Marty Duren
@martyduren.bsky.social
Happy Hubster, Dad, Pawpaw, author, reader, freelance writer, raconteur, tsundoku practitioner, Jesus follower. I work with words.
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It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.
Trial Begins for Man Accused of Lobbing a Sandwich at a Federal Agent www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...
Trial Begins for Man Accused of Lobbing a Sandwich at a Federal Agent
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November 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.
If you have HBO Max, you must watch The Alabama Solution, a devastating indictment if the state’s, and the US, legal system.
October 15, 2025 at 12:18 AM
If you have HBO Max, you must watch The Alabama Solution, a devastating indictment if the state’s, and the US, legal system.
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When people ask “why is there famine in Gaza now?”
Here’s why:
•Gaza’s farmland has been bulldozed.
•Fishermen are shot at sea.
•Bakeries are bombed.
•Aid trucks are blocked.
•Water systems destroyed.
•Relief workers assassinated.
This isn’t new, it’s escalated.
Here’s why:
•Gaza’s farmland has been bulldozed.
•Fishermen are shot at sea.
•Bakeries are bombed.
•Aid trucks are blocked.
•Water systems destroyed.
•Relief workers assassinated.
This isn’t new, it’s escalated.
August 5, 2025 at 2:49 PM
When people ask “why is there famine in Gaza now?”
Here’s why:
•Gaza’s farmland has been bulldozed.
•Fishermen are shot at sea.
•Bakeries are bombed.
•Aid trucks are blocked.
•Water systems destroyed.
•Relief workers assassinated.
This isn’t new, it’s escalated.
Here’s why:
•Gaza’s farmland has been bulldozed.
•Fishermen are shot at sea.
•Bakeries are bombed.
•Aid trucks are blocked.
•Water systems destroyed.
•Relief workers assassinated.
This isn’t new, it’s escalated.
My 89-year-old dad with dementia just used jingoistic correctly (“Putin is too jingoistic”) so now Imma drink 4 glasses of chocolate milk a day like Dad does.
August 15, 2025 at 9:32 PM
My 89-year-old dad with dementia just used jingoistic correctly (“Putin is too jingoistic”) so now Imma drink 4 glasses of chocolate milk a day like Dad does.
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“Any time you see a person using Acts 17:26 in support of, usually, a policy of limited immigration or no immigration, they are cherry picking. So, what is Acts 17:26 saying?”
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July 30, 2025 at 12:33 PM
“Any time you see a person using Acts 17:26 in support of, usually, a policy of limited immigration or no immigration, they are cherry picking. So, what is Acts 17:26 saying?”
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My latest concerns the oft misuse of Acts 17:26 by Christian Nationalists.
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The Acts 17:26 Fallacy - Kingdom in the Midst
Acts 17:26 is not about immigration. It's about the power of God to salvation to all who believe.
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July 29, 2025 at 10:56 PM
My latest concerns the oft misuse of Acts 17:26 by Christian Nationalists.
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The Acts 17:26 Fallacy
Acts 17:26 is not about immigration. It's about the power of God to salvation to all who believe.
Acts 17:26 is not about immigration. It's about the power of God to salvation to all who believe.
The Acts 17:26 Fallacy
Acts 17:26 is not about immigration. It's about the power of God to salvation to all who believe.
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July 29, 2025 at 10:19 PM
The Acts 17:26 Fallacy
Acts 17:26 is not about immigration. It's about the power of God to salvation to all who believe.
Acts 17:26 is not about immigration. It's about the power of God to salvation to all who believe.
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That 45 billion for detention facilities jumps out.
Behind Hitler’s mass rallies were politicians, accountants, bureaucrats, financiers, insurers, corporations, contractors who turned his dreams into brick & mortar reality. We are staring at a similar process with this bill.
Behind Hitler’s mass rallies were politicians, accountants, bureaucrats, financiers, insurers, corporations, contractors who turned his dreams into brick & mortar reality. We are staring at a similar process with this bill.
This is what an authoritarian police state looks like.
And this is not something that can just be put back in a box in four years time.
America will never be the same after this.
And this is not something that can just be put back in a box in four years time.
America will never be the same after this.
June 30, 2025 at 11:53 AM
That 45 billion for detention facilities jumps out.
Behind Hitler’s mass rallies were politicians, accountants, bureaucrats, financiers, insurers, corporations, contractors who turned his dreams into brick & mortar reality. We are staring at a similar process with this bill.
Behind Hitler’s mass rallies were politicians, accountants, bureaucrats, financiers, insurers, corporations, contractors who turned his dreams into brick & mortar reality. We are staring at a similar process with this bill.
What could possibly go wrong?
The Department of Homeland Security, with help from DOGE, has rolled out a tool that purports to be able to check the citizenship status of almost all Americans.
The Trump administration is building a national citizenship data system
The Department of Homeland Security, with help from DOGE, has rolled out a tool that purports to be able to check the citizenship status of almost all Americans.
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June 30, 2025 at 10:07 AM
What could possibly go wrong?
Feeling old today?
Rod Stewart is on the cover of this edition of the AARP magazine.
Rod Stewart is on the cover of this edition of the AARP magazine.
June 23, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Feeling old today?
Rod Stewart is on the cover of this edition of the AARP magazine.
Rod Stewart is on the cover of this edition of the AARP magazine.
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I know everyone is occupied w authoritarian tactics of Trump sending marines & national guard to LA but wanted to show the hypocrisy of this lawless regime.
Trump is installing a pardoned drug trafficker as deputy director of the federal Bureau of Prisons
Trump is installing a pardoned drug trafficker as deputy director of the federal Bureau of Prisons
Former federal inmate pardoned by Trump tapped as Bureau of Prisons deputy director
Joshua J. Smith, a Tennessee businessman whom the president pardoned during his first term, now advocates for inmate rehabilitation.
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June 9, 2025 at 11:18 PM
I know everyone is occupied w authoritarian tactics of Trump sending marines & national guard to LA but wanted to show the hypocrisy of this lawless regime.
Trump is installing a pardoned drug trafficker as deputy director of the federal Bureau of Prisons
Trump is installing a pardoned drug trafficker as deputy director of the federal Bureau of Prisons
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Trump has handed a free gift to Oxford, Cambridge, LSE, Tsinghua, Sciences Po and many other universities who will gladly enroll the tuition-paying foreign students who hoped to study in the US and are now barred. No surer way to make America weaker, poorer, and less influential abroad.
May 22, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Trump has handed a free gift to Oxford, Cambridge, LSE, Tsinghua, Sciences Po and many other universities who will gladly enroll the tuition-paying foreign students who hoped to study in the US and are now barred. No surer way to make America weaker, poorer, and less influential abroad.
The condemnation vacuum of the Gaza genocide from American evangelical “leaders” would be astonishing were it not merely the way of things. The existence of Palestinians in Gaza doesn’t register so why should their starvation, ethnic cleansing, or genocide?
Silence is complicity.
Silence is complicity.
May 21, 2025 at 2:26 PM
The condemnation vacuum of the Gaza genocide from American evangelical “leaders” would be astonishing were it not merely the way of things. The existence of Palestinians in Gaza doesn’t register so why should their starvation, ethnic cleansing, or genocide?
Silence is complicity.
Silence is complicity.
This is the way.
BREAKING: A Federal judge has just ordered the return of an in air plane carrying deported migrants to South Sudan. The Judge says if they fail to comply, he will jail all officials and the pilot, for Contempt of Court.
May 21, 2025 at 2:22 PM
This is the way.
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The Library of Congress is a research library.
The Congressional Research Service researches for Congress.
Scholars & researchers apply for passes to research.
NO children’s section.
Even the general public has very limited access.
The Congressional Research Service researches for Congress.
Scholars & researchers apply for passes to research.
NO children’s section.
Even the general public has very limited access.
Reporter: The president fired the Librarian of Congress. Why?
Leavitt: There were quite concerning things she had done at the Library of Congress in the pursuit of DEI and putting inappropriate books in the library for children.
Leavitt: There were quite concerning things she had done at the Library of Congress in the pursuit of DEI and putting inappropriate books in the library for children.
May 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
The Library of Congress is a research library.
The Congressional Research Service researches for Congress.
Scholars & researchers apply for passes to research.
NO children’s section.
Even the general public has very limited access.
The Congressional Research Service researches for Congress.
Scholars & researchers apply for passes to research.
NO children’s section.
Even the general public has very limited access.
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Ion know Jesus
Startin to feel like these weapons form against that ain’t supposed to prosper are at least up by 40
In the 4th quarter 😭
Startin to feel like these weapons form against that ain’t supposed to prosper are at least up by 40
In the 4th quarter 😭
May 7, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Ion know Jesus
Startin to feel like these weapons form against that ain’t supposed to prosper are at least up by 40
In the 4th quarter 😭
Startin to feel like these weapons form against that ain’t supposed to prosper are at least up by 40
In the 4th quarter 😭
Too many folks ain’t gonna get how good Sarah’s post is.
the only realistic way to run Journalism in the Kentucky Derby would have been for the owner to break two of its legs, scream at it to run faster, and act absolutely baffled when it couldn’t even get up
May 4, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Too many folks ain’t gonna get how good Sarah’s post is.
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At a time when veterans with VA loans are struggling to keep their homes out of foreclosure, the Veterans Administration (VA) under Donald Trump's stewardship has decided to pull the plug on a program built specifically to keep them housed.
Veterans facing foreclosures as Trump administration pulls plug on Biden program: report
At a time when veterans with VA loans are struggling to keep their homes out of foreclosure, the Veterans Administration (VA) under Donald Trump's stewardship has decided to pull the plug on a program built specifically to keep them housed.According to a report from NPR, the program known as VA Serv...
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May 1, 2025 at 11:00 AM
At a time when veterans with VA loans are struggling to keep their homes out of foreclosure, the Veterans Administration (VA) under Donald Trump's stewardship has decided to pull the plug on a program built specifically to keep them housed.
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“We are at a moment right now where people are asking themselves why can’t the Democratic Party defend this assault on democracy . . . and I would submit to you that if you can’t draw the line at genocide, you probably can’t draw the line at democracy.”
- Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Ta-Nehisi Coates
April 22, 2025 at 5:49 AM
“We are at a moment right now where people are asking themselves why can’t the Democratic Party defend this assault on democracy . . . and I would submit to you that if you can’t draw the line at genocide, you probably can’t draw the line at democracy.”
- Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Breast cancer diagnoses rose by over 300% between 1973 and 1992.
Was there a breast cancer epidemic?!
NO.
Mammograms were implemented for screening in 1976.
PREVALENCE is a function of being able to correctly diagnose something.
This is also about autism.
Was there a breast cancer epidemic?!
NO.
Mammograms were implemented for screening in 1976.
PREVALENCE is a function of being able to correctly diagnose something.
This is also about autism.
April 21, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Breast cancer diagnoses rose by over 300% between 1973 and 1992.
Was there a breast cancer epidemic?!
NO.
Mammograms were implemented for screening in 1976.
PREVALENCE is a function of being able to correctly diagnose something.
This is also about autism.
Was there a breast cancer epidemic?!
NO.
Mammograms were implemented for screening in 1976.
PREVALENCE is a function of being able to correctly diagnose something.
This is also about autism.
When you so busy scamming you can’t keep up.
April 21, 2025 at 5:26 PM
When you so busy scamming you can’t keep up.
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"The Stranger's Case," William Shakespeare Sir Thomas Moore: Act II Scene 4
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Imagine that you see the wretched strangers,
Their babies at their backs and their poor luggage,
Plodding to the ports and costs for transportation ...
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Imagine that you see the wretched strangers,
Their babies at their backs and their poor luggage,
Plodding to the ports and costs for transportation ...
April 19, 2025 at 12:07 PM
"The Stranger's Case," William Shakespeare Sir Thomas Moore: Act II Scene 4
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Imagine that you see the wretched strangers,
Their babies at their backs and their poor luggage,
Plodding to the ports and costs for transportation ...
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Imagine that you see the wretched strangers,
Their babies at their backs and their poor luggage,
Plodding to the ports and costs for transportation ...