Earth One
@brucealeksander.bsky.social
TV Lighting Designer (retired), Columnist, concerned citizen.
I believe that diversity, inclusion, and equity are good, that science trumps superstition, and that truth matters.
I believe that diversity, inclusion, and equity are good, that science trumps superstition, and that truth matters.
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This is a helpful yet worrisome overview about what's happening with Trump election deniers now in powerful federal jobs:
November 29, 2025 at 1:20 PM
This is a helpful yet worrisome overview about what's happening with Trump election deniers now in powerful federal jobs:
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“It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in a country where virtue and knowledge prevail.”
~Attributed to Samuel Adams.
Image: Samuel Adams portrait by John Singleton Copley. Public domain.
~Attributed to Samuel Adams.
Image: Samuel Adams portrait by John Singleton Copley. Public domain.
November 29, 2025 at 1:17 PM
“It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in a country where virtue and knowledge prevail.”
~Attributed to Samuel Adams.
Image: Samuel Adams portrait by John Singleton Copley. Public domain.
~Attributed to Samuel Adams.
Image: Samuel Adams portrait by John Singleton Copley. Public domain.
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Due to outdated privacy laws, the Trump administration can easily turn powerful surveillance tools against anyone and everyone, with scant safeguards. Now, ICE says that it plans to make this risk a reality for the swath of Americans who oppose the president’s agenda. bit.ly/3Kq348R
ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
www.brennancenter.org
November 29, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Due to outdated privacy laws, the Trump administration can easily turn powerful surveillance tools against anyone and everyone, with scant safeguards. Now, ICE says that it plans to make this risk a reality for the swath of Americans who oppose the president’s agenda. bit.ly/3Kq348R
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Marco Rubio knew the truth 9 years ago, but he sold his soul for power. Yet he was correct: He will one day have to explain his support for Trump, and this is not going to end well.
November 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Marco Rubio knew the truth 9 years ago, but he sold his soul for power. Yet he was correct: He will one day have to explain his support for Trump, and this is not going to end well.
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EMERGENCY VIDEO: Pete Hegseth at the Center of Disturbing New Boat-Strike Controversy
youtu.be/zxumCAy3nNk
youtu.be/zxumCAy3nNk
EMERGENCY VIDEO: Pete Hegseth at the Center of Disturbing New Boat-Strike Controversy
YouTube video by Adam Kinzinger
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November 29, 2025 at 2:42 AM
EMERGENCY VIDEO: Pete Hegseth at the Center of Disturbing New Boat-Strike Controversy
youtu.be/zxumCAy3nNk
youtu.be/zxumCAy3nNk
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And how exactly will Trump “cure cancer” without science and medical research funding?
November 27, 2025 at 5:14 PM
And how exactly will Trump “cure cancer” without science and medical research funding?
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No matter how long I live after we get through this dark chapter, I will never get over the immorality, the amorality, the corruption, the criminality and the cruelty in service to one of the worst humans to ever walk the earth.
November 26, 2025 at 1:13 AM
No matter how long I live after we get through this dark chapter, I will never get over the immorality, the amorality, the corruption, the criminality and the cruelty in service to one of the worst humans to ever walk the earth.
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Vance loves to deploy fabricated racist fearmongering. First Haitians are eating the pets, now Indigenous people sacrificed children?! Sheesh.
November 27, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Vance loves to deploy fabricated racist fearmongering. First Haitians are eating the pets, now Indigenous people sacrificed children?! Sheesh.
Every accusation is a confession with this regime. All that stuff about weaponizing the Dept. of Justice? That was Trump confessing what he intended to do.
www.reuters.com/investigates...
www.reuters.com/investigates...
Trump’s campaign of retribution: At least 470 targets and counting
A Reuters investigation documents at least 470 acts of retribution under Trump’s leadership.
www.reuters.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Every accusation is a confession with this regime. All that stuff about weaponizing the Dept. of Justice? That was Trump confessing what he intended to do.
www.reuters.com/investigates...
www.reuters.com/investigates...
Thanksgiving isn't the same for everyone. The event it celebrates is viewed as a tragedy by Native Americans.
www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...
www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...
This tribe helped the Pilgrims survive for their first Thanksgiving. They still regret it 400 years later
The Wampanoag tribe, which helped the starving Pilgrims survive, has long been misrepresented in the American story. As the 400th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving nears, the tribe points out that...
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Thanksgiving isn't the same for everyone. The event it celebrates is viewed as a tragedy by Native Americans.
www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...
www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...
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🇺🇦 Zelensky: The crux of the entire diplomatic situation is that it was Russia, and only Russia, that started this war, and it is Russia, and only Russia, that has been refusing to end it throughout the full-scale invasion.
November 23, 2025 at 5:13 PM
🇺🇦 Zelensky: The crux of the entire diplomatic situation is that it was Russia, and only Russia, that started this war, and it is Russia, and only Russia, that has been refusing to end it throughout the full-scale invasion.
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This week’s Just for Skeets and Giggles is out! Have a great weekend. open.substack.com/pub/statusku...
November 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
This week’s Just for Skeets and Giggles is out! Have a great weekend. open.substack.com/pub/statusku...
What happens when the United States boycotts the G20 Economic Summit? The rest of the world moves on without US.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/22/a...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/22/a...
G20 summit in South Africa adopts declaration despite US boycott | CNN
A Group of 20 leaders’ summit in South Africa adopted a declaration addressing the climate crisis and other global challenges on Saturday after it was drafted without U.S. input in a move a White Hous...
www.cnn.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:54 PM
What happens when the United States boycotts the G20 Economic Summit? The rest of the world moves on without US.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/22/a...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/22/a...
Apparently, expecting even handed treatment from this regime is too much. Red states get relief, while blue states can lump it.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Bomb cyclone FEMA denial stings WA as Trump touts aid to red states
A year after Washington's bomb cyclone, the Trump administration has withheld aid even as the president has bragged about awards to states that voted for him.
www.seattletimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Apparently, expecting even handed treatment from this regime is too much. Red states get relief, while blue states can lump it.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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If and when Trump or Hegseth gives the order to fire upon U.S. citizens, the military must remember their oaths are to our Constitution, not to these madmen.
November 21, 2025 at 10:30 PM
If and when Trump or Hegseth gives the order to fire upon U.S. citizens, the military must remember their oaths are to our Constitution, not to these madmen.
If the CDC were a corporate brand, there would be a rush to repair the damage and purge the idiots involved.
The idiot is still in charge.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/20/h...
The idiot is still in charge.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/20/h...
CDC website changed to include false claims that link autism and vaccines | CNN
Scientific information on the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s website was replaced Wednesday with anti-vaccine talking points that don’t rule out a link between vaccines and autism, de...
www.cnn.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:40 PM
If the CDC were a corporate brand, there would be a rush to repair the damage and purge the idiots involved.
The idiot is still in charge.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/20/h...
The idiot is still in charge.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/20/h...
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Tens of thousands of lives could be saved if more people got screened for lung cancer, according to a new study that found too few eligible Americans are being checked for the country’s deadliest cancer before it spreads.
The Key to Fighting Lung Cancer Is More Screenings, New Study Shows
A new report says too few eligible Americans are being checked for the country’s deadliest cancer before it spreads.
nyti.ms
November 19, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Tens of thousands of lives could be saved if more people got screened for lung cancer, according to a new study that found too few eligible Americans are being checked for the country’s deadliest cancer before it spreads.
From the Wall Street Journal, in answer to whether Trump appears in Epstein's emails.
Short answer, yes - in 70% of them.
Hell hath no fury like a BFF scorned.
Short answer, yes - in 70% of them.
Hell hath no fury like a BFF scorned.
November 17, 2025 at 6:41 PM
From the Wall Street Journal, in answer to whether Trump appears in Epstein's emails.
Short answer, yes - in 70% of them.
Hell hath no fury like a BFF scorned.
Short answer, yes - in 70% of them.
Hell hath no fury like a BFF scorned.
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For years QAnon told us the “Storm Is Coming” and Trump would bring it. Now the Storm Is Here, but instead of taking down an elite pedo ring at the top of our government, the evidence shows Trump himself is knee-deep in it. My write-up is in the replies.
November 13, 2025 at 6:45 PM
For years QAnon told us the “Storm Is Coming” and Trump would bring it. Now the Storm Is Here, but instead of taking down an elite pedo ring at the top of our government, the evidence shows Trump himself is knee-deep in it. My write-up is in the replies.
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"Truth Social seemed like it was going to be an echo chamber that did nothing for him. Trump ended up getting even more radicalized while he was in exile at Mar-a-Lago on that platform, marinating in memes. His posts got more unhinged. He got more into QAnon and reposted white supremacist accounts."
“It’s 4chan s**t": The govt's deranged social media presence
"You see Trump administration accounts that look like they’re literally run by Groypers," Charlie Warzel tells us.
www.publicnotice.co
November 13, 2025 at 3:15 PM
"Truth Social seemed like it was going to be an echo chamber that did nothing for him. Trump ended up getting even more radicalized while he was in exile at Mar-a-Lago on that platform, marinating in memes. His posts got more unhinged. He got more into QAnon and reposted white supremacist accounts."
Random gold-painted crap crammed into any empty space seems to be the "go to" theme for the Interior Desecrator and Chief.
November 12, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Random gold-painted crap crammed into any empty space seems to be the "go to" theme for the Interior Desecrator and Chief.
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That gaudy, grotesque place that used to be the Oval Office of which we could be proud? He's only temporarily using that space that we the people own. Let's not let him convince us otherwise. Like any bad tenant, once he’s evicted we can remove the junk left behind.
November 12, 2025 at 4:57 PM
That gaudy, grotesque place that used to be the Oval Office of which we could be proud? He's only temporarily using that space that we the people own. Let's not let him convince us otherwise. Like any bad tenant, once he’s evicted we can remove the junk left behind.