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Pete Driessen

@petedriessen.bsky.social

Minneapolis based Visual Artist, Painter, Sculptor, Cultural Producer.

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This must drive Vance, a poster’s poster, totally insane.

07.02.2026 17:16 β€” πŸ‘ 611    πŸ” 82    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 0
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NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump Whistleblower says that Tulsi Gabbard blocked agency from sharing report and delivered it to White House chief of staff

NSA's whistleblower report is about contacts between foreign intelligence and someone close to Trump. Instead of acting on this information to protect the United States, Gabbard tipped off the White House and squashed an internal investigation to protect Trump.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

07.02.2026 18:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1538    πŸ” 759    πŸ’¬ 112    πŸ“Œ 54
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Moulton: It turns out the U.S. Army is not great at doing Soviet-style or North Korean-style parades, because that’s not what people sign up to do…

Imagine how much veteran housing you could build for $40 million. You could help a lot of vets with that kind of money.

And this parade helped nobody.

17.06.2025 19:33 β€” πŸ‘ 14234    πŸ” 3636    πŸ’¬ 322    πŸ“Œ 103

breaking: world’s richest humanoid can afford to buy clean pee to submit for testing.

17.06.2025 20:10 β€” πŸ‘ 606    πŸ” 81    πŸ’¬ 51    πŸ“Œ 5

Iran has nukes is the 2020s version of Iraq has WMDs in 2000s.

Stop letting propaganda slogans convince you to let wealthy elites send our young men and women to war.

We need justice and diplomacy, not fear and destruction.

17.06.2025 18:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1223    πŸ” 288    πŸ’¬ 41    πŸ“Œ 11
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Padilla: I was forced to the ground, first on my knees and then flat on my chest. And as I was handcuffed and marched down a hallway repeatedly asking, why am I being detained? Not once did they tell me why. I pray you never have a moment like this

17.06.2025 17:14 β€” πŸ‘ 28604    πŸ” 8627    πŸ’¬ 733    πŸ“Œ 367
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I wrote this four days ago. Today, they arrested the NYC Comptroller.

17.06.2025 19:13 β€” πŸ‘ 20478    πŸ” 6844    πŸ’¬ 477    πŸ“Œ 176
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'It feels different in here': Walz returns to the Capitol after death of friend and colleague

17.06.2025 21:06 β€” πŸ‘ 547    πŸ” 154    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 7
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Trump Says He Has No Plans to Call Walz After Shootings in Minnesota

Classless, small, petty shell of a man. He is thoroughly unworthy of the office he holdsβ€¦πŸ€¬πŸ€¬πŸ€¬

Trump Says He Has No Plans to Call Walz After Shootings in Minnesota www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/u...

17.06.2025 21:30 β€” πŸ‘ 117    πŸ” 21    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 0
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Walz responds to Trump refusing to call him after Minnesota shootings (The Hill) Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s (D) spokesperson responded to President Trump’s refusal to call him following the shooting of two Minnesota state lawmakers.Β  β€œGo...

He's such a good man. Thank you Governor Walz you have my total RESPECT.
@governorwalz.mn.gov

17.06.2025 22:03 β€” πŸ‘ 320    πŸ” 66    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 7
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People Who Escaped Authoritarian Governments Share How They Knew It Was Time To Go Know the warning signs.

It's important to know the warning signs.

26.05.2025 17:30 β€” πŸ‘ 6798    πŸ” 1640    πŸ’¬ 225    πŸ“Œ 45
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β€œThe Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion." β€” 1797 Treaty of Tripoli, unanimously ratified by the US Senate, signed by President Adams

Comments like Johnson’s are what happens when you ban books instead of reading them.

26.05.2025 20:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1607    πŸ” 613    πŸ’¬ 115    πŸ“Œ 50
NGC 6565 looks to me like a miniature Ring Nebula. I'm rather fond of these nebulas with rather rainbow-like gradients from blue in the center to red at the perimeter.

I made an effort to reduce the size of the stars which would otherwise be bright green due to the green channel being f555w.

Red: hst_08773_01_wfpc2_f658n_pc_sci
Green: hst_07501_01_wfpc2_f555w_pc_sci
Blue: hst_08773_01_wfpc2_f502n_pc_sci

North is NOT up, it's 45Β° clockwise from up

NGC 6565 looks to me like a miniature Ring Nebula. I'm rather fond of these nebulas with rather rainbow-like gradients from blue in the center to red at the perimeter. I made an effort to reduce the size of the stars which would otherwise be bright green due to the green channel being f555w. Red: hst_08773_01_wfpc2_f658n_pc_sci Green: hst_07501_01_wfpc2_f555w_pc_sci Blue: hst_08773_01_wfpc2_f502n_pc_sci North is NOT up, it's 45Β° clockwise from up

NGC 6565 - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/gTqYyw

26.05.2025 18:00 β€” πŸ‘ 70    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Carl Sagan speaking at MIT in 1987 on lowering our C02 emissions.

Apply these words to any technological problem our world faces today and it holds up.

26.05.2025 13:48 β€” πŸ‘ 6985    πŸ” 1642    πŸ’¬ 87    πŸ“Œ 63
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Elle Cordova
@ellecordova.bsky.social

26.05.2025 18:30 β€” πŸ‘ 8966    πŸ” 2505    πŸ’¬ 259    πŸ“Œ 236
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60% of American households can’t afford a minimal quality of life.

Meanwhile, the 19 richest households saw their wealth increase by $1 trillion in 2024 β€” the biggest one-year increase ever.

Our problem isn't a lack of resources.

Our problem is ever-expanding inequality.

26.05.2025 20:01 β€” πŸ‘ 14259    πŸ” 4905    πŸ’¬ 452    πŸ“Œ 250
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Today is the day we honor those who died overseas stopping the same thing many of you are ignoring here at home--fascism.

26.05.2025 19:50 β€” πŸ‘ 24248    πŸ” 5623    πŸ’¬ 401    πŸ“Œ 179
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Today, I was denied access to seeing my constituent, Mr. Kilmar Abrego Garcia. If there is nothing to hide, cut the crap. Let his lawyer and I check on him.

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They're arresting Members of Congress.

Perhaps a sternly-worded letter is in order.

Or, perhaps, it's time to play some damn hardball with the DOJ.

20.05.2025 00:37 β€” πŸ‘ 25317    πŸ” 5655    πŸ’¬ 1041    πŸ“Œ 293
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The very definition of evil is incarcerating for life in one of the worst hellholes on Earth men who did everything right.

But it’s beyond evilβ€”beyond demonicβ€”to then not try to do anything to save the men you consigned to Hell, *and* to in fact libel and slander them daily when they cannot reply.

21.05.2025 00:58 β€” πŸ‘ 13862    πŸ” 5593    πŸ’¬ 425    πŸ“Œ 255
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One indicator of how detached from reality is MAGA.

21.05.2025 01:22 β€” πŸ‘ 472    πŸ” 118    πŸ’¬ 55    πŸ“Œ 14
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Asked About Backing 'Largest Cuts in History' of Medicaid, GOP Rep. Miller-Meeks Has No Comment | Common Dreams Progressive group confronts Rep. Miller-Meeks on Medicaid cuts, questioning impact on constituents & hospitals. Advocates urge voters to rally against $700B cuts. #HandsOffMedicaid

"Rep. Miller-Meeks, I'm wondering if you have any comment on the healthcare that 67,000 people in your district are going to lose?" - @alaw202.bsky.social, Executive Director of Social Security Works

She ran away.

21.05.2025 01:02 β€” πŸ‘ 239    πŸ” 113    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 6
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House chamber burst into laughter when Marjorie Taylor Greene called for
"decorum."

20.05.2025 10:43 β€” πŸ‘ 17344    πŸ” 3350    πŸ’¬ 1490    πŸ“Œ 622

I just declared a peacetime emergency to ensure we’re providing every possible resource for those fighting the wildfires in Minnesota.

As fires remain active up north, I’m grateful for the tireless work and coordinated response of those on the frontlines.

20.05.2025 22:49 β€” πŸ‘ 16056    πŸ” 2205    πŸ’¬ 208    πŸ“Œ 55
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HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?

NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country

HASSAN: That's incorrect

20.05.2025 14:16 β€” πŸ‘ 44328    πŸ” 12879    πŸ’¬ 4901    πŸ“Œ 5402
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Crockett: That’s why they hired everybody from Fox because all they’re trying to do is put on a show.. I want us to refocus our attention on the American people and stop demonizing every person that ends up in ICE custody…

*Applause*

Van Drew: *bangs gavel*

20.05.2025 20:05 β€” πŸ‘ 34064    πŸ” 8752    πŸ’¬ 598    πŸ“Œ 423
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If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves β€” strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security β€” we would likely consider it an act of war.

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