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Bob Calder

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Study how marginalized groups are empowered by the internet. Retired teacher - web development and thinking skills. AAAS Section X, Science and Society Nobody is safe until everybody is safe My old Blogger: http://www.bobcalder.net/

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Bob Calder @bobcalder.net · Jan 27

I will follow you back if you're an academic in history, computational sociology, or hard science. If you make things with your hands like art or furniture, that's cool.

I will block you if you trade anything or offer advice on trading whether it's crypto or securities.

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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 1d

can’t unsee this one

protester holding sign with illustration of stephen miller that says ‘pee-wee german’

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Bob Calder @bobcalder.net · 2h

I thought this might be months old. It's not. It's current.

DJ "Jo" NoneYa 🟧 @djnoneya.bsky.social · 1d

www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Republicans, 16 years into Obamacare, pretend they have a health care plan (they don’t)

Asked if his party has a health care blueprint, JD Vance boasted, “We do have a plan, actually.” Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.

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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 17h

Side note: AZ AG Mayes is the only statewide elected Democrat who I’m absolutely certain won their race specially because of the GOP’s anti-science, anti-vaxx mindset in 2022.

acasignups.net/22/12/29/upd...

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 16h

As weird as it sounds, I think Trump’s shit-bombing video helps explain why protests have skewed older.

Older folks remember a time before the president posted this stuff. If you’re young and the past decade (maybe half your life) has included a president who posts diarrhea videos, that’s just life

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 19h

Trump's Truth Social account just posted this AI video of him flying a fighter jet that reads "King Trump."

AI Trump is wearing a crown while he dumps shit on protesters. He's such a pathetic little man.

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Cambridge Skeptics @cambskeptics.bsky.social · 13h

Late-night hosts discuss Fox News’s influence on Donald Trump as he defends sending the national guard to US cities. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Jimmy Kimmel: ‘Trump’s inner circle knows how dangerous the incessant misinformation from Fox News can be’

Late-night hosts discuss Fox News’s influence on Donald Trump as he defends sending the national guard to US cities

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Cambridge Skeptics @cambskeptics.bsky.social · 10h

Science and technology select committee says complacency over social media content puts public at risk. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

UK MPs warn of repeat of 2024 riots unless online misinformation is tackled

Science and technology select committee says complacency over social media content puts public at risk

www.theguardian.com

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Bob Calder @bobcalder.net · 2h

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Craig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social · 10h

For our Sunday #gospel brunch today, a serious hand-clapper from the Harmonizing Four about who you can trust in a rough and discouraging world. Can I get an amen?

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 10h

NYT forgot to mention that the White House account is the second most blocked account on Bluesky.

NYT: White House and Government Agencies Join Bluesky, Then Attack Democrats

The Health and Human Services and Homeland Security Departments were among the agencies posting messages that blamed Democrats for the federal shutdown.

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Bob Calder @bobcalder.net · 2h

I'm interested in the tiny roadside groups in places that are barely towns anymore.

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 20h

That’s a lot of people.
Unignorably large.

Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 22h

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 23h

"I've told the story of Akromiya for 20 years. I’m telling it again now, because today is No King’s Day, and I am afraid that 'Antifa' is the American Akromiya: a fabricated entity made by state propagandists to persecute anyone who opposes the government."
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/inventing-...

Inventing Antifa

In 2005, the Uzbek government invented a group called “Akromiya” to justify massacring protesters. Now I worry the US government will do the same.

sarahkendzior.substack.com

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Shoshanah in Alaska @shanahstone.bsky.social · 21h

@indivisible.org @altnps.bsky.social @maddow.msnbc.com @50501movement.bsky.social
Anchorage, Alaska #NoKings

Dan Bailey @danbaileyphoto.com · 21h

#NoKings in Anchorage, #Alaska, 10/18/25.

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Harlem Toots @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1d

So dangerous we had to throw a missile at them, not so dangerous that we need to worry about what they were doing and why.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

Breaking News: The Trump administration has decided to repatriate two survivors of a deadly U.S. strike this week on suspected drug runners in the Caribbean Sea rather than prosecute them or hold them in military detention, people with knowledge of the matter said on Saturday.

U.S. to Repatriate Survivors of Its Strike on Suspected Drug Vessel

The U.S. military rescued the two men in the Caribbean Sea after Special Operations forces fired on a semi-submersible that was assessed to be smuggling drugs.

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 20h

World War 2 veterans, the original antifa, took part in the nationwide protests against the fascist Trump regime. #3E #NoKings #50501Movement #indivisible #wearetheflood

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING

BREAKING: Marjorie Taylor Greene Is No Longer Following @Catturd2 on X Amid MAGA Civil War

There are epochal moments in time during which hearts are won, and social media followers are lost. We are living through one such moment.

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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 3d

If you're wondering how science and environmental publications are staying afloat (or not) in these tumultuous times, this @undark.org piece is full of great information--and features a bioGraphic shout-out

undark.org/2025/10/15/s...

Will Science Journalism Funders Step Up or Retreat?

Amid Trump-era funding turmoil, foundations are finding themselves pulled in many directions to fill in the gaps.

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Skeptically Speaking @skepticallyspeak.com · 3d

"We are not the same"

And if you can't tell the difference between the two by now.....you're a bit of a cunt.🙃

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Indivisible Tallahassee @indivisibletlh.bsky.social · 11d

The cracking is getting louder and louder!

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 11d

“I’m going to go against everyone on this issue because when the tax credits expire this year my own adult children’s insurance premiums for 2026 are going to DOUBLE, along with all the wonderful families and hard-working people in my district." trib.al/MZsOwGU

MTG Turns Against Republicans in Shocking Flip on Government Shutdown

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene thinks Democrats have a point on the Obamacare fight at the center of the government shutdown.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 9d

The man was 77 years old and his wife previously organized one of the local ‘No Kings’ protests. All he did was write ‘You Lack Values’ and got an intimidation visit from Desantis’s Gestapo.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 7d

“No, Speaker Johnson — the No Kings rally on October 18 is not a hate America rally. In fact, it’s quite the contrary: It’s a love America rally.” #NoKings

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Indivisible Tallahassee @indivisibletlh.bsky.social · 1d

Huge turnout in Tallahassee Florida.
#nokings
#nokingstallahassee

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Deep-Chicken @deep-chicken.bsky.social · 1d

#NoKings #HandsOff #Protest #FiftyFiftyOne 50501 #Tallahassee #Florida

October 18, 2025 No Kings protest in Tallahassee, Florida

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Bob Calder @bobcalder.net · 1d

See this FSU? #FSU

Erik Linstrum @eriklinstrum.bsky.social · 2d

UVA says NO to the "compact"

Bob Calder @bobcalder.net · 1d

Hilarious

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Craig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social · 1d

One nutjob #Florida school board votes to back nutjob FL surgeon general's call to end all student vaccine mandates. www.news-press.com/story/news/l...

Lee County school board backs ending student vaccine mandates, citing parental rights

The Lee County School Board voted 6–1 to urge Florida lawmakers to end student vaccine mandates, aligning with the state’s push for parental rights.

www.news-press.com

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