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crowtickle

@crowtickle.bsky.social

Observer of the human condition, its incredible heights, adversity, contradictions, ignorance and brutality. Lover of the Moon, Mars not so much. Admirer and practitioner of critical thinking and foe of willful ignorance.

created November 16, 2024

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Profile picture The Bulwark (@thebulwark.com) reposted

"She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it. She was not protecting lives at a gate in Iraq; she was forcing her way through windows in the Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power." New from @markhertling.bsky.social:

30/8/2025, 2:56:35 PM | 19703 6346 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social) reply parent

They would only crucify him again anyway.

30/8/2025, 8:58:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social) reply parent

Looks like a real estate agent checking out the neighborhood.

29/8/2025, 11:35:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social) reply parent

She can have more time to play with her guns.

29/8/2025, 11:33:15 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social) reply parent

You don’t want to know what she’s thinking about you right now now.

29/8/2025, 11:31:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) reposted

Little kids are having to use their bodies to shield friends from gunfire while armed soldiers are busy picking up trash.

28/8/2025, 7:05:42 PM | 10655 3629 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social) reply parent

Well done lil’ person, well done.👏🏼

29/8/2025, 6:00:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Maya Wiley (@maya4rights.bsky.social) reposted

👇🏽

29/8/2025, 1:25:18 PM | 203 47 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture iwanttobecanadian.bsky.social (@iwanttobecanadian.bsky.social) reposted

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28/8/2025, 5:36:51 PM | 1107 350 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social) reply parent

Please tell me the slave was guiding him off a cliff.

29/8/2025, 5:55:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social) reply parent

Seems they certainly care if we live and are doing their best efforts to make sure we don’t.

29/8/2025, 5:54:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social) reply parent

Super photo, please tell me no gimmicks.

29/8/2025, 5:51:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social) reply parent

Bee well.

29/8/2025, 5:50:14 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social) reply parent

Thank you for that Marlo. Given the daily madness, greatly appreciated.👏🏼👏🏼

29/8/2025, 5:49:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social) reply parent

How is that possible? They are such a progressive state. Someone should write a book about this. Wait, never mind.

29/8/2025, 5:46:06 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social) reply parent

How are you surprised by that?

29/8/2025, 5:43:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social)

Trump wants to rebrand his megabill amid poor polling - USA TODAY How about we call it “The Trump/GOP Shit Show.”

29/8/2025, 5:27:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social)

Let’s be clear, the companies involved get paid for assisting in turning down your procedure. Continuing to destroy healthcare is one of the things this administration does best.

29/8/2025, 5:24:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social) reply parent

Unfortunately I suspect your belief will be unrealized.🙄

29/8/2025, 5:14:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social)

For those who use their credit cards as a 30 day revolving line of credit and refuse to pay exorbitant interest and fees, the industry describes you as “deadbeats”. Wear that nickname with pride. Sounds much better than “ broke mofos.”.

29/8/2025, 5:10:52 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture robin-hood.bsky.social (@robin-hood.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

I am just going to say this again bluntly: Blue states are going to need to become the federal government. Mutual aid compacts, mutual defense compacts, healthcare, taxes, trade the whole deal. Literally create a new system outside of the fascist federal system.

28/8/2025, 2:54:07 PM | 17 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social) reply parent

Wow your post, it’s great!

28/8/2025, 1:26:35 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social) reply parent

OMG! You mean he lied about that?

28/8/2025, 1:25:42 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social) reply parent

Because like Nobel himself, you blow shit up. GTFOH!

28/8/2025, 1:22:39 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social) reply parent

This is a great deal more than a messaging war. Just ask any family who has had a member dragged out a car and beaten, sent to another country he or she has no relation to. That’s evil and cruelty and beyond messaging. Remember that when you’re organizing your “counter message” protest.

28/8/2025, 1:19:14 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social)

Do you remember when we bragged to the world that if anything, Americans had common sense? Seems so long ago. Now we have to convince others that we’re not all crazy and every day makes it harder.

28/8/2025, 1:11:44 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social) reply parent

Well then, what is, the Earth will definitely not die but a hell of a lot of us will and we’re pretty screwed anyway?

28/8/2025, 12:24:35 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social) reply parent

You can’t put the Genie back in the bottle but you can put the krakker back on the barrel.

28/8/2025, 12:16:18 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social) reply parent

Now that’s some class A ass- kissing.

28/8/2025, 12:12:57 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social) reply parent

We need a painting of her to check out her goth creds.😂

28/8/2025, 12:11:20 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social) reply parent

This is a grift not socialism.

28/8/2025, 12:08:23 AM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Governor Tim Walz (@governorwalz.mn.gov) reposted

There are no words that will heal the pain of this community.

27/8/2025, 11:28:00 PM | 6948 1251 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social) reply parent

Same thing we should be calling it here, fascism.

27/8/2025, 11:56:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social) reply parent

Unhinged? Actually he probably used tape on that sign. Well done.

27/8/2025, 11:48:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social) reply parent

The current WH Press Corps are made up of a bunch of make believe journalists from right wing echo chambers. Given the questions they ask, if at all, they might as well be a softball team.

27/8/2025, 11:47:08 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social) reply parent

We’ve been failing children since the Reagan Administration. That was the plan.

27/8/2025, 11:39:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social) reply parent

Let’s not get it twisted. He’s not preventing Congress or the SCOTUS majority. They are complicit in this wanton destruction of democracy and institutions.

27/8/2025, 11:35:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social) reply parent

Hardly an alpha male. Wouldn’t last five minutes in a real fight.

26/8/2025, 11:08:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture God (@thegodpodcast.com) reposted

Can I get an amen?

26/8/2025, 3:56:29 PM | 6306 945 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social)

Perhaps if you lived up to the commandments, you could talk about posting them. Better still just STFU!

26/8/2025, 11:05:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social) reply parent

Zohran stop! If you know, you know. Giving up all our spots man, but you still get my vote.

26/8/2025, 10:51:22 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social) reply parent

Sounds like a lot to write on a fortune cookie.

25/8/2025, 1:49:50 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social) reply parent

If you’re been fleeced because you gave money to these well known grifters, too bad. You are a fool on so many levels.

25/8/2025, 1:48:28 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social) reply parent

If only the horses could vote.

25/8/2025, 1:42:13 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social) reply parent

Well let’s get you in a Time Machine.

25/8/2025, 1:40:01 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social) reply parent

Because England is doing so well? We have no need to relegate the office of the Executive to a ceremonial position. We merely need to make our Executive work for the people, not himself and his fellow oligarchs. When you elect criminals, expect crimes.

25/8/2025, 1:39:08 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social) reply parent

Seems there could be a first time..

25/8/2025, 1:24:33 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social) reply parent

What? Oh, those great white sharks. Carry on.

25/8/2025, 1:22:27 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social) reply parent

I hope you are as well.

25/8/2025, 1:21:14 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social) reply parent

This is the guy they drag out? Well he is an expert at lying, so maybe he is a good choice.

25/8/2025, 1:19:25 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social) reply parent

Nigel Farage is a little pissant who deserves no respect and certainly no support.

25/8/2025, 1:17:55 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social) reply parent

Petulant child.

25/8/2025, 12:58:17 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social) reply parent

Moron is too kind a word.

25/8/2025, 12:55:27 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social)

Heard Trump was thinking of doing a Scavenger Hunt but there are too many scavengers in the administration. It would be such a confusing games end.

25/8/2025, 12:25:58 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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25/8/2025, 12:22:31 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social) reply parent

Cruelty and fear is the name of the game. Thugs masquerading as government officials and claiming the country needs this are less than patriotic. They are soulless.

25/8/2025, 12:17:24 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social) reply parent

As if he cares. What’s not normal is that both individuals and institutions that he constantly maligns, bend the knee to his distorted ideas of who we are. NO KINGS!

25/8/2025, 12:00:07 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social)

Being an American colony does not mean Puerto Ricans don’t own Puerto Rico. It is our Soul and one must always protect one’s soul against the soulless. We’re not leaving it. Our Soul is not for sale. We fight for it and y’all know we know how to fight.

24/8/2025, 7:48:12 PM | 5 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social) reply parent

If they’re really serious about crime, send troops into the White House.

24/8/2025, 7:26:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social) reply parent

Apparently Krakkers.

24/8/2025, 7:23:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social) reply parent

Remember who they elected, twice.

24/8/2025, 7:18:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social) reply parent

If he’s so scared of the subway, he should take the bus.

24/8/2025, 7:12:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social) reply parent

How do to we continue to put up with this bullshit of deporting people, whether guilty or not, to countries they have no connection to?

24/8/2025, 7:10:25 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social) reply parent

While America has a witless and dangerous administration. What’s worse?

24/8/2025, 7:01:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social) reply parent

Be a legal thug and make money. Goons apply here and this creep might send you a thank you note.

24/8/2025, 6:59:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social)

Yeah, that.

24/8/2025, 6:54:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social) reply parent

His place in history is not as important as the destruction he creates daily. Focus on the present, this is where the danger needs to be confronted.

24/8/2025, 6:49:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social) reply parent

“Run Forrest run!”

24/8/2025, 6:41:02 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) reposted

“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

24/8/2025, 12:47:56 AM | 12445 4459 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social) reply parent

Seems like attracts like.

24/8/2025, 6:36:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social)

Interesting how when a politician proposes programs to positively change people’s lives, they’re branded a socialist or communist. When a politician takes food away from children, weakens democracy, destroys health systems, they only consider themselves conservative.

24/8/2025, 6:35:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bill Kristol (@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social) reposted

💯

24/8/2025, 2:18:32 PM | 663 101 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social) reply parent

Pining for that vacay.

24/8/2025, 6:11:51 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social) reply parent

Was this from the strongly worded letter?

24/8/2025, 5:55:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social) reply parent

I guess the place was filled with kryptonite.

23/8/2025, 7:47:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Gabe Ortíz (@tusk81.bsky.social) reposted

It’s my opinion that humanitarian and musical genius Dolly Parton (as well as Chef José Andrés) deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. tucson.com/life-enterta...

23/8/2025, 4:33:37 PM | 24651 5006 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social)

Is it true the FBI confiscated Bolton’s moustache? Snopes was no help.

23/8/2025, 7:43:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social) reply parent

Where crackers meet to eat?

22/8/2025, 6:09:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social) reply parent

Guess he’s repurposed. These guys usually reside at the bottom of a swamp.

22/8/2025, 3:59:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social)

Being concerned about John Bolton’s safety was never on my bingo card, yet here it is.

22/8/2025, 3:56:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social)

Earth may be trapped inside a giant void in space, says bold new theory - BBC Science Focus Magazine I’m not sure Earth is but I feel America is and it’s definitely getting bigger.

22/8/2025, 12:44:55 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rep. Ana-María Rodríguez Ramos (@anamariafortexas.com) reposted

“Today, there aren’t any bills on the floor for flood relief, no bills for tax reform, no bills to lighten the burden for Texas families. There’s only one item." "A radical, discriminatory, mid-decade redistricting that strips away minority representation in Congress.” - Rep. Chris Turner. #txlege

20/8/2025, 4:29:45 PM | 586 263 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social)

Are we not exhausted by a soulless administration contaminating everything it touches. Our libraries, our museums, our body politic, our courts, our air, our water and our lives. Apparently not, because it continues virtually unabated.

20/8/2025, 5:44:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social) reply parent

Just call it what it is: VOTER SUPPRESSION!

20/8/2025, 5:24:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social) reply parent

So Alaska was about the 2020 election. Wow, was I misinformed.

16/8/2025, 9:13:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social) reply parent

That’s because Putin is a more adept schemer and he respects that.

16/8/2025, 9:12:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social) reply parent

Empathy is not a word or emotion found in Trump. One would need a soul to understand empathy.

16/8/2025, 9:06:10 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Adam Schwarz (@adamjschwarz.bsky.social) reposted

“Putin would eat you for lunch.” Today, exactly that happened.

15/8/2025, 11:48:12 PM | 23750 7635 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social) reply parent

Well I guess if Lindsey Graham mentions it we are forced to listen. Being the truthsayer he has proven to be. 🙄

16/8/2025, 9:01:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social) reply parent

Isn’t violent crime what this administration perpetuates, or are we all totally blind? Asking for a friend.

16/8/2025, 8:56:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social) reply parent

And yet here we are, lorded over by billionaires and their lackeys . A democracy destroyed by SCOTUS, equating corporations with actual citizens. Politicians, elections, and media bought and paid for by the very same people we should be most wary of.

16/8/2025, 8:54:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social) reply parent

Last I checked Mamdani lives in NYC. Can Cuomo say the same?

16/8/2025, 8:38:06 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Barbarians break into a sacred space!

16/8/2025, 8:34:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social) reply parent

Making friends all over.

16/8/2025, 1:44:21 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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16/8/2025, 1:06:24 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kepano Kolohe (@alala55.bsky.social) reposted

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15/8/2025, 10:42:37 AM | 10485 2785 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social) reply parent

Wild hamster for the win. Well done Sir.👏🏽

16/8/2025, 1:01:28 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social) reply parent

Are we talking about actual gangs or the GOP cloakroom?

16/8/2025, 12:57:58 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social)

So now that the Trump Putin fiasco is over, is Alaska still a state?

16/8/2025, 12:56:08 AM | 0 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture crowtickle (@crowtickle.bsky.social)

Chuck Schumer is not now, or has ever been, a wartime Consigliore. Time for him to pack up his stuff and move aside for someone who can actually lead and make a difference for Democrats. We need a doer, not a whiner. He can go and hang out with his imaginary buddies, the Bailey’s.

13/8/2025, 9:19:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view