Dean Booth 🦆🐇
@deanbooth.bsky.social
Artist, Philosopher, History addict, Social Justice Worrier
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Dean Booth 🦆🐇
@deanbooth.bsky.social
· Nov 10
The Waiting Room
YouTube video by Jim Rubino
www.youtube.com
This is a video of my art show in 2017 at City Center Gallery in Columbus, Ohio. It contains over 150 mechanized ordinary objects, each timed to move once an hour.
Since then I’ve changed my focus to doing philosophy of mind. It’s harder than doing art.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=80W1...
Since then I’ve changed my focus to doing philosophy of mind. It’s harder than doing art.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=80W1...
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NEW: Oversight Dems are releasing additional photos from Jeffrey Epstein's estate to the public.
We will continue releasing photographs and documents to provide transparency for the American people. It’s time for the Department of Justice to release the files.
We will continue releasing photographs and documents to provide transparency for the American people. It’s time for the Department of Justice to release the files.
December 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
NEW: Oversight Dems are releasing additional photos from Jeffrey Epstein's estate to the public.
We will continue releasing photographs and documents to provide transparency for the American people. It’s time for the Department of Justice to release the files.
We will continue releasing photographs and documents to provide transparency for the American people. It’s time for the Department of Justice to release the files.
We had snow in Columbus on Monday. Today we have ICE.
abc6onyourside.com/news/local/m...
abc6onyourside.com/news/local/m...
Columbus mayor, police chief release video reassuring immigrants amid ICE deployment
Columbus city leaders are seeking to reassure residents following the presence of federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in the city.
abc6onyourside.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:03 PM
We had snow in Columbus on Monday. Today we have ICE.
abc6onyourside.com/news/local/m...
abc6onyourside.com/news/local/m...
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NYT: “In a newly obtained recording of a phone call from late 2020, President Trump can be heard pressing the speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives to hold a special legislative session to overturn Mr. Trump’s election loss.”
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December 18, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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The networks were afraid not to run Trump because they assumed he would use his office to punish them if they didn’t. The irony is that this is what Biden was warning about, a warning they chose not to share with America.
You'll remember that when Biden delivered an address in 2022, networks refused to air it because they said it was "political" www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/0...
As Biden warned about democracy’s collapse, TV networks aired reruns
Broadcasters NBC, CBS and ABC usually air presidential prime-time addresses live. But they found Biden's Philadelphia speech more "political" than newsworthy.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:30 PM
The networks were afraid not to run Trump because they assumed he would use his office to punish them if they didn’t. The irony is that this is what Biden was warning about, a warning they chose not to share with America.
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UPDATE: Not only is no adult stopping Trump from mocking a former President, they even made him a plaque. This is madness-of-King-George shit 🫤
December 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
UPDATE: Not only is no adult stopping Trump from mocking a former President, they even made him a plaque. This is madness-of-King-George shit 🫤
"But did you know that God also hates?" — Franklin Graham
December 18, 2025 at 8:02 PM
"But did you know that God also hates?" — Franklin Graham
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It's a shell game. Trump is taking money from soldiers' housing subsidies to "give" them $1,776 "warrior dividend" checks.
Trump rebrands Congressionally-approved troop housing subsidy as ‘warrior dividend’ bonus
More than $2.9 billion in reconciliation funds was allocated to beef up troop housing allowances. Now it’s being used for $1,776 checks.
www.defenseone.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:14 PM
It's a shell game. Trump is taking money from soldiers' housing subsidies to "give" them $1,776 "warrior dividend" checks.
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Recap: 260K Ukrainians arrived in US based on U4U program - paid over $2K each in fees, worked, paid taxes, expenses etc. U4U status expired, they were told to apply for extension (pay fees etc).. months later, families receive denials, now up for deportation since they “overstayed” visas.
Sample ⬇️
Sample ⬇️
December 18, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Recap: 260K Ukrainians arrived in US based on U4U program - paid over $2K each in fees, worked, paid taxes, expenses etc. U4U status expired, they were told to apply for extension (pay fees etc).. months later, families receive denials, now up for deportation since they “overstayed” visas.
Sample ⬇️
Sample ⬇️
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Had the three Dems who voted for this held the line and voted no, they could have blocked it.
December 18, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Had the three Dems who voted for this held the line and voted no, they could have blocked it.
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An immigrant driver from India is arrested by border patrol at the O’Hare rideshare lot. He said he has never committed a crime in 11 years in the United States: “oh my God no”
December 17, 2025 at 9:51 PM
An immigrant driver from India is arrested by border patrol at the O’Hare rideshare lot. He said he has never committed a crime in 11 years in the United States: “oh my God no”
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You'll remember that when Biden delivered an address in 2022, networks refused to air it because they said it was "political" www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/0...
As Biden warned about democracy’s collapse, TV networks aired reruns
Broadcasters NBC, CBS and ABC usually air presidential prime-time addresses live. But they found Biden's Philadelphia speech more "political" than newsworthy.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 17, 2025 at 9:27 PM
You'll remember that when Biden delivered an address in 2022, networks refused to air it because they said it was "political" www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/0...
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Every major news organization should be writing about how insane this is and how, if he takes this country to war (tomorrow?), it is the act of a madman.
Trump: "Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled ... It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before — Until such time as they return to the USA all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us."
December 17, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Every major news organization should be writing about how insane this is and how, if he takes this country to war (tomorrow?), it is the act of a madman.
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This feels like a new one.
You expect me to have an opinion on someone I haven’t personally met?!?!?
You expect me to have an opinion on someone I haven’t personally met?!?!?
COLLINS: Do you disagree with Trump's pardon of the former Honduran leader who was also indicted and convicted?
RICK SCOTT: I don't -- I never -- I never met the guy and I don't know anything about it
COLLINS: But do you approve of that pardon?
SCOTT: I don't know much about it
COLLINS: Ok
RICK SCOTT: I don't -- I never -- I never met the guy and I don't know anything about it
COLLINS: But do you approve of that pardon?
SCOTT: I don't know much about it
COLLINS: Ok
December 17, 2025 at 3:04 AM
This feels like a new one.
You expect me to have an opinion on someone I haven’t personally met?!?!?
You expect me to have an opinion on someone I haven’t personally met?!?!?
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“Disturbing… they had put in a ton of work and gone through every step of the process… they were pulled out of line steps away from swearing an oath to 🇺🇸…”
BOSTON’s @mayorwu.boston.gov on Trump/Miller blocking immigrants AT THEIR CEREMONIES
It was never just about illegal immigration
BOSTON’s @mayorwu.boston.gov on Trump/Miller blocking immigrants AT THEIR CEREMONIES
It was never just about illegal immigration
December 17, 2025 at 1:28 AM
“Disturbing… they had put in a ton of work and gone through every step of the process… they were pulled out of line steps away from swearing an oath to 🇺🇸…”
BOSTON’s @mayorwu.boston.gov on Trump/Miller blocking immigrants AT THEIR CEREMONIES
It was never just about illegal immigration
BOSTON’s @mayorwu.boston.gov on Trump/Miller blocking immigrants AT THEIR CEREMONIES
It was never just about illegal immigration
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I'm very tired of repeating myself about this, but, as someone who works professionally on housing affordability, this is a disgusting lie.
Vance: "Why have rents gone down for 4 consecutive months? Because we're starting to get those illegal aliens out of the USA. Those criminals, those gang members, those people that are taking homes that ought by right go the people in this room. It's simple economics."
December 16, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I'm very tired of repeating myself about this, but, as someone who works professionally on housing affordability, this is a disgusting lie.
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I've been reporting on the criminal justice system for over a decade and have lived in an authoritarian country overseas, but I've never seen anything like the police presence in ICE-occupied Memphis. Here's my dispatch: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
I'm a veteran criminal justice reporter. I've never seen anything like ICE-occupied Memphis.
“It’s about as sad as you can possibly imagine."
www.motherjones.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I've been reporting on the criminal justice system for over a decade and have lived in an authoritarian country overseas, but I've never seen anything like the police presence in ICE-occupied Memphis. Here's my dispatch: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
TW: animal violence
TIL "gander pulling" is a sport of beheading a live goose with a greased neck, barehanded, while riding a horse in front of a roaring crowd. Popular around Easter in the American South, gander pulling was once a beloved pastime in the United States and many parts of Europe.
TIL "gander pulling" is a sport of beheading a live goose with a greased neck, barehanded, while riding a horse in front of a roaring crowd. Popular around Easter in the American South, gander pulling was once a beloved pastime in the United States and many parts of Europe.
December 16, 2025 at 11:47 PM
TW: animal violence
TIL "gander pulling" is a sport of beheading a live goose with a greased neck, barehanded, while riding a horse in front of a roaring crowd. Popular around Easter in the American South, gander pulling was once a beloved pastime in the United States and many parts of Europe.
TIL "gander pulling" is a sport of beheading a live goose with a greased neck, barehanded, while riding a horse in front of a roaring crowd. Popular around Easter in the American South, gander pulling was once a beloved pastime in the United States and many parts of Europe.
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Today's news bulletin builds up to a brutal finale. Catch up on all the day's news here: www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-p...
December 16, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Today's news bulletin builds up to a brutal finale. Catch up on all the day's news here: www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-p...
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I just came out of the briefing with Sec. Rubio and Sec. Hegseth on the military strikes in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific. Here's what I learned.
Bottom line: there is no legal or national security justification for what they're doing. Not even close.
Bottom line: there is no legal or national security justification for what they're doing. Not even close.
December 16, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I just came out of the briefing with Sec. Rubio and Sec. Hegseth on the military strikes in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific. Here's what I learned.
Bottom line: there is no legal or national security justification for what they're doing. Not even close.
Bottom line: there is no legal or national security justification for what they're doing. Not even close.
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Fascist felon pedophile Trump, the bigger the crime, the quicker the pardon! Does he get a cut of their stolen money?
December 15, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Fascist felon pedophile Trump, the bigger the crime, the quicker the pardon! Does he get a cut of their stolen money?
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Despite the fact that a significant number of swing-district Republicans want to join Dems to vote for a clean bill to extend ACA subsidies which would easily pass the House, Mike Johnson refuses to bring it to the floor. NBC:
December 16, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Despite the fact that a significant number of swing-district Republicans want to join Dems to vote for a clean bill to extend ACA subsidies which would easily pass the House, Mike Johnson refuses to bring it to the floor. NBC:
I used to read Bob Somerby’s blog The Daily Howler every day. Visited it today, and he’s still writing his unique brand of media criticism. It’s worth a visit.
Yesterday he reminded us of the good man, Al Gore, who should have been our president (and our future).
dailyhowler.blogspot.com
Yesterday he reminded us of the good man, Al Gore, who should have been our president (and our future).
dailyhowler.blogspot.com
![REMARKS BY THE VICE PRESIDENT AT THE
FUNERAL OF HIS FATHER, FORMER SENATOR
ALBERT GORE, SR. President and Mrs. Clinton; so many honored guests from our nation and our state. The Lord gave and the Lord hath
taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord. My father was the greatest man I ever knew in my life. Most of you know him for his public service and it could be said of him, in the words of Paul, that this man walked
worthy of the vocation wherewith he was called.
[...] Of all the lessons he taught me as a father, perhaps
the most powerful was the way he loved my mother. He respected her as an equal, if not more. He was proud of
her. But it went way beyond that...](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:spwrm5gruwav3nexps3ly4ky/bafkreifymz3ff5km7nqnhsxzgw3z4hsghztbqov3hcjhnoajdzz4v74qxi@jpeg)
December 16, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I used to read Bob Somerby’s blog The Daily Howler every day. Visited it today, and he’s still writing his unique brand of media criticism. It’s worth a visit.
Yesterday he reminded us of the good man, Al Gore, who should have been our president (and our future).
dailyhowler.blogspot.com
Yesterday he reminded us of the good man, Al Gore, who should have been our president (and our future).
dailyhowler.blogspot.com