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Hal Halbert

@halhalbert.bsky.social

English Professor, Union Local Leader, Comic Book Enthusiast

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In the fight for Truth, Justice, Democracy, and Free & Fair Elections it’s up to YOU the voters to be the heroes of this battle. 

It’s time to show up, speak up, and VOTE YES!!!

#VoteYES

In the fight for Truth, Justice, Democracy, and Free & Fair Elections it’s up to YOU the voters to be the heroes of this battle. It’s time to show up, speak up, and VOTE YES!!! #VoteYES

In the fight for Truth, Justice, Democracy, and Free & Fair Elections it’s up to YOU the voters to be the heroes of this battle.

It’s time to show up, speak up, and VOTE YES!!!

#VoteYES

03.11.2025 17:03 — 👍 137    🔁 32    💬 1    📌 4
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Trump Administration Plans to Eliminate More Than 80,000 Veterans Affairs Employees The job reductions would be a major escalation of the downsizing that has already occurred at the department, which provides health care and many other services to veterans.

“Thank you for your service” is the new “Hopes and prayers”….

05.03.2025 22:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) calls Trump/Zelensky meeting “A bad day for America’s foreign policy. Ukraine wants independence, free markets and rule of law. It wants to be part of the West. Russia hates us and our Western values. We should be clear that we stand for freedom”

28.02.2025 23:39 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

This was a disgusting display by the soft, uninformed VP Vance trying to school Zelensky, the man who has led his country through the most surprisingly resilient and effective fight for sovereignty against a global superpower.

Every negative stereotype about America is confirmed in this exchange.

28.02.2025 18:07 — 👍 15832    🔁 3568    💬 792    📌 192

The federal civilian worker payroll totaled $271 billion in 2022. 

The annual cost of permanently extending Trump's tax cuts that primarily benefited rich individuals? $400 billion. 

Keep this in mind as Trump and DOGE lay off thousands of federal workers.

28.02.2025 19:01 — 👍 3289    🔁 1030    💬 47    📌 22

This scrum of pot-bellied, sunken-chested betas trying to bully an all-black clad badass Eastern European wasteland survivor while dressed like Men’s Wearhouse mannequins is peak cinema.

28.02.2025 19:22 — 👍 65177    🔁 10164    💬 3285    📌 621
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A Union Takes on Musk via Tesla’s Stock The American Federation of Teachers is pressuring some of the carmaker’s biggest shareholders as the tech mogul's cost-cutting influence in Washington sets off alarm bells.

A Union Takes On Musk via Tesla’s Stock www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/b...

28.02.2025 20:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

On Jeopardy! Tonight, Ken Jennings introduces a category: “Unfortunately, we have ‘Fascism.’”

Truer words were never spoken.

26.02.2025 01:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump administration fires about 400 IRS workers in Philadelphia Terminated accountant describes fear and “sense of authoritarianism” at purged office.

Musk/Trump false "cause for termination":

FTA: Many report their termination notices included boilerplate language saying they were fired for performance reasons, despite having been in training for much of their short tenures and receiving praise from their managers for the quality of their work.

24.02.2025 13:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump Uses Lies to Lay the Groundwork for Radical Change (Gift Article) Condoms for Gaza? Ukraine started the war with Russia? The president’s manipulations of the truth lay the groundwork for radical change.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/u...

23.02.2025 21:55 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Measles Outbreak in Texas and New Mexico Sickens Nearly 100 People Texas reported 90 cases this week, while New Mexico reported nine. A majority of the cases have been in a Texas county where vaccination rates have lagged behind the rest of the state.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

22.02.2025 17:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The judge’s ruling temporarily halts any stoppage on federal diversity initiatives. Judge Adam B. Abelson wrote that orders by President Trump targeting diversity, equity and inclusion programs violated freedom of speech protections.

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

22.02.2025 02:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Capitol Riot Insurrectionists Networks Capitol Riot Insurrectionist Networks

An interesting project attempting to track what the pardoned insurrectionists are doing now, particularly with CPAC.

21.02.2025 20:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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So Rocket Money is calling out Netflix for raising prices while they have massively added to their customer base.

21.02.2025 20:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Did you know there is a graphic edition of On Tyranny? Can’t wait to read this with my 12 year old. #booksky #resist

20.02.2025 17:01 — 👍 897    🔁 154    💬 30    📌 8
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Judge in Eric Adams Case Names Lawyer to Argue Against Dropping of Charges Judge Dale E. Ho said that with Eric Adams’s lawyer and federal prosecutors agreeing to end the case, he needed to hear independent arguments.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/n...

21.02.2025 19:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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