parkerland
@parkerland.bsky.social
Full-time lawyer, part-time geek. Devoted to family. Blue Devil.
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Powerful and poignant from Ambassador Fried: “Vance’s argument would overthrow the meaning of the Gettysburg Address, the speech that restored America to its original principles from the Declaration of Independence after its bloodiest war.” nationalinterest.org/feature/jd-v...
JD Vance’s Dangerous View of American Nationhood
The power of the American ideal comes not from Americans being a “particular people” with a common heritage—an ethnically-rooted nation like others—but from its being different.
nationalinterest.org
July 12, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Powerful and poignant from Ambassador Fried: “Vance’s argument would overthrow the meaning of the Gettysburg Address, the speech that restored America to its original principles from the Declaration of Independence after its bloodiest war.” nationalinterest.org/feature/jd-v...
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Please highlight this story.
ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.
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ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.
kfor.com/news/local/w...
'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects
A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …
kfor.com
April 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Please highlight this story.
ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.
kfor.com/news/local/w...
ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.
kfor.com/news/local/w...
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The burning question everyone's asking: Can a command buy bottled water for servicemembers if no other potable water is available? And what does the decision process tell us about accountability and waste?
Answers here:
www.eatingpolicy.com/p/the-water-...
Answers here:
www.eatingpolicy.com/p/the-water-...
The Water is a Mirror
A lot of what you might call government waste is our fault.
www.eatingpolicy.com
April 1, 2025 at 2:57 PM
The burning question everyone's asking: Can a command buy bottled water for servicemembers if no other potable water is available? And what does the decision process tell us about accountability and waste?
Answers here:
www.eatingpolicy.com/p/the-water-...
Answers here:
www.eatingpolicy.com/p/the-water-...
Today's scripture reading:
1 Samuel 8:18
1 Samuel 8:18
April 4, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Today's scripture reading:
1 Samuel 8:18
1 Samuel 8:18
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the stock market is now below where it was when Joe Biden left office
February 21, 2025 at 9:00 PM
the stock market is now below where it was when Joe Biden left office
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This is a leader.
Hat tip to you, Danielle Sassoon. This is the stuff it’s going to take to shake our country out of this funk.
Hat tip to you, Danielle Sassoon. This is the stuff it’s going to take to shake our country out of this funk.
February 14, 2025 at 2:29 AM
This is a leader.
Hat tip to you, Danielle Sassoon. This is the stuff it’s going to take to shake our country out of this funk.
Hat tip to you, Danielle Sassoon. This is the stuff it’s going to take to shake our country out of this funk.
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Tesla, whose chief executive, Elon Musk, has been advising President Trump on how to cut government spending, is likely to receive a lucrative contract to supply armored versions of its Cybertruck pickup to the State Department, according to public documents.
State Dept. Plans $400 Million Purchase of Armored Tesla Cybertrucks
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Tesla, whose chief executive, Elon Musk, has been advising President Trump on how to cut government spending, is likely to receive a lucrative contract to supply armored versions of its Cybertruck pickup to the State Department, according to public documents.
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This says it all
Elon Musk to reporter: “We post our actions to the DOGE website. All of our actions are maximally transparent. I don’t know of a case where an organization has been more transparent than the DOGE organization.”
Here’s the doge.gov website IN ITS ENTIRETY. It’s literally a blank page!
Here’s the doge.gov website IN ITS ENTIRETY. It’s literally a blank page!
February 12, 2025 at 2:47 AM
This says it all
There is some hope here too: that those who voted for these policies in the abstract will push back against them if they are implemented in unjust ways…
Telling one person’s story can be so simple and helpful www.nytimes.com/2024/12/15/u...
His Family Voted to Support Trump’s Deportation Plan. That Includes Him.
His friends and family members in Rome, Ga., voted to support mass deportation. Now he’s scrambling to stay in the country.
www.nytimes.com
December 16, 2024 at 6:04 AM
There is some hope here too: that those who voted for these policies in the abstract will push back against them if they are implemented in unjust ways…
Sometimes history does repeat itself…
The Misinformation Cliff. From "Health in Pictures," the American Public Health Association, 1930
December 15, 2024 at 4:53 PM
Sometimes history does repeat itself…
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The Misinformation Cliff. From "Health in Pictures," the American Public Health Association, 1930
December 14, 2024 at 8:01 PM
The Misinformation Cliff. From "Health in Pictures," the American Public Health Association, 1930
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I always relish listening to @pahlkadot.bsky.social. Her real talk in this podcast about the problems with how govt hires and the tendency of liberals to sue to “help” govt in ways that make it more risk adverse are so spot on. open.spotify.com/episode/4C5Z...
In This House, We’re Angry When Government Fails
The Ezra Klein Show · Episode
open.spotify.com
December 4, 2024 at 10:42 PM
I always relish listening to @pahlkadot.bsky.social. Her real talk in this podcast about the problems with how govt hires and the tendency of liberals to sue to “help” govt in ways that make it more risk adverse are so spot on. open.spotify.com/episode/4C5Z...
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My Life As a Homeless Man in America
An extraordinary firsthand account.
www.esquire.com
November 28, 2024 at 2:36 AM
This is what we need from today's Church. More of this. Not just the giving, but the motivation behind it.
First Slavic Baptist Church in Swannanoa, North Carolina, served daily meals for hundreds of people for a month straight after Hurricane Helene.
“I don’t want people to remember us, I want people to remember what God did.”
www.citizen-times.com/story/news/l...
“I don’t want people to remember us, I want people to remember what God did.”
www.citizen-times.com/story/news/l...
Swannanoa church member brings 'brightest moments' after Helene with hug, food, photobook
Serving breakfast each morning after Helene, a Swannanoa church member kept a photobook of new-found family, to pray over after the last mouth was fed
www.citizen-times.com
November 26, 2024 at 1:23 PM
This is what we need from today's Church. More of this. Not just the giving, but the motivation behind it.
Maybe it's time to do less insulting and more listening...
The country is at odds over how to approach intractable issues such as crime, addiction and homelessness. In Pittsburgh, an unlikely pair of firebrands talk across the political divide.
'People hate that about us.' Pittsburgh politician and radio host forge unlikely bond
The country is at odds over how to approach intractable issues such as crime, addiction and homelessness. In Pittsburgh, an unlikely pair of firebrands talk across the political divide.
www.npr.org
November 24, 2024 at 5:11 PM
Maybe it's time to do less insulting and more listening...
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April 12, 2024.
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Buzz makes the Eric Quill call - April 12, 2024.
YouTube video by 3rd Degree
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November 20, 2024 at 8:30 PM
April 12, 2024.
www.youtube.com/shorts/EEkdQ...
www.youtube.com/shorts/EEkdQ...