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Trying to figure it all out—some of it anyway. Retired Episcopal Priest. Sarcasm is my birthright. Particle physics answers all. In the south, a pineapple means hospitality and “bless your heart” cuts deep. I write — https://dazzling-darkness.ghost.io/

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padremiguel aka Mike 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🍍❤️ @padremiguel.bsky.social · Mar 9

The next installment of A(nother) Dazzling Darkness has been posted.

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By Any Other Name

This is the story behind the name of this blog – A(nother) Dazzling Darkness. This might should have been the first posting but I had to get my personal discovery of Orville Peck out before I could wr...

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padremiguel aka Mike 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🍍❤️ @padremiguel.bsky.social · 2h

If it walks like a duck . . .

The soul within is of much more consequence than the robe without.

Much is covertly rotten within our judiciary but the sun is starting to shine.

It’s up to us to bring the bleach.

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padremiguel aka Mike 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🍍❤️ @padremiguel.bsky.social · 2h

RFK jr is the new apotheosis of
Duning-Kruger.

Stunning. Absolutely stunning.

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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 3h

WILL ONE PERSON ON BLUESKY CRITICIZE RFK JR PLEASE!

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 4h

Everyone in my feed is shitting on Nuzzi. Meanwhile, the other person in the saga is now destroying the medical community and endangering public health.

But let’s slut shame Nuzzi.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 15h

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

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Aman Batheja @amanbatheja.bsky.social · 3d

This is the line to get into the Smithsonian’s Museum of Natural History, which will close in a few hours and not reopen until the shutdown ends

Long line of people waiting to get through security at the museum

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Aman Batheja @amanbatheja.bsky.social · 2d

Now this is a lede: “Republicans have tried more than 70 times over the past 15 years to weaken or kill Obamacare. But their campaign keeps backfiring.”

Why Republicans’ attempts to kill Obamacare keep backfiring

The White House and some Republicans are growing nervous that Democrats’ demand to boost Obamacare as part of a government funding bill has salience with voters.

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padremiguel aka Mike 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🍍❤️ @padremiguel.bsky.social · 2h

A very tiny echo chamber.

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Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 1d

Secretary Pete Hegseth's press policy will receive just one signatory according to my current tally—from OAN. For context, there are more than 100 journalists who are members of the Pentagon Press Association. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

News outlets broadly reject Pentagon rules before deadline for signing

The Washington Post and other major news outlets have refused to sign the Defense Department’s restrictive new media policy, citing First Amendment concerns.

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padremiguel aka Mike 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🍍❤️ @padremiguel.bsky.social · 2h

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padremiguel aka Mike 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🍍❤️ @padremiguel.bsky.social · 2h

All going into the Project 2025 slush fund.

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Aman Batheja @amanbatheja.bsky.social · 6h

Goldman Sachs predicts US consumers will likely shoulder 55% of tariff costs by the end of the year, with American companies taking on 22%

Goldman Sees US Consumers Paying More Than Half of Trump Tariffs

Americans are set to pay more than half of President Donald Trump’s tariff costs as companies raise prices, according to economists of Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

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padremiguel aka Mike 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🍍❤️ @padremiguel.bsky.social · 2h

Felat!o by any other name . .

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Aman Batheja @amanbatheja.bsky.social · 3h

Axios: "The most expensive political ad campaign of the year is being run by the Department of Homeland Security."

DHS has spent "at least $51 million this year on ads thanking President Trump for securing the border, according to AdImpact."

U.S. government pays for 2025's most expensive political ad campaign

The next closest ad campaign is the $41 million effort to support California's redistricting measure.

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padremiguel aka Mike 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🍍❤️ @padremiguel.bsky.social · 3h

My bad.

padremiguel aka Mike 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🍍❤️ @padremiguel.bsky.social · 3h

One can only do these things after deciding “others” are less than human.

Hannah Arendt unaffected with quote about love.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 3h

“I’ve never done a bond or a habeas for a kid this young, ever." – U.S. District Judge Richard G. Stearns

"The boy remains trapped in a prison 500 miles away from home with an unhealed broken foot, sleeping on a concrete floor with an aluminum blanket, and crying to his mother on the phone."

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 3h

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

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padremiguel aka Mike 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🍍❤️ @padremiguel.bsky.social · 3h

There’s blue hair . . . and then there are blue haired brain worms like the ones infecting this panicked stooge.

padremiguel aka Mike 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🍍❤️ @padremiguel.bsky.social · 3h

Teaching moments elude Bari Weiss.

Pugnaciously and arrogantly ignorant.

With apologies to David Levy.

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padremiguel aka Mike 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🍍❤️ @padremiguel.bsky.social · 3h

In my imagination, I see little pink houses consumed in flame.

Secretary Bessent’s pink palace in South Carolina.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3h

"You will only get paid if you kiss His Majesty's ring" is an interesting hill to die on, but I say go for it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 23h

From Michelle Schindell on Facebook:

Someone recently wrote me and said she didn’t like Biden at all, called him “a joke of a president,” but added that it didn’t consume her mind 24/7, nor did she feel the need to “teach” the world how wrong he was.
Fair statement.
My response is:
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Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 23h

Brazil, South Korea. People who looked up from their dinner tables and said, “Wait a minute, this isn’t normal.”
So maybe I sound preachy or teachy. Maybe I sound tired. Maybe I bore you. That’s okay. I am tired and I even bore myself. But I’m also paying attention.
Elie Wiesel said silence...
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Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 23h

my basement. This isn’t hysteria; it’s history. Romans, fascists, authoritarians? They’ve all run the same grim playbook. Same script, different century.
The good news is, history also says it doesn’t have to end that way. People have stopped this slide before. Ordinary citizens in Poland...
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Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 23h

...it’s just details, but basically, it's gaslighting the nation until everyone’s too tired to argue. Exhausted, divided people are easy to rule.
And here’s where I admit I’m the person who can’t stop connecting the dots out loud.
I know it’s “teachy.” But this isn’t some conspiracy board in...
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Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 23h

2nd, break unions, gut healthcare, make school unaffordable then hand out scapegoats like candy, tell folks it’s the other party’s fault.
3rd, lie so constantly that truth itself becomes exhausting.
4th, befriend dictators while calling allies freeloaders.
5th, insist the government's broken...
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Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 23h

for wrecking a democracy, you can either shrug and call it politics or you can say it out loud so people start recognizing the pattern. I choose door number 2 because once you see it, you can’t unsee it.
The steps are weirdly familiar:
1st, divide us. Turn “We the People” into “Us versus Them.”
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