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michaeljrenner.bsky.social

Dad, grandfather, husband, wanderer, #photographer, retired scientist and teacher... fighting cynicism in a world that demands it. I spent my career comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable... I'm not done.

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This really is Liberation Day: The U.S. Court of International Trade this afternoon struck down Trump’s mass tariffs as unlawful. It’s a fantastic win for the rule of law, human freedom, and prosperity, and a deserved rebuke for arbitrary one-man rule over our livelihoods. /1

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“The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.” — Treaty of Tripoli, signed by the United States in 1797.

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Un-American for thine, graduation for mine.

submitted 23 days ago • 302 comments

Weird. Rome has an American Pope and America has a Russian President.

submitted 28 days ago • 362 comments

Playing with our 3-year-old Weimaraner has reminded me that I don't have a single fast-twitch muscle fiber in my entire body.

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Your friendly reminder that it is literally a federal felony punishable by up to five years in prison for the President, Vice President, or any employee of the White House to directly or indirectly ask the IRS to open an investigation into any specific taxpayer.

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Every US citizen should be outraged and terrified by this:

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THREAD: The Trump administration's DOJ has removed a study from the NIJ website that found that immigrants, and particularly undocumented immigrants, commit crimes at significantly lower rates than U.S. citizens. The study is at odds with the Trump regime's propaganda about immigrants & crime. (1)

submitted 53 days ago • 137 comments

15 years ago the Supreme Court decided corporations are people under the First Amendment. Today, billionaire political spending is up 160-fold since that ruling. Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day.

submitted 53 days ago • 311 comments

Powerful perspective shift:

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Please share!!! This is getting ridiculous—they just can’t accept a loss. Please help spread the word to North Carolina. The North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled in a 2-1 decision that over 60,000 votes cast in last year’s closely contested state Supreme Court race must be verified and recounted.

submitted 62 days ago • 462 comments

Today’s legal reading: Judge Chen’a ruling grating an injunction to the 300K or so Venezuelan immigrants who had their Temporary Protected Status (TPO) revoked by HHS Sec Roem. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 65 days ago • 16 comments

It's not the judges...

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List of 15 #iowa #Handsoff rallies including 2 in Council Bluffs/Omaha and one in Sious Falls, SD for Saturday, April 5th if you are not going to DC. Please share.

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So ... The lesson here is the Brazil's system of government works better than ours. Fascinating. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/w...

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Uncomfortably close to true...

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CNN put together a collection of clips of various Trump officials who were on the signal chat criticizing Hillary Clinton’s email server

submitted 73 days ago • 339 comments

People enthusiastically voting against their self-interest is a sure sign of a cult... and mystifies me

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Age yourself with a cartoon you watched as a kid

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment

A fun strategy for making things better in these challenging times:

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National Parks Had a Record Year. Trump Officials Appear to Want It Kept Quiet. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/c... Our national parks are the envy of the world ... for now. We need to spread this story far and wide. #IQ47 cannot be allowed to dismantle the protections for these precious places.