Calvin
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Calvin
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A round of ocean water martinis for the table please
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Your mountainish inhumanity
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 3:25 PM
I will keep sharing my amateur film shots until morale improves.
Shot on an Olympus Pen-EE half-frame with kodak 200 gold. I can't help it, I like the grain and color that have been co-opted as an instagram filter look! Friggin sue me!
#photoraphy #filmphotography #film
February 1, 2026 at 1:07 AM
BTW the "choice" in question is opposing the regime. Which puts you into the category of nonperson and not protected by law or decency, thus you can be murdered. They see all opposition as illegitimate insurgency and treat it as such!
Q: Between your agency and ICE, we've known seen 2 people shot and killed with 17 days. Do either of you plan to take any accountability?

BOVINO: You're correct. Two suspects have been shot. And suspects that assault or threaten a law enforcement officer's life, it goes back to poor choices.
January 26, 2026 at 9:29 PM
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I just thought everyone should see this
January 22, 2026 at 11:02 PM
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Trump is not omnipotent. He exists within a web of institutions. His authority is not unlimited. It appears that way largely because his allies occupy key places — Congress — that could provide a meaningful check. Important to understand his actual reach and the limits of that reach. (14/14)
January 15, 2026 at 10:17 PM
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At one point today, there were 283 Minnesota attorneys doing a training on how to file emergency habeas petitions to keep our neighbors from being shipped out of state and held indefinitely.

That would be the second largest law firm in the state. And that training was just put together this week.
January 15, 2026 at 11:48 PM
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Congratulations to Brett Kavanaugh bsky.app/profile/ajco...
"“They specifically asked me if I knew where the Hmong families lived on my street & in the neighborhood.” Lugert-Thom responded, “I don’t know anything about that” & she said they then asked, “Well, what about the Asian families?”"

"“I was a bit shaken & a bit shocked of what I was asked to do.”"
A St. Paul resident says federal officers knocked on her door and asked her to identify Hmong and Asian households in her North End neighborhood last week.
January 14, 2026 at 2:19 PM
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rare to see an american politician speak in these terms and it rocks
“When I speak about making our city more affordable, my vision is not limited to the homes that we live in or the child care that we’re making universal — it’s also a vision where we make it possible for working people to afford lives of joy, of art, of rest, of expression.”
Handing Out Free Tickets, Mamdani Says Theater Should Not Be ‘a Luxury’
www.nytimes.com
January 10, 2026 at 2:48 AM
It feels like a relief that a lot of my politics have gotten less finicky and complicated in the last 10 years or so. Like, basic human dignity and freedom is a framework that covers a lot of handwringing! And "people should be kind". Maybe a result of evil being ever coarser
January 9, 2026 at 5:43 PM
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basically; “the summary execution of americans on the streets is a land of contrast”

this guy is a true airhead. just nothing between those ears.
New CBS News anchor Tony Dokoupil closing the broadcast from MN last night.
January 9, 2026 at 1:22 PM
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i think american life would improve significantly and quickly if society was more encouraging of people to have Hobbies. the most perfect and serene state of mind that exists is when one is Doing one's Little Things
January 6, 2026 at 5:50 PM
The US doesn't need Venezuelan oil fields btw. We produce the most in the world by a good margin, and have for years. I truly think the attack on Venezuela was about braindead immigrant scapegoating (immigrants=drugs=venezuela=bad) first and foremost. Trumps shadow viziers have no serious next step!
January 3, 2026 at 11:42 PM
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My new years resolution to become the world's dog stupidest most violent ugly dying pedophile is already facing some tough competition. Can't say more!
January 3, 2026 at 9:53 PM
I am positive that he thinks Black people have blood like nickelodeon gak. And that white gentile blood could be what's in the Phial of Galadriel.
2/ he takes a dose of aspirin that’s too high for him now but refuses to lower it because he’s always taken that dose and doesn’t want “thick blood.”
January 2, 2026 at 11:51 PM
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I posted this on Threads in a reply but that site is a dead zone for me (was it something I said?) Anyway here's a screen shot because characters are limited here:

AI can't create art...
January 2, 2026 at 6:42 AM
Not mindful not organized not driven heading into 2026 let's friggin go
January 1, 2026 at 11:05 PM
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Happy every horse's birthday (northern hemisphere)
January 1, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Fuuuuck you frontier, delaying my 11pm flight by 3 hours, then your seating hangout area (away from gate) w chargers is the only place around with ice cold a/c blasting.
December 29, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Got a BIG laugh from my amicable ex at the Christmas party. I still got it folks
December 21, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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muppet christmas carol (happy holidays!)
December 21, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Shutting down NCAR. Maybe the only place I've ever thought of as a dream job and, if this goes through, it will be gutted for decades or destroyed outright. I haven't formally worked there yet but probably never will. Ugghhh.
December 18, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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It’s simply not possible to overstate how important NCAR is to US and world science. We need to fight this with everything we’ve got.
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
bit.ly
December 17, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
December 16, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Anyone who thinks they don't have the skills to write a book, I promise that you can. This guy is 4x published despite his demonstrated talent and humiliation kink!
As we see in the replies from the hardcore bluesky fans, the counter view isn't that the right is more dangerous than I think it's that Elon Twitter is more rigged than I think so there's no point in participating.
December 16, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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this fact is the definitive judgment on kirk's life
ultimately, no one even grieved Charlie Kirk. he was just another thing for the worst people on earth to get outraged over. and when the outrage of real events wasn't enough, they invented new ones.

not even his wife saw his death as anything other than an opportunity.
my read is they were trying to whip up the usual frenzy, but then the effort got blown up by Candace Owens saying The Jews did it
December 12, 2025 at 6:10 PM