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Just Passing Through

@justpassingthru2.bsky.social
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I'm a older working mental health clinician, a father, a man in recovery, and a democratic socialist, who finds people over profit is a moral and ethical imperative.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 1h
Social media companies should consider the U.S. government's motives, EFF’s @davidgreene.bsky.social told @cbsnews.com. "This seems to be the government wanting to broadcast the execution for propaganda purposes and wanting to glorify its ability to execute people.”
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Will social media platforms allow Fort Hood shooter's execution to be livestreamed? Here's what their policies say.
The Pentagon's decision to livestream the firing-squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan could put the spotlight on whether social media companies will allow videos on their platforms.
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Just Passing Through @justpassingthru2.bsky.social · 4h
Absolutely, and the sheer loss in metacognition alone is staggering...
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Just Passing Through @justpassingthru2.bsky.social · 5h
Oh honey... I wrote a 60-some-odd page thesis, with 5 pages of citations, in APA format, without AI.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h
El-Sayed: "Under Trump and Hegseth, you're seeing extremes that you never would have imagined. The idea that you want to livestream somebody's death for children to watch is truly extreme ... I don't want that to be politics as usual."
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 11h
The real FAFO is coming. I've been trying to explain this to people; it's surprising to me how many here don't seem to know this.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
New research indicates Walmart is working to compile massive amounts of data on individual shoppers and potentially charge them different prices, despite the company’s denial. This shady tactic is called surveillance pricing, and Walmart isn’t the only corporation planning to use it. Watch.
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The Shady World of Surveillance Pricing (Ft. Lina Khan)
Should corporations be able to weaponize your personal data to rip you off?Well, they may already be doing that thanks t
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ITEP @itep.org · 08/10/2026
NEW: Americans in nearly every income group are paying more under President Trump's second term in 2026. The overall impact of inflationary policies, OBBBA's top-heavy tax cuts, and expiring health care tax credits have left savings only for the wealthiest Americans.
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Just Passing Through @justpassingthru2.bsky.social · 7h
Then maybe, just maybe, he should stop protecting and feeding from those who fund these fascists.....
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Everything’s Rosie @opinion8d.bsky.social · 7h
ICE
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Just Passing Through @justpassingthru2.bsky.social · 7h
It's not a no.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 15h
If you’re able, please support my friend Aaron. Where would we be without his clips? Independent media is critical, and he works tirelessly to prevent misinformation and gaslighting by giving us the video and audio evidence
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 9h
Later, he claimed Mamdani never commented about the recent stabbing of an NYPD detective. Mamdani talked about the stabbing several times, including the below statement where the mayor notes he visited the injured officer:
Earlier today, an off-duty NYPD detective was stabbed several times in the Bronx during what preliminary information indicates was an attempted robbery. 

I visited the detective and his family at Jacobi Hospital with Police Commissioner Tisch. 

He is thankfully in stable condition, and I am hoping for his quick and complete recovery. I am confident that the NYPD will identify and apprehend the suspects and that the people responsible will be held to account.
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Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D. @drharmony.net · 8h
Morning Kitties- ICE Shot into a car with a 5 y/o girl, A Cat 3-4 hurricane is about to hit the redneck riviera, in a huge surprise Yam tits lost the Nobel Peace Prize, ICE is doing a surge in blue states, and now we will be streaming a live execution on December 3rd. FUCKKKKKK HiSS-RK
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8h
".. According to the new findings, the portion of families behind on loan payments at the end of 2025 soared from about 12% in the prior survey to nearly 20%, a gain of some 67%."
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Mortgage rates have increased now for *7 weeks in a row* They're at the highest levels in almost *3 years* This is EXACTLY what Donald Trump said he wants to do Can't afford to buy a home or even rent an apartment? Now you know why It's the #CostOfTrumpsCorruption And we're ALL paying for it
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h
MARKWAYNE MULLIN: We had to put him to a more secure facility outside of New York because we wanted to make sure he was highly secured REPORTER: Where is he? MULLIN: That I won't release
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8h
Yikes — abc news has fallen… “outright deleted” a story about the Trump boys getting billions in government contracts 🤔👇🏽
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h
MARKWAYNE MULLIN: I think you said he was wanted for trafficking? REPORTER: Traffic infractions MULLIN: Traffic infractions. Okay. I haven't seen the case. Keep in mind, Biden ...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11h
Millions of Americans depend on the Affordable Care Act for healthcare and protections for preexisting conditions. And Joe Mitchell wants to repeal it. Iowa, believe him when he tells you exactly who he is.
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 8h
Your boss was trying to incite a racist pogrom yesterday, Markwayne
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 8h
“We are enforcing the nation’s laws. Why is that controversial?” The Fugitive Slave Act. The Three-Fifths Compromise. The Nuremberg Laws. Dred Scott. The Indian Removal Act. The Law for Protection of German Blood. Anti-miscegenation laws. The Defense of Marriage Act. The Reichstag Fire Decree.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 18h
I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 9h
Not happening, Donald! Just days after claiming it would be a “great discredit” if he didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize, the prize went to South African anti-apartheid lawyer and human rights judge Navi Pillay.
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Trump Denied Nobel Peace Prize Yet Again; Winner is South African Anti-Apartheid Judge Navanethem “Navi” Pillay
Pillay was honored for her courage in defending international law and justice as a pioneering South African judge
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 21h
Melanie is Right, don’t bother with Bezos….
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 8h
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h
"You hired half the Third Reich to staff your office ... If John Lewis were marching today, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club" -- here's a supercut of Jon Ossoff SMASHING Mike Collins during tonight's debate
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 19h
ABOLISH ICE.
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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 13h
1/ What if denying your medical treatment became a business opportunity? Medicare is testing AI-assisted reviews where private contractors share in the savings. Think about that incentive. Then ask who's protecting the patient. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 22h
Foucault wrote about this. It's meant to terrify and control the public. It's a spectacle for domination. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/u...
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Fort Hood Shooter’s Execution Will be Public and Streamed Live, Pentagon Says
If carried out, the public execution of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan by firing squad set for Dec. 3 would be the first in modern U.S. history.
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Bob @psychobob4q2.bsky.social · 22h
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Sneaky Death Cult
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
So, selective socialism is ok as long as it doesn't help poor people. Got it. Vote these motherfuckers out of office.
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
There's a plan to pull voting machines from more than half the states five weeks before an election. No court. No legislature. One Cabinet secretary and a "national security" memo. Read this before someone tells you it's about safety. www.jackhopkinsnow.com
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Just Passing Through @justpassingthru2.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Do. Not. Apologize. For. Being. Correct. We *can't* eat road salt. Road salt won't keep our food safe, warm our homes, make our commutes for work affordable, keep education available and affordable, won't do anything to stand up to fascism. Collins is a grifting collaborator, nothing more.
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CALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
🚨Holy shit, brilliant animators just made a devastating ad against Republican corruption: “A massive flood of money… impacts every part of our democracy.” Trump’s corruption is putting our democracy, our rights, and our future up for sale. VOTE. #CostOfTrumpsCorruption
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Just Passing Through @justpassingthru2.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Terrorists televise execution. Civilization treats it as a last resort, if it allows it at all, and that allowance is open to debate.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“This is what crowd out looks like.” - Jason Furman
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Thinking this is wrong does not make you a communist, despite what @MarshaBlackburn says
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Just Passing Through @justpassingthru2.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Viewership with US IP addresses will tell the world all it needs to know, what we living under this regime already know, about the fascists who have taken over the US government. Terrorists televise executions. Civilization makes execution a last resort, if it allows it at all.
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Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed
The Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the execution would be “public.”
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Nothing says a country is serious about science than vanity science awards for the president who has launched a war on higher education
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Bopeep-Burton 💙🐓🏝🐈🏡🏖 🦋🇺🇦🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🇫🇷🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🌎 @bopeep-burton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
#nurses
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
MAGA would introduce Hunger Games if they could. You think I'm joking. apnews.com/article/fort...
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Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed
The Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the execution would be “public.”
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 08/10/2026
Yes, switching to Linux sounds scary. But it’s not as hard as you might think, and you don’t even have to fully commit to it. www.eff.org/pages/i-wan...
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How to Opt Out of the Major Operating Systems
You can toggle every setting in the world and install two dozen different applications, but there’s no way around the fact that the majority of computers out there come with one of three different
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 08/10/2026
It's Artificial Intelligence. It's Twitter. It's the Gulf of Mexico. It's Lake Ontario. It's the Department of Defense. It's the Kennedy Center.
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Billionaires Should Not Exist!
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Shouldn't the Democrats have something like an Elon Donations Tracker posted on all of their websites and social media? Make this SALIENT? Might it make sense to point out repeatedly that he is a white supremacist and ask the public why he would be backing the GOP?
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Couldn't agree more 👇
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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
how are we still fucking doing this
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Just Passing Through @justpassingthru2.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This. Much like AI's medical applications, while driven solely by profit under capitalism, it will never be applied in such a way that works in any way to curtail the excesses of capital, the sole cause of climate change to begin with. One cannot serve two masters.
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Appalachian Blue @republicofcascadia.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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