John Diehl
@jldteach.bsky.social
Educator, M.A. Political Science, Amateur Radio KC3CLS. Praying democracy survives..
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Where does the line between enforcing U.S. law & utter inhumanity lie? We don’t need to carefully parse its precise placement in order to understand that what this administration is doing has crossed it, is utterly reprehensible, and will be condemned by history open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
An Angry Judge in the Abrego Garcia Case
Has the federal judiciary reached critical mass?
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July 12, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Where does the line between enforcing U.S. law & utter inhumanity lie? We don’t need to carefully parse its precise placement in order to understand that what this administration is doing has crossed it, is utterly reprehensible, and will be condemned by history open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
Thank you Joyce, for keeping s focused. We really need to shut down the country with repeated national strikes!
1/ If Justice Barrett thinks we need to go back to what the Founding Fathers intended, I’ve got news for her. Their biggest concern was avoiding tyranny. So they created 3 branches of gov’t & divvied up the power the people (that’s us) were allowing the gov’t to use to create order for all of us.
June 28, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Thank you Joyce, for keeping s focused. We really need to shut down the country with repeated national strikes!
The U.S. needs to stop allowing Israel telling us what to do.
June 20, 2025 at 1:30 PM
The U.S. needs to stop allowing Israel telling us what to do.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a post on X that Israel would "exact the full price from the tyrants in Tehran". I wonder if they're looking at themselves in the mirror? You could be empathetic, but then you remember the hospitals Israel bombed in Gaza.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Israeli hospital hit by Iranian missile strike
Israel called the attack "criminal", while Iran said it had targeted a site nearby and not the hospital itself.
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June 19, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a post on X that Israel would "exact the full price from the tyrants in Tehran". I wonder if they're looking at themselves in the mirror? You could be empathetic, but then you remember the hospitals Israel bombed in Gaza.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
What are you going to do when they come for you?
Please stop saying …
“We are heading into authoritarianism”
“This is what dictators do”
Or some other weak shit.
Fascism is HERE. NOW.
We were fucked the moment SCOTUS granted absolute immunity.
There is only one path now:
Unrelenting, uncompromising RESISTANCE.
Welcome to the fight of your life.
“We are heading into authoritarianism”
“This is what dictators do”
Or some other weak shit.
Fascism is HERE. NOW.
We were fucked the moment SCOTUS granted absolute immunity.
There is only one path now:
Unrelenting, uncompromising RESISTANCE.
Welcome to the fight of your life.
June 14, 2025 at 12:32 AM
What are you going to do when they come for you?
A wonderful app that really gives appreciation for nature. Discovered birds at my home I never knew were around.
I see lots of pics a beautiful birds on here and thank you for them.
For those of you who are interested in birds, I recommend the free “Merlin Bird ID” app. A friend introduced me to it and it is wonderful. It uses your phone’s mic to identify bird calls near you and teaches you about each bird.
For those of you who are interested in birds, I recommend the free “Merlin Bird ID” app. A friend introduced me to it and it is wonderful. It uses your phone’s mic to identify bird calls near you and teaches you about each bird.
June 12, 2025 at 12:01 PM
A wonderful app that really gives appreciation for nature. Discovered birds at my home I never knew were around.
Right on !!! This is, in my strong opinion, the only tactic which will now work. We really need a NATIONAL STRIKE with targeted goals.
We must not meet violence with violence. Not this weekend. Not ever. Our strongest weapon is silence—silence in our labor. When we stop working, the machine breaks. I’ve already stopped. I won’t fuel this regime. Maybe it’s time we all say it: Hell no, we won’t go to work.
June 11, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Right on !!! This is, in my strong opinion, the only tactic which will now work. We really need a NATIONAL STRIKE with targeted goals.
I am a veteran who has taken my usa flag down. I am heart broken and do not wish to support the Trump takeover
Marine veterans are speaking out against the troop deployment in Los Angeles. Across the country, they’re taking down their American flags that have flown in front of their homes for years. Remember, we have friends everywhere.
June 9, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I am a veteran who has taken my usa flag down. I am heart broken and do not wish to support the Trump takeover
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Marine veterans are speaking out against the troop deployment in Los Angeles. Across the country, they’re taking down their American flags that have flown in front of their homes for years. Remember, we have friends everywhere.
June 9, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Marine veterans are speaking out against the troop deployment in Los Angeles. Across the country, they’re taking down their American flags that have flown in front of their homes for years. Remember, we have friends everywhere.
So very true. Have read several old books recently and it is amazing what experience and wisdom does to enhance understanding.
June 6, 2025 at 7:38 PM
So very true. Have read several old books recently and it is amazing what experience and wisdom does to enhance understanding.
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If Trump and Musk break up, who gets custody of Scott Jennings?
June 5, 2025 at 6:10 PM
If Trump and Musk break up, who gets custody of Scott Jennings?
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🕸️🃏 "Zelensky has no cards…" they said
June 1, 2025 at 9:11 PM
🕸️🃏 "Zelensky has no cards…" they said
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if it takes years, has to be consequences for all these people, and even more for those who gave the orders.
NYT: “The episode was recorded by someone who was sitting in Mr. Nadler’s office. In the video, an officer with the Federal Protective Service, part of the Department of Homeland Security, is shown demanding access to a private area inside the office.”
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May 31, 2025 at 10:57 PM
if it takes years, has to be consequences for all these people, and even more for those who gave the orders.
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...not too subtle reminder...
May 28, 2025 at 12:07 AM
...not too subtle reminder...
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'Out on the wily, windy moors
We'd roll and fall in green...'
God its so nice to be somewhere else
#Cornwall #Sundaythoughts #Coast
We'd roll and fall in green...'
God its so nice to be somewhere else
#Cornwall #Sundaythoughts #Coast
May 25, 2025 at 12:39 PM
'Out on the wily, windy moors
We'd roll and fall in green...'
God its so nice to be somewhere else
#Cornwall #Sundaythoughts #Coast
We'd roll and fall in green...'
God its so nice to be somewhere else
#Cornwall #Sundaythoughts #Coast
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#ProudBlue In the dead of the night, these Republicans voted to:
✔️Gut Medicaid and Medicare
✔️Gut SNAP
✔️Increase your electric bill
✔️Increase college costs
We will NOT forget.
#HealthCareCutsKill
✔️Gut Medicaid and Medicare
✔️Gut SNAP
✔️Increase your electric bill
✔️Increase college costs
We will NOT forget.
#HealthCareCutsKill
May 22, 2025 at 10:14 PM
#ProudBlue In the dead of the night, these Republicans voted to:
✔️Gut Medicaid and Medicare
✔️Gut SNAP
✔️Increase your electric bill
✔️Increase college costs
We will NOT forget.
#HealthCareCutsKill
✔️Gut Medicaid and Medicare
✔️Gut SNAP
✔️Increase your electric bill
✔️Increase college costs
We will NOT forget.
#HealthCareCutsKill
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multiple horrific crimes can happen at once. why is this so hard for people to grasp.
The real horrific crime is happening to Palestinians.
May 22, 2025 at 3:13 PM
multiple horrific crimes can happen at once. why is this so hard for people to grasp.
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The one who does not remember history is bound to live through it again
George Santayana
George Santayana
May 19, 2025 at 8:07 AM
The one who does not remember history is bound to live through it again
George Santayana
George Santayana
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May 10, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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Trump is “considering” suspending habeas corpus?
Are you waving flags while cheering this?
Then you’re not patriots. You're bootlickers in red hats.
This isn’t strength. It’s cowardice dressed as law and order.
Are you waving flags while cheering this?
Then you’re not patriots. You're bootlickers in red hats.
This isn’t strength. It’s cowardice dressed as law and order.
May 10, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Trump is “considering” suspending habeas corpus?
Are you waving flags while cheering this?
Then you’re not patriots. You're bootlickers in red hats.
This isn’t strength. It’s cowardice dressed as law and order.
Are you waving flags while cheering this?
Then you’re not patriots. You're bootlickers in red hats.
This isn’t strength. It’s cowardice dressed as law and order.
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He’s less a president and more a broadcast signal from a dying democracy - static, chaos, and the faint sound of sirens in the distance.
May 3, 2025 at 12:56 PM
He’s less a president and more a broadcast signal from a dying democracy - static, chaos, and the faint sound of sirens in the distance.
100 years later: back to total evil.
“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (April 10, 1925).
April 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
100 years later: back to total evil.