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John Jigen Griffin-Atil
@johngriffinatil.bsky.social
Husband, Dad of a young adult & 3 pugs, founding Executive Director of IB Neighborhood Center (www.IBNeighbor.org), Pastor, Gay Man, Long-Term AIDS Survivor, Lay Zen Buddhist, Lay Cistercian & Writer-in-training.
James Dobson
DEAD
Thank God!
August 21, 2025 at 7:02 PM
REST IN PEACE, MY DEAR FRIEND. Last week my high school buddy/friend, Clayton Seaman died suddenly/unexpectedly. My best friend. Best guy around. Rest in peace. Picture from 1994 & Rick & Morty version of it. Football player/Homecoming King who befriended the gay kid in school. What a great guy!
August 8, 2025 at 12:04 AM
I'M ANGRY!
CBS didn't cancel @stephencolbert.bsky.social for financial. BS! Trump IS CBS squeezing CBS for merger they need. Stephen was sacrificed to the Orange God. I pray Stephen lands a better gig on a streaming platform, takes his audience, ratings. wins tons of awards! & screw CBS
July 18, 2025 at 2:44 PM
IF WE DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH TO THINK/WORRY ABOUT:
add this to the
"if we didn't think things had gone crazy enough." file.

Good Lord, this just cannot happen.
Paving over the rose garden was one thing.
It can be repaired
but not this!
Good God, no!
June 29, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Former President Bill Clinton speaking on Iran
@billclinton.bsky.social
June 22, 2025 at 1:23 AM
SEEMS ODD, DOESN'T IT?
#LosAngelesProtest
June 10, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I stand with Terry Moran.
ABC suspended him for his post.
He speaks the truth.
ABC pressured by Trump
have bowed
to the pressure punishing Moran
who spoken truth.
He is right!
Shame on ABC!
Terry Moran
is a hero in my book.
@bestese34.bsky.social
June 8, 2025 at 10:48 PM
I AM ANGRY!
We shall not be erased from history!
Shame on Pete Hegseth!
We must not allow him to get away with this!
June 4, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Today is my birthday.

In 1998, I was diagnosed with AIDS.
I was covered with purple lesions, Kaposi's Sarcoma
and given maybe 2 years to live.
Well, I've stretched two years thanks to new meds.

Today I'm 61.
May 30, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Attacking Universities like #Harvard and other institutions devoted to critical research is an assault on humanity especially those of us depending upon the outcome of those efforts to literally save our lives. I am thankful for every scientist, but we can't stop now.
May 28, 2025 at 11:20 PM
AS FOR ME
I like Ike
May 27, 2025 at 10:00 PM
May 27, 2025 at 6:45 AM
@paulapoundstone.bsky.social is simply the best.
responded to her post on X
I live at border, gay, long-term AIDS survivor, married w/family, & Trump flags around me, my work with at-risk marginalized community. I want to run but to where? Thank you, Paula reminding, we need each other. Hold tight.
May 27, 2025 at 1:58 AM
then this...
May 27, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Our Dear Leader sure knows how to craft quite the Memorial Day message to his faithful cult followers ... but apparently is quite lousy to normal Americans who actually observe Memorial Day for its purpose: remembering, honoring those who served and died for this Country. What a jackass he is.
May 26, 2025 at 1:57 PM
#Netflix, I tried watching what I'm told is a brilliant show called #Nonnas but one big problem. #VinceVaugh. I tried watching it but I kept remembering this picture of him in the Oval Office. Sorry. We stopped watching. Too upsetting. Anything with that man in it, Vaugh, it's a hard pass for me.
May 26, 2025 at 1:55 PM
CALL YOUR SENATORS!
WRITE YOUR SENATORS!
WE MUST MAKE NOISE NOW!
May 26, 2025 at 1:33 AM
@jaketapper.bsky.social --- when the Trump chaos ends, the dust settles, the heroes of our democracy are praised and the villains pushed back into the darkness --- you will be in the gutter of our society begging for a scrap of attention, but no one will give you a second thought. You are scum.
May 24, 2025 at 2:04 AM
@jaketapper.bsky.social
I don't have the words
to describe
how I feel about you.
you are a shameful creature.
May 22, 2025 at 12:46 AM
this.
May 21, 2025 at 9:59 PM
shout his name
this Easter Sunday, I/m lighting a candle for him
speaking his name aloud. we will pray
and we will continue to scream at the injustices
this foolish dictator Trump is heaping upon this once
beautiful nation. it is still beautiful, don't mistake me,
but he is shitting all over us.
April 19, 2025 at 6:01 AM
there's always this.
April 18, 2025 at 11:28 PM
this is real.
first, let that sink in.
second, from the White House
and all the same folks who have control of the nukes
who act like bratty third graders.
but any child would be better than this.
but not Trump and his crew
April 18, 2025 at 11:00 PM
never knew
Vince Vaugh
was in MAGA.
Sad. Disappointed.
always good to know
who is who, what is what
this kind of world now, my friends.
April 18, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Andry Hernandez Romero
keep saying his name
say it loud!
say it louder still!!!!
injustice has been committed
for us here in Imperial Beach, he was kept right next door.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QmW...
April 17, 2025 at 1:53 AM