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eteel.bsky.social
Dog walker. Law talkin’ guy. Believer in liberty for everyone - no exceptions. 🗽 Somewhere in Maine. 🌲
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who are these men, by what right and authority do they purport to be manhandling and abducting this woman, and why does nobody there physically stand up to them and help defend her?

submitted 10 hours ago • 33 comments

This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

submitted 5 days ago • 8249 comments

I get the speed & brutality of massive destructive power grabs but I have yet to see anything that explains in any way how Trump to say nothing of musk are free to operate purely by malign fiat, untwisted, as sole owners of a country that had rules & cops & g-men & bench warrants til three weeks ago

submitted 6 days ago • 58 comments

I am really outdone. The Maryland National Guard cannot celebrate Frederick Douglass, the state’s native son and perhaps the greatest American this nation ever produced, because he’s Black and his chosen birthday happened to fall during Black History Month. (Ask me why he had to choose is b-day)

submitted 8 days ago • 77 comments

Trump just was the Nobel peace prize. I don’t think sending in US troops to fight for peace is gonna help.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

"This is one of the most talent-dense events we do," one Army recruiter told Military.com. “Our footprint there has always been significant. We need the talent." 24 percent of Army enlistees are Black. To be clear: the DEI purge has nothing to do wjth meritocracy.

submitted 12 days ago • 13 comments

MAJOR BREAKING: Pope Francis has written a letter to US Bishops saying he’s following “major crisis” of “mass deportations;” takes on Vance saying “The true ordo amoris that must be promoted is that which we discover by meditating constantly on the parable of the “Good Samaritan”

submitted 12 days ago • 305 comments

Darren Beattie, the new head of public diplomacy at State, spent January 6 telling various black people — including Tim Scott — to “learn their place” and “take a knee to MAGA” www.thebulwark.com/p/even-as-hi...

submitted 20 days ago • 199 comments

NEWS --> Dems fear a Defense Department IG review of Elon Musk's flouting of security protocol as a big recipient of Pentagon contracts is now dead under Trump. DOD launched the probe in 2024, but then Trump fired DOD's IG, so what happened to that probe? New piece: newrepublic.com/article/1913...

submitted 15 days ago • 78 comments

Some rays of hope here.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

No one's blaming Democrats for causing this crisis, but yes, many of them are failing to meet this moment. One Democratic senator could bring the chamber to a halt. House Dems can go to fed agencies being gutted by Musk with cameras in tow. Governors can push back. State AGs can bring lawsuits.

submitted 21 days ago • 770 comments

I can’t find any archival evidence that that the Langston Hughes poem circulating here today is authentic so here is a sourced Hughes poem, Beaumont to Detroit, 1943, published that year in the magazine Common Ground, in which he compares Hitler and Mussolini to American Jim Crow and the KKK

submitted 21 days ago • 25 comments

Apparently not satisfied with owning the libs, MAGA goes after the elderly and the poor www.bangordailynews.com/2025/01/28/h...

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Whatever money people gave to the DNC would be much better spent supporting independent media. go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

MAGA is: Pro-political violence, anti-science, anti-personal liberty, and anti-civil rights. It is dependent on disinformation and lies. It represents hate, bigotry and cruelty. It is a clear and present danger to this country. Trump will go away eventually. MAGA must be destroyed.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments