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Robert Hill

@vonotar.bsky.social

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Navy & Army Veteran. Elementis Regamus Proelium. Elsecaller. Tolerated by cats. Please support mental health. Would rather be in Ankh-Morpork. Pro democracy, Pro NATO, anti Trump/Musk/Putin. Zero tolerance for MAGA. Veteran Against Trump

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Robert Hill @vonotar.bsky.social · 29d

Today is going to be a series of absolute WTF moments writ large.

Keep your heads up.

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Robert Hill @vonotar.bsky.social · 19h

There are locally owned stores on tight margins that might not survive if holiday sales don't happen.

By all means, use your dollar to shout, but let's try and keep the local, businesses alive. Big box stores and giant franchises have deep pockets. Your local bookstore might not.

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Robert Hill @vonotar.bsky.social · 19h

I wonder if it's because they're not beholden to the same figures the party leaders have sold out to?

The party at large can't decide because the money hasn't told them what to think yet.

I'm cynical as hell.

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Robert Hill @vonotar.bsky.social · 1d

More like stumbling through. We'll need to majorly reinforce those barriers.

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 1d

New developments in my 3 year Epstein investigation, this time regarding JP Morgan Chase and its CEO, Jamie Dimon. This is a long thread, but worth sticking around for.

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Robert Hill @vonotar.bsky.social · 1d

No kidding. Even the paltry "go find the PAO" training we got as lower enlisted seems better than whatever Halligan was trying to do. Sweet Jesus.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 1d

Planetary Rings

xkcd.com/3156/

Comic. Two-column table. Column A lists planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune. Column B has checkmark boxes for whether the planets have rings: the outer planets’ boxes are checked, and Earth has a red check. [Earth with a ring with an array pf points around it. An arrow labeled “Geostationary Satellite Bel”t points to the ring.] [caption] Astronomy fact: A century ago, Earth didn’t have rings, but we have one now! It’s where all the satellite dishes are pointed.

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Robert Hill @vonotar.bsky.social · 1d

Feels like we could get rid of it with the right cleaner and some elbow grease.

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Robert Hill @vonotar.bsky.social · 1d

Aurora Borealis?

Robert Hill @vonotar.bsky.social · 1d

Snug as a bug

Robert Hill @vonotar.bsky.social · 1d

I can only offer facepalm. I don't even know what to say.

a bald man in a red uniform with a star trek logo on his chest .

Alt: Captain Picard holding his head in his hand. This is official Starfleet technique.

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Robert Hill @vonotar.bsky.social · 1d

Halligan came to a battle of wits unarmed.

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here."
Anna Bower
Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM
Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about
the Letitia James grand jury.

Robert Hill @vonotar.bsky.social · 1d

Proving all the protesters correct the day after we told him we don't need a king is a choice.

We're probably at "madness of King George" level now. I hope we don't get to "Caligula".

Robert Hill @vonotar.bsky.social · 1d

I think you're right.

7 million people told him we don't want a king and this is the thing he does the next day. Everything is provocation.

Robert Hill @vonotar.bsky.social · 1d

If Donald Trump shows this level of casual disregard for one of the most central and enduring objects of American history and identity, he absolutely does not give the slightest fuck about anything at all.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

Frogs in slowly heating water is a popular allegory for being unaware that you are being destroyed in an incrementally worsening situation.

But I'm drawing hope from the past week that we frogs may be a bit more aware of our situation than those allegorical frogs. #Hop

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Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · 1d

Judge Graber went hard and I cannot stress enough that Judge Graber *does not go hard*

Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 1d

Divided Ninth Circuit panel stays injunction against President Trump’s federalization of National Guard troops in Portland:

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Judge Graber, who is no firebrand, wrote quite a dissent—encouraging en banc review and some patience on the part of the public:

We have come to expect a dose of political theater in the political branches, drama designed to rally the base or to rile or intimidate political opponents. We also may expect there a measure of bending sometimes breaking the truth. By design of the Founders, the judicial branch stands apart. We rule on facts, not on supposition or conjecture, and certainly not on fabrication or propaganda. I urge my colleagues on this court to act swiftly to vacate the majority's order before the illegal deployment of troops under false pretenses can occur. Above all, I ask
those who are watching this case unfold to retain faith in our judicial system for just a little longer.

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Pumpkin Spice Degs @degs.chat · 1d

They can try but everyone will know that they're lying because it's obvious that I'm the actual Antichrist.

Robert Hill @vonotar.bsky.social · 1d

The first thing that popped into my head was to have a bunch of folks declare that they're Thiel's Anti-Christ, Spartacus-style.

a close up of a man 's face in front of a crowd .

Alt: A crowd of men in robes, sandles, and chains. The rise of the Spartacii.

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Robert Hill @vonotar.bsky.social · 1d

Do ancient commercial jingles count?

I've randomly had the 80's jingle for Wrigley's Big Red gum bouncing around for the greater part of 40 years now.

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️ @sophianyx.bsky.social · 4d

Name a Song you can Sing from Memory.

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Robert Hill @vonotar.bsky.social · 1d

When a bully is denied the fight they want, the provocations get larger.

Robert Hill @vonotar.bsky.social · 1d

Every act of Trump is a provocation, and they are getting larger. He's a bully who has been denied a confrontation for too long.

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Robert Hill @vonotar.bsky.social · 1d

America will have a visual reminder every day of what he's done. A scar to teach us. Hopefully we learn from it.

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Robert Hill @vonotar.bsky.social · 29d

Today is going to be a series of absolute WTF moments writ large.

Keep your heads up.

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Robert Hill @vonotar.bsky.social · 1d

We need Zombie Lincoln right now more than ever.

Robert Hill @vonotar.bsky.social · 1d

This is the kind of thing that should trigger an old curse where the statues around DC come to life and smack the shit out of all these bozos.

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🎃scarecrowcialism👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 1d

i know writers who use subtext and they're all cowards

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