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Hector Kavalares

@hectoroftroy.bsky.social
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Disgruntled union democrat resists fascism and oligarchs one arcane but erudite literary post at a time. The resistance will be of shabby appearance and strong mind. I identify as Ethnically Ebullient Greek. Pronouns: try/me/motherfuckers.

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Hector Kavalares @hectoroftroy.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Irene Nemirovsky in 1942:
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Hector Kavalares @hectoroftroy.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Invade the U.S. using snow plows and Zambonis.
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Hector Kavalares @hectoroftroy.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
What 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?
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Hector Kavalares @hectoroftroy.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
There’s no easy way out of the catch 22. Disenfranchisement made this problem - yet re-enfranchising the dirt poor, ignorant, and angry just gives them more resources to be angry with.
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Hector Kavalares @hectoroftroy.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
I went to rural elementary school there with four future J6 rioters, and I got out. I can see both sides: so easy to see how the decades of screwing out corporate America gave rural America begat the backwoods Maga movement.
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Hector Kavalares @hectoroftroy.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Amen.
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Hector Kavalares @hectoroftroy.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
As a life long Downeast Mainer and progressive, union democrat - what did you expect? Moreover, you might want to reassess your opinions of Vermont.
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Hector Kavalares @hectoroftroy.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
This is why I am not a parent. ;)
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Hector Kavalares @hectoroftroy.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Attach an air tag to them. As a fashion statement.
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Hector Kavalares @hectoroftroy.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
I 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.
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Hector Kavalares @hectoroftroy.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Not the sandwich man, the Hero hero.
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Hector Kavalares @hectoroftroy.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
So would Caligula.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
I have a very bad feeling about this...
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Hector Kavalares @hectoroftroy.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
So incredibly repugnant.
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Hector Kavalares @hectoroftroy.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
I am a Mainer and yes, we can hold ourselves to basic standards of decency. If Platner does make it to D.C., he will be spread on toast and eaten for snack - much like Jared Golden, another democrat with military service, who was presented to us as a broad appeal panacea a couple elections ago.
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Hector Kavalares @hectoroftroy.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Duck it, I’ll run. I am from Downeast Maine, and I have clearer values and a cleaner record than this guy.
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Hector Kavalares @hectoroftroy.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
You are absolutely correct. Please see my above remark.
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Hector Kavalares @hectoroftroy.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Downeast Mainer here. I went to school with Platner’s fishing partner’s wife. I am a Bernie democrat, and I will be voting for Janet Mills. No difference between Graham’s Nazi tattoo and Hegseth’s Nazi tattoo. No guy too stupid to know it when he got it is smart enough to legislate for us.
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Hector Kavalares @hectoroftroy.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
As a Bernie Democrat and 40 year old Downeast Mainer who went to elementary school with Graham’s fishing partner’s wife for eight years - I sincerely agree. Populists are by definition chameleons with no set values except what the widest possible voting bloc can pretend and project onto them.
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Hector Kavalares @hectoroftroy.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Relax. We in Maine are showing the rest of the country what a healthy primary with a diverse field of candidates looks like. I went to elementary school with Graham Platner’s fishing partner’s future wife. Fair disclosure. And I am for Janet Mills.
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Hector Kavalares @hectoroftroy.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Imprisoned with no cankle treatment, and his new bestie Big Beautiful Bill.
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Hector Kavalares @hectoroftroy.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
No, narcissistic boundary testing.
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Hector Kavalares @hectoroftroy.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Appalling.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/10/2025
a 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
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Hector Kavalares @hectoroftroy.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Gawd bless the National Lard.
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Hector Kavalares @hectoroftroy.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Sox never should have let him go.
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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...
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Hector Kavalares @hectoroftroy.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Perhaps she has better knowledge than the rest of us that the rule of law is about over. Or thinks she does. She sure acted like it.
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Hector Kavalares @hectoroftroy.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
I sold the first eBike of my career to an 82 year old farmer, who needed it to haul tools and produce. No shade at all on anyone who rides one.
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Hector Kavalares @hectoroftroy.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
CBD helps. Trying to be around new people when we are all at our least personally presentable, personal neediest, and least able to help others when they most need it takes a lot of effort these days.
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Hector Kavalares @hectoroftroy.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
At the moment, badly.
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Hector Kavalares @hectoroftroy.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...
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Hector Kavalares @hectoroftroy.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Enough butter too, sir. Enough butter, melted, salted, fixes almost any singed food. :)
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
This current American presidential administration is run by people who are quite obviously mentally ill, and we need to start talking about that.
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Hector Kavalares @hectoroftroy.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
He knows no other way. Just like the Rand Paul, MTG, etc., who have no philosophy except ‘heckle authority,’ are still heckling authority even though their side has become authority.
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Hector Kavalares @hectoroftroy.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
I do not know why this happens, but they are becoming banal.
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Hector Kavalares @hectoroftroy.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
I once visited St Augustine with a Danish friend, who lived in an 800 year old house. Unimpressed by our oldest city. :)
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Hector Kavalares @hectoroftroy.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Yup, the Southern states were forced to count enslaved black people as 3/5 of a person, instead of 0% a person (repugnant as that is), at all because plenty of whites, northerners, and free black people were all howling to count them as wholly human.
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Hector Kavalares @hectoroftroy.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Always struck me as weird I subjectively perceive ‘recent’ vs ‘ancient’ based on length of a country’s overall history. Worked on a project for the NPS with a document from the 1880s in America, “Oh that was forever ago.” Read a book from 1880s England, “Oh, that’s basically the modern era.”
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Hector Kavalares @hectoroftroy.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
After 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.
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Hector Kavalares @hectoroftroy.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Nope, if you missed it so did I, and I am not sorry to know that now.
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Hector Kavalares @hectoroftroy.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
I recoil at “following many, followed by few, very few posts.” Nothing screams bot, scam, who the heck knows like that.
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Javi Ibarrondo @jibarrondo.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... 🧪
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Behind political affiliation: How moral values, identity politics, and party loyalty have affected COVID-19 vaccination
Falling 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...
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Hector Kavalares @hectoroftroy.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
“Ass hats,” “ass clowns,” “ass monkeys,” “dumb fucks,” “sadistic dumb fucks”…
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Hector Kavalares @hectoroftroy.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Dirigo!
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Governor 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.
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Jimmy Kimmel Returns: ABC Ends Suspension Starting Tuesday
Jimmy Kimmel will return to late night on Tuesday
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Hector Kavalares @hectoroftroy.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
For a hot moment last week I thought one of Loomer’s wackos had taken to heart her antipathy toward a maga arch-rival who used to go to give mock-debates on college campuses.
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Hector Kavalares @hectoroftroy.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Florida is not going to take that lying down.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Giving 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
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Hector Kavalares @hectoroftroy.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Yeah but the moment we’re into “but you can’t say that” territory, we’re into rampant, hysterical, complying in advance - even as we deplore complying in advance. And I am a slightly older centrist democrat, who rants it like Lewis Black.
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