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JoBoese

@jaboese.bsky.social

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retired Broadway stage manager (among many other things)

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JoBoese @jaboese.bsky.social · 28m

perfectly valid take.

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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 18h

When you commute the sentence of a conman because he is a Republican while ordering your Attorney General to prosecute your enemies because they are Democrats, you are literally a dictator.

This is why we say #NoKings.

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Trump says he has commuted sentence of former US Rep. George Santos in fraud case

President Donald Trump said Friday he had commuted the sentence of former U.S. Rep. George Santos, who is serving more than seven years in federal prison after pleading guilty to fraud and identity th...

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21h

The war zone in Portland is out of control.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 18h

So the Dallas ICE shooter was an unemployed, online, loner, gamer dude with no friends who was politically unaligned with any particular ideology except the white male internet brain rot.

NPR @npr.org · 19h

A newly released police report states that Joshua Jahn lived with his family and didn't have a job. n.pr/3Jj982m

Shooter at Dallas ICE facility was motivated by notoriety over ideology

A newly released police report states that Joshua Jahn lived with his family and didn't have a job.

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Azul = Blue @azulequalsblue.bsky.social · 18h

Do not stay home tomorrow. We must stand up.

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Rebekah West @rebequewest.bsky.social · 18h

All of them. Each government agency started a Bluesky account today. Most have no post or a Hatch Act violation post targeting democrats as the reason for the shutdown. Also mentioned that they could try to disrupt No Kings Day energy in some way. There’s a repost in my feed to block all of them

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Tina- Descendant Of Antifa Soldiers @trcfwtt.bsky.social · May 17

#JoeKunt

Are we gonna survive fascism?

Shawn Eli @elistrums.bsky.social · May 17

The actual intelligence doesn't fit Trump's lies so he has the intelligence report altered to fit his BS.
Free bonus New York Times article...
Trump Appointee Pressed Analyst to Redo Intelligence on Venezuelan Gang www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/u...

Trump Appointee Pressed Analyst to Redo Intelligence on Venezuelan Gang

www.nytimes.com

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Ted Roe @tedroe-uap.bsky.social · 18h

JoBoese @jaboese.bsky.social · 17h

oh, you do not know the sites I know. (none of them say you re wrong) but hhhhoooo-boy

JoBoese @jaboese.bsky.social · 18h

sorry, but when you pull the lens back far enough, all of this is under the control of DHS/MisNoemer. It is very hard to make a distinction when you are being beaten/arrested/detained.

I know you have a valid point, but the old "distinction without a difference" applies.

JoBoese @jaboese.bsky.social · 18h

yes, mostly, but lyrics only is one thing, and I am a lyrics guy.
I have over a dozen Dylan LPs and their duplicate CDs and compilations, but busting out a the full range of lyrics and melody & orchestration
is not a Dylan thing. This is a different category. IIMS

JoBoese @jaboese.bsky.social · 18h

more, my brother knew I was a huge Beatles fan, and In fact was the reason he was a McCartney fan. I had never been to a Beatles adjacent concert, although I had met Ringo in 1984 at the opening night party of a show I stage managed.

JoBoese @jaboese.bsky.social · 18h

so pardoning a cross-dresser (no complaint here) is fine. JD Vance please note.

JoBoese @jaboese.bsky.social · 18h

Josh Marshall's 2013 TPM article re: Ted as classmate..
description by classmates: “Ted? Oh yeah, immense a*#hole.” ...“total raging a#%hole”
But,Before retelling this or that anecdote, there was one other thing that everybody said, “A really, really smart dude.”
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/me-ted

JoBoese @jaboese.bsky.social · 19h

been watching original MythBusters episodes w/ my 8y/o grandson. (now up to 35 episodes viewed). Our 5 y/o grand daughter is watching Blippi.
So, to reduce most (not all) MythBusters episodes to the basic.....MythBusters is Blippi but with consequences. (see how often Adam is in costume/vamping)

JoBoese @jaboese.bsky.social · 19h

hard to make a counter-argument. I saw him in concert about 5 years ago. My younger brother took me. It was his 8th time seeing a McCartney concert. Sadly, he passed a year and a half ago.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Republicans in charge of Congress have abdicated all responsibility for governing the nation to Trump. There are no checks. There are no balances. No Kings.

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Codify Baseball @codifybaseball.bsky.social · 20h

Remember when you hear the comparisons of Shohei Ohtani to Babe Ruth that the Babe never once struck out more than 3 batters in a season that he hit 30+ homers. It's true.

No one's ever done anything like this before.

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JoBoese @jaboese.bsky.social · 21h

How is it possible to shit-post to your own mind?

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 1d

It costs ~$70 to produce a year’s supply of insulin.

Yet, the average annual cost of insulin went from $2,864 in 2012 to $5,705 in 2016 to $18,000 in 2025. A 25,714% markup. That isn’t inflation or supply chain—It’s corporate greed.

Now—California will sell insulin for $11. Make this nationwide!

JoBoese @jaboese.bsky.social · 1d

when this (one of many) euphemisms for a dick, Johnson, shows up at the pearly gates, I want him to be shown every one of these weasel/smarmy displays before the then disappears.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 1d

Swearing in isn’t some ceremony. You aren’t a member of Congress until it happens. He knows that.

No phones, no staff, nothing.

I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Johnson: "Grijalva should be working for her constituents right now. I don't know what she's doing. I keep seeing their political stunt videos. She should be in her office. She should be working or in the district for her constituents" (Grijalva is not in fact a Rep. b/c Johnson refuses to seat her)

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 1d

Ending a child trafficking organization that loves fascism would be a fantastic thing.

Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks.

This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.

NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei

If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.

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JoBoese @jaboese.bsky.social · 1d

so I have, for whatever reason(s), accumulated several new followers tonight, most of whom, themselves, have fewer than 300 followers. AKA, my people,