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Jack Long

@coltrane21.bsky.social

Left the X cesspool for blue skies. Bookstore and jazz junkie. "Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life." - Mark Twain.

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Latest posts by coltrane21.bsky.social on Bluesky

You can count on the Dems to fold like a sheet every single time. They will squander all the goodwill they've gained. The wins on Tuesday night? Fuck em. The No Kings protest? Fuck it. This is why we can't ever seem to get anywhere. It's infuriating!

09.11.2025 22:26 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

OK. Taking a breath…

08.11.2025 19:56 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present Karma?

07.11.2025 21:27 β€” πŸ‘ 31482    πŸ” 8102    πŸ’¬ 1286    πŸ“Œ 488

#GOPShitdown Day 35. Y’all hanging in there? Please check on your friends and family members that are Feds. Pretty much everybody is struggling in some way right now (mentally, emotionally, financially, all of the above) so please, be the village and check on each other. We’re in this together ✊✊✊

04.11.2025 16:14 β€” πŸ‘ 60    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump isn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer, but even he knows Republicans could’ve kept the government open all along.

Now he wants the Senate to nuke the filibuster to fix the mess he made, because red states are getting hit hardest & their voters are getting too loud to ignore. Today’s day 31.

31.10.2025 13:07 β€” πŸ‘ 686    πŸ” 324    πŸ’¬ 52    πŸ“Œ 10

The same people who lost their minds over renovations to Cracker Barrel are totally fine with the White House getting bulldozed

22.10.2025 20:56 β€” πŸ‘ 30247    πŸ” 8295    πŸ’¬ 741    πŸ“Œ 365
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The most reckless, stupid administration E-V-E-R. Nothing comes close.

19.10.2025 23:33 β€” πŸ‘ 21945    πŸ” 6139    πŸ’¬ 923    πŸ“Œ 371

OK, so our "Secretary of War" currently has two big priorities: (1) murdering innocent fishermen in the Caribbean, and (2) endangering the lives of commuters in Southern California.

Perhaps, we are seeing one of the downsides to having a drunk TV talk show chatterbox running our military.

20.10.2025 01:28 β€” πŸ‘ 23303    πŸ” 6663    πŸ’¬ 630    πŸ“Œ 196
tax change by income graph

tax change by income graph

If you make more than $360,000 annually, congratulations.

The GOP has given you a tax cut.

If you make less than that amount, tough luck for you.

19.10.2025 11:46 β€” πŸ‘ 172    πŸ” 91    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 14

"Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered, but we have this consolation: The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph." β€”Tom Paine

19.10.2025 00:24 β€” πŸ‘ 4121    πŸ” 983    πŸ’¬ 78    πŸ“Œ 20

I’m deeply concerned that the military is losing yet another highly decorated commanderβ€”especially as Trump expands unlawful military action in the Southern Hemisphere.

Everyone should be worried by Trump’s pattern of prioritizing loyalty over competence.

17.10.2025 01:42 β€” πŸ‘ 331    πŸ” 75    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 3
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β€œThere’s a baby!”

Guns drawn. Windows smashed. With a 1 month old in the car. (They did this as he was coming home from an immigration court appointmentβ€” which is illegal in Colorado: coloradosun.com/2025/10/01/i...)

05.10.2025 12:11 β€” πŸ‘ 15913    πŸ” 8419    πŸ’¬ 1849    πŸ“Œ 1048
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If you allow a government to break the law because of an β€œemergency”, it will create an emergency to break the law.

05.10.2025 10:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1603    πŸ” 615    πŸ’¬ 27    πŸ“Œ 13

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

05.10.2025 13:58 β€” πŸ‘ 27634    πŸ” 10674    πŸ’¬ 824    πŸ“Œ 520

It was clear from the beginning that ICE staffing up was going to be a full employment program for racists, barroom bullies and wife beaters

05.10.2025 01:10 β€” πŸ‘ 3018    πŸ” 577    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 37
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God, Greed and Groomers The party that preaches "family values" has become a sanctuary for pedophiles.

How do these men and women look their children in the eye. How do they hug their daughters knowing they are protecting men who raped girls their age?
open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...

04.10.2025 16:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1904    πŸ” 538    πŸ’¬ 180    πŸ“Œ 36

Ms Dean, a Democrat, has been a member of Congress since 2019. Mr Johnson is the Republican Speaker. Why does he simply defect her concerns with irrelevant comments?

02.10.2025 13:01 β€” πŸ‘ 587    πŸ” 108    πŸ’¬ 73    πŸ“Œ 10
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Explaining the G.O.P.’s Misleading Talking Point on the Looming Shutdown

Republicans clearly flunked civics in high school.

Undocumented immigrants CAN'T get Medicare, Medicaid, or healthcare tax credits. It’s against the law.

These guys lie because the facts are not on their side.

30.09.2025 16:17 β€” πŸ‘ 262    πŸ” 88    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 6
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What the Trump regime doesn’t want you to know about Dallas ICE shooting The Trump regime's refusal to say the names of the Dallas ICE victims exposes the inhumanity of American fascism.

This is the secret the Trump regime tried so hard to keep about the Dallas ICE shooting

The names of the dead and wounded

Jose Andres Bordones-Molina

Miguel Ángel García-Hernandez

Norlan Guzman-Fuentes

Fight Trump's dehumanization. Say their names. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/dall...

28.09.2025 14:52 β€” πŸ‘ 4512    πŸ” 2361    πŸ’¬ 62    πŸ“Œ 69

You know these goons Donald is hiring to be ICE agents are nothing but just that; goons. Untrained MAGA idiot criminals are all they are. They really think they’re tough, but one day they’re going to grab the wrong irate person and we’re going to have our first dead ICE agent. I’m here for it. πŸ‘ 

28.09.2025 23:11 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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FascismClock.org - Tracking the USA's path to fascism How close is πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ to being a fascist state? We calculate that metric. Learn what data we monitor.

This is a fascinating website with many link buttons taking you to more information. Sometimes the link buttons might not be obvious as a link button.
There's much information on this website. Jump in and learn where we are and what we should be doing.

fascismclock.org#inputs

19.09.2025 04:03 β€” πŸ‘ 116    πŸ” 97    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 8

JD's portrayal of Appalachia exploited their heritage for political gain. He cosplayed a hillbilly and tokenized himself as the golden child who worked hard to overcome adversity, JD ignores the systemic political issues that plagued Appalachian industries and

18.09.2025 21:13 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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13.09.2025 03:44 β€” πŸ‘ 29157    πŸ” 6861    πŸ’¬ 1076    πŸ“Œ 583

this is fucking horrifying

13.09.2025 15:06 β€” πŸ‘ 3293    πŸ” 666    πŸ’¬ 237    πŸ“Œ 53
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Should there be a statue erected at the White House honoring all of the school children who sacrificed their lives for 2A?

According to MAGA logic wouldn’t they be patriots or were they disposable?

12.09.2025 14:44 β€” πŸ‘ 233    πŸ” 107    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 2
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US rightwing group targets academics with Professor Watchlist Turning Point USA’s list gains fresh attention after it expands and some notice it disproportionately names academics of color

You people trying to rewrite the history of who Charlie Kirk was are pathetic. He used his organization to bully, dox and attack people he didn't agree with. Free speech my ass. He was one of the worst aspects of American politics. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

11.09.2025 11:58 β€” πŸ‘ 10049    πŸ” 3073    πŸ’¬ 516    πŸ“Œ 179
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Thank you Michael Fanone. For those who do not recognize the name, Michael is one of the officers who defended America on January 6th and was left permanently injured as a result. He is a true hero of our Democracy.

11.09.2025 10:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1980    πŸ” 700    πŸ’¬ 50    πŸ“Œ 40

For everyone saying political violence has no place in this country…

Remember two Democratic legislators were shot in Minnesota just this year.

And America shrugged and moved on.

10.09.2025 20:53 β€” πŸ‘ 24848    πŸ” 7144    πŸ’¬ 876    πŸ“Œ 351
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I'm hearing "political violence has no place in America" from people who were more than OK with what happened on Jan 6, 2021.

10.09.2025 21:15 β€” πŸ‘ 13442    πŸ” 4384    πŸ’¬ 490    πŸ“Œ 201

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