Phil
@groopaloop.bsky.social
Sustainability engagement, energy data, environmental humanitarian, engaged citizen, St. Louis sports fan. St. Olaf College and UW-Madison. I want to say thoughts are my own, but we're all a patchwork of those we've learned from, so are they really?
I hope DJT is reminded every single day how he'll never be as beloved, respected, accomplished, or admired as either of his predecessors, particularly the first one.
Well, while Trump has been posting about scumbags and liberal sleazebags and starting a war in Nigeria — Obama went to a hospital — visiting patients, handing out gifts and thanking the staff for all they do every day. 🎅🏿 ❤️ 🐐
December 27, 2025 at 4:34 AM
I hope DJT is reminded every single day how he'll never be as beloved, respected, accomplished, or admired as either of his predecessors, particularly the first one.
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None of this would be happening if Republicans had held Trump accountable after his January 6 insurrection.
Remember that.
Remember that.
December 26, 2025 at 11:25 PM
None of this would be happening if Republicans had held Trump accountable after his January 6 insurrection.
Remember that.
Remember that.
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Which Side Is DOJ on: The Epstein Files
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
Which Side Is DOJ on: The Epstein Files
With apologies for writing about such a serious topic as we enter the Christmas holidays, these developments seemed too important to ignore.
open.substack.com
December 25, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Which Side Is DOJ on: The Epstein Files
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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Santa fights fascists.
NORAD is using "Gulf of Mexico" on their Santa tracker.
That's hilarious!
That's hilarious!
December 25, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Santa fights fascists.
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“Epstein’s brother, Mark Epstein, told the FBI in 2023 that Epstein was murdered in his jail cell because he was about to ‘name names.’ Mark Epstein, 71, who has long believed that his brother was killed, also alleged in the tip that President Trump ‘authorized’ the late sex trafficker’s murder.”
Latest Epstein files name Trump multiple times
In the more than 10,000 files released Tuesday, Jeffrey Epstein’s brother, Mark Epstein, said the sex trafficker was killed because he was going to name co-conspirators.
www.miamiherald.com
December 24, 2025 at 12:32 AM
“Epstein’s brother, Mark Epstein, told the FBI in 2023 that Epstein was murdered in his jail cell because he was about to ‘name names.’ Mark Epstein, 71, who has long believed that his brother was killed, also alleged in the tip that President Trump ‘authorized’ the late sex trafficker’s murder.”
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Quote of the day:
"The poor tell us who we are. The prophets tell us who we can be. So we hide the poor and kill the prophets.”
-- Philip Berrigan
"The poor tell us who we are. The prophets tell us who we can be. So we hide the poor and kill the prophets.”
-- Philip Berrigan
December 20, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Quote of the day:
"The poor tell us who we are. The prophets tell us who we can be. So we hide the poor and kill the prophets.”
-- Philip Berrigan
"The poor tell us who we are. The prophets tell us who we can be. So we hide the poor and kill the prophets.”
-- Philip Berrigan
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FLASHBACK… Seems relevant today…
December 20, 2025 at 4:31 AM
FLASHBACK… Seems relevant today…
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When this is done, we cannot, as a nation, memory hole it. We cannot go along to get along. We cannot do what we did in 1877 and admit the traitors back into the commonwealth sans consequence. We cannot do what we did in 1974 and pardon the unpardonable. 1/2
December 20, 2025 at 4:22 AM
When this is done, we cannot, as a nation, memory hole it. We cannot go along to get along. We cannot do what we did in 1877 and admit the traitors back into the commonwealth sans consequence. We cannot do what we did in 1974 and pardon the unpardonable. 1/2
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Here's your autopsy:
Acute cause (Picture 1): the same worldwide post-covid inflation that took down the Tories. Ideology wasn't a factor with economic voters.
Chronic cause (Picture 2): most white people stopped voting for Democrats when Democrats started backing rights for Black people:
Acute cause (Picture 1): the same worldwide post-covid inflation that took down the Tories. Ideology wasn't a factor with economic voters.
Chronic cause (Picture 2): most white people stopped voting for Democrats when Democrats started backing rights for Black people:
December 18, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Here's your autopsy:
Acute cause (Picture 1): the same worldwide post-covid inflation that took down the Tories. Ideology wasn't a factor with economic voters.
Chronic cause (Picture 2): most white people stopped voting for Democrats when Democrats started backing rights for Black people:
Acute cause (Picture 1): the same worldwide post-covid inflation that took down the Tories. Ideology wasn't a factor with economic voters.
Chronic cause (Picture 2): most white people stopped voting for Democrats when Democrats started backing rights for Black people:
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I would like to see the day when Republican euphemisms like “pro family” and “pro life” treated like the sick jokes they’ve always been.
"At just 2 weeks old, Feleena Owens was struggling to breathe.
The newborn was coughing so badly, her skin turned a sickly gray-blue color. Her face contorted as she tried to gulp air. 'I think the longest she would stop breathing was about 10, 11 seconds,' said her mother."
The newborn was coughing so badly, her skin turned a sickly gray-blue color. Her face contorted as she tried to gulp air. 'I think the longest she would stop breathing was about 10, 11 seconds,' said her mother."
Whooping cough cases soar as vaccination rates drop
In an NBC News data investigation of 31 states, about 70% of counties and jurisdictions fell below the target vaccination rate needed for community protection.
www.nbcnews.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
I would like to see the day when Republican euphemisms like “pro family” and “pro life” treated like the sick jokes they’ve always been.
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incredible that the oldest scam in the book — “look away from the greed and poor leadership that destroy your chance to make a career, it is the [blanks] that stole your job!” — still works
December 17, 2025 at 10:01 PM
incredible that the oldest scam in the book — “look away from the greed and poor leadership that destroy your chance to make a career, it is the [blanks] that stole your job!” — still works
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The problem is that every time we elect the party that doesn’t make us scream and them not to pass the You Have To Drink Pee Act, people tune out politics, forget everything that has ever happened, and go “hm, nothing is happening, let’s shake things up” and vote the Pee Guys back in.
I hate that every week there's something stupid like an Everyone Has To Drink Pee Now Bill and the alert sounds to CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES THIS IS NOT A DRILL and you really wish you could just trust them to not go for the pee drinking bill
December 16, 2025 at 8:19 AM
The problem is that every time we elect the party that doesn’t make us scream and them not to pass the You Have To Drink Pee Act, people tune out politics, forget everything that has ever happened, and go “hm, nothing is happening, let’s shake things up” and vote the Pee Guys back in.
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Just when I thought I couldn't admire the man more...
🎯 🎯 🎯 💯 💯 💯 👍 👍 👍
🎯 🎯 🎯 💯 💯 💯 👍 👍 👍
December 13, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Just when I thought I couldn't admire the man more...
🎯 🎯 🎯 💯 💯 💯 👍 👍 👍
🎯 🎯 🎯 💯 💯 💯 👍 👍 👍
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We salute you, Charles Clyde Ebbets
December 12, 2025 at 4:03 AM
We salute you, Charles Clyde Ebbets
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Fact-check: true
December 14, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Fact-check: true
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I shouldn’t have to share this article as much as I do. Sending condolences to all friends and family and loved ones from the Brown Shooting today.
www.newsweek.com/2025/07/18/f...
www.newsweek.com/2025/07/18/f...
Why Flavor Flav says the US must ban firearms now | Opinion
The lack of U.S. gun laws has created a violence epidemic unlike anywhere else on Earth. This is domestic errorism
www.newsweek.com
December 14, 2025 at 4:24 AM
I shouldn’t have to share this article as much as I do. Sending condolences to all friends and family and loved ones from the Brown Shooting today.
www.newsweek.com/2025/07/18/f...
www.newsweek.com/2025/07/18/f...
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The world's richest 0.001% now control 3x as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity combined.
56,000 wealthy individuals have more than roughly 4 billion people.
Read that back.
56,000 wealthy individuals have more than roughly 4 billion people.
Read that back.
Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds
Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The world's richest 0.001% now control 3x as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity combined.
56,000 wealthy individuals have more than roughly 4 billion people.
Read that back.
56,000 wealthy individuals have more than roughly 4 billion people.
Read that back.
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“European cities, like Paris, were smart to focus on air pollution rather than climate change. Air pollution is more real for people. You can see it, smell it. People liked what @annehidalgo.bsky.social did.” — My comments on leadership & urban transformation
To be clear, cities should do both.
To be clear, cities should do both.
Bikes, pedestrians and the 15-minute city: How the pandemic is propelling urban revolutions
In Europe, cycling caught on in a big way this year as COVID-19 discouraged cars and crowded public transit. Some cities’ leaders hope to make the habit permanent and make congestion a thing of the pa...
www.theglobeandmail.com
September 12, 2025 at 3:34 AM
“European cities, like Paris, were smart to focus on air pollution rather than climate change. Air pollution is more real for people. You can see it, smell it. People liked what @annehidalgo.bsky.social did.” — My comments on leadership & urban transformation
To be clear, cities should do both.
To be clear, cities should do both.
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MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
December 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
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Again, if people are telling you that Democrats are the problem, that Kamala Harris was the problem, that Joe Biden was the problem after all the shit Trump is ACTIVELY DOING RIGHT NOW...
THEY ARE LYING TO YOU...
With a purpose.
THEY ARE LYING TO YOU...
With a purpose.
December 8, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Again, if people are telling you that Democrats are the problem, that Kamala Harris was the problem, that Joe Biden was the problem after all the shit Trump is ACTIVELY DOING RIGHT NOW...
THEY ARE LYING TO YOU...
With a purpose.
THEY ARE LYING TO YOU...
With a purpose.
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Normal Person:
"Wow. I didn't vote for Kamala Harris. She said over and over what Trump was going to do to us, and she was right. I should have voted for her."
Leftists:
"Wow. I didn't vote for Kamala Harris. You really should have provided a better candidate who could have earned my vote."
"Wow. I didn't vote for Kamala Harris. She said over and over what Trump was going to do to us, and she was right. I should have voted for her."
Leftists:
"Wow. I didn't vote for Kamala Harris. You really should have provided a better candidate who could have earned my vote."
December 7, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Normal Person:
"Wow. I didn't vote for Kamala Harris. She said over and over what Trump was going to do to us, and she was right. I should have voted for her."
Leftists:
"Wow. I didn't vote for Kamala Harris. You really should have provided a better candidate who could have earned my vote."
"Wow. I didn't vote for Kamala Harris. She said over and over what Trump was going to do to us, and she was right. I should have voted for her."
Leftists:
"Wow. I didn't vote for Kamala Harris. You really should have provided a better candidate who could have earned my vote."
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Vaccines have been studied extensively, and vaccination schedules have been tested to maximize protection against disease. Changing or weakening that vaccination schedule puts kids and communities at risk of infection. theunbiasedscipod.substack.com/p/evidence-n...
Evidence, Not Guesswork: The Childhood Vaccine Schedule is Very Intentional
Responding to the claim that “we haven’t tested the full schedule” with the layers of evidence we have
theunbiasedscipod.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Vaccines have been studied extensively, and vaccination schedules have been tested to maximize protection against disease. Changing or weakening that vaccination schedule puts kids and communities at risk of infection. theunbiasedscipod.substack.com/p/evidence-n...
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excited to award my kids the Burger King Peace Prize this weekend
December 5, 2025 at 6:14 PM
excited to award my kids the Burger King Peace Prize this weekend
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