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Justin

@jsblz.bsky.social
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I like books, writers, all things outer space. Working on my debut novel. Hope my soul makes it to the era of galactic travel. I’m a professional musician in NYC blessed to be working a steady union gig.

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Justin @jsblz.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
This is the American story in the 21st century.
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Justin @jsblz.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
This article is exhaustive and fascinating. It ties together the FL citrus biz and its many challenges with regional history and a healthy splash of anecdotal narrative. Stories like this are why writers want to be writers.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
It’s crystal clear now that Trump has lost control of this war. He badly misjudged Iran’s ability to retaliate. The region is on fire. 1/ I’m going to explain to you in this🧵what I’ve learned - in part from closed door briefings - about the four biggest current crises.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
The idea that the White House didn't figure Iran might try to cut off oil out of the Gulf is comical. They didn't figure for what has now become the fulcrum point of the whole conflict. Iran's leaders are now showing that regime change can work in both directions.
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Justin @jsblz.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
It takes tremendous integrity and self respect to walk the path that Ben is on. May all artists be as brave as Ben in facing AI slop and the piggish corporations that prop it up. Long live real art and real artists ✨👊🏻✨
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Justin @jsblz.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Takes less than a minute to do this. Make your voice heard!
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
look at my country man, we’re getting out-No Kings’d by the fuckin’ british
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
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Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
I've had a missile blow up next to my airplane, been shot at dozens of times by anti-aircraft fire, and launched into orbit — all for my country. I never thought I'd see a President call for my execution. Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 13/11/2025
Removing a monument honoring Black US soldiers has nothing to do with DEI. It’s erasure of history and it’s straight-up racism.
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Justin @jsblz.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
actionnetwork.org
Tell Condé bosses to reinstate the Fired Four, reverse the suspensions and end the union-busting
On Nov. 5, 2025 in an egregious attempt at union-busting, Condé Nast management illegally terminated four union members – Alma Avalle, Jake Lahut, Jasper Lo and Ben Dewey – for participating in federa...
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Justin @jsblz.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Billionaires should not exist. Tax the rich.
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Justin @jsblz.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
That is all. Happy Halloween 💀☠️💀
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Justin @jsblz.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Bleak AND boring is terminal. And for what? This is what happens when conservatives gain total control over the mechanisms of culture and media.
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Justin @jsblz.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
A single story like this would have been enough to endanger a presidency in the past, especially for a D. But there are probably 10 things more corrupt that the Trump govt did just yesterday to obfuscate this abuse of power and resources so it hardly rates. And during a govt shutdown! Deplorable.
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Justin @jsblz.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Pre-ordered the latest book by @chanda.blacksky.app and cannot wait to read it. It doesn‘t come out until April, but what’s a few months of earth time in relation to the infinitude of the cosmos? Chanda will probably explain it to anyone lucky enough to read this book✨✨ bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
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The Edge of Space-Time: Particles, Poetry, and the Cosmic Dream Boogie
Particles, Poetry, and the Cosmic Dream Boogie
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Tear-gassing tree lined streets is Katrina-level optics and that the White House can’t or won’t recognize it how a president goes from ~40% approval to ~25% in a hurry.
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Justin @jsblz.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Now I really must go see this film in the theater.. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
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Conservatives Take Aim at ‘One Battle After Another’: “Year’s Most Irresponsible Movie”
While Paul Thomas Anderson's film is being heralded as a masterpiece by many, some conservatives accuse the film of potentially inspiring left-wing violence.
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Justin @jsblz.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Will you please support Broadway actors and musicians seeking decent healthcare from the Broadway League by signing this petition? Their unions are fighting for a fair contract right now and need your support! actionnetwork.org/petitions/st...
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Stand United for a Healthier Broadway
If you love going to the theatre, then you're familiar with the "the show must go on" mentality that has persisted within the theatre industry. For generations, that phrase has been a plucky, pull-...
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
An endorsement from the largest local union of professional musicians in the world sounds a little different than the others but the meaning is the same: solidarity forever. Thank you Local 802 AFM!
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Justin @jsblz.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
An entire year of market gains wiped out in two days, and Trump has been playing golf in Florida since Thursday afternoon…
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
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Justin @jsblz.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Justice for our federal scientists! The assault on knowledge must stop!
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Justin @jsblz.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Only a true enemy of the people would destroy the unparalleled edifice of intellect and knowledge that is American science. We need justice for scientists like Kelton! Solidarity with scientists everywhere!
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Justin @jsblz.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Every big statement he makes is opposite of what he’ll really do. He doesn’t care about deficits. Never has. That chyron means the GOP is getting ready to blow an atomic-sized hole in the deficit. It will have multiple dimensions and durations.
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This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
I sincerely think that universities should suspend their productivity standards for scientists and ask them instead to hold town halls in schools, public libraries, museums, shopping malls, and anywhere else and communicate what is being lost with the collapse of the research ecosystem.
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Justin @jsblz.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
It is demoralizing as a Manhattanite to realize what a pox New York Dems have been upon the national party in recent years, the great AOC and her movement obviously excepted.
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
When AOC and Adam Kinzinger are both furious at Chuck Schumer, for the exact same reason, maybe you need to give up the idea this is just a backlash coming from far left activists.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
What a front cover...
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 06/03/2025
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 30, the number is 100%.
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Justin @jsblz.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
This is horrifically on the money.
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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 01/03/2025
18F, the federal government’s technology shop, was demolished by Musk’s team shortly after midnight. It was a cost-recoverable org, charging agencies for their expertise, using a consulting model. Its cost to government was negligible, its benefits huge. My team there once saved DoD $500 billion.
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Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
“Why don’t you say thank you”
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 23/02/2025
Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.
An upside-down American flag hangs from El Capitan near Yosemite National Park’s Horsetail Fall on Saturday to protest the thousands of federal job cuts made by President Donald Trump’s administration. 
Tracy Barbutes/Special to the Chronicle
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Justin @jsblz.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Everything he does is a desecration at this point. And this shows how deep he’s reaching to find someone who will try to do what he wants. No rails left to touch now.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 19/02/2025
Probationaries who have been illegally fired: this article contains information about which law firm to contact in order to join the class action suit. www.govexec.com/workforce/20...
govexec.com
Thousands join class actions as fired feds weigh options to challenge Trump's moves
Former federal probationary employees are hopeful they can prove their dismissals were not actually performance based, as their agencies claim.
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Graham Marbles @grahammarbles.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Babylon Bee Guy digging into Beyond Good & Evil feels like the last atomic bond of a perfectly closed circle to me
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Justin @jsblz.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
As usual, AOC nails it on the head. Adams must go!
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Imagine if @aoc @sanders.senate.gov , every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone Call it a Day Of Transparency
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Justin @jsblz.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
I just left messages for both of my senators, my Congressman and Leader Jeffries. Took 5 mins. I was probably just talking into a void but it felt good to do something concrete. Gotta keep the pressure on.
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
When you don’t understand how anything works, everything is a conspiracy.
Scott Adams V @ScottAdamsSays
Complexity is always a cover for fraud.
In every domain.
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Justin @jsblz.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
How long until it dawns on rural voters that voted overwhelmingly for Trump that his finding cuts will destroy their way of life? They’ll be closing their schools or going down to half weeks if/when he does his dance of destruction on the DOE too. Red states will suffer most by far. True story.
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Justin @jsblz.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
These young twisted dudes want to do the real nazi shit. Look in this boy’s eyes, so full of hate.
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Justin @jsblz.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Dude should get a haircut if he really wants to cosplay agents of the Trump regime.
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Justin @jsblz.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
More of this, please. All day long.
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
For fucks sake. We didn’t lose because of the price of eggs. We lost because Republicans SAID it was the price of eggs. Now they’re dismantling government, stripping rights, starting trade wars and Dems are saying “look at the eggs!” Leaders lead! Stop chasing their bullshit! Focus and fight back!
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
The federal government *regularly* spends money to encourage behavior it couldn’t compel directly. Like paying states to build roads or fund healthcare for those who can’t afford it. It’s called the Spending Clause—and it’s the very first enumerated power that the Constitution gives to Congress. 🤦🏻‍♂️
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Justin @jsblz.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
The @wsj.com editorial board, usually reliable shills for all conservative causes, excoriates the moron in the WH for the abject stupidity of his tariff plan.
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Opinion | The Dumbest Trade War in History
Trump will impose 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico for no good reason.
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