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Truth still matters. Democracy is still worth fighting for. Our children’s lives are still the compass by which all moral decisions are oriented. And when all else fails, trees and art and birds and bikes and bacteria will carry us through. Mt25:34-40

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Even Odds @wingspun.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Don’t bomb elementary schools. Don’t bomb hospitals. (Grieving that this has to be said.)
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Even Odds @wingspun.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Illegal war. Congress must approve any war and should not approve this one. Trump is expending human lives like they are toys!
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Even Odds @wingspun.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
It’s almost as if he doesn’t take his role of public service very seriously! Almost as if he views wars as games and the military as his plaything! 🤔
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Even Odds @wingspun.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
„Trump’s lack of public engagement — after launching a military attack that could spur a broader conflict and put U.S. lives at risk — was a striking departure from how other presidents have handled the gravity of war.“ Trump Stays Out of Public View www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/u...
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Trump Stays Out of Public View After U.S. Launches Military Assault on Iran
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Even Odds @wingspun.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p... Why attack Iran - who is benefitting? Hint: it isn’t on behalf of the tens of thousands of Iranian protestors who’ve stood up to the Iranian regime.
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Why Attack Iran?
Our Authoritarianism and Our Corruption
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Even Odds @wingspun.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Horrifying. What will we do as they continue building their concentration camps right out in the open?
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Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility @oregonpsr.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
This week, EPA finalized its repeal of the Endangerment Finding, the legal basis for regulating greenhouse gas pollution under the Clean Air Act. Without it, federal authority to limit climate pollution is significantly weakened, putting public health at greater risk.
On the repeal of the endangerment finding - "Greenhouse gases are already making us sick—and repealing the Endangerment Finding will only make things worse. The EPA’s power to regulate health-harming pollutants comes from this critical safeguard. Throwing it out would put public health at serious risk and sacrifice our kids, seniors, and communities to polluters." Patricia Kullberg, MD, MPH - Oregon PSR
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Even Odds @wingspun.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Trump‘s actions are very very bad.
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Even Odds @wingspun.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
What’s shocking is even one Republican choosing consistency of principles over fealty.
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Liℤℤy Kodpuak née Acid Lich (can’t spell sheaves without she) @acidlich.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
😔 Ammon Bundy welcome to the resistance 😔😔😔😔😔😔
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Even Odds @wingspun.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Awful. Just awful.
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Even Odds @wingspun.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
It’s so insulting. Sooo vile.
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Even Odds @wingspun.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Wasting our tax money while terrorizing our communities… it’s a two-for-one deal for the republicans.
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Even Odds @wingspun.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Power slipping away is threatening enough to support a tyrant….
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Even Odds @wingspun.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Good ideas but this feels like trying to negotiate playing by the old rules where compromise was a possibility, instead of an autocracy where no Trump agency will even listen to what’s legal anyway.
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Even Odds @wingspun.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Reminder: genocides sometimes begin with the plan to remove the targeted people to another place. But the underlying desire is to make people go away, so when removal to another place proves difficult, more lethal plans develop. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
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Ethnic Cleansing in Ohio?
Nazi Lies in Vance's America
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Even Odds @wingspun.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Portland Mayor Wilson, after the ICE gassing: „To those who continue to work for ICE: Resign. To those who control this facility: Leave.“
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Even Odds @wingspun.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
„There, she encountered a Border Patrol agent. “He told me to get a job, and that I was a paid agitator,” she said. “I would have been embarrassed if he had been one of my officers.” 🙄 This is how trump‘s invading army treats actual local police.
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Even Odds @wingspun.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
„Chief McCarthy said that on a recent day when she was off duty, she had gone, out of uniform, to act as a legal observer outside an AA meeting conducted in Spanish near her home… ‘It’s All Just Going Down the Toilet’: Police Chiefs Fume at ICE Tactics www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...
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‘It’s All Just Going Down the Toilet’: Police Chiefs Fume at ICE Tactics
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Even Odds @wingspun.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Apparently, Trump’s invading army discovered they had wound up in the wrong Portland, decided to go home. 😏 Senator Collins Says ICE Operation in Maine Is Over www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/u...
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Senator Collins Says ICE Operation in Maine Is Over
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Even Odds @wingspun.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Every single republican should be asking themselves the same questions as this man and deciding whether they can defend their support for Trump to their kids and grandkids. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/u...
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Republican Ends His Run for Minnesota Governor, Citing Immigration Crackdown
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Even Odds @wingspun.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Just imagining a country in which federal agents were mobilized to help protect people during winter storms in their home states across the South… instead of being militarized to invade northern states and cities.
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Even Odds @wingspun.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
„…. then they would likely have defended the state execution of Jesus and the martyrdom of the disciples, too.“
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Even Odds @wingspun.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
„If your pastor defends the killing of Renee Good, or the man who was executed by a gang of federal agents today while he lay on the ground after being subdued by about a dozen agents, or pulling old men out of their houses in their underwear into the Minnesota winter, or detaining children,….
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Even Odds @wingspun.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Accountability is anathema to Trump and his minions. Accountability would call out their moral depravity. And it would identify where they are just wildly incompetent.
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Even Odds @wingspun.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Trump and his Republican goons picked Minnesota to invade. Minnesota. Cruel bullies.
Store sign says „Minnesota - state of nice“ with a state outline and tree silhouettes
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Even Odds @wingspun.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Solidarity is amazing. Let’s not forget about them either - the violence behind closed doors may be great when these ICE agents feel emboldened to murder white people on the streets.
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Even Odds @wingspun.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Utterly lacking in dignity.
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Even Odds @wingspun.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Thank you for speaking up for the people of this state and this country. We the people wish you could wave a magic wand and protect us from all that scares us in this moment. But at least you are on the right side of history on this. Keep it up and know the people are with you.
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Even Odds @wingspun.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Dang. If Trump and his Republican minions couldn’t keep living high off the funds we blue states pay in to federal taxes… they would have to respect the hard working states that pay more than their share. It’s sickening to see MY money go to fund ICE and trump‘s racist war machine.
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Even Odds @wingspun.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
„…As such Trump may be a symptom, not a cause, of Carney's "rupture" with the post-World War Two order.“
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Even Odds @wingspun.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
In any age of economic stagnation and extremes of inequality, popular trust in democratic institutions corrodes. It has been corroding not just in the US but across the western world for decades now….“ www.bbc.com/news/article...
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As we return to a pre-WW2 order, the middle powers face a challenge
With economic stagnation and extremes of inequality comes corrosion of trust in democratic institutions. So Trump may be a symptom, not a cause, of what Carney called a "rupture" with the post-WW2 ord...
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Even Odds @wingspun.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Thank you for this message, Mayor Frey. This is a message for local law enforcement too, who we are calling on to be patriots and defend the people of this nation against the fascist agents invading our cities.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/01/2026
To those blaming Walz for not mobilizing the Guard, he did that six days ago. I have to say it's disturbing to see people angry at Walz instead of the government agents that just executed a man. As though we should all be experts about what to do when a secret police force invades an American city.
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Even Odds @wingspun.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Thank you, Mayor Frey, for speaking out from basic human decency. We know Trump won’t listen but you are right to state how much the people of your city do not want the ICE agents there.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 24/01/2026
Mayor Frey: "So to President Trump, this is a moment to act like a leader…We're asking for you to take action now to remove these federal agents."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/01/2026
Protester in Minneapolis just before disappearing in gas: "Fuck you! Stop. Damn! I'm 70 years old and I'm fuckin' angry!"
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reclaimourflag.bsky.social @reclaimourflag.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
@whstancil.bsky.social Stay safe. Yes optics matter. Do you have an American flag? Bring an American flag with you. Give them out. You folks are fighting tyranny! 🇺🇸 👇 bsky.app/profile/recl...
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Even Odds @wingspun.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Stay strong out there. We need truth tellers.
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Even Odds @wingspun.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
(But better if we learn from history and each other.)
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Hank Scorpio III @hankscorpio.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
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Even Odds @wingspun.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Another homicide by ICE. We the people of this nation do not support ICE and its murderous agents. This is not public safety and it is not justice. Shame on every one of them! opb.org/article/2026...
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Autopsy finds Cuban immigrant in ICE custody died of homicide due to asphyxia
A Cuban migrant held in solitary confinement at an immigration detention facility in Texas died after guards held him down, according to an autopsy report released Wednesday that ruled the death a hom...
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Even Odds @wingspun.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Trump grabbing the world’s attention about his perverse Nobel prize quest, on MLK Day, seems almost patently a result of his envy of a man who actually deserved the prize he got. But hold onto hope. As Rev. Dr. MLK Jr. said, “what self-centered men have torn down, men other-centered can build up.”
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Even Odds @wingspun.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
“beyond precedent, parody and reality….” This post should not need saying yet we all know what it means!
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Even Odds @wingspun.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
“More on that in a minute…” x2?! AI harvests its training from weird sources.
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Even Odds @wingspun.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
At the same time…. TACO & WTF punishing our allies for maintaining their basic sovereignty - this had better not work!?!
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Even Odds @wingspun.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Beyond “just following orders” ….
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Even Odds @wingspun.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
“and any possible connections the women might have had to local activists.” Disgusting. Investigating the victims of violence instead of the perpetrators. This is not justice!
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Even Odds @wingspun.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
“Federal officials have already signaled that they are not likely to bring criminal charges against Jonathan Ross, the agent who killed Ms. Good. At the same time, the officials have said that law enforcement would most likely investigate Ms. Good’s partner, Becca Good, ….
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Even Odds @wingspun.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Blatant and offensive use of justice system to attack political enemies and victims. Don’t be fooled. This is not about public safety. This is from the fascist playbook. Trump Administration Begins Criminal Inquiry Into Minnesota Leaders www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/u...
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Trump Administration Begins Criminal Inquiry Into Minnesota Leaders
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