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LaPlace’s OTHER demon

@ncalcote.bsky.social

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Purveyor of ugly margaritas, Dabbler, recent tenant of Empty Nest, NY, teacher, retired reservist, kickboxing nerd. Remember kids, it’s ok to punch nazis.

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LaPlace’s OTHER demon @ncalcote.bsky.social · 6h

I can’t say for sure if it’s a sign o’ the times or just my confirmation bias, but I was asked about my choice of grocery chains by high school sophomores who then went on to extoll the virtues of Aldi.

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Nora Grey @mmkennedy.bsky.social · 18h

Our tax $ is Trump’s piggy bank. The USA is full of foolish people.

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LaPlace’s OTHER demon @ncalcote.bsky.social · 20h

Tommy Tuberville stood in the way of high level military promotions for 4 years during the trump interregnum. The hijacking of our military leadership has been a GOP project nearly as coordinated as their hijacking of the courts

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LaPlace’s OTHER demon @ncalcote.bsky.social · 1d

I dunno, some NYPD officers should start worrying about their criming

LaPlace’s OTHER demon @ncalcote.bsky.social · 2d

Not donating $500K to trump and republicans would have been a start

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2d

On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️‍🌈

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LaPlace’s OTHER demon @ncalcote.bsky.social · 2d

“It’s your day off, I don’t think you should grade essays, I think you should let me warm up on your lap”
-Ned

A compact grey kitty taking up a whole lap

LaPlace’s OTHER demon @ncalcote.bsky.social · 4d

To give those idaho militia fucksticks air capabilities when they invade Washington

LaPlace’s OTHER demon @ncalcote.bsky.social · 5d

Nope, while it’s not mainstream, there are others who oppose it for reasons

LaPlace’s OTHER demon @ncalcote.bsky.social · 5d

Won’t be a worry once the xtian nationalists ban coffee

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Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D. @drharmony.net · 5d

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 5d

The rich don't integrate

They pay so their kids don't go to your schools.

They pay for Private Healthcare so you don't see them at the hospital.

They live in guarded estates, you are not allowed in.

The only place you MIGHT see them is at work, where they order you around.

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LaPlace’s OTHER demon @ncalcote.bsky.social · 5d

I do too

LaPlace’s OTHER demon @ncalcote.bsky.social · 5d

I’ll not leave this place to the jackals

LaPlace’s OTHER demon @ncalcote.bsky.social · 5d

I’m hoping for expensive and futile ones

LaPlace’s OTHER demon @ncalcote.bsky.social · 5d

I don’t think we need to use the term “attempted” any longer

LaPlace’s OTHER demon @ncalcote.bsky.social · 5d

Indeed @fetterman.senate.gov , WTF is wrong with you?

Bullix @bullix.bsky.social · 5d

@fetterman.senate.gov What the fuck is wrong with you?!

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 5d

Congress continues to fail to check Trump’s authoritarian power.

LaPlace’s OTHER demon @ncalcote.bsky.social · 6d

Maybe they will start taking down private jets as well, that’s if a lack of air traffic control doesn’t first.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 7d

Elon Musk and Donald Trump are now some of history's biggest murderers.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7d

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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LaPlace’s OTHER demon @ncalcote.bsky.social · 6d

Took me nearly 25 years to understand what they were saying.

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LaPlace’s OTHER demon @ncalcote.bsky.social · 6d

I think this became inevitable the day John McCain told that racist bitch at one of his town halls that Obama was a decent person and an American and the GOP said “fuck you John”

LaPlace’s OTHER demon @ncalcote.bsky.social · 6d

Things were objectively better, and for a while the trajectory was “improving”. We are no longer on that trajectory

LaPlace’s OTHER demon @ncalcote.bsky.social · 6d

Just took an extra day off