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John Metcalf ⚛️

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Mid-Michigan progressive 💙, secularist ⚛️, exhibit designer👨‍💻, ally 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸, good without gods—ask me how.

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John Metcalf ⚛️ @jymetcalf.bsky.social · Nov 17

“Travel is fatal to prejuidce, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
— Mark Twain

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John Metcalf ⚛️ @jymetcalf.bsky.social · 1h

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John Metcalf ⚛️ @jymetcalf.bsky.social · 1h

Johnson protects pedophiles. 🤦‍♂️

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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 1h

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John Metcalf ⚛️ @jymetcalf.bsky.social · 1h

You've got the "right wing" people against you. 😆

John Metcalf ⚛️ @jymetcalf.bsky.social · 1h

Recently heard about the adorable Leaf Sheep sea slug on The Daily Beans podcast, so now you get to learn about them, too. 😊

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Nature's cutest maniac: Why this (very adorable) sea slug eats sunlight for breakfast | BBC Science Focus Magazine

Get to know all about the Costasiella kuroshimae - the leaf sheep sea slug.

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John Metcalf ⚛️ @jymetcalf.bsky.social · 3h

Release the Epstein files.

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John Metcalf ⚛️ @jymetcalf.bsky.social · 3h

Such an inspiring group of young Republicans. 🤮

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

Cartoon by @edwexler.bsky.social.

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John Metcalf ⚛️ @jymetcalf.bsky.social · 19h

I promised some random person on a classic car forum on Reddit that I’d buy him the future classic car of his choice if I win.

For his sake I hope I do. 😆

John Metcalf ⚛️ @jymetcalf.bsky.social · 23h

Does he have the Epstein files in there? 🤔

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Steve The Enraged Apostate 🌊🇺🇸 🇹🇷 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @enragedapostate.bsky.social · 1d

Puppy Killer Noem violating federal law (the Hatch Act) by playing political messages as part of their federal duties

There will be a reckoning when the American Nuremberg tribunal is held

Life without parole (or worse) for the lot of them

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Jay @pescado70.bsky.social · 1d

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John Metcalf ⚛️ @jymetcalf.bsky.social · 23h

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 1d

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John Metcalf ⚛️ @jymetcalf.bsky.social · 23h

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John Metcalf ⚛️ @jymetcalf.bsky.social · 23h

If you need a smile, click play.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

John Metcalf ⚛️ @jymetcalf.bsky.social · 23h

Sure am.

Why would any patriotic American be pro-fascist?

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John Metcalf ⚛️ @jymetcalf.bsky.social · 23h

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polillitam G.M. 💙🦋🦋🦋 @polillitam.bsky.social · 1d

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John Metcalf ⚛️ @jymetcalf.bsky.social · 1d

Even more important that Democrats take overwhelming majorities in the House and Senate next year. 😠

John Metcalf ⚛️ @jymetcalf.bsky.social · 1d

It is kinda how we started. 🤔

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John Metcalf ⚛️ @jymetcalf.bsky.social · 1d

Republican play book:

1. Tell voters govt. doesn’t work
2. Get elected telling voters that government doesn’t work
3. Make sure government doesn’t work
4. Repeat

At some point you have to blame voters. 🤦‍♂️

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 2d

Just voted YES on PROP 50!! Make sure to vote early! THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE!

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Mari 🏳️‍⚧️ @mari-paige.bsky.social · 2d

For Indigenous People’s Day, I’d like to infodump about the Cahokia mound. Built near present day St. Louis around 1000 CE, it was a vast trade hub with a population of about 20,000. This made it the largest city north of Mexico on the continent, bigger than London and Paris at the time!

The Cahokia mound, located outside modern day St. Louis, Missouri. It is a large hill which is now covered in grass, under a clear blue sky.

Image source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahokia

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