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Rex Shepherd

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Creative and improvised music composer, performer, and guitarist. Music with a sense of freedom, humor, and rebellion, expressing values, cultural and personal influences, and love of cats and most people. https://rexshepherd.bandcamp.com/

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Rex Shepherd @rexshep.bsky.social · Jul 6

This is criminally shameful.
“The USAID-funded programs prevented more than 91 million deaths globally, including 30 million children under five years old, according to the study.”
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Study: USAID cuts could lead to 14 million global deaths over the next 5 years

New research published in the journal The Lancet warns that cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development could result in 14 million deaths over the next five years.

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Rex Shepherd @rexshep.bsky.social · Jul 3

Rex Shepherd @rexshep.bsky.social · May 24

Well, this is what happens when you let old hippies leave the house. We arrived, we made glorious noises, we went home...and took a nap.

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Rex Shepherd @rexshep.bsky.social · Apr 10

Godzilla is always helpful during a speaker swap to prep for tracking new solo music.

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Rex Shepherd @rexshep.bsky.social · Mar 29

And this is how things will get done...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL1Q...

Jasmine Crockett Unleashes Profane Attack on MTG

YouTube video by electron media group inc.

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Rex Shepherd @rexshep.bsky.social · Mar 19

Say goodbye to avant garde music at the Kennedy Center. I can’t even imagine what passes for art for a bunch of anti-education, anti-cultural white supremacists.
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WHEN THE WORLD'S ON FIRE: SOPHIA BROUS & MARC RIBOT - Millennium Stage (March 18, 2018)

YouTube video by The Kennedy Center

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Rex Shepherd @rexshep.bsky.social · Mar 19

It makes my head hurt just imagining it. Every show will be a petri dish of the unvaccinated celebrating their fearful orange leader.

Rex Shepherd @rexshep.bsky.social · Mar 17

So much winning…in China and Russia.
“Beijing announced the creation of a giant media conglomerate by merging three existing state-run networks aimed at overseas audiences to better combine resources. Its name? Voice of China.”
www.cnn.com/2025/03/17/c...

‘How gratifying’: Cheers in China as Trump dismantles Voice of America | CNN

One nationalist influencer called it “truly gratifying.” Another said he was laughing his head off. And a state-media editorial hailed the demise of what it called the “lie factory.”

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Rex Shepherd @rexshep.bsky.social · Mar 16

Watson and Edgar resting up to handle another day of chaos courtesy of the orange conman-child and his team of incompetent sycophants.

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Rex Shepherd @rexshep.bsky.social · Mar 12

Keeping it weird, having good times making music with good friends.
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The DVS Trio - A Night At The Jenks, by The DVS Trio

9 track album

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · Mar 1

NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.

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Rex Shepherd @rexshep.bsky.social · Feb 26

Done! I enjoyed that moment...thanks.

Rex Shepherd @rexshep.bsky.social · Feb 26

The orange man-child is threatened by anyone with true talent and skills.

Rex Shepherd @rexshep.bsky.social · Feb 26

A new set of solo guitar, using a Theremin to create background textures in improvised and composed pieces.
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Never Buy My Self Vol VI, by Rex Shepherd

12 track album

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Rex Shepherd @rexshep.bsky.social · Feb 20

Also, not surprisingly, many of these states have the highest percentage of their population on Medicaid. Voting against there own interests time after time…

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Rex Shepherd @rexshep.bsky.social · Feb 18

Just started, and so far it’s a must read.
On Tyranny
Timothy Snyder
books.apple.com/us/book/on-t...
This material may be protected by copyright.

‎On Tyranny

‎Politics & Current Events · 2017

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Rex Shepherd @rexshep.bsky.social · Feb 16

Now that he heads a governmental department, could this legally contitute government censorship?

Rex Shepherd @rexshep.bsky.social · Feb 15

Some shameless self promotion, but several titles such as "Electile Dysfunction" and "Farewell to the Republic?" seem pertinent, and the music expresses my constant angst regarding our collective future.
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Never Buy My Self Vol. V, by Rex Shepherd

9 track album

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Rex Shepherd @rexshep.bsky.social · Feb 14

We shall overcome.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFi6...

Bill Frisell and Harmony performing "We Shall Overcome"

YouTube video by Steve Tabor

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Rex Shepherd @rexshep.bsky.social · Feb 14

Goodnight everyone. Rest up and be ready to fight another day of orange madness. We will overcome.

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Rex Shepherd @rexshep.bsky.social · Feb 14

Complete. Fucking. Moron.

Rex Shepherd @rexshep.bsky.social · Feb 9

If you can, donate to keep the Wisconsin supreme court from falling into MAGA hands. www.crawfordforwi.com

Judge Susan Crawford for Wisconsin Supreme Court

Judge Susan Crawford is a former prosecutor and current Circuit Court Judge running for Wisconsin Supreme Court to protect the rights and freedoms of all Wisconsinites.

www.crawfordforwi.com

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Rex Shepherd @rexshep.bsky.social · Feb 9

I wonder what the red voting farmers think of this.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Gutting USAID threatens billions of dollars for U.S. farms, businesses

U.S. businesses that sold goods and services to USAID are in limbo, including American farms dealing in rice, wheat and soybeans.

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Rex Shepherd @rexshep.bsky.social · Feb 9

A perfect example of Orwellian doublethink.
In East Palestine, Ohio, Vance blamed Dems for failing to enact legislation to prevent more derailments. Several Republican senators opposed the bill, as did most of their colleagues in the Republican-controlled House.
www.yahoo.com/news/trump-m...

Trump, Musk move to oust EPA staff in the Great Lakes region, including dozens responsible for protecting drinking water for 30 million in US and Canada

CHICAGO — For more than two years, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials from Chicago have been aiding a poor, predominantly white Ohio village upended when a train derailed and spilled more ...

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Rex Shepherd @rexshep.bsky.social · Feb 8

“Make America Sick Again” and make China the new leader in medical research.
“We are carefully reviewing this policy change as it contradicts current law and policy. America’s competitors will relish this self-inflicted wound.” www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately

The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease.

www.washingtonpost.com

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