JR

JR

@joefromla.bsky.social

Old man from the past.

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Why do bibycle riders wear black while traveling a busy road at night? And why do motorcyclists do wheelies on busy streets at night?

He doesn't understand what the words "win" or "war" mean.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "It's a little unfair. You win a war, but they have no right to be doing what they're doing."

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“I will have such revenges on you both/ That all the world shall—I will do such things— / What they are, yet I know not, but they shall be / The terrors of the earth.” —King Lear

A word from one of the Church Fathers. Basil the Great (c. 330–379) “The bread you keep belongs to the hungry; the cloak in your closet belongs to the naked; the shoes rotting in your possession belong to the barefoot.”

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It's as if we took a Rodney Dangerfield character with dementia and elected him president

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Q: What goals do you have for '26 in Congress for your agenda? TRUMP: I have great executive orders. Like, water coming out of a sink. The water wouldn't come out. They had all sorts of restrictions. I took them off. Straws. They don't have to be paper anymore. I'd like to have all that confirmed.

Incredible hubris, exactly the sort of thinking that led to all of America's losses since WWII, for example, Iraq.

Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com

THIS WAS AN ACT OF WAR AND A VIOLATION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW. But put that aside for a second… What’s wild is that Marco Rubio isn’t even pretending anymore. He’s not hiding that the invasion of Venezuela is about oil. This is going to end up a dumpster fire…

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Masked agents dragged a teacher from her classroom. They pepper-sprayed a toddler. They shot a father of two, for the crime of trying to go to work. This is Trump’s America—and we need your help to keep exposing it. trib.al/n3qCUlv

trib.alTrump’s Immigration Nightmare: It Is Happening HereWith astonishing speed, the administration has toppled the most cherished pillars of a free society. And the experts agree: It’s all going to get much, much worse.

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Mike Johnson: "The WIC program, the nutrition program -- women, infants, and children -- that program won't be funded. FEMA won't be funded."

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Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"