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michaelwhuff.bsky.social
Background in philosophy, theology and biology. Look for and support what's good, beautiful, true, and serves the common good (especially "the least of these"). Reject that which is self-serving and cruel. I enjoy cooking and learning about foods.
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@padilla.senate.gov: "Imagine what they are doing to a lot of folks who may not feel free to speak up... and there's not cameras there to capture how they may or may not be treated. That's the big takeaway. This should be a wake up call for everybody across the country."

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We should make No Kings Day a popular annual observance. Maybe develop No Kings Day recipes and food traditions. Make community gatherings and a discussion of good citizenship and democracy part of the celebration. Don’t sully it with “No Kings Day sales” though.

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This may be one of my new favorite national holidays Preparing for and participating in #NoKingsDay

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“When you worship power, compassion and mercy will look like sins.”

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It seems that they too often stand with and protect militia, neo-Nazi and neoconfederacy groups while attacking pro democracy people. I’m not sure why my tax dollars should be paying for that.

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June 12, 2025

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Just be there to be counted.

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Fits with Mark Rober’s tests youtu.be/IQJL3htsDyQ?...

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“Regardless of where you stand politically on immigration, it’s essential to understand that policy changes impact not just individuals who are deported, but the communities they leave behind, especially children. And this isn’t just anecdotal. The data backs it up.”

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Comparing infrastructure conditions in the U.S. versus The Netherlands

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www.nokings.org#map

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A link to a map so you can find and attend a nearby #NoKings rally this Saturday, June 14.

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The GOP administration’s efforts to replace expert knowledge and evidence-based advice with loyalty-driven ideology has made its recommendations suspect. Fortunately, there are other organizations and governments whose knowledge and expertise advice you can access. #agoodresourceforchallengingtimes

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The GOP administration is helping create opposition heroes and inspirations. May the example of people like #AlexPadilla inspire us and encourage even more people to stand tall and show the same sort of courage in the face of dictators and tyranny.

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“This is just a mid-week hello from me with some great reads that I’ve come across in the last couple of months, including a stripper’s take on Trump, a groundbreaking look inside American prisons, and stand-up comedy in Palestine.”

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Companies (including #Amazon) sponsoring the Trump regime and its parade.

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June 10, 2025

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🚨🚨🚨 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x convicted felon & adjudicated rapist Trump did 🚨🚨🚨

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Share and reshare

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‘Newsom urged Americans to stand up for the country. “I know many of you are feeling deep anxiety, stress, and fear…But I want you to know that you are the antidote…What Donald Trump wants most is your fealty, your silence, to be complicit in this moment,” “Do not give in to him.”

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“…headed to Gov. Tina Kotek’s desk…she’s expected to sign it. [It prohibits schools] from removing books [for] being about, or by, a member of a protected class [including] race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, marital status, age, and disability.”

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Document and share

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No Kings rallies across the U.S. June 14th

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We are all Los Angeles

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On Native Son:

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The problem with seeing the world through a strictly individualistic lens and failing to grasp the systemic consequences and realities of sin.

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#LAPD

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“…they chose a poor place to demonstrate dominance. Unlike a smaller, Republican-dominated city…Los Angeles is a huge, multicultural city that the federal government does not have the personnel to subdue. Trump stumbled as he climbed the stairs to Air Force One.”tonight.

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From Native Son:

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“[These] explore how democracy [requires] blood..sweat..inspiration to overcome those who deny equality…to make the principles in the Declaration of Independence the law of the land…we have a right to [equality] before the law, to have a say in our government, and to have equal access to resources.”

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Reports and video show flash-bangs thrown into piles of debris just before a car caught fire, strongly suggesting it was law enforcement, not protesters, who sparked it. More details are coming. Don’t let them control the narrative. Thank you to everyone sharing footage, always record everything.

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“The Declaration of Independence is special…but not a declaration of love and unity. It is a declaration that human beings have the right to throw off a king to govern themselves. That story is here in the first video of [our new series] Journey to American Democracy” www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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The Coast Guard vessel Eagle at the Portland (OR) waterfront for the Portland Rose Festival.

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I’m not sure Russell Vought is as much ignorant as he is evil.

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But people like Hesgeth (and the entire GOP administration and GOP senators/representatives) do forget the significance of D-Day and what it was part of the fight against.

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How this GOP administration is putting the personal information of Americans into the hands of corporations instead of safeguarding it. @salinas.house.gov @jeff-merkley.bsky.social @wyden.senate.gov

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How this GOP administration is wasting taxpayer money to please its king.

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Huh. It looks like returning an individual deported to a foreign prison isn’t beyond the power of this administration after all . . .

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“[m]ass deportation and immigration enforcement in the interior requires a police state, and the more you want, the more it will look and act like a police state.” “…to build a deportation machine to round up and deport 4% of the entire goddamn population, you must first build the police state.”

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June 5, 2025

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Let’s Not Lose Focus….

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The dangerous heresy present in a significant cross section of American Christianity.

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Although I’m not yet convinced it isn’t just pretend political theater. “That any of us have to care about the breakup of these two massive narcissists—and that they both individually wield such power—is an indictment of our political system and further proves the poisonous influence of Big Money.”

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I have my suspicions that this may just be bread and circuses — political theater meant to entertain us and distract us from the GOP administration’s (and Musk’s) endgame regarding political and economic control of the American people. Don’t let yourself be misled.

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An analysis of how the ideologically-grounded cruelty and indifference of “conservatives” will cause deaths among “the least of these.”

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Rep Rosa DeLauro: “government that serves people and proves good government is achievable is what you fear. You want [it] broken, dysfunctional, starved..You want people to have no one to turn to..Waste, fraud, and abuse are not the targets of this administration. They are your primary objectives.”

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