Bill Watson
@playzvinyl.bsky.social
Gamer, vinyl listener, Hoosier, long suffering Colts fan.
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"We'll take our stand for this land & the stranger in our midst..."
Powerful. Brutal. Inspirational. A loving tribute to Renée Good, Alex Pretti & the good people of Minneapolis.
Plus, it name-checks all the villains: the Puppy Killer🐶, Pee-Wee German🇩🇪, the Orange Atrocity🍊💩 & above all: ICE🧊🚫
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Powerful. Brutal. Inspirational. A loving tribute to Renée Good, Alex Pretti & the good people of Minneapolis.
Plus, it name-checks all the villains: the Puppy Killer🐶, Pee-Wee German🇩🇪, the Orange Atrocity🍊💩 & above all: ICE🧊🚫
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 29, 2026 at 9:26 PM
"We'll take our stand for this land & the stranger in our midst..."
Powerful. Brutal. Inspirational. A loving tribute to Renée Good, Alex Pretti & the good people of Minneapolis.
Plus, it name-checks all the villains: the Puppy Killer🐶, Pee-Wee German🇩🇪, the Orange Atrocity🍊💩 & above all: ICE🧊🚫
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Powerful. Brutal. Inspirational. A loving tribute to Renée Good, Alex Pretti & the good people of Minneapolis.
Plus, it name-checks all the villains: the Puppy Killer🐶, Pee-Wee German🇩🇪, the Orange Atrocity🍊💩 & above all: ICE🧊🚫
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Support frontline organizers demanding justice and shutting down ICE in Minnesota chuffed.org/project/supp...
Support frontline organizers demanding justice and shutting down ICE in Minnesota
On January 7, 2026 ICE agents shot and killed Renee Nicole Good amid a sweeping immigration crackdown. On January 24, ICU Nurse and legal observer Alex Jeffrey Pretti was also shot and killed by ICE a...
chuffed.org
January 30, 2026 at 1:41 AM
Support frontline organizers demanding justice and shutting down ICE in Minnesota chuffed.org/project/supp...
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Well, this is an utter disaster for science.
This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next.
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This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next.
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December 16, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Well, this is an utter disaster for science.
This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next.
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This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next.
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BIG TEN CHAMPIONS ‼️
No. 2 Indiana defeats No. 1 Ohio State 13-10 to claim the conference title.
No. 2 Indiana defeats No. 1 Ohio State 13-10 to claim the conference title.
December 7, 2025 at 4:25 AM
BIG TEN CHAMPIONS ‼️
No. 2 Indiana defeats No. 1 Ohio State 13-10 to claim the conference title.
No. 2 Indiana defeats No. 1 Ohio State 13-10 to claim the conference title.
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#CancelSpotify.
Delete the app. Don't use it. They are proudly promoting ICE ads, and the CEO is just a trash human being.
Make an example of one company. All they worship is money. The color green trumps all others.
Delete the app. Don't use it. They are proudly promoting ICE ads, and the CEO is just a trash human being.
Make an example of one company. All they worship is money. The color green trumps all others.
November 2, 2025 at 9:04 PM
#CancelSpotify.
Delete the app. Don't use it. They are proudly promoting ICE ads, and the CEO is just a trash human being.
Make an example of one company. All they worship is money. The color green trumps all others.
Delete the app. Don't use it. They are proudly promoting ICE ads, and the CEO is just a trash human being.
Make an example of one company. All they worship is money. The color green trumps all others.
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My husband was detained by ICE today
Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away
I have had zero contact or updates since
#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov
Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away
I have had zero contact or updates since
#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov
October 3, 2025 at 5:12 PM
My husband was detained by ICE today
Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away
I have had zero contact or updates since
#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov
Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away
I have had zero contact or updates since
#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov
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they announced this on a Friday night in the summer www.ucs.org/about/news/e...
EPA Will Close Its Scientific Research Arm
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said today that it will close its Office of Research and Development and begin firing hundreds of scientists.
www.ucs.org
July 19, 2025 at 2:27 PM
they announced this on a Friday night in the summer www.ucs.org/about/news/e...
We need Colbert’s bold and frank commentary now as much as ever, and we need to stop corporations like CBS from cowing to political intimidation of this administration. Add your name to the petition to demand they reverse their decision and keep Colbert on air! sign.moveon.org/petitions/co...
Keep Colbert on Air!
We need Colbert’s bold and frank commentary now as much as ever, and we need to stop corporations like CBS from cowing to political intimidation of this administration. Add your name to the petition t...
sign.moveon.org
July 19, 2025 at 11:47 PM
We need Colbert’s bold and frank commentary now as much as ever, and we need to stop corporations like CBS from cowing to political intimidation of this administration. Add your name to the petition to demand they reverse their decision and keep Colbert on air! sign.moveon.org/petitions/co...
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Alex Kydd
Ocean, Nature & Travel Photographer
Ocean, Nature & Travel Photographer
July 17, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Alex Kydd
Ocean, Nature & Travel Photographer
Ocean, Nature & Travel Photographer
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Democrats Back Resolution Thanking Federal Agents For Handcuffing Alex Padilla
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June 13, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Democrats Back Resolution Thanking Federal Agents For Handcuffing Alex Padilla
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theonion.com/democra...
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in so many videos out of LA i am seeing officers aiming rubber bullets right into crowds, this is filling me with a deep and anxious rage knowing what happens when they do that
www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
Journalist shot by Minneapolis police during 2020 protests dying from injuries
Linda Tirado was in Minneapolis from out of state covering the protests and rioting when police shot her in the face with a rubber bullet, also known as a "less-lethal" round.
www.cbsnews.com
June 9, 2025 at 1:25 AM
in so many videos out of LA i am seeing officers aiming rubber bullets right into crowds, this is filling me with a deep and anxious rage knowing what happens when they do that
www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
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The Department of Education was deep into an investigation of a school district where students allegedly played whipping sounds from their phones during a lesson about slavery.
Then in March, Trump fired all of the employees working on the case.
Then in March, Trump fired all of the employees working on the case.
A Gutted Education Department’s New Agenda: Roll Back Civil Rights Cases, Target Transgender Students
The Trump administration is subverting the traditional priorities of the department’s decimated civil rights office by making discrimination investigations practically impossible — instead enforcing…
www.propublica.org
June 1, 2025 at 3:30 AM
The Department of Education was deep into an investigation of a school district where students allegedly played whipping sounds from their phones during a lesson about slavery.
Then in March, Trump fired all of the employees working on the case.
Then in March, Trump fired all of the employees working on the case.
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Trump has deported a four-year-old US citizen with a rare form of metastatic cancer without medication or consultation with their doctor.
Trump Has Now Deported Multiple U.S. Citizen Children With Cancer
Two families who had lived in the United States for years, including a child with cancer and a pregnant mother, were deported by ICE on Friday.
www.rollingstone.com
April 27, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Trump has deported a four-year-old US citizen with a rare form of metastatic cancer without medication or consultation with their doctor.
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Reggie Miller got choked up when Stephen Jackson apologized for his part in the Malice at the Palace on the All the Smoke podcast.
Both former Pacers discussed that night and much more.
ipacers.com/2025/04/24/r...
Both former Pacers discussed that night and much more.
ipacers.com/2025/04/24/r...
Reggie Miller tears up after Stephen Jackson apologizes for Malice at the Palace
Reggie Miller got emotional during his appearance on the All the Smoke podcast when Stephen Jackson started the conversation with an apology for his part in the brawl between the Indiana Pacers and…
ipacers.com
April 25, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Reggie Miller got choked up when Stephen Jackson apologized for his part in the Malice at the Palace on the All the Smoke podcast.
Both former Pacers discussed that night and much more.
ipacers.com/2025/04/24/r...
Both former Pacers discussed that night and much more.
ipacers.com/2025/04/24/r...
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Why, thou picture of what thou seemest, and idol of idiot-worshippers
April 12, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Why, thou picture of what thou seemest, and idol of idiot-worshippers
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No lawmaker in Congress should be able to own, buy, and sell individual stocks.
We need to ban congressional stock trading—and I've got a bill for that.
We need to ban congressional stock trading—and I've got a bill for that.
April 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
No lawmaker in Congress should be able to own, buy, and sell individual stocks.
We need to ban congressional stock trading—and I've got a bill for that.
We need to ban congressional stock trading—and I've got a bill for that.
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Friday opinion dump: Indiana's secretary of state should be impeached.
Diego Morales is rubbing our faces in his corruption. Impeach him now. | Opinion
Diego Morales has free rein to treat taxpayers and donors as his personal entitlements. Impeachment is the only check on his abuse.
www.indystar.com
April 4, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Friday opinion dump: Indiana's secretary of state should be impeached.
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I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
April 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
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Kill a white millionaire, get the death penalty. Kill two black protesters, get invited to CPAC to be celebrated.
April 1, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Kill a white millionaire, get the death penalty. Kill two black protesters, get invited to CPAC to be celebrated.
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Instead of stealing Greenland from Denmark, let’s steal some of their policies.
In Denmark:
- Health care and college are free.
- The starting wage is $22/hr.
- Paid parental leave is 1 year.
- Paid vacation is 6 weeks.
- All workers get pensions.
In Denmark:
- Health care and college are free.
- The starting wage is $22/hr.
- Paid parental leave is 1 year.
- Paid vacation is 6 weeks.
- All workers get pensions.
March 29, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Instead of stealing Greenland from Denmark, let’s steal some of their policies.
In Denmark:
- Health care and college are free.
- The starting wage is $22/hr.
- Paid parental leave is 1 year.
- Paid vacation is 6 weeks.
- All workers get pensions.
In Denmark:
- Health care and college are free.
- The starting wage is $22/hr.
- Paid parental leave is 1 year.
- Paid vacation is 6 weeks.
- All workers get pensions.
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I appreciate that Jeffrey Goldberg did not sit on this news for a book that he writes two years from now
March 26, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I appreciate that Jeffrey Goldberg did not sit on this news for a book that he writes two years from now
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This is what we’ve come to, and so quickly.
March 23, 2025 at 2:30 PM
This is what we’ve come to, and so quickly.
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