Robert Westbrook, Aircraft & Accordion Repair

@swampfoot.bsky.social

SJW. KHive. Citizen of US & Canada. Married, inexplicably. Astrophotographer & airplane whisperer. From rural Nebraska. Gun-free since 1997. I want to meet your cat. He/Him. Live on unceded Mi'kmaq land - Unama’ki, AKA Cape Breton Island.

As someone living in Kyiv, I’m begging you: Please help us stop this. Almost every night, russia strikes Kyiv with ballistic missiles, hitting civilians, homes, and warehouses. We can’t stop these missiles because we don’t have enough Patriot systems. People are dying.

I have always felt all Dem party ideas/goals are progressive. The DSA doesn’t belong in our party. They don’t share our goals/values. They spew and antisemitism , and disrespect of our base, and they would be fighting against the GOP instead of fighting us.

DSA affiliated politicians are not “progressives”. They just call themselves that to seem superior. They’ve never flipped a seat blue or passed a law. They mock Democrats who ACTUALLY PASS LAWS as “Establishment”. Their main focus is Israel’s destruction, and are funded by Pro-Pally PACS.

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Neither are you, Ariella. I respect the work you do. However, you're misguided in this moment. It's wrong to pretend like we're quibbling over which flavor ice cream we want. There are core value-level disagreements. Pretending otherwise isn't helping.

So I spent our wedding anniversary in the ER then hospital for the last few days. Stress of things going on aggravated my heart which already has an irregular rhythm. Im home on a monitor for the next 30 days. It's better home than a hospital bed.

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Nor are you by brushing it aside as if this weren't actually about the Democratic party and a party that has said in writing their goal is to destroy it. And I don't mean the GOP.

I am a lifelong Democrat. The vitriol from many Democrats when you express support for Israel is shocking and I can't be silent any longer. Seeing the rise of anti-Semitism and the hate towards Israel coming from DSA and the far left has forced me out of the party. I am now Independent.

Jordan currently makes up 78% of the land that was the Mandate. So if you actually want to return the land to “Palestine,” describe what you mean. Which colonizing force are you proposing genocides the Jews in Judea this time? Rome? The Arab Caliphates? The Ottomans? Or the British? Be specific.

The Black church was powerful because Sundays were the only time when large groups of enslaved African Americans were allowed to gather in numbers. There were laws about that. They were able to code resistance strategies into Sunday sermons because white Christians left them alone for a few hours

churchlady320@churchlady320.bsky.social · 9h ago

Cannot tell you how many times I've been told Black people are not worthy because they are ignorant and religious. Ignoring the power of the Black Church in fighting for justice, they court them as painful necessities not as powerful institutions. They won't listen. Think they know best always.

This plane landed in Myanmar about three hours ago. This is the third ICE flight to Myanmar this year. Burmese deportees in 2025 were immediately sent to a torture facility next to the airport, according to Myanmar Now. Weeks later, not all of them had emerged.

An FR24 map showing N59JE landing in Yangon and then continuing to Bangkok
Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · yesterday

This likely ICE flight operated by Journey Aviation has taken off and appears to heading for an Asia removal. In May, this aircraft deported people to Myanmar.

An ADSBx map showing N62FF heading northwest out of Mesa, AZ and over the Pacific.

Next interview I want someone to name who the Dem Establishment is and what policies they have that are not progressive. I don’t allow buzz terms in my conversations. You need to be specific. What policy isn’t progressive on the dem platform? What qualifies someone as “establishment”?