Peter Ramsey
@dorjun.bsky.social
Retired mailman who remembers when social media was strapped out, thrown in a bag, and walked up your street. Lefty creds: I voted for George McGovern.
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Obama:
"The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy... Our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.
The President & current admin officials seem eager to escalate the situation while offering public explanations.. that appear to be directly contradicted by video evidence."
"The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy... Our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.
The President & current admin officials seem eager to escalate the situation while offering public explanations.. that appear to be directly contradicted by video evidence."
January 25, 2026 at 6:32 PM
Obama:
"The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy... Our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.
The President & current admin officials seem eager to escalate the situation while offering public explanations.. that appear to be directly contradicted by video evidence."
"The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy... Our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.
The President & current admin officials seem eager to escalate the situation while offering public explanations.. that appear to be directly contradicted by video evidence."
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The great Ray Benson with a shimmering version of Guy Clark's classic "Dublin Blues."
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Ray Benson sings a classic Guy Clark hit
YouTube video by Country Road TV
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January 23, 2026 at 3:46 AM
The great Ray Benson with a shimmering version of Guy Clark's classic "Dublin Blues."
youtu.be/QJJzH8En6C8?...
youtu.be/QJJzH8En6C8?...
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The only "myths" are in the minds of maga. The rest of the world clearly saw Trump supporters storming the capital, beating police officers & entering the chambers. It's all on video.
January 7, 2026 at 12:20 AM
The only "myths" are in the minds of maga. The rest of the world clearly saw Trump supporters storming the capital, beating police officers & entering the chambers. It's all on video.
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Morgan Rogers double sinks Manchester United and keeps Aston Villa on leaders’ heels
Morgan Rogers double sinks Manchester United and keeps Aston Villa on leaders’ heels
There is simply no stopping this Aston Villa machine, cylinders pumping, exclusively handcrafted by Unai Emery, the manager who reacted to Morgan Rogers’s winning goal against Manchester United by launching his jacket into the night sky. “Birmingham, are you listening?” came the chorus from the home support but this was another victory with wider implications.
For now Villa, third and three points behind Premier League leaders Arsenal, are firmly in the title race, two more brilliant Rogers goals earning a 10th straight win in all competitions and rendering Matheus Cunha’s well-taken equaliser nothing more than a consolation. A frustrating defeat for Ruben Amorim was compounded by his captain, Bruno Fernandes, being forced off through injury at half-time. Continue reading...
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December 21, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Morgan Rogers double sinks Manchester United and keeps Aston Villa on leaders’ heels
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December 20, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Q: You have differences when it comes to ICE agents in NYC. How do you reconcile them?
TRUMP: We're gonna work them out. The mayor wants to have a safe New York. We're gonna work together.
TRUMP: We're gonna work them out. The mayor wants to have a safe New York. We're gonna work together.
November 21, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Q: You have differences when it comes to ICE agents in NYC. How do you reconcile them?
TRUMP: We're gonna work them out. The mayor wants to have a safe New York. We're gonna work together.
TRUMP: We're gonna work them out. The mayor wants to have a safe New York. We're gonna work together.
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somebody change his diaper
September 18, 2025 at 8:23 PM
somebody change his diaper
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When I last used Twitter the app kept swapping me off the Following tab without telling me and it wasn’t always obvious when it happened
And even in Following the replies were garbage
Using it became more of me fighting it to get what I wanted, rather than a tool that helped me. So I bailed
And even in Following the replies were garbage
Using it became more of me fighting it to get what I wanted, rather than a tool that helped me. So I bailed
August 22, 2025 at 2:55 PM
When I last used Twitter the app kept swapping me off the Following tab without telling me and it wasn’t always obvious when it happened
And even in Following the replies were garbage
Using it became more of me fighting it to get what I wanted, rather than a tool that helped me. So I bailed
And even in Following the replies were garbage
Using it became more of me fighting it to get what I wanted, rather than a tool that helped me. So I bailed
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I want to be clear: this is what American prisons are like.
I spent years posting about the humanitarian crisis in U.S. prisons. The criminal legal system consigns Americans who are incarcerated to live like this FOR YEARS. DECADES.
I spent years posting about the humanitarian crisis in U.S. prisons. The criminal legal system consigns Americans who are incarcerated to live like this FOR YEARS. DECADES.
July 16, 2025 at 11:02 PM
I want to be clear: this is what American prisons are like.
I spent years posting about the humanitarian crisis in U.S. prisons. The criminal legal system consigns Americans who are incarcerated to live like this FOR YEARS. DECADES.
I spent years posting about the humanitarian crisis in U.S. prisons. The criminal legal system consigns Americans who are incarcerated to live like this FOR YEARS. DECADES.
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This is huge. The Trump administration wants to vastly expand the practice of shipping people to random countries they have never been to before, and are now making this part of a threat; either the countries accept taking third country nationals, or they get banned from visas.
Yet another Trump shakedown www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
June 15, 2025 at 3:18 PM
This is huge. The Trump administration wants to vastly expand the practice of shipping people to random countries they have never been to before, and are now making this part of a threat; either the countries accept taking third country nationals, or they get banned from visas.
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New in PN: Adam Serwer on America's "new dark age"
"They see this as a long-term investment in a more ignorant population reliant on sources of information they can control — a docile population that can be easily manipulated." — @adamserwer.bsky.social
"They see this as a long-term investment in a more ignorant population reliant on sources of information they can control — a docile population that can be easily manipulated." — @adamserwer.bsky.social
Adam Serwer on America's "new dark age"
"They see this as a long-term investment in a more ignorant population reliant on sources of information they can control."
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June 7, 2025 at 1:27 PM
New in PN: Adam Serwer on America's "new dark age"
"They see this as a long-term investment in a more ignorant population reliant on sources of information they can control — a docile population that can be easily manipulated." — @adamserwer.bsky.social
"They see this as a long-term investment in a more ignorant population reliant on sources of information they can control — a docile population that can be easily manipulated." — @adamserwer.bsky.social
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When a federal judge starts a ruling about the government's actions with an extended retelling of Kafka's "The Trial," you know the state of democracy in the good old US of A is in tip-top shape 🙃
Judge Boasberg's intro to the J.G.G. class cert. starts with Kafka.
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![One morning, Kafka’s Josef K. awakens to encounter two strange men outside his room.
As he gets his bearings, he realizes that he is under arrest. When he asks the strangers why, he
receives no answer. “We weren’t sent to tell you that,” one says. “Proceedings are under way
and you’ll learn everything in due course.” Franz Kafka, The Trial 5 (Breon Mitchell trans.,
Schocken Books Inc. 1998). Bewildered by these men and distressed by their message, K. tries
to comfort himself that he lives in “a state governed by law,” one where “all statutes [are] in
force.” Id. at 6. He therefore demands again, “How can I be under arrest? And in this manner?”
“Now there you go again,” the guard replies. “We don’t answer such questions.” Undeterred, K.
offers his “papers” and demands their arrest warrant. “Good heavens!” the man scolds. “There’s
been no mistake.” “[O]ur department,” he assures K., is only “attracted by guilt”; it “doesn’t
seek [it] out . . . . That’s the Law.” Id. at 8–9. “I don’t know that law,” K. responds. “You’ll feel
it eventually,” the guard says. Id. at 9.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:24vva42nxim6zbcmnozegoef/bafkreihqu2ltxtejo74ua7znl7sifigkenohhszydiphitdvuvaf7qagka@jpeg)
June 4, 2025 at 9:19 PM
When a federal judge starts a ruling about the government's actions with an extended retelling of Kafka's "The Trial," you know the state of democracy in the good old US of A is in tip-top shape 🙃
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I know this is super obvious, but: The United States government threatening foreign students with disappearing them to prison camps in El Salvador because they exercised their constitutionally guaranteed right to freedom of speech and assembly is so incredibly dark, disgusting, and dangerous.
March 30, 2025 at 2:13 AM
I know this is super obvious, but: The United States government threatening foreign students with disappearing them to prison camps in El Salvador because they exercised their constitutionally guaranteed right to freedom of speech and assembly is so incredibly dark, disgusting, and dangerous.
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The escalating self-gleichschaltung of those in charge of America’s elite institutions is pathetic, sad, and incredibly dangerous.
NPR CEO Katherine Maher on a tweet she posted in 2020 calling Trump a fascist and a sociopath: "I regret those tweets. I would not tweet them again today. They represented a time where I was reflecting on something I believe that the president had said rather than who he is."
March 29, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The escalating self-gleichschaltung of those in charge of America’s elite institutions is pathetic, sad, and incredibly dangerous.
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It's revealing that Musk is now going on Fox to protest his firing squads are misunderstood. But it's important to focus on the core issue. Musk says they're actually using a scalpel not a hatchet. There's no gratuitous cruelty, just careful concern. They've hardly fired anyone, despite ...
March 28, 2025 at 9:52 PM
It's revealing that Musk is now going on Fox to protest his firing squads are misunderstood. But it's important to focus on the core issue. Musk says they're actually using a scalpel not a hatchet. There's no gratuitous cruelty, just careful concern. They've hardly fired anyone, despite ...
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He's become such a morally-depraved MAGA bootlicker. Amazing he once called Trump "America's Hitler".
Now here he is from within Greenland running a propaganda campaign to convince people there to give up their country.
Now here he is from within Greenland running a propaganda campaign to convince people there to give up their country.
March 28, 2025 at 6:53 PM
He's become such a morally-depraved MAGA bootlicker. Amazing he once called Trump "America's Hitler".
Now here he is from within Greenland running a propaganda campaign to convince people there to give up their country.
Now here he is from within Greenland running a propaganda campaign to convince people there to give up their country.
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Honestly they deserve Tim Pool — they're the greatest collective disgrace to the profession of journalism that our country has ever produced. The last journalist worth her salt in that set was Helen Thomas, and she died a dozen years back. /1
March 28, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Honestly they deserve Tim Pool — they're the greatest collective disgrace to the profession of journalism that our country has ever produced. The last journalist worth her salt in that set was Helen Thomas, and she died a dozen years back. /1
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The right has jumped the shark.
March 28, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The right has jumped the shark.
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On a daily basis, I marvel at how many people in putative positions of power are willing to help obliterate American democracy. The US has faced a series of very easy moral tests in the past decade and it’s staggering how often people in once-respected positions have failed.
March 19, 2025 at 7:46 PM
On a daily basis, I marvel at how many people in putative positions of power are willing to help obliterate American democracy. The US has faced a series of very easy moral tests in the past decade and it’s staggering how often people in once-respected positions have failed.
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Some of his readers have asked Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social why his technology news site, Tech Dirt, has been covering politics so intensely lately. www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w...
I cannot recommend Mike's reply enough. It's exactly what readers need to hear, what journalists need to do.
I cannot recommend Mike's reply enough. It's exactly what readers need to hear, what journalists need to do.
March 7, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Some of his readers have asked Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social why his technology news site, Tech Dirt, has been covering politics so intensely lately. www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w...
I cannot recommend Mike's reply enough. It's exactly what readers need to hear, what journalists need to do.
I cannot recommend Mike's reply enough. It's exactly what readers need to hear, what journalists need to do.