BostonJonny99
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Courtesy of a fellow retired newsman…
July 29, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Courtesy of a fellow retired newsman…
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In an effort to reach across political divides, a group of veterans has been holding regular gatherings to talk about it all over a beer. They call the events "Pints and Patriotism."
For these veterans, the secret to crossing political divides starts with a beer
In an effort to reach across political divides, a group of veterans has been holding regular gatherings to talk about it — all over a beer. They call the events "Pints and Patriotism."
www.npr.org
April 18, 2025 at 6:55 PM
In an effort to reach across political divides, a group of veterans has been holding regular gatherings to talk about it all over a beer. They call the events "Pints and Patriotism."
Reposted by BostonJonny99
Americans are entitled to and should demand better than this from the President of the United States.
April 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Americans are entitled to and should demand better than this from the President of the United States.
Reposted by BostonJonny99
I don't really care what the "political consequences" are of fighting for the proposition that *everyone* is entitled to due process before they are removed from the United States and sent to a Salvadoran prison.
It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.
It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.
April 18, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I don't really care what the "political consequences" are of fighting for the proposition that *everyone* is entitled to due process before they are removed from the United States and sent to a Salvadoran prison.
It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.
It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.
“There are people who tell jokes. There are people who collect jokes and tell jokes. And there are people who collect people who tell jokes.”
When our leaders are jokes - usually bad ones - we turn to humor as tacit form of disobedience. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
When our leaders are jokes - usually bad ones - we turn to humor as tacit form of disobedience. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Laughing in the Face of ‘Overwhelming Malice’
If desperate times call for desperate measures, then dark times call for dark jokes.
www.theatlantic.com
April 18, 2025 at 10:00 PM
“There are people who tell jokes. There are people who collect jokes and tell jokes. And there are people who collect people who tell jokes.”
When our leaders are jokes - usually bad ones - we turn to humor as tacit form of disobedience. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
When our leaders are jokes - usually bad ones - we turn to humor as tacit form of disobedience. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
This is what pro-Palestinian protesters support – the murder of infants, toddlers & women, while those butchers use their own infants, toddlers & women to protect themselves & their tools of war. And these barbarians use these deaths for publicity.
HaShem yikom damam - May God avenge their blood!!!
HaShem yikom damam - May God avenge their blood!!!
With Coffins and Taunts, Hamas Hands Dead Hostages to Israel
Shiri Bibas, an Israeli woman, and her two young children, Ariel and Kfir, were said to be among those returned. A senior U.N. official called the Hamas display “abhorrent and cruel.”
www.nytimes.com
February 20, 2025 at 5:34 PM
This is what pro-Palestinian protesters support – the murder of infants, toddlers & women, while those butchers use their own infants, toddlers & women to protect themselves & their tools of war. And these barbarians use these deaths for publicity.
HaShem yikom damam - May God avenge their blood!!!
HaShem yikom damam - May God avenge their blood!!!
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February 18, 2025 at 1:07 AM
January 30, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Gotta start the day off right!!!
January 30, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Gotta start the day off right!!!