Epstein's properties were heavily wired for sound and video. That's why large sums of money flowed to Russian banks and why whatever Trump does benefits Putin, instead of Americans.
19.11.2025 00:55 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@garycurmudgeon.bsky.social
Folksinging aging hippy, plays badly on guitar, banjo, ukulele and mandolin. Vietnam-era Navy vet. Involved in some cultural non-profits. Lived overseas for a few years. Love my honey, cats, music, genealogy, travel, food. Antifa, hate injustice, woke AF
Epstein's properties were heavily wired for sound and video. That's why large sums of money flowed to Russian banks and why whatever Trump does benefits Putin, instead of Americans.
19.11.2025 00:55 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Epstein was in up to his ears in foreign intelligence services, giving kompromat to Russian and Israeli intelligence. Ghislaine Maxwell's dad was involved in British and Israeli intelligence. The pedo ring was just the bait to get compromising information on powerful people.
19.11.2025 00:50 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0It passed with veto-proof majorities in both houses. I don't think his signature is required.
19.11.2025 00:43 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0That's not what it says. It says that any of them can be impeached, as well. It's an important difference.
19.11.2025 00:40 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0"When the country goes temporarily to the dogs, cats must learn to be circumspect, walk on fences, sleep in trees, and have faith that all this woofing is not the last word." โGarrison Keillor
18.11.2025 15:15 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0If you are within 115 miles (100 nautical miles) of any of the rivers drawn in blue here, you are "on the coast" as far as USCBP is concerned.
Yes, Wichita KS is a coastal city, by this definition.
Definition may include navigable waterways connecting with the coast. As far as a ship can come up the river. That adds a lot of territory.
18.11.2025 15:02 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Wishing you quick healing. Here in Florida, it's the busy season for festivals, (I'm involved in some Celtic, music and folk culture non-profits) so I'm putting off cataract surgery until this summer so I can lay around in the A/C until I'm recovered, when nobody in Florida does anything outdoors.
18.11.2025 00:42 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0It's a colonial pattern. The Australian settlers did the same with Aboriginal children. There's a great movie called "Rabbit-proof Fence" based on a true story about some children that ran away from one of the schools and followed the fence for hundreds of miles to find their way home.
17.11.2025 23:22 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0My sis-in-law in Los Angeles is Latina. My nephew ran his DNA in Ancestry. The part from his mom's side (not my brother's Scots-Irish/French Canadian/Scandinavian background) had much more indigenous American DNA than Iberian.
17.11.2025 23:19 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Exactly. Most Mexicans with Hispanic surnames are ethnic First Nations people who lost their language and their culture due to the mission systems that forced them to convert to Catholicism at the point of a sword. Hardly any have more than a trace of European DNA.
17.11.2025 23:12 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0Now hereโs a thing for Trumps remembrance..
These are the statues of Qin Hui, a corrupt 11th-century politician, and his wife Wang from ancient China. Their statues are forever kneeling in apology, and for centuries, people have made it a thing to walk up, spit, curse, and slap and kick them.
Will he carve the meat with his bone saw?
17.11.2025 15:44 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Why would they hold him accountable when they were complicit in the insurrection? Who gave the insurrectionists tours of the Capitol, insured that certain doors were unlocked, and hamstrung the Capitol Police ahead of time?
09.11.2025 13:51 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0According to Margaret Mead, compassion, cooperation and empathy were the signs of the beginning of human civilization.
09.11.2025 01:27 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0โTrump died on December 8, three weeks before Christmas. The news broke during evening programming. Within three hours, coverage had settled into rhythm: the same footage, the same talking heads, the same speculation. No one yet understood what his death would reveal.โ
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05.11.2025 21:26 โ ๐ 14 ๐ 10 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Billionaires owning everything isn't communism. Communism is workers owning the means of production. It's an economic system, not a political system. When it's hijacked by a authoritarian government, we get what we've seen. What we have here is a fascist oligarchy with an authoritarian government.
05.11.2025 21:11 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0"Youth pastor" is one of the most common synonyms for pedophile/child molester. It's nearly always clergy, cops, coaches, GOP politicians and "influencers".
03.11.2025 23:59 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0"Free Market" now means the corporate welfare state, with government (and extortion of everybody else) by the 1%. ~ Red Henry
The myth of the free market is based on the informed consumer making rational choices. Explains the advertising industry, and the money spent to kill laws requiring labeling.
The corporations are free to do as they please, offshoring to use sweatshop labor, dumping toxic waste in third world countries; Fair trade is when the manufacturer of goods sold in the US pays a living wage and complies with US environmental laws, so US manufacturing can compete on an even footing.
03.11.2025 14:24 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0How can he travel freely to countries that deny entry to convicted felons?
29.10.2025 23:09 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Bearded sailor in dungarees holding coffee cup: I may be old but I was in the Navy when it was cool.
29.10.2025 21:07 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0To be clear, he's spending a billion TAXPAYER dollars. Just because he thinks it's HIS money to spend as he pleases, doesn't make it so.
27.10.2025 23:28 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0They shit the bed when they voted for him, so they may as well make themselves comfortable in it.
27.10.2025 17:38 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0While we're rhyming history, who remembers what happened to the Czar and his family? Bunkers and basements are where dynastic dreams end.
27.10.2025 13:48 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0We don't want him down here.
27.10.2025 01:36 โ ๐ 11 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0How many cattlemen voted three times for the smellin' yellin' felon? You shit the bed, lie in it. FAFO
23.10.2025 14:54 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0