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@memento1972.bsky.social

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Father. Humanist. Veteran: retired USAF CSAR/SOF 33 years. Independent(ish). Socially Liberal. Fiscally Responsible. Wanted to go fly fishing. Hates Fascists. Believes in Science. Gen X. From PNW… just trying to get back. Signal: memento1972JB.99

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JB @memento1972.bsky.social · Aug 21

Rise up

Find your place in the resistance and opposition to Republican Fascsim & the cult

Fight Oligarchy

Defeat Authoritarianism

Stand up the White Christian Nationalism

Don’t fall for Zionism

Support the disabled, minorities and immigrants, women, and veterans

Join the general strike

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JB @memento1972.bsky.social · 4h

Anyone else have the “Taliban Attacking Pakistan” on their 2025 bingo card?

I missed that one. Can’t imagine why

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 12h

This shutdown is proof that Trump and his MAGA Republicans don’t care about the American people.

They don’t care about federal workers who aren’t receiving paychecks, they don’t care about your flights, and they don’t care about Americans being able to afford health care.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 13h

The first wave of missed paychecks from the government shutdown is likely to hurt the economy in many communities.

The longer other services remain shut off, the more the shutdown’s effects will spread.

The pain from the government shutdown is about to hit the public

Federal officials are bracing for the worst effects of the ongoing government shutdown to collide with the U.S. economy this week as missed paychecks and the absence billions of dollars of government ...

www.washingtonpost.com

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JB @memento1972.bsky.social · 4h

Has everyone figured out we’re in a pretty bad recession right now?

Left untreated, this will turn into a significant depression. One that could ruin our economy for decades

People’s entire lifetimes will be spent making up for this moment going forward if we don’t end this fascist coup soon

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 8h

ICE in Chicago detained two people (that we know of) for filming them today, a cyclist and a neighborhood rapid responder. This in addition to tear gassing another neighborhood and brandishing weapons at rapid response—both things that have also already been going on for weeks.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 5h

Adelita Grijalva won her election 19 days ago and she still hasn’t been sworn in.

The government has been shut down for 12 days with no end in sight.

They can stall as long as they want but the Epstein files ain’t going away.

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 6h

I sometimes joke that I was trained by the jesuits.
As a punk rock dropout I met the bad-assed Michael Czerny who advised us about political organizing. He faced down death squads in El Salvador.
He married my wife and I.
He is the pope's right hand.
www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/meet-the-j...

Meet the Jesuit Cardinal Behind Pope Leo’s Social Justice Revolution

From drafting Leo's first apostolic exhortation to championing migrants and the planet, Cardinal Michael Czerny is shaping the moral heart of this papacy.

www.thelettersfromleo.com

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 19h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5h

When they tell you they plan on throwing out the constitution, believe them.

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JB @memento1972.bsky.social · 4h

Release the Epstein Files!

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JB @memento1972.bsky.social · 4h

Release the Epstein Files!

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 9h

Part I of this series went viral. Not to have done a Part II would have been iresponsible: 20 More Advanced Laws that turn volatility into leverage....plus POW mental tactics you can deploy today.🔥👇
www.jackhopkinsnow.com

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JB @memento1972.bsky.social · 5h

I think Johnson is reached his half-life as Speaker

JB @memento1972.bsky.social · 5h

Welcome to idiocracy

JB @memento1972.bsky.social · 5h

Bring on the Insurrection Act

I mean, let’s get this shit over already. It’s just about all they got. And it’s not Martial Law.

You wonder why they aren’t acting on it yet? Have you actually read it?

Go read it, maybe you’ll understand why I say just get on with it already

It’s an empty threat

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JB @memento1972.bsky.social · 5h

Perhaps. Thats a good analogy

JB @memento1972.bsky.social · 5h

That’s a crazy full circle

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Mickey Kuhns @mickeykuhns.bsky.social · 11h

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JB @memento1972.bsky.social · 5h

Waking up yet?

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JB @memento1972.bsky.social · 5h

I bet we hear from the NRA pretty soon

I said this 7 months ago, the fascists have to come for the guns

It’s the only way to ensure the new state survives

Because the things that come next are going to generate a response

All those 2A nuts worried about Dems, and it’s their own party doing it 🤣

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Trump just used the shutdown to wipe out the special ed department. www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

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JB @memento1972.bsky.social · 12h

Great, she’s awake

This moron voted for all of it

All maga must go

Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 1d

Marjorie Taylor Greene : "Prices have not come down at all. The job market is extremely difficult. Wages have not gone up. Health insurance premiums are going to go up. Homeowner's insurance goes up every year. Rent is going up. Young people have no hope of buying a home."

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JB @memento1972.bsky.social · 12h

They’re already dead

Move on

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

"In an authoritarian context, all journalism will tend toward propaganda unless it is explicitly formulated as anti-authoritarian. Unless an institution is explicitly designed to counter authoritarianism, it will end up aiding the authoritarians."