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Todd Adams 🇺🇦

@todddavidadams.bsky.social

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Traveler, amateur photographer/writer, InfoSec evangelist, anti-disinformation, freethinker, Network/Security Engineer, AML survivor. Invest in life experiences. I geek out on anything music.

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Todd Adams 🇺🇦 @todddavidadams.bsky.social · May 21

I've now had eight birthdays since I was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia. Thanks to a selfless stem cell donor, I expect to have many more.

Here's the story:
youtu.be/tl1uU3fijqw?...

Man Meets Stem Cell Donor Who Saved His Life

YouTube video by WSMV 4 Nashville

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Todd Adams 🇺🇦 @todddavidadams.bsky.social · 6h

I don't think this is going to go the way they think it is. This kind of hubris will come back to bite them at the midterms.

Government services unavailable, checks not being delivered, crops going to waste, hospitals closing, etc.

People will be angry. And they are gloating about this, for now.

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 9h

Add to this the Court’s usurpation of trial judges’ fact-finding function, often getting facts way wrong, in ways that get the Court to desired outcomes.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 10h

🚨🚨🚨WA Governor Bob Ferguson responds to a letter he received from AG Pam Bondi in which she threatened to place him in jail. 🧯He is on fire! 1/2

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Todd Adams 🇺🇦 @todddavidadams.bsky.social · 12h

Being from Nashville, I had to watch this show 911 Nashville.

Ugh. Might get cancelled immediately.

Despite a decent cast and an all-star team of executive producers, this is awful. The writing, the acting, the implausible plot lines are a bad mix of community access TV and daytime soap opera.

Todd Adams 🇺🇦 @todddavidadams.bsky.social · 13h

Vance is the most insufferable mendacious blowhard.

Indignantly insists he can't be expected to actually read the thing he's expressing a strong and slanderous opinion about.

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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 13h

In which Vance calls @propublica.org -- recipient of the Pulitzer for Public Service two years running -- a "left wing blog" and then admits on national TV that he hasn't read the very story he's dismissing.

Here's the story, btw:
www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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Todd Adams 🇺🇦 @todddavidadams.bsky.social · 13h

Democracy is inherently at odds with oligarchy, so this is where we are coming to.

Todd Adams 🇺🇦 @todddavidadams.bsky.social · 13h

If you're happy with this being the status quo week after week, keep voting Republican.

Todd Adams 🇺🇦 @todddavidadams.bsky.social · 17h

Overlooked fact here...

Joe Biden wasn't president on January 6, 2021.

How was this "the Biden FBI"?

Todd Adams 🇺🇦 @todddavidadams.bsky.social · 17h

Just saying whatever he wants to be true, not what's actually true. 🙄

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Todd Adams 🇺🇦 @todddavidadams.bsky.social · 1d

Has decades of solid Republican rule made anyone safer, healthier, more prosperous?

Stop and think about your choices people. It doesn't have to be this way.

Todd Adams 🇺🇦 @todddavidadams.bsky.social · 1d

Are we just completely ignoring the words of the 4th Amendment?

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated"

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Todd Adams 🇺🇦 @todddavidadams.bsky.social · 1d

They are always the heroes of their own fictional narrative.

Todd Adams 🇺🇦 @todddavidadams.bsky.social · 1d

Seems like this is something that would at least need Congressional approval, no?

How long does it take to build a military base? Probably not less than three years. We'll have a new president then. Does this just get shut down then or is this a harbinger of something more ominous?

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Todd Adams 🇺🇦 @todddavidadams.bsky.social · 1d

Good of Spanberger to draw out those comments. Normally Republicans are more obfuscated with their discrimination.

Todd Adams 🇺🇦 @todddavidadams.bsky.social · 2d

And now, with a special election in Tennessee coming in early December, they may delay her swearing in until after that, hoping the TN seat is won by the Republican.

All the more reason to get out and support @aftynbehn.bsky.social for the win in TN-7.

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Todd Adams 🇺🇦 @todddavidadams.bsky.social · 2d

Let's see who in the Trump administration just took a large short position today.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2d

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 2d

And the lawsuits will follow promptly. Government shutdowns give presidents no additional authority to dismiss federal workers. We’ll fight these outrageous assaults on civil servants and public services.

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Todd Adams 🇺🇦 @todddavidadams.bsky.social · 2d

Seems to be consistent that someone advancing autocracy would not be seriously considered for the award.

Todd Adams 🇺🇦 @todddavidadams.bsky.social · 2d

"They can play technicalities"...

or maybe they don't give the peace prize to someone killing people on fishing boats in international waters, or someone stoking chaos and sending the military into American cities just for the cosplay.

Todd Adams 🇺🇦 @todddavidadams.bsky.social · 2d

The sense of entitlement here is off the charts. This is pathetic.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 3d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Todd Adams 🇺🇦 @todddavidadams.bsky.social · 3d

I wish the average American was this well informed.

Todd Adams 🇺🇦 @todddavidadams.bsky.social · 3d

We are in such a bad place. Congress is willingly, eagerly ceding the authority it alone possesses according to the constitution.