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@thatothermike.bsky.social

Songwriter, Blues lover, guitarist, Home Recording/Production, Software, anything Durham and North Carolina. Guitarist for Good Rocking Sam, The Spoonbenders App State, UNC Grad Jumping Jackson Records - My home-grown label

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Confirmed by Centcom to be three (3) F-15s that were shot down.

Again, in modern combat environments it is genuinely hard to deconflict and operate without this kind of screw-ups...but in this case it really matters (re conclusions) if it was US forces or others who did the shooting.

02.03.2026 11:16 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
Mia Valentina Paz Faria
A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas 
Detained for 70 days

β€œI don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days β€œI don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by 
@micarosenberg
 et al for ProPublica:

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:

β€œI don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.

Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.

www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

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VA Senate president responds to Ted crying about VA’s redistricting, which should add 4 new Dem seats.

07.02.2026 12:17 β€” πŸ‘ 25047    πŸ” 5286    πŸ’¬ 1319    πŸ“Œ 496
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

05.02.2026 11:50 β€” πŸ‘ 32260    πŸ” 13859    πŸ’¬ 589    πŸ“Œ 1597

How many bananas 🍌 is that?

01.02.2026 00:30 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

DHS doesn’t even bother trying to lie well. The man whose skull was shattered told the hospital he’d been struck by ICE officers, an ICE officer told hospital staff the guy β€œgot his sh*t rocked,” then when it became clear how badly he was injured, they claimed he deliberately ran into a wall.

31.01.2026 16:59 β€” πŸ‘ 5116    πŸ” 2352    πŸ’¬ 110    πŸ“Œ 111

This is a good plugin to add vibe

31.01.2026 17:02 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.

27.01.2026 11:00 β€” πŸ‘ 12014    πŸ” 5914    πŸ’¬ 237    πŸ“Œ 345

This is true. I tested it.

27.01.2026 00:40 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Christi Noem should testify under oath in Congress and explain why she lied about the facts around the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

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Minnesota National Guard members have arrived at a federal building and were directed to distribute donuts, coffee, and hot chocolate to anti-ICE protesters. Guard members were issued reflective vests so they would not be mistaken for federal agents.

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The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

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Here’s the latest.

"Videos analyzed by The New York Times appear to contradict accounts given by Homeland Security officials about the shooting."

www.nytimes.com/live/2026/us...

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Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.

White. Hot. Rage.

24.01.2026 19:31 β€” πŸ‘ 60638    πŸ” 18878    πŸ’¬ 1405    πŸ“Œ 741

Great interview with Lucinda! She is the Real Deal for sure

22.01.2026 16:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Jazz… sometimes it’s the concerts you don’t play.

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Jump starting the culture wars Republicans from counties with failing schools are attacking the most successful district in the state.

North Carolina is 48th in per pupil spending and a guy from a county with failing schools is attacking a school district with the most successful schools in the state. open.substack.com/pub/politics...

14.12.2025 17:13 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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An Audience With Steve Cropper: "I just fire it up and go" The Stax legend talks Memphis water, John Belushi on acid and Friday night β€œschwimps” with Eddie Floyd

In tribute to the great Steve Cropper, who has died aged 84, here's our final interview with the legendary guitarist - where he answered reader questions on everything from Memphis water to John Belushi on acid and Friday night β€œschwimps” with Eddie Floyd...

04.12.2025 10:15 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Seems bad

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Panzerarmee Intelligence Reports The table below gives easy access to the daily reports. The background to these reports is as set out below. The reports were made daily to the High Command of the Army’s Foreign Armies West …

Regular reminder that the full set of German intelligence assessments for Operation CRUSADER is here, together with some explanations and background.

This is to my knowledge the most/only comprehensive resource in English covering German intelligence of their enemy in a specific operation in WW2.

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this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

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Great thread, it's all did info out there. The slave squat versus pepe meme seems also a red herring

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His final photo '10:28:24 AM' seconds before the 2nd tower came down is just astonishing
#September11

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BREAKING: In Chicago, Illinoisβ€”U.S. citizens protesting ICE were dragged into vans by masked federal agents with no badges and no warrants.

People screamed: β€œWho are you? Where are you taking them?”

This is authoritarian control in real time.

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β€˜I escaped a Russian prison β€” only to end up in an American jail’ Dozens of Russian dissidents have been expelled from the US and forcibly returned to Russia with theΒ co-operation of immigration authorities

BREAKING: ICE is sending Russian dissidents back to Russia. When the dissidents arrived in Russia, the Russian authorities were given documents relating to their asylum applications in the US which under US law are confidential. This seems to be part of a secret agreement between Trump and Putin.

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Sen. Warren Daniel (R–NC, District 46) was caught trading stocks right on the Senate floor.

Didn’t even wait for a break. Playing the market on the taxpayers’ time…pure abuse of power.

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Y'all are doing the work to save us all

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