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Musician, music educator and father. Rabid and eternal Seattle Mariners fan. Husband of @betterorrworse Saxophone and woodwind player.

Everett, WA
Joined April 2012
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JON OSSOFF JUST LAID OUT THE WHOLE SCAM IN GEORGIA — AND IT'S BIGGER THAN ONE DEAL. At his closing rally in Morrow, Georgia, Senator Jon Ossoff walked through it deal by deal. Georgia is listening: he leads Mike Collins 55-40 in the latest poll, and 2.2 million Georgians have already voted. While Donald cuts a diesel deal with Vladimir Putin — 300,000 tons now, 500,000 in November, a million more after that, while diesel sits at $6.33 a gallon for American farmers and truckers — his own son-in-law Jared Kushner and his envoy Steve Witkoff are brokering the sale of Lukoil's $20-22 billion in international oil fields, refineries and gas stations to the first family's friends. The buyers, as Jon Ossoff named them: Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the UAE's spy chief, who paid $500 million for half of the Trump-Witkoff crypto company days before the inauguration. Moutaz and Ramez Al-Khayyat, the Syrian-born brothers financing Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump's multi-billion-dollar Albanian resort. And billionaire Todd Boehly leading the consortium. The United States government itself would take a 15% stake — through the same government that is supposed to approve the deal. Then Marco Rubio: his State Department helped steer up to $1.6 billion in taxpayer backing to the Trump sons' tungsten mine in Kazakhstan — the company's own chief executive says it got 'direct assistance' from Donald Trump, Marco Rubio and Howard Lutnick. Then Pete Hegseth's Pentagon: a $620 million loan to Vulcan Elements, the magnet company Donald Trump Jr.'s fund invested in three months earlier — the biggest loan that Pentagon office ever gave. And Venezuelan oil money routed through Qatari bank accounts — $500 million in the first sale alone, more than $13 billion taken in by late July. And Elon Musk? Apartheid Clyde is one of these elites. He spent $475 million buying this election, his companies took $10 billion more in federal contracts since he left DOGE, and his Tesla paid ZERO in federal income taxes on $5.7 billion in U.S. profits. That's why he tells poor people America will end if his side loses. It has nothing to do with them. They are just the infantry for an oligarchy waiting to happen. This is not a presidency. This is the biggest Ponzi scam in American history — and it is a national security danger, because the men running the State Department, the Pentagon and the negotiating table are cutting resource deals for the family while you pay $6.33 for diesel. So hear Jon Ossoff's closing line, and hear it like it's real: Raise your right hand. Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God, in front of the United States Congress? Because next year, that's where this ends. 1 day. EVERYBODY KNOWS IT.
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Forever Young 🏆 Congratulations to Cole Young on winning his first @RawlingsSports Gold Glove Award! #TridentsUp 🔗 atmlb.com/4eGVCSE
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The name "Dan Sullivan" showing up twice on the Alaska ballot doesn't bother me. The name "Donald Trump" appearing in the Epstein files THOUSANDS of times does.
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I want to see @realDonaldTrump or any member of his family or cabinet debate business ethics. I suspect the result would be about the same as the last scene of @AdamSandler's "Billy Madison"
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Whenever people wonder how nazi germany got to that point.. we’re watching it unfold in real time right in front of us in the USA now.. The ACLU of Oregon has filed a complaint with DHS over the video that shows an ICE agent stabbing the tires of a couple car in Hillsboro, Oregon on October 7. According to the complaint, the couple was filming agents in a grocery store, parking lot and alerting shoppers to ICE‘S presence. The ACLU says agents followed them out of the lot and slashed their tires in a retaliation for Recording.
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I hope Republicans allowing genocide in Europe are haunted by these screams every night of their lives. You can stop this. You don’t. You are complicit. Shame. Shame. Shame.
I am in tears and speechless. The scream of this father over the body of his 15 y.o. daughter is the sound of pure torture. Another #russia attack on civilians. Mid day in #Chernihiv . These terrorist monsters have no soul. They will not stop until stopped.
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I would bet my life savings that @realDonaldTrump has never visited sick kids in the hospital.
This may be a long video,but it’s so worth it because these are just a few of the reasons Barack Obama is one of the most loved Presidents in this Country’s history and why he still packs venues. Try not to cry and it will be hard not too.
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This is the best description of Donald Trump I have ever heard.
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Obama rattled Trump so badly with that Cheesecake Factory joke that his Treasury Secretary had to defend him outside an actual Cheesecake Factory. Now Trump's campaigning by telephone. 😂 You can't make this shit up.
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Obama tonight on his Cheesecake Factory line: "They mobilized a whole of government response to that joke. Not to inflation, but to that joke. The White House even called the Secretary of the Treasury. This is the man who is in charge of the economy. The person who's supposed to be figuring out how to make your life more affordable. The guy who's supposed to be figuring out how to lower inflation. And reduce interest rates. They told him he should hold a press conference in front of the Cheesecake Factory."
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Another young American gets dragged out of a Trump rally in Rock Hill, SC just for protesting his failed policies. Security escorts him while the crowd does the usual USA chants. Then the camera pans and shows the real story: empty seats even close to the stage. The guy who used to pack stadiums can’t fill a high school arena. From overflowing rallies to half-empty venues—voters are done.
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"The dining district at the Bellevue collection" sounds like the most stuck-up place ever and I have to desire to ever go there.
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Today’s edition of the New York Post, a newspaper read in Republican offices in Washington and New York. As Americans watch the evacuation operation in Oleshky, they must remember who bears responsibility for the countless deaths in Ukraine. Their blood is on the hands of Putin and the russians. To end this war, the United States must pressure russia, not Ukraine. Three organizations – Razom for Ukraine, American Coalition for Ukraine, and Nova Ukraine – placed the following advertisement in the New York Post. Translation of the advertisement: “You are a humanitarian, sir, and I pay tribute to you for that,” – Special Envoy Steve Witkoff to Putin. Just days earlier, russia bombed a residential building in Zaporizhzhia, killing 17 people, including a mother and child who were holding hands. Pressure russia, not Ukraine. Source: translated from the text of Ostap Yarysh
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James D. Orr retweeted
Fox: Why are you here this morning? Trump rally attendee: Well, in the late 70s, I was a little too young to go to South America for the Jonestown Massacre. But this is as close as I'll ever get, so that's why I'm here. There's nothing like seeing a cult right up front.
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GOP Sen. Mitch McConnell is threatening to block Trump’s legislative agenda unless he stops bending the knee to Putin. “Passing this agenda will require working with Republicans who know the difference between the good guys and the bad guys. Ending the obeisance to Mr. Putin may be table stakes for the end-of-year legislation. The president should plan accordingly,” McConnell wrote in The Wall Street Journal.”
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During the January 6th attack on the nation's Capitol, Daniel Rodriguez drove a stun gun into the neck of Officer Mike Fanone. He was knocked unconscious, had a heart attack and suffered a traumatic brain injury. It ended his career. Rodriguez got over 12 years in prison for his assault on police. On day one, Donald Trump gave him a "full, complete and unconditional pardon" and sent him home. This is far and away the most corrupt White House in American history.
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The Republican Party has a sickness. They're defending and platforming abusers, pedophiles, predators, men with money and power who think the rules don't apply to them.
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Pete Hegseth was thoroughly embarrassed by Senator Tammy Duckworth. Senator Tammy Duckworth—a retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel who lost both her legs while serving in Iraq—pressed Hegseth with a question: Tammy Duckworth: "I’m glad you brought that up. Can you name even one ASEAN member country and explain what kind of agreement we have with it? And, while you’re at it, do you know how many countries are in ASEAN? Frankly, I’m not even sure you know who our allies are." Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth: "Well, I can’t give you the exact number, but I certainly know who our allies are: South Korea, Japan, and Australia..." Tammy Duckworth: "None of the countries you just mentioned are members of ASEAN. I suggest you do your homework better before engaging in these kinds of discussions." The level of incompetence of the person leading the Pentagon—it’s simply unbelievable.
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If you haven’t watched this yet please do. I don’t care if you are Republican or Democrat, if this doesn’t move you to vote against the current state of affairs nothing will. Our grandchildren will watch this clip in history class, to better understand the political climate during Trumpism.
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