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Mark Dodge

@markedodge.bsky.social
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Liberal multi-instrumentalist, singer, writer, photog, commentator, 300-character storyteller. Music IS the retirement plan! My band The Fat Fridays www.thefatfridays.com All bands (NW WA): www.bigquack.com Vicki & Mark art site: www.quackystudios.com

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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The party of Armageddon aficionados and professional racists needs to die. The party that embraces anti-Democracy. The party that follows Project 2025, which includes the political strategy of creating food insecurity (mission accomplished), and worse. 1/3
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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
He took out around an extra 100,000 of us with his idiotic response to COVID. Now he has the opportunity to finish the job. www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...
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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
No, nothing in particular ...
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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
It's a lovely dystopian day in the neighborhood. Four in a row in the news scroll.
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Camacho @cut-n-shoot.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Excellent website: theplotagainstamerica.com A network of billionaires is openly calling for the end of democracy—in their own words, in public, on the record. This site documents their statements, investments, and connections. Every quote is cited.
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The Plot Against America
A network of billionaires is openly calling for the end of democracy—in their own words, in public, on the record. This site documents their statements, investments, and connections.
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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
His brand is about achieving dominion over others. A "deal" is never win-win; the loser must suffer. His position now affords the opportunity to abuse not just servants and contractors, but entire demographics. Immigrants, POC, the poor. To the basest of the base, cruelty is comedy.
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A New Trump Rule Would Lower Standards at Head Start and Exclude Immigrants From the Program
The Trump administration is on the verge of releasing a proposed rule that would eliminate crucial quality standards at the nation’s preschool program for low-income children.
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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Mused on live TV, in front of actual doctors, about injecting bleach and shoving UV lights up your butt. Started a run on Ivermectin, ineffective against viruses. Promoted anti-vaccine propaganda (later hired anti-vaxxer to lead HHS) It's estimated that all this led to 100,000 unnecessary deaths.
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The Fat Fridays band - upscale classic rock @thefatfridays.com · 26/07/2026
And leaders with the decorum of seagulls.
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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Creep-tosporidosis, n. A "creepy" sensation in the pit of the stomach, first diagnosed the morning after the 2016 election; persists for a fucking decade. See: electile dysfunction
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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
So, when blue-state folk say "he's not my president," it's literally, verifiably, admittedly true.
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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
A silver lining? Perhaps this data-center building frenzy will unalive a few private-equity firms, per Mark Cuban. www.msn.com/en-us/money/...
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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Can't wait to see "historically accurate" fiction.
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Sean Thomason @seanthomason.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
The Odyssey is such a hit that apparently the author has already churned out a prequel called “The Iliad”? Typical Hollywood.
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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Just think of Lyin' Donnie as "opposites day" made flesh. On the SAVE act: "The only reason you wouldn’t do it <we're doing it> is you <we> want to cheat because y<our> policies are so bad and y<our> candidates are so pathetic that you <we> can’t get elected in any other way." Works every time.
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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I seem to remember an oath of office ... Oh well. "We love promises! A promise is just a lie that hasn't happened yet." -- James Austin Johnson (as trump) on SNL
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The Fat Fridays band - upscale classic rock @thefatfridays.com · 03/07/2026
"I sell the things you need to be I'm the smiling face on your TV Oh, I'm the cult of personality I exploit you, still you love me I tell you one and one makes three Oh, I'm the cult of personality" - Living Colour
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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I've been steeped in the "Ian Fleming universe" and somehow the meaning behind the acronym for the evil SPECTRE administra ... I mean, organization from the Dr. No movie* was tucked into a corner of my brain. May have been triggered by something. *First introduced in the Thunderball book, per Wiki.
Screenshot image of a listing on villains.fandom.com about the Ian Fleming fictional SPECTRRE organization: "SPECTRE | Villains Wiki | Fandom
The Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion, better known in the abbreviation as SPECTRE, are the main antagonists of the James Bond franchise. It is a global criminal organization with aspirations of world domination and profit that was created and led by the criminal ..." it trails off.
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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
To put another frame around it, America is the only country in the developed world that 1.) doesn't care if its workforce stays healthy, 2.) promotes healthcare for profit, 3.) allows insurance corporations veto power over doctors' orders, 4.) generates hundreds of thousands of medical bankruptcies.
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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
This artist does amazing things with a pencil.
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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
The Fortress of Ineptitude(tm) will feature sniper nests, a drone army, and a doomsday bunker containing a medical facility sufficient to, if necessary, keep a pumpkin head alive in a jar. Oh yeah, and a throne ... I mean, ball room. God forbid they build an AI singularity trained by this guy.
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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
"All the drunks at the bar began to sing along" is a perfect encapsulation of the maga movement. (Paraphrased from a somewhat famous Lowell George lyric.)
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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Forgive your parents. They (probably) weren't as evil as you thought.
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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Nobody trusts that these clowns can get anything right. He had some competent advisors 1st time - covid mismanagement notwithstanding - but this time he's surrounded by news reader-bots, we are already at war, and clowns have access to megalomaniacal artificial intelligence. Answer: laughing stock
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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Maybe put some Ivermectin on it.
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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Paul Sonne and Nataliya Vasilyeva said of Ukraine's attack on Moscow, "the objective was to bring the war home" Now Russian hardliners want to "strike the enemy mercilessly” “How much further Russia, which has the world’s largest nuclear stockpile, can go with its conventional arsenal is unclear”
Photo of a plume of black smoke rising from a Moscow oil refinery after a Ukrainian drone attack.
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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
No kings. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_s...
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Crown shyness - Wikipedia
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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
With a 3/4" hose, it might be drained by the midterms.
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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Smells like bribes. Even if they were actually going to use them, they paid over market for abandoned warehouses. Now they'll sell them at a discount, which amounts to giant government-funded windfalls for -- and millstones removed from the necks of -- the corporations that owned them.
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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Colbert wore a tan suit to the Obama library opening.
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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
We have been known to play "I Walk on Gilded Splinters" on occasion. I saw Doc perform this song at the Atlantic City Pop Festival in 1969, in full costume.
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The Fat Fridays band - upscale classic rock @thefatfridays.com · 06/06/2026
Cool, I can dig some Gaga. Maybe the guy just likes the design. Nah, he probably knows. But you have to wonder what those Chinese-character t-shirts and tattoos Americans wear are really saying.
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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Dude needs a butt spoiler to cut down the drag coefficient.
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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Data centers are Artificial Intelligence centers. Mostly owned by billionaires trying to outsmart each other. Thousands of self-aware super-geniuses battling it out. They *need* water & power, but what will they want? The tiny little bytes of data that represent all your money? Weapons? Immortality?
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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Can't be said often enough. "New Yorkers, we've seen Donald Trump for, like, 30 years. We know who he is." - Fran Leibowitz
Photo of Fran Leibowitz with the quotation: "Everyone says he's crazy ... which maybe he is ... but the scarier thing about him is that he's stupid. You do not know anyone as stupid as Donald Trump. You just don't."
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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
A few ideas ... Homeless shelter. Solar/Windmill farm. Latino interpretive center. Black History Museum. Ukrainian Embassy. Disabled veterans retreat. Antifa Headquarters. Southern Poverty Law Center annex.
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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
This is the first time I've seen anything about this in the media. Not that I have any influence whatsoever, but I asked that question 8 months ago. Their whole concentration-camp scheme could be a massive human trafficking operation. No oversight, no accountability.
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The Fat Fridays band - upscale classic rock @thefatfridays.com · 04/06/2026
No matter where you put them, they are going to accelerate global warming exponentially. 10,000 new data centers are expected by 2030. If built, the one in Utah is expected to raise local temperatures by 28 degrees at night, transforming a semi-arid climate into a desert.
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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
OK, the 2020 election WAS rigged. The Rape-ublicans just failed to rig it quite enough. Elon and the billionaire boys helped them correct that mistake in 2024. Eligible voters who didn't vote outnumbered voters for either candidate. Maybe some of them will actually show up next time.
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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Eight months later, and detention centers are failing. What happened to the missing women and children? ICE "agents" are anonymous and unaccountable, but Rape-ublicans are in charge.
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Inside Ukraine 🇺🇦 @insideukraine.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
🇺🇦🎶 In the tunnel of the Kyiv metro — a grand piano, and next to it — javelin. And "How can I not love you, my Kyiv" in a performance that takes your breath away, - arikovaolga Weapons and music — that's exactly what the capital is like now: it lives and does not give up.
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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
"I think we're just going to kill people." - Donald Trump
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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
"You don't know anyone as stupid as Donald Trump." - Fran Leibowitz
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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Damn the dB meters, full speed ahead!
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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Call it "disobeying in advance."
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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Up v. Down is on the shadow docket. 😁
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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
LOL ... a "no ballrooms" rule might fly at the next HOA meeting, but "no wrestling" might get some pushback.
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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Imagine the pain and suffering of the poor saps who have to find bands to book for maga events.
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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Thanks, mom, for 2 years of piano lessons that I HATED at 8 years old. But music has always been where I go when things are bad. Or good. Now that I'm seventy something, I get to play with great musicians. And -- yes, there is a correlation -- I'm pretty good at math. Give your kids music lessons.
Cartoon showing "Big Al's Banjo, Bagpipe, and Accordion Palace" with a sign in the window that reads "Closed due to Geneva Convention."
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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
You can tell by the way I use my walk, I'm a lovin' bird, no time to talk
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Mark Dodge @markedodge.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
We don't hear about this anymore but my point stands. 40 illegal attacks, almost 200 killed on the mere suspicion of drug trafficking. Evidence blown up, survivors murdered. Tons of diesel, human remains, detritus from explosives, and (they say) cocaine and heroin now contaminating the Caribbean.
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