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Icarus

@skydios.bsky.social
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Dad of Feministas, Hubby, USAF Academy & Vet (T-38, F-15; yes, avi me, just uhm, 2+yrs ago!) 787 Captain, pro Women’s Healthcare, BLM,🌈ally,🚫No MAGA🚫! Raised GOP, now sane. Opines mine only, not employer…Folwback unless nutbar, porn, no vetting bio. SoCal🏄🏻‍♂️

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Icarus @skydios.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
So, if the Executive Branch, e.g. the President, can fire checks-&-balances independent agency heads w/o cause in defiance of specific laws…then what stops the next Democratic president from firing Supreme Court Justices actually FOR (accepting bribes, corruption) cause? Asking for a friend.
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Icarus @skydios.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
So…we all know that their whole plan is after they pass the SAVE act they’ll only purge (D) & (I) voters & by the time the illegality & outrage hits the courts the elections will be done & over & we’ll not have proper elections again…right?
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Icarus @skydios.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Anyone else believe there’s no way Joe Kent all the sudden grew a conscience and that the ONLY reason he’s bailing is cuz he’s seen the intel, knows there’s nobody in government but sycophants & butt-kissers too incompetent to stop any terrorist attacks, and he doesn’t want to be blamed for it?
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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Share TF OUT OF THIS!#TrumpCrushesYourDreams
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Icarus @skydios.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
So the Air Force Academy, always a bastion of impeccable and the highest Academic standards (studies showed Ivy League equivalence) now has accreditation in question due to the incompetence, destruction, and dumbing-down forced by the Reich. <smdh> www.military.com/feature/2025...
military.com
Higher Learning Commission Opens Review of the United States Air Force Academy
Dr. Kent Murphy, an Air Force Academy alumnus and longtime pre-medical advisor, filed a complaint after an April 2025 resignation program led to the loss of many PhD-level faculty, particularly in STE...
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Icarus @skydios.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Soooooo, the White House now resembles a Bordello…tacky as hell. I mean, didn’t even Macron say, “Dude! Really?” Is this so Melania will spend more time there…feel more at-home?
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Icarus @skydios.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
When they release the files someone needs to duplicate them & republish with Felon47’s name replacing every redacted perpetrator. That would force them to verify where his name ACTUALLY appears to reduce the number of times (a non-zero number, BTW) he is named in those files…
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Icarus @skydios.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Seal Beach, CA. Tiny town, large turnout. So very proud of everyone…there’s NO WAY they, MAGA, can claim (well, truthfully at least) they have “a mandate!” They are a fractional minority…at best!
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Icarus @skydios.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Moment of Zen #3 — Life is precious, magical, wondrous. Imagine this extraordinary endowment marred because someone, you don’t know, lives life contrary to ur beliefs. This is why Repugs are so angry, miserable, even when “winning.” Also…sucks when ur policies to hurt other people spill over on you!
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Icarus @skydios.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Doesn’t it feel like we’re living Fahrenheit 451? All the archives & history they take down & try to destroy will all need to be properly restored and re-established…
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Icarus @skydios.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
From a fellow fighter pilot…RIP Iceman. Blessed flight West fellow Birdman!
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Icarus @skydios.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Moment of Zen #2 Midwest Repub upbringing, married immigrant’s daughter. She would come home talking of subtle racism…clerk not helping, store security following her; I wrote off to sensitivity, like most ignorant, race-entitled Repug’s. When people thought she was our kid’s nanny, it seemed funny.
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Icarus @skydios.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Moment of Zen #1 Just lost a dear friend. Was cruelly & bebreathtakingly fast. Drinking cocktails 40th college reunion early Oct, indigestion late Oct, CAT shows adenocarcinoma early Nov, dead 1931 hrs 2 Feb 2025. Everyone loved Joey; he played golf w/Congressmen & was CEO of credit Union board.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
During an era of failing traditional media, TechDirt is absolutely killing it covering, explaining, contextualizing what is happening. Not a surprise if you’ve read them for a while.
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PoliticsGirl @politicsgirl.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Dude. I'm Pissed. youtube.com/shorts/zBYoY...
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What The F***?!
YouTube video by PoliticsGirl
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Congressman and veteran @repdeluzio.bsky.social lays out the ongoing semi-stealth effort to dismantle veterans healthcare. — The GOP is waging a stealth attack on veterans healthcare  thehill.com/opinion/heal...
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The GOP is waging a stealth attack on veterans’ healthcare
Caring for veterans is part of the cost of war, and the American people expect us to pay it.
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Rosanna 🍁Canada Strong And Free! Liberal Canadian @rosannan.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
We now have a clear, fact-based blistering report on the lack of an enforceable ethics management process for SCOTUS. SCs in all 50 states have a well-defined process that works. Why is this only coming out now, I ask Congress! What will the Ds do with it? And when? www.msnbc.com/the-last-wor...
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Senate Dems torch Supreme Court’s ‘ethical crisis’ in blistering new report
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell is joined by Senate Judiciary Cmte. member Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) to discuss a 20-month investigation into the ethics crisis at the United States Supreme Court revea...
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
ICYMI: My conversation with @mjsdc.bsky.social about the Senate Judiciary Committee’s latest bombshell report on the ethical collapse of SCOTUS www.msnbc.com/katie-phang/...
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Report: Clarence Thomas' gifts and luxury travel have 'no comparison in modern American history'
Slate's Mark Joseph Stern joins Katie Phang to discuss the extensive Senate Judiciary Committee report on the ethical concerns surrounding the Supreme Court.
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Icarus @skydios.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Do I have this right…the qualifications are HIGHER to get on the liver transplant recipient list than for US Secretary of Defense?!? From what I’ve heard the “Liver List” requires 6 months off the sauce BEFORE you’re even CONSIDERED! Go figure…
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Icarus @skydios.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Legend has it if you rub “Slick’s” nose it brings you luck. I give Slick a “boop” every stroll past…
Seaside pier with bronze seal sculpture and colors of setting sun in background.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
New from me: George Orwell and The Founding Fathers open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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George Orwell and The Founding Fathers
You may want to prepare yourself for the coming Trump administration by rereading George Orwell’s “1984” if it’s been a while.
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Icarus @skydios.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Adam Gray (Dem, CA-13) is NOW up 234 votes!! FLIP!! 🤞
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Some coward in our neighborhood in LA created a "concerned citizens" gmail and sent out a "survey" about how we feel about LA becoming a sanctuary city. The way I just unleashed, LOL. They'll think twice about another disingenuous xenophobic ass survey. LA! For fuck's sake.
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Palmer Report @palmerreport.com · 25/11/2024
I’m not going to sit around for four years lamenting about everything that goes badly. There’s no point. Either we’re in this fight or we’re not. Focus on the battles we can fight and win, not the things that are beyond our control.
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 25/11/2024
The road to the Handmaid’s Tale world is lined with smiling people telling you to stop overreacting.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Hi to all the Bluesky newcomers! I’m Kat and I make videos explaining the right-wing media ecosystem — especially Fox News and insane grifter rabbitholes. Here’s where you can find my videos that are longer than a minute: linktr.ee/katmabu
I am looking directly at the camera while holding my little orange cat, Heater “Babycat” Abughazaleh.
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💙 ⋆K⋆ ⋆a⋆ ⋆r⋆ ⋆m⋆ ⋆a⋆ 💙 I AM JANE DOE @karmauncensored.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Sage advice from the daughter of an EPIC RESISTOR.
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Icarus @skydios.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Sooooo, let me get this straight…a coupla swindlers, who never served our nation, want to cut $120 billion from an already-under-funded promise to our veterans? Massive cuts to VA healthcare…do I have that right??
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Icarus @skydios.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Wasn’t able to get one with the colors of the sun we were running from going Sydney-LAX last night, but not a bad shot of the moon for an iPhone. Just west of Tahiti @ 37,000 feet…
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Be vigilant about keeping abusive right-wing trolls off your accounts by reading replies and blocking. We all have a responsibility to keep this platform from becoming the toxic sewer that the other one is. Don’t look to others, do your part.
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Icarus @skydios.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Wow. So refreshing from the toxicity of Twitter (X 🙄) & disappointment of Threads. Thank u Bluesky! Resisted, but now to find this community-so many people one can respect & learn so much from - Popehat, Marc Elias, BrooklynDad, Mark Cuban, Asha Rangappa, Molly Jong-Fast…what a breath of fresh air!
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