tony-almquist.bsky.social
🌊🌈 Blue wave. LGBTQ friend. #Resist! #Sober 4+ years. Just a dumb country lawyer. Wannabe writer. #INFJ. #Iowa #Hawkeyes. #Cubs. #Chiefs. Follow and find out.💙🌊🌐 #BlueCrew. Follow me on Substack https://substack.com/@tonyalmquist.
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In the words of the Village People, "They want you. They want you. They want you as a new recruit."
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2/2 "..to the wealthiest. It is a moral equation that a growing number of faith leaders cannot accept"
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2/2 "..when they cannot speak for themselves"
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2/2 "..enough dirt about Trump to make a criminal prosecution painful for both parties"
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5/5 "..security for ourselves in a free world”
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4/5 "..The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you. In company with our brave Allies and brothers-in-arms on other Fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the German war machine, the elimination of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed people of Europe, and..
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3/5 ".., and airmen of the Allies were on their way across the English channel.
“The order of the day from their commander Dwight D. Eisenhower that day had read: 'You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you..
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2/5 "..Rome had fallen to Allied troops. 'The first of the Axis capitals is now in our hands,' Roosevelt said.
“FDR knew something his audience did not. On the other side of the Atlantic, paratroopers, their faces darkened with cocoa, were already dropping into France, and the soldiers, sailors..
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2/2 "..Iowa Democrats running for office against our MAGA Republicans in Congress, need to put this on the table at every town hall, debate, or whatever. Call them out on these needless deaths. Hold them accountable"
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2/2 "..sooner or later, it all goes sideways. Donny is too erratic and too literally out of his fucking mind to be corralled.
"everything Donny touches, dies"
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2/2 "..someone else to clean up. Whereas the plutocrats care deeply about taxes and debt — because they’ll eventually be the ones paying much higher taxes to pay off the debts"
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2/2 "..laughing and having fun, WAAAAAAAAAH THERE IS LAUGHING AT MY KITCHEN TABLE!"
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3/3 "..doesn’t change that, and it certainly doesn’t help hospitals determine when an abortion can legally be provided in an emergency setting in states with bans"
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2/3 "..with ectopic pregnancies where abortion care wasn’t timely provided.
"So, Dr. Oz’s breezy assurances notwithstanding, people in states with bans are already not receiving care for miscarriages, ectopic pregnancies, or undefined 'medical emergencies.' Simply declaring otherwise..
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2/2 "..love the Democratic Party to recognize that it does, in fact, expel politicians who engage in egregious corruption"
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2/2 "..disembowel each other? He pops up to remind us he’s a humorless scold, and we shouldn’t have a moment of joy as our enemies gratuitously slap each other around"
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3/3 "..easy targets for ICE agents facing pressure to increase daily arrest volumes"
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2/3 "..litigated, including cases of immigrants who have been charged criminally.
"Immigration courts have become the latest target of the Trump's mass deportation campaign. Critics say the operations target immigrants doing the right thing by attending their court hearings, making them..
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2/2 "..their hopes onto the other, only to discover belatedly that these had all along been misplaced. That is the true meaning lurking behind the political breakup of the century"