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@alesplin.bsky.social

I'm a reformed (reforming?) redneck turned into a Ballet and Theater Dad™. I'm a hobby guitar, bass, and ukulele player. I'm a software engineer I make things, and try to figure out how things work. I'm a Liberal, because I'm a Christian.

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Undocumented immigrants pay almost $100 billion in taxes each year.

The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes each year.

Stop pretending that immigrants are the ones taking advantage of taxpayers.

07.06.2025 19:02 — 👍 25067    🔁 8366    💬 341    📌 250

ICE is a much greater threat to this country than illegal immigrants. The current administration ia by far the greatest threat this country faces. The problem is not st our borders. It is in the White House.

08.06.2025 02:17 — 👍 17976    🔁 4645    💬 338    📌 165
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Don't forget it

08.06.2025 01:20 — 👍 11177    🔁 2904    💬 181    📌 117
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Silence

Is

Complicity

Straighten your spine
Speak & live your truth

07.06.2025 14:43 — 👍 18827    🔁 4881    💬 375    📌 161
MIDDLE EAST CONFLICT
Islam's holiest day is marred by grief and peril as Gaza marks Eid al-Adha
Rather than the ritual sacrifice of a lamb, a Palestinian man told NBC News, "We sacrifice the blood of martyrs. We sacrifice our sons, our daughters, and our mothers."

MIDDLE EAST CONFLICT Islam's holiest day is marred by grief and peril as Gaza marks Eid al-Adha Rather than the ritual sacrifice of a lamb, a Palestinian man told NBC News, "We sacrifice the blood of martyrs. We sacrifice our sons, our daughters, and our mothers."

"This is not an Eid of joy; it is an Eid of mourning and death," Ahmed Darwish, displaced from Rafah to west Khan Younis, told NBC News as he stood beside the graves. "Our children and women are in pieces.
Instead of sacrificing animals, we collected body parts this morning."
On Eid, Israeli strikes continued as families wept by the bodies of their loved ones, killed before celebrations could begin.
Reda Abdel Rahim Eljara told an NBC News team that Israeli air strikes had already killed her husband and one of her sons. On the first day of Eid al-Adha, she lost two more sons and her daughter-in-law.

"This is not an Eid of joy; it is an Eid of mourning and death," Ahmed Darwish, displaced from Rafah to west Khan Younis, told NBC News as he stood beside the graves. "Our children and women are in pieces. Instead of sacrificing animals, we collected body parts this morning." On Eid, Israeli strikes continued as families wept by the bodies of their loved ones, killed before celebrations could begin. Reda Abdel Rahim Eljara told an NBC News team that Israeli air strikes had already killed her husband and one of her sons. On the first day of Eid al-Adha, she lost two more sons and her daughter-in-law.

Umm Ahmad Al-Qatati said her son, Omar, 11, was shot as he left his tent to shower and get ready for a visit to see his father.
"He was so excited for Eid morning, but they sent him to the morgue instead," she said. "Instead of celebrating Eid, he went to be with his Lord."

Umm Ahmad Al-Qatati said her son, Omar, 11, was shot as he left his tent to shower and get ready for a visit to see his father. "He was so excited for Eid morning, but they sent him to the morgue instead," she said. "Instead of celebrating Eid, he went to be with his Lord."

Right now, Muslims in Gaza are supposed to be celebrating Eid al-Adha.

Instead of feasting, they are starving. Instead of gathering with their loved ones, they are burying their children.

Netanyahu and the IDF can end this misery ANY time by agreeing to a ceasefire and allowing aid into Gaza.

07.06.2025 15:51 — 👍 8349    🔁 2357    💬 258    📌 73

If you really want to drive the point home about how fucked up ICE is then people should start forcing Star Wars themes on ICE. Protesters should start playing the imperial march whenever ICE shows up and should also start dressing like the rebel alliance.

08.06.2025 14:03 — 👍 22976    🔁 4308    💬 756    📌 466

So he’s smart enough to invent electric cars and rockets (yeah I know he didn’t actually invent them), but he’s not smart enough to know he was giving a nazi salute?

Which is it, exactly?

21.01.2025 05:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

In all seriousness: the last 2 weeks of TikTok posturing and Zuck grovelling, combined with the X insanity of the last year, should show you that an app with a feed that you don’t control serves *other people’s interests* - not yours.

19.01.2025 20:44 — 👍 7303    🔁 1127    💬 80    📌 43

Hillary’s email server would like a word

20.01.2025 01:58 — 👍 19256    🔁 3940    💬 345    📌 82
Chris Murphy
@ChrisMurphyCT
TikTok tucking itself in with Trump. Twitter under control of the White House. Facebook making major changes to placate MAGA, doing PR campaign to align w Trump.
Does everyone not see what's happening here and how terrifying this is.

Chris Murphy @ChrisMurphyCT TikTok tucking itself in with Trump. Twitter under control of the White House. Facebook making major changes to placate MAGA, doing PR campaign to align w Trump. Does everyone not see what's happening here and how terrifying this is.

The platforms are tools of power integral to political propaganda machines. Every politician and activist knows this.

And Congress couldn’t get it together to pass legislation ensuring the most basic transparency or data access over the last 3 years so we could at least understand how they’re used.

20.01.2025 18:57 — 👍 1782    🔁 316    💬 78    📌 14

We live in a post-sanity world.

20.01.2025 16:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Justice is coming... eventually. ⚖️

#MartinLutherKingDay2025

20.01.2025 06:45 — 👍 47474    🔁 6284    💬 1747    📌 273

_Just_ started playing it after all these years. Loving it so far.

16.01.2025 00:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Speaker Mike Johnson said he thinks it’s totally ok to ask for concessions from Democrats in return for providing and/or expediting aid to the wildfires in California.

A large number of maga voters will
Be totally ok with this inhumanity because that’s how much they hate liberals.

14.01.2025 04:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

1000%

13.01.2025 06:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I haven’t really been much of a “gamer” the last 15 years or so. I’ve played a lot of Minecraft and I still play the occasional DnD RPG. Outlaws was my first proper modern title and I’ve thoroughly enjoyed it.

12.01.2025 16:16 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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✈️ 💦 🏆

11.01.2025 23:41 — 👍 11741    🔁 1984    💬 269    📌 141

I know it’s a new game, but how did Kay Vess from Star Wars: Outlaws not make anyone’s list???

12.01.2025 06:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Why is the media like this?

11.01.2025 22:22 — 👍 45408    🔁 9377    💬 1775    📌 413

mark zuckerberg’s entire adult life has been a revenge tour against women

11.01.2025 00:42 — 👍 25910    🔁 3326    💬 659    📌 168

Jim Jordan is a blight on the idea of a civil society.

11.01.2025 23:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#EmbarrassmentInChief 🤮

10.01.2025 22:37 — 👍 80990    🔁 15358    💬 2496    📌 919
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Mike Luckovich gets it right as he always does

09.01.2025 18:53 — 👍 41288    🔁 8559    💬 629    📌 344

Checks out.

09.01.2025 16:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A reminder that Los Angeles had its hottest summer in history last year. Southern California has received just 2% of "normal" rainfall during the current "rainy" season.

These fires are a direct result of a warming & drying atmosphere caused by burning fossil fuels.

We are in a climate emergency.

08.01.2025 18:08 — 👍 5381    🔁 1946    💬 178    📌 125
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True 😂😂

08.01.2025 09:27 — 👍 28388    🔁 4177    💬 666    📌 208

I felt kinda bad for James Woods for a minute. But man what an idiotic dipshit talking about filling water reservoirs when there’s no water to fill them with because of, oh wait what is that thing again… oh right: climate change.

09.01.2025 16:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I really do not understand this either.

09.01.2025 16:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I think the people who fight enormous fires should get more money than the people who harass homeless people but that's just me

09.01.2025 05:21 — 👍 2286    🔁 352    💬 18    📌 10

Dude, I don’t think magats have done anything but actively in-learn humanity for the last like 25 years.

09.01.2025 16:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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