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Tides of Time

@tidesoftime.bsky.social

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Determined to fight MAGA/fascism in every way I can, in hopes that I live to see the US become a place where EVERYONE has rights, respect, and opportunity. I find solace in books, creativity, computer games, historical research, and small things of beauty.

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Tides of Time @tidesoftime.bsky.social · Mar 18

For anyone curious about my Bluesky name: As I'd originally intended to use Bsky mainly for my genealogy/history research, I chose a name that was an homage to the title of a poem written by one of my great-great-grandfathers, Harlan Ashley Pierce. Unfortunately, then politics took over the world.

The image shows a nighttime view of ocean waves "each chaining each", with the text of a poem over it:

The Tides of Human Life
So men and generations come and go,
Like tides in one unending flow,
And ebb, each chaining each upon the sea,
Of human life as waves succeed
Each other on the shores of time
To break and disappear fore'er
In spray or hidden undertow.
-- Harlan A. Pierce

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Leonard Lloyd @leonardlloyd.bsky.social · 18h

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Tides of Time @tidesoftime.bsky.social · 2m

That's not really fair to say. It's true that sometimes parents warp kids from birth--BUT it's also true that some people fall down a rabbit hole of evil, no matter how their parents raised them. There are plenty of awful people out there whose families are horrified at what they became.

Tides of Time @tidesoftime.bsky.social · 8m

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Posts claim photo shows Trump, Epstein and Bondi. They're almost right

The original image, taken in 1997, shows the two men with Belgian model Ingrid Seynhaeve.

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Tides of Time @tidesoftime.bsky.social · 8m

This isn't Pam Bondi.

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Aunty Em @everycourthouse.bsky.social · 1h

So, China is buying soy beans from Argentina instead of America but we are giving Argentina billions of dollars? Also, Argentinians have free healthcare but Americans do not and our government is now shut down because it doesn’t have enough money to give Americans even a discount on healthcare?

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The TrumpRussiaGuide 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @trumprussiaties.bsky.social · 18m

‘Not an immigrant’: Republicans anxious as they are unable to blame minorities for the South Carolina shooting

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‘Not an immigrant’: Republicans anxious as they are unable to blame minorities for the South Carolina shooting | The Mary Sue

A mass shooting at a well-known bar on St. Helena Island, South Carolina, has left many in shock. The incident, which occurred past midnight on Sunday at

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Brian Rosenworcel @brianrosenworcel.bsky.social · 1d

Why aren’t you celebrating today?

In the words of Leonard Cohen, “It’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah”

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Tides of Time @tidesoftime.bsky.social · 11m

It was VERY clear from the start that DOGE/Trump/Musk defined "waste, fraud, and abuse" everything that benefited anyone except billionaires.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 51m

Months before catastrophic floods swept through an Alaska Native village on Sunday, the Trump administration canceled a $20 million grant meant to protect the community from extreme flooding. At the time, the EPA administrator said he was eliminating "wasteful DEI and Environmental Justice grants."

E.P.A. Canceled $20 Million Flood Protection Grant to Alaska, Parts of Which Just Flooded

The remote village of Kipnuk planned to use the money to protect against flooding. On Sunday, it was inundated.

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anathothian.bsky.social @anathothian.bsky.social · 1h

The government is technically already dissolved since all three branches have been fully corrupted by billionaires and are not answerable to democracy. There are some criminals in Washington doing crimes.

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Tides of Time @tidesoftime.bsky.social · 1h

This has been my thought for a while. At this point, it's already dissolved for all intents and purposes since it's not meeting or producing any work.

Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 2h

I wonder if Mike Johnson is going to try to dissolve Congress to keep it from voting on the Epstein files.

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Tides of Time @tidesoftime.bsky.social · 1h

Just because it will probably end up being the next psychotic MAHA conspiracy theory . . . youtube.com/shorts/G5Pi0...

New Insane Sun Conspiracy

YouTube video by Miniminuteman

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Tides of Time @tidesoftime.bsky.social · 1h

THIS! It's insane that people are expected to not fight back when they're being kidnapped by masked men without any official identification. What happened to Stand Your Ground!?

Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 6h

If men with guns and masks tried to pull me out of my car, I'd fight back. Courts should reject any claims by the government that this is aggression by the person being detained, resisting arrest, or that they're a flight risk.

Tides of Time @tidesoftime.bsky.social · 1h

I hope people understand what exponential growth this is likely to cause.

🌊🏄BlueWaveSurfer🏄🌊 @bluewavesurfer.bsky.social · 1h

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 7h

Combat vet defends worker being detained without warrant by men in plain clothes with no ID

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 3h

OpenAI’s strategy is very clear, it’s trying to get people - especially young people - so reliant on its products intellectually & emotionally (& now sexually!) that going without them becomes unthinkable. And they need signs of that strategy working to keep the funding flowing in

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Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 2h

Speaker Johnson said he has “no strategy” to stop the Republican shutdown.

We can tell. Republicans are cancelling votes, going on vacation, and letting health insurance premiums skyrocket.

Democrats are working and ready to fix this Republican mess.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2h

BREAKING: Marco Rubio's State Department announces publicly that it is exercising unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination in revoking people's visas based on comments about the killing of Charlie Kirk.

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The United States has no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans.
The State Department continues to identify visa holders who celebrated the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk. Here are just a few examples of aliens who are no longer welcome in the U.S.:
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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 2h

This isn’t a peace plan. It’s a ceasefire. Why is the media calling it a peace plan?

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I'm Beth @nursejungabel.bsky.social · 2h

Based on the current political climate, and faced with elected officials demonizing the no Kings protest, and knowing that Trump is itching for martial law, I put the odds of planted agitators this Saturday to be at 100%. In the past my city has done very well putting down agitators. Work together.

a group of people holding a sign that says " protect peaceful protest "

ALT: a group of people holding a sign that says " protect peaceful protest "

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Tides of Time @tidesoftime.bsky.social · 1h

Just wait until those credit cards are maxed out! It's going to get ugly folks.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2h

Stevens: There’s $1.3 trillion of credit card debt. There are people putting grocery bills on credit cards and then paying interest on them. We are in an affordability crisis. Coffee is up 20%, beef is up 16%, bacon is up over 10%. And now we’re going to see health care costs skyrocket.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 10h

Last Sunday, @demiforillinois.bsky.social, @raygunsite.com and I hosted a No Kings protest sign-making party with the best problem:

So many people showed up, we ran out of table space.

This is what community care looks like.

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Tides of Time @tidesoftime.bsky.social · 2h

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That time a divisive president secretly had a stroke during his second term (in 1919)

YouTube video by Anti-Social Studies

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 5h

Unconstitutional, damaging to our democracy and--last time I checked--murder is a crime. Let's not gussy it up and call it acts of war. This is murder.

Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 5h

This is the FIFTH time Trump has carried out an illegal bombing in the Caribbean.

Using the military to execute alleged criminals with no due process or input from Congress is brazenly unconstitutional and damaging to our democracy.

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US strikes another boat accused of carrying drugs in waters off Venezuela, killing 6, Trump says

President Donald Trump says the U.S. has struck another boat accused of carrying drugs in the waters off Venezuela.

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🧛‍♀️🎃~Bindi~🎃🧛‍♀️ @bindiatthebeach.bsky.social · 11h

And there it is. 👇🏽

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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 4h

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