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Joe R 🚀🤓⛵

@geekchap.bsky.social

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Vet. Ex-CompSci. Retired nursing home Chaplain & Deacon. Theology & Computer Science seemed to go together. Sailor from Detroit. Married, cat guy, lover of good Scotch 🥃, space geek🚀🤓, water is peace 🏝⛵. Politics: just a little left of Jesus (no MAGA!)

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Joe R 🚀🤓⛵ @geekchap.bsky.social · Apr 6

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Kathy Mortensen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🇺🇦 💙 🌊 💙 🌵 🚲 🏊‍♀️ kayak @kathyswords.bsky.social · 16h

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10 Things to Know About Hamas and Qatar share.google/3eToKXduhVgW...

10 Things to Know About Hamas and Qatar

Qatar has enabled the terrorist organization Hamas politically and financially for decades. However, the tiny Gulf Arab state has successfully positioned itself as the lead negotiator in the Hamas-Isr...

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TommasinaResist⚜️🇨🇦🦋🐈‍⬛🇺🇦 @tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 15h

More scenes from the front, in war-torn Portland! These terrorists must be stopped! 😊🐈‍⬛🦋
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

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Joe R 🚀🤓⛵ @geekchap.bsky.social · 7h

Us as well!!

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 8h

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too funny!!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 10h

The Chump Crime Syndicate of
Sycophants......

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 9h

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 9h

TRUMP & EPSTEIN ARE SEX TRAFFICKERS!!! I’m gonna post this every day so nobody forgets exactly who Pedophile Trump is and why the Epstein files have suddenly disappeared.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 9h

This week, MAGA figures claimed Kristi Noem "stared down" violent antifa protesters in Portland. Turns out they were talking mostly about a guy in a chicken suit.

This episode opens a window into how MAGA propaganda works and MSM failure to handle it. 1/

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MAGA Implodes over Kristi Noem’s “Stare Down” with Man in Chicken Suit

A good New York Times piece on Portland nevertheless demonstrates how the conventions of objective reporting fail to accurately capture the bad faith driving pro-Trump propaganda.

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Robertscribbler @robertscribbler.bsky.social · 8h

To paraphrase Reverend Martin Luther King:

To end violence, we must first address the violence of the oppressor before addressing the violence of the oppressed.

When it comes to Trump‘s illegal invasion of US cities, the identity of the oppressor is clear.

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“A moral and human issue”

Podcast Episode · Deadline: White House · 10/10/2025 · 42m

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Dutchy Patrick @dutchiepatrick.bsky.social · 2d

Live entertainment from The Ice Facility Illinois…..😂😂

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The GREAT HOUDINI @thegreathoudini.bsky.social · 3d

Pretty much...

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Joe R 🚀🤓⛵ @geekchap.bsky.social · 3d

Don't forget mike johnson

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ᑕᕼᗴᖇYᒪ @cheryl2877.bsky.social · 3d

#Pinks

YOU SWORE AN OATH TO PROTECT OUR NATION, NOT HIM !!

Any serviceman or veteran who supports a draft dodger who called the fallen suckers and losers, needs to have their head examined.

#ProudBlue

Veterans who support trump are traitors to their oath

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Joe R 🚀🤓⛵ @geekchap.bsky.social · 3d

If their lips are moving, they're lying.

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Christian Petersen @iwantyoustudio.bsky.social · 7d

VIDEOS OF ICE
BRUTALIZING
PEOPLE ARE
LIKE A GUT
PUNCH TO
AMERICA’S
SOUL.

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Vivian M. Lumbard @vivian-m-lumbard.bsky.social · 9d

"But he also confessed.

Stephen Miller confessed that when he uses such dehumanizing language he is, “using this language to mark people. To put a target on them. … It is a message [he] is sending to all the crazies and lunatics out there” to go target the people he dehumanizes."