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Cole B.

@jediwinetrick.bsky.social
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Huge nerd. Yooper. Attorney. Husband. Vet. Horror films. Crazy cat & dog dad. Sometimes funny. My opinions are mine.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 08/01/2026
The killing in Minnesota and the lies that followed. www.pbump.net/o/the-killin...
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The killing in Minnesota
They will lie about you and then kill you and they will kill you and then lie about you.  And I don’t mean some ambiguous, imaginary “they” like the one the right blames for trying to kill President D...
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VoteVets @votevets.org · 03/04/2025
“These cuts are killing Veterans. Veterans will die.” – MG (Ret.) Paul Eaton, at yesterday's SVAC shadow hearing He even offered to advise DOGE. They ignored him. Now they’re gutting care and shutting Veterans out. It’s a knife in the back of everyone who ever wore the uniform.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
The entire permanent staff of the Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice was laid off. This division addresses issues such as asthma and air pollution, climate change and health, childhood lead poisoning, and cancer clusters.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Trump sent a teenager in the US legally to a gulag for being Venezuelan www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
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The Austin-Area Teen Trump Disappeared to El Salvador
Eighteen-year-old Daniel Terán was taken from his home and shipped to a notorious prison on the charge that he is a gang member. The government hasn't produced evidence supporting the claim, says his ...
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.
The image is a screenshot of a tweet from Brandon Bradford (@BrandonLBradfor
). The tweet reads: "Deporting Americans without due process then saying they no longer get due process because they aren’t in America means no one has rights, FYI. Nightmare scenario."
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
1) Fox News is for real not showing stock-market ticker during this week's collapse. 2) Its economic news is "strong jobs report." 3) Every time I've checked in today, the coverage has been "illegal immigrants committing new crimes." This is state propaganda, on a par with North Korea or PRC.
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 04/04/2025
"Vladimir Putin bet his life that American voters would be weak and decadent enough to return Donald Trump to the presidency. He was right." www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...
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The American Age Is Over
Emergency Triad: The United States commits imperial suicide.
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L’Etat C’est Moi @letatcestmoi.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
It’s good news in abortion rights when a state stops persecuting a young woman who miscarried a wanted pregnancy. Georgia reluctantly dropped charges of “abandoning a dead body” because it had no basis in GA law. Yay. From @jessicavalenti.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/jessica/...
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BREAKING: Georgia Drops Miscarriage Charges
National backlash pushes prosecutors to drop
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Larry Tenney @larrytenney.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
DOW DROPS 🔽 2,231.99 points #Trumpcession is not a reset. It's a man-made economic disaster Even Fox News, WSJ, Ben Shapiro, CNBC taking heads are all setting their hair on fire
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Cole B. @jediwinetrick.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Embracing poverty is patriotism, says a literal Russian-paid propagandist.
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Cole B. @jediwinetrick.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Republicans in North Carolina lost so they threw a fit, flipped the table over, and demanded a do-over.
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Stephanie Kennedy @wordswithsteph.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Donald Trump elected not to attend the dignified transfer of 4 fallen U.S. soldiers at Dover Air Force Base. The soldiers died in Lithuania during a training exercise. Trump was paid millions by the Saudis to attend the LIV Golf dinner in Florida — so he was otherwise occupied. The…
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Oh, fantastic—Rubio says ‘economies aren’t crashing, markets are crashing.’ What a relief!
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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
On the left: Hegseth's message. On the right: the applicable CENTCOM classification guide provisions. This is all very plainly classified at the SECRET level. They all lied. They should all lose their jobs.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
"they’ve agreed to let the govt dictate how they allocate their charitable legal services. This is nothing less than government compelled speech – a textbook First Amendment violation. The govt is explicitly forcing a private entity to dedicate resources to supporting specific political initiatives"
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Cole B. @jediwinetrick.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
You know that scene in “Love Actually” where Hugh Grant stands up to the bullying, piggish U.S. President during a televised event and is treated like a patriotic hero by the UK people and British press? Yeah, that was Volodymyr Zelenskyy yesterday. #SlavaUkraini
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦
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Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @disavowtrump20.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot. REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!
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SFDB @sfdb.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
The people who can't stop calling Democrats "socialists" want to send out $5K government checks to every American. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Trump says he'll consider DOGE dividend checks. Economists say such payments are unlikely.
President Trump said his administration is considering dividend checks based on savings found by DOGE. Economists are skeptical.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 20/02/2025
One more time for the people in the back: Trump does not give a f*ck about working folks!
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
This country has seen some bad moments in the 61 years, 5 months, 16 days I’ve been on this Earth. But it has never, ever before come close to the supertoxic level of stupidity, mendacity, narcissism, nihilism, and moral apathy that threaten to destroy it today.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement. The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
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Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools - ClarksvilleNow.com
At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the shelves for books that contain references to slavery, the civil rights movement...
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CALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Wow! German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius SLAMS JD Vance's speech as undemocratic and calls it "not acceptable." “Here in Germany, we fight for your right to disagree against us.” He’s 100% right!
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Cole B. @jediwinetrick.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
He loves his snow so much! #dogsofBlueSky #doglife
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Just disgusting.
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.
A memo listing all of the clubs eliminated by USMA.
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Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
You're not overwhelmed. You're under attack.
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Andy Behrman @electroboyusa.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
There is absolutely no doubt that Elon Musk is a Nazi and an anti-semite -- and he is the President-elect of the United States. This is beyond concerning. I beg you to re-post this so that every single American is aware of the fact that Musk is a Nazi and that his colleagues are, too.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
These extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer. These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP. You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇 www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...
A street is orange from flames and you can see the high winds in the palm trees. Sparks fly down the streetA fire truck is engulfed in parks and flames are seen on the hill. The entire photo is red and orange from the fireA fireman with a hose runs across the front of a house in flames in the backgroundThe inside of a house is a ball of flames. The only visible thing inside is a burning Christmas tree
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
And an NIH director whose big idea with the COVID pandemic was letting the virus rip. And an FDA commissioner who doubts mRNA vaccines. And a surgeon general who endorsed a quack COVID treatment and also cast doubt on vaccines. It’s not just Kennedy.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
I suppose this is why so many authors are incensed about AI “writing” — it’s clearly just something tech dullards created to compensate for their own weaknesses and now they’re projecting that on all of us. Look, I’m sorry you suck at writing. But don’t make the rest of us suffer your failures.
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Evil Mastermind @evilmastermind.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
I've said this a million times, but I'll say it again: People who use AI don't actually want to *create* something, they want to *have created* something, and those are not the same thing.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 12/12/2024
Watching the people who were tortured by Assad…. And my anger for @TulsiGabbard defending him grows hotter. Every senator that votes yes on her is complicit
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Biden and Harris kicked some major ass. And now Trump‘s gonna fuck it all up
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Stephanie Kennedy @wordswithsteph.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
💥BREAKING IN SYRIA💥Syrian rebels report dictator Bashar al-Assad has fled Damascus, and claim to have captured the capital. A tyrant has fallen, and Syrians are witnessing the dramatic collapse of the authoritarian regime in Damascus. This is a staggering end to the 50-year tyrannical rule…
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Cole B. @jediwinetrick.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
No thoughts. Just vibes. #DogsofBluesky #doglife
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 06/12/2024
DOGE is a fake government agency designed to provide flimsy "innovative efficiency" cover to corrupt robber barons as they dismantle federal corporate oversight and sell the country for scrap off the back loading dock any politicians or journalists helping the performance should be laughed at
Ro Khanna praising DOGE in a tweet
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Yet another "gender clinic whistleblower" account falls apart as soon as reporters talk to actual patients. www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/03/m...
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‘A head scratcher’: Families push back against claim that Boston clinic for trans children is ‘reckless’ - The Boston Globe
Families who sought treatment for their children at the clinic shared their experiences with the Globe as a counterweight to what they regard as unfounded concerns about youth gender medicine.
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cate @buny.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
i’m gonna just watch this at least once a day and i recommend everyone do the same
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Lt. Aldo Braine @ltaldobraine.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
I say this *all the time* when discussing the current state of the nation with people! It bears repeating constantly because an uncomfortably large amount of Americans have completely lost the plot on what it means to be a quality human being in the short time we're all here.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
What can government scientists do now to minimize the damage that’s coming over the next four years, and what can we do to help them? I spoke to several experts to write this story for The Revelator Please share widely. 🧪🌎 therevelator.org/scientists-m...
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Advice for U.S. Government Scientists: Lessons Learned From the ‘Muzzling’ of Their Canadian Counterparts • The Revelator
The next four years will be awful for the science and conservation community. By learning from past experiences, we can minimize the damage.
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💙❤️💙Mia💙❤️💙 @mommamia.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
The eradication of disease through vaccination is likely the greatest achievement of mankind. Please remember that when the barrage of bullshit begins.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
This is correct
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Squillium @squillium.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
We don't need more remakes of old movies. We need more MUPPETS remakes of old movies.
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Cole B. @jediwinetrick.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Not sure I've seen a play like that Josh Allen touchdown pass/touchdown reception before. That was wild.
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Cole B. @jediwinetrick.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
The real question is—who should we cosplay as for Celebration Japan? 🤔🤓 Sarah and I brought this look to London last year. #StarWars #StarWarsCelebration
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Wonder how Republicans are going to spin this statement from Pete Hegseth’s OWN MOTHER. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/u...
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Memento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
this is the greatest Christmas movie ever made and if you disagree you're wrong
Gonzo and Rizzo
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Cole B. @jediwinetrick.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Waiting patiently for leftovers to fall.
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