Andy Dimock

Andy Dimock

@adimock.bsky.social

New Englander in California Literature, History, Philosophy Trail running and road races Red Sox Nation Girl Dad «Que sais-je?»

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Andy Dimock
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LA Dodgers ownership, in bid to make team easier to hate, visits WH and gifts Trump a World Series ring Proud to see that Mookie Betts blew the event off The chairman of the team, Mark Walter, owns a financial services firm that’s under federal investigation That ring was a good investment

Andy Dimock
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Disappointed in Dave Roberts, but a manager has to cater to team ownership in ways star players don’t My guess is that, unlike the NBA, the white MLB players are mostly MAGA Perhaps a lot of the non-whites are along for the ride, too. If you make $10 million per year, his tax policy’s for you

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Everyone’s dunking on the WH lawn cage-match, but admit it: the symbolism’s perfect If today really is the day the Iran deal goes through, we’re celebrating what they call, in MMA lingo, the mullahs “submitting” Trump

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You’re not safer with a gun in the house “SecWar” Hegseth just lifted the ban on private firearms on military bases. Lethality! But most of it will be aimed at the gun owners themselves, or the people around them

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Robert Reich
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146 workers died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire on this day in 1911. The bosses responsible were never held accountable for the awful working conditions that sparked the blaze. Remember this today as politicians and their corporate backers attack workplace safety.

Andy Dimock
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The scene at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware today: Six soldiers arrive in coffins. POTUS is sporting a USA baseball cap Head Ferret Maintenance takes precedence over the Dignified Transfer of Remains ceremony Trumps it, you might say

Andy Dimock
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Old enough to remember how much harder things were in the Cold War days You couldn’t just take phone calls in the White House from your KGB handler. You couldn’t announce them to the public in print, either

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Is it possible the Senate Dems are doing this because they know the Rs won’t honor the deal, so that the party in power gets 100% of the responsibility in the eyes of midterm voters when the crushing ACA hikes come through?

Andy Dimock
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I don’t believe in 7th dimensional chess moves, least of all by Chuck Schumer A lot of people will suffer: the impossible rates mean that the sick will go without care, or buy it for a time at the price of financial ruin

Andy Dimock
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Plenty of R Sens and Cong were hoping that that the ACA hikes would be averted, but they lack the spine to do what’s right for their constituents, and now they’ll pay, politically I don’t want to see control of Congress bought back with that level of suffering, but maybe that’s the way it has to be

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Hegseth attacks body fat, declares open season for war crimes, announces the purge of non-white and female personnel Your mission? Go after your unarmed fellow citizens This spectacle is for the type of online man-child whose idea of soldiering comes from drunken rewatches of Zach Snyder’s 300

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Jacob T. Levy
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Reminder that support for war crimes on TV was Hegseth's only qualification for the job; it's the only reason Trump knew he existed. Secretary of War Crimes is the job he was auditioning for during his career as a drunken talking head on Fox.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."

Andy Dimock
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An oversize Chevy pickup, festooned with the Stars and Stripes? Rammed through a brick wall, so that the driver can gun down people with an assault rifle and set the church afire? It’s a perfect tableau of America in our moment, somehow

Andy Dimock
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Plenty of overloaded cultural markers here that suggest a certain outlook, but I’m not saying that the shooter believed in X, Y, and Z, and therefore all my political beliefs are correct I’m tired of parsing these killers His beliefs were probably incoherent. He certainly worshipped the gun

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Why is it amateur hour with the FBI search in Utah? Because the heads of the Federal Bureau of Investigation are, quite literally, amateurs Even if they were competent, flying out into the field to chase views and the press is nothing but a distraction for the agents working the case

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Kai Ryssdal
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About this Florida vaccine story: When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough. We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. “Oh, they’d have died.”

Andy Dimock
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Never fear! Todd Blanche (former Trump personal attorney and now, inexplicably, Deputy U.S. Attorney General) is on the case! Tom Hagen’s about to visit Frankie Pentangeli in federal lockup. He’ll make him an offer he can’t refuse

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AyJay
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Carl Sagan predicted this. He was truly ahead of his time. bsky.app/profile/saga...

Saganism@sagan.bsky.social

Another day of reminding everyone of Carl Sagan’s eerily accurate warning about the dangers of not being able to ask skeptical scientific questions to those in power or authority.

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Timothy Snyder
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Lesson 13 of "On Tyranny": Practice corporeal politics. Find your No Kings protest, June 14th.

Timothy Snyder@timothysnyder.bsky.social

Find your local June 14th protest. No to Kings. www.nokings.org

nokings.orgNo KingsOn June 14—Flag Day—Donald Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday. A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isn’t staged in Washington. ...
Andy Dimock
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Are insurgents hitting ICE agents with RPGs? Is the CA National Guard taking casualties from IEDs and suicide bombers? No? Then why in hell is a battalion of Marines headed to LA? This ain’t Fallujah

Andy Dimock
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I’ll be there with my 1776 flag and attached “No Tyrants,” “No Oligarchs” pennants. They don’t own the flag of our Republic. I’m attending No Kings's event, “From Palo Alto to Sunnyvale: Historic 7x7k Rally on El Camino Real” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

mobilize.usFrom Palo Alto to Sunnyvale: Historic 7x7k Rally on El Camino Real · MobilizePLEASE READ COMPLETELY FOR DETAILS! NO KINGS DAY is a National Day of Action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allies. 7X7K is...
Andy Dimock
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Habemus papam A 9th grader sitting in my class had a live feed of St Peter’s Square up on his screen. (He was supposed to be watching Romeo and Juliet) Over his shoulder, I saw the puff of black smoke I know this kid. Not the theological type “Did you BET on the next Pope?” Yes indeed! A wager

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Your company’s not cratering because you’re distracted with DOGE. It’s terminal because you didn’t realize that most of your former customer base hates the ideology you currently espouse

Andy Dimock
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As for the whole Blue Origin/bachelorette spat, there’s one thing I know: anyone who leaves the atmosphere atop a rocket is risking their lives. The whole ‘lifestyle’ angle makes me grit my teeth, but what they did is more than mere tourism, if less than true space exploration.

Andy Dimock
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“Monkeys? You think a monkey knows it’s sitting on top of a rocket that might explode? These astronaut boys, they know that, see? Let me tell you somethin’. It takes a special kind of man to volunteer for a suicide mission, especially on TV. “ Chuck Yeager, The Right Stuff Those gals, they did ok