Darth Vader, Bass player virtuoso ✶✶✶✶

Darth Vader, Bass player virtuoso ✶✶✶✶

@middleoastbastard.bsky.social

Father, brother, widower, Union (Plumber Chicago Local 130 travelers guild), Dem.

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I should have mentioned our people are YOU. We are a nation of immigrants. We are France. England. Germany. Russian. Japan. Iraqi. India. Mexico. Korea. We are the world. No other nation can claim that. THAT is what American exceptionalism is. It is our diversity. Too many have forgotten that. 🤘🏻

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The USDA memo that was circulated to the governors of gray wolf and Mexican gray wolf states on October 12 is, frankly, a load of crap. The letters urge the governors and state agencies to lethally remove wolves to protect cows - the same wolf-scapegoating BS we've heard for years. (1/2)

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In August, Trump announced the “BIGGEST OIL DEAL IN WORLD HISTORY!” But is it? The text of the accord — which grants the U.S. sweeping access to Venezuela’s oil reserves — has been one of DC’s most sought-after secrets. ProPublica got to see a copy. 🧵

As a Chicagoan that has property in the UP outside of Watersmeet, I am not at all surprised by this. Yoopers get a bad rap, they are salt of the earth people who are not easily fooled or trifled with, but you mess with their taconite and copper exports? 😬

Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social

“He's gunna go up to the Upper Peninsula and get a pretty cold welcome.” And the UP said…

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If you think a test for dementia is an IQ test, you have dementia. If you don't realize you have been given a test for dementia because your physician suspects you have dementia, you have dementia. If you think being able to tell a giraffe from a whale makes you a genius . . . you have dementia.