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Justin

@jsblz.bsky.social

I like books, writers, all things outer space. Hope my soul makes it to the era of galactic travel. I’m a professional musician in NYC lucky enough to be working a steady gig under a union contract.

created November 16, 2024

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Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

I wonder how many parents will FAFO…too many, to be sure.

3/9/2025, 10:47:20 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

A massive achievement nonetheless. Likely you’ve completed the hardest part too! Congrats!

31/8/2025, 6:53:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

Towering idiocy. The world deserves better than these clowns.

28/7/2025, 11:54:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social) reposted

An endorsement from the largest local union of professional musicians in the world sounds a little different than the others but the meaning is the same: solidarity forever. Thank you Local 802 AFM!

14/7/2025, 8:47:16 PM | 20409 2991 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

This dude is cracked open. Straight up ooze for brains.

12/5/2025, 10:25:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

Seems like the giant sort of scandal that has a shot at coalescing.

12/5/2025, 2:24:48 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

He is like King Kong set loose downtown. Destroying vital spaces. Destroying core capacities. His ignominy is eternal.

11/5/2025, 2:02:10 AM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

There is disharmony in all their networks, from the technical and administrative to the social and spiritual. They are being be led by the falsest of people. What a disgrace.

11/5/2025, 1:42:56 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

Sleepy Don is the laziest president ever. Currently breaking his own record for laziness.

10/5/2025, 4:27:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

How many good American jobs will be lost before this comes to its inevitable end?

10/5/2025, 2:40:50 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

💯

9/5/2025, 10:09:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

Send in the NJ National Guard and shut that whole facility down.

9/5/2025, 9:13:20 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

The world is upside down.

9/5/2025, 6:05:09 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

This is why DOGE hacked into the NLRB. Union activists, including US citizens best be on guard!

9/5/2025, 11:25:52 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

This comports with the dismissal of the Acting FEMA Director who had the temerity to suggest that FEMA is essential and should continue to exist in his testimony to Congress yesterday. Spoke truth yesterday, got fired today. Wouldn’t want facts to get in the way of Trump’s mad pathology.

8/5/2025, 7:14:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

The skinny budget will stab the proper functioning of our government straight through the heart. The GOP is insane to pursue it.

8/5/2025, 1:13:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

Destroying the basic concept of empathy is how they lay the groundwork for the very bad things they want to do.

8/5/2025, 11:36:40 AM | 12 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

This is a desecration.

7/5/2025, 9:12:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

Sec Noem said today that they want to chainsaw FEMA into oblivion too. Seems like a real dumbass 1-2 punch.

6/5/2025, 8:02:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

That is 100% their intent. Poor people without assets working regular jobs can’t really cheat on their taxes. But the rich? They live to cheat. TAX THE RICH.

6/5/2025, 12:18:57 PM | 7 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

Let the children drink water from lead pipes instead. MAGA or whatever.

6/5/2025, 11:17:12 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

Sleepy Don taking Monday morning off. Must be nice!

5/5/2025, 1:58:11 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

Agreed! He is a walking, talking toxic waste dump powered by a hatred for others that all but the most deluded MAGAs can see with ease.

3/5/2025, 5:51:49 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

No ounces left. Not even scintillas or iotas. None. Absolute zero.

3/5/2025, 3:15:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

WHYYYYYYYYYYY 👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼

2/5/2025, 4:49:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

The idiocy of dismantling American scientific research is beyond description. It is deeply deeply stupid. All time levels of stupidity.

2/5/2025, 12:13:12 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

His corruption is towering and will eventually overshadow much of the terrible things he has already done. There is nothing analogous in our entire history. He is the monster the framers feared.

1/5/2025, 6:02:06 PM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

Folks can’t logically be pro-life and also not care about babies dying preventably in their cribs..and yet, this is the immoral and rotten ground the GOP has staked for themselves.

1/5/2025, 4:06:33 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

Everything they say is inside out. They are the very communists they deride.

1/5/2025, 3:18:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

Indeed, their souls blew away like forgotten trash in the burnt winds of Trump’s dark world long ago.

1/5/2025, 3:16:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

They are ALWAYS projecting. Permanently inside out.

1/5/2025, 3:13:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

This is the indoctrination the GOP screams about. They are always projecting. Always. This also sows the seeds of significant discord, the kind that grows into actual war. God forbid.

1/5/2025, 3:03:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

Better late than never, I guess.

29/4/2025, 1:26:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

The tariffs are hostile and political, and they are arrayed entirely against the fortunes and freedom of the American people.

29/4/2025, 1:24:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

A.O.C. It is time!!

28/4/2025, 7:02:55 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

The ruralest, reddest areas are getting screwed the worst, from schooling and healthcare to stuff like this.

28/4/2025, 12:34:54 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s about to get real gnarly for the US economy.

28/4/2025, 12:30:59 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

No one his age can sustain such levels of falsity and dissonance and remain unchanged. The weight of the job will crush him, sooner than later.

26/4/2025, 8:02:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

The chronicles of corruption from this administration, even if it were to end tomorrow, would fill volumes.

26/4/2025, 2:00:13 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

He’s got the money for this but not the schools in SF he suddenly stopped funding the other day. TAX THE RICH

25/4/2025, 7:43:10 PM | 41 6 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

💯 x infinity

25/4/2025, 5:48:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

Resistance is NOT futile

25/4/2025, 5:46:30 PM | 10 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

The totality of the DOGE picture is an amalgamated horror, from the unjust sacking of government employees and the destruction of vital institutions, to the needless deaths of millions of people that will starve or go without medical treatments we could so easily provide. A national disgrace.

25/4/2025, 12:22:55 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

Sounds like his wisdom is scalable. Wise Uncle knows things!

25/4/2025, 12:14:07 PM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

They really want us all to die. MAGA is a death cult. What once was hyperbole is now reality.

25/4/2025, 12:48:25 AM | 19 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

He knows nothing. NOTHING.

25/4/2025, 12:38:35 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

Anecdotal reports like yours will be towering over this economy before long. Best of luck weathering the storm, Chuck!

24/4/2025, 5:03:43 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

Main Street should be worried. The smaller the biz, the worse off they’ll be. Trump has no plan.

24/4/2025, 3:22:26 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s honestly a stain on the nation that his disapproval numbers are still that low. But give him time. Everything he touches dies.

24/4/2025, 1:06:17 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

This chart is amazing…it underscores the heedless idiocy of his entire economic program in a single glance.

23/4/2025, 6:44:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

Priorities, Kev. We must stay focused on the important things for the war fighting and all that 🤣

23/4/2025, 6:42:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

And it’s more damaging than we realize. Most destructive presidency ever, and it’s only been a few months.

23/4/2025, 12:25:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

Deeply pathetic. And it’s disturbing to watch him mindlessly dismantle American diplomacy piece by piece.

22/4/2025, 11:43:01 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

The American people are getting royally screwed by both sides of that equation. Did you see the FDA will no longer be screening the milk supply? Botulism: the new leading reason to give up dairy..

22/4/2025, 2:06:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

How could anyone even get close enough to her to steal her bag?

21/4/2025, 2:37:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

Why are they doing all the dumbest possible things all at once?

17/4/2025, 11:51:51 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

Mine too, ZD. We know it like we know ourselves.

17/4/2025, 7:12:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

I hope they hurry up and confirm this beautiful possibility because Trump is about to slash NASA science funding so deeply that jaw dropping work like this will cease (at least in the US)

17/4/2025, 7:09:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

Woke makes life better. Anyone with an open heart and mind knows this.

17/4/2025, 5:29:26 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

Increasingly, the only explanation for everything happening is they want to topple the government in its entirety.

15/4/2025, 10:08:58 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

Good luck, Senator! We are proud of you!

15/4/2025, 11:59:27 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

Trump fundamentally cannot care about other people, including his areas full of his supporters. It is the source of both his cruelty and his weakness.

15/4/2025, 11:17:04 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

Courts need to hold DOJ lawyers in contempt and put them in courthouse jails until they comply with lawful orders. That won’t happen though. So no clue where we go now…

14/4/2025, 9:14:43 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

The stupidity of it all is beyond words.

14/4/2025, 6:05:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

GOP stupidity is limitless, and is only matched by their hatred of any and all things that uplift people’s lives.

12/4/2025, 6:27:42 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

The clown car continues.

12/4/2025, 5:14:38 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

No doubt, AC. It’s tough to walk away from the big money once you’re used to it (I can only surmise…but I don’t doubt it).

11/4/2025, 8:27:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

Sycophants will always fail in time. The truth is not within them.

11/4/2025, 6:40:24 PM | 18 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

This is abhorrent elder abuse among many other things. Despicable.

9/4/2025, 3:39:06 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

Damn straight, she is a warrior for justice and equity under the law.

7/4/2025, 11:40:31 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

He will HATE that picture of himself, but it really does capture the essence of his melted brain. Well done, @wsj.com

5/4/2025, 8:03:14 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

No doubt..they are not retaliatory and they are not reciprocal either! They are insane. Insane is the word of the day.

4/4/2025, 4:18:59 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social)

An entire year of market gains wiped out in two days, and Trump has been playing golf in Florida since Thursday afternoon…

4/4/2025, 2:52:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah, I guess it really is that simple for some. Are they soulless or merely scrupulous? I suppose it’s on a spectrum of some kind.

4/4/2025, 2:48:06 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

It takes a lot of something…to intentionally crash a market this hard. Stupidity? Obduracy? Myopia? So many words and all are bad.

4/4/2025, 2:46:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

If fecklessness were a portrait…

4/4/2025, 2:43:02 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

How do they live with themselves? I’ll never understand it.

4/4/2025, 2:40:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

The Trump admin’s desecration of science and scientists is bewilderingly stupid. I feel so badly for your students. I hope they find ways to hang on until sanity returns (and it will!)..

3/4/2025, 6:45:55 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

Dog shit du jour. Everywhere you look. I felt much better after I launched my FB, Twitter & Insta accounts into the metaphorical sun.

3/4/2025, 6:00:08 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

He wants to kill anything that elevates us in meaningful ways. Libraries, universities, SCIENCE.

3/4/2025, 5:46:14 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

I wonder how much higher those chances go after the next jobs report..

3/4/2025, 4:20:04 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Murphy (@chrismurphyct.bsky.social) reposted

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

3/4/2025, 3:29:38 AM | 28425 14072 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

Biden would have been crucified for something that stupid, but Biden would never have done anything this stupid to begin with. Compound stupidity is Trump’s special gift to us.

2/4/2025, 11:55:52 PM | 111 6 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

Indeed. Stupider is as stupider does, or something! Have you seen after hours markets? Crashing through the floor..

2/4/2025, 9:40:29 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

This will absolutely happen for certain goods. Organized crime will come roaring back.

2/4/2025, 9:32:16 PM | 36 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

Long arrows in SW WI where farmers and rural communities will be ravaged by Trump’s inanity over the next few years.

2/4/2025, 4:27:40 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

They are finally receiving our message: RESIST

1/4/2025, 10:02:09 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

Wow, even Princeton..the alma mater of so many prominent Republicans. Trump’s idiocy is an equal opportunity scenario.

1/4/2025, 6:19:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

Always saying the quiet part out loud..

1/4/2025, 5:19:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

Now we can plainly see what an atrocity Trump has committed in dismantling USAID. We would normally be streamlining resources within minutes of the event. Instead, nothing. The silence is deafening.

31/3/2025, 11:18:18 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

The towering irony is it really actually is Russia Russia Russia

30/3/2025, 10:41:21 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social)

Justice for our federal scientists! The assault on knowledge must stop!

29/3/2025, 1:55:28 AM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

It gets to the root of the problem for Dems. They can dismiss this idiotic shit out of hand, and they’d be right and respected for doing so.

27/3/2025, 4:15:19 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

Makes me want to puke my guts out that these three clowns sit in positions of magnificent power. They are leagues below those that have come before them.

26/3/2025, 10:28:13 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s very dark that we need to contemplate that possibility.. RIP to our fallen soldiers. Peace and love to their loved ones in this time of profound grief.

26/3/2025, 10:14:33 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

These people are the clown’s clowns.

26/3/2025, 9:12:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

We love to see it from the press corps. Trump and his lackeys deserve to get mercilessly hammered over the horrifying incompetence of his national security team.

26/3/2025, 6:02:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s amazing that CEOs thought he’d ever be good for the business environment. He’s destroying the rule of law and can’t understand complex economic concepts. He clings to tariffs because they are the bluntest, most basic tool.

26/3/2025, 2:03:41 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

Have you called for Hegseth’s resignation yet? There is real shit going on.

25/3/2025, 1:36:48 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Justin (@jsblz.bsky.social) reply parent

They won’t touch this story with a ten-foot pole.

24/3/2025, 9:47:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view