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@retrocrone.bsky.social

I’m older than dirt. I write bad Haiku. And I’m a fan of science, freedom, books, public education. Used to speak a little Swahili but life was different then.

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This all feels like a nightmare. Scarier tho. You can wake up from a nightmare.

04.03.2026 21:59 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A cartoon from the 1950’s that’s more relevant than ever 💔

04.03.2026 14:40 — 👍 20007    🔁 8488    💬 352    📌 330

This
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11.02.2026 17:23 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The political parties started out battling over who could do most good for the People. Now one party is blatantly saying the purpose of the People is to do good for that party’s would be king and his court.

We stop them NOW or we sentence our children to servitude.

01.02.2026 17:16 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I am a Democrat now. But over the years I have been Dem, Republican and Independent. I have voted my conscience.

When did loyalty to a political party replace loyalty to the Constitution? When did we decide it’s not rape, lying & theft if our political party does it?

04.12.2025 15:08 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Good God! I have always been embarrassed by how difficult understanding economics is for me. But this text makes me feel like a genius. Hey Don! Do you do quantum mechanics?

08.11.2025 19:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Hmmmmm....

28.10.2025 19:14 — 👍 387    🔁 137    💬 31    📌 11

When you lose your farm, when your kid is yanked from sleep & zip tied in middle of the night, when it is your daughter who is victim of an “epic“ rape, when your child dies of appendicitis b/c you hv no insurance, you can console yourself with the knowledge that your country has a ballroom.

22.10.2025 01:45 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I haven’t been on this platform for weeks. This is a beautiful post. TY!

14.10.2025 23:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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“Gerrymandered” is like if someone changes your property line so that they own the part your house is on. And you have nothing to say about it.

07.08.2025 19:06 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Finally.

It’s past due for Dems to punch back.

07.08.2025 03:59 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I lack the courage to watch the news clips of the Gaza Strip that show desperate children holding up empty containers hoping theirs will be one of few that is filled.

29.07.2025 15:23 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Recovering slowly from my broken ribs. Like a lot of Texans, mourning the toll taken by the flooding. Mostly I am perplexed about how we can be where we are.

10.07.2025 16:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I can live with our army not being a synchronized dance team

16.06.2025 19:16 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’m confused. Did undocumented workers hire themselves to work in US businesses? Force US business owners to hire them?

14.06.2025 02:29 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Remember 1/6 when a mob broke into our national Capitol, assaulted Capitol police and wanted to hang the VP? Remember how the Marines were called in to restore order?

Oh! Wait a minute…

14.06.2025 02:22 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Pul down your phones.

Go to the streets.

29.05.2025 20:32 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I wish I didn’t feel we were pawns in Dem power plays as much as we are in Rebubs. Dems are paid handsomely to do their jobs. T is breaking the law and defying the Constitution. Why can’t they figure out how to stop him without constantly asking for more money? Where is the courage? The resolve?

25.05.2025 19:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

So our nation is celebrating the men and women whose courage and sacrifice gave us freedoms that are now being taken from us? In future will this holiday will be about remembering when we were free? Or will that be a punishable offense?

25.05.2025 17:49 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Email after email from Dem leadership saying we can stop T, hold him accountable, get control of the House, etc.

Al I hv to do is give $5 more, $20, $50. & sign a meaningless petition.

How much of our $ is being used to raise more money? The strategy isn’t working. Something has to change.

20.05.2025 17:54 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I hv read that over half of those receiving social security are women. I wonder how many of those women are wives al? mothers who didn’t work outside the home. I don’t hear T T & company rushing to reward those women for their choices. They claim to value women’s “traditional” roles. Sure they do.

27.04.2025 15:44 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements

03.04.2025 14:11 — 👍 46897    🔁 11595    💬 992    📌 680

Harris Faulkner's Fox News show has been on for 20 minutes now. She has not mentioned tariffs or stocks once and a stock ticker isn't being displayed. Strong state media vibes.

03.04.2025 15:20 — 👍 39065    🔁 7919    💬 1153    📌 329

How can anyone think casting millions of old people into homelessness and starvation is a good idea?

I don’t manage the SSA. If there has been bad mgt, I am a victim. Not a perpetrator - or a robber baron who is looking for an excuse not to pay his debts. I

It’s my money.

22.03.2025 20:58 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Almost 90% of US adults over 65 receive Soc Security. More than half are women. If Trump is so concerned for women, the most impactful thing he can do is NOT take away the Social Security we have worked decades for. To do so would make millions of old women homeless and hungry.

13.03.2025 20:13 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

nteresting that when the need is perceived to reduce spending, the jobs and salaries of regular people are the first and most popular targets. Never any suggestions for reducing Congressional jobs, salaries, expenses. Maybe we should re-think that.

13.03.2025 20:13 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Well behaved Congressmen seldom save countries.

We need to see every
elected Dem making good trouble.

06.03.2025 05:26 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0