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Bruce Shepard

@shepardwb.bsky.social
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Retired academic. Spent most of my career as a poli sci prof. But then went over to the dark side, spending last 16 years as a university president.

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Bruce Shepard @shepardwb.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Psychologists have a name for this disorder: "Magical Thinking." Think it is thus and thus it is. Never seen such an extreme case and one so divorced from reality.
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Bruce Shepard @shepardwb.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The epitome of "natural ignorance."
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Bruce Shepard @shepardwb.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Apparently, our Trump is Moslem, at least in the perverted view of that religion espoused by the man second in line to become president.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/09/2026
Mike Johnson on Iranians: "It's apparently part of their religion that they can just lie to someone they disagree with"
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Bruce Shepard @shepardwb.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Apple Maps still ok.
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Bruce Shepard @shepardwb.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Trying to figure out how they will blame Biden for Natalie.
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Hi friends, can you do me a favor and share this and subscribe to my YouTube? It's free and I am about to drop some MAJOR investigations!! www.youtube.com/@aaronparnas1
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Bruce Shepard @shepardwb.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Among all the Trump abominations, this much simpler abuse is deeply upsetting. To coldly decide to abet the ego of the one responsible for the screwup by charging an innocent citizen is unfathomable. Maybe this easily understood abuse will reach some not yet willing to see the evil lurking at 1600.
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Bruce Shepard @shepardwb.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The treatment of Fauci today makes my blood boil. Clearly designed, though, for those who do not recall the facts, seeking to divert their attention from a president who has lead us into militant global economic disasters. So, it’s really a sign of how desperate they have become.
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Bruce Shepard @shepardwb.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Yes, and anyone with half a brain knows those “hundreds of billions” are coming from us. Of course, Trump lacks that particular qualification for so knowing.
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Bruce Shepard @shepardwb.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
There was really nothing they could do as he is an absolute idiot.
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Bruce Shepard @shepardwb.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Hmm. And Trump’s own father had dementia which means, in “race horse theory,” …
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Bruce Shepard @shepardwb.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Umm, but if you are dead, you are no longer president. So, you cannot order anything. Critical thinking never was his strong point.
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Bruce Shepard @shepardwb.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
What's more patriotic than celebrating the revolutionary principles and actions of those first patriots!
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Bruce Shepard @shepardwb.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
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Bruce Shepard @shepardwb.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Has to be Obama’s fault.
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Bruce Shepard @shepardwb.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
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Bruce Shepard @shepardwb.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
He’s actually correct. It was, essentially, unconditional surrender. By him.
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Bruce Shepard @shepardwb.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Is “1-Dimensional Checkers” a thing?
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Bruce Shepard @shepardwb.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
True but with a caveat. Trump never thinks far ahead, and he doesn’t care about consequences to others when serving his selfish interests. So, he got the one thing he went to war for: distraction for awhile from the Epstein files.
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Bruce Shepard @shepardwb.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Won't be long before Nehls and his suck-up House Republican colleagues start also asserting that, at that birth, a star appeared in the East and wisemen appeared bearing gifts.
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Bruce Shepard @shepardwb.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
No medical professional but a quick search shows that such swelling can be the result of many benign factors including aging and high salt intake. It can also result from kidney, heart, or liver disease, particularly when combined with swelling in the legs or feet. #HopingfortheBest
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Bruce Shepard @shepardwb.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
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Bruce Shepard @shepardwb.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Flag flying.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Love Makes a Family. ❤️
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Bruce Shepard @shepardwb.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Another politically brilliant move when you are at 35% in the polls. Put back on the front pages the case that, through the unanimous judgement of a jury of your peers, effectively established you as a rapist, while further building sympathy for your victim.
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Bruce Shepard @shepardwb.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
The Fourteenth Amendment appears to forbid payment of Federal funds to insurrectionists. Wonder if that could factor in.
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Bruce Shepard @shepardwb.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
The ignoramus does not know that you cannot "run for prime minister." As in all parliamentary democracies, must get down in the trenches to form a viable coalition in the Knesset (among myriad parties) that is capable of governing, that coalition then selecting the prime minister.
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Bruce Shepard @shepardwb.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Hmm, the pump seems to be making a statement. BTW, that works out to 6.40/gal.
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Bruce Shepard @shepardwb.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Great. Might add a modification: "How many magats does it take to change a dim bulb? 86 47.
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Bruce Shepard @shepardwb.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
OK, members of Congress cannot, of course, be impeached. So, just who is the “Low IQ individual” here? And, once again, Trump demonstrates he has zero understanding of our Constitution.
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Bruce Shepard @shepardwb.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Seems like a good reason to keep my 10-yr-old car for another 10 years.
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Bruce Shepard @shepardwb.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
And, don’t turn a 1-day gaffe into a week-long story. Rank amateurs.
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Bruce Shepard @shepardwb.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Sadly, 25th is impossible. Slimy Vance + half of the cabinet of sycophants must inform Congress Trump cannot perform his duties. Never happening. And if it does and Trump objects, requires 2/3rd's of House and 2/3rd's of Senate to vote to affirm ouster.Tougher than impeachment, also never happening.
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Bruce Shepard @shepardwb.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Please, please, Trump and his acolytes, keep up your attacks on the Pope and Catholicism. Brilliant political move in a country in which a significant percentage of the electorate are Catholic. Stupidly taking a 1-day story and making it a week long.
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El Howieson @elhowieson.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
📣📣📣📣📣📣📣
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Bruce Shepard @shepardwb.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Perfectly put.
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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Trump is now totally fine with Iran as long as they cut him in on the tolls they charge. The guy has the moral fiber of a sociopathic mob boss. He is a walking atrocity.
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Bruce Shepard @shepardwb.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Enjoying the adventure so much. Churning so many memories of the Mercury/Gemini/Apollo days. I’m offering even odds, thought, that the jealous Trump will find a way to kill off the good vibes we are all feeling about Artemis II. Hope I am wrong.
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Bruce Shepard @shepardwb.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Fingers crossed and best bottle of champagne on ice.
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Bruce Shepard @shepardwb.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Pilots down over Iran. At the outset of our attack, the US Sec of Defense stated we would fight offering “no quarter” to the Iranians. Contrary to International law, of course. But did he have the wits to think through what waging such a war might mean for the safety of our own personnel?
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Bruce Shepard @shepardwb.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Avidly awaiting the crucifixion.
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Bruce Shepard @shepardwb.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Umm, Dementia Don, it’s already closed. The national security question is, “Can you open it up in two ….”
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Bruce Shepard @shepardwb.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Just another empty threat. Does anybody really believe that the orange imbecile and his inept cabinet of toadies have the competence to pull this off?
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Bruce Shepard @shepardwb.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Instead of quibbling over the meaning of “boots on the ground,” ask: “Is such escalation, putting American troops directly in harm’s way, a wise thing to do … and what’s the exit strategy?”
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Bruce Shepard @shepardwb.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Another one of those war the orange narcissist ended.
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Bruce Shepard @shepardwb.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Bozo score off the charts. I volunteer Newt to lead the bulldozers plowing a channel through the radioactively extremely hot debris. Given half-lives, as I understand them, canal should be ready for safe transit in a millennium or so.
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Bruce Shepard @shepardwb.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Well worth reading the full post
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Bruce Shepard @shepardwb.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
While I certainly agree with the critiques of Hegseth's appalling press conference "performances," I think they miss the point: Hegseth is performing for an audience of one, and that imbecilic and vicious "audience" is, I am sure, loving every bombastic word.
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Bruce Shepard @shepardwb.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Guessing it’s because he does not own a horse that, ala Caligula, he could make a Senator.
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