Jan Van Pelt

Jan Van Pelt

@janvp.bsky.social

Mediator. Retired progressive clergy. Resister.“They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds.”

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Bill Clinton: "I think Congress made a mistake not protesting turning the Rose Garden into what looks like the entrance to Liberace's bathroom"

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You're telling me that parents send their child to school, didn't hear from said child for four days then on the fifth day that child showed up as a different gender and none of these parents reported it to the police or tell their story to the media????

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The planet isn't "dying" of natural causes. Forests don't just disappear. They are logged. Oceans don't just choke. They are polluted. Rivers don't just dry up. They are diverted. This is not a tragedy. It's ecocide. And ecocide should be a crime. #StopEcocide

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I have lived in Texas for over 20 years. I have been amazed at the buffoons, cons, and crooks Texans will vote for as long as there is an (R) behind their name. Case in point, Texas voted for lying Ted Cruz (R) over Beto O'Rourke (D). #VoteBlue #VoteTalarico

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The people who screamed that children would be emotionally scarred by hearing a drag queen read “Jack and the Beanstalk” are OK with those same children watching Pete Hegseth’s livestream of a man getting his brains blown out by a bunch of guns.

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We can seek justice in this country without glorifying violence and turning an execution into a grotesque public spectacle. What this criminal did was abhorrent and must be punished—but we as a country cannot condone livestreaming a man’s death for entertainment.

apnews.comPentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamedThe Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the execution would be “public.”

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NEW: What comes after Trump and RFK Jr.? Public health has been decimated but what was there before wasn’t enough either. I'm launching the Public Health for America Working Group to build a public health system that can't be broken.

nytimes.comA Public Health-Minded Senator Asks: What Comes After Trump and Kennedy?Senator Patty Murray, a former chair of the Senate health committee, is forming a group of experts to examine how to insulate the C.D.C. from political interference.

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Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! They are here! Well they been here all summer, but mostly in Seattle. Now they are branching out to the suburbs! Fuck! These fuckers are kidnapping folks in my neighborhood! Good folks, hard working folks. Folks need to get organized. Seattle, you know what to do. #ICEoutofSEATTLE

How embarrassing to be so dumb

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump on global warming: "That didn't work out because the planet got cooler. In fact, you know the ice that was melting? It right now just set a record. It's the biggest ice cube that's ever been in the history of the world ... they're doing the scam with data centers, by the way."