Donal
@grumpyolddoc.bsky.social
Dad, Husband, Survivor, Retired Physician
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Sen. Kelly, "How many times in our country's history have you heard a president say that members of the Senate should be hanged, executed?"
December 1, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Sen. Kelly, "How many times in our country's history have you heard a president say that members of the Senate should be hanged, executed?"
Yes
Now ask were Trump and Biden both complicit by arming thousands of war crimes and a genocide over 2 years
news.sky.com/story/did-tr...
Now ask were Trump and Biden both complicit by arming thousands of war crimes and a genocide over 2 years
news.sky.com/story/did-tr...
Did Trump's defence secretary really commit a war crime?
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news.sky.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Yes
Now ask were Trump and Biden both complicit by arming thousands of war crimes and a genocide over 2 years
news.sky.com/story/did-tr...
Now ask were Trump and Biden both complicit by arming thousands of war crimes and a genocide over 2 years
news.sky.com/story/did-tr...
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Kelly: He runs around on stage talking about lethality and the warrior ethos.. That’s not the message that should be coming from the Secretary of Defense… He runs around on a stage like he’s a 12 year old playing army. It’s embarrassing.
December 1, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Kelly: He runs around on stage talking about lethality and the warrior ethos.. That’s not the message that should be coming from the Secretary of Defense… He runs around on a stage like he’s a 12 year old playing army. It’s embarrassing.
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⭕️ Hamas: Israel is Blocking Phase Two
Hamas official Husam Badran told AJ Mubasher that Israel is the sole barrier to advancing the Gaza ceasefire deal, accusing Tel Aviv of stalling while claiming “missing bodies” as a pretext.
➤ “In terms of numbers, the resistance currently has two bodies...
Hamas official Husam Badran told AJ Mubasher that Israel is the sole barrier to advancing the Gaza ceasefire deal, accusing Tel Aviv of stalling while claiming “missing bodies” as a pretext.
➤ “In terms of numbers, the resistance currently has two bodies...
December 1, 2025 at 2:21 PM
⭕️ Hamas: Israel is Blocking Phase Two
Hamas official Husam Badran told AJ Mubasher that Israel is the sole barrier to advancing the Gaza ceasefire deal, accusing Tel Aviv of stalling while claiming “missing bodies” as a pretext.
➤ “In terms of numbers, the resistance currently has two bodies...
Hamas official Husam Badran told AJ Mubasher that Israel is the sole barrier to advancing the Gaza ceasefire deal, accusing Tel Aviv of stalling while claiming “missing bodies” as a pretext.
➤ “In terms of numbers, the resistance currently has two bodies...
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Thou shalt not pretend that you’re at war with drug traffickers while pardoning drug traffickers.
Thou Shalt Not Murder Fishermen While Pardoning Drug Lords
This is evil.
www.thegodpodcast.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Thou shalt not pretend that you’re at war with drug traffickers while pardoning drug traffickers.
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Mark Kelly: "This president, when he says things like 'third world countries,' what is he really saying? I think what he's saying is he doesn't want brown people in our country. And that's disturbing. It's un-American."
November 30, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Mark Kelly: "This president, when he says things like 'third world countries,' what is he really saying? I think what he's saying is he doesn't want brown people in our country. And that's disturbing. It's un-American."
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Van Hollen: "It's either murder from the first strike if their whole theory is wrong, and I think the weight of the legal opinion is they've concocted this ridiculous legal theory. But even if you accept it, then it is a war crime. I do believe the secretary of defense should be held accountable"
November 30, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Van Hollen: "It's either murder from the first strike if their whole theory is wrong, and I think the weight of the legal opinion is they've concocted this ridiculous legal theory. But even if you accept it, then it is a war crime. I do believe the secretary of defense should be held accountable"
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Fascinating when the NYTimes decides to be a newspaper versus when they don't.
November 30, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Fascinating when the NYTimes decides to be a newspaper versus when they don't.
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Our economic system doesn’t work if 37% of people on food assistance are working full time. These companies are exploiting and stealing from their workers.
The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
November 30, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Our economic system doesn’t work if 37% of people on food assistance are working full time. These companies are exploiting and stealing from their workers.
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Alina Habba’s parents emigrated to the US from Iraq citing persecution.
November 30, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Alina Habba’s parents emigrated to the US from Iraq citing persecution.
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The president is a political cartoon of corruption come to life, a gaudy grifter who is selling off pardons and lining his pockets, building a golden ballroom and protecting his fellow sex predator elites, all the while regular Americans are suffering and struggling to make ends meet.
Run on *that*
Run on *that*
November 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The president is a political cartoon of corruption come to life, a gaudy grifter who is selling off pardons and lining his pockets, building a golden ballroom and protecting his fellow sex predator elites, all the while regular Americans are suffering and struggling to make ends meet.
Run on *that*
Run on *that*
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Ludwig Minelli, 92, died yesterday, before his 93rd birthday
“I am persuaded that we have to struggle in order to implement the last human right in our societies. The last human right is the right to make a decision on one's own end, & the possibility to have this end without risk & without pain."
“I am persuaded that we have to struggle in order to implement the last human right in our societies. The last human right is the right to make a decision on one's own end, & the possibility to have this end without risk & without pain."
November 30, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Ludwig Minelli, 92, died yesterday, before his 93rd birthday
“I am persuaded that we have to struggle in order to implement the last human right in our societies. The last human right is the right to make a decision on one's own end, & the possibility to have this end without risk & without pain."
“I am persuaded that we have to struggle in order to implement the last human right in our societies. The last human right is the right to make a decision on one's own end, & the possibility to have this end without risk & without pain."
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I agree
I don’t think that someone of a different religious or moral persuasion from me should be able to prohibit me making a choice I think is best for me
I do think there should be safeguards but I despise those who pervert that because of their own religious beliefs
apple.news/AtgTVh6ryRi2...
I don’t think that someone of a different religious or moral persuasion from me should be able to prohibit me making a choice I think is best for me
I do think there should be safeguards but I despise those who pervert that because of their own religious beliefs
apple.news/AtgTVh6ryRi2...
Dignitas founder dies by assisted suicide aged 92, group says — BBC News
Ludwig Minelli founded the group in 1998, which has since helped thousands of people to die.
apple.news
November 30, 2025 at 11:37 PM
I agree
I don’t think that someone of a different religious or moral persuasion from me should be able to prohibit me making a choice I think is best for me
I do think there should be safeguards but I despise those who pervert that because of their own religious beliefs
apple.news/AtgTVh6ryRi2...
I don’t think that someone of a different religious or moral persuasion from me should be able to prohibit me making a choice I think is best for me
I do think there should be safeguards but I despise those who pervert that because of their own religious beliefs
apple.news/AtgTVh6ryRi2...
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Its almost as though he were "the most openly corrupt president in US history"
"Trump has set free a private equity executive who had served less than two weeks of a seven-year sentence for his role in what prosecutors described as a $1.6 billion scheme that defrauded thousands of victims."
Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Its almost as though he were "the most openly corrupt president in US history"
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No child should go hungry simply because their parents are immigrants. As mayor, I’ll join @newyorkstateag.bsky.social in using every lever of government for the families who fear if they can afford tomorrow’s meals.
November 30, 2025 at 10:02 PM
No child should go hungry simply because their parents are immigrants. As mayor, I’ll join @newyorkstateag.bsky.social in using every lever of government for the families who fear if they can afford tomorrow’s meals.
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He’s letting white collar criminals walk free:
More than 1,000 people submitted statements attesting to their losses…‘hardworking, everyday people,’ including small business owners, farmers, veterans, teachers and nurses.
“I lost my whole life savings,” one wrote, “I am living from check to check.”
More than 1,000 people submitted statements attesting to their losses…‘hardworking, everyday people,’ including small business owners, farmers, veterans, teachers and nurses.
“I lost my whole life savings,” one wrote, “I am living from check to check.”
November 30, 2025 at 3:36 PM
He’s letting white collar criminals walk free:
More than 1,000 people submitted statements attesting to their losses…‘hardworking, everyday people,’ including small business owners, farmers, veterans, teachers and nurses.
“I lost my whole life savings,” one wrote, “I am living from check to check.”
More than 1,000 people submitted statements attesting to their losses…‘hardworking, everyday people,’ including small business owners, farmers, veterans, teachers and nurses.
“I lost my whole life savings,” one wrote, “I am living from check to check.”
Ignore the courts
Ignore judicial rulings
Extra-judicial deportations
To add to extrajudicial assassinations / war crimes
America has fallen to Neo-nazis
Ignore judicial rulings
Extra-judicial deportations
To add to extrajudicial assassinations / war crimes
America has fallen to Neo-nazis
WELKER: Did you defy the court's order Madam Secretary?
KRISTI NOEM: No. That's one of the things we continue to face in this country -- activist judges who are using radical decisions that have no standing and no grounds
KRISTI NOEM: No. That's one of the things we continue to face in this country -- activist judges who are using radical decisions that have no standing and no grounds
November 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Ignore the courts
Ignore judicial rulings
Extra-judicial deportations
To add to extrajudicial assassinations / war crimes
America has fallen to Neo-nazis
Ignore judicial rulings
Extra-judicial deportations
To add to extrajudicial assassinations / war crimes
America has fallen to Neo-nazis
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Translation: “We’ll continue to ignore lawful court orders with impunity while blaming everyone else for our moral failures.”
November 30, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Translation: “We’ll continue to ignore lawful court orders with impunity while blaming everyone else for our moral failures.”
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Undermining and delegitimizing independent judges and courts. The tool of the German Nazis and the tool of the Trump administration.
November 30, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Undermining and delegitimizing independent judges and courts. The tool of the German Nazis and the tool of the Trump administration.
No. We will not effing bail them out again, we are still paying the price for doing so the first time, decades later
Playing with Fire.
British banks expect their capital requirements to be eased.
Lower capital requirements and higher leverage to be permitted as post-2008 crash reforms scrapped.
Banks will do more gambling to boost profits. Public purse will bear the cost of bailouts.
archive.ph/hygat
British banks expect their capital requirements to be eased.
Lower capital requirements and higher leverage to be permitted as post-2008 crash reforms scrapped.
Banks will do more gambling to boost profits. Public purse will bear the cost of bailouts.
archive.ph/hygat
Lenders gear up for loosening of capital rules by Bank of England
Bankers are expecting easing of leverage ratio as part of forthcoming review
www.ft.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:34 PM
No. We will not effing bail them out again, we are still paying the price for doing so the first time, decades later
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Yikes 😳
Campbell's Soup Exec Allegedly Caught Calling Products 'Sh*t For F—king Poor People' In Secret Audio Recording
www.comicsands.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Yikes 😳
What ceasefire ?
Trump lied, and green lit Netanyahu to continue his genocide
Trump lied, and green lit Netanyahu to continue his genocide
Israeli forces carry out attacks in Gaza, breaching ceasefire - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-forces-carry-out-attacks-gaza-breaching-ceasefire
Israeli forces carry out attacks in Gaza, breaching ceasefire
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<div class="field field-field-text"><p dir="LTR">Israeli forces carried out attacks across multiple areas in the Gaza Strip on Sunday in breach of the ceasefire agreement, according to Wafa news agency.</p>
<p dir="LTR">Israeli troops conducted intense shelling and aerial attacks from helicopters east of al-Bureij refugee camp, in central Gaza. Israeli warplanes also carried out six air strikes east of Rafah, in southern Gaza.</p>
<p dir="LTR">In Khan Younis, Israeli forces shelled a house in the town of Bani Suheila. There were no immediate reports of casualties in any of the attacks.</p>
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www.middleeasteye.net
November 30, 2025 at 2:21 PM
What ceasefire ?
Trump lied, and green lit Netanyahu to continue his genocide
Trump lied, and green lit Netanyahu to continue his genocide
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The Moment to Pick a Side Has Come
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
The Moment to Pick a Side Has Come
“You must refuse illegal orders.” That’s what was said in the video made by six Democratic members of Congress.
open.substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:31 AM
The Moment to Pick a Side Has Come
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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Even a decade ago I'd have far sooner predicted that the US would succumb to authoritarian rule than that it would become a state where vaccines were unavailable.
But if we don't throw RFK Jr. out on his ass, we're headed there fast.
But if we don't throw RFK Jr. out on his ass, we're headed there fast.
RFK Jr. is overhauling the program that helps preserve Americans' access to vaccines
A Kennedy adviser said he wants to preserve the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. The health secretary's anti-vaccine allies prefer it collapse.
www.politico.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Even a decade ago I'd have far sooner predicted that the US would succumb to authoritarian rule than that it would become a state where vaccines were unavailable.
But if we don't throw RFK Jr. out on his ass, we're headed there fast.
But if we don't throw RFK Jr. out on his ass, we're headed there fast.
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Finally got around to reading Prasad's actual memo about the purported deaths in children from COVID-19 vaccines, and it's kind of amazing in the worst ways possible.
At one point, he says (regarding rare adverse events):
"Causality is easy to assess in a randomized trial..."
At one point, he says (regarding rare adverse events):
"Causality is easy to assess in a randomized trial..."
November 30, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Finally got around to reading Prasad's actual memo about the purported deaths in children from COVID-19 vaccines, and it's kind of amazing in the worst ways possible.
At one point, he says (regarding rare adverse events):
"Causality is easy to assess in a randomized trial..."
At one point, he says (regarding rare adverse events):
"Causality is easy to assess in a randomized trial..."