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Dan Kim (김명준)

@danielmkim.bsky.social

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He/him. Appa. Cat dad. Former infantry person, current food/wine person. Ally. Equality for all, no exceptions. LFC Reds. Oxford comma. 2 spaces. Confederates = traitors. Punch Nazis. Trump/Putin/ICE Delenda Est

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Dan Kim (김명준) @danielmkim.bsky.social · May 25

Another passel of new followers (who are all of you listening to my ramblings?), so a repeat of my rules: no racism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, or religious bigotry. The Confederates were traitors who fought for slavery & deserve a punch. “Equality for all” in my bio means exactly that.

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Dan Kim (김명준) @danielmkim.bsky.social · 8h

I saw this on IG & now you hear it too.

Edited “War Pig” lyrics
Generals gathered in their massss
Just to listen to 2 dumbasses

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Dan Kim (김명준) @danielmkim.bsky.social · 13h

Buffalo is also home to New York’s only football team, since the downstate boys both play in & are based in NJ. I said that to one of my neighbors & he turned so red I thought he’d burst a blood vessel.

Dan Kim (김명준) @danielmkim.bsky.social · 13h

Counselor, your client also almost committed larceny during dinner on Monday. He smacked Ruth’s butt over the weekend, though she gave him a patented “I’ve had it up to here with you” hiss & returned the blow.

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Dan Kim (김명준) @danielmkim.bsky.social · 13h

Miss Kim got that at a dollar store & won’t let me take it off because “it makes my baby look handsome”

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Dan Kim (김명준) @danielmkim.bsky.social · 14h

Me: they’re just repaving our street, no need for hyper vigilance
Goodie: no, Appa! I will stand watch & make sure none of these loud dragons invades the apartment!

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Dan Kim (김명준) @danielmkim.bsky.social · 1d

In the quaint 1990s, various NG units did a CPX, or command post exercise - a precursor to “Warfighter” 🤢 - where the scenario included a breakdown of NCA. Not once was any state’s NG treated as less-than or othered, simply because they represented a blue or red state. This is madness defined.

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 1d

It's one thing to be politically divided into red states and blue states. We are now being militarily divided into red states and blue states. It's crossing the Rubicon, a bright-red flashing warning that the constitutional order is coming unglued, in a way that will have monumental consequences. /x

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Dan Kim (김명준) @danielmkim.bsky.social · 1d

I was going to say that public spectacles of tarring & feathering need to make a comeback, but even that’s too gentle a punishment for these jackbooted thugs.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Dan Kim (김명준) @danielmkim.bsky.social · 1d

Look at the end date. No chem trails for Thanksgiving?

Dan Kim (김명준) @danielmkim.bsky.social · 2d

Every time we come home from Baltimore, Goodie cries for the first half hour or so. He might be missing Big Sis Ruth (doubtful, she hates him) or dreading going back to our apartment instead of ranging all over @drjchernov.bsky.social’s house (probable). Maybe he misses Julie. If so, same, gato.

Dan Kim (김명준) @danielmkim.bsky.social · 2d

Doubt he’d sit still in that, he’d fight to escape

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Dan Kim (김명준) @danielmkim.bsky.social · 2d

A tale of 2 cats. Ruth earned a treat by being good while @drjchernov.bsky.social & I clipped her nails. Goodie screamed, hissed, & bit at me until I stopped at just one paw. Now he has the gall to look offended.

A good girl getting a well deserved treat

A bad dummy who still thinks if he’s cute, he’ll get a treat

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Dan Kim (김명준) @danielmkim.bsky.social · 2d

The purportedly pro-life & pro-family Republican Party, which is obsessed with controlling what children read & watch, also has no problem watching those same children go hungry. Fucking soulless ghouls.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 2d

The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, also known as WIC, will run out of federal money within two weeks unless the government shutdown ends, experts say. The food aid program helps more than 6 million low-income mothers and young children.

Government shutdown threatens food aid program relied on by millions of families

Experts say a food aid program that helps 6 million low-income mothers and young children will run out of federal money unless the government shutdown ends within two weeks.

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Dan Kim (김명준) @danielmkim.bsky.social · 2d

Warrior of political correctness CINCPAC, ADM Jack McCain, when asked about how he could tell his wife apart from her identical twin: "that's their problem, not mine."
Woke Commander of 7th AF, GEN Spike Momyer, during WW2, refused to allow Tuskegee Airmen to fly in combat under his command.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "The problem with Vietnam, we, you know, we stopped fighting to win. We would've won easy. We would've won Afghanistan easy. We would've won every war easy. But we got politically correct. 'Oh, let's take it easy.' We're not politically correct anymore, just so you understand."

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Dan Kim (김명준) @danielmkim.bsky.social · 3d

Something something "banana wars on behalf of corporate interests in the 1920s/30s..."

Let's also not forget Billy Mitchell's war against his own service regarding the future of air power.

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Dan Kim (김명준) @danielmkim.bsky.social · 3d

I knew what you meant, but if energy drinks had a supply class...

Dan Kim (김명준) @danielmkim.bsky.social · 3d

Mike, if Goodie were a Joe, he'd be a PV2 married to a stripper, living in a single wide trailer off post, & delivering pizza to help pay off the F-150 he financed at eleventy % interest.

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Dan Kim (김명준) @danielmkim.bsky.social · 3d

In his defense, he did kill & eat a small spider next to the kitchen table just now.

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Dan Kim (김명준) @danielmkim.bsky.social · 4d

I’ve reached the “I want to claw my itchy sinuses out of my face” phase of fall ragweed allergy. And of course I’ve got a full restaurant while this happens.

a man stands in front of a sign that says ' usted leadership for a stronger america '

ALT: a man stands in front of a sign that says ' usted leadership for a stronger america '

media.tenor.com

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Dan Kim (김명준) @danielmkim.bsky.social · 4d

It’s well past time that governors mobilized their state National Guards to protect their citizens against DHS & its hydra of agencies.

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Dan Kim (김명준) @danielmkim.bsky.social · 5d

2 Joes. Damn you, lack of an edit button

Dan Kim (김명준) @danielmkim.bsky.social · 5d

Before the earth cooled, I was in one of the first Kangaroo exercises in Australia, & both our staff duty & Aussie MPs seemed to have my hotel room on speed dial. I had to talk 1 of my teenage Joes out of marrying Sheilas they’d met the day before.

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Dan Kim (김명준) @danielmkim.bsky.social · 5d

“No bullshit, Staff Sergeant, I really do love her” … said no junior enlisted Marine or soldier ever to his platoon sergeant ever. I can neither confirm nor deny that I was at different times on each side of that conversation.

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Dan Kim (김명준) @danielmkim.bsky.social · 5d

Nah, all you need is one old fat bearded white dude holding a sign advertising free Copenhagen & Monster. Unit integrity would dissolve while Joes formed a mile long queue.

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Dan Kim (김명준) @danielmkim.bsky.social · 5d

Real dudes will see this & say “hell yeah!”

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 5d

BREAKING: A federal judge finds that there is evidence Kilmar Abrego was VINDICTIVELY PROSECUTED. The judge GRANTS Abrego's motion for discovery and a hearing, and the government must now PROVE it did not vindictively prosecute Mr. Abrego. 1/

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Dan Kim (김명준) @danielmkim.bsky.social · 5d

It’s always a plus when I don’t have to worry about the federal government violating my (checks notes) constitutionally protected right to citizenship as the son of 2 immigrants at the time, but who later became American citizens.

Tom “T.M.” Wolf @tomtmwolf.bsky.social · 5d

BREAKING! 1st Cir. blocks Trump's attempt to end birthright citizenship. Strong, clear close:

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