally capture and imprison (in horrible conditions, for weeks or months), or murder, without any justification or accountability. No sports event is worth talking that risk.
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doned.bsky.social @doned.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
(1). TO SOCCER/FOOTBALL FANS AROUND THE WORLD: As you probably know, the United States is co-hosting the World Cup with Canada and Mexico the summer. I recommend you NOT attend any events in the USA.
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doned.bsky.social @doned.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
There is no word or phrase that can capture the extent of DJT's evil and incompetence.
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Rhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
People in Minnesota are now using their key fobs to trigger their car alarms from the safety of their homes when they see ICE walking around.
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doned.bsky.social @doned.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
I believe Trump cannot be removed through impeachment because almost all Republicans are part of his cult, so getting the supermajority needed in the Senate to remove him is impossible.
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doned.bsky.social @doned.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
True, because 'red' parents insist on their 'right' to control the thinking of their children. If a child taught critical thinking decides that the parents' religion makes no sense, the parents are feel outraged that their parental rights have been violated.
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doned.bsky.social @doned.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Really? So where do I buy weapons that will let me defeat the National Guard, Army, Navy & Air Force?
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doned.bsky.social @doned.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
I am getting no likes or comments on my posts. I suspect BlueSky's algorithm thinks I am saying things that might get it in trouble with the Trumpocracy. Please 'like' or just put an 'x' in the comments so I can see whether I am on BlueSky's naughty list.
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doned.bsky.social @doned.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
(3). Further coordinated distractions include his silly threat to invade Greenland, cutting millions of dollars from America's economic safety net, withdrawing America from international climate organizations, and another unpunished murder by one of his brownshirt ICE thugs.
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doned.bsky.social @doned.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
(2). Oil prices actually rose. Maduro was captured but Trump let Madro's corrupt successor stay in charge.
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doned.bsky.social @doned.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
(1). I congratulate President Donald J. Trump on his fully successful raid on Venezuela. Everybody has stopped talking about the millions of Epstein papers showing that he repeatedly raped girls. Meanwhile, as to Venezuela, fundamentally nothing has changed.
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doned.bsky.social @doned.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
<2> ... as the Founders intended but the Republicans quickly fell back into line behind DJT. There can be no higher High Crime than armed insurrection but they voted not to impeach him. Instead they fell back on telling a big lie over and over again until most people believe 1/6/2021 was peaceful.
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doned.bsky.social @doned.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
<1> Today must be a day of mourning for the rest of my life. January 6 is the day when DJT crossed the line and sent an armed mob to overturn the Constitution and overthrow Congress with murderous violence. There was a brief glimmer of hope that Republicans in Congress would act ...
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doned.bsky.social @doned.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
President Trump has started a war with Venezuela. How very quaint of Congress to think they have any control of that decision. Ultimately, they have only the right to remove him as President, and that will never happen because at most a handful of Republicans would support it.
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doned.bsky.social @doned.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
<>.. I am cautiously optimistic that if the nation can endure these four horrible years of insane government—likely, though not guaranteed—we may relearn that lesson. And, as after World War II, America could emerge stronger, poised to recover and thrive for decades to come.
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doned.bsky.social @doned.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
<1>..World War II taught Americans a hard but vital lesson: authoritarianism is dangerous and must be actively resisted. The generation that internalized that truth has largely passed away. As a result, millions of people will die, in America and around the world
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doned.bsky.social @doned.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
In case you doubt that we are in danger of totalitarianism in America, we have a secret, national surveillance system begun during his first term. apnews.com/article/immi...
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Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.
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doned.bsky.social @doned.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
(2). Many Republicans are delighted to impose cruel hardship on people who are suffering. Let's try to avoid the traditional Democrat circular firing squad and just move on.
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doned.bsky.social @doned.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
(1). The Democrats voting to end the shutdown are not doing that for money, or power, or glory. The shutdown is hurting the poor and the sick. Republicans have the luxury of caring nothing for them, so had no incentive to meet the demands to restore funding for the Affordable Care Act.
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doned.bsky.social @doned.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
I don't know which one is more evil. I just think Elon's followers aren't as likely to become Trumpocracy Brown Shirts in the effort to destroy American democracy.
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doned.bsky.social @doned.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
My guess is that he'll never get that trillion, because he will continue to drive Tesla into the ground. I don't like Elon Musk, but I'd prefer people to be his cultists than Trump cultists.
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doned.bsky.social @doned.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
He says he is. Almost everything he says is deception.
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doned.bsky.social @doned.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
At its core, White Christian Nationalism is what much of the MAGA movement is about. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
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Nick Fuentes’s Rise Puts MAGA Movement in a ‘Time of Choosing’
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doned.bsky.social @doned.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Did he actually post this?
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doned.bsky.social @doned.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
I have seen many claims that to be successful, the Democratic Party must change to be more in agreement with the writer's values. Instead, it makes sense to me widen the tent. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/o...
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Opinion | This Is the Way You Beat Trump — and Trumpism
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doned.bsky.social @doned.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
I suppose it is too much to hope that his plane might run out of fuel midflight and crash because there's no money?
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doned.bsky.social @doned.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Thugs.
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doned.bsky.social @doned.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
I do believe ...
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doned.bsky.social @doned.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
There must be at least some possibility that JD & Erika are having an affair, Usha will find out, and JD will have an unfortunate accident.
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doned.bsky.social @doned.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
In ~10 months the Trumpocracy has bigly progressed Trump's wish to become dictator like his idols, Putin and Xi. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Opinion | In Trump’s America, Are We Losing Our Democracy?
Donald Trump has wielded power as no previous president has.
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doned.bsky.social @doned.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
<2> The hateful Trumpocracy running ICE, and the thug culture of the field agents, results in those policies being ignored, and probably repealed, but they are a reminder of how good America used to be (and may someday be again).
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doned.bsky.social @doned.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
<1> It is somehow comforting to know that the policies of our Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency require prompt and humane treatment of persons detained. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Revealed: ICE violates its own policy by holding people in secretive rooms for days or weeks
Guardian analysis finds ICE increasingly keeps people in holding rooms with little oversight, as some facilities see a 600% rise in detention length
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doned.bsky.social @doned.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
<2> Some of what has been lost may someday be restored, some is lost forever, and some might even be replaced by something better. Or the ballroom may remain forever as the symbol of America becoming just one more oppressive dictatorship whose history will be erased.
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doned.bsky.social @doned.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
<1> The destruction of the East Wing of the White House is the perfect metaphor for what two thirds of eligible American voters did this country by electing Donald Trump as President of the United States of America (either by voting for him or by failing to vote against him).
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doned.bsky.social @doned.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
<2>It felt like we could never go down that dark path. This was the same throughout much of the world. Now most democracies are endangered; some have already chosen dictatorship, and America may follow them now. In 2016 America was the greatest it had ever been. I miss that America very much.
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doned.bsky.social @doned.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
<1>I was born in 1949. America had lots of injustice, but most Americans had learned (at a terrible cost) that nazism and fascism are evil. Most of the people who had learned that lesson are now dead. For Americans alive today, all the of that was just another boring hour in some history class.
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doned.bsky.social @doned.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
The video is delightful, but I am confused. We had a cat who adopted us, which seems normal. If an otter decided to do the same thing, and everyone involved is happy about it, I don't see why the humans would have any obligation to send it back to the wild.
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doned.bsky.social @doned.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
This tells us much about the young people swelling the ranks of Republicans. ‘This is so vile’: Young Republicans face backlash after racist chats leaked www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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‘This is so vile’: Young Republicans face backlash after racist chats leaked
Politico documented the use of slurs, including the N-word and a homophobic term, and antisemitic comments in chats
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doned.bsky.social @doned.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Yeah that, but also because ever since he was a protégé of Roy Cohn, Donald Trump has always said whatever would be best for him with zero thought or concern for whether it is the truth.
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doned.bsky.social @doned.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Our orange turd President has almost nothing in common with female genitals. If anything, he is more of a dick.
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doned.bsky.social @doned.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Oh, yeah, and let's not forget the National Guard! (I do prefer Facebook's feature that lets us go back to edit our posts.)
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doned.bsky.social @doned.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Most bullies don't have control of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, Space Force, ICE, and a shadow militia that is not well regulated, while the SCOTUS Sextet chants "Nothing he does can be a crime because he is the President of the United States of America."
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doned.bsky.social @doned.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Here is a thoughtful article about why the Trumpocracy may fail in turning America into a dictatorship. But, no guarantees. (gift article from The New York times) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/o...
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Opinion | How to Save the American Experiment
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doned.bsky.social @doned.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Nae, at this time I am traveling as a witcher. (W3)
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doned.bsky.social @doned.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
We stopped teaching critical thinking in schools, to appease evangelicals. We stopped teaching citizenship, to appease the Right, and focused on standardized test scores instead. Parents stopped respecting & supporting teachers. This dumbed-down America became an easy target for a grifter (DJT).
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