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Gary Bunker

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Computer geek, board gamer, anti-fascism, Army veteran, origami practicioner, paracord knothead He/him

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Gary Bunker @andysocial.com · May 10

Apparently I was added to some starter pack list, so I have like 1300 followers now. Cool cool. I'm not really trying to engage with the public so much as find a community, but if you dig what I post, please comment and maybe we'll get to know each other.

Gary Bunker @andysocial.com · 4h

The felon and his idiot assistant are planning to shut down I-5, and fire rockets from offshore ships into Camp Pendleton. That seems sane.

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Gary Bunker @andysocial.com · 17h

When someone tells you, "You'd better do what I say or I'm going to burn your house down," and *then they burn your house down*, you'd be an absolute sucker if you kept up your part of the bargain.

pluralistic.net/2025/10/15/f...

Pluralistic: Microsoft, Tear Down That Wall! (15 Oct 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Gary Bunker @andysocial.com · 1d

When none of the media outlets would sign the loyalty pledge, the DoD spokesperson claimed they never asked anyone to sign anything.

www.axios.com/2025/10/14/p...

News outlets broadly reject Pentagon's new press rules

The Pentagon said reporters would need to sign a pledge committing to its rules in order to maintain their press credentials.

www.axios.com

Gary Bunker @andysocial.com · 1d

It is a choice that has no right answer. Do you keep your head down, become tacitly complicit, and hope things get better? Or, do you quit and avoid supporting evil?

Gary Bunker @andysocial.com · 1d

Post on Twitter from Chris D. Jackson:
I don't know who needs to hear this, but it was President Biden who secured the release of 140 hostages in Gaza. Trump? 28.

That means Biden was responsible for 83% of all the hostages freed - yet you'd never know it from the way the media talks.

If anyone deserves the title "Peace President," it's #46, not the guy bombing fishing boats in international waters and sending masked agents to terrorize Americans.

Gary Bunker @andysocial.com · 1d

On purpose?

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Snacko Racko @snackoracko.bsky.social · 2d

Remember it is important to not only take care of yourself but your plushies too!

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Gary Bunker @andysocial.com · 1d

I'm sure it's just a coincidence and has nothing to do with the current administration's active hostility toward the military, civilians, non-Christians, non-whites, and pretty much everyone who isn't currently on NewsMax.

Gary Bunker @andysocial.com · 1d

The pace of early retirements in the DoD continues. The Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force has announced his intention to leave to spend more time with his family. His tenure is the shortest since the position was created, and is about 2 years early.

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Gary Bunker @andysocial.com · 4d

I've got this and the Indopacom version in the capstone exercise room at work. Hopefully the students appreciate it.

Sebastian Bae @sebastianbae.bsky.social · 4d

My "Littoral Commander: Baltic" #wargame is featured in Defense News!
www.defensenews.com/global/europ...

What if Russia invades the Baltic? A tabletop game offers answers

“Littoral Commander: The Baltic” depicts a Russian invasion of the Baltic region around 2030.

www.defensenews.com

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 5d

Illegally firing the CDC experts while he gets the latest COVID vaccine is really beyond the pale.
Marie Antoinette level of vibes.

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Gary Bunker @andysocial.com · 5d

The imaginary "organization" Antifa is collaborating with the even MORE imaginary homeless industrial complex to conduct some antifas and perform some homelesses.

These people are deeply disturbed.

A post from Turning Point USA (TPUSA):
Watch chloeshow outlines how ANTIFA and the homeless industrial complex are working hand in hand during a roundtable event with President Trump and members of his cabinet at the White House.

"In many cases, the homeless industrial complex is running cover for ANTIFA. ANTIFA is benefitting from American tax dollars, and they're essentially being used as the muscle."

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Gary Bunker @andysocial.com · 5d

As part of its deal with Liberty Vote, Dominion settled its remaining lawsuits against Trump allies and MAGA media outlets.

Fuck truth. Fuck honesty. Fuck consequences. Just BUY your way to "justice."

Dominion, the voting firm falsely attacked by Trump, sold to ex-GOP election official

As part of its deal with Liberty Vote, Dominion was asked to settle its remaining lawsuits against Trump allies and MAGA media outlets, which it had done in recent weeks.

www.independent.co.uk

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John @neopifex.bsky.social · 5d

The Discover feed sometimes comes up with choice pairings.

Two Bluesky posts as they appeared on my Discover feed.

The top post is by Jonathan Edward Durham:
"This year has felt like 9 months of babysitting somebody else’s kid and they’re making you play a boardgame you don’t wanna play and making up the rules so only they can win and also they’re screaming the whole time and their parents aren’t coming home anytime soon and you’re paying them $150 a day"

The bottom post is by ULTRA💀BLAST and says, "Friday." with an image of Kurt Russell in The Thing saying, "I just wanna get up to my shack and get drunk."

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Gary Bunker @andysocial.com · 6d

This administration lies so consistently that no rational judge believes their claims.

Federal judge hits Trump administration credibility in siding with city and state against National Guard deployment

Judge's order bars 'federalization and deployment of the National Guard of the United States within Illinois' for at least 14 days.

chicago.suntimes.com

Gary Bunker @andysocial.com · 6d

What the fuck does he even THINK he's saying?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Q: With soybeans, what is the plan to help farmers? Is it direct checks?

TRUMP: What happens with soybeans is uhhh, we're gonna see more and more I think opening up and part of the reason-- he's got things that he wants to discuss with me and I have things I want to discuss with him

Gary Bunker @andysocial.com · 6d

Baby in her placenta... That possibly imaginary woman needs emergency surgery to address this anatomical misconfiguration.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

Gary Bunker @andysocial.com · 7d

Only this administration can make something as anodyne as a commemorative coin into a federal court case.

Treasury Defends Lawfulness of Minting a $1 Trump Coin

www.nytimes.com

Gary Bunker @andysocial.com · 8d

Just normal sociopath shit.

Seriously, every parent of a teen or pre-teen needs to watch the series Adolescence and do some research on the online troll world. The "manosphere" is toxic and violent.

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Pizza pranks, Charlie Kirk rants: More disturbing livestreams surface in Cranford murder case

In Cranford, a young man charged with murder allegedly targeted two girls on an e-bike, with disturbing online comments surfacing after the tragic crash.

nj1015.com

Gary Bunker @andysocial.com · 9d

"[I]n some cases books are held up in customs indefinitely, or are “lost in warehouses” where they are held for no clear reason."

www.404media.co/libraries-ca...

Libraries Can’t Get Their Loaned Books Back Because of Trump’s Tariffs

Libraries have shared their collections internationally for decades. Trump’s tariffs are throwing that system into chaos and can ‘hinder academic progress.’

www.404media.co

Gary Bunker @andysocial.com · 9d

"The lesson Trump drew from his first term, the former official continued, is that the lawyers who talked him out of 'bad ideas' were the wrong kind of lawyers. 'The president has set it up so that the people who are there are predisposed to be loyalists who will help him do what he wants.'"

Gary Bunker @andysocial.com · 9d

"[E]very single one of the 50 respondents believe that Trump and his attorney general, Pam Bondi, have used the Justice Department to go after the president’s political and personal enemies and provide favors to his allies."

‘Bow to the Emperor’: We Asked 50 Legal Experts About the Trump Presidency

www.nytimes.com

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Gary Bunker @andysocial.com · 9d

Stochastic terrorism.

David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 9d

Over the weekend, Trump's deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller repeatedly attacked judges, calling them part of an "organized terrorist attack" on the US government....

On Saturday, the home of a judge who ruled against Trump, went up in flames

time.com/7323442/sout...

House of South Carolina Judge Criticized by Trump Administration Set Ablaze

Authorities are investigating a fire at the home of a South Carolina judge who had reportedly received death threats in what could be the latest incident of political violence across the country.

time.com

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