Philip G. Collier
@philipcollier.bsky.social
Former airline nomad on the 737, 757, 767. Lover of cats and catbirds. "Information wants to be free." "Justice wants to happen." Medium: https://medium.com/@philipcollier Substack: https://philipcollier.substack.com
EXACTLY. MAGA Republicans are treating blue states like colonial territories, including military occupation of blue cities. Dems, consider what you will do to end this. Before it gets handled in the streets.
“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
@bostonbrian.com Boston Brian speaking with @ittnerphilip.bsky.social Phil Ittner about going to Ukraine. Surviving night time air raids, not being able to sleep, etc. People are war weary, but NOT going to be broken by the attacks. youtube.com/watch?v=m9Jl...
Boston Brian and Supporting Ukraine
YouTube video by Philip Ittner
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One of the most important issues of our time is that the future of humanity is presently being authored by people who have nothing but total contempt for humanity and seek the erasure of everything that gives being a human meaning. It’s not just annoying. It doesn’t just suck. It’s existential.
The MAGA fascists know that the truth will sink Trump's presidency. When he sinks, MAGA sinks too.
Ask Yourself Bunky… Why No Legal Response To THIS?!?!👇🏽
“Are you a communist?” “No I am an anti-fascist” “For a long time?” “Since I have understood fascism.” – Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls
Trump wants a vast white supremacist Christian nationalist empire for his legacy. New territories ringing the Gulf of Mexico is straight up "Knights of the Golden Circle" bullshit. #AddToBlackSky #FDJT #8647
Trump posts meme suggesting he wants to run for an illegal third term, then follows that up with posts suggesting he wants to annex Greenland and Venezuela
Fuck Trump. He wasn't massacred in... Wilmingtonin 1898, Atlanta in 1906, Red Summer 1919, Tulsa 1921, Rosewood 1923. He wasn't shot in Ford's theater, 1865. He wasn't shot in Dallas, 1963. He hasn't been shot up in any mass shootings. What the fuck is he whining about?
He does NOT have authority over elections. He is NOT going to be elected for, or serve a third term.
Trump claimed the power to decide who the Postal Service is allowed to mail a ballot to. Judge Indira Talwani wrote that the Constitution hands a president no authority over elections at all. That's held up twice now. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-surr...
COVID was rare at one time too. Best to take care to avoid ticks, if possible, and use proper methods for removal if you or your animals get them. If they latched on, don't just yank them loose! Use something to make them release the bite.
Oh great. An untreatable, possibly fatal virus passed by ticks is spreading in the USA. Good thing we have the CDC looking out for us, am I right?
The best coffee is sunrise coffee. I was working a redeye trip and flying over Laos, into the sunrise. It is an old video with imperfect audio, and I'm now trying some new tech to make it readable. In the original, the noise is so LOUD you can barely hear me.
#ADSB trackers - keep an eye on the Blue Spruce routes. A lot of those fuckers are not (yet) qualified for the more direct NAT Tracks. They are in a big hurry. People in a hurry FUCK UP, so watch these flights. I think they have jumped into the deep water.
I may have to update it again tomorrow. This ICE charter flight is following the route for Eastern Europe/Asia removals, which sometimes include third-country removals. Always hate the end of the month surge, this one was the worst.
I agree with @drsandman11.medsky.social: If you didn't look like this & doing everything you can to prevent people from dying during the pandemic, maybe think twice before judging Dr. Fauci.
This 1899 clip of a little girl and her cat is the oldest surviving cat footage on film, just 4 years after the Lumiere brothers invented cinema. Now colorized and speed corrected.
Okay, ICE watchers / #ADSB trackers... Information wants to be free, meaning liberated. Here is a person who has linked ADS-B flight tracking to ATC radio communications. You see flights and you get voice comms. To keep FOREVER. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaW7...
I Turned My Police Scanner Into a Live AI Incident Map (24/7)
YouTube video by The Hobbyist
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A little “gift” from nature this morning. 🐍
Awwww, I was just sipping coffee when I saw this. Now I must clean the spatter off of my keyboard.
The Hubble space telescope takes a new photo of Uranus.
Fuck the Trump regime. Fuck everyone who protects them.
Two additional points. One: This was at AIDS 2026, the 26th International AIDS Conference, in Rio de Janeiro. And: "A Reuters analysis found the image of the map included in the presentation contained an artificial intelligence watermark that signals it was made with OpenAI tools."
Goddam the Trump regime, which cannot be bothered with knowing, telling, or making agreements based on things which are true. They just make things up and expect it to pass.
Wakanda tariffs going to get doubled now
Eugenicists and religious cults will completely fuck up the world. Which is more wrong: 1) Better breeding will save the fit from disease? 2) God will judge, saving the good and letting the bad die? Neither belief accounts for sickness caused by bacteria and viruses. Get vaccinated; eat clean food!
I'm old enough to remember when polio put my friends into iron lungs. We dutifully lined up at school to get vaccinated. We eradicated the disease. We protected the common good and saved lives. What RFK Jr. is doing to public health in America is a disgrace.
TAX THE BILLIONAIRES They may complain, but they will stay and pay.
The fuckers couldn't even locate the countries properly. That's their way of saying they truly don't give a damn about Africa. Except for a specific few people from South Africa.
A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a global conference www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Never have shame about exercising your right to NOT self-incriminate. Plead the Fifth and close your mouth. This battle you win.
you invoke your fifth amendment rights when you’re talking to a cop because he’s only there to find a reason to charge you with a crime, and you should absolutely do the same when you’re talking to a senator who’s made it very clear he’s only there to find a reason to charge you with a crime
Someone needs to tell Trump how bad, bad, bad this idea is. No one is doing that. The situation is quickly devolving into "fuck around and find out."
The Pentagon is evaluating combat dropping the 101st Airborne into Cuba.