wtjoseph.bsky.social
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No doubt in my mind ICE would manhandle a Catholic priest if they felt like it.
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From a northerner, there are tons of good people in the south! Unfortunately their voices have too often been drowned out by propaganda and the resentful minority. To be honest, same thing in NY though.
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This former evangelical was out in CT! Proud to follow Jesus in loving everyone and his mother in casting down the proud.
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Are there going to be daleks? Please say there’s going to be daleks!
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Alas the wrong day to quit smoking, amphetamines, and sniffing glue.
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Sounds like he picked the wrong day to quit drinking
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Yes, some fascinating parallels between the charges against Charles I and the current constitutional outrages.
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At this point, if Charles offered to help us out, I would seriously consider the offer.
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“You search the scriptures because you think in them you have life but you refuse to come to me to have life.” I’m not going to call these people Christians anymore, just Bible thumpers. They read the Bible to find justification for their cruelty and refuse to listen to Jesus, you know, God’s Son.
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Temporary restraining orders are supposed to be a nod to the fact that the courts move slowly and that irreparable harm may be done while they move. This constant staying of TROs is in fact inimical to Justice.
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Like Kristi Noem, the median voter also struggles to understand the spoken English language.
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I believe he meant the moon we're all familiar with?
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As a citizen, it is more than infuriating to pick up a newspaper and turn on the TV and read / hear: "fascists say this but experts say otherwise" with NO attempt to discern truth. The mainstream media has committed suicide out of pure nihilism.
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Sounds like the gov't has this in the bag lol
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If (which is a terrifying thing to say) Democrats ever regain power, ICE must immediately be disbanded and all ICE agents must be de-Nazified before they could even be considered for federal government employment again. (Not to mention actual criminal investigations where necessary.)
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I think they exude penumbras? Or do penumbras emanate from them? Either way, it sounds gross.
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Do the Emperor Palpatine on this drivel!
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In other words, we're not telling you now because we want another couple of weeks to do what we're doing under that "other authority" until we get hauled back into court again. Nothing but bad faith. I dropped out of law school and I can see that.
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In some ways, millions of adults acted like toddlers, refusing to sacrifice the least bit of comfort to keep other people from suffocating to death.
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If only all our governors would get into a competition to be the best state for child well being instead of the best state for billionaire bank account well being.
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DOGE fired the new auditors Biden hired to go after rich tax cheats.
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The last time I took a drug test, the paperwork referred to me as the "donor" and I was really creeped out because what were they going to do with my urine after the test?
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That’s why I canceled my NYT subscription and avoid mainstream media. Either they are too lazy or to craven to go beyond “facsists say this but some experts disagree” and actually you know try to discern the truth.
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FDR couldn’t walk and was in 10x the shape of mar a lardo.
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I think "peddling fiction" is technically called lying?
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Maybe he will despicably undercut Netanyahu in front of his own country? No wait, that was Netanyahu despicably undercutting President Obama in front of his own country.
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It's impossible to be a fascist goon who takes himself seriously and likes to threaten people while eating an ice cream cone.
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As long as you can still get ice cream, I think that is a good sign that civilization prevails.
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My grandfather was a WWII vet. He was adamantly against banning flag burning, saying that if he didn’t fight to defend freedom of speech, what did he fight for?
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How do we know his birth certificate isn't just a fake? And the birth announcement in the newspaper in 1985 wasn't just the start of a massive conspiracy designed to topple America from within?
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I would hate to be my child who acted like that. More evidence that affluence is often just a symptom of underlying mental illness and maladjustment.
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Can someone explain to me how it's legal to grab people looking for work outside Home Depot? Is being brown and speaking Spanish enough to justify probably cause?
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What's the difference between billionaires and the high school kids who leave their trash all over my street? The billionaires make a billion times more trash.
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Forgot g. abandon your post as Governor and tell everyone you're "hiking the Appalachian Trail" while you're actually in Argentina conducting a passionate extramarital affair.
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Carl paladino, ran for Governor of NY in 2010 and general pestilence of Buffalo for many decades.
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Feel free to add more!
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d. committing "youthful indiscretions when you are 41," e. fathering a child with the household help, f. having a secret family in a house you stole from your aunt who had dementia.
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We all know that morals and values in our public leaders matter greatly. Except if they are a Republican and are doing God's work while taking time out from a. propositioning men in public bathrooms, b. cheating on their wives who have cancer, c. sexually abusing their wrestling team members,
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That's why I just gave up on Facebook. I just wanted pictures of my friends' kids and pets and got elected officials outing trans kids.
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Maybe someone should send them some books about historical army mutinies. You know, just for some light reading to keep them entertained while they wait around.
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Guessing from your profile pic you are also a middle-agedish white guy. I was getting the same right-wing spam. My middle-agedish white wife says she doesn't get that spam. Not surprising given that men are not only easier targets for right-wing radicalization but ideologically the target audience.
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It is absolutely clear from the video that he looked, aimed and fired at her while she was clearly on camera reporting.
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Is that code? We do have one wild orchid species here in NY though that is lovely when you come across it (rarely!).
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Fair enough to examine all the factors from a statistical standpoint. But also common sense suggests that many Americans were foolish and selfish and those who scored that way were predominantly found in Republican areas of the country.
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Is there a GoFundMe set up to buy tiny violins for the ICE officers?
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Even during that 2020-2021 winter wave, the healthcare resources in blue counties were stretched to the breaking point. So I think the difference in healthcare between counties may have made an impact, but much much less than red counties' selfishly ignoring basic public health.
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The real story is that a huge amount of Americans are so selfish that they literally don't care if their actions kill others. When political and community leaders ask for any iota of sacrifice, these selfish people reject them and turn to fascism instead rather than admitting their fault.
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I kept myself safe by isolating so that I could safely care for people, many of whom wanted to pretend that COVID didn't exist and so took no precautions and caught COVID at their own family celebrations that I and my family did not get.
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My nuclear family celebrated Thanksgiving and Christmas by ourselves in 2020 in part because I was working in a hospital and we were SLAMMED by COVID cases.