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Doug Toland

@dtoland.bsky.social
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Retired software developer, now a full-time jazz musician playing drums, writing and arranging. Check out my group: vertigotrio.com ! #boston #jazz

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Carl Ott @bubba687.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
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Doug Toland @dtoland.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
So I'm thinking maybe christianity should be forked to a new branch called "kirkianity" and it's accompanying set of laws should be called "Charlia Law"
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Doug Toland @dtoland.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
You know, WW III is so boring and unimaginative. Why don't we call this, "The War Against Intelligence"?
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Doug Toland @dtoland.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
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The Kimmel Cancel Response Blueprint
Jimmy Kimmel Live has been “indefinitely suspended” for saying the Charlie Kirk assassin was "one of them." The FCC threatened ABC's license.
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Doug Toland @dtoland.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
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Washington Post fires black woman who quoted what Charlie Kirk said about black women
After the horrific assassination of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk, Washington Post columnist Karen Attiah wrote about the empty platitudes of conservatives who indulge in violent rhetoric when it s...
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Doug Toland @dtoland.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
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5 Takeaways From Kennedy’s Senate Hearing
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Doug Toland @dtoland.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Has anyone started a betting pool on whether the person who delivers the CPI data will be fired today?
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
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Doug Toland @dtoland.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Marshmallow piece on the person responsible for destroying higher education in the US. Thanks NYT for making her so soft and cuddly. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/u...
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The Harvard-Trained Lawyer Behind Trump’s Fight Against Top Universities
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 06/08/2025
Everyone in DC knows that if you want to hide something, announce it on a Friday in August. Better yet, make it nearly impossible to track down. That's exactly what SCOTUS did last week. But the news is too staggering to hide for long: SCOTUS has decided it's time to destroy the Voting Rights Act.
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The Supreme Court prepares to end voting rights as we know it
And they don't want you to notice.
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Doug Toland @dtoland.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
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The hilarious but sad life of Kristi Noem (video)
This video offers a detailed, yet hilarious look at COSplaying Homeland Security Barbie and Puppy Slayer, Kristi Noem.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @dccartoonist.bsky.social )
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Read this now The government does have an Epstein list — here’s the proof BY CHRIS TRUAX thehill.com/opinion/whit...
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Reposting this and a few other things for no particular reason today. Maybe I’ll do it tomorrow and the next day, too.
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A Republic If You Can Keep It @arepublicif.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
If CBS & ABC have bent the knee And the Washington Post, NYTimes, & the LATimes have bent the knee And the Congress & SCOTUS have bent the knee All to a demented child rapist Then it is all the more imperative that we the people never bend We are who we have #RemoveTrump #EpsteinFiles
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Doug Toland @dtoland.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
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DOGE Denizen Marko Elez Leaked API Key for xAI
Marko Elez, a 25-year-old employee at Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has been granted access to sensitive databases at the U.S. Social Security Administration, the Treasury an...
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Doug Toland @dtoland.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
So I have a question. If we can't tax billionaires, because they will leave why is that bad? Where would they go? If I move to another country, I still have to pay income taxes to the former US. I would have to give up my citizenship.
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Doug Toland @dtoland.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
They must be pretty damning if Hilary and Obama wrote them. Was Sleepy Joe too busy that day to contribute?
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Doug Toland @dtoland.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
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Tom the Dancing Bug: Trump Science
Support your friendly neighborhood independent comic strip: SIGN UP FOR THE INNER HIVE and you'll get each week's Tom the Dancing Bug comic at least a day before publication. Plus other exclusive cont...
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Doug Toland @dtoland.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
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E.P.A. Suspends 144 Employees After They Signed a Letter Criticizing Trump
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Doug Toland @dtoland.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Petition your representatives to rename the former US to "Krasnovia"
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Doug Toland @dtoland.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Happy July 3rd, Subjugation Day!
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Darth Kater🇨🇦 @darthkater.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
"The Psychology of the Trump Cult: Part 2" by Jayne Converse (who's not on BlueSky). Borrowed from her IG profile. She's brilliant.🧠 #MAGAisaCult #JayneConverse3 #themoreyouknow
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Darth Kater🇨🇦 @darthkater.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
"The Psychology of the Trump Cult: Part 1" by Jayne Converse (who's not on BlueSky). Borrowed from her IG profile. #MAGAisaCult #JayneConverse3
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Doug Toland @dtoland.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
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Paramount agrees to pay $16m "bribe" to Trump
Threatened with a defamation lawsuit and desperate to win the president's approval for a merger, Paramount agreed to pay Donald Trump $16m.
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Doug Toland @dtoland.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
more inactionat the top boingboing.net/2025/07/01/c...
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Chuck Schumer struggles to remain relevant
US Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) took time off from the stern letter writing to make his version of substantive changes to Trump’s budget.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Local news is on top of these Trump weather forecasting cuts & the devastating impacts on local communities. Here's another wrong headed move. This one limits HURRICANE INFORMATION for forecasters. Read WPLG-TV's Hurricane Specialist @michaelrlowry.bsky.social: www.local10.com/weather/hurr...
Critical hurricane forecast tool abruptly terminated
U.S. Department of Defense announced Tuesday it would no longer process and deliver data essential to most hurricane forecasts  (also shows radar map of a hurricane)
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
The new Bove allegations are SHOCKING... but not surprising given the rest of his career! We analyze the new revelations & lay out all the prior scandals that corroborate them in our new @contrariannews.org piece. By me & @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social substack.com/@tomjoscelyn...
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Trump’s Pick for the Third Circuit Is Clearly Unfit
Emil Bove’s tenure as acting deputy attorney general should disqualify him from serving as a federal judge.
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The Independent @the-independent.com · 24/06/2025
Purple Heart veteran shot in action self-deports after old drug charge resurfaces: ‘Can’t believe this is happening in America’
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Purple Heart veteran self-deports to South Korea after ICE threatened detention
After 48 years in the U.S. and having taken two bullets for the country, Sae Joon Park left for South Korea
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
RFK Jr. is killing Americans with his reckless health policies. We need to state that plainly because it's important and it's true.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
💰 WATCH: “How is that happening?” 🤷🏼‍♂️ @aoc.bsky.social informs a confused RFK Jr. that his own HHS is stuffing the pockets of insurance companies by doubling the rates taxpayers pay them even as they defraud us. 🤔
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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
The most important part of republican fascism is the demand you must be nice to them.
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
The DOJ official, previously Trump's personal attorney, reportedly gave veteran lawyers explicit instructions to say “f--- you” to court orders blocking deportations.
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Trump DOJ Lackey Told Underlings to Say ‘F*** You’ to Court Orders
Emil Bove’s explicit directive left a room full of DOJ lawyers stunned, according to a whistleblower.
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Doug Toland @dtoland.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Apparently, not enough inflation was being generated by tariff threats, and they were not interesting enough to distract the public from HR1. The blitzkrieg continues!
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
EXCLUSIVE — The Onion has a full-page ad in today’s NYT featuring part of an editorial calling out congressional fecklessness towards Trump. They also sent a copy of their latest issue to every lawmaker. My report, with an excerpt from the full editorial: www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...
The Onion NYT ad. The headline of the editorial says “CONGRESS, NOW MORE THAN EVER OUR NATION NEEDS YOUR COWARDICE”
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Doug Toland @dtoland.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Looks like we have successfully reversed medecine to pre-WWII levels, where faith healers in tents rule the day. Now they don't come to your town with a tent, they record a podcast. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/u...
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‘I Feel Like I’ve Been Lied To’: When a Measles Outbreak Hits Home
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Doug Toland @dtoland.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Happy Juneteenth! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyJz...
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Parliament - P-Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up) (1975)
YouTube video by dumpster3403
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Doug Toland @dtoland.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
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Airlines Secretly Selling Passenger Data to the Government - Schneier on Security
This is news: A data broker owned by the country’s major airlines, including Delta, American Airlines, and United, collected U.S. travellers’ domestic flight records, sold access to them to Customs an...
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Doug Toland @dtoland.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
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Opinion | Kennedy’s Purge Is a ‘Code Red’ for Vaccines in America
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Doug Toland @dtoland.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Trumphone. What could possibly go wrong?
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Melissa Hirst 💙🔥BLUE ADVOCATE OF LOVE AND ACCEPTANCE @melmayhem.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
I doubt anyone will see me post, but this needs to be known... if you have a visible following please repost 💙🔥💙 Admitting he wants "his people... aka US " to behave like north Korea for Kim Jong Un.🤬
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Doug Toland @dtoland.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Occasionally I find myself daydreaming about the last days of Il Duce. My 8th grade history teacher, Mrs Campbell's favorite quote was "history repeats itself"
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 16/06/2025
"If you’re among the vast sea of Americans who remain enthusiastically grateful for vaccines, the time for pushing back against Kennedy isn’t later, when he’ll likely be ratcheting up his program to 'reevaluate' longstanding pediatric vaccines."
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RFK Jr.’s War on Vaccines Is Here
Anyone who thinks he’ll stop with COVID shots is deluding themselves. The time to raise hell is now.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
BORDER PATROL: “Are you an 🇺🇸 citizen?” 🔥 NATIVE AMERICAN WOMAN: “FIRST ONES. We didn’t cross the border, the border crossed us… what are you? You’re not first born. You’re not from this f*ckin’ land. Punk-as* b*tches.”
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Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.” They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.
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Doug Toland @dtoland.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
There we go, this will inspire the TACO Orks to pursue him and his family. Bondi knows what she is doing and knows that guidance and laws are irrelevant...
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 06/06/2025
81 years ago, America's bravest generation stormed the beaches of Normandy in hopes of freeing Europe from the clutches of a brutal authoritarian. Today, we face authoritarianism on our shores. We owe it to ourselves, our country, and that great generation to fight for freedom here at home.
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The Boys of Pointe du Hoc
YouTube video by The Lincoln Project
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Doug Toland @dtoland.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Math Quiz Time! Calculate the 1077th prime number!
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