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Sane Lunatic

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Discworld is my Happy Place, and I love connecting with fellow residents! See you in Llamedos... "Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to." - Terry Pratchett I welcome respectful disagreement but block trolls and haters.

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Sane Lunatic @sanelunatic.bsky.social · May 3

"The planet does not need more successful people.
The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kinds."

Wise words to live by above from @Ramblingsloa on Twitter.
Glorious photo of Yorkshire, England, below by www.davezphotography.com

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Sane Lunatic @sanelunatic.bsky.social · 10h

Yes, having to succeed in the world based on your skills and hard work instead of being favored due to the color of your skin and your sex is SOOOO unfair, isn't it?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Independent C-SPAN caller to Rep. Mark Alford: "You're taking credit for $50b that you just gave to the hospital industry. That's after you took away $150b. You don't take credit for just giving back a little bit of money after taking away so much. So quit lying. It just makes you look horrible."

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Sane Lunatic @sanelunatic.bsky.social · 10h

To clarify: the US sometimes does joint training with its closest ALLIES.
NOT with a dodgy, untrustworthy nation that bribed its president with a plane.

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 14h

I love it.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

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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Motorhead @bradmunchen.bsky.social · 3d

"Putin couldn't do a better job" of attacking America.

How do we know this isn't Putin's doing?

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 23h

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14h

Amazing what happens when you give the guy a plane

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Sane Lunatic @sanelunatic.bsky.social · 10h

The eyes are the window to the soul, and what we see here is empty, dead eyes. There's nothing inside Miller. No soul to be seen. Because he killed his soul years ago.

Now he's nothing but a black hole, a floating void that devours all life in its path and can never be filled.

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Sane Lunatic @sanelunatic.bsky.social · 10h

I believe in reincarnation, and I firmly believe Miller is Heinrich Himmler -- come back to re-open concentration camps and kill millions once again.

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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 11h

Sign you live in a police state

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 15h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Sane Lunatic @sanelunatic.bsky.social · 10h

Soooo true.

Sane Lunatic @sanelunatic.bsky.social · 11h

MOVIE REVIEW: The Woman in Cabin 10 (Netflix):
3 stars out of 5

If you're a casual viewer of mysteries, you'll probably find this fairly entertaining.

But if you're a serious Agatha Christie fan, you'll figure the plot out halfway through if not sooner, and from then on this is a snoozefest.

Sane Lunatic @sanelunatic.bsky.social · 11h

And may I just add that if martial law happens and guns are made illegal, I'm never going to stop remind MAGAts of how well they owned themselves.
Not the libs.
THEMSELVES.

Sane Lunatic @sanelunatic.bsky.social · 11h

If you think the Qatari Airbase has pissed MAGA off, wait until Rump/Miller/Hegseth declare martial law.

Because days after they do, they will outlaw use of guns by civilians. I guarantee it.

Because the ONLY way to control a heavily-armed population is to make guns illegal.

Sane Lunatic @sanelunatic.bsky.social · 11h

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Sane Lunatic @sanelunatic.bsky.social · 11h

As per AI the US will own this base and allow Qatari military to be there, possibly for training - an arrangement not uncommon with our ALLIES.
But Rump has again acted as a tyrant. He bypassed Congressional approval/oversight that would ensure this is legal under U.S. law/internatl agreements.

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Carolleisa @carolleisa.bsky.social · 14h

Tell the House to Get Back to Work

www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/7...

Sign Petition: It's Time to End the Endless Recess. Tell the House to Get Back to Work

Republican Speaker Mike Johnson sent the House home early several weeks ago because he was afraid of a vote to release the Epstein (1536 signatures on petition)

www.thepetitionsite.com

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Sane Lunatic @sanelunatic.bsky.social · 13h

I think this is more grooming - preparing America to accept the building of bases here by nations that are flat-out enemies.
If Putin and Xi offer Rump enough money, we WILL see a Russian base in Alaska and a Chinese base in the Pacific Northwest.

Sane Lunatic @sanelunatic.bsky.social · 14h

I saw this happen to someone I'd known since she was 7. She got deeply involved with a fundamentalist church and was no longer capable of original thought. EVERYTHING she said, every answer, was a religious cliche.
Johnson's the same. His brain is locked in the talking points they allow him to use.

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Hillbilly Highlander @hillhighlander.bsky.social · 16h

He's got the "I didn't get no Nobel Peace Prize" blues.

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Sane Lunatic @sanelunatic.bsky.social · 15h

True. But I think enough GOP members are looking for an excuse to jump ship that we could've pulled it off.
And still may, as things get even worse.

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 16h

ICE IS OUT OF CONTROL

TACKLING A JOURNALIST TO THE GROUND LIKE THIS IS OBSCENE.

Illinois judge blocks federal authorities from using force against Chicago journalists

Chicago journalists and protesters sued senior administration officials this week, arguing that the government had prevented them from using their First Amendment rights.

ICE handcuffing and restraining journalist

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

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Sane Lunatic @sanelunatic.bsky.social · 16h

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Sane Lunatic @sanelunatic.bsky.social · 16h

YES. We'd have had impeachment of the Rump regime, health care, freedom of speech, breaking up of oligarch monopolies, and so much more.

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Sane Lunatic @sanelunatic.bsky.social · 16h

I'm so deeply angry about this. Congress has done squat since SEPTEMBER. They're getting full pay for not doing one damn thing. In no for-profit or nonprofit in America do workers get paid for doing nothing, and I am LIVID.

IF YOUR REPS IN CONGRESS ARE GOP, PLEASE VOTE THE BUMS OUT!!!

Sane Lunatic @sanelunatic.bsky.social · 17h

Somebody explain to me why half of Americans won't vote for a woman for president but happily voted for two men who wear dramatic black eyeliner and orange foundation.
Hmmm...black and orange.
Those are Halloween colors.
Ah-HA! Rump and Vance won because they work for....
THE DEVIL!

a woman wearing a red shirt that says " spawn of satan "

ALT: a woman wearing a red shirt that says " spawn of satan "

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