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Eric

@eotech.bsky.social
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Retired political and competitive intelligence consultant, PI, CFE, fraud professional in tech. Food and wine enthusiast. Love soccer (Everton, Timbers), college basketball (Jayhawks), and music (punk, HxC, metal, jazz)

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If the nation wasn’t led by madmen, this would be a huge story. As it is, Trump’s offer to sell weapons to our most powerful adversary is just another sign of America’s national suicide.
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Trump Offered to Sell Arms to China, U.S. Ambassador Says
President Trump made the offer to Xi Jinping, China’s leader, said David Perdue, the ambassador to China. The White House later said the U.S. had no plans for such a sale.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026
We have a commentariat class that spends a lot of time foisting revisionist history of 20th century Black liberation/civil rights struggles onto us and getting away with it because a lot of the people who would correct them died before their time thanks to cointelpro, the "war on drugs," & AIDS
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Eric @eotech.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Feels like the end of this race is a metaphor for where we’ll all heading with tech.
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Eric @eotech.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
This Echo headline is unintentionally hilarious. #Everton #EFC #UTFT #COYB
Echo headline: “David Moyes admits Everton do want to complete transfer before deadline”
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Eric @eotech.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
See? The Democrats DO want death panels!
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Eric @eotech.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Seeing some rumors about Ainsley Maitland-Niles as a RB option, so I asked #chatgpt what it could find to verify and consider the strategy. Chat then hallucinates a nationality. #Everton #EFC #UTFT #COYB
ChatGPT speculated that Ainsley Maitland-Niles is a plan b if Everton’s deal for Alastair Johnstonbfalls through. ChatGPT hallucinates that it prefers a deal for Johnston because it’s also Canadian.
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Eric @eotech.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
#ICE recruiting on #reddit with the line “don’t be a keyboard warrior”
Ad for ICE recruitment on Reddit that says “Don’t be a keyboard warrior…”
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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Folarin Balogun—the hero of USMNT’s first WC game—is a birthright citizen, while at the same time the Trump admin is desperately trying to tear down the 14th amendment.
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Matt Holland Author Dot Com @gallaethamatt.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Counter protest against the far-right in Liverpool. Please share it. Even if you're not in Liverpool, you might have followers who are and help is gonna be needed
I can't alt text the entire poster from my phone but the key takeaway is that the counter protest is gonna be assembling at 11:30 am on Saturday 13th of June at the corner of County Road and Barlow Lane L4 3QU
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
this is of course a threat that comes with the national guard coming up on a year of occupying the city. the time's long past for statehood.
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Eric @eotech.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Absolutely wild to me that the same panel that docked us 10 points that was reduced to 6 was allowed to decide we owe Burnley £40m. #Everton #EFC #UTFT #COYB
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RogueResistanceKnitter 🥄🐸 @rogueresistknitter.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Personally, I think this is dumb. If Dems want to help people, they should raise the minimum wage to a living wage. This requires people to work more hours in order to survive. How does this help part-time employees?
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Eric @eotech.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Two minutes after I RTed this, I was added to a “Gullible People” block list. 😂😂😂
Notification I’ve been added to a “gullible people” blocklist after I RTed a post touting crime reduction in NYC
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Eric @eotech.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Thoughts @janeese4dc.bsky.social @kenyanmcduffie.bsky.social? #dcmayor #dc
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 06/06/2026
Entering month 6 of Mamdani's NYC & Robberies are down 11%, Retail theft is down 19%, & Murder is down 21%—all without "Adding 5000 new cops." Instead, he's invested in public safety free childcare, food, and better funded schools. Safer cities come from investing in people—not punishments.
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 28/05/2026
The National Design Studio has a vote-gov-previews.ndstudio.gov domain name, showing that they're replacing vote.gov, despite the DOJ telling a judge that they're not, in fact, working on a federal citizenship-verified voter list. Great idea, looking at the wildcard certificate to find subdomains.
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Eric @eotech.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Not great stuff on Stake… #Everton #EFC #UTFT #COYB
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Eric @eotech.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
I’m 47. My 10 y/o daughter is showing an interest in skateboarding. I obviously should buy myself a longboard to cruise around while she’s learning. (Yes I have health insurance 😂😂😂)
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Eric @eotech.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Feel bad for West Ham, needing a win and facing a Leeds squad who haven’t lost in eight AND needing a Spurs loss when they host Everton. #Everton #EFC #UTFT #COYB
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Eric @eotech.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
18 points. God damn it. #Everton #EFC #UTFT #COYB
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Eric @eotech.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
By my count, #Everton have dropped 15 points to late goals or conceding after going ahead this season. Tarky and Keane were the starting CBs in each of those eight matches. #EFC #UTFT #COYB
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da da™️ drew @adrew.dadguy.pro · 07/05/2026
there was a protest setting up for the senior kid who was picked up by ICE at this restaurant and the owner came out and said "I don't want to take a side in this can you guys move off my property" so Austin friends maybe don't side with this business.
La Palapa Mexican restaurant and cantina 
Located at Cameron road and 290
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.
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Eric @eotech.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Top 15 shows: The Pitt MASH Lost Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip The Morning Show Ted Lasso The Americans A Million Little Things Better Things Community The Good Wife Shrinking Billions Friday Night Lights The Office
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Eric @eotech.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Finn Surman deserves better attackers. #RCTID
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FrankHerbertIYKYH @iykyhfrankherbert.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Moyes - An injury update "Everyone is okay. Charly Alcaraz is back to full training."
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Breaking: WASHINGTON (AP) - Justice Department moves to vacate seditious conspiracy convictions of Oath Keepers and Proud Boys in major Jan. 6 cases.
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
jfc
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Jon Hutson @jonhutson.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
OMG. Terrorists have struck DC. In a preemptive attack, they have completely demolished the East Wing of the White House. America mourns. 🇺🇸
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
My favorite paper of 2019 has just been conditionally accepted at AER (lmao) The Voting Rights Act rapidly increased Black wages in the South via public employment & redistribution static1.squarespace.com/static/59dc0...
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Eric @eotech.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Sadly not able to duck out of work to watch Everton this afternoon. #Everton #EFC #UTFT #COYB
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Micah @rincewind.run · 27/02/2026
yeah the thing about this is that you can eat the cost when you’re running a news network as propaganda but if you try to run a major studio that explicitly takes the side of MAGA you’re just going to fail even larry senior can’t eat those kind of losses for long
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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/02/2026
yeah the next DOJ should be ready to go to war here, it's not like avoiding a fight will make them LESS hostile expecting a pretty big talent drain from WB/HBO, too, once they start pushing propaganda as hard as I expect they will
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Eric @eotech.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Unlimited espresso drinks at the office is dangerous.
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twist @pvdork.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
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Eric @eotech.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
My kids are going to hate me when they get older. I just told my 8 y/o that “the first rule of art supplies is put them away when you’re done.”
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MdDoogie3 @mddoogie3.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
To everyone thanking me, much appreciated but not why I posted! Pls support your local immigrant defense group like: The Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota: www.ilcm.org/donate/ Or my hometown LUCE: www.lucemass.org/donate Or Google your city/state & “immigrant defense” to find your local heroes!
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
1. I think most liberals are probably familiar with one part of what has become known as Wilhoit’s Law – that the true goals of the right are inequality, injustice, repression and control. This is how composer Frank Wilhoit put it in 2018: crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time.”
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
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Eric @eotech.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
At my first show of the year…Sick Move, American Television, Luxury Teeth, and Celebration Summer at Metro Gallery in Baltimore. The new job is likely going to mean fewer shows, so I’m making this one count.
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Eric @eotech.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Grealish out for 3 months. Back in time to score the winner in the derby. #Everton #EFC #UTFT #COYB
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Eric @eotech.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Up the Toffees! #Everton #EFC #UTFT #COYB What an away win, and Pickford was immense.
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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 03/01/2026
Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.
Twitter thread in Spanish by José Mario de la Garza, a human rights lawyer in Mexico, translated using Google Translate:

1. Overthrowing a dictator sounds morally right. No one mourns a tyrant. But international law wasn't built to protect the good, but to restrain the powerful. That's why it prohibits force almost without exception: not because it ignores injustice, but because it knows that if each country decides whom to "liberate" by force, the world reverts to the law of the strongest.

2. The problem is not Maduro. The problem is the precedent. When military force is used to change governments without clear rules, sovereignty ceases to be a limit and becomes an obstacle. Today it is “overthrowing a dictator”; tomorrow it will be “correcting an election,” “protecting interests,” “restoring order.” The law does not absolve dictatorships, but neither does it legitimize unilateral crusades.Cont’d:

3. The uncomfortable question is not whether a tyrant deserves to fall, but who decides when and how. Because history teaches something brutal: removing a dictator is easy; building justice afterward is not. And when legality is broken in the name of good, what almost always follows is not freedom, but chaos, violence, and new victims. The law exists to remind us of this, even when it makes us uncomfortable.Maduro isn't the problem: he's the face of the problem. Removing him from power would be merely opening the door. Behind him is the machine: Rodríguez, Cabello, the military command, the operators of repression and plunder. If you only change the person at the top and leave the system intact, what follows isn't democracy: it's a reshuffling.

And there's something even more difficult: Chavismo didn't just capture institutions, it captured daily life. Economy, media, bureaucracy, employment, fear, favors, blackmail. A country can't be "de-Chavistaized" by decree or by an electoral miracle. The real transition begins when that network is broken without setting the country ablaze.

The challenge is enormous, and it's also a moral one: to unite without vengeance, but without impunity. Targeted justice for those most responsible, truth for the victims, guarantees that the rest will dismantle the system, and a plan for people to live again—not just survive. Because freedom doesn't come with a new president: it comes when the state ceases to be a threat.
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Eric @eotech.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Celebrated my last day at my (now former) job with some big guns. The Lillian and Cayuse were amazing as always, but the 1995 Seven Hills Klipsun Vineyard Cabernet absolutely stole the show.
Empty bottles of 2013 Lillian Syrah, 2019 Cayuse Impulsivo Tempranillo, and 1995 Seven Hills Klipsun Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon 1995 Seven Hills Klipsun Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon
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Eric @eotech.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
My timeline right now is something.
Blue sky posts of screaming interrupted by Benjamin Dreyer wondering if the new CBS host is AI followed by more screaming
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Is this what we want? @isthiswhatwewant.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
🚨 US CITIZEN KIDNAPPED BY ICE FACES BEING TRAFFICKED OUT OF COUNTRY 🚨 #CallToAction - Share this video far and wide! Yesterday a US citizen was kidnapped by ICE. In under 48 hours, she was illegally moved out of Maryland, ignoring the court order to keep her there. She's at last stop to deportation
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Eric @eotech.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
PLEASE SHARE: Maryland attorney Victoria Slatten is representing a natural-born US citizen who has been abducted by ICE and moved from MD to LA against a court order. @vanhollen.senate.gov www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrsQ6Cuv/ #ICE
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Please like and share #immigrationlawyer #immigrationattorney #attorney #immigrant #attorneysoftiktok
TikTok video by YourAsylumBuddy
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Eric @eotech.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
It feels so great to finally send a #bouldering project I’ve been struggling with. #v5 #rockclimbing
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Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
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ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
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