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derickson.bsky.social

Sr. Director of AI & Emerging Technologies, guitarist, MN Vikings & Twins fan, curious customer.

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LMFAO 😂 it’s zero people for the 🤡 clown show.

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“No Kings” demonstration, Ocean Beach, San Francisco

submitted 4 hours ago • 324 comments

2,300 people showed up for the #NoKings rally in Chaska, #Minnesota today in defense of liberty, freedom, and the American way.

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

"No Kings must break through to normies, independents, and Trump voters feeling remorse...Size is persuasion...If 100,000 people show up for Trump’s parade, but 5,000,000 people turn out across the country for No Kings rallies, who looks strong and who looks weak?" www.thebulwark.com/p/no-kings-n...

submitted 1 day ago • 57 comments

Hello from Berlin where a few hundred Americans are outside the embassy, currently reading aloud from the Declaration of Independence. #nokings

submitted 11 hours ago • 427 comments

The parade and celebrations for the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army are another step in an ongoing effort to turn the U.S. military into a partisan—and personal—instrument of the president, Graham Parsons writes:

submitted 10 hours ago • 20 comments

My kids know an American flag when they see one – but they don't yet know all that it represents. When they're old enough, here is what I'm going to tell them:

submitted 11 hours ago • 448 comments

A very important story. Pam Hemphill, who is a hero, was disinvited from a rally because the organizers would not “forgive” her. This is how oppositions fail reedgalen.substack.com/p/dear-rally...

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Hitler arrested his political rivals as well. Dachau was originally built to imprison them Anyone seeing a pattern here ?

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Just a friendly reminder that America is not a nation of immigrants. America is THE nation of immigrants.

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W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee: “Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”

submitted 3 days ago • 311 comments

From the New Yorker, 2018. I was so ahead of my time.

submitted 3 days ago • 25 comments

NEW: The Trump administration cut research funding that sought cures for future pandemics, examined the causes of dementia and tried to prevent HIV transmission. ProPublica heard from more than 150 researchers to understand the work that’s been lost.

submitted 2 days ago • 25 comments

💯👇 #FreePress #FreedomOfSpeech

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If any protestors encounter members of the National Guard, I encourage them to talk to the NG folks, maybe offer them an energy bar or a bottle of Gatorade, and ask them, are they feeding you? Are they paying you to risk your life and stand in the hot sun for hours in full gear? Commiserate

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Watching the right now oppose the part of the second amendment that guarantees a well regulated militia under state control is… something.

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Sanders is too far left for my tastes but he is 💯% correct on each and every word he spoke here.👇

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