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***Dave Hill 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

@three-star-dave.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
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A #husband, #father, #magpie, #gamer, #writer, #pedant, #techie, #Woke #SJW, #theist, #progressive, #trans #ally, #quotations curator, #SF / #Fantasy geek […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mstdn.social/@three_star_dave, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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***Dave Hill 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @three-star-dave.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
We're getting into the "If I go down I'm takin' youse guys wit' me" phase of the mob boss saga. #trump www.yahoo.com/news/politics/article…
In an exclusive interview on “Finnerty, Trump said he previously declined
opportunities to pursue criminal investigations of Clinton, his 2016 presidential opponent, but suggested that another impeachment effort could change the situation.

"I could have done numbers on Hillary Clinton,” Trump said. “I could have done numbers on Bill Clinton. | do like Bill Clinton. | could have done numbers on Barack Hussein Obama. Still could, I still could, | could do big numbers if | wanted to!

He added that he “turned down going after" Hillary Clinton, but still: “I'm talking about go after them criminally, or I could have done something having to do with their reputations [and] destroyed their reputations. *

Trump also claimed his administration possessed damaging information about
the three prominent Democrats.

“I could have done something having to do with their reputations, destroyed
their reputations,” he said. “We have a lot of information about Hillary. We have a lot of information about Barack Hussein Obama. We have a lot of information on Sleepy Joe Biden"
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***Dave Hill 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @three-star-dave.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026
It's time for "Barefoot in the Park" at #ArvadaCenter! Front row seats!
Tall, red curtain!
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***Dave Hill 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @three-star-dave.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
I mean, it's one thing (though still pretty bad) to refuse to sign on to the international court that tries #warcrimes. It's a whole new level of badness (if not evil) to actively persecute its members and demand its destruction. #icc
stonekettles @threads

If your government is loudly demanding the dissolution of the International Criminal Court, the international court that tries war crimes, well, then the odds are pretty high that your government is committing war crimes.

A lot of war crimes.
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***Dave Hill 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @three-star-dave.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026
Madness. This shit has gone so far past "not normal" that we can't even see normal in the read-view mirror. They've had to build a whole new wing for the Overton Window to shift to. #Trump is an existential threat to the American republic, not just for what he […] [Original post on mstdn.social]
"Please raise your right hand! I pledge, to the greatest president in the history of the United States, [who] loves us so much he can't even breathe, that I will go out with my family, my friends; I will do it any way, (bold) I will try to cheat
like they do. I don't care! (end bold) We are going to vote on November 3, or
we are going to vote before that! So help me, God!"
President Donald Trump, at the RNC Midterm Convention on September 10, asked the crowd to make this pledge.
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***Dave Hill 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @three-star-dave.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026
My personal 1st-run #TOS story: Probably s.3, when it aired at 10pm instead of 8:30. As a 7yo, that was too late for me to be up, resulting in a battle each week. Once I was really miffed about being sent to bed before #StarTrek, so I locked the hallway door […] [Original post on mstdn.social]
A poster celebrating "Star Trek Day" (September 8, 1966).
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***Dave Hill 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @three-star-dave.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026
It's "Shakespeare in Love" at the refurbbed Rippon Outdoor theater at #CUBoulder, Colorado Shakespeare Festival! #COShakes
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***Dave Hill 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @three-star-dave.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026
At the #CUBoulder #Colorado #Shakespeare Festival world premiere of David Davolos' "Friends | Romans | Countrymen," sharing a set with their "Julius Caesar" production. #csf #theater
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***Dave Hill 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @three-star-dave.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026
Now, all of a sudden, #Trump is concerned about #airquality ? No, he's only concerned about looking like The Biggest Bully on the Block. Also, the biggest idiot. #fires #climatechange #airpollution #smoke


@realDonald Trump

We are holding Canada responsible for the fact that they are not
properly maintaining their Forests, and Brush therein, and the
United States is being unnecessarily invaded by filthy, polluted,
and unhealthy air, the quality of which is dangerous, and totally
unacceptable! | will call the Prime Minister during the day to find
out what they are going to do about it. The cost is incalculable!
Canada has refused to engage in basic Forest Management and
Debris Removal, knowing that such refusal will lead to exactly
this result. This is Willful Negligence, and becoming a yearly
occurrence, costing the United States Billions of Dollars, which
cost of this pollution must of necessity be added to the TARIFFS
Canada is currently paying. Thank you for your attention to this
matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP

Jul 17, 2026 2:24 PM
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***Dave Hill 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @three-star-dave.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2026
I am not a fancy-talking diplomat or politician, but this sure looks like a shake-down to me -- basically, charging all shipping through the Strait of Hormuz a 20% tariff to pay for the costs of keeping the Strait open which were largely necessitated by Trump's […] [Original post on mstdn.social]
@realDonaldTrump
The Hormuz Strait is OPEN, and will remain
OPEN, with or without Iran. We are reinstating
the THE IRANIAN BLOCKADE, so named
because it is only stopping Iran’s ships or
customers from entering or leaving. All other
countries will have fair and open use of the
Strait. The U.S.A. will be, from this point
forward, known as “THE GUARDIAN OF THE
HORMUZ STRAIT,” but as such, and as a matter
of FAIRNESS, will be reimbursed, at the rate of
20% on all cargo shipped, for any and all costs
necessary to do the job of providing safety and
security to this very volatile section of the
World. The process and formation will begin
immediately. Thank you for your attention to
this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP
7/13/26, 10:16 AM
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***Dave Hill 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @three-star-dave.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2026
A thought for the Fourth ... #Independenceday #fourthofjuly #declarationofindependence
A cartoon of the signing of the Declaration of Independence:  "Let's not forget that July 4th commemorates a proclamation of insurrection against a deranged, obstinate autocrat -- a towering, obese man whose administration was plagued with chaos and political chicanery, and who was not elected by a majority of the people."
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***Dave Hill 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @three-star-dave.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026
I knew it was a mistake to let him see the Palace at Versailles ... Also, it's the Declaration of Independence's 250th Birthday, not the White House, you idiot. #trump #whitehouse #gildedage
Social post from Donald Trump:  "A Golden Gift to the White House for its 250th Birthday Year." A giant gilded eagle is shown above the entrance, anchored to the columns on either side.
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***Dave Hill 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @three-star-dave.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026
Not surprisingly, #Lawfare Leader is convinced that a civil case won against him is lawfare and therefore shouldn't count. It's always #projection, all the way down; when the favorite tool you have is a hammer, you think everyone else is using one, too. #trump #scotus #ejeancarroll
@realDonald Trump Social Post:
Surprisingly, the Supreme Court declined to “review” a Fake Case
brought against me by a woman | never met (Decades old
celebrity photo line, standing with her husband, does not count!).
| will continue the fight against this Weaponization and Lawfare
Case against me, including the ridiculous claim of Defamation,
with all of my power and strength. This Case is really against the
United States of America, and all it stands for, and should never
be allowed to happen to another President, or Candidate to be!
New York State created a Law, for an instant speck of time, going
back many decades, in order to wrongfully “nab” me. It was
tailormade, and this Injustice cannot be allowed to stand! Thank
you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J.
TRUMP
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***Dave Hill 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @three-star-dave.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2026
The psychopathy of this guy never fails to amaze (and disgust). "No, the alleged war atrocity should be ignored because it happened sooooooo long ago, and, y'know, just a mistake. You're weird that you think otherwise." #Trump #iranwar #warcrime #gaslighting
via Aaron.Rupar

NYT: Now that you're approaching a new phase in this conflict in this Iran,
can you now say whether you will hold anyone in your administration
accountable for the strike on a school that killed more than 100 children?

TRUMP: No. It's such a strange question to be asked. It's a long time ago.
Mistakes are made. | would ask Pete Hegseth that question.
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***Dave Hill 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @three-star-dave.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/06/2026
Ready for #TwelfthNight at the Colorado #Shakespeare Festival! #COShakes
Stage at the Mary Rippon theater at CU Boulder.
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***Dave Hill 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @three-star-dave.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2026
If you want to provide some on-the-record feedback to the National Park Service about the ghastly Arc d' Trump, here's the place: parkplanning.nps.gov/document.cfm?d… Or you can email directly to ncr_planning@nps.gov Will it matter? […] [Original post on mstdn.social]
Trump showing tiny models of his vanity arch.
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***Dave Hill 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @three-star-dave.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/04/2026
GOP: Parents, there are scary people out there who might do #gunviolence to your #kids. So buy them a bullet-proof backpack and tell them to cooperate with active shooter drills. Also GOP: Nation, there are scary people out there who might do gun violence to […] [Original post on mstdn.social]
A white board marked with "Lessons" from the Press Dinner shooting.

Someone writes "Violence must be eradicate from politics."
Someone writes "Gun violence must be urgently addressed."

Trump scrawls in black Sharpie over that "GET ME MY BALLROOM!"
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***Dave Hill 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @three-star-dave.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/04/2026
Ready to take a gander at "Come From Away" at the #ArvadaCenter. #theater #stage
Stage decor.
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***Dave Hill 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @three-star-dave.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/04/2026
Married for 31 years and we both seem to be enjoying it immensely. hill-kleerup.org/blog/2026/04/08/th… #marriage #mawwiage #anniversary
A quite young Dave with his remarkably young wife, 31 years ago today
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***Dave Hill 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @three-star-dave.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/02/2026
Ayup. #DHS #ICE #taxandspend #money
Sarah J. Jackson - @sjjphd.bsky.social

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It's always a matter of will not resources.
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***Dave Hill 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @three-star-dave.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/02/2026
In the non-screedy side of my life, we had a nice pre-Valentine's Day Valentine's Day evening, with tasty unhealthy food jointly made, a rewatch of our favorite silly action-romance (Undercover Blues), and some anime (You're Under Arrest OVA) Good times.
Cover for a Blu-Ray edition of "Undercover Blues," starring Kathleen Turner and Dennis Quaid.
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***Dave Hill 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @three-star-dave.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/01/2026
"The Toddler-in-Chief" #Trump's tantrums over (a) not being given a #NobelPeacePrize he "deserves," and (b) not being given a #Greenland he "deserves," would be hilarious, if it were for trade (and possibly military) wars that he's stirring up […] [Original post on mstdn.social]
Donald, on being told he can't have cake for dinner, either.
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***Dave Hill 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @three-star-dave.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/01/2026
RIP #ScottAdams. Yeah, he lost me as a fan (and customer) way back. But for a time there, his #Dilbert defined white collar office life in a way that really resonated with me and pretty much everyone around me. And I feel compassion for anyone who lost a fight […] [Original post on mstdn.social]
DILBERT (in his cubicle):  I am entering the PowerPoint Zone.
DILBERT (at his computer): I no longer feel the need to change the real world as long as I can change these bullet points.
DOGBERT (greeting Dilbert on his arrival home): How much imaginary productivity did you have today?
DILBERT: Eight slides!
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***Dave Hill 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @three-star-dave.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/01/2026
"No Hemispheres for Old Men" Crikey. #trumpregime #hemisphere #greenland hill-kleerup.org/blog/2026/01/06/no…
State Dept xit with a picture of Trump, looking grouchy, and the words "This is OUR Hemisphere"
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***Dave Hill 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @three-star-dave.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/01/2026
"Like it never happened" Anybody surprised that the legally mandated plaque honoring the #CapitolPolice who fought against the #Trumpist mob violence of #Jan6 has apparently ... vanished? It's believed to have been made, but #electiondenier #MikeJohnson has […] [Original post on mstdn.social]
Replica of a plaque, mandated by Congress, honoring the Capitol Police for their role in protecting the Capitol during the January 6th 2021 riots.
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***Dave Hill 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @three-star-dave.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/01/2026
The boy's MA #diploma arrived yesterday. Congrats, James! hill-kleerup.org/blog/2026/01/04/di…
James holding his MA diploma from the U. of Iceland.
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***Dave Hill 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @three-star-dave.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/12/2025
In #DonaldTrump 's America, it's not only fun to withhold federal funding on a partisan basis, to attack his perceived political enemies, it is (now according to Administration lawyers) perfectly legal. #Trump considers himself President of only the part of the […] [Original post on mstdn.social]
The Trump administration acknowledged in a court filing this week that
a decision to cut energy grants during the government shutdown was
influenced by whether the money would go to a state that tended to elect
Democrats statewide or nationally.

Government lawyers also wrote in the filing that “consideration of
partisan politics is constitutionally permissible, including because it can
serve as a proxy for legitimate policy considerations.”

The remarkably candid admission echoes President Donald Trump's
frequent vows to punish cities and states that he sees as his enemies,
from withholding disaster relief for Southern California to targeting blue
cities with National Guard troops.

It could also raise the possibility that federal attorneys might make
similar arguments in legal challenges to other unilateral cuts
implemented by the administration for blue cities and states.
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***Dave Hill 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @three-star-dave.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/12/2025
Every time you think #Trump can't get more #petty ... he says "Hold my make-up kit." In this case, annotating the entries on the self-installed #WhiteHouse "Presidential Walk of Fame" with crass and insulting comments under the plaques for Biden, Obama, and […] [Original post on mstdn.social]
‘A new plaque for President Barack Obama includes his middle name,
Hussein and calls him “one of the most divisive political figures in
American history.” It says that as president “he passed the highly
ineffective ‘Unaffordable’ Care Act, resulting in his party losing control
of both Houses of Congress.”

“He presided over a stagnant Economy, approved the terrible Iran
Nuclear Deal, and signed the one-sided Paris Climate Accords” the
plaque continues.

Bill Clinton's states, “In 2016, President Clinton’s wife, Hillary Clinton,
lost the Presidency to Donald J. Trump!”
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***Dave Hill 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @three-star-dave.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/11/2025
I have no idea what physical state the #KennedyCenter was in prior to #Trump deciding to indulge his Inner Design Consultant, and, given how maintenance works, it's altogether likely that someone actually did need to drop a big chunk of change on fixing actual […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

(@realDonald Trump
I just inspected the construction on The Kennedy Center. It is
really looking good! The exterior columns, which were in serious
danger of corrosion if something weren't done, are completed,
and look magnificent in White Enamel — Like a different place!
Marble is being done, stages are being renovated, new seats,
new chairs, and new fabrics will soon be installed, and
magnificent high end carpeting throughout the building. It is
happening faster than anticipated, one of my trademarks. My
people are doing a really great job! We are bringing this building
back to life. It was dead as a doornail, but it will soon be beautiful
again!
3.74k ReTruths 17.6k Likes Oct 31, 2025, 1:47 PM
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***Dave Hill 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @three-star-dave.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/11/2025
If I were #AbeLincoln and I woke up in "my" bathroom at the #WhiteHouse and it looked like this ... I'd be terrified that I had awakened as an Egyptian Pharaoh and was trapped in a pyramid somewhere. #Trump
The Trump-revised Abe Lincoln Bathroom at the White House, an oppressively gaudy sea of black-veined white marble, punctuated by tawdry golden fixtures and crystal chandeliers.
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***Dave Hill 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @three-star-dave.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2025
Some scriptural amusement for today. #trump #nationalguard #portland #PortlandFrog
A social media post from "Episcopalians on Facebook"

A trio of frog-costumed protesters in Portland.

Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs ... the frots shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."
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***Dave Hill 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @three-star-dave.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2025
It's a new season at the #ArvadaCenter, and we're getting ready for "The Mousetrap". Fun! #theater #stage #AgathaChristie
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***Dave Hill 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @three-star-dave.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2025
That the #GOP was the " #lawandorder " party was always a bit of a chuckle, but with its replacement by the #MAGA mob, the laughter is all at the very idea that blatant law-breaking by anyone in the #TrumpRegime would ever be prosecuted.
Social media post from Carol Leonnig
A big @MSNBC scoop >>>> Trump border czar
Tom Homan was under criminal investigation for
potential bribery and claims he would steer fed
contracts in new administration. Undercover @Fl
agents recorded him accepting $50k in cash. ...

Social Media post  from Megyn Kelly
We DO NOT CARE. Don’t bother @RealTomHoman
he’s a national treasure.
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***Dave Hill 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @three-star-dave.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2025
Picked up somewhere ... Never let the enemy define *anything* about you.
Social Media post by @zei squirrel

a desperate activist tells Malcolm X that the situation is hopeless as there are too many powerful interests and too few to oppose them. Malcolm's response is as important today as it was then: "Never let your enemy tell you how many of you there are."
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***Dave Hill 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @three-star-dave.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2025
Oh, goody. We get to take another step closer to an Imperial Presidency, complete with Gladiatorial Bouts in the Colosseum, as the #Trump Administration green-lights a #UFC #CageMatch on the #WhiteHouse lawn […] [Original post on mstdn.social]
"Coming next year to the White House's South Lawn: a mixed martial arts
throwdown to be watched by thousands of spectators. Lasers and
fireworks will light up the sky, with the Ultimate Fighting Championship's
Octagon cage flanked by the White House and Washington Monument, as
combatants punch, kick and grapple each other. Many more people could
watch on jumbo screens set up on the Ellipse, a park south of the White
House, or other areas nearby."

About the only good news is that there are too many other activities planned
for the event's original date of July 4, so organizers are moving it to June

(Fox News screen)
PLANS FOR UFC CAGE MATCH ON WH LAWN
+ OCTAGON CAGE ON SOUTH LAWN
+ FULL FIGHT CARD
+ LINCOLN MEMORIAL WEIGH-INS |
+ JUMBO SCREENS ON ELLIPSE
+ POSSIBLE OVAL OFFICE WALKOUT
WSJ Headline: "Inside the Planning for a UFC Cage Match on the White House Lawn, accompanied with a pic of Trump and RFKJr and Musk watching a similar match in Florida last April.
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***Dave Hill 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @three-star-dave.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2025
What a sad, petty, little man #Trump is, who seems to get his only joy from feeling he has inflicted pain on others. www.politico.com/news/2025/09/08/tr…
President Donald Trump on Monday applauded West Point Academy's
decision to cancel an award ceremony for actor and veterans advocate Tom
Hanks, accusing the celebrity of being “woke” in a post on Truth Social.

“We don't need destructive, WOKE recipients getting our cherished American
Awards!!!” Trump wrote Monday morning. “Hopefully the Academy Awards,
and other Fake Award Shows, will review their Standards and Practices in the
name of Fairness and Justice. Watch their DEAD RATINGS SURGE!”
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***Dave Hill 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @three-star-dave.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2025
So if I read #Hegseth correctly ... - We are going to attack before we are attacked. - We would rather kill people than check if it is legal to kill them, or if it's a #warcrime. - We don't mind #killing because of racism, sexism, religious discrimination. We […] [Original post on mstdn.social]
“We're going to go on offense, not just on defense.
Maximum lethality, not tepid legality. Violent
effect, not politically correct,” the secretary of
defense, Pete Hegseth, said in the Oval Office.
“We’re going to raise up warriors, not just
defenders. So this war department, Mr President,
just like America is back.”
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I read a lot about #logo and #branding changes. I think the #CrackerBarrel rebranding has points where aesthetic criticism can be made, but I've seen far worse. What strikes me is that a certain folk have decided to make it a *political* (via cultural) scandal […] [Original post on mstdn.social]
The old Cracker Barrel logo vs the new Cracker Barrel logo.
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Our #DearLeader #Trump seems to want to make the #government into a profit-making enterprise, not something that provides service to the public. Or put another way, if #news outlets (of whatever stripe) have to pay huge "license" fees to communicate with the […] [Original post on mstdn.social]
Truth Social @realDonaldTrump
Why is it that ABC and NBC FAKE NEWS, two
of the absolute worst and most biased
networks anywhere in the World, aren't
paying Millions of Dollars a year in LICENSE
FEES. They should lose their Licenses for
their unfair coverage of Republicans and/or
Conservatives, but at a minimum, they
should pay up BIG for having the privilege of
using the most valuable airwaves anywhere
at anytime!!! Crooked “journalism” should not
be rewarded, it should be terminated!!!
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Forwarded from a friend: #history #education #propaganda
A street-side sign for the Allendale United Methodist Church:  THOSE PREVENTING HISTORY FROM BEING TAUGHT INTEND TO REPEAT IT.
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In case you're interested, here's the link for offering a public comment on the #Trump #EPA 's proposed #ClimateChange denialism rule. I don't know if commenting will do the least bit good, but silent acquiescence surely will not. www.regulations.gov/document/EPA-HQ…
Image of a coal-fired power plant
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Wait, *two* entertaining, refreshing, hopeful super-hero flicks in the same *month*? Inconceivable! My (very positive, no spoilers) review of "Fantastic Four: First Steps". #fantasticfour #mcu hill-kleerup.org/blog/2025/07/28/mo…
Movie poster for The Fantastic Four: First Steps, showing a 60s-retro series of 4s descending into the vanishing point, with silhouettes of the Fantastic Four stand in the center.
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Ready for the OP production of Marlowe's "Doctor Faustus" at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival (using the Richard II set). Should be, as always, much fun. #COShakes #CUBoulder
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Time for #TheTempest at thr #Colorado #Shakespeare Festival at #CUBoulder. #COShakes
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The NYT is doing a dandy job of turning another #Trump #TACO moment into some sort of highly strategic, thoughtful maneuver. Nope. Trump doesn't want to get saddled with a war, but doesn't want to seem neglectful to Israel, but doesn't want to further divide […] [Original post on mstdn.social]
ANALYSIS

Trump Buys Himself Time, and Opens Up Some New Options 

While President Trump appears to be offering one more off ramp to the Iranians amid the Israel-Iran conflict, he is also bolstering his own military options.
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So, yes, very amusing that #Trump is disappointed, frustrated, even livid that his Grand #Military Birthday Parade didn't feature goose-stepping crack killer storm troopers with blood and gore and veins in their teeth, randomly sniping at dark-skinned onlookers […] [Original post on mstdn.social]
Two army troopers in an armored vehicle, waving in a friendly fashion toward onlookers. You know. Like people that the citizenry can trust, rather than fear.
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The only significant difference between Kim putting up huge posters of himself in North Korea and #Trump putting up huge posters of himself in Washington, DC, is that Kim is at least smiling in his posters, not underlit and glowering like our #DearLeader. #ego […] [Original post on mstdn.social]
Picture credited to @peoplefor via X

Photo of the USDA building where a giant 3-story poster of Trump is being hung next to a similar poster of Lincoln (who founded the USDA).
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I wonder how many of the yahoos who get so up in arms about #trans folk wanting others to respect their #chosenname will also insist on calling the new #Pope "Mr. Bob Prevost" rather than Leo XIV?
Photo of Pope Leo XIV looking out over St Peter's Square
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Went to #Thunderbolts yesterday, and both my wife and I were thoroughly entertained. Best #MCU film in a while (though I've generally enjoyed even the more recent offerings). Less reliance on CGI, more on characterization; less on cosmically intertwined plots […] [Original post on mstdn.social]
Movie poster for "Thunderbolts*" with the seven protagonists against a yellow background and the tag line "Careful who you assemble."
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#fear #Trump
Two panel editorial cartoon. 

Left panel: a drawing of Franklin Roosevelt, with a title "FDR - First 100 Days," and him saying "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Right panel: a drawing of Donald Trump, with a title "Trump - First 100 Days," and him saying "Fear."
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Even if it "can't happen" because of the US #Constitution, even if it's meant to "own the libs" -- this kind of shit from Team #Trump has to be greeted with outrage and clear rejection of it even being funny. Because (1) that's how Bad Stuff gets normalized, by […] [Original post on mstdn.social]
Twitter post from @NoLieWithBTC of "Trump 2028" hats being sold on his official website "even though it is unconstitutional for him to run again."
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