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IrRev. Michael E Schoonover
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I'm ah "walking contradiction,
partly truth and partly fiction!"
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How do we respond to this catastrophe? https://robertreich.substack.com/p/seeking-the-good
August 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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“The Trump administration is indeed discussing this idea behind the scenes …. In their most serious form, these conversations have revolved around attempting to denaturalize American citizens and deport them to other countries, including El Salvador.”
April 14, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Sorry Trump!
The trade deficit isn't bad,
and it's not a
National Emergency!
It's actually an indicator of
America's economic
strength throughout
the entire world.
So tell us,
Genius Donald,
Exactly when and where
did you study economics?

theconversation.com/the-trade-de...
The trade deficit isn’t an emergency – it’s a sign of America’s strength
The word ‘deficit’ may sound alarming, but America’s trade gap is a sign of its financial and economic dominance.
theconversation.com
April 9, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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March 19, 2025 at 3:00 AM
About the look you'd expect from a proud closeted Trump supporter when they've been totally outed, embarrassed and humiliated!!!

www.dailydot.com/memes/leslie...
‘Coming out as a Trump voter’: How Leslie Bibb's 'The White Lotus' moment became a viral meme
"Fiscally conservative and socially liberal guys on Hinge."
www.dailydot.com
March 15, 2025 at 10:39 AM
"...many people wish that the word were not real, since they do not much care for it. However (and if we are the first ones to break this to you we are very sorry), wishing that something were not so is not a terribly effective way of effecting change in this world."

wordsmarts.com/anyway-anywa...
Is it “Anyway” or “Anyways”?
"Anyway" and "anyways" are often swapped in everyday conversation — much to the chagrin of grammarians. Is this informal quirk acceptable use?
wordsmarts.com
March 9, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Hello #eggsky. When I am not obsessing over egg prices, I write music. I just released an album and I hope you don't mind me sharing it here. The title track happens to center around solidarity with #Ukraine and #Palestine.

I hope you like it but if you don't, I honestly don't care. 🌻🍉
Hello #musicsky! I just released a new album. It's full of political themes. The title track, #sunflowers #watermelons is centered around solidarity with #Ukraine and #Palestine.

Please give it a listen and I hope you like it. #bandcamp #newmusic #indiemusic #alternative #songwriter
Sunflowers Watermelons, by Gailen
13 track album
gailen.bandcamp.com
March 2, 2025 at 6:06 PM
If he can't make good on his promises to bring food prices down, especially eggs, what makes them think he can make good on anything else he has promised?
He says he can bring Peace to the World but can't control local egg prices?
Seriously?

messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/dynamic/rend...
Nicholas Kristof's latest: The Thing That Could Be Trump’s Undoing
messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com
March 8, 2025 at 12:24 PM
"A tinderbox conflict in Congo is ready to explode"
- - - today on Reuters
www.reuters.com/graphics/CON...
A tinderbox conflict in Congo is ready to explode
A conflict that has simmered in Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern borderlands for years is set to erupt into a wider regional war.
www.reuters.com
March 6, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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I think Americans have to understand things won't go back to normal and no one is coming to save us. The self destructive decision to vote for Trump is going to cause long term pain, damage and weakness. We have to survive and try to rebuild something better. Generational effort sadly.
March 2, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Just looked up this no-so-new,
but fast emerging
un-American,
anti- democratic
political party,

"The Re-Trump-licans!"

*Re = 2nd time around,
as in, dog returning to vomit!

*Trump = the vomit

*lic= as in, "lic-king his"

*ans = minus 2nd vowel, "u!"

en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Retrump...
en.m.wiktionary.org
March 2, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Frump & Cronies can't spin this total debacle off on anybody except Re-Trump-licans!!!

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘Bewildering’: US media and politicians react to Trump’s televised attack on Zelenskyy
The showdown between the US president and the Ukrainian leader dumbfounded various outlets and politicos
www.theguardian.com
March 2, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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Democracies stand with Ukraine.
March 1, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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New JWST image dropped: NGC 2283.
ESA chose this spiral galaxy to be Picture Of The Month (POTM) for February 2025.

ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Leroy
esawebb.org/images/potm2...
February 28, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Donald Trump is treating the destruction of a democracy as a political show — throwing Ukraine to the wolves and doing a favor for Putin.

It's shameful and dangerous.

I've been to Ukraine, as have many Senate Republicans. I hope they speak up. Millions of lives are at stake.
Live updates: Trump cuts short talks with Ukraine’s Zelenskyy after Oval Office blow up
President Donald Trump has cut short talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy after he and and Vice President JD Vance berated the Ukraine’s leader in the Oval Office.
apnews.com
February 28, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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HAYES: “The United States siding with Putin against democratic allies will have massive consequences for global politics for decades to come.”
March 1, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Bye bye Miss American Pie!
Took my Chevy to the levy
But the levy was dry...
And "good ol' boys"
Drinking whiskey
and rye singing,
"This will be
the day
that I
di
e
!
"
March 1, 2025 at 6:18 AM
'Free world needs a new leader’, says EU foreign chief after Trump Zelenskyy row.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
‘Free world needs a new leader’, says EU foreign chief after Trump Zelenskyy row
The EU foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, said ‘the free world needs a new leader’ and that it was up to Europeans to take this challenge
www.theguardian.com
March 1, 2025 at 6:14 AM
"No man ever steps in
the same river twice.’”
February 26, 2025 at 6:14 AM
aje.io/2w0xrq

"As liberal democracy is retreating before the forces of illiberalism, authoritarianism and techno-fascism, while facilitating their rise, there is a desperate need to formulate alternative societal and political imaginaries and the students of Serbia have shown the way."
The protests in Serbia are historic, the world shouldn’t ignore them
Amid democratic backsliding across Europe, Serbian students have shown the way to reimagining democracy and governance.
aje.io
February 25, 2025 at 1:21 PM