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Tim Bowlin

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Grayson & Waylen’s pawpaw. Retired AL-ARNG mechanic. Auto parts salesman. Love to read.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
On Damnatio Memoriae and de-Trumpification. (Gift link) Been waiting for this one to go up. Please read and share.
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Perry: How should the U.S. remember its would-be autocrat once he leaves the White House?
"When some emperors died," David M. Perry writes, "successors condemned their memory, ordering statues smashed, their faces scrubbed from portraits, their names erased from inscriptions and their lega...
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 05/04/2026
We are so, so small. #Artemis
Looking through one of the four windows of the Orion spacecraft, a tiny crescent Earth is illuminated against the blackness of space and grows smaller as the crew journeys closer to the Moon. Part of the window edge is visible; the rest is darkness. [Alt-text slightly revised from ESA/NASA version]
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Abolish DHS. If you can imagine a world before Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, you can imagine a world without the Department of Homeland Security. My latest at @startribune.com. (gift link)
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Perry: Abolish ICE? How about DHS altogether.
"We have models for how to structure federal immigration oversight that doesn't rely on an unaccountable masked secret police force running rampant in our streets," David M. Perry writes.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
My story:
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Behind the disturbing image of ICE snatching a half-naked, elderly Hmong American from his home
DHS has claimed without evidence that they were looking for someone else when they took ChongLy Scott Thao.
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John Archibald @johnarchibald.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
You know Tommy Tuberville is bad. If you want see just how far we have fallen, take a look at the words of this former Alabama GOP governor. Not so long ago. www.al.com/news/2025/12...
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Tommy Tuberville wants a war; he could learn from this GOP governor
“I believe that instead of resisting change, Alabama should embrace change, hold it tight, and never let it go,” the GOP governor said.
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Lar deSouza @lartist.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
From the Larchives. Santa and the missus.
cartoon: Santa Claus and Mrs Claus by a punchbowl with three cats
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JD Crowe @crowejam.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
"The Stranger's Case," William Shakespeare Sir Thomas Moore: Act II Scene 4 ___ Imagine that you see the wretched strangers, Their babies at their backs and their poor luggage, Plodding to the ports and costs for transportation ...
Refugees reach land in an inflatable raft. A young child in the foreground crouches on some rocks, crying.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 04/07/2025
Happy Fourth of July! #NoKings #SKREEEEEE #NeverAnyFuckingKings
Graphic with a cartoon bald eagle carrying an upside-down crown over a banner reading "NO KINGS." Now in glorious color with a bit of 35mm film clouds at sunset as the background. NO KINGS logo and nokings.org URL at bottom right.
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Olivia Hill @oliviahill247.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Canada just added a toll-free number for LGBTQ+ Americans after our suicide hotline was shut down by Trump. That’s what true allyship looks like—standing up for people even when they’re not at your table. Thank you, Canada, for showing us what compassion in action really means.
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Alabama Reflector @alabamareflector.com · 02/05/2025
Via @leehedgepeth.bsky.social and @insideclimatenews.org: A grass roots movement in Homewood led Samford University to move a development that could have threatened the habitat of local salamanders, the focus of a Homewood festival.
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For Homewood’s spotted salamanders, a win and a warning | Alabama Reflector
Samford University announced a plan to move a sports field that could have threatened pools used by spotted salamanders in Homewood.
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JD Crowe @crowejam.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
#Tradewar #Trumptariffs #Trumpstockmarketstunt #criminal #pyromaniac
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John Archibald @johnarchibald.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Palate cleanser. Nina Reeves turns 100 today. In 2022 she was diagnosed with inoperable cancer and refused treatment because, hell, she was 97 and wanted to live it out on her own terms. She even quit hospice because she wanted to do more. She has touched thousands. What a way to live and die.
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Archibald: Alabama’s ‘Methodist Mother Teresa’ turns 100 and still changes lives
“Thousands of people consider her their spiritual mother and mentor."
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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Why does Lincoln have the best and most relevant quotes www.nps.gov/liho/learn/h...
Lincoln on the Know Nothing
Party
August 24, 1855: Letter to Joshua F. Speed
The American or "Know Nothing Party" was an anti-immigrant political party of the 1850's.
I am not a Know-Nothing. That is certain. How could I be? How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes, be in favor of degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we begin by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes." When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and catholics."
When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty-to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy.
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JD Crowe @crowejam.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
When Trump and his punch-me-face VP abuse the Oval Office to ambush President Zelensky for not trusting Putin … #ukraine #TrumpPuppet #Putinisawarcriminal
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
“There’s room to disagree on this.” No, there’s not. Fuck Putin and everyone who supports him. Slava Ukraini.
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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
"We should not resist calling this for what it is—a deep animus toward anything that detracts from a white-centered view of American history. Yes, racism." kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/frederick-...
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Frederick Douglass Parade Canceled After 54th Massachusetts Pulls Out
The Trump administration’s ongoing crusade to roll back DEI initiatives was never out of a concern for fairness or challenging what it sees as unjust discrimination.
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APIAVote @apiavote.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
On this Day of Remembrance, we honor the 120,000 Japanese Americans unjustly imprisoned during WWII because of their heritage. Their resilience remind us to never forget the lessons of history. We will continue to fight for justice, equality, and civil rights for all.
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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Trans rights are human rights, because if one person isn’t free to be who they are, then none of us are free. The fascists will get around to you eventually.
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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
This Day in Labor History: January 18, 1887. Pinkerton detectives killed a fourteen year old boy in Jersey City, New Jersey during a coal wharves strike. Let's talk about the murderous law enforcement agency and the capitalists who loved it.
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James Spann @spann.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
New 00Z NBM depiction of snow potential Friday. 2-4” for North Alabama; locally higher amounts. Around 1-2” for the I-20 corridor. It all begins early Friday morning in Alabama. A winter storm watch will be issued early tomorrow.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Remember by Joy Harjo 1/x Thread Remember the sky that you were born under, know each of the star’s stories. Remember the moon, know who she is. Remember the sun’s birth at dawn, that is the strongest point of time. Remember sundown and the giving away to night.
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JD Crowe @crowejam.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
www.al.com/news/2024/12...
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JD Crowe: Drawing 2024 to a close
Here's a batch of horrible cartoons that try to tell the sordid, tragic tales of this past year.
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JD Crowe @crowejam.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Jimmy Carter: Tribute to our greatest former president www.al.com/news/2024/12...
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James Spann @spann.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
A significant severe weather threat across the southern U.S. is ahead Any isolated storms this evening and tonight will have to be watched for severe potential, but with the "main show" late tonight the highest concern is widespread straight line winds Storms could also produce hail and tornadoes.
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Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 26/12/2024
A personal reflection: “Journalists like myself have a choice: surrender to the fascist mob that wants to intimidate the truth-tellers – or rededicate ourselves to doing what’s right no matter the cost.” www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
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Phil Williams: In reporting on hate and extremism, 'while the attacks are personal, so is the cause'
Rarely in my nearly 40-year career as a journalist have I felt the target on my back as continuously and intensely as I have in the last 15 months.
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Rex Chapman @rexchapman.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Could two followers please copy and re-post this tweet to show that someone is always there? National Suicide Prevention Hotline Call: 0800 689 5652 (UK) 1-800-273-8255 (USA) 1.833.456.4566 (Canada)
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Tim Bowlin @timbowlin.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
This is a great thread!
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AskAubry 🦝 🐆 @ask-aubry.com · 09/12/2024
This is alarming. A reminder that Craig R Brittain is a racist misogynist that ran a revenge porn site. He blackmailed women to pay to remove their images and videos. And of course racism and misogyny often go hand in hand. Imagine how awful you have to be to be banned by Elon.
Account suspended X suspends accounts which violate the X Rules + Follow Craig R. Brittain @craigbrittain.com 13K followers 52.7K following 662 posts Anarchist. Threads.net/brittainforsenate Banned twitter.com/CraigRBrittain by Jack Dorsey 2/1/2017 Banned twitter.com/RealBrittain by Elon Musk 9/19/2024 Facebook page hacked facebook.com/ brittainforsenate 10/3/2023FTC Approves.. ftc.gov FTC Approves Final Order In Craig Brittain 'Revenge Porn' Case XO Technology January 8, 2016 Tags: Consumer Protection Bureau of Consumer Protection deceptive/misleading conduct Privacy and Security Consumer Privacy After a public comment period, the Federal Trade Commission has approved a final order resolving the Commission's complaint against Craig Brittain, alleging used deception to acquire and post intimate images of women, then referred them to another website he controlled, where they were told they could have the pictures removed if they paid hundreds of dollars.Senate candidate has history of sending racist, misogynist messages BY: JEROD MACDONALD-EVOY - SEPTEMBER 10, 2019 11:24 AM STE PITAL MA Craig Brittain, via Instagrama Arizona U.S. Senate hopeful Craig Brittain made headlines yesterday after the owner of a company that helps candidates gather the petition signatures needed to qualify for the ballot said Brittain sent him racist text messages when he declined to work for the longshot campaign. The messages sent to Drew Chavez, who owns Petition Partners, is far from the only example of Brittain's online tirades.Drew Chavez @drewchavez Follow This is why we dont work with candidates any more. And... sometimes I hate my job. Fuckin piece of shit be glad you even get to stay in my country. Can't wait to deport some of your family members. MAGA Deport all invaders and deport anyone who is anti-deportation or pro-amnesty along with them Ok. Thanks for the text. Have a good day. You are trash just like the invaders. Move to Mexico You won't help because you are just like all the other lazy invaders on welfare coming across the border Used to having the people who made this country great feel sorry for you We will win either way and then In will make sure all illegals go back Including the ones in your family fucking invader bye
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Tim Bowlin @timbowlin.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
This is a really great thread!
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
“No voting on who gets to be people.” - @nkjemisin.bsky.social
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 26/10/2024
I guess it has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to endorse Harris for president wapo.st/3UqHWRM
The Washington Post is not bothering to endorse a candidate in the 2024 presidential election. (Jeff Bezos, the founder of Blue Origin and the founder and executive chairman of Amazon and Amazon Web Services, also owns The Post.)
We as a newspaper suddenly remembered, less than two weeks before the election, that we had a robust tradition 50 years ago of not telling anyone what to do with their vote for president. It is time we got back to those “roots,” I’m told!
Roots are important, of course. As recently as the 1970s, The Post did not endorse a candidate for president. As recently as centuries ago, there was no Post and the country had a king! Go even further back, and the entire continent of North America was totally uninhabitable, and we were all spineless creatures who lived in the ocean, and certainly there were no Post subscribers.But if I were the paper, I would be a little embarrassed that it has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to make our presidential endorsement. I will spare you the suspense: I am endorsing Kamala Harris for president, because I like elections and want to keep having them.
Let me tell you something. I am having a baby (It’s a boy!), and he is expected on Jan. 6, 2025 (It’s a … Proud Boy?). This is either slightly funny or not at all funny. This whole election, I have been lurching around, increasingly heavily pregnant, nauseated, unwieldy, full of the commingled hopes and terrors that come every time you are on the verge of introducing a new person to the world.
Well, that world will look very different, depending on the outcome of November’s election, and I care which world my kid gets born into. I also live here myself. And I happen to care about the people who are already here, in this world. Come to think of it, I have a lot of reasons for caring how the election goes. I think it should be obvious that this is not an election for sitting out.The case for Donald Trump is “I erroneously think the economy used to be better? I know that he has made many ominous-sounding threats about mass deportations, going after his political enemies, shutting down the speech of those who disagree with him (especially media outlets), and that he wants to make things worse for almost every category of person — people with wombs, immigrants, transgender people, journalists, protesters, people of color — but … maybe he’ll forget.”
“But maybe he’ll forget” is not enough to hang a country on!
Embarrassingly enough, I like this country. But everything good about it has been the product of centuries of people who had no reason to hope for better but chose to believe that better things were possible, clawing their way uphill — protesting, marching, voting, and, yes, doing the work of journalism — to build this fragile thing called democracy. But to be fragile is not the same as to be perishable, as G.K. Chesterton wrote. Simply do not break a glass, and it will last a thousand years. Smash it, and it will not last an instant. Democracy is like that: fragile, but only if you shatter it.Trust is like that, too, as newspapers know.
I’m just a humor columnist. I only know what’s happening because our actual journalists are out there reporting, knowing that their editors have their backs, that there’s no one too powerful to report on, that we would never pull a punch out of fear. That’s what our readers deserve and expect: that we are saying what we really think, reporting what we really see; that if we think Trump should not return to the White House and Harris would make a fine president, we’re going to be able to say so.

That’s why I, the humor columnist, am endorsing Kamala Harris by myself!
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 22/07/2024
Reminder: If you are a US citizen age 18 or over, today is a very good day to register to vote, or (if you believe you are registered) to make sure your registration is still in effect. Not sure how to do either? www.vote.org has you covered.
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Everything You Need to Vote - Vote.org
Register to vote. Check your registration status. Get your absentee ballot. Fast, free, easy, secure, nonpartisan.
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 14/06/2024
The haters said we wouldn't make it. "You'll stop at five sandwiches," they said. "No one wants to read about sandwiches," they said. Well EAT SHIT haters that definitely exist: WE HAVE REACHED 100!!!! with a weird... austrian... snack. buttondown.email/theswordandt...
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Notable Sandwiches #100: Kaisers Jagdproviant
Welcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the series where I drag my long-suffering editor David Swanson through the bizarro, shifting sands of Wikipedia’s List of...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/05/2024
Read this, share this, write your representatives and senators to demand they back this.
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Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 15/04/2024
My column this week. The manic cruelty we've seen from the Alabama Legislature's Republican majority got me thinking of a Republican House member whose last major act helped people. And it leads me ask this current crop of lawmakers: How do you want to be remembered?
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The Patterson Test • Alabama Reflector
Jim Patterson's last major act as an Alabama lawmaker involved helping people. Our state's lawmakers should take note.
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John Archibald @johnarchibald.bsky.social · 24/02/2024
Alabama is well on its way to being a full-blown theocracy. The "frozen embryos are children" ruling is just a step on the way. www.al.com/news/2024/02...
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Archibald: Alabama Supreme Court is a theocracy
Chief Justice Tom Parker is implementing the plan.
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John Archibald @johnarchibald.bsky.social · 29/01/2024
The Birmingham-Southern College tragedy. And proof that Alabama values foreign business more than local jobs (and “liberal” arts education). www.al.com/news/2024/01...
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Archibald: Birmingham-Southern braces for the worst, and Alabama has explaining to do
Unless BSC can come up with the money it thought it was going to get last year, it could close by spring.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 05/01/2024
If you ask someone today to name the builder of Hadrian's Wall, they would give you a funny look. But historical memory is odd, and right up to the 1800s we forgot who built it. Until in 1840 John Hodgson, an obscure Northumbrian clergyman, published the LONGEST footnote in history... 1/22
long stretch of worked roman stone on Hadrian's Wall.
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