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James Markey

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Micah 6:8 - do justice, love kindness, walk humbly. No king but Christ. Finance dude, geriatric bboy, Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes fan. I have friends everywhere. 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🇵🇦🇨🇴🇳🇱

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James Markey @jamesmarkey7.bsky.social · Aug 29

I’ve got a wild idea here…

What if, now stay with me…

What if Christians were to check the wisdom of the scriptures for how to treat immigrants?

James Markey @jamesmarkey7.bsky.social · Aug 29

““ ‘When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the Lord your God.”
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Leviticus‬ ‭19‬:‭33‬-‭34‬ ‭NIV‬‬

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Leviticus 19:34 The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God. | New International Version (NIV)...

The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

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Steve Marmel @marmel.bsky.social · 8h

22 arrests.
All Maga.
Including this armed terrorist with a gun who assaulted a woman.
I think we know who the violent ones are.
#NoKings

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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 7h

“We are normal, well-adjusted, and sane” says member of the party that invented the “diarrhea plane.”

Tomi Lahren tweet

The Libs are very proud of their protest crowd sizes. They say it was 7 million.
President Trump won:
*the electoral college
*the popular vote
*every swing state
You are VASTLY outnumbered, we just don't spend our Saturdays with homemade signs and rage.
We don't need to. We are normal, well-adjusted, and sane.

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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 12h

Trump's approval rating in Texas (-19%) is lower than it is in Virginia (-14%)

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James Markey @jamesmarkey7.bsky.social · 10h

AMEN

Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 11h

Do not put gambling odds on my phone!!!

I do not want anything to do with the sports betting

a woman is standing in front of a house with her hands in the air .

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16h

At this point, if you're interviewing a Republican about the president's latest transgression and you *don't* have the video or post or whatever cued up and ready to show them when they pretend they haven't seen it yet -- I'm just going to assume you're in on the con yourself.

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James Markey @jamesmarkey7.bsky.social · 12h

a minion is holding a banana in front of a keyboard

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 17h

Republicans say they like fascism and Democrats say that they are against it. The truth is more complicated.

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James Markey @jamesmarkey7.bsky.social · 16h

Found a decent starting off point to try for rebuilding society:

Cheri Jacobus @cherijacobus.bsky.social · 16h

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James Markey @jamesmarkey7.bsky.social · 16h

a man in a tuxedo and bow tie is sitting at a desk looking at something .

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James Markey @jamesmarkey7.bsky.social · 16h

We long for a return to the days of old…

When our leaders had a tinge of shame and self awareness.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 17h

The Peace President threatens to invade a country he whose name he can’t spell.

James Markey @jamesmarkey7.bsky.social · 16h

a baseball player wearing a dodgers jersey is running towards the dugout

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Mixed Martial Mathers @seantg.bsky.social · 1d

Barack Obama the failed president held this office for 8 years and not once did he drop as much diarrhea as we did on one day. I came in and they said it couldn't be done. not since Woodrow Wilson have they even thought of it.

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 1d

Per wiki, Raleigh County WV - which Beckley is the county seat of - went 76% for Trump in 2024 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raleigh...

Election results chart showing what I mentioned in the tweet

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James Markey @jamesmarkey7.bsky.social · 17h

This right here.

William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 1d

We hear not

“We told y’all this would happen. ~ Signed BLK PEOPLE

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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 1d

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.

White words on a black background read:

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Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino.

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Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers.

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Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 1d

Can a weak empty vessel bear such a huge full hogshead?

A sign says “Empty is the Head that Wears the Crown”

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 17h

Not a small thing that Trump is destroying our alliances in the Western Hemisphere because of a wildly illegal and reckless “launch missiles at small boats” strategy that will do nothing meaningful to stop drugs from coming into our country because the drugs come by land.

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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 17h

Note that the image is the 12 month moving average - the real time decline is faster.

Conor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social · 17h

Nominal wage growth for the bottom quartile is below late 2010’s levels while core inflation and interest rates are higher — it’s probably the worst time for that cohort since at least the early 2010’s:

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TheValuesVoter @thevaluesvoter.bsky.social · 17h

Amazing.

Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 1d

Los Angeles came out in droves. #NoKings

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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 17h

October 2024: “you’re not supposed to call republicans weird!”

October 2025: “late last night the president posted an AI-generated video of him in an F35 dropping diarrhea on peaceful protestors”

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James Markey @jamesmarkey7.bsky.social · 1d

What an amazing sea of people.

Slightly past anyone’s budget for paid protestors. 😅

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago No Kings

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Halloweean Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 1d

It’s so funny that for the past week republicans have all been like “the only people out there are gonna be Hamas.” Everyone in this crowd is signed up for Kohl’s rewards points.