ptjoel.bsky.social
@ptjoel.bsky.social
I am significantly left of the Dems of the 90's much less today's bunch. Haven't yet given up on voting for the lesser evil. Keeping my head in the sand for my sanity but can't resist watching the train wreck in the US. Moved to Pt in 2023.
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As of today, there are more kids infected with measles than there are trans athletes playing in college sports in the U.S.
March 9, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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February 9, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Fmr. Head of Saudi Arabian Intelligence Reacts to Trump's Proposal for Gaza | Amanpour and Company

Former Saudi Intelligence Chief and former Ambassador to the United States Turki Al Faisal joins Christiane from the capital, Riyadh. #Gaza #SaudiArabia #Trump #Netanyahu
February 6, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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The architect of the historic Trumpian lawlessness we and the world are experiencing is Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts.
SCOTUS gave Trump immunity.

Trump has given everyone who works for him immunity though his pardon power.

They are now all uber men, not bound by laws, norms, separation of powers. Little people things.

Unsurprisingly, they go on a world-altering crime spree.

bsky.app/profile/simo...
February 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Interesting op-ed on maga, good-evil divisiveness. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/26/o...
Opinion | Us and Them Is All the Rage
A German political theorist helps explain MAGA morality.
www.nytimes.com
January 26, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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January 21, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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January 21, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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If you agree that these gentlemen are HEROES then repost this and let’s be friends 🇺🇸
December 6, 2024 at 12:25 AM
What kind of numbers are we talking about here? Millions of people's citizenship revoked with a stroke of the pen!
(1) when that person’s mother was unlawfully present in the United States and the person’s father was not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of said person’s birth, or

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Protecting The Meaning And Value Of American Citizenship – The White House
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.
www.whitehouse.gov
January 21, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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My parting gift to all of you.

A reminder that times like these,
we need a Man in Black... and sometimes we have to be that man or woman in black, in these bleak times.

#SheShed #wtpBLUE #Voices4Victory

youtu.be/9bifZBxG0Gg?...
Man in Black
YouTube video by Johnny Cash - Topic
youtu.be
January 20, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Biden pardoning Marcus Garvey is a perfect excuse to break out this excellent Burning Spear album, which I still listen to pretty regularly.
Burning Spear - Marcus Garvey - 01 - Marcus Garvey
YouTube video by ReggaeRootsChannel
youtu.be
January 19, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Lovely poem by Aurora Levins Morales.
January 17, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Someone explain to me how this is ok. I'll wait.
READ THIS.

THEN READ IT AGAIN.
January 14, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Exactly.
When you've got a chaos party and a non-chaos party, one problem that creates for the non-chaos party is that they get tagged as not being able to produce change by people wanting drastic change just because they're the responsible, establishment party.
January 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
@arobincass.bsky.social
Hello from Portugal!
January 8, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Interesting thread proposing the theory that Musk is self-radicalizing. Chad describes self-radicalization in the thread.
Elon Musk is a good example of how terrible people become increasingly radicalized into the far right simply because the far right is a community that accepts cruel, terrible people.

It's tempting to say Elon is going "mask off", but I'd wager Elon didn't know who Tommy Robinson was 5 years ago. 1/
January 2, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Unreal!
A doctor posted this on X:

"United Healthcare just denied a claim on one of my patients in the ICU with:

-- a brain hemorrhage
-- in a coma
-- on a ventilator
-- in heart failure

...because I haven't proven to them that caring for her in the hospital was "medically necessary".

Tear it all down."
United Healthcare denies claim of woman in coma
The patient's doctor criticized the insurance company, saying that the treatment was necessary to prevent her from dying.
www.newsweek.com
January 2, 2025 at 3:48 PM
This is the second story of this nature I've heard from Colorado. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Man accused of attacking TV reporter and yelling ‘This is Trump’s America now’
Patrick Egan then tackled the reporter then put him in a headlock and “began to strangle him” according to an affidavit
www.independent.co.uk
December 30, 2024 at 12:47 PM
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This is the best take on the MAGA civil war, 10 out of 10, better than Cats, would listen again and again.
CIVIL WAR: Musk & MAGA Go At Each Other On Christmas Over Immigrants & Saved By The Bell
YouTube video by The Bulwark
www.youtube.com
December 28, 2024 at 5:46 PM
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"Sir, you’re absolutely right about all this, but where the hell have you been? We told y’all this would happen. Repeatedly. Incessantly. We could not have been more clear that this was inevitable."

charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/faces-leop...
Faces, Leopards, Etc.
Where have y'all been?
charlotteclymer.substack.com
December 28, 2024 at 11:56 PM
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Mr. “FUCK YOURSELF in the face” criminal apartheid POS Musk did not have an H1B —

On page 644 of this document, Elon Musk wrote and ADMITS to being an illegal immigrant :

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December 28, 2024 at 1:52 PM
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🌟🌟SHOP COSTCO🌟🌟
December 27, 2024 at 6:28 PM
Thich Nhat Hanh!
I have a friend who recently lamented, “I hate change!” I hope she learns to embrace it instead.
December 28, 2024 at 11:21 AM