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One of the "Ancients" currently a homeless independent voter. Nike Hercules missiles were part of the Army Air Defense Command. Top secret clearance - not much of a "chat" person. My rants are free at markpasha9.substack.com

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nikehercules.bsky.social @nikehercules.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-5-... This letter from HCR gives a devastating account of how far we have fallen as a Nation. More, bristling non-compliance please!
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
October 5, 2026
Last night, on October 4, U.S.
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nikehercules.bsky.social @nikehercules.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Banned Book Week - #booksky p. 14. "...a society that is founded on an unmoral partition and use cannot itself be righteous and whole." Succinctly, sums the U.S. up.
First published in 1915 by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Retired first Dean of Agriculture at Cornell UniversityThe table of contents from The Holy Earth. Bailey's outlook weighs heavily on honoring the earth. John Muir gets mentioned specifically.
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nikehercules.bsky.social @nikehercules.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
markpasha9.substack.com/p/instant-ka...
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Instant Karma
Resurrected and joined with friends...
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nikehercules.bsky.social @nikehercules.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Local law enforcement let the murderers walk away.
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nikehercules.bsky.social @nikehercules.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
What these women say 👇👇
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nikehercules.bsky.social @nikehercules.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
#bookSky Not that anyone is paying attention is this fascist regime, probably a banned book these days...
The 100th Anniversary edition of The Holy Earth by Liberty Hyde Bailey, first Professor of Horticulture at Cornell University. I learned of this book from Wendell Berry's collection titled "What Are People For?"
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nikehercules.bsky.social @nikehercules.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
“Fascism treats women as mere breeders. ‘Children, kitchen, and the church,’ was the Nazi slogan for women,” the pamphlet said... heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-22-20...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
July 22, 2026
“The Republican Party’s new favorite talking point is calling Democrats communists,” Representative Jim McGovern (D-MA) said yesterday on the floor of the U.S.
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nikehercules.bsky.social @nikehercules.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Katherine Stewart keeps doing the dirty work for us... writekaths.substack.com/p/trumps-250...
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Trump’s 250th Is a Festival of Slop History
Amid our semiquincentennial celebration, the religious right is promoting its own revisionist version of the nation’s founding.
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nikehercules.bsky.social @nikehercules.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
#booksky Great information to feed your determination to resist!
Cover photo of Chinese American organizer and activist. The Next American Revolution was written when she was 97 years old.
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nikehercules.bsky.social @nikehercules.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Norm's visit to the Obama Presidential Center is awesome... www.contrariannews.org/p/behind-the...
contrariannews.org
Behind the Scenes at the Obama Presidential Center Opening
A Real Celebration of America at 250: Publisher's Roundup 72
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nikehercules.bsky.social @nikehercules.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Katherine Stewart is a brave soul who actually attends these conferences...worth a read.
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nikehercules.bsky.social @nikehercules.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Here's a worthwhile read... #booksky I leave you with a quote from Neil deGrasse Tyson's last line "...the time has come to remember him for setting our Nation on a course of scientifically enlightened governance, without which we all may perish from this earth."
A compilation of responses to the Gettysburg Address on its 150 the anniversary
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nikehercules.bsky.social @nikehercules.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
The Dump in Wisconsin...uh oh!
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nikehercules.bsky.social @nikehercules.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
The Fascist regime is totally winning the propaganda war...Bristling Non-Compliance front and center, please.
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nikehercules.bsky.social @nikehercules.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
@altnps.bsky.social My friends in Southern Illinois tell me that the logging trucks are running bumper to bumper with the timber from the Shawnee National forest...
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nikehercules.bsky.social @nikehercules.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
#booksky Great, informative read but so scary that I had to stop about halfway and read a murder mystery for relief 😱
Lisa Graves documentation of the Roberts' court and his attacks on Civil Rights and government by the people...
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nikehercules.bsky.social @nikehercules.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Katherine keeps a watchful eye on the criminals...
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nikehercules.bsky.social @nikehercules.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
A gentle reminder of where we could have gone instead of where we are today... heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-22-202...
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nikehercules.bsky.social @nikehercules.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Articulate description of the problem with the false god - golden calf problem from Chris Hedges... chrishedges.substack.com/p/trump-has-...
chrishedges.substack.com
Trump Has No Soul
Trump is dangerous not simply because of his imbecility and unbridled narcissism, but because he lacks the core attributes of empathy and understanding that define the human soul.
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nikehercules.bsky.social @nikehercules.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
For all of you golfers out there in BlueSky land... markpasha9.substack.com/p/the-mullig...
markpasha9.substack.com
The Mulligan
How about a do over?
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nikehercules.bsky.social @nikehercules.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
HCR describes the our sacred bull goose loony in action...more resistance please! heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-12-2...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
April 12, 2026
By the end of 2024, inflation in the U.S., which had soared in the aftermath of the Covid-19 lockdowns, was almost back to the Federal Reserve’s goal of 2%.
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nikehercules.bsky.social @nikehercules.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I've read most of Chris Hedges books over the years - this post has some of the highlights...more resistance, please! open.substack.com/pub/chrished...
open.substack.com
How Fascism Came
America’s democracy was destroyed by the two ruling parties who sold us out to corporations, militarists and billionaires. Now we pay the price.
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Katherine Stewart @katherinestewart.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
“…their inability to hear any dissent puts the lie to their claims. There is no strength here, no virtue or authority. There is only the fragile, preening ego of the abuser.”
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nikehercules.bsky.social @nikehercules.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Wow! Thank you, Handmaids! Resist!
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nikehercules.bsky.social @nikehercules.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Please go to No Kings www.nokings.org and find an event near you by entering your Zip Code! Join the rest of us on the street to Resist!
nokings.org
No Kings
As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...
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nikehercules.bsky.social @nikehercules.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
What she says 👇 joycevance.substack.com/p/decency-di...
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Decency Died Along with Bob Mueller
Former Marine, U.S.Attorney, FBI Director and Special Counsel Robert Mueller passed away Friday evening.
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nikehercules.bsky.social @nikehercules.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
History repeats itself... "Why do we find so much evil and wickedness practiced by the nations composed of professedly 'Christian' individuals?" Dr. Charles Eastman, p. 315. #booksky
Heather Cox Richardson examines and documents the before, during and after of the genocide at Wounded Knee.
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nikehercules.bsky.social @nikehercules.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
A glimmer of hope for digging out of the quagmire... markpasha9.substack.com/p/why-church...
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Why Church and State Must Stand Separate
Amen, Brother Garth
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nikehercules.bsky.social @nikehercules.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
HCR points out that even Fox News thought it was disrespectful and then gives us the worst of the story... heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-8-20...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
March 8, 2026
Yesterday, President Donald J.
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nikehercules.bsky.social @nikehercules.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Ayatollah Trumpaholla?
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nikehercules.bsky.social @nikehercules.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
If you thought that you were depressed before, wait until you read this from Brother Hedges... chrishedges.substack.com/p/going-to-w...
chrishedges.substack.com
Going to War, Again, for Israel
Blood Brothers - by Mr.
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nikehercules.bsky.social @nikehercules.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Charlie Kirk worshippers? Just what we need...
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nikehercules.bsky.social @nikehercules.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
In case you were wondering, we are surrounded by fascist murderers, many of them in the Congress. Please resist, like this heroic Marine.
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nikehercules.bsky.social @nikehercules.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
We the ignorant, should not lose sight of the fact the TACO is "anointed" by the god of the Christian Taliban to do many of the things that HCR describes... heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-4-20...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
March 4, 2026
Buried in the cascade of news this week, Sadie Gurman and Caitlin Ostroff of the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that 47,635 files are missing from the Epstein files documents that the Justice ...
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nikehercules.bsky.social @nikehercules.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Thank you for your reporting, Scott. I would add that there is absolutely no reason to trust what are still called the FBI and Justice Department. The "new hires" will have to take an oath to Trump just like Pam Bondi, Kash Patel and their underlings.
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nikehercules.bsky.social @nikehercules.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
More sickening shit from these traitors! Resist please!
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nikehercules.bsky.social @nikehercules.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Sadly, more of this will be needed! Good trouble if you ask me! There can be no reasoning with supporters of the thugs terrorizing this country and murdering people.
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nikehercules.bsky.social @nikehercules.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Lookout, Chris Hedges taking a look at who's who in the Epstein files... chrishedges.substack.com/p/noam-choms...
chrishedges.substack.com
Noam Chomsky, Jeffrey Epstein and the Politics of Betrayal
I don’t expect much from politicians, corporate tycoons, the presidents of prestigious universities, billionaire philanthropists, celebrities, royalty or oligarchs.
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nikehercules.bsky.social @nikehercules.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
HCR summarizes the unhinged effort to build concentration camps to hold us, while Noem flies around with her boyfriend... More resistance please! heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-1...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
February 13, 2026
At midnight tonight, most of the agencies and services in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will run out of funding, as popular fury over the violence and lawlessness of federal agents from Im...
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nikehercules.bsky.social @nikehercules.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
#booksky I almost chose not to read this book after I looked at the pictures between pg. 180 and 181. But, I persevered. HCR could pretty much cut and paste from pgs. 10 - 18 to describe the current situation and this regime...
Heather Cox Richardson's 2010 book documenting the massacre of 250 Sioux men, women and children. Soldiers trying to live by their training that the "only good Indian, is a dead Indian."
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nikehercules.bsky.social @nikehercules.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Please get louder! More bristling non-compliance like this!
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nikehercules.bsky.social @nikehercules.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
We need more of this! Resist please!
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nikehercules.bsky.social @nikehercules.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Please make the calls and emails - help the Dems to keep some backbone!
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nikehercules.bsky.social @nikehercules.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Finally Jeffries finds a voice with a few balls! Please read HCR's summary... heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-6...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
February 6, 2026
Late last night, President Donald J.
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nikehercules.bsky.social @nikehercules.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
#booksky Haven't stopped reading. Had a long-time friend die recently. And this Dan Brown book had a few interesting things to say about our final moments...
Latest book by Dan Brown. The story is set in Prague and involves a lot of brain study.
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nikehercules.bsky.social @nikehercules.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
The war is not over...more resistance please! heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-1...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
February 1, 2026
On February 1, 1862, in the early days of the Civil War, the Atlantic Monthly published Julia Ward Howe’s “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” summing up the cause of freedom for which the United States tro...
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nikehercules.bsky.social @nikehercules.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Agreed! 👇 I would add the word diligently to this description. January 6, 2021 is not glossed over, whitewashed, or forgotten.
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nikehercules.bsky.social @nikehercules.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
The regime's main function is to create sound bytes for their faithful followers - it's the only way that they can stay ignorant. PBS continues to play into their hands by interviewing Ron Johnson and allowing him to say protesters are obstructing. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-30...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
January 30, 2026
As the American people continue to express their fury over the violence of federal agents in Minneapolis and elsewhere, officials from the Trump administration today tried to shift the public narrativ...
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nikehercules.bsky.social @nikehercules.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
It's disgusting, but we should not be surprised that we are being treated like "rabid dogs"- it's been part of the plan for many years. Project 2025 has just made it manifest. Resist anyway! web.archive.org/web/20170204...
web.archive.org
The Integration of Theory and Practice: A Program for the New Traditionalist Movement
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nikehercules.bsky.social @nikehercules.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Joyce Vance made me pause and think for a bit ... open.substack.com/pub/markpash...
open.substack.com
Quagmire
haven't got a clue...
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