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wabi-sabi 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇺 @empiricist49.bsky.social · Feb 11
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Frank Zappa on CNN Crossfire 1986 - Fascist Theocracy
YouTube video by ­­Russ ­­Stedman
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wabi-sabi 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇺 @empiricist49.bsky.social · 16m
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Political Cartoon Gallery @politicalcartoon.bsky.social · 31m
Morten Morland @mortenmorland on Prince Andrew’s fall from grace @thetimes #PrinceAndrew #sarahferguson #Amazon - political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 1d
Prince Andrew accused of asking bodyguard to ‘dig the dirt’ on Giuffre

www.channel4.com/news/prince-...
Prince Andrew accused of asking bodyguard to ‘dig the dirt’ on Giuffre
Scotland Yard says officers are actively looking into claims that Prince Andrew asked his police protection officer to find out personal information on his accuser, Virginia Giuffre.
www.channel4.com
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wabi-sabi 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇺 @empiricist49.bsky.social · 5h
"Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now."

At the risk of incurring Monica's wrath, I've thrown in an additional ER because ... because ... well, The Byrds are groovy.

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The Byrds - My Back Pages (Audio)
YouTube video by TheByrdsVEVO
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wabi-sabi 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇺 @empiricist49.bsky.social · 5h
He's 85 and - thanks to plastic surgery - still looks the same ...

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Cliff Richard - The Young Ones
YouTube video by VanAllesWat33
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wabi-sabi 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇺 @empiricist49.bsky.social · 5h
Remember this one?

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The Marvelettes - When you're Young and in Love 1967
YouTube video by gw7sbo
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wabi-sabi 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇺 @empiricist49.bsky.social · 5h
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The Killers - When You Were Young (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by TheKillersVEVO
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wabi-sabi 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇺 @empiricist49.bsky.social · 6h
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Gary Puckett & The Union Gap - Young Girl (1968)
YouTube video by 1hit1ders
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wabi-sabi 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇺 @empiricist49.bsky.social · 6h
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Bob Dylan - Forever Young (Official Audio)
YouTube video by BobDylanVEVO
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wabi-sabi 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇺 @empiricist49.bsky.social · 6h
@democrats.senate.gov
@judiciarydems.senate.gov

"Where law ends, tyranny begins."

This is a Public Service Announcement for those who realize the gravity of the situation. Until and unless you depose these crooks on the left, you won't get rid of the one on the right.

And you know it.
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wabi-sabi 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇺 @empiricist49.bsky.social · 6h
You have to understand that in 1967 I was seventeen and Wesleyan Methodism was - I'm relieved to say - behind me ...

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wabi-sabi 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇺 @empiricist49.bsky.social · 6h
@jimmykimmellive.bsky.social
@nbcsnl.bsky.social
@lastweektonight.com

You say tomato, and ...

As this onanist can’t get erect,
he’s decided it’s time to select
an alternative route *
to help him make out
in what must be a drought, I expect.

* especially for my American friends
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wabi-sabi 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇺 @empiricist49.bsky.social · 7h
A never-ending Trump presidency, eh? How very novel.

To paraphrase Mathew 26:52, which, no doubt, all you rabid Christian Nationalists out there will already be familiar with:

"He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword."

This is Mussolini and his lover and, no, they're not sunbathing ...
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wabi-sabi 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇺 @empiricist49.bsky.social · 7h
Can someone please explain to me how the gangster on the left
was convicted of income tax evasion on October 17, 1931, and then sentenced to 11 years in federal prison, whilst the one on the right has become president of the USA not once, but twice.

Can The People take the Supreme Court to court?
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🧛‍♀️🎃~Bindi~🎃🧛‍♀️ @bindiatthebeach.bsky.social · 17h
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ACLU @aclu.org · 1d
We won’t back down from the fight to protect our civil liberties.
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wabi-sabi 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇺 @empiricist49.bsky.social · 16h
Why is it that every time he opens his damn mouth, this is the image that seems to automatically pop up, deep inside my brain?

It's a mystery ...
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wabi-sabi 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇺 @empiricist49.bsky.social · 19h
Time for the USA to follow suit.
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wabi-sabi 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇺 @empiricist49.bsky.social · 19h
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Nicolas Sarkozy to enter prison for criminal conspiracy over Libyan funding
Former French president set to start five-year sentence for scheme to obtain campaign funds from Muammar Gaddafi’s regime
www.theguardian.com
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wabi-sabi 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇺 @empiricist49.bsky.social · 19h
Momentum. That's the thing. Keep building momentum.

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Inexcusably Athwart @thejeffmanghera.bsky.social · 22h
White House Invades Bluesky to Troll, Predictably Gets Mass Blocked gizmodo.com/white-house-...
White House Invades Bluesky to Troll, Predictably Gets Mass Blocked
The platform's immune system kicked in when a large number of accounts associated with Donald Trump sought attention there.
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Julie J @j1j2.bsky.social · 19h
Ithaca, New York
Wednesday, October 22
UNITED FOR DEMOCRACY
Honk Wave
INDIVISIBLE TOMPKINS
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wabi-sabi 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇺 @empiricist49.bsky.social · 20h
"There were calls on Sunday night for Andrew to face a police investigation and for ancient rules barring parliament from freely scrutinising royals and formally removing their titles to be revisited."

Ancient rules be damned.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
MPs urged to confront royal family over Prince Andrew’s Epstein links
Calls grow for parliamentary rule changes to strip Andrew of titles and ask questions of royals
www.theguardian.com
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wabi-sabi 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇺 @empiricist49.bsky.social · 21h
What little soul he may have once had - god-fearing Southern Baptist that he is - has been bought and sold a long time ago ...
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wabi-sabi 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇺 @empiricist49.bsky.social · 21h
Fox News Employee of the Month
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Trump’s poodle is truly outrageous;
These lies that he tells are contagious.
It’s time to call out
Each Republican lout
And the bullshit they spout. Be courageous!
meidastouch.com MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 5d
Maybe Mike meant "stood on" Capitol Police?
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