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Thomas Fortenberry

@thomasfortenberry.bsky.social

Author, editor, historian. Bibliophile.

created October 17, 2023

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I believe so, yes.

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Profile picture Rebecca Solnit (@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social) reposted

I gave a talk this morning at Upaya Zen Center. Here's the essay about disaster and human nature it was based on. It look back to Hurricane Katrina and forward to the present moment. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/we-were-made...

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Profile picture Thomas Fortenberry (@thomasfortenberry.bsky.social) reply parent

Excellent

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Profile picture Thomas Fortenberry (@thomasfortenberry.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah, they are ginning up a military confrontation w/ Venezuela for cover.

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Profile picture Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted

My reporting uncovered the existence of DoJ training videos instructing FBI personnel on how to flag Trump’s name in the Epstein files. I’m suing to get the videos under FOIA. substack.com/@muellershew...

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Profile picture Thomas Fortenberry (@thomasfortenberry.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s almost like there is a network of them or something. Weird.

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Profile picture Thomas Fortenberry (@thomasfortenberry.bsky.social) reply parent

Congratulations!

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Profile picture Thomas Fortenberry (@thomasfortenberry.bsky.social)

The simplest way to explain the barbarians breaking down the gates of civilization analogy for modern times.

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Profile picture JohnnyMangu (@johnnybarbu.bsky.social) reposted

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Profile picture Thomas Fortenberry (@thomasfortenberry.bsky.social) reply parent

Fascitasia—dreamland

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Profile picture The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted

😆

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Profile picture Thomas Fortenberry (@thomasfortenberry.bsky.social) reply parent

Though shalt not think, especially in depth.

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Profile picture Thomas Fortenberry (@thomasfortenberry.bsky.social) reply parent

Wouldn’t the search be optimized if you were limited only to the highest paying advertisers?

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Profile picture Mrs. Chariclea Ypsilanti 💙🌊 (@cpypsilanti.bsky.social) reposted

I believe that.

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Profile picture trade wars are class wars 🌮 🇺🇦 (@grrlscientist.bsky.social) reposted

three of the world's WORST oligarchs backing the orange rapist -- Peter Thiel, David Sacks and Elon Musk -- are products of South African Apartheid. THIS IS NOT A COINCIDENCE! #racism #Apartheid #SouthAfrica #RapeCulture #politics #Tyranny #FascistAmeriKKKa #nazis

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Profile picture Ralf "Der Tankwart" Raths (@ralfraths.bsky.social) reposted

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Profile picture David Corn (@davidcorn.bsky.social) reposted

How many lies can you fit into one sentence?

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Profile picture Thomas Fortenberry (@thomasfortenberry.bsky.social) reply parent

Doesn’t matter which clown is out front entertaining the crowd, the rightwing agenda circus is going full three ring in the background.

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Profile picture Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) reposted

Release the Epstein files.

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Profile picture Thomas Fortenberry (@thomasfortenberry.bsky.social) reply parent

True Americans would say we love democracy and hate dictators.

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Profile picture American Library Association (@amlibraryassoc.bsky.social) reposted

“The response to the missing books has been overwhelming and mostly positive for the library. We will use the donated money to replace the books and buy more like them.” www.newsfromthestates.com/article/libr... 📚💙 #UniteAgainstBookBans

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Profile picture MariaevaJ (Formal Tribel) (@mariaevaj.bsky.social) reposted

Please continue to pass this around It does make Don very upset

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Profile picture luvs2laugh.bsky.social (@luvs2laugh.bsky.social) reposted

Japan, we have your back, until we don’t…

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Profile picture Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) reposted

DESCRIPTION: self-described alpha male, wearing body armor, assault rifle, and wraparound sunglasses because he’s “afraid of nothing.”

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

"No one in the administration – the president or anybody under him – has called anyone in my administration or me – have not called the city of Chicago or anyone else. So it's clear that, in secret, they're are planning this – well, it's an invasion with US troops." Gov. JB Pritzker

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Profile picture Thomas Fortenberry (@thomasfortenberry.bsky.social)

The Cult culting…. www.huffpost.com/entry/dr-oz-...

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Profile picture Thomas Fortenberry (@thomasfortenberry.bsky.social)

Robert Reich: Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.

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www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...

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Profile picture Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) reposted

This is why Trump’s Big Ugly Bill increased ICE’s budget by $170.7 billion More than the military spending of most countries, and more than the US appropriated for the FBI, DEA, ATF and Marshals-combined Trump is amassing an army to employ against Americans in blue states And Illinois is up first

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BREAKING: At least 250 people killed in a 6.0 magnitude earthquake in eastern Afghanistan, officials say.

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Profile picture Mike Roberts (@miker66.bsky.social) reposted

Strange decision from @australia.theguardian.com to blur faces to protect the nazi cowards who attacked women of colour with metal bars

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Profile picture Thomas Fortenberry (@thomasfortenberry.bsky.social) reply parent

Can you diagnose heroin abuse just by looking at it?

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Profile picture Embrace the Void (@etvpod.bsky.social) reposted

Virtue anywhere is a threat to vice everywhere.

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Profile picture Hart Cunningham (@hpsc24.bsky.social) reposted

8/31/25🚨WTAF😢Gaza Reconstitution, Economic Acceleration Transformation (GREAT) trust (usa $, controlling Gaza for decades, transformed into tech, tourism, manufacturing hub for krasnov/kushner💰) www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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youtu.be/GAM0R2zyi4k

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Profile picture JustmeAnybody (@justmeanybody.bsky.social) reposted

Every single Republican is either a pedophile or pedophile supporter Maybe it isn't brainworms that makes RFK Jr. insane like Trump. Maybe it's drug abuse and syphilis

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Profile picture SaveDemocracy123 (@savedemocracy123.bsky.social) reposted

The Putin/Trump anti-American criminal corporate fascists are attempting to turn USA into a corrupt, crony capitalist, corporate fascist authoritarian Oligarchy/Plutocracy /Kleptocracy/Kakistocracy; and a $315 Billion Alligator Alcatraz style Prison Police State to ENFORCE it on"resisters & others".

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Profile picture Thomas Fortenberry (@thomasfortenberry.bsky.social)

And beyond…..

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What an absolute piece of garbage this guy is.

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youtu.be/Auo29DPfZ2E

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Profile picture Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted

Robert Mueller was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 2021. We’re just learning about it now because he was asked to testify in the Epstein matter and won’t be able to. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...

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Spiegelbild

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Profile picture Francesca Bonanno (@runningwiththedogs.bsky.social) reposted

Spread the word !!

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Profile picture Micah (@rincewind.run) reposted

the judge is now basically checking every couple of hours to make sure her directions are being followed to the letter because she is dealing with lying liars who lie astounding how much credibility the government has burned with the courts

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Profile picture Thomas Fortenberry (@thomasfortenberry.bsky.social) reply parent

He lives at Mar-A-Lago. There saved everyone time and money.

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Profile picture Thomas Fortenberry (@thomasfortenberry.bsky.social) reply parent

😡😡😡

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Profile picture Thomas Fortenberry (@thomasfortenberry.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s almost as if he has a decades long record of doing this exact kind of “business.” Republicans never learn.

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Profile picture Khashoggi's Ghost (@urocklive1.bsky.social) reposted

Trump limits National Guard assignments to 29 days at a time to keep the called up service members from getting healthcare and housing benefits while on duty. And the NG troops are catching on. Stereotypical Trump. Don't give those losers and suckers an extra dime. www.rawstory.com/trump-infuri...

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Profile picture Thomas Fortenberry (@thomasfortenberry.bsky.social)

The gall of these fucking traitors.

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Yum!!! Do you sell or just make for own use?

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Profile picture christian e. scheuer (@boxspringstuff.bsky.social) reposted

i just had a thought that maybe the reason the Epstein files, client list and evidence are not being released or claimed that they don't exist is because Donnie wants to use them as blackmail for whomever may be in them.

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Profile picture Thomas Fortenberry (@thomasfortenberry.bsky.social)

Sometimes my shield arm gets tired from all the Fascist blows. But hey, I can do this all day.

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Simeis 147

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Hi @bonhanson.bsky.social can you help🔁? I'm a Bilingual Teacher in TX. Hispanic Heritage Month is one of our favorite school celebrations. Students get to share their proud heritage These posters would help showcase our bulletin boards. If anyone can help. I really appreciate it! 🙏🏻 amzn.to/3VWB1i6

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Profile picture Thomas Fortenberry (@thomasfortenberry.bsky.social) reply parent

The administration she supports is showing “God’s love” by deploying the military into cities & masked goons into schools, courtrooms, & businesses, to beat up & kidnap neighbors, taking them to black site gulags here & abroad where they are chained, abused, & denied laws or basic human rights.

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Because now in Murica every solution is a gun.

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Profile picture 50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 (@50501movement.bsky.social) reposted

Tomorrow (9/1). Stop the billionaire takeover. More than 1,000 protests nationwide. Find one near you. MayDayStrong.org.

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Falling victim to the debtor’s nation.

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Profile picture TEN DEMANDS (@tendemands.bsky.social) reposted

“Ultimately, broken windows policing isn’t about reducing crime; it’s about assuaging white fears, however irrational or racist, of poor and homeless people, Black people, people of color, and queer and gender-nonconforming people.” - @dreanyc123.bsky.social, @interruptcrim.bsky.social

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Profile picture Thomas Fortenberry (@thomasfortenberry.bsky.social)

I’d be very nervous if I were any neighboring country next to the canal the Felon-N-Chief vowed to retake by force, especially when he starts sending the fleet AND needs a major distraction from the Epstein Files.

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Profile picture ✙ 𝐁𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐓 - ꜱᴛᴀɴᴅ ᴀɴᴅ ʙᴇ ᴄᴏᴜɴᴛᴇᴅ 📎 - 🇺🇸 (@unauthorizedbeast.bsky.social) reposted

Is GOP trying to start a war with Venezuela? To suspend the midterm elections? Tensions grow as U.S. sends warships near Venezuela www.nbcnews.com/video/tensio... via @nbcnews

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Profile picture Michelle Fowle (@mmanire.bsky.social) reposted

Tomorrow, we’re showing up to support labor. Find an event near you at maydaystrong.org

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

Washington Post vs Democracy Docket. This one is easy. The Washington Post ignored Trump's latest attack on democracy entirely. It went with one about "grey rocking" instead. Support pro-democracy independent media. Subscribe to Democracy Docket today. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0

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Profile picture Morgan J Freeman (@mjfree.bsky.social) reposted

REALITY CHECK: Under the U.S. Constitution, states are responsible for regulating elections, while Congress has the power to enact national election laws. The President does not have unilateral authority to impose new voting rules like nationwide voter ID requirements.

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Profile picture Thomas Fortenberry (@thomasfortenberry.bsky.social) reply parent

Endless crimes. Everywhere you look within the Republican Party.

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Profile picture jess m. 🌷 (@jametc.bsky.social) reposted

Currently going on. This thread is fucking harrowing. There are kids literally inside military planes right now who are not being allowed to take off, but this is scary because we know they don't care. This is child trafficking #political

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