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Robert M. Spencer @rmspencer.bsky.social · 11h

Stanislaw Lem's Solaris

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Red Letter Christians UK @redletterxnsuk.bsky.social · 3d

Thomas Merton
My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me.I cannot know for certain where it will end…
But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you.

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Robert M. Spencer @rmspencer.bsky.social · 6d

Ken Follett's The Key to Rebecca.

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George Tsakraklides @tsakraklides.bsky.social · 7d

“As it evolved, capitalist civilisation became a snowball of self-fraud: humans created products they didn’t need, jobs they didn’t like, and places they couldn’t live in”
open.substack.com/pub/georgets...

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 7d

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 7d

Miller’s apparent elevation to shadow president and his seeming intent to declare an end to the constitutional order would, in any other administration, be treated as a executive branch meltdown that was immensely embarrassing for the president and requiring Miller’s immediate removal

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Robert M. Spencer @rmspencer.bsky.social · 8d

First of all, what's a "bad bunny?" Second of all, what the hell is she rambling on about?

Robert M. Spencer @rmspencer.bsky.social · 9d

She's my 14th great grandmother through her daughter Mary.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12d

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 11d

Important to remember that Donald Trump is smirkily joking about here is premeditated mass murder in international waters—an unambiguous war crime—with some of the victims already apparently having been confirmed to be civilian fishermen

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12d

Trump brags to military leaders about his strikes on boats: "They don't want go fishing. I don't blame them. There will be no fishing today. It's amazing what strength will do."

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12d

In today’s completely unsurprising news, the ICE officer very briefly, taken off duty for shoving a woman to the ground in New York is back on the job not even a week later.

www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-off...

ICE officer seen on video pushing woman to ground has returned to duty

An ICE officer who was initially relieved of his duties after being captured on video pushing a woman to the ground has been returned to duty, two U.S. officials familiar with the matter told CBS News...

www.cbsnews.com

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 12d

It certainly appears the United States murdered an innocent fisherman who was a husband and father to four children, claimed he was a "narco-terrorist," posted a video of the execution, and then made jokes about it

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12d

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 14d

My dearest wife,

It is week two of the Siege of Portland, and still these barbarians will not yield to our troops. We have severed the cords of their latte machines but they are making cowboy coffee in their camps, where loud ukulele songs of resistance even now drift in on the breeze.

Letter from the Portland War Front (humor about something deadly serious)

My dearest wife, It is week two of the Siege of Portland, and still these barbarians will not yield to our troops. We have severed the cords of their latte machines but they are making cowboy coffee ...

www.meditationsinanemergency.com

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Robert M. Spencer @rmspencer.bsky.social · 14d

I've made a point this year of reading more books by women. And it's been great. Presently reading one of Ann Perry's Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novels, Pentecost Alley.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16d

Medicare for All - "That's socialism!"

Social Security - "That's socialism!"

Debt free education - "That's socialism!"

Universal childcare - "That's socialism!"

Bailing out a failed libertarian austerity agenda in Argentina...

"That's just how it is."

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 16d

No matter what this meeting is about, Pete will always be a National Guardsman assigned to a Civil Affairs unit who got a bunch of crusader tattoos in his 40s because he wants you to think he's a cool, war-criming operator instead of an extremely online wife-beating loser

@PeteHegseth on X: Cool story, General

QT of @general_ben on X: July 1935 German generals were called to a surprise assembly in Berlin and informed that their previous oath to the Weimar constitution was void and that they would be required to swear a personal oath to the Führer. Most generals took the new oath to keep their positions.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 17d

This regime with its masked agents terrorizing whole communities is the problem, not “Democrats.”

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Bill Braviner @billbraviner.bsky.social · 17d

#MorningPrayer
Grant to us, Lord,
such a dedication
and devotion
to your mission
in this world,
that we may
give ourselves
to one another
and to you,
in all that we do,
all that we say,
and all that we are,
that all whom we encounter,
and all who encounter us,
may know your love.

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Robert M. Spencer @rmspencer.bsky.social · 17d

I was 7. Living in Wilkes-Barre, Penna., and attending North Street School. I don't remember the arrival of the Beatles in America having a big effect on me. I wouldn't actually become an admirer till about the age of 12-13, when they were almost done as a group.

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Robert M. Spencer @rmspencer.bsky.social · 17d

Honestly, I simply don't understand that phenomenon. Madness of crowds or something, I guess. But I do love the Beatles.

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Brian Zahnd @brianzahnd.bsky.social · 18d

Beware of isms. There be devils.

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 18d

In a sane world, there’d be a family intervention and deployment of the 25th amendment.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 19d

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