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@traths.bsky.social

Geezer, former radio anchor, Facebook refugee.

89 Followers  |  162 Following  |  306 Posts  |  Joined: 20.01.2025  |  1.5497

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Uh, Clapton, Dwayne Allman, Jimmie Hendrix, Pete Townsend.

05.01.2026 02:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I didnโ€™t find it on Politico

03.01.2026 01:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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White House joins Bluesky and immediately trolls Trump opponents The White House has joined Bluesky, the social media platform of choice of many in the left-leaning online world.

Why let a propaganda machine on this site?
White House joins Bluesky and immediately trolls Trump opponents

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18.10.2025 17:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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September 30, 2025 Last Thursday, September 25, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth suddenly announced he was calling about 800 of the nationโ€™s top military generals and admirals, along with their top enlisted advisors, to m...

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01.10.2025 14:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Opinion | When did we repeal the First Amendment? We must not let a horrifying act of political violence serve as the pretense for undermining our freedom of speech.

Oh those pesky southern writers www.alreporter.com/2025/09/23/o...

23.09.2025 15:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Redirecting...

Yet another one of those pesky Alabama columnists. Read on www.facebook.com/share/1FN2LB...

22.09.2025 21:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Kyle Whitmire on X: "Is the First Amendment OK? Is free speech still with us? The US Constitution needs a wellness check. https://t.co/469uK698YR" / X Is the First Amendment OK? Is free speech still with us? The US Constitution needs a wellness check. https://t.co/469uK698YR

Kyle Whitmire puts all the mess in perspective x.com/WarOnDumb/st...

19.09.2025 21:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Opinion | Dark money empire targets Alabama in a national battle to rule the law Leonard Leoโ€™s billion-dollar network fuels Alabamaโ€™s AG race, part of a nationwide drive to dominate courts and rule the law.

Well done. Hereโ€™s how the billionaires buy elections, using a system set up after the Citizen United ruling that opened the spigots. www.alreporter.com/2025/09/02/o...

02.09.2025 22:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Opinion | Congress abdicates, executive swells: Democracy teeters on the edge of collapse The Framers warned against unchecked power. Today Congress cowers, Alabama suffers and liberty erodes as executive authority grows unchecked.

A good read. Alabama has plenty of experience with tyrants www.alreporter.com/2025/08/26/o...

26.08.2025 18:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Is this Donald Trumpโ€™s worst appointment yet? He helped the Alabama Legislature defy a U.S. Supreme Court order. Trump wants him on the bench.

Really? Not just a sycophant, but a really bad lawyer. www.al.com/news/2025/08...

20.08.2025 17:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Archibald: Football ref raised in Alabama awaits fate in ICE detention Weโ€™ve all seen videos of masked ICE agents making arrests, but what is it like when the cameras are off? I asked Fonzie Andrade to describe it.

Senseless and cruel. Do all you can to make sure this is not our new normal. www.al.com/news/2025/08...

19.08.2025 14:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Opinion | If Putinโ€™s logic holds, Mexico could justify invading Texas tomorrow Trumpโ€™s appeasement of Putin echoes Chamberlainโ€™s Munich surrender, legitimizing conquest and making grievance a weapon that threatens global stability.

www.alreporter.com/2025/08/18/o...

18.08.2025 13:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Government papers found in an Alaskan hotel reveal new details of Trump-Putin summit Documents with sensitive details about the meeting between President Trump and Russian President Putin were left behind on a public hotel printer.

www.npr.org/2025/08/16/n...

16.08.2025 18:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Establishment Democrats Are Going to Torpedo the 2026 Midterms Having failed to learn the key lesson from last yearโ€™s defeat, party leaders are promoting moderate candidates to run against populist progressives in next yearโ€™s elections.

The milk toast Dems of the past wont work. Their leaders have to take the fight to the people, not the suits newrepublic.com/article/1987...

13.08.2025 19:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Opinion | The new reality is not in your favor Until average Americans, and especially average Alabamians, stop falling for the goofy scare tactics and racism, the odds will never be in our favor.

www.alreporter.com/2025/08/12/t...

12.08.2025 14:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Opinion | We the people face a tipping pointโ€”resistance is the only way forward From suffragists to todayโ€™s Christian nationalists, history warns that rights vanish without action. The fight for democracy is now.

www.alreporter.com/2025/08/11/o...

11.08.2025 13:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Beverly (@beverly143) Brilliant

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08.08.2025 19:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Small town Alabama is the only home Fonzie knows, but ICE came for him anyway โ€œI don't know nothing about Mexico,โ€ he said. โ€œI don't even know how their political things work."

One of those church going, hardened criminals who snuck across the border as a baby. Quite the national security threat. www.al.com/news/2025/08...

08.08.2025 13:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Opinion | Gerrymandering in any form steals power from voters Maybe the lunacy in Texas will finally prompt voters to take a stand and hold onto their power.

www.alreporter.com/2025/08/07/o...

07.08.2025 17:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Alabama immigration advocate detained by ICE in traffic stop, family says: โ€˜Just heartbreaking and discouragingโ€™ "Her detainment is not only legally questionable โ€” it is morally wrong," a petition demanding her release reads.

Once again, how is she any threat to national security? Fascists www.al.com/news/2025/08...

07.08.2025 16:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
The Strike Card Calendar โ€” The General Strike The General Strike hosts regular meetings on Discord, Google Meets and Zooms where we meet to discuss for national and global change.

generalstrikeus.com/calendar

06.08.2025 20:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Opinion | The lie will not die quietlyโ€”neither should we If greatness means silencing truth, punishing science, and rewriting history to comfort the powerful, then what they seek isnโ€™t greatness. Itโ€™s destruction.

Not just for one state, for the entire nation. www.alreporter.com/2025/08/04/o...

04.08.2025 13:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Just another summer night in Alabama.

01.08.2025 01:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Lawsuit: Alabama teens abused, forced to fight each other at state-funded youth camp Lawsuits describe Camp SAYLA as a โ€œhouse of horrorsโ€ where children suffered brutal abuse, including being beaten and forced into a staff-created โ€œbounty system.โ€

Tip of the iceberg. Corruption runs deep. www.alreporter.com/2025/07/31/l...

31.07.2025 13:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Opinion | They Saw Their Neighbors Taken Away by ICE. Then They Made a Plan.

Shine the spotlight on would be authoritarians. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/o...

30.07.2025 20:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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"The hair on the back of my neck stood straight up. And you know, my knees knocked so hard that I was about to answer 'em."

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29.07.2025 15:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Why Trump Might Free Ghislaine Trump canโ€™t bully or bribe the Jeffrey Epstein files, but Epsteinโ€™s top co-conspirator is another matter.

While we are, again, talking about the disgusting actions of a cabal including Donald Trump and other wealthy men, others of the same ilk quietly wreck the nation. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

29.07.2025 13:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Alabama activists target Trump with Epstein billboard on busy expressway: โ€˜Whatโ€™s the big secret?โ€™ The digital sign on Red Mountain Expressway is the latest in a series of political messages from progressive group Birmingham Blue Dot.

The joy of having nothing to lose. www.al.com/news/birming...

28.07.2025 20:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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American Fascism: The Sequel The lies they told. The silence they need. The ending we havenโ€™t surrendered.

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28.07.2025 13:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Billionaire Peter Thiel backing first privately developed US uranium enrichment facility in Paducah A California-based company with ties to billionaire investor and Trump ally Peter Thiel announced plans Friday to build Americaโ€™s first U.S.-owned, privately developed facility to enrich uranium in fa...

JD Vanceโ€™s handler Peter Thiel is developing a nuclear enrichment plant in Kentucky. No worries www.wkms.org/energy/2025-...

27.07.2025 12:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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