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Pete Parkinson

@pwparkinson.bsky.social

A retired planner and refugee from the other social media platforms. Pro-democracy, pro-equity and pro-rule-of-law. So yeah, I’m worried.

149 Followers  |  99 Following  |  219 Posts  |  Joined: 31.01.2025  |  1.9567

Latest posts by pwparkinson.bsky.social on Bluesky

Exactly. That's how you do it.

20.11.2025 15:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Why we keep showing up. Why we keep fighting.

20.11.2025 15:43 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Pretty spot-on symbolism though.

18.11.2025 02:05 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Trump’s call for Republicans to vote to release the Epstein files is just more slight-of-hand from the master of charades. Coming soon: “I’d love to release all the files but my lawyers tell me it’s not allowed because of ongoing investigations.”

17.11.2025 16:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

FFS. See if you can square that with the (legally vacuous) “major questions” doctrine. These liars will say anything.

16.11.2025 19:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We keep looking in the wrong place. There is a shadow and a darkness that lives within all of us. The sooner we come to grips with that, the sooner we can figure out a way to live humanely in this insane world of ours.

15.11.2025 18:46 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Why did the nation that used Christianity to justify slavery, ethnic cleansing of indigenous populations, racial segregation, homophobia and preemptive war elect a dumb racist crook who's the opposite of everything Jesus taught?

Is that the question?

15.11.2025 16:04 — 👍 766    🔁 207    💬 38    📌 7

Consider the source. Catholic League trying to whitewash clergy abuse. Of course they agree that Epstein wasn’t a pedophile. Parse the language all you want, you’re still nauseating.

15.11.2025 18:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

According to Fox News, if you are a racist Young Republican you are still a "kid" when you are 34, but if you are an Epstein victim, you are an adult when you're 15.

15.11.2025 17:25 — 👍 6820    🔁 2417    💬 179    📌 106

Plus, now that this is a problem for Democrats and NOT Republicans, I’m sure he’ll also be directing DOJ to immediately release ALL of their Epstein records, right? Oh, wait …

14.11.2025 19:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I think that’s exactly what they’ve been doing for the past 6 months.

13.11.2025 17:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Jeffrey Epstein claimed he gave Russians insight into Trump Newly released emails show the late convicted sex offender’s extensive network of foreign contacts, whom he corresponded with about Trump’s policy decisions.

Hm. Really.

www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

13.11.2025 03:46 — 👍 4435    🔁 1337    💬 252    📌 62

She’s just there to give him a hand. Wink, wink.

12.11.2025 19:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Having an inarticulate man who has never been in a grocery store give an inaccurate speech to people who are in grocery stores all the time that is full of easily disproven lies about how grocery prices are going down isn't a winning "affordability" strategy.

12.11.2025 16:51 — 👍 6764    🔁 1645    💬 968    📌 197

That fly on the wall just got hit with a ketchup bottle.

12.11.2025 16:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Aurora borealis from our backyard in Sonoma County.

12.11.2025 16:45 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I just threw up in my mouth reading this.

09.11.2025 00:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Evidently somebody passed out in the Oval Office today; this is a real photo. The empathy and compassion from the president is really palpable, right?

06.11.2025 18:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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But let’s not forget …

06.11.2025 15:35 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Spot on.

05.11.2025 04:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’d like to note how truly fucked up it is for JD Vance to publicly say, now on more than one occasion, that he would prefer that his wife convert to Christianity.

01.11.2025 19:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Go ahead, put it on. I dare you.

31.10.2025 14:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Question: Since Congress has abandoned its role and effectively shut down, do we now have Taxation Without Representation? Didn’t we Americans DO something about that when it happened 250 years ago?

30.10.2025 13:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I love this idea.

27.10.2025 20:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Trump called off his SF Bay Area ICE invasion because someone told him that might generate more Yes On 50 votes. I predict they will be back in full force in the early morning hours of November 5.

25.10.2025 15:16 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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King Trump turns US Treasury into his personal piggy bank He thinks our money is his.

"Tearing down the White House and replacing it with a facsimile of Mar-a-Lago isn’t any less appalling because Trump cajoled companies into paying for it. Indeed, it might be worse. Funding a pet project via the coercion of private donors creates a closed loop and complete lack of accountability."

24.10.2025 14:14 — 👍 3854    🔁 1167    💬 263    📌 85

Retirement homes are notorious dens of hanky-panky. Need to add a “safe sex” class in between water aerobics and low-impact yoga.

24.10.2025 14:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

One day the White House “ballroom” will be a museum cataloguing this country’s descent into autocracy, including horrors we have yet to see.

Bookmark this skeet

23.10.2025 01:39 — 👍 8626    🔁 1517    💬 551    📌 88

Know anyone who works for DC planning department? They should post an immediate ‘STOP WORK’ notice. Yeah, I know the WH would ignore it and it would likely have no real force … but it still needs to be done. Symbols matter.

23.10.2025 14:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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