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Tom Hanson

@altapwdr.bsky.social

Minnesota born and educated, Colorado lives and loves, white, late-boomer guy who learned to love and respect people from all backgrounds. I stand for a future for our descendants, our co-inhabitants of this planet and for democracy and human rights.

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BREAKING: IRAN is closing the strait of Hormuz and is turning vessels around according to Reuters.

This is threatening 20% of the world’s oil & LNG flow.

So much for Affordability.

28.02.2026 15:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2478    πŸ” 914    πŸ’¬ 182    πŸ“Œ 82

I guess now we know why Trump wanted to almost double our already massive military budget in just two years. Houthis, Gaza, Venezuela, Iran - endless wars, bombings and foreign interventions are expensive.

28.02.2026 16:00 β€” πŸ‘ 2124    πŸ” 545    πŸ’¬ 144    πŸ“Œ 16
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NSF officials break silence on how AI and quantum now drive agency grantmaking Leaders acknowledge White House role in controversial moves

The National Science Foundation is systematically being converted to the National AI and Quantum Research Foundation.

β€œI see it as the administration exerting political control over what has traditionally been NSF’s ability to fund the best science.”

27.02.2026 12:18 β€” πŸ‘ 637    πŸ” 339    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 28

We have lost a decade of our life to an evil idiot…a dolt. A moron. One of the most racist and dumbest humans on the planet.

10 years.

27.02.2026 13:41 β€” πŸ‘ 3934    πŸ” 841    πŸ’¬ 211    πŸ“Œ 80

Time to sue the DOJ over this.

26.02.2026 21:44 β€” πŸ‘ 331    πŸ” 136    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 2
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damn, Trump's surgeon general nominee Casey Means is a transparent bullshitter even by the standards of the regime. Watch how she's tries to blame Chris Murphy's staffers for the fact he has her dead to rights on being dishonest and corrupt.

25.02.2026 16:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2815    πŸ” 869    πŸ’¬ 201    πŸ“Œ 90
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MURPHY: Your filings show you started receiving compensation in spring 2024, yet in Sept 2024 you posted a video saying you had 'no financial relationship w/ the company, just a big fan.' You weren't telling the truth.

MEANS: If I said I wasn't receiving money, I wasn't receiving money at that time

25.02.2026 16:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1555    πŸ” 428    πŸ’¬ 149    πŸ“Œ 76
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Breaking: The Olympic gold-winning U.S. women's hockey team DECLINES Trump's invitation to his State of the Union address after he was caught on video mocking them.

23.02.2026 18:32 β€” πŸ‘ 8363    πŸ” 1794    πŸ’¬ 393    πŸ“Œ 362

"Pine View Principal Stephen Covert met with the two students. He called them 'impetuous' and 'impatient' for going to the Gondolier and presented them with a 16-page analysis of bias in the two stories, generated by Artificial Intelligence."

23.02.2026 13:20 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...

22.02.2026 23:01 β€” πŸ‘ 18507    πŸ” 6562    πŸ’¬ 432    πŸ“Œ 175
Seth Cotlar
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Feb 22, 2024 β€’ 6
This is a fundraising email I received from you know who today. It's not liberal hysteria to say he intends to deport over 10 million people, he's saying it himself.
Doing this would require hiring hundreds of thousands of new law enforcement agents, and it would involve millions of home invasions, sweeps at workplaces and schools, a police state that would make the Stazi look like pikers. Anyone who votes for him is voting for this. Make no mistake.
Anyway, I hear Biden is old, so it'll be a tough decision
PT
tor sure.
President Trump
To: Seth Cotlar >
6:07 Pl
MASS DEPORTATIONS!
/ass Deportations!
*****
TRUMP
MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
2024
There's an INVASION at our southern border.
Countries are emptying their risons, and sending the convict
STRAIGHT INTO OUR NEIGHBORHOODS!
EMERGENCY MAGA POLL
And if we don't stop Joe Biden i November, it will be the end of our country as we know it.
Before the end of the day, I'm asking you to answer this on question:
TOP THE INVASION NOV
should every illegal immigran be DEPORTED? >

Seth Cotlar β€’ β€’β€’ Feb 22, 2024 β€’ 6 This is a fundraising email I received from you know who today. It's not liberal hysteria to say he intends to deport over 10 million people, he's saying it himself. Doing this would require hiring hundreds of thousands of new law enforcement agents, and it would involve millions of home invasions, sweeps at workplaces and schools, a police state that would make the Stazi look like pikers. Anyone who votes for him is voting for this. Make no mistake. Anyway, I hear Biden is old, so it'll be a tough decision PT tor sure. President Trump To: Seth Cotlar > 6:07 Pl MASS DEPORTATIONS! /ass Deportations! ***** TRUMP MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! 2024 There's an INVASION at our southern border. Countries are emptying their risons, and sending the convict STRAIGHT INTO OUR NEIGHBORHOODS! EMERGENCY MAGA POLL And if we don't stop Joe Biden i November, it will be the end of our country as we know it. Before the end of the day, I'm asking you to answer this on question: TOP THE INVASION NOV should every illegal immigran be DEPORTED? >

If only two years ago today there was some indication of the extreme, police state things Trump intended to do that are now super unpopular, maybe fewer people would have voted for him?

23.02.2026 00:11 β€” πŸ‘ 334    πŸ” 101    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 10
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The most disturbing part is knowing ICE left a little girl alone and didn’t care.

Annabella was six years old when her dad was detained by ICE while he was picking up their food order. She stayed inside, waiting.

He never returned to her that day.

1/2

22.02.2026 15:11 β€” πŸ‘ 8959    πŸ” 4508    πŸ’¬ 482    πŸ“Œ 353

Oh look, NOT an immigrant, NOT a drag Queen, and NOT a trans person

AGAIN

21.02.2026 14:00 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, β€˜If it can happen to me, i...

β€˜Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks.

21.02.2026 14:03 β€” πŸ‘ 712    πŸ” 328    πŸ’¬ 38    πŸ“Œ 21

It remains astounding how unfaithfully the media covers Trump’s ramblings day to day. We’re a decade into this β€” and his rambling gets worse β€” and yet the coverage continues to portray his public appearances as if they’re coherent.

20.02.2026 19:19 β€” πŸ‘ 3062    πŸ” 928    πŸ’¬ 109    πŸ“Œ 43
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Give us our illegal tariff money back, Shillbilly Vance.

20.02.2026 19:33 β€” πŸ‘ 376    πŸ” 93    πŸ’¬ 40    πŸ“Œ 7

When we topple the Trump regime we should claw back every dime his family pilfers from the U.S. Treasury. Include all the fines & restitution he allowed fraudsters to get out of paying via corrupt pardons. Costing Americans billions. Stop MAGA now.

20.02.2026 01:04 β€” πŸ‘ 4716    πŸ” 1129    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Remember back in the day when Congress used to be in charge of appropriations?

19.02.2026 17:19 β€” πŸ‘ 18570    πŸ” 7249    πŸ’¬ 2381    πŸ“Œ 952
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Ofelia Torres, teen who fought to have her father released from ICE custody, dies from rare cancer Ofelia Torres, 16, died on Friday from Stage 4 alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer, her father's lawyer confirmed.

A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.
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This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.
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Not one dime for this cruelty.

www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...

15.02.2026 21:20 β€” πŸ‘ 19103    πŸ” 7391    πŸ’¬ 642    πŸ“Œ 391

It seems like anyone that wants to commit crimes without accountability is applying for jobs with ICE and they’re being hired. ICE is full of dangerous people that want to hurt people. I don’t want to pay for that.

15.02.2026 16:08 β€” πŸ‘ 3491    πŸ” 795    πŸ’¬ 135    πŸ“Œ 23

The essence of the Big Lie

16.02.2026 17:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1649    πŸ” 303    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 4

"But if we prosecute everyone in the Epstein files, the entire system will collapse"

Yeah, that's the aim

14.02.2026 20:01 β€” πŸ‘ 3453    πŸ” 676    πŸ’¬ 158    πŸ“Œ 52

The reason these people have been attacking scholars and universities is that they stand in the way of the ahistorical bullshit they need to spew in order to construct white Christian nationalism

15.02.2026 16:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1265    πŸ” 335    πŸ’¬ 53    πŸ“Œ 8
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Tell Your Senators: Protect our Democracy, Vote NO on the SAVE Act Contact Congress today!

Tell the Senate: Save Democracy. Defeat the SAVE Act!

15.02.2026 19:44 β€” πŸ‘ 2168    πŸ” 908    πŸ’¬ 87    πŸ“Œ 54
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The only Amendment members of the Trump Regime will honor is the 5th. All the rest can be denied to Americans on Trump's whim.

15.02.2026 05:33 β€” πŸ‘ 528    πŸ” 88    πŸ’¬ 31    πŸ“Œ 2
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⚠️ PSA - don’t take health advice from people who snort cocaine off toilet seats.

We are truly living in Idiocracy, and you can thank RFK Jr. for this outbreak.

15.02.2026 03:46 β€” πŸ‘ 5204    πŸ” 1904    πŸ’¬ 248    πŸ“Œ 104
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The NFL Owners and Olympic Organizers in Epstein’s Inbox The sports media is ignoring the story, but wealthy sports figures are all over the Epstein files.

NFL franchise owners in the EPSTEIN e-mails & assorted docs

Partial list:
*Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots
*Steve Tisch, co-owner of the New York Giants
*Stephen Ross, owner of the Miami Dolphins
*Zygi Wilf, owner of the Minnesota Vikings
*Arthur Blank, owner of the Atlanta Falcons

14.02.2026 19:30 β€” πŸ‘ 6613    πŸ” 3875    πŸ’¬ 488    πŸ“Œ 354
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Rep. Angie Craig: "The attacks on Black and brown people in Minnesota have been egregious. At the end of the day, what they wanted out of Minnesota was for us to riot. I think this will go down in American history as one of the greatest examples of peaceful resistance from an entire community."

15.02.2026 14:37 β€” πŸ‘ 18364    πŸ” 4896    πŸ’¬ 372    πŸ“Œ 242
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