Alan Ll in the IE
@alan-ll.bsky.social
Really, I'm just here to listen and learn.
James 1:19-20 NLT: “Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters: You must all be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry. Human anger does not produce the righteousness God desires.”
James 1:19-20 NLT: “Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters: You must all be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry. Human anger does not produce the righteousness God desires.”
"The terrible divisiveness of police violence is why responsible leaders respond to every incident with extreme care. You lament the lives lost, you promise a fair and thorough investigation, and you call for calm."
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Opinion | Trump and Vance Are Fanning the Flames. Again.
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January 11, 2026 at 4:01 PM
"The terrible divisiveness of police violence is why responsible leaders respond to every incident with extreme care. You lament the lives lost, you promise a fair and thorough investigation, and you call for calm."
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"The proposed California Billionaire Tax Act has plutocrats saying they are considering deserting the Golden State for fear they’ll have to pay a one-time, 5% tax, on top of the other taxes they barely pay in comparison to the rest of us."
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Commentary: California made them rich. Now billionaires flee when the state asks for a little something back.
A small tax spooks billionaires out of California
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January 11, 2026 at 5:52 AM
"The proposed California Billionaire Tax Act has plutocrats saying they are considering deserting the Golden State for fear they’ll have to pay a one-time, 5% tax, on top of the other taxes they barely pay in comparison to the rest of us."
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Can't say this sentiment was unexpected ...
"Trump brushed off concerns about the legality of the U.S. operation in Venezuela."
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"Trump brushed off concerns about the legality of the U.S. operation in Venezuela."
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Update from Tyler Pager
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January 3, 2026 at 3:23 PM
Can't say this sentiment was unexpected ...
"Trump brushed off concerns about the legality of the U.S. operation in Venezuela."
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"Trump brushed off concerns about the legality of the U.S. operation in Venezuela."
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This is probably more about oil (and money), not drugs.
"In recent months, top aides to Mr. Trump intensified a push to remove Mr. Maduro from power, as the Trump administration tried to recast the domestic war on drugs as an international terrorist threat."
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"In recent months, top aides to Mr. Trump intensified a push to remove Mr. Maduro from power, as the Trump administration tried to recast the domestic war on drugs as an international terrorist threat."
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How Tensions Escalated Between the U.S. and Venezuela
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January 3, 2026 at 3:12 PM
This is probably more about oil (and money), not drugs.
"In recent months, top aides to Mr. Trump intensified a push to remove Mr. Maduro from power, as the Trump administration tried to recast the domestic war on drugs as an international terrorist threat."
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"In recent months, top aides to Mr. Trump intensified a push to remove Mr. Maduro from power, as the Trump administration tried to recast the domestic war on drugs as an international terrorist threat."
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If you’re not seeing this now, then … 🤷🏽♂️
“Trump may not be the literal anti-Christ, but Trump sure is anti-Christian. He stands for and embodies everything that Jesus decried.”
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“Trump may not be the literal anti-Christ, but Trump sure is anti-Christian. He stands for and embodies everything that Jesus decried.”
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Commentary: With his un-Christian Rob Reiner insults, Trump proves he's the real 'Meathead'
Let the annals of this country show it was the murder of a Jewish couple on the first night of Hanukkah that showed how profoundly un-Christian Donald J.
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December 17, 2025 at 2:58 PM
If you’re not seeing this now, then … 🤷🏽♂️
“Trump may not be the literal anti-Christ, but Trump sure is anti-Christian. He stands for and embodies everything that Jesus decried.”
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“Trump may not be the literal anti-Christ, but Trump sure is anti-Christian. He stands for and embodies everything that Jesus decried.”
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“When typefaces become part of the political discourse, one should wonder if there are things we are distracted from that need more attention than picking a typeface.”
Gerhard Bachfischer, typologist of 40 years in Australia
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Gerhard Bachfischer, typologist of 40 years in Australia
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Calibri’s Run-In With Rubio Wasn’t Its First Controversy
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December 11, 2025 at 8:16 PM
“When typefaces become part of the political discourse, one should wonder if there are things we are distracted from that need more attention than picking a typeface.”
Gerhard Bachfischer, typologist of 40 years in Australia
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Gerhard Bachfischer, typologist of 40 years in Australia
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Remembering Robert Adams, Juan Espinoza, Shannon Johnson, Yvette Velasco, Michael Wetzel, Isaac Amanios, Bennett Bet-Badal, Harry Bowman, Sierra Clayborn, Aurora Godoy, Larry Daniel Kaufman, Damien Meins, Tin Nguyen and Nicholas Thalasinos.
Dec. 2, 2015
#SBStrong
Dec. 2, 2015
#SBStrong
December 3, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Remembering Robert Adams, Juan Espinoza, Shannon Johnson, Yvette Velasco, Michael Wetzel, Isaac Amanios, Bennett Bet-Badal, Harry Bowman, Sierra Clayborn, Aurora Godoy, Larry Daniel Kaufman, Damien Meins, Tin Nguyen and Nicholas Thalasinos.
Dec. 2, 2015
#SBStrong
Dec. 2, 2015
#SBStrong
What calling the bad good looks like. We’re in the upsidedown world.
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In Announcing Pardon of Drug Trafficker While Threatening Venezuela, Trump Displays Contradictions
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November 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
What calling the bad good looks like. We’re in the upsidedown world.
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The current occupant of the White House and his administration is grossly incompetent and unfit for office. #frankness www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/b...
Trump Calling Reporter ‘Piggy’ Was ‘Frankness,’ White House Says
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November 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
The current occupant of the White House and his administration is grossly incompetent and unfit for office. #frankness www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/b...
“This is not at all normal,” said Michelle Gavin, a former American diplomat in Africa. “It’s petulant and ultimately self-defeating. What we’re doing is losing an opportunity to influence the international discourse.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/w...
Trump Officials Are Policing Words and Foiling Deals at G20 Summit
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November 15, 2025 at 6:40 PM
“This is not at all normal,” said Michelle Gavin, a former American diplomat in Africa. “It’s petulant and ultimately self-defeating. What we’re doing is losing an opportunity to influence the international discourse.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/w...
😡 “With little public scrutiny, the Trump administration is handing out hundreds of billions of dollars in tax cuts to some of the country’s most profitable companies and wealthiest investors.” 🤬 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy
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November 8, 2025 at 5:44 PM
😡 “With little public scrutiny, the Trump administration is handing out hundreds of billions of dollars in tax cuts to some of the country’s most profitable companies and wealthiest investors.” 🤬 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
“My deepest, darkest fear,” said Georgetown University history professor Chandra Manning, who helped organize an effort dubbed Citizen Historians for the Smithsonian, is that the administration plans to “rewrite and falsify who counts as an American.”
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A small army is racing against time and Trump to preserve U.S. history
Like 'monks' in the Middle Ages, volunteers are working to preserve cultural treasures they fear are under threat from President Trump’s war against 'woke.'
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November 4, 2025 at 8:14 PM
“My deepest, darkest fear,” said Georgetown University history professor Chandra Manning, who helped organize an effort dubbed Citizen Historians for the Smithsonian, is that the administration plans to “rewrite and falsify who counts as an American.”
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Preach it, Sister!
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When they tell me to go back to Korea and dumplings.
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October 25, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Preach it, Sister!
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“What’s a wannabe strongman to do to prop up his regime?
“Attack Latin America, of course!”
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“Attack Latin America, of course!”
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Commentary: As Trump blows up supposed narco boats, he uses an old, corrupt playbook on Latin America
As Trump blows up supposed narco boats, he uses an old, corrupt playbook on Latin America
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October 25, 2025 at 4:50 PM
“What’s a wannabe strongman to do to prop up his regime?
“Attack Latin America, of course!”
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“Attack Latin America, of course!”
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Bottomline, like so many things, this administration lies like a rug ... 😡
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Trump Is Wasting No Time in Tearing Down the East Wing
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October 23, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Bottomline, like so many things, this administration lies like a rug ... 😡
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"When you combine all the elements — yet another Republican racism scandal, death wishes from a Democratic politician, Vance’s decision to excuse the inexcusable — you can see the ways in which 10 years of Trumpism has twisted the American soul."
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Opinion | Trump Is Dragging Us Down to His Level
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October 19, 2025 at 5:04 PM
"When you combine all the elements — yet another Republican racism scandal, death wishes from a Democratic politician, Vance’s decision to excuse the inexcusable — you can see the ways in which 10 years of Trumpism has twisted the American soul."
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“The government has admitted that 70 percent of the funds allocated for flood control measures have been embezzled since 2023, including a staggering eight billion euros in 2025 alone.”
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Flood funds embezzlement leaves Filipinos at mercy of climate crisis • FRANCE 24 English
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October 16, 2025 at 2:18 PM
“The government has admitted that 70 percent of the funds allocated for flood control measures have been embezzled since 2023, including a staggering eight billion euros in 2025 alone.”
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Oh, this IS bad! The inflatables are taking over Portland! 😂😂😂
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Among Portland Protests, It’s Frogs and Sharks and Bears, Oh My.
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October 11, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Oh, this IS bad! The inflatables are taking over Portland! 😂😂😂
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“… I will say that this effort to use the military against American citizens — an effort backed, it seems, by almost the entire Republican Party — makes a mockery of the longstanding conservative claim that theirs is a movement of small government & states’ rights.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...
Opinion | The Second Trump Administration Is a Museum of America’s Worst Moments
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October 8, 2025 at 12:59 PM
“… I will say that this effort to use the military against American citizens — an effort backed, it seems, by almost the entire Republican Party — makes a mockery of the longstanding conservative claim that theirs is a movement of small government & states’ rights.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...
"This is extortion, plain and simple."
Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the law school at the University of California, Berkeley
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Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the law school at the University of California, Berkeley
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Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion
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October 2, 2025 at 11:33 PM
"This is extortion, plain and simple."
Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the law school at the University of California, Berkeley
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Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the law school at the University of California, Berkeley
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Stepping away from the madness and real stupid stuff, and taking time to enjoy this … #LetsGoPadres! #FriarFaithful ⚾️⚾️⚾️
September 23, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Stepping away from the madness and real stupid stuff, and taking time to enjoy this … #LetsGoPadres! #FriarFaithful ⚾️⚾️⚾️
Free speech for them … for the rest of us, not so much … 🤐
September 19, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Free speech for them … for the rest of us, not so much … 🤐
“We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job,” she wrote. “Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent.”
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September 9, 2025 at 8:05 PM
“We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job,” she wrote. “Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent.”
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I work with words. Corporate jargon is annoying. But it’s crept into my vocabulary. Ugh! 😑😑😑 #PlainSpeakPlease youtube.com/watch?v=HSbY...
Where Did Cringey Corporate Jargon Come From? | Otherwords
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September 8, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I work with words. Corporate jargon is annoying. But it’s crept into my vocabulary. Ugh! 😑😑😑 #PlainSpeakPlease youtube.com/watch?v=HSbY...
My silver lining to the current clouds: Padres 5, Dodgers 1. #LetsGoPadres! #BeatLA! #FirstPlaceFriars! ⚾️⚾️⚾️
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Condensed Game: LAD@SD - 8/23/25 | 08/23/2025
Condensed Game: Tyler Glasnow and the Dodgers take on Nestor Cortes and the Padres on August 23, 2025
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August 24, 2025 at 5:10 AM
My silver lining to the current clouds: Padres 5, Dodgers 1. #LetsGoPadres! #BeatLA! #FirstPlaceFriars! ⚾️⚾️⚾️
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