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@gjl2k.bsky.social
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#leftish Moved to Chicago because of Nelson Algren. I've been a skinhead (not the nazi skinheads, the original kids-Flesheaters, X, Bad Religion, MDC), a writer, a designer. I've been very poor, on Welfare, then middle class, now on SSDI

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GJL2K @gjl2k.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
He’s a Pagan god at best. He’s not omniscient nor omnipresent and definitely not infallible, as the Judeo-Christian and Allah are. He can’t form complete sentences let alone walk on water. I wish God existed so we could watch Him smack down these mofos
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GJL2K @gjl2k.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Circus Peanuts are one of my favorites but Bit O’Honey—what the hell is that?
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GJL2K @gjl2k.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
It’s not winning. Winning requires actual competition. This is just nepotism.
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GJL2K @gjl2k.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Release the Epstein file, Donny
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GJL2K @gjl2k.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
By calling peaceful protesters "terrorists" Mike Johnson is putting our lives in danger. Is it possible to organize a class action law suit for defamation?
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GJL2K @gjl2k.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
@bsky.app If you live in Chicago, join tomorrow at the Edgewater Library this event is. Join us for a special presentation with Peter Hayes, Professor Emeritus of History at Northwestern University and former chair of the Academic Committee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
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GJL2K @gjl2k.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
🎥🎬📽️🎞️🦋 Last night I thoroughly enjoyed”The Night They Robbed Big Bertha’s” Ah the seventies, when you could still make low budget B movies about whorehouses that were funny and freeing.
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GJL2K @gjl2k.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Got into my second juried show. Thanks to Side Street Studio Arts in Elgin
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GJL2K @gjl2k.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
How about “Make convicted felons serve their time?”
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GJL2K @gjl2k.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Let’s set fascism to p. Antifa is defined as ~p. If you are against Antifa, that’s ~(~p). ~(~p) = p. So Trump, by logic, has just admitted he is a fascist. But you don’t need logic; there’s more than enough prima facie evidence.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Are you okay with this, GOP? Wait, don’t answer that.
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GJL2K @gjl2k.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
That’s gonna go over like a lead balloon. Can’t wait to see the creative vandalism that will inspire
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GJL2K @gjl2k.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
This is a solution to right wing indoctrination. Sponsor paid studies of psylocibin at state universities in red states. Read the results of such a study in the link below www.nature.com/articles/s41...
nature.com
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GJL2K @gjl2k.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Brilliant observation, Hedy.
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GJL2K @gjl2k.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Now that America is a plutocracy, billionaires are dictating what we can and can’t say. So much for free speech.
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GJL2K @gjl2k.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
He might be a mole or a double agent. Exactly what are his liberal credentials?
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GJL2K @gjl2k.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Right wing fanatics dictating medicine. Please sign the petition: sign.moveon.org/petitions/co...
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Tell Costco: Don't Cave to Extremists—Dispense Mifepristone Now!
Costco has announced that its pharmacies will NOT dispense mifepristone—a safe, FDA-approved abortion pill used in the majority of abortions nationwide. This dangerous decision is a concession to anti...
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GJL2K @gjl2k.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
I only watch videos with actual humans talking. Also there seem to be only five voices that are used over and over narrate AI. Once you recognize these you can avoid them.
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GJL2K @gjl2k.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Yes it’s a Marxist plot. Eva would create hundreds of thousand jobs. The Heartland Institute wants to turn America into Saudi Arabia where the poor starve and the rich can have slaves. Give me a Marxist plot any day.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
This is a common conservative trope: Giving money to poor people isn't enough, we need to focus on "cultural values" like hard work and marriage. The problem is that red states have been doing that for decades and it doesn't work! Telling people that jobs are good doesn't help if there's no jobs.
They were willing to spend money to fight poverty, but they wanted the programs to nurture the values that they had seen firsthand help people rise: hard work, family and community cohesion, reliability, a passionate commitment to education. These values tend to inhere in communities before they are transmitted to individuals.

Progressives, by contrast, are quick to talk about money but slow to talk about the values side of the equationI’ve been driven away from the right over the past decade, but I can’t join the left because I just don’t think that tradition of thought grasps reality in all its fullness. I wish both right and left could embrace the more complex truth that the neocon Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan expressed in his famous maxim: “The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change culture and save it from itself.”

If you can find some lefties who are willing to spend money fighting poverty but also willing to promote the traditional values and practices that enable people to rise, you can sign me up for the revolution.
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GJL2K @gjl2k.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Eggs are so expensive now. I can’t afford to egg my neighbor’s house anymore 😩
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GJL2K @gjl2k.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
You can have my gun when you pry it from my immaculately manicured hands😝
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GJL2K @gjl2k.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
He is referring to the Great War of Resistance to Fascism
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GJL2K @gjl2k.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Miller’s pronouns (he, him, himmler)😝
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GJL2K @gjl2k.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
That’s about 45 million domestic extremists, so watch your mouth Stevie
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GJL2K @gjl2k.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Let’s redefine minor misdemeanors as violent felonies because that’s reasonable—not
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GJL2K @gjl2k.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
He’s familiar with God the way children are acquainted with the Easter Bunny. He needs to read St John the Divine’s “The Cloud of Unknowing “
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GJL2K @gjl2k.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
📻🎶🎹 Name a song you would be embarrassed to admit to liking. Mine is Please Mr Please by Olivia Newton-John
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
My name is Captain Dylan Blaha, and this message is for members of the National Guard across the USA. I've served in the Illinois Army National Guard for over 12 years, including a deployment to Afghanistan and three years on active duty in Europe. What's going on right now is not normal.
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GJL2K @gjl2k.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
🇺🇸🦋🎬📽️ Chicagoans. Anti-fascist film series at Edgewater branch. There will be a short commentary by emeritus University of Chicago professor.
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GJL2K @gjl2k.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
GOP Grizzled Old Paedos
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GJL2K @gjl2k.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
@bsky.app My first juried show.
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GJL2K @gjl2k.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
They won't mention that the homelessness problem was caused by Reagan when he repealed the Mental Health Systems Act of 1980 and defunded subsidized housing. And had the nerve to say that homelessness was a choice. And now Trump's Big Ugly Bill will throw veterans and the elderly onto the streets.
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DAVID MARCUS: I've seen enough human suffering in homeless encampments to know Trump's new policy is right
Trump's executive order on homelessness gets it right. It distinguishes between financial homelessness and the deeper issues of addiction and mental illness requiring intervention.
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GJL2K @gjl2k.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
We need a Daniel Ellsberg on this. Where is Wiki-leaks? Where is Anonymous?
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 22/07/2025
Oh hello there! Just sitting here really beyond pleased that Donald Jr reminded us that those who do not release the Epstein files are SCUM! I absolutely agree and appreciate his candor
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GJL2K @gjl2k.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Trump thrives on the media by constantly defaming it. If the media had any guts they could boycott Trump and refuse to cover his press conferences, Truth Social posts and public speeches. A week without any mention of him in the press would have hiim losing his mind.
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Machine Pun Kelly @kellyscaletta.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
You spelled, "The American people had a $100 billion tax hike" wrong, Charlie.
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GJL2K @gjl2k.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Great essay from the Cleveland Plain Dealer. It encourages a boycott of ABC and CBS over their capitulation to Trump. www.cleveland.com/news/2025/07...
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Want to fight fascism? Cancel your Disney, Paramount streaming subscriptions: Letter from the Editor
As media giants cave to Trump's intimidation tactics with million-dollar settlements, it's time for Americans to choose between entertainment subscriptions and defending democracy
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GJL2K @gjl2k.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
@bsky.app 🎨 Just got accepted into my first ever juried art show. Image shows matted piece.
Vulture 2
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GJL2K @gjl2k.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
🎥🎬🍿 Really good thoughtful movie. Definitely for grownups.
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
My favorite protest sign so far. 🔥 NO KINGS!
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Donald Trump posting about Putin calling to wish him a happy birthday is pathetic. What a total weakling.
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GJL2K @gjl2k.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Excited to see Brecht’s Galileo at Trap Door tomorrow night
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GJL2K @gjl2k.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
🇺🇸🫵 🦋 Use of military force is prohibited by law. 18 U.S.C. § 1385. Use of Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Space Force as posse comitatus: Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress,
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GJL2K @gjl2k.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Well, it would be silly to fly it elsewhere, so what, exactly, is the point here? Except for jingoism.
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GJL2K @gjl2k.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
@bsky.app 🔥🇺🇸🦋🐍 How did we wind up with a house of just fascists? Where are the decent Republicans, the ones who still love America and the Constitution?
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GJL2K @gjl2k.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Strange that no one’s published a picture of Kilmar Garcia’s hands. Would it show the president lied about the tattoos of MS-13?
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GJL2K @gjl2k.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
I think you should define your terms, as scientists do.
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GJL2K @gjl2k.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
I'm attending Indivisible Chicago's event, “No Kings Rally and March” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/indivisiblec...
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No Kings Rally and March · Indivisible Chicago
In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings. Join Indivisible Chicago and our partner organizations for a rally and march in downtown Chicago as we come together to say NO KINGS! This national d...
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GJL2K @gjl2k.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
But what happens when the "revelation" of psychological warfare is actually psychological warfare itself? For example calling Daniel Ellsburg a marxist-leninist subverts the facts on the ground of what the Pentagon was actually up to. So destroy Daniel Ellsburg and his generation
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