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fitzmurphy.bsky.social
Just another old guy wandering the world looking for a decent cup of coffee, a place to sit, read some books and listen to good music. Supporting the good, kind, decent, creative and caring people in the world.
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I listened to AOC and Bernie Sanders and I'm feeling hopeful.... Not many good things to watch but these Rallies are what is needed. 🤗 @aoc.bsky.social

Over 30,000 turn out for Bernie Sanders, AOC rally in Denver amid push for progressive change - CBS Colorado www.cbsnews.com/colorado/new...

We've seen these crowd sizes, this enthusiasm, before when Kamala Harris was running for President. I will never believe she did not win.

Today the Bernie and AOC #FightOligarchy tour rally is at the Catalina High School Football Stadium in Tuscon, AZ. It’s already filling up! ✨✨ ✊ DO NOT OBEY IN ADVANCE! #Resist #FightFascism #Bernie #AOC #Arizona #Authoritarianianism

Hey, Politico -- I consider myself to have "long-term standing in the private legal community" and I have been willing to speak out almost every single day. And, I'm not alone. Yes, there is widespread cowardice among law firms, but don't ignore those refusing to bow down. Defiantly, Marc Elias

found the best possible campaign ad for these trying times

SULLIVAN: “I do not care about the economy if the government claims it can break down anyone's doors, seize anyone with no due process, put them on a plane, and send them to a foreign jail… that is fundamental to this country.” 🇺🇸

The Sunday shows are keeping it real—Schumer gave away the game for nothing. Jen Psaki lays out what he could have done. He played this wrong on every level. And with a Social Security, Medicare, and a tax cut fight coming, do you really want @schumer.senate.gov leading the fight?!

Mike Waltz can't explain why the State Department cut off funding to a program that finds Ukrainian kids who were abducted by the Putin regime

My latest: on Trump's reckless immigration villainy open.substack.com/pub/joyannre...

Heres American Making a prediction for the country.

What the hell is wrong with men? www.tmz.com/2025/03/22/h...

#EndOligarchy #Resist

www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2tkMoe9/ That asshole is a Russian asset, and we have known it for decades. The question I have is, why did we allow it. Why did the FBI not treat him like the spy his is?

In 1960, role models of women scientists were difficult to find. I checked this out of my local public library numerous times while being repeatedly told that "girls can't be scientists". 📚 #BookSky #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM #WomenHistoryMonth #WeCanNotGoBack #A-Dream-Deferred

Some big wins and behind the scenes news to share here… niallharbison.substack.com/p/a-huge-wav...

Horrific

This absolutely should happen - but we live in America, so it probably won't. Nixon was the last GOP president who was held even semi-accountable for his crimes.

What really infuriates me is that ALL of this and I MEAN ALL OF THIS could be over LITERALLY TOMORROW if we had 12 republicans with a soul, and balls.

Thank you @aoc.bsky.social and @sanders.senate.gov for stepping up and being real leaders for Democracy! Now it’s time for the rest of our elected officials to do the same! #Colorado

People who appease authoritarians always wind up being left alone after that, right? That’s how it works? You knuckle under once, and they don’t ask you to compromise your morals again. I assume that’s what all of history and political science suggest, or why do it, right?

Figured I’d hop on here today for the 15th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act. With everything going on right now, it’s easy to feel like regular folks can’t make a difference – but the ACA is a reminder that change is possible when we fight for progress.

“The zeal with which these guys are engaging in increasingly open, authoritarian behavior is unlike anything [we’ve] seen. Erdogan, Chavez, Orban — they hid it.” But it’s an illusion to think this all happened overnight. The judicial path was prepared for 50 years www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/w...

How does anyone justify this anymore? If you do, I'm sorry, you're a genocidal psychopath. I hope someone in your life intervenes and talks to you about how you've completely dehumanized an entire people and become blinded by your hate and racism. www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...

Kyiv right now! Russia attacks the city with drones

My Saturday morning coffee I must be the most trustworthy scientist ever, since I say fuck very frequently 🤣

An empty seat townhall for Senators Hawley and Schmitt in Waldo…

Those Paul Weiss has betrayed include lawyers who have worked with the firm and law professors who have steered their students there. Belonging to both groups, I feel doubly betrayed. That once great firm should back out of its Trump deal. Better late than never! www.thebulwark.com/p/disgusted-...

Huge dipshit obviously, but also extremely telling that for the DUI hire "military planning" consists solely of field-grade exercises and company-level instruction

Nailed it!’🔨☺️☮️💙🌊🐕‍🦺

Five years ago today, we were all put into lockdown, and I made one of the biggest decisions of my life to start cycling. What began as a necessity, commuting to work as a key worker, quickly turned into a passion.

In 1989, Gladys and Nelson Gonzalez fled to the United States, seeking asylum from the violence and drugs consuming their native Colombia. They built a beautiful life and family in Southern California. They followed all the immigration protocols. They continually pursued…

I wouldn't listen to him if I were them

Attorneys, you must speak up. We can’t capitulate.

Fellow members of the Bar:

Read this @sabs.bsky.social interview with my friend @co2ley.bsky.social, who was fired at NOAA as the Director of the Ocean Acidification Program (OAP) and later reinstated but placed on administrative leave. Disclaimer: Some of my work on marine CO₂ removal (mCDR) is funded by OAP.

@jctrevino9.bsky.social Thanks for following me.

I own guns. I'm an Army vet, FBI-certified firearms instructor, and a retired Deputy Sheriff. It is just common sense that some people should not drive a car, perform brain surgery, or own a gun. Laws and rules to practice medicine or to drive a car are OK, but gun laws are not. Why?