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Andy Beals

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Widower. 🌻 Geek of many trades β€” Windows causes me to swear. Reed doubler. Programmer who solders. K0QJ. Love is love. Farker. dWELLer.

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20.02.2026 15:31 πŸ‘ 15899 πŸ” 4295 πŸ’¬ 483 πŸ“Œ 262

What SCOTUS ruling means to you the American taxpayers.
Your costs will not decrease
You will not get a refund
Corps will pocket any savings
CEOs will get raises
Inflation will continue to rise
Energy prices will continue to rise
Justices get a bonus
Wall Street dances a jig
We are still screwed

20.02.2026 17:04 πŸ‘ 90 πŸ” 35 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 5

Complete with his wedding ring.

15.02.2026 17:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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my most prized possession

14.02.2026 23:18 πŸ‘ 1604 πŸ” 239 πŸ’¬ 68 πŸ“Œ 50
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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 πŸ‘ 32288 πŸ” 13860 πŸ’¬ 589 πŸ“Œ 1595

β€œCan I prove it? No. But, by golly, I’m going stand here and undermine our democracy as long as someone puts a microphone in front of me.”

03.02.2026 19:41 πŸ‘ 100 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Mike Johnson on Trump calling for Rs to "nationalize" elections: "We had 3 Republicans who were ahead on election day in last cycle & every time a new tranche of ballots came in they just magically whittled away until their leads were lost. It looks on its face to be fraudulent. Can I prove it? No"

03.02.2026 19:33 πŸ‘ 1779 πŸ” 411 πŸ’¬ 1228 πŸ“Œ 818
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He may be my new favorite author.

01.02.2026 00:50 πŸ‘ 28 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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25.01.2026 10:36 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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25.01.2026 17:46 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Donald Trump Is Frightened Trump wants to appear eager to minimize out-of-control clashes between government militias and protesters. But he doesn’t want to stop the things causing those clashes in the first place.

β€œAn administration official gave away the game to Punchbowl News, admitting that these β€œde-escalatory measures” are about placating Senate Democrats so they don’t seize this moment to demand restrictions on ICE as part of any government funding package.”

newrepublic.com/article/2057...

28.01.2026 14:03 πŸ‘ 6140 πŸ” 2674 πŸ’¬ 363 πŸ“Œ 521
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Today’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune. πŸ‘€

23.01.2026 15:56 πŸ‘ 5487 πŸ” 2918 πŸ’¬ 371 πŸ“Œ 210
Martin Luther King Jr. Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech
Martin Luther King Jr. Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech YouTube video by Nobel Prize

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r98...
#MLKJr
#NobelPeacePrize
acceptance speech
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19.01.2026 13:31 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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19.01.2026 13:20 πŸ‘ 40 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Some perspective: The S&P opened down -1.3% on Trump's Greenland saber-rattling. That's $750 billion of wealth destroyed -- roughly equal to estimates of the value of Greenland.

And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.

20.01.2026 14:48 πŸ‘ 14747 πŸ” 5838 πŸ’¬ 591 πŸ“Œ 379

"Officers threw flash bangs and tear gas in my car. I got six kids in the car"
"His wife, Destiny Jackson, told FOX 9 their 6-month-old infant stopped breathing and lost consciousness. She then performed CPR on her baby."

15.01.2026 20:22 πŸ‘ 5285 πŸ” 2512 πŸ’¬ 96 πŸ“Œ 178

Looking at today's events and saying "fascism is coming" is like issuing a flood warning when your house is already underwater.

In addition, anyone thinking "bOtH sIdEz aRe FaScIsT!: can fuck right off.

13.01.2026 19:03 πŸ‘ 140 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is completely fucking unacceptable. Shut this terrorist government down until it stops brutalizing its own citizens.

13.01.2026 18:57 πŸ‘ 9809 πŸ” 4169 πŸ’¬ 686 πŸ“Œ 244
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"Calling for" makes it a law.

What a monumental idiot.

10.01.2026 01:44 πŸ‘ 3857 πŸ” 714 πŸ’¬ 798 πŸ“Œ 155
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They use Nazi slogans and deploy Nazi terror tactics…but don’t call them Nazis, otherwise you’ll get a heap of Nazi gaslighting about being responsible for them being Nazis.

13.01.2026 07:35 πŸ‘ 2905 πŸ” 868 πŸ’¬ 145 πŸ“Œ 58
Sign on door prohibiting immigration enforcement on private property

Sign on door prohibiting immigration enforcement on private property

Shelf filled with goggles and whistles

Shelf filled with goggles and whistles

This is Minneapolis:

Walk into my neighborhood ACE last night & see the signage on their door notifying fed agents that it’s private property and cannot be used for immigration enforcement. These signs are all over the city.

Walk in & the nearest shelf has goggles & whistles.

13.01.2026 16:38 πŸ‘ 21831 πŸ” 5242 πŸ’¬ 425 πŸ“Œ 289
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12.01.2026 19:12 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Elon Musk Just Endorsed Blatant White Nationalism And the Silence is Deafening On Thursday morning Elon Musk retweeted (with a β€˜100%’ endorsement) a post declaring that: If white men become a minority, we will be slaughtered. Remember, if non-Whites openly hate White men while...

Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org

religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...

09.01.2026 17:15 πŸ‘ 4469 πŸ” 1999 πŸ’¬ 196 πŸ“Œ 271
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Live updates: State investigators say they can't access ICE shooting evidence after FBI takes case Protesters in Minneapolis gathered to protest the killing of motorist Renee Nicole Macklin Good by an ICE officer. Mayor Jacob Frey said federal agents should leave the city.

BREAKING: Minnesota investigators say they can't access evidence after fatal ICE shooting and the FBI won't work jointly on probe.

Follow for live updates.

08.01.2026 16:34 πŸ‘ 921 πŸ” 476 πŸ’¬ 120 πŸ“Œ 112

State of play:

Forensic reconstructions disprove the administration's account of events (NYT, WaPo, Bellingcat):

bsky.app/profile/elio...

Local investigators being denied access to evidence (AP):

apnews.com/live/minneap...

Demonstrators met with violence (CNN):
bsky.app/profile/atru...

08.01.2026 17:16 πŸ‘ 392 πŸ” 176 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 4
federalist headlines:

top democrats are agitating for insurrection and political vigilantism

dear trump, sendin the troops to minneapolis or risk losing the country to lawlessness

federalist headlines: top democrats are agitating for insurrection and political vigilantism dear trump, sendin the troops to minneapolis or risk losing the country to lawlessness

the federalist is pushing for a military invasion of minnesota, accusing the state's democratic leaders of "stochastic terrorism" and incitement to violence against law enforcement by telling people to resist i.c.e.

08.01.2026 17:24 πŸ‘ 63 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 8
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The more we learn about this horrific incident, the worse it gets.

08.01.2026 17:24 πŸ‘ 1440 πŸ” 642 πŸ’¬ 85 πŸ“Œ 33

At a time when Americans can’t afford rent, healthcare, or groceries, the Trump administration found time and money for regime change in Venezuela, risking a war that Americans don’t want.

03.01.2026 20:28 πŸ‘ 39 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 2

All of the atrocities are intentional. All of this was planned.

Putin installed Trump for one reason only: to destroy the United States from within.

Accordingly, Trump will continue ratcheting up the violence and chaos until he incites a nation-ending civil war.

08.01.2026 02:25 πŸ‘ 1829 πŸ” 586 πŸ’¬ 119 πŸ“Œ 38

I guess β€œI will enjoy your skin” wasn’t as flirtatious as I thought it would come across.

08.01.2026 17:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0