theoneGalen
@theonegalen.bsky.social
Rock and roller, history teacher, and Jesus-follower. Deconstructed and reconstructed. Single AF. Nerd. equity matters, trans rights = human rights
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It’s true. We shouldn’t pretend that. Trumpist culture is not the same as American culture and not equal. Trumpist culture is proudly ignorant, defiantly against America’s founding values and subsequently developed values, venomously bigoted, and generally despicable.
Fox News' Will Cain: "I’m sure there are very honorable law-abiding upstanding citizens and contributors from the Somali community here in the United States, BUT..."
He goes on to say "we aren’t going to pretend here that all cultures are of equal value or the same."
He goes on to say "we aren’t going to pretend here that all cultures are of equal value or the same."
December 3, 2025 at 10:31 PM
It’s true. We shouldn’t pretend that. Trumpist culture is not the same as American culture and not equal. Trumpist culture is proudly ignorant, defiantly against America’s founding values and subsequently developed values, venomously bigoted, and generally despicable.
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If fewer people would have their heads shoved up their own assess life would be so much better
The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
December 4, 2025 at 12:26 AM
If fewer people would have their heads shoved up their own assess life would be so much better
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Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
December 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
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From the Orthodox Barbie archives:
“In Advent, we acknowledge the strong-willed, outsider women who shaped Jesus’ lineage (especially Tamar, Rahab and Ruth in Matthew 1:1-5).
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“In Advent, we acknowledge the strong-willed, outsider women who shaped Jesus’ lineage (especially Tamar, Rahab and Ruth in Matthew 1:1-5).
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December 4, 2025 at 11:05 AM
From the Orthodox Barbie archives:
“In Advent, we acknowledge the strong-willed, outsider women who shaped Jesus’ lineage (especially Tamar, Rahab and Ruth in Matthew 1:1-5).
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“In Advent, we acknowledge the strong-willed, outsider women who shaped Jesus’ lineage (especially Tamar, Rahab and Ruth in Matthew 1:1-5).
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First glance: “make sure there is a social safety net, but no limit to how far the American Dream can take you”
Second: “our two priorities are that you don’t starve to death while working minimum wage in an Amazon warehouse, and that Jeff Bezos gets rich without limits from your exploitation”
Second: “our two priorities are that you don’t starve to death while working minimum wage in an Amazon warehouse, and that Jeff Bezos gets rich without limits from your exploitation”
December 3, 2025 at 8:57 AM
First glance: “make sure there is a social safety net, but no limit to how far the American Dream can take you”
Second: “our two priorities are that you don’t starve to death while working minimum wage in an Amazon warehouse, and that Jeff Bezos gets rich without limits from your exploitation”
Second: “our two priorities are that you don’t starve to death while working minimum wage in an Amazon warehouse, and that Jeff Bezos gets rich without limits from your exploitation”
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To all the people who say,”If these people would just do it the right way and become citizens,” what say you to all these ICE folks hanging out in courts and grabbing the people who are doing just that? These people ARE doing it “the right way” and are still terrorized.
Absolutely despicable.
Absolutely despicable.
Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.
December 3, 2025 at 9:02 AM
To all the people who say,”If these people would just do it the right way and become citizens,” what say you to all these ICE folks hanging out in courts and grabbing the people who are doing just that? These people ARE doing it “the right way” and are still terrorized.
Absolutely despicable.
Absolutely despicable.
One of the greatest Dudes Rock movies of all time
I'm continuing my series of comfort watch movies on Whatever, and today I'm essaying Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, and 19th Century Sailing life, which I am happy to view and not to live:
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The December Comfort Watches 2025, Day Two: Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World wastes no time in getting the viewer acquainted with the HMS Surprise; in a few brief moments we’re given a sailor’s-eye view of the cram…
whatever.scalzi.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:23 AM
One of the greatest Dudes Rock movies of all time
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Let me get this straight: we trained this guy to be an elite killer, abandoned his country to the Taliban, isolated him, arbitrarily banned him from working and so left his family unsupported.
I don’t know if there’s any more efficient way of producing a mental health crisis outside of torture.
I don’t know if there’s any more efficient way of producing a mental health crisis outside of torture.
Alleged D.C. Shooter Begged CIA for Help as He Tried to Find Work newrepublic.com/post/203784/... via @newrepublic.com
Alleged D.C. Shooter Begged CIA for Help as He Tried to Find Work
The National Guard shooting suspect felt abandoned by the CIA after working together for so long, his fellow unit member said.
newrepublic.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Let me get this straight: we trained this guy to be an elite killer, abandoned his country to the Taliban, isolated him, arbitrarily banned him from working and so left his family unsupported.
I don’t know if there’s any more efficient way of producing a mental health crisis outside of torture.
I don’t know if there’s any more efficient way of producing a mental health crisis outside of torture.
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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I was promised fully automated luxury gay space communism dammit!
November 27, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I was promised fully automated luxury gay space communism dammit!
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I’m sorry but if you’re this creatively bankrupt Hayao Miyazaki should be allowed to hunt you for sport.
November 27, 2025 at 11:53 PM
I’m sorry but if you’re this creatively bankrupt Hayao Miyazaki should be allowed to hunt you for sport.
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A federal judge didn’t “steal” the Commander-in-Chief’s powers—she ruled that DoD exceeded the limits Congress set. That is the rule of law working as designed. What threatens the Republic isn’t judicial review, but officials who insist they’re above it.
November 23, 2025 at 5:46 PM
A federal judge didn’t “steal” the Commander-in-Chief’s powers—she ruled that DoD exceeded the limits Congress set. That is the rule of law working as designed. What threatens the Republic isn’t judicial review, but officials who insist they’re above it.
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This drunken ignorant oaf
November 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
This drunken ignorant oaf
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What's important is that Houston is 150 miles further south from Oklahoma than Dallas. -OS
Downtown Houston is a whopping 10 miles farther from the Sabine River than Downtown Dallas is from the Red River.
two men in suits and ties are standing next to each other in front of a fire hose .
Alt: Maxwell Smart (Agent 86) explains to the Chief (in the 1960s spy spoof TV series, "Get Smart"), "Missed it by that much," while indicating a tiny distance between his thumb and index finger as an example.
media.tenor.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:12 PM
What's important is that Houston is 150 miles further south from Oklahoma than Dallas. -OS
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The EPA will approve two new pesticides containing “forever chemicals” and relax a reporting rule for companies who make products with forever chemicals.
The moves come after a $60 million lobbying blitz from the forever chemical industry.
Where is the MAHA outcry?
The moves come after a $60 million lobbying blitz from the forever chemical industry.
Where is the MAHA outcry?
November 24, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The EPA will approve two new pesticides containing “forever chemicals” and relax a reporting rule for companies who make products with forever chemicals.
The moves come after a $60 million lobbying blitz from the forever chemical industry.
Where is the MAHA outcry?
The moves come after a $60 million lobbying blitz from the forever chemical industry.
Where is the MAHA outcry?
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Sam is right. DOGE did exactly what they wanted it to do- hurt poor people, destroyed faith in government, enriched Elon.
November 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Sam is right. DOGE did exactly what they wanted it to do- hurt poor people, destroyed faith in government, enriched Elon.
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collective liberation means solidarity with those most harmed
including: solidarity with victim-survivors
it does not matter if the perpetrator was your friend, your idol, a movement hero, someone who's essential to your work or anything else
tell every truth
+ center those harmed always
including: solidarity with victim-survivors
it does not matter if the perpetrator was your friend, your idol, a movement hero, someone who's essential to your work or anything else
tell every truth
+ center those harmed always
November 24, 2025 at 3:27 AM
collective liberation means solidarity with those most harmed
including: solidarity with victim-survivors
it does not matter if the perpetrator was your friend, your idol, a movement hero, someone who's essential to your work or anything else
tell every truth
+ center those harmed always
including: solidarity with victim-survivors
it does not matter if the perpetrator was your friend, your idol, a movement hero, someone who's essential to your work or anything else
tell every truth
+ center those harmed always
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Our kids concert is current happening in the Activity Room with @captainthrack.bsky.social, @theonegalen.bsky.social and @pinkaboo.bsky.social! #PVCF25
November 23, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Our kids concert is current happening in the Activity Room with @captainthrack.bsky.social, @theonegalen.bsky.social and @pinkaboo.bsky.social! #PVCF25
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Reminder that the Renegade Stage is open at the Apple Orchard until 4:30pm today! #PVCF25
Here is @epicmuttonchops.bsky.social performing now!
Here is @epicmuttonchops.bsky.social performing now!
November 23, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Reminder that the Renegade Stage is open at the Apple Orchard until 4:30pm today! #PVCF25
Here is @epicmuttonchops.bsky.social performing now!
Here is @epicmuttonchops.bsky.social performing now!
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Hmmm…what USAID wasn’t bad for America…what if getting rid of it only hurt us and everyone else?
What if the richest man in the world being responsible for ending aid to the poorest people in the world will go down as one of the most bizarre and disgusting acts of the 21st century?
What if the richest man in the world being responsible for ending aid to the poorest people in the world will go down as one of the most bizarre and disgusting acts of the 21st century?
November 22, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Hmmm…what USAID wasn’t bad for America…what if getting rid of it only hurt us and everyone else?
What if the richest man in the world being responsible for ending aid to the poorest people in the world will go down as one of the most bizarre and disgusting acts of the 21st century?
What if the richest man in the world being responsible for ending aid to the poorest people in the world will go down as one of the most bizarre and disgusting acts of the 21st century?
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happy Jair Bolsonaro got arrested after failing to cut off his ankle monitor day
"Brazil’s former far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, has been arrested at his villa in the capital, Brasília, amid suspicions he was poised to abscond to a foreign embassy to avoid going to prison for masterminding a military coup."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Brazilian police arrest Bolsonaro amid suspicions he was about to flee
Politician reportedly taken from his villa into custody at a federal police base about 7 miles from presidential palace
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:53 AM
happy Jair Bolsonaro got arrested after failing to cut off his ankle monitor day
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And that is a wrap on the PVCF25 concert! Thank you to all of our musicians, and AV for putting on two excellent concerts!
Now it is bed time.
Now it is bed time.
November 23, 2025 at 7:09 AM
And that is a wrap on the PVCF25 concert! Thank you to all of our musicians, and AV for putting on two excellent concerts!
Now it is bed time.
Now it is bed time.
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Fun fact: recording police in the public performance of their duties is protected conduct under the First Amendment in North Carolina!
The 4th Circuit even said so (www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/211...)
The 4th Circuit even said so (www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/211...)
They planned to force him to crash or shoot him for recording their crimes. They then accused him of assaulting them. www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/c...
ICE video shows officers planned to ‘smash’ into Charlotte man filming Border Patrol
Immigration agents had a 12-pack of Modelos in their car while making arrests, Miguel Angel Garcia Martinez told investigators.
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November 22, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Fun fact: recording police in the public performance of their duties is protected conduct under the First Amendment in North Carolina!
The 4th Circuit even said so (www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/211...)
The 4th Circuit even said so (www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/211...)
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“I’ve got some pretty devastating information about this public figure, and I will wait until well past the time that person amasses power to reveal it, mostly to make sure you’re all paying attention to me.
I’m doing journalism right.
Please subscribe. It’s your civic duty.”
I’m doing journalism right.
Please subscribe. It’s your civic duty.”
November 22, 2025 at 2:44 PM
“I’ve got some pretty devastating information about this public figure, and I will wait until well past the time that person amasses power to reveal it, mostly to make sure you’re all paying attention to me.
I’m doing journalism right.
Please subscribe. It’s your civic duty.”
I’m doing journalism right.
Please subscribe. It’s your civic duty.”