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Alan!

@o2bnobx.bsky.social
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DC based; lived/worked in 40+ countries. Built/run tech companies; at home in the woods. Single Dad to 2 (now adult) amazing women. Spent 3 years trying to stop the fascists.Travel is the antidote to prejudice. All my dogs are rescues; car guy who builds

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NPR @npr.org · 13h
Florida is updating its science standards with evolution and climate change almost entirely absent from a new proposal.  The state will now seek public input on the revision. (via @cfpublicmedia.bsky.social) n.pr/4iW2Kh4
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Florida’s proposed science standards sideline evolution and climate change
The Florida Department of Education released its first comprehensive rewrite of science learning standards in nearly two decades, with the last one adopted in 2008.
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Alan! @o2bnobx.bsky.social · 16h
Hey I know let’s ration diesel to every one of those idiot MAGA Trumpers who drive their “rolling coal” pickups. Registered commercial trucks are exempt. It’s the patriotic thing to do, right?
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Alan! @o2bnobx.bsky.social · 22h
This actually made me laugh.
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Alan! @o2bnobx.bsky.social · 22h
Sometimes when I’m walking the dogs in the woods and I don’t want them fixating on or chasing something I sing them a song. They each have their own song, about them. Today when walking them down the street I started singing their songs and I think the neighbors have decided I’m the crazy dog guy.
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Alan! @o2bnobx.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Breaking News: Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh has declared all his future interns and clerks will come exclusively from Cornell.
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Alan! @o2bnobx.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Kennedy Center is liquidating assets, including selling off its Steinway pianos. www.steinwaypianodc.com/kennedy-center
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Kennedy Center Sale - Steinway & Sons
Kennedy Center Piano Sale
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Alan! @o2bnobx.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Just. Wow.
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Alan! @o2bnobx.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It’s such a shame that the man who ok’d unlimited money in politics, gave a criminal president immunity, and made our Supreme Court coin-operated can’t enjoy the America he’s methodically destroyed. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...
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John Roberts Retreated to His Island. Supreme Court Critics Found Him. (Gift Article)
After decades of potlucks and paddle-boarding on Maine’s midcoast, rising anger and protests have left the Supreme Court’s chief justice more isolated than ever.
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Alan! @o2bnobx.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
At what point does Trump buy ads on @CNN to declare it a threat to national security? You know they’d take the money and run them.
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Alan! @o2bnobx.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I never thought Americans were cruel. I NEVER thought we would send innocent children to certain death as “deportation”; I NEVER thought we’d celebrate golden ballrooms and cut food assistance for the needy. I NEVER thought a “Christian Nation” would violate every basic tenet of Christianity.
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
So, this is Trump’s signature on his “Super Intelligence” Accord with tech leaders. …His actual signature, as President of the United States of America—emphasis on UNITED. Just, wow.
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Alan! @o2bnobx.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Really, I’m in awe of Jack Smith. What a courageous patriot. I’m just so disgusted with the sycophantic Republican Party and their followers. I was happy to support his team in my past life, and I’d do it again.
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Bobcat Arts [heat mines] @bobcatarts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"National Conservatives" or Nat-Cs for short. It's a whole Nat-C party. Wait... Nat-Cs... Nat-Cs... Why does that sound so familiar?
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Alan! @o2bnobx.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I liked America better when Pets. com wasn’t an FBI dating app.
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Alan! @o2bnobx.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Undoing this should be our Project 2028. Period.
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Alan! @o2bnobx.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This study by the Rand Corp shows how income distribution after WWII was relatively equal until Reagan in 1980. Since then US economic and tax laws skewed things to the top 5%, moving $73 Trillion away from lower and middle classes. Absent that, a single income family www.rand.org/pubs/working...
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Measuring the Income Gap from 1975 to 2023
The author extends the results of prior work on the income gap between the bottom 90 percent of workers in 2023 and what they would have earned with an even growth rate from 1975 to 2023. These worker...
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Alan! @o2bnobx.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Alan! @o2bnobx.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
1st, it’s insane that colleges have sports AT ALL. It’s what has created an absolutely warped higher education system in America. Second, it’s simply crazy athletes aren’t paid in line with the revenue they produce AS ENTERTAINMENT. Third, it’s laughable that Ted “Small Government” Cruz did this.
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Alan! @o2bnobx.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I was a single dad. I was very lucky in that I either worked for really great tech companies, or I ran my own. I’ve had help: I had tutors to help with my kids and to travel with us when I just had to work in other countries; I’ve had help at home. I paid all the taxes, i put money in retirement
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Alan! @o2bnobx.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What fresh hell is this countdown for? america.gov
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America.gov
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Alan! @o2bnobx.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ironically everything they accused Tik Tok of doing, they actually do… www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/w...
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Alan! @o2bnobx.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It’s amazing to me that apparently a good portion of Americans are ok with us just invading another country, kidnapping their President, stealing their oil and gold and depositing the proceeds in hidden bank accounts.
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Alan! @o2bnobx.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We’re going to find out that Ken Paxton has a side job advising Cornell’s criminal law enforcement aren’t we?
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Alan! @o2bnobx.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The party of law and order: DOJ’s conviction rate for Federal crimes has hovered around 95% for decades; under Trump, the DOJ simply closed 23,000 major criminal cases, and the Courts have dismissed 31% of cases so far this year. They’re ignoring real crime and focusing on bogus GOP culture issues.
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Alan! @o2bnobx.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Alan! @o2bnobx.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Enraged, Robert Kennedy immediately cut all funding for the studies and instead ordered the institute to look into his theory that infusions of blood from a Sasquatch cured all human disease.
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Alan! @o2bnobx.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hey if we’re gonna do Government-paid political ads I’d like Smokey The Bear to remind us all that “Only You Can Prevent Fascism!”
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Smokey Bear: Only You Can Prevent Wildfires
ALT: Smokey Bear: Only You Can Prevent Wildfires
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Jubilado0505 @jubilado251.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
OTD in 1962, Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring was published, inspiring an environmental movement and the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. “As crude a weapon as the cave man’s club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.”
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Alan! @o2bnobx.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Great. I found mouse poop in a kitchen drawer. I caught the mouse and am now spending the entire day pulling everything out of every drawer and cabinet before dunking it in a bleach bath and running it through the dishwasher on the “obliterate” heat setting.
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Alan! @o2bnobx.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
HBO is selling cheap. I’d be willing to bet Musk would pay 90% of his fortune to kill that documentary.
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Alan! @o2bnobx.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
What could she possibly want? It’s a mystery…
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Alan! @o2bnobx.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Every time I look at these flight patterns I’m reminded that they are literal poop trails. It’s a billionaire expelling his waste over all of us.
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Alan! @o2bnobx.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Sometimes being an ummmm more mature car guy helps: Doing a complete rebuild on a 1968 brake system but it just wouldn’t bleed, even with everything being completely new: they never checked the master cylinder brake rod length, it was 1/64th of an inch off. 5 minutes, the right tool, it’s fixed.
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Alan! @o2bnobx.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just your reminder that all of this massive shift in the safety of our food supply was entirely predictable, and ALL of it falls on Kennedy. Without knowledge or educational background, he gutted American food safety programs based upon his cultish pseudoscience. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...
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F.D.A.’s Food Safety Chief Resigns Over Trump Administration Layoffs (Gift Article)
The chief said the loss of critical employees overseeing the nation’s food supply made his work impossible. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s new health secretary, has pledged to gut the division.
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Alan! @o2bnobx.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
it’s INSANE to me that @CNN CONTINUES to give Trump oxygen right now at 9pm Friday night making their entire broadcast about their ban. PUT ON UNLIMITED DEMOCRATS for constant airtime. Have some backbone. Take everything away from him. Give any Democrat or any Republican opposing this airtime!
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Every single one of these people view their government appointments as an opportunity to promote themselves and make money grifting while we pay them to do it.
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Alan! @o2bnobx.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I still can’t get over that John Roberts really thought his personally written decision in Trump V. The United States giving US Presidents near complete immunity would be welcomed by scholars and both parties. Nearly everything tearing this country apart traces to Roberts, he’s a perfect vessel.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“I simply do not want to see innocent children being detained. Prisons are not a place for innocent children...” “We need to go to these board meetings... to all our other meetings, our city council. We need to be in all these spaces and insist upon being heard.” veritenews.org/2026/09/22/o...
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Opponents of Alexandria ICE detention facility hold community forum - Verite News New Orleans
The England Authority Board of Commissioners is slated to discuss the planned ICE detention facility at a meeting on Thursday.
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Alan! @o2bnobx.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Countless, countless, countless moments in my life that I’d never trade or change being a dad, for most of their lives a single dad. For me it’s the meaning of life. There’s just no greater professional, financial or status milestone that could come close to seeing my daughters experience joy.
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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
WHY AREN’T THEY IN CUSTODY?
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Alan! @o2bnobx.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
On the other hand the Obama Arch has quite a ring to it…
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Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Just a reminder that Ed Henry was fired from Fox News in 2020 for sexual harassing Jennifer Eckhart and other staffers. She died by suicide this week tragically.
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Alan! @o2bnobx.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Going for a guys weekend in Vegas and to catch an NFL game and just realized it’s costing more than a Super Bowl weekend just 10 years ago.
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Alan! @o2bnobx.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
On the other hand, if The National Theatre were to just invite Trump to a showing of “Our American Cousin”…
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Alan! @o2bnobx.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My daughter (patent law attorney) came by tonight simply on fire with an idea for a startup. That makes me really happy: She’s a great attorney, makes plenty of money but her work doesn’t make her happy. I’ve never seen her this motivated; all I want for my children is for them to feel fulfilled.
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Alan! @o2bnobx.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I hate Republican Amerika.
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Alan! @o2bnobx.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Pretty stunning: The IIF has always followed the line that the US is the rock of world finance; it’s now openly calling out that Bennet is nothing more than the man behind the curtain. The Wizard no longer exists. It took Trump 2 years to destroy our status as the unquestioned world leader.
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Alan! @o2bnobx.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We love Catherine Connolly. The Irish know how to accommodate a tiny man…
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New Jersey Monitor @newjerseymonitor.com · 23/09/2026
NJ joins lawsuit against Trump’s payouts stopping offshore wind newjerseymonitor.com/2026/09/23/r...
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NJ joins lawsuit against Trump’s payouts stopping offshore wind • New Jersey Monitor
New Jersey joined a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s payments to private companies to cancel offshore wind leases.
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Alan! @o2bnobx.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I. Have. No. Words.
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