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Rod Townsend

@rodtownsend

Gen X gay guy in Astoria, NY Political whisperer, especially in lgbtq+ & nyc. Manage national directory of lgbtq+ dem clubs (http://stonewalldems.us). Reader of biography, history, comics. See you on the dance floor. Put away your phone occasionally.

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"Special Envoy for The Shield of the Americas"

05.03.2026 19:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Franco - died of illness at old age
Pinochet - died of illness at old age
Stalin - died of illness at old age
Pol Pot - died of illness at old age
Kissinger - died peacefully at the age of 100

I could go on and on.

02.03.2026 20:33 πŸ‘ 351 πŸ” 34 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 1
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One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

02.03.2026 10:20 πŸ‘ 13388 πŸ” 4256 πŸ’¬ 131 πŸ“Œ 173

Sorry to be shallow, but she looks great.

26.02.2026 23:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Snowy 29th Street in Astoria

Snowy 29th Street in Astoria

Getting very quiet out there

22.02.2026 23:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A blizzard treat from Dairy Queen

A blizzard treat from Dairy Queen

The only acceptable blizzard.

22.02.2026 19:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Man Opposing Data Center Arrested for Speaking Slightly Too Long An Oklahoma man tried to talk about a data center coming to his community. Police arrested him when he went a few seconds over his time limit.

Cops arrested a man who opposed a data center being built because his went ever so slightly over his allotted speaking time www.404media.co/man-opposing...

19.02.2026 19:32 πŸ‘ 846 πŸ” 254 πŸ’¬ 25 πŸ“Œ 26
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Wow.

17.02.2026 03:59 πŸ‘ 35893 πŸ” 16632 πŸ’¬ 1297 πŸ“Œ 2470

Ive never gotten to the point in a relationship where curling opinions even came up, so … WIN?

15.02.2026 22:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Grateful to the two people I follow that are following the Olympics for reminding me that there is an Olympics going on.

11.02.2026 17:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Blizzard?

10.02.2026 20:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

TLDR

09.02.2026 02:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump: "I don't want to drive housing prices down. I want to drive housing prices up for people who own homes."

29.01.2026 17:41 πŸ‘ 1715 πŸ” 579 πŸ’¬ 421 πŸ“Œ 603

It's a face that was just meant for print.

29.01.2026 15:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And Assembly 74 to replace Harvey Epstein

28.01.2026 20:35 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If things were so bad, wouldn't people be bringing their potatoes from home and sticking them in the office microwave?

20.01.2026 19:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Isn't the biggest welfare fraud of the current century when Mississippi Republicans stole welfare-targeted money for pet projects, like a volleyball stadium? And it wasn't that long ago.

19.01.2026 17:06 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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This is such a cool illustration of how the Mercator map distorts the size of Greenland, which looks as big as the whole continent of Africa on that map but is actually the size of Mexico.

18.01.2026 19:43 πŸ‘ 4619 πŸ” 1768 πŸ’¬ 59 πŸ“Œ 181

She’s running!

17.01.2026 16:58 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This looks like the guy under the ghost costume whose plan has been foiled by Scooby and "those meddling kids".

09.01.2026 14:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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How dangerous is it really to work for ICE? According to ICE’s own data, none of its officers have been killed by an immigrant in the agency’s history.

The leading cause of death by far among ICE officers is COVID-19.

09.01.2026 01:00 πŸ‘ 2759 πŸ” 885 πŸ’¬ 192 πŸ“Œ 285

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. πŸ‘‡ Stay safe.

08.01.2026 18:35 πŸ‘ 14746 πŸ” 10274 πŸ’¬ 102 πŸ“Œ 101
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Fuck Bari Weiss, fuck bootlicking regime propaganda

07.01.2026 17:24 πŸ‘ 34045 πŸ” 5273 πŸ’¬ 654 πŸ“Œ 338

Well, they can’t put him in the MCC in lower Manhattan and have people remembering that Jeffrey Epstein died there.

04.01.2026 02:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to jump out of a helicopter to kidnap a head of state and his wife so some oil ceos can make a lot of money. we’ll be watching from a resort in florida that still serves wedge salad and checking how many retweets we get. good luck soldier

03.01.2026 22:57 πŸ‘ 23831 πŸ” 6725 πŸ’¬ 186 πŸ“Œ 154

At least we don’t live in a world of staggering class disparity in which a tech magnate attempts to quash left-wing sentiment using sexualized artificial intelligence!

02.01.2026 11:57 πŸ‘ 4343 πŸ” 1381 πŸ’¬ 34 πŸ“Œ 13
Reitz High School football stadium

Reitz High School football stadium

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Just because football didn’t get a movie doesn’t mean that football isn’t huge in Indiana. I went to a football powerhouse in the high school system there. My high school’s football stadium sat over 10,000 people.

townsquare.media/site/782/fil...

01.01.2026 23:32 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Plow NYC is not working

Plow NYC is not working

Day one

01.01.2026 15:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

At midnight, millions of New Yorkers will collectively celebrate that Randy Mastro is no longer a Deputy Mayor.

31.12.2025 13:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I was unserious.

31.12.2025 03:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0