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jstareagle.bsky.social

@jstareagle.bsky.social
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Gay socialist NeoPagan, secular humanist, dreamer, aspiring novelist, seeker of truth and equity. I believe in democracy and equality. Antifascist. Also a cat daddy. I love deeply, dearly and without regret. And I love being an asshole to assholes.

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omgisme @omgisme.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Never give up . 😍
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Effective tax rate paid by Jeff Bezos from 2014 to 2018: 0.98% Effective 2025 federal tax rate paid by Amazon: 1.4% Typical tax rate paid by the average American: 14.5% Just thought I should point that out.
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jstareagle.bsky.social @jstareagle.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
I think the American Fascist State needs a new national anthem. I vote for "Dare To Be Stupid."
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jstareagle.bsky.social @jstareagle.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
I love it when conservatives accuse progressives of making a situation or a subject "political." No, you insidious manipulative motherfuckers. We are simply removing the mask covering your own sick,fanatical and tyrannical political agendas.
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jstareagle.bsky.social @jstareagle.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Being responsible for my own emotional reactions is hard enough. I shouldn't have to be responsible for anyone else's, but I get this shit put on me all the fucking time.
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Ashley @inkedintrovert.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
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jstareagle.bsky.social @jstareagle.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Trump just declared martial law without saying "martial law." Now the highest ranking military commanders of this country are being forced to decide whether or not they will, in effect, choose to engage in a second civil war.
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jstareagle.bsky.social @jstareagle.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
"Donald has only got one ball. Elon has 2 but very small. Miller is very similar, And Hegseth doesn't Have any At all." Everybody sing!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 25/09/2025
One source, somewhat in jest, evoked the phrase “coup d’état,” later clarifying they meant a gutting of leaders who might question Trump’s policies. Read more from @nickturse.bsky.social here:
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Pete Hegseth Orders Top Military Leaders to Attend Mystery Meeting
“To say the military leadership is anxious would be an understatement,” one defense official told The Intercept.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 25/09/2025
“To say the military leadership is anxious would be an understatement,” one defense official told The Intercept.
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Pete Hegseth Orders Top Military Leaders to Attend Mystery Meeting
“To say the military leadership is anxious would be an understatement,” one defense official told The Intercept.
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Typowriter @jcschmo.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Jesus Houdini Christ, this is great.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 25/09/2025
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered virtually all of the U.S. military’s top commanders worldwide to gather on short notice — and without a stated reason — at a Marine Corps base in Virginia next week. Here’s what we know:
washingtonpost.com
Hegseth orders rare, urgent meeting of hundreds of generals, admirals
The Pentagon has summoned military officials from around the world for a gathering in Virginia. Top generals and their staffs don’t know the reason for the meeting.
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jstareagle.bsky.social @jstareagle.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
666 i e i ga l u l t i f u l
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Read&Resist @bibliophile1964.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
He truly is not only the stupidest FOTUS but also the most corrupt. He is literally destroying the U.S. and our legislators and SCOTUS is culpable allowing him to do so.
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Dr. K @katekaynak.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
I will not live under fascism. Either I will play a part in taking it down, or it will play a part in taking me down. "Live free or die. Death is not the worst of evils."
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jstareagle.bsky.social @jstareagle.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Another school shooting. Fuck your thoughts and prayers.
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END EVERY REPUBLICAN @mlf3430.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
IN HIS FINAL BOOK, MLK SAID WHITE AMERICA WOULD RATHER THROW AWAY DEMOCRACY ALTOGETHER, AND EMBRACE "A NATIVE FORM OF FASCISM," TO PRESERVE THEIR POWER. WE ARE LIVING IN THAT PROPHECY TODAY.
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jstareagle.bsky.social @jstareagle.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Most Democratic politicians have it wrong. They say "Give us money, and we'll make changes." But change only creeps along incrementally, if at all. They've got it ass-backward. First make the changes--*be* the sincerest change you can be, and money will follow. In fact, you won't need all the money.
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Linda Oswald @lindaaoswald1.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Gov. Pritzker of Illinois
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Soapy @soapy2019.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Thomas Deininger uses plastic waste to create sculptures,or should I say,works of Genius!!!!!!
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 22/08/2025
State Department Is Vetting 55 Million U.S. Visa Holders for “Deportable” Offenses
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State Department Is Vetting 55 Million U.S. Visa Holders for “Deportable” Offenses
The State Department is reviewing the records of more than 55 million immigrants who hold valid U.S. visas, threatening to revoke protections if any violations are found deemed deportable by the Trump administration.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Lowering recruiting standards so MAGA folks can finally qualify is a fascist version of DEI. It's DEI without DEI's positive objectives or historical rationale.
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jstareagle.bsky.social @jstareagle.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
We are all now in an age of Civil War. The problem is, only their side is fighting. It's going to take a lot more than peaceful protests and voting to win this country back.
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Creepy Bro 🤘🏻🎮 @creepybro.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
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Rightardia @rightardia.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
New York and America needs some progressive political change.
politicalwire.com
Mamdani Holds Wide Lead for New York City Mayor
A new AARP/Gotham Polling survey in New York City finds Zohran Mamdani way ahead in the race for mayor with 42%, followed by Andrew Cuomo at 23%, Curtis Sliwa at 17%, Eric Adams at 9%, Jim
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BlueCatAdk @bluecatadk.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
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Secular Talk @kylekulinskishow.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
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Leigh Harrison Helberg @leighhelberg.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Do not look away. #TrumpsAmerica
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
When people say this administration is alarmingly eager to protect pedophiles, they aren't exaggerating.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
@buriencatlady.bsky.social replied to this thread: "This piece features a card from my friend Beth, who died this year of a minor, treatable condition." 💔 Beth wrote: "I lost many things during the sweeps we've been through, but losing my wedding pictures has been the hardest thing."
Handwritten note on a survey card. The printed question reads: “What is something that was important to you that was taken in a sweep? How did it impact you?” The handwritten response says: “I lost many things during the sweeps we’ve been through but losing my wedding pictures has been the hardest thing. They were the last copies because every time we get copies we go through another sweep but this time there aren’t any more in family because we’ve gotten all of them from all our family members.”

To the right is a typed transcript identifying the writer as Beth Hale, 47, of Burien, Washington, with the same text transcribed.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Spend some time with the handwritten notes on what people lost in sweeps. Heart-wrenching and infuriating.
My tent was taken also my blankets, cooler, food, perscription medicines
It made it harder for me to be comfortable in this heat and took my shelter away from me made me feel less safemy Husbands ashes
It made me feel alone scared, empty, now I wonder where he is and if he’s all still in his urn and if he’s ok and I hope he’s not in the dumpI had my kid’s baby shoes w/me since we became homeless. It was all I had left of them & they are w/family. The police/city took them w/the rest of our stuff it broke my heartI have lost everything clear down to the clothes on my back. I now wear a purse that I wear 24-7. I have no trust and I live like an animal and have serious mental issues because of it, help it get better,
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
This op-ed from NIH director Jay Bhattacharya is *infuriating*. He says we have to stop funding mRNA vaccine research because it hasn't "earned public trust." Motherfucker, WHO DID THAT.
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Opinion | Jay Bhattacharya: Why the NIH is pivoting away from mRNA vaccines
As a vaccine for broad public use, mRNA technology has failed to earn the public’s trust.
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JymByrnes🏳️‍🌈☮️ @jymbyrnes.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
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thepissedoldlady.bsky.social @thepissedoldlady.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
You live in a Democratic trifecta if you live in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, or Washington. Call your governor and press them to redistrict Republicans out of office NOW!!!
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jstareagle.bsky.social @jstareagle.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Having depression when you're disabled really sucks.
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
More than two dozen rabbis were arrested this morning for sitting down on the floor in Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s office and praying for food aid for people in Gaza. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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Rabbis Arrested In John Thune’s Office For Praying For Food Aid To Gaza
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Love, Ree @loveree.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
KNOW YOUR PROTEST RIGHTS:

1. You don't need a permit to protest in streets or on sidewalks if you're not obstructing traffic or access to buildings.

2. You have the right to photograph anything in plain view, including police.

3. If stopped by the police, ask if you're free to go. If yes, calmly walk away.

4. If arrested, ask for a lawyer immediately. Don't sign, say or agree to anything without a lawyer present.

KNOW YOUR RIGHTS    ACLU

Above all, remain PEACEFUL!!!
If an agitator tries to start trouble, SIT DOWN so the agitator can be isolated, identified and arrested
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Canada should become the queer sanctuary for LGBTQ+ people fleeing the US
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Marines and DHS arrest anti-ICE protester after children were spotted in chains at the federal detention center in LA
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jstareagle.bsky.social @jstareagle.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
I'm tempted to display an American flag upside down tomorrow. Imho the USA ceased to be when a dictator took over the oval office. Welcome to the American Fascist State. Hold fast, my friends.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 31/05/2025
RFK Jr. has bragged his “Make America Healthy Again” report, released last week, is based on “gold-standard” science: In reality, its citations are error-ridden, with missing links, incorrect conclusions, and sometimes even made-up studies. trib.al/z8Vaz4X
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Surprise! New “MAHA” Report Is Full of Junk Science and Fake Studies
The latest Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “Make America Healthy Again”
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ACLU @aclu.org · 31/05/2025
The Trump administration is working with private companies like Palantir to create detailed reports on every American, which could help them weaponize our personal information in their quest to deport immigrants and punish critics. This is a huge threat to our constitutional rights.
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Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
" This remains a renegade and corrupt Supreme Court majority making up its own constitution as it goes and most, if not every time, enabling arbitrary and untrammeled presidential dictatorship." @joshtpm.bsky.social ▶️ how the MAGA #SCOTUS "has decided that it gets to make policy on its own"
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The Court’s ‘Make It Up As You Go’ Constitution
What interests me most about the Supreme Court’s telegraphed decision ending independent...
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Secular Talk @kylekulinskishow.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
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Secular Talk @kylekulinskishow.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
#ResistanceRoots Today in history, 1862: Robert Smalls, an enslaved person and ship’s pilot, takes over the CSS Planter, an armed Confederate transport. Smalls steered it past Confederate defenses and surrendered it to the Union Navy, while also freeing himself, his crew and their families. /1
Robert Smalls.
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Secular Talk @kylekulinskishow.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
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jstareagle.bsky.social @jstareagle.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Protest idea: hum the tune of Le Marsellaise whenever the U.S. anthem is sung or played. If you know French, so much the better. If you can translate those beautiful, tragically appropriate words, even better yet.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
"The left went too far" in contemporary U.S. politics is almost always a lie and a very convenient way to rationalize moral failure. For example, "MeToo went too far" replaces "I do not care about sexual violence or its victims and I don't want to have to even feel bad about that"
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