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Marty Duren @martyduren.bsky.social · 3d

Do what?

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Marty Duren @martyduren.bsky.social · Sep 8

It’s how America has worked for years, tbh. It’s why Guantanamo was full.

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Marty Duren @martyduren.bsky.social · Aug 29

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Marty Duren @martyduren.bsky.social · Aug 19

And Curtis Yarvin for Vance, most likely for Orr.

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Eng Alaa @mamatwins.bsky.social · Aug 5

When people ask “why is there famine in Gaza now?”
Here’s why:
•Gaza’s farmland has been bulldozed.
•Fishermen are shot at sea.
•Bakeries are bombed.
•Aid trucks are blocked.
•Water systems destroyed.
•Relief workers assassinated.
This isn’t new, it’s escalated.

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Marty Duren @martyduren.bsky.social · Aug 15

My 89-year-old dad with dementia just used jingoistic correctly (“Putin is too jingoistic”) so now Imma drink 4 glasses of chocolate milk a day like Dad does.

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Marty Duren @martyduren.bsky.social · Aug 11

I’m afraid this is far too late. They all should have done it decades ago.

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Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social · Aug 4

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Marty Duren @martyduren.bsky.social · Jul 30

“Any time you see a person using Acts 17:26 in support of, usually, a policy of limited immigration or no immigration, they are cherry picking. So, what is Acts 17:26 saying?”

blog.martyduren.com/2025/07/29/t...

blog.martyduren.com

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Marty Duren @martyduren.bsky.social · Jul 29

My latest concerns the oft misuse of Acts 17:26 by Christian Nationalists.

blog.martyduren.com/2025/07/29/t...

The Acts 17:26 Fallacy - Kingdom in the Midst

Acts 17:26 is not about immigration. It's about the power of God to salvation to all who believe.

blog.martyduren.com

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Marty Duren @martyduren.bsky.social · Jul 29

The Acts 17:26 Fallacy

Acts 17:26 is not about immigration. It's about the power of God to salvation to all who believe.

The Acts 17:26 Fallacy

Acts 17:26 is not about immigration. It's about the power of God to salvation to all who believe.

blog.martyduren.com

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Marty Duren @martyduren.bsky.social · Jul 13

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Marty Duren @martyduren.bsky.social · Jul 6

I’ve concluded the DEMs couldn’t put together effective messaging if their literal lives depended on it. The lives of others sure hasn’t done it.

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Atticus Finch (of Georgia) @atticus59914029.bsky.social · Jun 30

That 45 billion for detention facilities jumps out.

Behind Hitler’s mass rallies were politicians, accountants, bureaucrats, financiers, insurers, corporations, contractors who turned his dreams into brick & mortar reality. We are staring at a similar process with this bill.

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Jun 30

This is what an authoritarian police state looks like.

And this is not something that can just be put back in a box in four years time.

America will never be the same after this.

A table of budget provisions produced by WOLA. It reads:

Border and Immigration-Related Spending in the Reconciliation Bill (Items over $100 million)
Item
House Bill (H.R. 1)

Border barriers
$46.5 billion

Adult and family detention
$45 billion
$45 billion
ICE hiring and operations

$29.85 billion
Transportation and removal of deportees
$14.4 billion
See "ICE hiring and operations"
Reimbursing states' border security spending
$12 billion
$10 billion
ICE personnel hiring
$8 billion
See "ICE hiring and operations"
CBP technology

$6.17 billion
DHS "appropriations for border support"

$6 billion
CBP facilities construction
$5 billion
$5 billion
Military role in border security
$5 billion
$3.3 billion
CBP personnel hiring
$4.1 billion
$4.1 billion
DOJ "Bridging Immigration-related Deficits" Fund

$3.5 billion
DOJ immigration-related activities

$3.32 billion
To Office of Refugee Resettlement for unaccompanied children
$3 billion

CBP surveillance technology
$2.77 billion
See "CBP technology"
DHS hiring and operations

$2.06 billion
CBP retention bonuses and signing incentives
$2.05 billion
$2.05 billion
Protect the 2026 World Cup and 2028 Olympics
$1.63 billion
$1.63 billion
ICE legal advisor (immigration prosecutors)
$1.32 billion
See "ICE hiring and operations"
DOJ immigration court system (EOIR)
$1.25 billion
See "DOJ immigration-related activities"
CBP Air and Marine Operations procurement
$1.23 billion
See "CBP technology"
Non-intrusive inspection scanners
$1.08 billion
See "CBP technology"
Incarcerating criminal aliens
$950 million
See "DOJ immigration-related activities"
ICE retention bonuses and signing incentives
$860 million
See "ICE hiring and operations"
CBP vehicles
$813 million
$855 million
State and local participation in homeland security efforts

$790 million See "Reimbursing states' border security spending"
Federal Law Enforcement Training Center
$750 million
$750 million
ICE information technology
$700 million
See "ICE hiring and operations"
CBP "…

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Marty Duren @martyduren.bsky.social · Jun 30

What could possibly go wrong?

NPR @npr.org · Jun 30

The Department of Homeland Security, with help from DOGE, has rolled out a tool that purports to be able to check the citizenship status of almost all Americans.

The Trump administration is building a national citizenship data system

The Department of Homeland Security, with help from DOGE, has rolled out a tool that purports to be able to check the citizenship status of almost all Americans.

n.pr

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Marty Duren @martyduren.bsky.social · Jun 23

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Marty Duren @martyduren.bsky.social · Jun 23

Feeling old today?

Rod Stewart is on the cover of this edition of the AARP magazine.

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Marty Duren @martyduren.bsky.social · Jun 22

Makes too much sense.

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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · Jun 9

I know everyone is occupied w authoritarian tactics of Trump sending marines & national guard to LA but wanted to show the hypocrisy of this lawless regime.

Trump is installing a pardoned drug trafficker as deputy director of the federal Bureau of Prisons

Former federal inmate pardoned by Trump tapped as Bureau of Prisons deputy director

Joshua J. Smith, a Tennessee businessman whom the president pardoned during his first term, now advocates for inmate rehabilitation.

www.nbcnews.com

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Marty Duren @martyduren.bsky.social · Jun 8

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Marty Duren @martyduren.bsky.social · Jun 7

I, too, have seen a drop in dollars.

Marty Duren @martyduren.bsky.social · Jun 3

LOL. Here’s a link to a book I can’t really recommend.

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Marty Duren @martyduren.bsky.social · Jun 3

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