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E. Allyn Bloom πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡³πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦
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I make jokes about metahumor. He/him. Grey-haired white cis-male-adjacent. Devout agnostic. Black lives matter. LGBT+ lives matter. Immigrant lives matter. Facts matter. Science matters. Aka Eric Bloomquist.
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E. Allyn Bloom πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡³πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ @ericallyn.bsky.social Β· 17d
"Hope is an embrace of the unknown and the unknowable, an alternative to the certainty of both optimists and pessimists." - Rebecca Solnit, *Hope In the Dark*

Embrace uncertainty.
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E. Allyn Bloom πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡³πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ @ericallyn.bsky.social Β· 1h
In comparison they still are.
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social Β· 2h
I hear the Epstein Ballroom will be illuminated solely by gaslighting.
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E. Allyn Bloom πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡³πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ @ericallyn.bsky.social Β· 18h
Speaking as someone who grew up in a family who gardened and hunted to provide some of our food, β€œthe usual suspects” are goddam fools.
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E. Allyn Bloom πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡³πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ @ericallyn.bsky.social Β· 19h
I really want to work this into a variant of the outrunning-the-bear joke.
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E. Allyn Bloom πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡³πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ @ericallyn.bsky.social Β· 19h
He has co-conspirators on the inside.
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E. Allyn Bloom πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡³πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ @ericallyn.bsky.social Β· 19h
Oh really? By whom? Name some. We need to mock the law school they went to.
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E. Allyn Bloom πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡³πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ @ericallyn.bsky.social Β· 22h
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ericallyn.bsky.social E. Allyn Bloom πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡³πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ @ericallyn.bsky.social Β· 1d
This makes my heart hurt.

And on some level I agree that there are more important things to be angry at Trump about BUT:

1) We can be angry at him for more than one thing. ALL the things, even.

2) If this is what finally sets off someone's anger, fine, I'll take it. It's a start.
kimoco.bsky.social Kim @kimoco.bsky.social Β· 1d
This is what it used to look like inside the lobby area.
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E. Allyn Bloom πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡³πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ @ericallyn.bsky.social Β· 22h
Cuomo has said that he'd self-exile. Of course, he may be lying about that too.
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E. Allyn Bloom πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡³πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ @ericallyn.bsky.social Β· 22h
Guys who are pretty serious about Driving Under the Influence?

(I'm guessing that's not what DUI means in this context, but what?)
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E. Allyn Bloom πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡³πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ @ericallyn.bsky.social Β· 22h
The symbolism of it is part of what makes it a powerful issue.

Yes, zip-tying kids is more important, more disgusting, and at least as symbolic in its own way.

Ditto many other issues.

Thankfully there are millions of us, and we can focus on more than one thing at a time.
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E. Allyn Bloom πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡³πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ @ericallyn.bsky.social Β· 22h
Republican leaders: The 7 million No Kings protesters were paid by George Soros!

Also Republican leaders: The corporations giving millions of dollars to Trump for his Epstein Ballroom project are doing it out of the goodness of their very patriotic corporate hearts.
normeisen.bsky.social Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social Β· 23h
Trump is tearing down the White House & also the HUMANS who keep our government running

He’s attacking federal workers during this shutdown, but we’ve gone to court w/ union partners & WON 3 TROs to stop him

America is rejecting this cruelty

I explained @weeknightmsnbc.bsky.social πŸ‘‡
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E. Allyn Bloom πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡³πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ @ericallyn.bsky.social Β· 1d
And *much* safer than the White House.
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E. Allyn Bloom πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡³πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ @ericallyn.bsky.social Β· 1d
IKR? WTF would "a test of rational understanding and voluntariness" even look like?

I'm not a developmental psychologist, but I'm pretty sure it's not a thing that could be done without being *less* useful than having a legal age of consent.
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E. Allyn Bloom πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡³πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ @ericallyn.bsky.social Β· 1d
I'm really not looking forward to big supermarket chains putting their cereals in glass-fronted cabinets that have to be unlocked by overworked employees.
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E. Allyn Bloom πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡³πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ @ericallyn.bsky.social Β· 1d
The scriptwriting for this series sucks. It's even stupider and more heavy-handed than the first season.
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E. Allyn Bloom πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡³πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ @ericallyn.bsky.social Β· 1d
I live in a shiny blue part of a blue state and I have no doubt that some locals have eagerly tried out for ICE, and might not have qualified.

I mean, a few years ago someone in our town flew a Confederate flag "to make a point". (Which he did, but not the point he meant to make.)
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E. Allyn Bloom πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡³πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ @ericallyn.bsky.social Β· 1d
This IS their best.
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E. Allyn Bloom πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡³πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ @ericallyn.bsky.social Β· 1d
LOLsob.
andrewkostrub.bsky.social Andy Kostrub @andrewkostrub.bsky.social Β· 1d
Updating my LEGO White House
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E. Allyn Bloom πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡³πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ @ericallyn.bsky.social Β· 1d
Remember during Trump Episode 1, when the NYT - which at the time was still occasionally an actual newspaper - published a list of his lies?

This could be like that, only even uglier.
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E. Allyn Bloom πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡³πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ @ericallyn.bsky.social Β· 1d
Does anyone know of any person or group who's keeping a centralized, all-inclusive list of crimes that Trump has potentially or likely committed since he took office?

I mean things that he might be investigated for if his SCOTUS judges and his coconspirators weren't running interference.
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E. Allyn Bloom πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡³πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ @ericallyn.bsky.social Β· 1d
It's my understanding that there was a lot of red tape ... that he's basically ignored.

I also don't think he legally has the power to make decisions like this about the building.

But I'm not sure who can *and would* hold him legally responsible.
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E. Allyn Bloom πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡³πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ @ericallyn.bsky.social Β· 1d
Big same. And not just online.
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E. Allyn Bloom πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡³πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ @ericallyn.bsky.social Β· 1d
Back when I hung out in a corner of usenet newsgroups, people would sometimes refer to MAS, or Male Answer Syndrome.

(Ob: Not *just* men, but highly slanted that way.)
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E. Allyn Bloom πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡³πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ @ericallyn.bsky.social Β· 1d
And the clock is ticking.
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E. Allyn Bloom πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡³πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ @ericallyn.bsky.social Β· 1d
I think being a hottie is just a hobby for him. I mean, he's really good at it, but I don't think he's monetized it.
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