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Charley B.

@charley9.bsky.social

Retired city/village manager. Second act: folk musician/singer songwriter, cyclist and gardener.

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Chuck Schumer: you and your cadre of 8 sold out the American people. We marched at No Kings Rallies, we got out in droves last Tuesday. It means nothing to you. Shame!!

10.11.2025 17:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Remember how 20-year-olds barged into federal buildings and stole our most sensitive data? Shortly after, a masked army kidnapped hundreds of people and trafficked them to a concentration camp overseas. That secret policeβ€”along with the militaryβ€”now occupies our cities. This is an attack on the U.S.

27.10.2025 15:14 β€” πŸ‘ 4160    πŸ” 1400    πŸ’¬ 93    πŸ“Œ 39
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While the top 1% control $54 TRILLION

(not a typo)

28.10.2025 01:12 β€” πŸ‘ 13507    πŸ” 4996    πŸ’¬ 395    πŸ“Œ 183
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NO KINGS 2 KENT, OHIO, DAY OF DEFIANCE RALLY AND MARCH Β· No Kings NO KINGS2 KENT, OHIO DAY OF REISTANCE RALLY AND MARCH Billionaires, MAGA extremists, Trump, and their political allies are turning our government into a private slush fundβ€”looting our families to stuf...

I'm attending No Kings's event, β€œNO KINGS 2 KENT, OHIO, DAY OF DEFIANCE RALLY AND MARCH” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

15.10.2025 19:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I would call it collaboration.

15.10.2025 19:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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NO KINGS 2 KENT, OHIO, DAY OF DEFIANCE RALLY AND MARCH Β· No Kings NO KINGS2 KENT, OHIO DAY OF REISTANCE RALLY AND MARCH Billionaires, MAGA extremists, Trump, and their political allies are turning our government into a private slush fundβ€”looting our families to stuf...

I'm attending No Kings's event, β€œNO KINGS 2 KENT, OHIO, DAY OF DEFIANCE RALLY AND MARCH” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

03.10.2025 14:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Feds march into downtown Chicago; top border agent says people are arrested based on β€˜how they look’ Immigration agents wearing tactical gear and carrying long guns made arrests in downtown Chicago and the River North neighborhood Sunday. β€œThis is not making anybody safer β€” it’s a show of intimidatio...

Feds march into downtown Chicago; top border agent says people are being arrested based on β€˜how they look’

29.09.2025 03:23 β€” πŸ‘ 5882    πŸ” 3236    πŸ’¬ 821    πŸ“Œ 347

CEO pay is up 1,094% since 1978, while worker pay is up just 26%.

Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

28.09.2025 18:30 β€” πŸ‘ 15380    πŸ” 5196    πŸ’¬ 382    πŸ“Œ 168
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Trump defunds American healthcare while giving a $20 billion taxpayer bailout to his buddy in Argentina all because he modeled himself after Trump.

26.09.2025 17:37 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 2
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The protest has moved to the intersection of 25th and Harvard. Join us.

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ICE has erected a gate to keep protesters out. They are blocking a public street, despite the Broadview Fire Department ordering ICE to tear it down.

Join us at 1930 Beach Street. 7-9 AM. Tell Broadview to tear this fence down.

26.09.2025 10:39 β€” πŸ‘ 21057    πŸ” 6715    πŸ’¬ 646    πŸ“Œ 282

Keep coming back!

31.08.2025 03:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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No matter what @MarshaBlackburn keeps saying, it’s not criminals they’re targeting.

www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/u...

31.08.2025 00:33 β€” πŸ‘ 13539    πŸ” 5417    πŸ’¬ 414    πŸ“Œ 181
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I know what the rumors are…

31.08.2025 02:45 β€” πŸ‘ 135    πŸ” 26    πŸ’¬ 23    πŸ“Œ 3
Tell the Smithsonian: Reject demands to whitewash history The Trump regime’s campaign of whitewashing US history has reached the halls of the Smithsonian museums, with exhibits dealing with slavery, the civil rights movement, and other struggles against oppr...

Tell the Smithsonian: Reject demands to whitewash history act.indivisible.org/sign/smithso...

30.08.2025 18:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

For some reason this angers me as much as the Colbert firing

19.07.2025 19:23 β€” πŸ‘ 302    πŸ” 84    πŸ’¬ 39    πŸ“Œ 5
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"We were kidnapped" On Friday, more than 200 Venezuelans disappeared to a megaprison in El Salvador returned home. The horror stories are already emerging.

β€œWe got a beating for breakfast. We got a beating for lunch. We got a beating for dinner.”

The horror stories are already emerging from the Venezuelan deportees' time in El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

19.07.2025 15:48 β€” πŸ‘ 7881    πŸ” 3805    πŸ’¬ 240    πŸ“Œ 181
blood bag, ultrasound picture, chart up all in black and red tones.

blood bag, ultrasound picture, chart up all in black and red tones.

Striking. After Texas banned abortion, ER visits for early miscarriage rose 25% and blood transfusions surged 54%.

Doctors delayed care like D&Cs out of fear of prosecution. More women nearly bled to death. buff.ly/egXhmm7

#medsky #ObGynsky πŸ›ŸπŸ§ͺ

19.07.2025 18:38 β€” πŸ‘ 6078    πŸ” 2688    πŸ’¬ 282    πŸ“Œ 143

All visitors centers at Santa Monica Mountains National Park closed.

19.07.2025 18:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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www.facebook.com/share/v/15BT...

05.07.2025 01:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Why Did a 75-Year-Old Man in Poor Health Just Die in ICE Custody? Isidro Perez came to the United States from Cuba nearly 60 years ago. This is who Stephen Miller is going after now?

Just awful: A 75-year-old man just died in ICE custody, ICE has revealed in a notice to Congress.

But here's the rub: This man, a Cuban national, was first paroled into the US in 1966β€”nearly 60 years ago! They were set to deport him anyway.

Details in my new piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1974...

30.06.2025 14:27 β€” πŸ‘ 10457    πŸ” 5199    πŸ’¬ 868    πŸ“Œ 520

If there was ever a time to call your Senator, this is it.

Voting has begun on the GOP plan to cut off health care for working-class Americans and slash taxes for the wealthiest.

30.06.2025 15:07 β€” πŸ‘ 23882    πŸ” 8111    πŸ’¬ 995    πŸ“Œ 370
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Hmm!

22.06.2025 17:01 β€” πŸ‘ 141    πŸ” 32    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 1

It’s not surprising 🀬

23.06.2025 17:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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'They quit after a few hours': Farmers admit they can't find American workers In interviews with the Washington Post, multiple farmers expressed their dismay with the loss of farm workers under Donald Trump's harsh immigration policies and his administration's waffling on subsi...

β€œNow those farmers, many of whom supported the president, are being left to scramble for workers of which there are few to chose from and worried about the future.”

Sorry, but I’m all out of sympathy. Farmers who supported Trump knew who he was: pro-tariffs and anti-immigrants. Reap what you sowed.

22.06.2025 20:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1686    πŸ” 418    πŸ’¬ 213    πŸ“Œ 48

No, not one of thee 535 are awake. They are excuses in suits.

22.06.2025 22:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ‘‡πŸ‘‡

22.06.2025 16:22 β€” πŸ‘ 13456    πŸ” 4508    πŸ’¬ 374    πŸ“Œ 158

This has to be cheaper than ICE raids, incarceration and deportation. Maybe this cost cutting might result in contributing to Musk’s $2 trillion in cuts….

19.06.2025 03:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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