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I offer help to people who want it. Facilitator and lover of humans. Somewhat retired, but not exactly retiring. Interesting, handsome, shy, erudite. Have accidentally […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mastodon.online/@mjt, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 10h

I don’t for a second think my little voice can make a difference in any particular world event, but I hope and wish and even pray that thousands and millions of voices across the country and world can stop the horror announced by the apparently sub-human Hegseth tonight. Please, even if you’ve […]

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“Our nation was founded to perpetuate democratic principles. These principles are that each man is to be treated on his worth as a man without regard to the land from which his forefathers came and without regard to the creed which he professes. If the United States proves false to these […]

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mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

“In 1997, a group of gynecologic surgeons published a paper in the journal Gynecologic Oncology with a title that gets straight to it — “Is Adam worth more than Eve?” Dr. Barbara A. Goff, now chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology at University of Washington Medicine, and colleagues found that […]

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

READ: If you haven’t seen this yet, please take a look. Motonormativity ("car brain") is a bias that stops people from making rational judgements about driving. This study co-authored by @ianwalker.bsky.social looks at where this bias comes from & how it works. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Screetshot of study title “Why Do Cars Get A Free Ride?” #CarBrain #Motonormativity

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It’s remarkable how many people can move on a street when those people don’t feel the need to always take a massive car with them. Mobility in cities is about space.

Busy European street with buses filled with people in a long line of people on bikes, waiting for the light to change in a separated, protected bike lane. Imagine if all those people or each in a separate car.

mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

“[A]fter being triggered by ‘Meet the Press’ moderator Kristen Welker's rather mundane midterms analysis, Trump said he had “reported’ her to the FCC ‘for rebuke or punishment.’ When later asked about the Welker situation, [Brendan] Carr, [FCC chair] said that he believed Trump was "over the […]

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mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

“A functioning democracy cannot be just a matter of statute. It requires good faith and some measure of virtue from its officeholders. No law can substitute for character in leaders.” #USpol […]

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mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

“Work identity vs. workplace identity is one of the most important differentiations humans have to grapple with in their short time on this planet.” The brilliant John Cutler on companies and you, the employee, and how to survive a lifetime of work with your identity intact […]

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mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

It’s not me, it’s you! “‘He's not banning media outlets, what he's doing is saying we're not going to give you special access to the White House if you engage in what is effectively propaganda,’ [Regrettable US VP] Vance said, alleging that 92% of the stories from CNN, MS NOW and Politico about […]

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

So do any of those things, true as they are, mean that we should support everyone being car DEPENDENT? That EVERYONE should NEED a car for EVERYTHING because some people may always need a car for some things? The post you’re replying to was about the choices made every day to CREATE car dependency.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Car dependency wasn’t an inevitability. It was a choice. And once it was made, it didn’t become an inescapable trap, although it can feel that way. It just takes making different choices, that are hard at first (because that’s what dependency does), but that get easier. It takes vision and will.

mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

“Most experts agree that young people are more anxious and risk averse than their predecessors. … But…psychology professor and researcher Peter Gray offers a counterargument: It’s not the phones at all; it’s the hovering omnipresence of adults, which has expanded in both intensity and duration […]

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Indio Gringo ® @paninid.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

#American #history

mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

For heavens’ sake, why are we paying attention to what Bo Fuckhead thinks and giving him a platform? He’s running for Fence Inspector or something in Backwater, Texas. Let’s just ignore him like a pimple and let him disappear. #USpol

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mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

USians, I ask you: do we live in a great country or what?

Online news story headline: “Feds find small alligator, 42 kilos of fentanyl in downtown L.A. luxury apartment”

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mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

The F.B.I. director, Kash Patel, suggested that he was open to sending federal agents to polling places. …which would be in open defiance of US law that’s been in place since after the Civil War, and without doubt an impeachable offense and an offense against the United States and the people of […]

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mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

Actual TFG: “These are not the people I interviewed. They are merely a shell of their original selves.” Probably also TFG: “What happened to my lackeys? I thought they owed all fealty to me, and surrendered all independent thinking and power to me when I interviewed them!” #USpol #Dictator […]

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mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

“[TFG’s hand-picked board that oversees the Kennedy Center] had claimed that without ‘appropriate recognition’ on the building, Trump is unlikely to oversee the renovation or ‘lead the fiscal rescue of the Center.’” “[C]onfidential financial records show that ticket sales and fundraising […]

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mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

“[T]he administration’s continued flirtation with Vladimir Putin and his associates, its use of our tax dollars to imprison immigrants in substandard conditions, and its determination to rig the 2026 election add up to an attempt to establish an authoritarian government.” […]

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mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

“The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled?

Making Americans think socialism was the work of Satan and capitalism was the will of God.”

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mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

“Today, 84% of 11 year olds aren’t allowed to leave their street, with 53% not even allowed to leave their front yard. For 14 year olds? 92% aren’t allowed to leave their neighborhood, and 55% can’t leave their streets. “We told ourselves we were keeping them safe. We were doing something else […]

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mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

“Vance railed during the last night of the GOP midterm convention on Thursday that the U.S. was becoming ‘poorer’ and ‘dirtier’ before Donald Trump’s election to a second term, and that Republicans were tired of being attacked for saying so.” “‘We were tired of being called racists for noticing […]

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mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

Vote.gov is the place to check your registration info, if you want or need to. Don’t in any case use the Musk-funded website I won’t name here, since it collects oodles of private info and shares it with companies and organizations you probably do t want it to. I’d link to the article that I […]

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mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

“[Seattle’s] Bumbershoot has always been most effective when it has been all things to all people,” he added. “Your parents could go and see Ladysmith Black Mambazo and Mavis Staples or something, and then you could go see some punk band you like playing on the other side of the Seattle Center […]

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mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

“We have accepted a style of criticism that treats ridicule as a substitute for explanation.” […]

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mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

“The widespread, bipartisan backlash to Flock and data centers has many of our tech overlords wondering why people are so animated and angry about what they’ve dubbed a ‘revolutionary technology.’” #USpol #USgovernment #EndOfTimes […]

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mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

The president is a criminal. The speaker of the House is a criminal. Most of the Supreme Court don’t give a crap about the law or Constitution, only power. #USpol #Criminals #AllIsLost

mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

Rule of law in the United States at the federal level has ceased to exist, because the very branch that enforces the law repeatedly and purposely disregards it. It won’t make any difference who “wins” the November elections, because the law doesn’t matter to the clowns and criminals who run the […]

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mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

“Nearly a third of a[n H-1B] work-petition fee is earmarked for immigration courts. Another billion-plus is earmarked for ICE. Specialty-occupation employers are being converted into a revenue stream for removal infrastructure. That is not adjudication pricing. That is a labor tax designed to […]

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mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

“[TFG] has abused his office to enrich himself and his family in ways that are completely unprecedented—not only in the United States but also in the history of almost any peer democracy. Only Silvio Berlusconi, Italy’s notoriously lawless former prime minister, was in any way comparable, and […]

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mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

Next he’ll try to rename the country. And the capital. Washington’s had the honor long enough. #USpol #NotWell #Dictator #Ass

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mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

“The Trump administration’s new rule requiring states to submit voter data to a federal portal before national mail-in ballots can be sent is now in effect, USPS announced. The service acknowledged pending litigation against the rule, including from nearly two dozen Democratic-led states.” […]

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mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

“Listening to MAGA types talking about ‘heritage Americans’ and ‘remigration’, it is clear that immigration policy now is not just about law and order, or even about the economy. Many in Trumpworld see immigrants as a threat to American culture. This is exactly backwards.” (gift link good for 7 […]

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mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

Nice Kennedy Center you’ve got there. Needs a coat of paint on it and a new name. Shame if it were demolished to build amphitheater, wouldn’t it? “Justice” Department thugs now write court pleadings in a threatening style. All “hypothetical,” of course. #USpol #USpolitics #Thugs #NotJustice

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mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

“Major international airports across the country have small washing stations to allow Muslim travelers to perform wudu, or wash their feet, hands, and arms in preparation for their five daily prayers…I tend to think of the airline industry as the industry that’s most openly hostile to its own […]

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mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

“America is awash in lawlessness and impunity. “The US Supreme Court signed off on a lawless plan to suppress mail-in voting. There's another illegal trade war, this one with Canada, our closest ally in terms of language and culture, jeopardizing nearly $1 trillion in trade. Billionaires are […]

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mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton was one of the few topics the US could agree on. She was, and shall remain, a treasure for old and young, country and pop, and a philanthropist of the first order. One of her orgs has delivered a books regularly to any child who requests them. She’s given out 300 million books so […]

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mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

“It's interesting that Visio claims to have made about 15 Million selling the TVs in the SFC-Visio case, and 300 Million in advertising through them. This confirms my surmise about TV prices being artificially low because YOU are the product, not the TV.” ~Bruce Perens, internet pioneer and open […]

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mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

“[North Carolina [state election board member and Democrat] Jeff Carmon … said some GOP county plans had ‘racial undertones.’ ‘Can we identify a single voter who is better served by having fewer opportunities to cast a ballot?’ Carmon asked.” […]

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mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

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When Citizens United was decided, as the New York Times calculated, billionaires constituted just 0.3% of outside spending; by 2024, they accounted for 19%, a 63-fold increase.

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Miser @misernyc.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The new Lafayette Street bike lanes are a work of absolute genius, let me explain:

mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

“‘There are two ideas of government,’ William Jennings Bryan said. ‘There are those who believe that, if you will only legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous, that their prosperity will leak through on those below. The Democratic idea, however, has been that if you legislate to make the […]

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mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

A journalist was twice assaulted by ICE, and is now approaching 300 Days in criminally neglectful detention, without appropriate medical care for ICE-caused gunshot wound. There are worms in the drinking water and roaches in the cells. Think it can’t or won’t happen to you? Think again. ICE is […]

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mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

“It is tempting to read what happened aboard the Lincoln as a story about one ship or one deployment. The more useful reading is that it was a symptom surfacing at the end of the supply chain.” #USpol #USnavy #logistics (1/3)

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mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

“In 2023, only one outlet, the Financial Times, covered when William O’Reilly, a White Cambridge professor, was found guilty of plagiarism. All told, a Black Cambridge professor endured 249 times more media coverage for an accusation of plagiarism by a known racist propagandist than a White […]

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mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

“Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers may soon be outfitted with gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks intended to gain compliance from combative individuals.” Tell me again how voting is going to help us regain our democracy. #USpol #PoliceState #Paramilitary […]

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mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

“The administration did not defy the tax laws. It counterfeited them. The [purported “get out of tax audits free] document has the typography of law and none of its machinery: no adverseness, no authority, no statutory vehicle, no second signature…” #USpol #USpolitics #fraud #law […]

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mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

“On Tuesday, it will be one year since President Donald Trump called up the National Guard to be deployed in Washington, D.C., ‘to address the epidemic of crime in our Nation’s capital.’ “It was a lie then, it’s a lie now, but here we are. And here they are. And here they are to remain through […]

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mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

The dicks in charge have already decided the question Timothy Snyder poses. The question is, are We The People going to let them? substack.com/@snyder/note/c-3089452…

Timothy Snyder (@snyder)

It’s happening before our own eyes. Decide which side you are on and make your decision known far and wide.

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mjt @mjt.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

I’m at the beach here in Seattle’s hot days, watching all the white people trying to make their skin brown. ICE isn’t visibly present. Yet. #USpol #racism #ice