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Sebastian2

@sebastian2.bsky.social
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Happily married sci-fi geek/writer/blogger, political junkie. Halloween is the greatest holiday. Vaccinated AF. Closet optimist. He/him, LGBTQ+ Ally. DMs are OFF. Check out my column "Musings of a Middle-Aged Geek": musingsofamiddleagedgeek.blog

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Sebastian2 @sebastian2.bsky.social · 29m
And they will promptly side with those who are making it worse, of course… #climatecrisis The Supreme Court will hear a major climate change case involving a devastating Colorado wildfire
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The Supreme Court will hear a major climate change case involving a devastating Colorado wildfire
Colorado's Boulder County is one of dozens of governments around the United States suing oil and gas companies to help pay for damage caused by disasters linked to climate change.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 10h
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Sebastian2 @sebastian2.bsky.social · 33m
Discarded props. Sorry Trump supporters, but he’s just not that into you… A gut punch in Ohio: Nearly 1,400 laid off at truck factory just days before Trump rally
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A gut punch in Ohio: Nearly 1,400 laid off at truck factory just days before Trump rally
President Donald Trump is trying to rally voters in the Dayton, Ohio, area on Saturday. But days ago, 1,400 workers were laid off from a truck factory there.
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Sebastian2 @sebastian2.bsky.social · 1h
If I were religious, I'd say god isn't a fan of the death penalty...
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Christa Pike on a ventilator and unconscious after failed Tennessee execution, attorneys say
Christa Pike's attorneys say she was placed on a ventilator in hospital and was unconscious hours after her failed execution in Tennessee.
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Dollyanna @my2centsay.bsky.social · 1h
THE HATE FOR TRUMP IS SO DIVISIVE, REPUBLICANS ARE FINDING IT DIFFICULT TO VOTE REPUBLICAN AND HOLD ON TO THEIR VALUES. WE SAY IT ON SIGNS. TODAY IS PROTEST SATURDAY...YOU KNOW WHERE I WILL BE.....
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Sebastian2 @sebastian2.bsky.social · 2h
An evening with Cheech Marin: Culture, Comedy & Chicano Art... #CheechMarin
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An evening with Cheech Marin: Culture, Comedy & Chicano Art…
Somewhere East of “East L.A”… Behind the Victoria Gardens shopping center in Rancho Cucamonga, is the Victoria Gardens Cultural Center, which includes the Lewis Family Playhouse, …
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Sebastian2 @sebastian2.bsky.social · 9h
Most surprising part of the story; Marco Rubio has a friend?
independent.co.uk
GOP Rep. and longtime ally of Marco Rubio gets 10-year sentence for secret lobbying
‘This is a classic money laundering case,’ the judge said Friday in rejecting Rivera’s motion to lower the federal guidelines range
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Sebastian2 @sebastian2.bsky.social · 19h
Mainers? Please show this corrupt old biddy to the curb... #SusanCollins
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Susan Collins Took Bribes?
YouTube video by LegalEagle
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Rick Havoc @rickhavoc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
He turned America into a gold plated sewer, except even the gold was fake.
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Sebastian2 @sebastian2.bsky.social · 23h
Last night, my wife and I met comedian/actor/musician and collector/cultivator of Chicano art, #CheechMarin, at the Lewis Family Playhouse in Rancho Cucamonga, California. If you are an art lover, check out The Cheech Museum of Chicano Art in downtown Riverside, CA. It's a world-class art museum.
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Cheech Marin: Culture, Comedy & Chicano Art, October 1st, 2026
Last night Jules and I went to see a live discussion with comedian/actor/musician and lifelong art collector Cheech Marin at one of favorite live theater venues in our area; the Lewis Family Playhouse...
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This morning, the Justice Department went after nearly an entire state's federal bench, all at once. The judges had said the government wasn't following court orders. The response was to try to remove the judges. Here's why every American should be paying attention. www.jackhopkinsnow.com
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: Federal Court REJECTS lawsuit to compel Georgia to provide the DOJ with access to its complete statewide voter registration database. DOJ is now 0-26. Elias Law Group remains undefeated. www.democracydocket.com/cases/georgi...
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🚨 United States of America v. Raffensperger
Learn more.
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Dan @djlane.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It’s called distraction.
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Dan @djlane.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Not too many have that courage.
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Dan @djlane.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I was taught this, and I taught my sons. Our priorities have been skewed. We look for our children to be successful and make money. Of course, that’s a consideration, but isn’t being a good person more important? We are teaching our kids like the wealthy. Success, at any price.
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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
One of the many horrific aspects of the death penalty is that states are not good at carrying out executions. Every time I post about this, someone responds by saying that it should be simple. But it’s not, and proponents of the death penalty need to own that.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is the definition of cruel and unusual punishment. The state of Tennessee botched an execution and tried to hide the gory consequences as witnesses twice watched a woman survival the supposedly “lethal” injection. The death penalty is a crime against humanity.
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Raven Song Farm @ravensongfarm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
There is something deeply wrong with trying to kill a person twice, then sending her to a hospital for life saving measures so that they can try to kill her again.
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Sebastian2 @sebastian2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hero.👏👏
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Captain Smit Machchhar: The ‘jovial’ pilot and father who thwarted the Flydubai attacker
The Indian pilot who fought off a savage attack by his copilot and helped prevent an apparent hijack of a Flydubai plane heading to Israel with more than 170 people on board is being hailed as a hero.
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Sebastian2 @sebastian2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Despite grifting billions from for himself and his family/cronies the Oval Office, Trump says: "You got me for nothing." Yeah, and we got what we paid for.
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Trump whines about not taking a salary despite reports he has made billions off presidency - AOL
Donald Trump used an AI event on Tuesday to whine that he was not getting enough credit for not taking his presidentical salary
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Sebastian2 @sebastian2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Dig this...😜 #HorrorMovies #Halloween 👻💀
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Retro-Musings for Halloween: “Tales from the Crypt” (1972) digs up up a few good scares…
******SPOOKY SPOILERS!****** Back in 1981, in eighth grade, I made the “Perfect Attendance Club” at my middle school (the only year I’d do so). The reward for our tireless academi…
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Dan @djlane.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Republican Way. Their incompetence and intelligence on full display. And they were voted in?
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Sebastian2 @sebastian2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yet by their own admission last week, these same AI developers wanted a government regulated kill switch …
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Trump says top tech firms have signed accord to 'self-police' AI development
President Trump on Tuesday said that he and a large group of leaders of artificial intelligence companies had signed a voluntary accord that will include internal and external reviews.
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Sebastian2 @sebastian2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Who knew fact-averse idiots are so bad at fact-based 'gotcha' moments? 😂😂😂
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Daily Update: Trump Rolls Over On AI, Senate Schitt-Show, Secret Trump-Bashing Caught On Tape
YouTube video by Jim Acosta
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Pam Spaulding @pamspaulding.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
😂👀 Aw, shucks. Trump was irate that America.gov actually told the truth about who won in 2020, Epstein, & govt stats showing the economy was better under Biden. Rather than change it to straight-up lies, today the chatbot's no longer "talking politics." 🧾 www.ibtimes.co.uk/trump-americ...
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Trump's America.gov AI Says His Name Is in Epstein Files Before It Suddenly Stops Talking Politics
Trump's newly launched America.gov chatbot initially gave answers contradicting several of his claims, including on the 2020 election and climate change, before refusing political questions.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
“We’re building a machine that changes history.”
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Sebastian2 @sebastian2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You know, for once MAGA might have a point. If Sarah Sanders wanted to make an accurate ad featuring a recipient of government assistance, she should've made "Brad" a billionaire...
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Republican’s anti-SNAP benefit ad featuring white man sparks MAGA fury
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders faces backlash from MAGA supporters over a welfare-to-work ad targeting a fictional white welfare recipient.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
While I'm enjoying the humiliation justifiably being heaped on Senator Eric Schmitt, I don't don't think enough mockery is being directed at his accomplice, Senator Kennedy, the Cornpone Clown, with this stupidly victorious expression as he smugly holds up the ridiculous "evidence."
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 29/09/2026
The senator who mistook the Atlanta Hawks for the Iowa Hawkeyes and tried to accuse Jack Smith of perjury? He could be the most dangerous man in the US Senate. What to know about Eric Schmitt:
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Is this the most dangerous man in the US Senate?
Sen. Eric Schmitt of Missouri is pushing a tribalistic ideology suggesting only descendants of white Christian pioneers are true Americans.
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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Between this flight losing its pilots (due to fighting) and the fighter jets that got scrambled to shoot it down... these passengers are extremely lucky to be alive. Plane was reportedly landed by a Ukrainian and a Russian, pilots flying as passengers, who took over and landed the flight safely.|
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A fight between pilots forces a flight to Tel Aviv to land in Saudi Arabia, officials say
A FlyDubai plane traveling from Dubai in the United Arab Emirates to Israel has made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia, raising concerns about a possible hijacking and prompting Israel to scramble ...
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Sebastian2 @sebastian2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'm sure Putin's puppet Trump will supply Russia with additional nukes, if needed...
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Russia sends nuclear warning to NATO as tensions rise in the Baltic
Russia has warned NATO it would be ​ready to resort to nuclear weapons if the Western alliance attempted to cut off Kaliningrad, a Russian exclave that borders the ‌Baltic Sea.
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Sebastian2 @sebastian2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In two weeks... Just like their concept of a healthcare plan in the US.
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Bessent predicts Iran's economic collapse 'in the next two weeks'
Bessent predicts Iran will have ‘nothing left’ to trade in coming weeks Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent discusses the state of the Iranian economy, strength and resilience of the U.S. economy and mor...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/09/2026
Senator Eric Schmitt is a fucking clown. He didn’t just ask Jack Smith if he was in Atlanta; he did a whole ass posterboard presentation trying to play gotcha, and it backfired because he doesn’t know how to fact-check. Missouri, do better!
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Sebastian2 @sebastian2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
For once, I agree with Iran… #VoteBlueToSaveAmerica 💙🇺🇸 Iran appeals to US voters as American troops leave Iraq
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Iran appeals to US voters as American troops leave Iraq
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps urged Americans to vote out US President Donald Trump's allies in Congress as US forces were due to withdraw from their remaining bases ​in neighbouring Iraq o...
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Sebastian2 @sebastian2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Once again, SCOTUS sides with cruelty. They are as complicit as Trump. #FuckSCOTUS 🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕 Supreme Court lets Trump resume deporting migrants to countries not their own
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Supreme Court lets Trump resume deporting migrants to countries not their own
The US Supreme Court let President Donald Trump's administration resume deporting ​migrants to countries other than their own without offering them the chance to show the harms they may face.
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Sebastian2 @sebastian2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Sen. Eric Schmidt of Missouri is so full of shit that if they gave him an enema, he'd fit in a shoebox. Trying to pin Jack Schmidt with his conspiratorial lies, he outed Jack as... (clutch the pearls) a Caitlyn Clark fan. 😂
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Sen. Eric Schmitt pins down Jack Smith — as a Caitlin Clark fan
YouTube video by POLITICO
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Sebastian2 @sebastian2.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Me, waiting to vote ASAP and lame-duck this motherfucking cabal…
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It Feels Like Forever! - Forever Too
ALT: It Feels Like Forever! - Forever Too
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Sebastian2 @sebastian2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The reason Republicans are so on about voter fraud; they're the only ones committing it.
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Kirsten Grady @mrskgrady.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Enough is enough. I am tired of hearing about officials, including judges in other cases, worrying about ruining a young man’s life while ignoring the fact that these young men also ruined someone else’s life. What about her life? Is her life not measured the same as these young men’s?
A collage of seven men’s headshots, each with a name underneath: Matthew Incalle, Diego Sarabia, Winston Lee, Scott Kretzschmar, Scott Norris, Gilio Lopes, and Johnathan Newell. Below the photos, large text reads: “STOP POSTING THEIR PICS” / “YOU WILL RUIN THEIR LIVES” / “GOOD!!” / “THEY RUINED A GIRLS LIFE, THEY SHOULD HAVE THEIR PICS EVERYWHERE!!” / “THEY BELONG IN JAIL!!”
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Sebastian2 @sebastian2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This was a taxpayer-funded violation of the Hatch Act, which really needs to be made both enforceable and consequential at some point...
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Sebastian2 @sebastian2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Everything he touches...
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Donald Trump Human Bug Zapper
ALT: Donald Trump Human Bug Zapper
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Sebastian2 @sebastian2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tired of living in a fucking police state. We're each being monitored like we're John Gotti doing a goddamned drug deal. It has to stop. #GetTheFlockOut
youtu.be
Misuse Of Flock's Cameras Is Sending Innocent People To Jail | Dispatch
YouTube video by Business Insider
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Sebastian2 @sebastian2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Happy early Halloween! 👻💀🎃 No one can take my Halloween joy away from me, not even the mango-faced Mussolini… #HappyHalloween #FuckTrump
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
At this moment Elon Musk alone is worth $893,449,882,001
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“They don’t understand the scale of the hunger!”- An unfolding crisis at the nation’s food banks
Weeks before the midterm elections, the cost crisis is hammering food pantries in red and blue states
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Mike Rogers is a corporate sellout who moves back to Michigan every few years to run for office to take another swing at the revolving door of corporate politics.
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MS Kohut @mskohut.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In America, we pay a hefty price to be completely misinformed, oppressed, poor and sick.
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Estel Cooper @estel62.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Sebastian2 @sebastian2.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I feel seen…
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Sebastian2 @sebastian2.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is more like it, Gov. Keep it up. #AbortionIsHealthcare
currently.att.yahoo.com
Newsom signs bills aimed at expanding reproductive healthcare in California
Gov. Newsom signs bills focusing on reproductive healthcare in California. Some of the bills focus on increasing access to abortion.
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Sebastian2 @sebastian2.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Not exactly the most pressing issue California is facing at the moment...
currently.att.yahoo.com
Brokers gobble up tee times at public golf courses, resell them. Newsom signs bill to ban that practice
Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a bill banning third-party brokers from listing and selling tee time reservations at publicly owned golf courses.
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