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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 · 07/11/2025
Love is the Drug (Roxy Music)
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GJL2K @gjl2k.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
True dat.
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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 · 27/10/2025
Is right
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GJL2K @gjl2k.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Does anyone else see an opportunity here. They can’t see you through the gas.
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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
Learn the extent to which Americans reacted negatively or sympathetically to these movements in the 1930’s and why. Finally, Professor Hayes will comment on the relevance of this information to current conditions and events.
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GJL2K @gjl2k.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
We’ll discuss the general, though not universal, characteristics of fascist movements in the interwar period, the conditions that favored their political rise, their relative appeal to different social groups, and the reasons why their acquisition of power universally proved disatrous.
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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.
Peter Hayes
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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 · 09/10/2025
Valley of the Dolls
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GJL2K @gjl2k.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Maybe you should seed your yard with caltrops, for when they try to arrest you
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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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GJL2K @gjl2k.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
You misspelled. It should be “Red states blow.”
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GJL2K @gjl2k.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
I am confused. What happened to Posse Comitatus. Isn’t Trump violating the law? If the military is sworn to defend the law, aren’t they also in violation? Is this a job for interpol? Or maybe the governor should have the police arrest the militants?
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GJL2K @gjl2k.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Nine Inch Nails Lollapalooza 2008
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GJL2K @gjl2k.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Nut-job more like it
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GJL2K @gjl2k.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Bingo (was his name-o )
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GJL2K @gjl2k.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Extortion much?
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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 looks like a Gold Key Comics supervillain.
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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 · 12/09/2025
Okay but an evangelical murdered 2 Democratic politicians in Minnesota and hardly any outcry on either side
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GJL2K @gjl2k.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Vance Boelter, anyone?
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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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GJL2K @gjl2k.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Nah. Brooks has always been an ass. I learned that from his criticism of Wikileaks.
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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
Darkness on the Rdge of Town
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GJL2K @gjl2k.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
One of the most powerful (and controversial) scripts of our time-- about the cycle of poverty and looking for escape--Click the picture for details--
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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
If he’s inciting others to violence that’s not protected speech
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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 · 02/09/2025
They line up desperate for rent and food money which Trump raised prices on.
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GJL2K @gjl2k.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
It’s only one season but try Our Zoo
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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 · 31/08/2025
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt — about a friendship twist an old lady and an octopus. Fantastic so far
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GJL2K @gjl2k.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
I Don’t Want To Go Home— Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes
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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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