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@pawtucket.bsky.social
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Living the dream as an RV recluse in the desert. UC Davis alum and US Navy vet. Sometime lawyer. Ex-firefighter, police officer, sea captain, international arms dealer. Bibo ergo sum.

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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
everybody had their dumb ideas, but alex knew there was only one way to catch a gator
a person in a pink shirt and jeans lowers a young child into running water with a rope looped under their arms as a dog looks on
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
A good reminder that even vast wealth can't buy good taste. #WhiteTrashWH
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Pawtucket @pawtucket.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
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Pawtucket @pawtucket.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Great American Patriots “Damn the torpedos, full speed ahead,” Admiral David Farragut “I shall return,” General Douglas MacArthur “I want my blanket,” DHS Director Kristi Noem
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Pawtucket @pawtucket.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
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Beetlejuice - Day-o (Banana Boat Song)
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Pawtucket @pawtucket.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 27/01/2026
Stephen Miller is directly responsible for the deaths, violence, and chaos from Trump Administration's lawless, violent rampage across America. He must be fired and held accountable.
Code Red in the United States of America
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Indivisible Northern Nevada ❌👑 @indivisiblennv.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Show up TONIGHT for Alex Pretti in Reno and please share this far and wide. Don’t be quiet and complicit. We need Democrats, Libertarians, Republicans, and non-party Nevadans to show up and say ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. F*ck ICE.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I'm not sure Democrats in D.C. are aware that their base's rage against ICE has reached a level of blinding white-hot intensity. They're worried about "looking weak" for voting "against law enforcement" when they should be worried a mob of housewives is going to come beat them to death if they do.
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Pawtucket @pawtucket.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
1950’s children’s polio ward with iron lungs
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 20/01/2026
This is, in my opinion, not only the correct moral/ethical/legal position but also the correct political framing. Everyone can see the agency is out of control; everyone can see that it is constantly violating human rights. "Scrap it and start over" is the moderate position.
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Pawtucket @pawtucket.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
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Pawtucket @pawtucket.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Don’t know who made this, but it’s right on. cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_ful...
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Pawtucket @pawtucket.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
I told you to stop kicking the seat! cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thu...
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
What he said Part 2: 💯 🎯
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The Up Front @theupfront.media · 31/10/2025
In December 1941, Pan Am flight 18602 was trapped the wrong side of the Pacific by the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. To get home, her civilian crew would need to do the near-impossible: circumnavigate the world in commercial seaplane. In our new series, we tell tell their remarkable story.
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The Long Way Round: The remarkable journey of the California Clipper, Part 1
In 1941, the Japanese attacked Hawaii, leaving Pan Am flight 18602 trapped the wrong side of Pearl Harbour, To get home, its civilian crew would have to do something incredible: circumnavigate the wor...
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Instead of trying to green cars so much why don't we just invest in trains. city trains. under ground trains. above ground trains. trains between cities. trains between countries. TRAINS THE PEOPLE CRAVE TRAINS
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Pawtucket @pawtucket.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
@nellscovell.bsky.social I read and really enjoyed “Just the Funny Parts …” five years ago.
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 18/09/2025
#Gaza is not just facing a humanitarian catastrophe. It is facing the systematic destruction of a people. Doctors in Gaza know they cannot stop a genocide. But world leaders can, if they choose to act: www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-do...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
SNL should run a normal show, with the slight addition that every sketch has three or four men dressed up like ICE agents and FCC officials standing in the background looking menacing. Maybe they disappear Colin Jost in the middle of Weekend Update too.
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Pawtucket @pawtucket.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Actor Mandy Patinkin’s plea for Jews to consider how what Netanyahu’s Israeli government is doing to Gaza is not just harming Palestinians and killing kids — but also endangering Jews across the globe.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 18/06/2025
This is 100% fixable without cutting a single dollar from seniors’ benefits. Pass my bill to require ultra-high earners to pay their fair share into the system. Problem solved. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
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Social Security, Medicare finances worsen, bringing funding cliffs sooner
The latest projections come amid bitter political and legal fights over the Trump administration’s early efforts to crack down on alleged fraud in Social Security programs.
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
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We're about 3 lines deep into the "first they came for" poem.
It's not a very long poem, folks
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
I'm going to start publicly calling out campaigns that text me because they bought my number from a list. Not just because I've run out of patience, but because if *I* am this annoyed, then I can't even imagine what it's doing to Democrats' reputation among casual voters.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
“Abolish ICE” is the moderate position. Radical is “prosecute every ICE employee under RICO.”
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VoteVets @votevets.org · 02/05/2025
Veterans Day began as Armistice Day, honoring the end of World War I—then it was changed to honor ALL who served. Now Trump wants to rename it. Reframe it. Twist it into a tribute to conquest. Veterans don’t need rewritten history. They need respect—and the benefits they earned.
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Pawtucket @pawtucket.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
It's genuinely hard to express to sort of normal not politically plugged in non-lawyers *how* lawless the Trump administration is, and I think that's some part of the problem. You sound like you're hyperventilating, but it's just a flat description of what is going on.
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PoliticsGirl @politicsgirl.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Emergency Announcement youtu.be/U1kPW5MGxQQ
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Emergency Announcement
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 10/04/2025
The Supreme Court will soon issue a decision in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man whom the Trump admin admits it deported due to “administrative error.” The ruling will be a make-or-break moment, not just for Abrego Garcia, but for what kind of country we are going to be.
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Trump refuses to bring back those wrongly detained in El Salvador. You could be next.
Will the Supreme Court allow permanent disappearances?
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
I have been convinced that the UK is right to make their cops dress silly. You are not a soldier. You are a policeman. We made you this nice policeman uniform. If you want to be an operator, join the Green Berets. Helps breed a law enforcement culture distinct from a crude imitation of war.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
in so much news coverage there’s still this sense of propriety and decorum in the face of an outright assault on our civil and human rights. i just want to remind journalists that your politeness will not save you—so you might as well say what you really mean.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Every word of this Jamelle. Now let’s ask why so many leaders in media, business and politics who should be sophisticated enough to see this, keep insisting that Trump is pursuing a “strategy”?
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University of California @uofcalifornia.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
#NIH funding cuts threaten future treatments and cures for cancer, stroke, ALS, heart attacks and other deadly diseases. Protect life-saving research, tell your legislators to #saveNIHresearch 👉 bit.ly/4bhqRke
Orange and gold background with text: Saving lives isn't partisan. Tell Congress to protect life-saving research. University of California logo.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
As of Friday, there have been 46 cases in which federal judges have blocked Trump policies. The rulings in those cases have come from 39 different judges appointed by 5 different presidents (of both parties) to 11 different district courts across 7 different circuits. Maybe it's not the judges?
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American Bar Association @americanbar.org · 26/03/2025
More than 50 bar organizations stand together with the American Bar Association to defend the rule of law and reject efforts to undermine the courts and the legal profession. Read the full statement: www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...
We support the right of people to advance their interests in courts of law when they have been wronged. We reject the notion that the U.S. government can punish lawyers and law firms who represent certain clients or punish judges who rule certain ways. We cannot accept government actions that seek to twist the scales of justice in this manner.
We reject efforts to undermine the courts and the profession. We will not stay silent in the face of efforts to remake the legal profession into something that rewards those who agree with the government and punishes those who do not. Words and actions matter. And the intimidating words and actions we have heard and seen must end. They are designed to cow our country’s judges, our country’s courts and our legal profession.
There are clear choices facing our profession. We can choose to remain silent and allow these acts to continue or we can stand for the rule of law and the values we hold dear. We call upon the entire profession, including lawyers in private practice from Main Street to Wall Street, as well as those in corporations and who serve in elected positions, to speak out against intimidation.
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Pawtucket @pawtucket.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Anybody else think “The Emperor’s New Clothes” was written for this very moment in time?
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 25/03/2025
Hegseth, Waltz and company texting war plans to a reporter on signal is just the tip of the iceberg. This whole administration is full of incompetent, inexperienced, and unqualified clowns. Our national security is compromised in ways we’re just beginning to understand.
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Canada: we love you! Stay strong and free! With much respect from 🇺🇸
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a canadian flag with a maple leaf on it is waving in the wind
ALT: a canadian flag with a maple leaf on it is waving in the wind
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/03/2025
If a friend from abroad asked me about traveling to the US right now, I world advise against it. That’s where we are as a society two months in to Trump 2.0.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
This Paul Weiss capitulation is the most disgraceful action by a major law firm in my lifetime, so appalling that I couldn’t believe it at first. Any lawyers at that firm—partners or associates—who don’t promptly resign will defile their moral and professional reputations beyond repair.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
There are people making common sense arguments that if Trump can revoke pardons, then all his pardons can be revoked when he leaves office. You are missing the fact Trump is not planning to leave office alive. Once you understand that fact then everything Trump says makes more sense.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Well, looks like we’re already here. The Trump administration willfully defied a court order. Hopefully the court will hold the government in contempt. What happens next is going to tell us exactly what direction we are headed
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social created a podcast "This is Gavin Newsom," the title indicating that the show is designed to tell us who Gavin Newsom is. He has had three guests: Charlie Kirk, Michael Savage, and Steve Bannon. Message received; now we know exactly who Gavin Newsom is.
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.
benion
Grieving a wasted life
At a point in life when there are far too many days behind than ahead, one tends to
re-elected in contrast to standing up for the
reflect on a life lived. In my lifetime decades
greater good?
were devoted to protecting America. Sacri
A compromised Supreme Court recently
fices were made both by myself and my fam-
trotted out a shallow token standards of
Ily in military service. The tip of the spear:
conduct for themselves. Apparently it's
Countless weeks over the years were spent
not a bribe to accept favors after a deci-sion; only before. Corporations are people?
living at the end of a runway on alert with an Really? Whatever happened to Superman's armed B-52 as generations of aviators have motto of "truth, justice, and the American done before and since.
way?"
The purpose: if required, be airborne
Pay-to-play is the theme of the day. Un-
in minutes on a one-way trip bringing a
challenged and uncontested blatant conflicts
nuclear Armageddon to an adversary. Fly:
of interest abound. The rule of law is situ-
ing the unfriendly skies over North Viet-
ational if adhered to at all. America can no
nam provided a brief interlude, but overall,
longer be trusted. The unbridled pursuit of
this long line of silent sentinels stood firm
power and wealth driven by unquenchable
to protect America by deterring external
greed has left service above self and Con-
threats to our freedoms and way of life
stitutional norms in the dustbin of a quaint
across the decades. I was privileged to serve past. with men and women of integrity imbued
Recently the VA said exposure to Agent
with a sense of service.
Orange is the probable cause of the can-
I'm truly grateful that the B-52s we flew, which were built tough, were engineered
cers I live with. Actually I suspect it's more from yet unspecified sources, which cause
on scientific principles and fabricated by experienced, skilled workers rather than
military pilots to have significantly higher
founded on mere beli…
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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
U.S. Attorneys are not the President’s lawyers. They are the United States’ lawyers. You didn’t pledge an oath to a President, you pledged it to the constitution. This statement alone is reason enough to resign.
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