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Don Charles

@donchas.bsky.social

Retired New York designer who became a photographer @70. And a better thinker, year by year, since around 20. Thinkers don’t live their lives going backwards.

created November 21, 2024

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Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

Baby-faced. Scraggy beard. Flabby body. 3-inch pecker.

1/9/2025, 3:47:21 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

She’s clairvoyant?

31/8/2025, 4:15:51 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

Are they inside a tomb?

31/8/2025, 4:21:13 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah. But the potential immigrants won’t be wearing Nikes.

31/8/2025, 4:16:19 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

I think I’m beginning to see what Trump sees in him: there’s nothing there.

30/8/2025, 3:37:37 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

Those consumers who “don’t have a clue” voted for Trump.

30/8/2025, 3:30:01 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

🪐

30/8/2025, 3:16:34 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

RFK Jr will kill or maim us all before Trump ever admits a mistake.

30/8/2025, 3:15:18 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

How far away did he have to move?

28/8/2025, 1:33:38 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

People eat there to boost their starch intake. Pass the gravy.

28/8/2025, 1:29:17 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

Wow! From the WSJ editorial page, even! I’m glad I kept my subscription. Truth is expensive these days.

24/8/2025, 2:57:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

He’s like Jekyll and Hyde: the narcissistic tyrant at home, an appeasing milquetoast abroad. Adolf Hitler one day, Neville Chamberlain the next.

17/8/2025, 7:10:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

Hypocrisy always makes me ill, but Trump’s is gonna put me in an ICU.

12/8/2025, 7:07:31 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Trump is tough on crime. Also, Trump has moved sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell to a Club Fed where she can take yoga classes, play tennis, and is eligible for “work” release.

12/8/2025, 6:53:37 PM | 1007 322 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) reposted

Makes you wonder, huh?

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9/8/2025, 9:45:58 PM | 5019 1106 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

So, the felonious one says to the Governor, “get off you ass.”

10/8/2025, 12:37:25 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

The felon speaks.

10/8/2025, 12:30:53 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

Republicans, by and large, will approve it.

10/8/2025, 12:20:22 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

Hey! Wait a minute. There’s snow on the ground. It’s August. Where are you?

10/8/2025, 12:14:14 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

Tacky!

10/8/2025, 12:10:00 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

The low number of “likes” is telling. They represent the embarrassingly high level of visual illiteracy—and an ignorant disregard for aesthetics. Couple to that the exploitation of cultural ambivalence (to put it kindly) by those with self-aggrandizing motivation, and you get what you got.

10/8/2025, 12:09:19 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

Thank for this post.

9/8/2025, 11:51:10 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mike Luckovich (@mluckovich.bsky.social) reposted

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6/8/2025, 5:27:46 PM | 6922 2402 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

You need to fetch her an ottoman.

6/8/2025, 7:24:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) reposted

"It’s hard to overstate how dangerous this moment is,..Using the machinery of criminal justice to pursue manufactured charges against political predecessors is the stuff of strongmen and collapsing democracies." Trump, Gabbard, and Bondi Go Full Jacobin open.substack.com/pub/harrylit...

5/8/2025, 8:20:33 PM | 388 149 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

Can not! Can, too! Can not! Can, too! Can not! Can, too! Can not! Can, too…

5/8/2025, 8:45:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

Note the Chief’s resemblance, in profile, to JFK’s.

4/8/2025, 11:30:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

Their bravery is noted and felt even though we are not with them in Chicago. I hope that day we will all be “in Chicago.”

4/8/2025, 11:24:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

…but ranting, raving, and getting our knickers all in a twist will not alter the status quo. Let’s put effort to work where it will.

4/8/2025, 8:36:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

This is the type of news we need to hear every day. It’s heartening.

4/8/2025, 8:30:30 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social)

Generally I enjoy reading the posts here, but there is so much self-promotion on this site that it would be foolish to take anyone or anything said here with less than a grain of salt.

1/8/2025, 4:54:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

It must be easier to commit suicide in a Texas prison.

1/8/2025, 3:19:07 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 (@gtconway.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

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31/7/2025, 2:34:41 AM | 2550 731 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

Yep. Back to base load. 1955.

31/7/2025, 2:03:26 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @amyb88(8/8 is my🎂, nothing else)bsky.social 🍄🍄‍🟫 (@amyb8888.bsky.social) reposted

Please. Please. Please rescue.

21/7/2025, 2:17:39 AM | 51 10 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen.bsky.social) reposted

@robertgarcia.bsky.social: "We weren't born yesterday. We are going to get those [Epstein] documents and make sure that what [Maxwell] tells us is aligned with what's actually been documented in these files and all these papers."

25/7/2025, 2:46:14 PM | 8129 2238 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

I’m 78. But I feel 38 when I watch him.

25/7/2025, 5:11:31 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

When he lies or otherwise obfuscates, he does with a smile and always brings to mind Alfred E. Newman.

23/7/2025, 8:03:12 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

We must speak honestly. It’s the only way to listen. And to ensure rational discourse.

21/7/2025, 2:37:52 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

Lindsay Graham is the painting in the attic. It’s past time for him to go. His paint is cracking.

21/7/2025, 2:34:09 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

Sometimes it’s a burden.

21/7/2025, 2:26:00 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

Heart-touching.

21/7/2025, 2:24:59 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social)

The world is choking on screens. Just as this book foretold. Just as you thought you were in the nascent months of a dystopian, authoritarian society. Surprise!

21/7/2025, 2:21:17 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

The problem with Martin is that he is not a leader—just a voice in the wilderness. The problem with the Democratic Party is that they have no leaders and are thereby doomed to wander.

20/7/2025, 1:33:45 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

Alan Dershowitz likes the spotlight. He goes to wherever it shines brightest.

17/7/2025, 2:30:24 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

He’s clearly unhinged.

13/7/2025, 12:48:02 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

The basis of SNL’s Coneheads.

12/7/2025, 8:51:35 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

If thoughts and prayers prevented floods, Noah wouldn’t have needed hammer and nails.

11/7/2025, 5:23:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

Giuliani?! I bet he’s already figured out his slice of $20 mil. And owners of the garden supply store must be thrilled.

11/7/2025, 5:18:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

She will never outlive her shortcomings.

11/7/2025, 12:11:50 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

It took a while to see: Murkowski is craven.

11/7/2025, 12:09:47 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

Interfered with trajectory.

11/7/2025, 12:07:32 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

Luv the ring twist. Trump seems sort of refined — in comparison, that is.

10/7/2025, 11:52:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

Eric Trump always looks like he doesn’t know the answer.

10/7/2025, 4:42:07 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

“I’d take it back if I could.” A joke. Culpability lasts forever.

10/7/2025, 4:40:04 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

Blood on her hands?! But none in her heart. People are just another ill-behaved dog to her.

10/7/2025, 1:57:23 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

And twice as long for makeup.

10/7/2025, 1:12:56 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

And worse, the people with whom he surrounds himself are no more knowledgeable than he himself. They can never contradict him.

10/7/2025, 1:11:21 AM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

Trump is putting in a new system. A new system? The system is not ready yet. What kind of system? Septic.

7/7/2025, 5:34:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

Windows 98? Now, that’s too bad.

6/7/2025, 9:09:41 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

Just think: what if you were reincarnated and came back as one of them? yuck. Perish the thought.

6/7/2025, 9:01:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

No leadership from that one.

6/7/2025, 8:46:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

Those new agents will black-booted and goose-stepping past the reviewing stand in Trump’s 80th birthday parade.

6/7/2025, 8:42:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah—by middle he’s referring to the third person in the font seat of a Tesla. Ouch.

6/7/2025, 8:37:35 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

Don’t apologize for Democratic compromises. Cuban is right. HC practices are opaque, and the American public suffers/pays for it.

6/7/2025, 8:27:36 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

How’s Cancun?

6/7/2025, 4:17:25 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

ICE will become trump’s goose-stepping jackboot troops in his birthday parades.

2/7/2025, 8:42:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture uosdɯıS ɐuɐᗡ ✨🦄✨ (@danacorn.bsky.social) reposted

The two choices in every election.

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Profile picture Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) reposted

Somehow, this makes me think of the movie Red Dawn. Except here, it's our military on American streets.

13/6/2025, 5:15:44 PM | 1578 387 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dr. Jack Brown (@drjackbrown.bsky.social) reposted

The irony of a five-time draft dodger holding a military parade for his birthday … Tell me, O Muse, how does one laugh and vomit at the same time?

13/6/2025, 5:30:00 PM | 2670 531 | View on Bluesky | view

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

“What Senator Alex Padilla did today was political theater.” --Kristi Noem, the Head of Costuming, Hair, and Makeup at Political Theater

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12/6/2025, 10:11:07 PM | 28117 7681 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Gauguin (@gauguin.bsky.social) reposted

Bouquet #artbots #gauguin https://botfrens.com/collections/44/contents/11616

Bouquet
11/6/2025, 4:59:03 PM | 11 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Bulwark (@thebulwark.com) reposted

Bessent: "Do you support Medicaid for illegal aliens?" Boyle: "In PA they actually check your citizenship status before you can enroll in Medicaid — but I understand why you're wanting to divert the subject."

11/6/2025, 5:02:35 PM | 540 120 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

Two appearance-challenged men who happen to think most highly of themselves in one photo. It overwhelms.

7/6/2025, 10:48:40 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

Thugs!

7/6/2025, 10:43:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

Another Graham cracker.

7/6/2025, 10:41:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Profile picture Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) reposted

Law enforcement officers should never cover their faces when making arrests or conceal their identities (unless they are working undercover). They work for us. We have a right to know who they are. These face coverings are frightening & unAmerican, as though they're ashamed of what they're doing.

2/6/2025, 1:50:55 AM | 30787 8029 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

You have such a dry humor, Mrs. Bowers. Thanks for the chuckle.

2/6/2025, 2:48:45 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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

People so often overlook the importance of good penmanship.

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1/6/2025, 9:39:57 PM | 34459 5504 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Vic (@tdssister.bsky.social) reposted

Good morning beautiful souls! School's out so the summer reading club will start Monday at my library and I'm the lead this year. Maybe some #GoodTrouble in my future 😎 Happy Friday! 🌞☕🌻🏃‍♀️🕉️

Cartoon depiction, one person handing a book ban list the other person presenting the list as current reading list!
30/5/2025, 12:41:39 PM | 12758 1998 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

And there is also MAHA’s altered states of mind.

30/5/2025, 5:40:51 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) reposted

Whoever made this deserves a medal.

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29/5/2025, 7:52:00 PM | 19369 4574 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

What’s with the cross? She ought to wear a hijab, too.

30/5/2025, 2:12:47 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mindcite💥 (@mindcite.bsky.social) reposted

There are 7,591 words in the U.S. Constitution. Not one is "bible", "Jesus", "Judeo", "Christian" or "God". Separation of church and state guarantees ALL Americans the right to practice ANY religion. Or none. Which part of "religious freedom" is not as clear as a church bell?

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Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

Why does the right always try to limit, diminish, or eliminate individual rights—from 1930’s fascists to today’s tories, authoritarians, and trump-suckers?

30/5/2025, 2:03:17 AM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh, for fuck’s sake…

30/5/2025, 1:53:56 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dream for America (@dreamforamerica.bsky.social) reposted

DAILY REMINDER: Patriotism is love of country, not love of government. Criticizing your country’s government is more patriotic than blindly agreeing with everything they do. Real progress can only come from criticism.

29/5/2025, 7:31:39 AM | 306 76 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

Who’s imparting wisdom to whom?

30/5/2025, 1:51:02 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

Apparently she’s gained access to Hegseth’s make-up studio at the Pentagon.

29/5/2025, 2:18:31 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

It looks like a Motel 6 room in the years before he moved up to the likes of Stormy Daniels. He’s probably waiting to grab someone by the you know what.

27/5/2025, 3:59:55 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

The Philistines are at the gate!

26/5/2025, 6:13:39 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

Absolutely! It would amount to the rebirth of “Alien.”

26/5/2025, 6:11:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social)

www.politico.com/news/2025/05... Mike Johnson urges Senate to not make him look any smaller.

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Profile picture leftat66.bsky.social (@leftat66.bsky.social) reposted

No words needed.

21/5/2025, 5:30:51 PM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Indivisible ❌👑 (@indivisible.org) reposted

(next to an image of President Obama) “It is up to all of us to fix this. It's not going to be because somebody comes and saves you. The most important office in this democracy is the citizen—the ordinary person who says, no, that's not right.
26/5/2025, 1:41:57 AM | 12247 3613 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

…with a Bachelor of Arts and Sycophancy.

26/5/2025, 2:49:28 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Don Charles (@donchas.bsky.social) reply parent

Well, day care might help. And how about equal pay? Ah, how about giving women complete freedom and autonomy to choose? (That’s one you might have to run by Alito and Thomas first.)

26/5/2025, 2:46:41 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view