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Lone Gadfly

@lonegadfly.bsky.social
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Educator, writer, liberal democracy lover, antifascist, watcher of public consent, AmSt PhD, interested in books, mass manipulation, rhetoric, pop culture, ethology, all things birds. I want all the dogs.

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Lone Gadfly @lonegadfly.bsky.social · 21h
Is it a curse? Or is it more like Draft Kings? Seems like an awful lot of $$$$$$$ is otherwise left up to chance. Don’t know an industry as large as gambling that doesn’t control its books….
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Fascists don't know the value of anything. But they want everything. When they get it, they destroy it, because they don't know its value. You've been warned.
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Lone Gadfly @lonegadfly.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
And Ike warned us about the military industrial complex. 3 years later, its tentacles 🦑 took away our leader and ushered in the age of misdirection and mistrust.
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Lone Gadfly @lonegadfly.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Perhaps AI’s best attribute is to reflect our own humanity and our values back to us. And I thought losing democracy was the lowest rung on my 2026 ladder. Pshww.
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The Cocky One @cockymf.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
This is because white America isn't nearly as politically sophisticated as Black American. Honestly, it's not even close. The GOP keeps playing white voters like fiddles and they never see it coming.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The death penalty on its own is morally indefensible; Turning it into a public spectacle is an abomination
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Lone Gadfly @lonegadfly.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Springsteen: Waiting on the end of the world youtu.be/SbqrufT27kw?...
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Bruce Springsteen - Waiting On The End Of The World (Official Audio)
YouTube video by BruceSpringsteenVEVO
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Lone Gadfly @lonegadfly.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
White people can bring this to an end.
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Lone Gadfly @lonegadfly.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Funny how there’s an epidemic of suicides for those connected to the Epstein files.
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Lone Gadfly @lonegadfly.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The blurb regurgitates the endless gripe between business and education: (in a Foghorn Leghorn accent, please) We need, I say, we need more vocational education than thinking’ learning.
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Lone Gadfly @lonegadfly.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Here’s an Audible exclusive pushed to me in the app. I can’t get over how ridiculous and evil this is. Right there next to The Nerd Reich (a great book—can’t speak to the audio). All things Amazon are rotten.
Audible book title: “The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money.” Only from Audible (so it’s an Amazon exclusive title). By Bryan Caplan
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
SO excited to see the launch of The Propaganda Playbook - this is a critical resource for everyone and it's coming at exactly the moment we need it. Check it out! propagandaplaybook.org
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The Propaganda Playbook | Onyx Impact
A practical guide to identifying, verifying, and responding to political propaganda, misinformation, and disinformation in the digital age.
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Lone Gadfly @lonegadfly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
No school official in this country has the power or desire to put a kid on ANY medical or psychological medication. And Talarico’s shift on trans issues is despicable.
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Lone Gadfly @lonegadfly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I can’t speak to the DAs statement, but there is a definite uptick in ICE arrests in Lancaster County: lancasteronline.com/news/local/i... article_155e9740-0245-4772-b54e-e7e8052cb4b0.html. Let me know if that’s paywalled for you.
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ICE targets poultry workers at Melhorn in Mount Joy, arrests 17 since August
Federal immigration authorities have arrested 17 employees of Melhorn Sales Service and Trucking in and around Mount Joy Borough since Aug. 21, the borough’s police chief confirmed Thursday.
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Lone Gadfly @lonegadfly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
So Rove doesn’t see our current propagandized international criminal cartel-regime as related to his choices—doesn’t see the through story?!? Nah. Trying to whitewash his own culpability. Just like MTG and Massie….
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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood." UN Declaration of Human Rights, which the United States violates.
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Lone Gadfly @lonegadfly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Let us know where it lands. Would love to read it.
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Lone Gadfly @lonegadfly.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
By the way, I’m on ch 16 of Middlemarch bc I’ve never read it.
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Lone Gadfly @lonegadfly.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I very much hope you enjoy the journey. It may be at times fraught with a number of obstacles, but you are engaging in a grand tradition to further your own brain and the world’s. Enjoy yourself!!! Best wishes😃
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Lone Gadfly @lonegadfly.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
That particular county commissioner, Josh Parsons, is a member of NAR—a white Christian nationalist. He is an abhorrent leader in an immigrant-intensive community. Last week, ICE took 17 workers while on their jobs. Lancaster County is in real danger of fascism/totalitarianism.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
CNN is about to travel the same dark path of WaPo and CBS News. They will say it's not true. They will ask you to ignore what you see and disbelieve what you hear. Instead, I suggest you support independent media. You can start with Democracy Docket but there are many others. demdock.com/4w6emld
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Jules⚖️📨 @northjules.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Nory with thoughts about racism in America. #Pinks
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papaesoco.bsky.social @papaesoco.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Regarding That Converse Lynching Ad . . .
Folks have been tagging me on that recent controversial Converse ad and asking me what I think about it.
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Scott Smith @canaansdad1987.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Very interesting history lesson. #USDemocracy
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Harvest Skye @goodbye.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It turns out there's actually not a set sum of people who can have rights. None of us are free until all of us are free
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Maggie News @maggienews.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Same.
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Lone Gadfly @lonegadfly.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
He’s working hard to create state media. He’s obscuring the opposition to force capitulation.
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
UCLA fired the grandson of a Black civil rights icon b/c that lifelong activist posted the truth about proud bigot Charlie Kirk. Until lawyers resolve my case with UCLA, I’m fighting I.C.E. the best way I know how. But I could really use your support. www.gofundme.com/f/waiting-for-justice-auvzch
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Donate to Waiting for Justice ⚖️, organized by Johnathan Perkins
I’m creating this fundraiser during one of the hardest seasons of my life. A few months ago, … Johnathan Perkins needs your support for Waiting for Justice ⚖️
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Lone Gadfly @lonegadfly.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
youtu.be/aQMqWAiWPMs?...
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Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - American Skin (41 Shots) (Live in New York City)
YouTube video by BruceSpringsteenVEVO
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Lone Gadfly @lonegadfly.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
youtu.be/57s89xrC93o?...
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SWINGIN' MEDALLIONS-"DOUBLE SHOT OF MY BABY'S LOVE"(LYRICS)
YouTube video by Ron Wells
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Lone Gadfly @lonegadfly.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
So much to admire and learn from black women…. White racism is stupid and endlessly f’ing America up!!
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Lone Gadfly @lonegadfly.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
So Mitch and Jesus, both rising from the dead. Go figure.
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Nadine Antoinette 🖤📚 @lilblackheart.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The horrors persist but so do books, flowers, animals, the ocean, sunsets, trees, libraries, iced coffee, spooky season, the word ‘fuck’, and the moon.
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Lone Gadfly @lonegadfly.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Ross DoucheHat
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 13/09/2026
The U.S. War on Terror unleashed chaos around the world, says journalist @attackerman.bsky.social, but a lot of repressive regimes also "saw what the United States was constructing and realized they wanted that for themselves."
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“Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump”: Spencer Ackerman
“The 'war on terror' was always a construct to be waged, never quite to be ended.” We discuss the origins and impacts of the global “war on terror,” launched by the U.S. government in the aftermath of...
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Lone Gadfly @lonegadfly.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
That is one f’ed up school.
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Thomas A. Hammer @thomasahammer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"It's legal because it's a campaign promise, even though he's not running..." #Trump #Midterms
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🤣🤣🤣
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Lone Gadfly @lonegadfly.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Support JP
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I am tired of people saying we can’t win in front of the Supreme Court. I’m annoyed by those who say my firm is too partisan to be effective. Today we won a huge redistricting fight before SCOTUS and a ballot access case before the Nebraska Supreme Court. The lesson: When we fight we win.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Protect trans kids.
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Paper Skygest Team @paper-feed.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
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Tere @lulum0llie.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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Service members are trying to escape Trump’s military #shorts
YouTube video by David Pakman Show
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
👀 MUST WATCH: This video is so well done — and absolutely hilarious! 🤣🤣
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Tony @tiletony.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
It's impossible to ignore, Trumpism attracts a type.
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Lone Gadfly @lonegadfly.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
It’s a very good book! I’m on ch 4.
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Lone Gadfly @lonegadfly.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
While I support the sentiment, I really wish you had rethought the rhetoric you chose.
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Ian Kremer @wolverinebear.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Bring back the corporate death penalty www.salon.com/2026/08/19/b... #corruption #law #Blues
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Bring back the corporate death penalty
We have a mechanism to punish corporations that harm us. We should use it
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