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kirbyjr.bsky.social
Liberal Democrat. Husband, father and grandfather. 34 years experience building and managing complex eLearning systems. 12 years consulting in East Africa. Founder & former VP at Michigan Virtual, and former Distinguished Professor at LCC.
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Ramblings of a mad man.

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submitted 44 days ago • 714 comments

Just going to repost my essay "Decapitation Strike" essay from November. We are living through it now. snyder.substack.com/p/decapitati...

submitted 52 days ago • 11 comments

Do it as soon as possible 'My plan is to blow the whistle': Fired FTC official puts Trump on notice www.rawstory.com/trump-bedoya...

submitted 57 days ago • 6 comments

It’s like the malign and the stupid are in a race every day.

submitted 57 days ago • 63 comments

As I told @TheGuardian, DOJ’s halt of corruption enforcement efforts harms consumers and other members of the public.

submitted 67 days ago • 33 comments

And so here it is all laid out. The intention to overturn the Civil Rights Act,to dismantle the Dept of Education, to bankrupt leading universities, to replace liberal arts education w/something that conservatives haven’t created & don’t have the educators to create. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/o...

submitted 67 days ago • 114 comments

"My hope now is that we see more Democrats embrace independent media. My hope is that we see them let their guard down and go into uncomfortable spaces and take risks and forget about the polls and be a lot more real so that we know who they are and what they’re doing and how they’re fighting back."

submitted 67 days ago • 74 comments

“We are watching the authoritarian playbook unfold at an intense pace, often making it hard to grasp how interconnected the antagonistic acts are…If they succeed at blocking free speech & silencing dissent, the ability to know what’s true & false will grow dimmer.” open.substack.com/pub/america/...

submitted 67 days ago • 26 comments

Saguaro National Monument, Tucson AZ.

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

Mike Myers Makes Surprise “SNL” Cameo as Elon Musk in Cold-Open Spoof of Zelenskyy’s Disastrous Meeting with Trump: Watch people.com/mike-myers-m...

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“Let’s not underestimate the seismic shift away from Trump’s America that Friday’s Oval Office assault is causing and will accelerate around the world. Every democratic nation that assumed America was its ally must now reassess its relationship.” www.americaamerica.news/p/as-trump-w...

submitted 74 days ago • 42 comments

FULL PAGE AD in today’s NYT by Cuban American businessman Mike Fernandez savaging the Trump Administration and calling for 5 GOP senators: McConnell, Murkowski, Collins, Tillis, & Curtis to band together to stop him.

submitted 74 days ago • 6 comments

New in PN: @marceldirsus.bsky.social on the rise and fall of tyrants "Democracies can survive a lot, but they collapse when soldiers, police officers, and intelligence agents no longer serve the state ... that's sort of the absolute worst-case scenario."

submitted 74 days ago • 128 comments

Seems like why the meeting imploded was more like "Trump is senile and has lost all impulse control and JD Vance is pickled in online fash propaganda" www.semafor.com/article/02/2...

submitted 77 days ago • 222 comments

An interview with my brilliant cousin Dr. Flu. www.npr.org/2025/02/23/n...

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

I’m pretty sure the number of Nazi salutes at an event that makes it a Nazi rally is one but I guess it’s nice all these CPAC speakers are offering confirmation

submitted 83 days ago • 8 comments

I will use every tool at my disposal to protect this country from Trump. I will litigate to defend voting rights until there are no cases left to bring. I will speak out against authoritarianism until my last breath. I will not back down. I will not bow or scrape. I will never obey.

submitted 82 days ago • 346 comments

Well done sir.

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#emails2DOGE @carolleonnig.bsky.social

submitted 82 days ago • 74 comments

For Trump it was a joke by Obama.

submitted 82 days ago • 275 comments

“The Trump administration understands that it does not have absolute power and that it must rely on creating a false illusion of power to create a chilling effect to get everyday people to respond to fear, comply in advance, and censor their own free speech.” www.publicnotice.co/p/aoc-homan-...

submitted 82 days ago • 13 comments

Trump is a Russian Maybe he'd be happier there.

submitted 83 days ago • 5 comments

Folks are asking, “what should I do in this moment?” One of the most passionate, progressive voices in Congress for 30 years, Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden answers that question. Here’s our conversation, inside a replica of the Senate chamber at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute: youtu.be/n_nQ-Moa9fI?...

submitted 83 days ago • 208 comments

www.politico.com/news/2025/02... They'd better get done with this private sh*t before there's nothing left to save of democracy and this country. They will go down in history as the right hand to the hitler in the WH who could've stopped him but decided to sell out their country instead.

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

“The United States has threatened to cut off Ukraine's access to Starlink satellite internet terminals if Kyiv does not reach a deal with the U.S. regarding critical mineral resources, Reuters reported on Feb. 21, citing three sources familiar with the negotiations.”

submitted 83 days ago • 390 comments

Incredible stuff in here: They ID'ed him, in part, by going to court hearings and watching him post

submitted 86 days ago • 127 comments

He's openly calling himself "the king".

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

DOGE has accessed Treasury payment systems and is attempting to access Internal Revenue Service databases

submitted 87 days ago • 5 comments

🎶Allons enfants de la Patrie,🎵 🎶 Le jour de gloire est arrivé! 🎶

submitted 87 days ago • 38 comments

The Trump official currently dismantling USAID was caught in a secret meeting with a group of pro-Russian separatists in the Balkans. Those he met with are under American sanctions for trying to restart the Bosnian war in the name of Christian nationalism. 1/

submitted 89 days ago • 113 comments

www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

Wonder what the unemployment rate will be time next year?

submitted 89 days ago • 91 comments

submitted 89 days ago • 761 comments

open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

Don't be the goldfish.

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

this is straight up McCarthyism

submitted 90 days ago • 63 comments

Spot on.

submitted 90 days ago • 1534 comments

First granddaughter archery tournament!

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Greg Marks!

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

Say what this is: a coup. robertreich.substack.com/p/say-what-i...

submitted 91 days ago • 2 comments

Best toilet brush ever

submitted 91 days ago • 2 comments

Do you?

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

Robert F Kennedy, Jr. has been confirmed by 52 Republican senators, making Americans less safe.

submitted 92 days ago • 82 comments