Hector Kavalares @hectoroftroy.bsky.social · 18/11/2025What are the odds that Trump has instructed Pam Bondi and the justice department to look into any legal means by which the Thanksgiving turkey he pardons is himself? 000
Hector Kavalares @hectoroftroy.bsky.social · 15/11/2025I try not to propagate the salacious rumor mill but to hear Trump say, “I did not have sexual relations with that man,” and have *that* be the lie that gets him impeached… Oh dear lord. 020
Reposted by Hector KavalaresMark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 27/10/2025I have a very bad feeling about this... 18345397210116
Reposted by Hector Kavalaresjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/10/2025a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society 273139653256
Hector Kavalares @hectoroftroy.bsky.social · 07/10/2025 Anyone else in Mass want to know how much we have lost to the Feds, here’s the new tracker: www.mass.gov/info-details...mass.gov 011
Hector Kavalares @hectoroftroy.bsky.social · 05/10/2025Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u... 000
Reposted by Hector KavalaresGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 30/09/2025This current American presidential administration is run by people who are quite obviously mentally ill, and we need to start talking about that. 1575314017895
Hector Kavalares @hectoroftroy.bsky.social · 27/09/2025After the helplessness of “why aren’t the Canadians/Europeans/Australians coming to help us?” wore into “We don’t deserve to be helped” wore into “fuck all the rich democrats who are abandoning the poors” - our continued endurance, our simple existence, is the best act of resistance of all. 010
Reposted by Hector KavalaresJavi Ibarrondo @jibarrondo.bsky.social · 26/09/2025journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... 🧪journals.plos.orgBehind political affiliation: How moral values, identity politics, and party loyalty have affected COVID-19 vaccinationFalling short of its vaccination goals, the United States faced a critical challenge in ending the pandemic, with political partisanship emerging as a barrier to COVID-19 vaccination uptake. This stud... 191
Reposted by Hector KavalaresGovernor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 22/09/2025"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." Looking forward to seeing Jimmy back on the air.variety.comJimmy Kimmel Returns: ABC Ends Suspension Starting TuesdayJimmy Kimmel will return to late night on Tuesday 1357412518963
Reposted by Hector KavalaresMark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 20/09/2025Giving a bully your lunch money is only a temporary downpayment for future bullying. We ALL need to step up for the first amendment. By-the-way, for the record, this ex-Disney employee finds Jimmy Kimmel very talented and funny. mh 676327857556
Reposted by Hector KavalaresAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/09/2025So many people feel overwhelmed while scrolling and there’s a reason for that. Bots are a large part of the problem. We’ve been breaking down how to spot them. After tracking bot groups that push narratives and attacks, we found some common traits: 11145431141
Reposted by Hector KavalaresWritingPIs @writingpis.bsky.social · 10/09/2025I'm using up rest of plums by making Cornbread Plum Scones (other fruit works, too, or jam). They'll be ready during hub's courtroom lunch break...not a fun trial, so maybe these scones will cheer him up. (Gift article) #Baking #Scones #Plums cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1016...cooking.nytimes.comCornmeal Plum Scones (Published 2014) 0131
Reposted by Hector KavalaresBen Abrahamse @babrahamse.bsky.social · 10/09/2025right wing dude gets shot in red state completely controlled by Republicans, with zero effective gun laws, and of course, this is going to be a big problem for Democrats 2133
Reposted by Hector KavalaresGravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 07/09/2025With ICE increasing its presence in and around Boston, I thought I'd repost this helpful guide for reporting ICE sightings in an effective way. Remember: S.A.L.U.T.E. You can report sightings to LUCE Mass at 617-370-5023 (the holine operates from 5 a.m. to 9 p.m. in multiple languages) 3473309
Reposted by Hector KavalaresCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 04/09/2025Wife: I'll buy a subscription to any publication that writes one honest story about the "masculinity crisis" that just says "Men want to be able to treat women like shit and still get laid" and just be done with it. There's no more depth to the discussion. There is no nuance. 14876911688
Hector Kavalares @hectoroftroy.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Most of the time I am informed and my perspectives are broadened by the New York Times - but not in this. 020
Hector Kavalares @hectoroftroy.bsky.social · 02/09/2025Except the Cross Center is in Bangor, Maine. 120
Hector Kavalares @hectoroftroy.bsky.social · 02/09/2025New Mexican restaurant opened up in my square. Oh my God, strongly recommend. :) 030
Reposted by Hector KavalaresJill Sargent Russell, PhD @jsargentr.bsky.social · 30/08/2025The States in primal coordination once again...🔥 13810
Reposted by Hector KavalaresRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/08/2025If someone tells you there's nothing we can do about gun violence beyond thoughts and prayers, remind them: —Gun laws in other countries have prevented mass shootings —More guns don't make us safer —A majority of Americans want gun reform We don't have to live like this. 730180995396
Hector Kavalares @hectoroftroy.bsky.social · 23/08/2025I.e., John Bolton is thrilled a worse Republican obliterated all our memories of W, whom this same John Bolton hawked into Iraq. History has a long memory for John Bolton, too. 010
Reposted by Hector KavalaresBluesky @bsky.app · 22/08/2025Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users. While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours. 24565591313991
Hector Kavalares @hectoroftroy.bsky.social · 19/08/2025So glad to be watching this from right beneath the Pru. Boston Strong, 2025. 010
Hector Kavalares @hectoroftroy.bsky.social · 17/08/2025‘O Pioneers’ by Willa Cather. “He was a little country boy, and this village was to him a very strange and perplexing place, where people wore fine clothes and had hard hearts.” One way to heal America, would be to help the country and city people know and not dislike each other anymore. 130
Hector Kavalares @hectoroftroy.bsky.social · 17/08/20252 x fact check: It was salami per WaPo and who remembers when a Subway foot long was a $5 sandwich. 010
Hector Kavalares @hectoroftroy.bsky.social · 15/08/2025Classic narcissistic boundary testing. Let Putin onto Alaska, it’s a hinterland, who the heck cares? Let Putin onto Alaska, it’s American soil, he becomes normalized on American soil. Just to not lose sight of the obvious. 020
Hector Kavalares @hectoroftroy.bsky.social · 14/08/2025"When the money could no longer support the unhappiness, the dreams were stripped to bare reality of day light." 010
Reposted by Hector KavalaresTizzyEnt @tizzyent.bsky.social · 13/08/2025Des Moine, Iowa. Who is he? 44625141339
Hector Kavalares @hectoroftroy.bsky.social · 08/08/2025 Bernie’s got it right. We don’t win this by shouting Fafo at the crumbling maga base.youtu.beI’m Going to Red, Rural AmericaYouTube video by Bernie Sanders 061
Hector Kavalares @hectoroftroy.bsky.social · 06/08/2025I am not at all in favor of a quid pro quo on the democrats side. We beat shitty people by not becoming shitty people. 010
Reposted by Hector KavalaresTyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 05/08/2025I wish my fellow Americans could understand that America is at fault for all of this. We've been saying it for years but it's like they can't hear it. Listen to this man. Israel is only doing what it's doing because America protects it. They are using the US as cover for absolute supervillainy. 323564
Reposted by Hector KavalaresLisa the Leftist @lisatellstruth.bsky.social · 03/08/2025Every. Word. Of. This. 814555
Hector Kavalares @hectoroftroy.bsky.social · 31/07/2025Take a breath, enjoy 2 minutes and 42 seconds of Brahms.m.youtube.comBrahms LullabyYouTube video by Kay Willard - Topic 000
Reposted by Hector KavalaresTheo Moudakis @theomoudakis.bsky.social · 31/07/2025Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star 266113142270
Hector Kavalares @hectoroftroy.bsky.social · 29/07/2025Though I usually keep the posts of what I am reading to a sentence or small paragraph, Chapt II or ‘Cannery Row’ by John Steinbeck is just two pages. An interesting portrayal of the split between ordered/straight laced proprietary and excluded human errata in a pre-fascist, pre-maga era. 100
Hector Kavalares @hectoroftroy.bsky.social · 29/07/2025Religious extremists and faith based dogmatists have hated science and rationality for a while by now. That is well documented in Western History. Should surprise no one. 010
Hector Kavalares @hectoroftroy.bsky.social · 28/07/2025Reading ‘The English Teacher’ by RK Narayan. Words of wisdom about children, pertinent to the baseless hates that start by chance and are clung to by adults? 020
Reposted by Hector KavalaresGravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 24/07/2025The judge interviewed said he was pressured to dismiss cases so that ICE could arrest people outside courtrooms.wbur.orgFired immigration judges say court system is under attack“The very institutions that glue our society together are melting in front of our eyes. Our institutions are under attack,” said George Pappas, a judge who was fired this month from the Chelmsford Imm... 111669
Hector Kavalares @hectoroftroy.bsky.social · 23/07/2025Because I have snapped, lost my mind, and am no longer able to function as an adult: Q: What seven letters did the girl say to the refrigerator? A: OICURMT I’ll see myself out. 000
Hector Kavalares @hectoroftroy.bsky.social · 21/07/2025Late afternoon front passed through. Got upstairs quickly enough to see the last remnants of the rainbow. 010
Hector Kavalares @hectoroftroy.bsky.social · 17/07/2025John Le Carre on ‘America joining the former British Empire as a second-class power after the fall of Saigon.’ Many empires have fallen before ours, and as we are guided by the literature left before us - we must document for the future. 000
Hector Kavalares @hectoroftroy.bsky.social · 15/07/2025Please enjoy this description of narrative curation at the local level in the remnants of the Vietnam War, as described in ‘The Honorable Schoolboy’ by John Le Carre. 000
Hector Kavalares @hectoroftroy.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Just when I thought it could get no dumber than RFK Jr., Oliver North re-entered the chat. 030