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Joanne in Boston

@vtgal.bsky.social

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Secular Humanist/Environmentalist/Liberal 🌎🇺🇦💙 Compassion & Empathy 🚫Toxic religiosity Can humanity save itself? “There’s some good in this world Mr. Frodo, and it’s worth fighting for” Love my husband, my coffee and a good bourbon Manhattan.

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Joanne in Boston @vtgal.bsky.social · Nov 23

Dark thoughts this morning…how must it feel to be Europe right now with Russian aggression ascending and Trump back in power. There will be no USA to storm the beaches this time…they will stand with the enemy. What has America done?

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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 20h

With so much that we are fighting against, we can't forget what we are fighting for.

Families need health. They need food. And our young people need a livable future.

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Joanne in Boston @vtgal.bsky.social · 39m

Yes…I’m also curious about the Kirk murder as well as the Melissa and Mark Hortman assassination…

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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 11h

Is anyone else curious about the dead silence from the FBI about the Kirk thing?

The guy they have in custody is likely not the shooter, and everything the FBI told us to date about it was complete bullshit.

So what’s really going on? All that initial hysteria, and now total silence?

Weird

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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 2h

Fun Fact: no President of the United States has “plenary authority.”

The Constitution was written and structured to avoid EXACTLY THAT!!

People who publicly state otherwise violate the oath of office and should be removed.

They are incompatible with the idea of fealty to the Constitution.

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Joanne in Boston @vtgal.bsky.social · 45m

That is a boopable face…

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Ummm…

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Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 4h

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 15h

It’s hard to overstate how grotesque is the prosecution of Letitia James. I hope John Roberts—who unleashed this malignant, vengeful career criminal on our beloved country—is enjoying Trump’s utter abuse of power and trashing of justice and the rule of law.

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 15h

Heroin addict.
Serial adulterer.
Road kill collector.
Swimming in bacterial-dangerous waters w/ his grandchildren.
Anti-Tylenol (pro-pain).
Anti-circumcision (excuse for fixation on genitals).
Demonizing autistic people.
Anti-vaxxing propagandist.
Hooligan.

Yeah, that guy.

Impeach and remove. Now.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 1h

It’s an insane world where militarizing your own civilian streets and ordering extrajudicial murders on the high seas doesn’t get you a prize.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 12h

TIER ONE: Americans who Donald Trump pedophiled with: They get shielded from prosecution for the crimes they did commit.

TIER TWO: Americans who brought Donald to justice for the crimes he did commit, they get prosecuted as revenge even if they committed no crimes whatsoever.

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 3h

“Despite ending dozens of imaginary wars and getting nominated by a war criminal, MAGA’s prince of peace came up short in his very public bid to acquire the Nobel Prize, which he only wanted because they gave it to the guy who’s made him feel small and inadequate for over a decade.”

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Joanne in Boston @vtgal.bsky.social · 1h

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 4h

I truly don’t know what’s triggered it, but this phrase from Tacitus keeps coming to mind today:

“They make a desolation and they call it peace”.

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Sandieglo @sandieglo.bsky.social · 22h

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 1h

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 2h

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