O.P.Dire

O.P.Dire

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Author & Creator. Resist tyranny create change.

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Does it take a tyrant to defeat a tyrant? If you like weighty political intrigue sprinkled with dark humor (like House of Cards), then I wrote this novel for you. Free on KU and available on Kindle or paperback. Please check it out and and let me know what you think here on Bluesky! 🦋 📚 💙

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Bob Cesca
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"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." —Karis Nemik, Andor, S1, E12

O.P.Dire
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Why not just the Golden Rule? Wouldn’t “Treat others as you would want to be treated” cover the concern over moral decline and not tread on the separation of church and state? www.texastribune.org/2025/05/24/t...

texastribune.orgTexas will require public school classrooms to display Ten Commandments under bill nearing passageThe House has preliminarily approved Senate Bill 10 even though a similar Louisiana law was deemed unconstitutional. Supporters say Christianity is core to U.S. history.
O.P.Dire
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Be careful what you worship. Worship money and things and you will never have enough. Worship power and you will always need more. Worship your own intellect and you will end up feeling like a fraud. Worship your own beauty and you will always feel ugly.

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Acyn
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Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

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Trump wants Harvard to apologize yet he has never apologized for having dinner with a holocaust denier and he also recently nominated a US Attorney for DC that praised a dude that sported a Hitler mustache and said “Hitler should have finished the job” www.politico.com/news/2022/11...

politico.comDonald Trump dined with white nationalist, Holocaust denier Nick FuentesThe former president hosted Fuentes and Kanye West at Mar-a-Lago. He said it was “quick and uneventful.”
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Very alarming: “In the minutes after DOGE accessed the NLRB's systems, someone with an IP address in Russia started trying to log in…Whoever was attempting to log in was using one of the newly created DOGE accounts — and the person had the correct username and password” www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

npr.org5 takeaways about NPR's reporting on the whistleblower report about DOGE at the NLRBHere's a summary of NPR's findings about the report that a whistleblower filed to Congress about how DOGE violated security protocols and could have removed sensitive labor data.
O.P.Dire
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If true, DOGE, and Musk’s Starlink which is being used to traffic data from government agencies, could be a Trojan horse for Russia to gather vast amounts of sensitive US data.

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Did the Trump administration game out any scenarios before launching a trade war with China or did it just trust the dear leader’s gut? fortune.com/2025/04/14/c...

fortune.comChina has stopped exporting rare earths to everyone, not just the U.S., cutting off critical materials for tech, autos, aerospace, and defenseExports of rare earths now require special licenses, but Beijing has yet to fully establish a system for issuing them, the New York Times reported.
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Yeah, so this sentiment only lasted a few hours - Main Street will get screwed by even higher tariffs on China while Wall Street makes some quick billions from Trump swinging the markets with his course reversal on tariffs for the rest of the world. www.nbcchicago.com/news/busines...

nbcchicago.comTreasury Secretary Bessent says ‘it's Main Street's turn' after Wall Street grew wealthy for 4 decades“The Trump agenda is focused on Main Street. It’s Main Street’s turn. … It’s Main Street’s turn to drive investment,” Bessent said.
O.P.Dire
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I hope someone is looking at the trading activity of Trump’s inner circle who are likely profiting off knowing his next move ahead of the wider market.

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Middle class share of income has fallen for 50 years. Cheaper imports help maintain standards of living despite stagnant real incomes. Trump tariffs are a regressive tax and make the goods the middle class consume more expensive. All to fund tax cuts for the rich. There will be revolution.

O.P.Dire
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The prosperity doctrine has led Christians to believe that disparity of wealth is a reflection of relative faithfulness rather than an issue they can, and should, help remedy.

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Acyn@acyn.bsky.social

Sanders: We are not a poor country! There is no excuse on God’s earth for people to have to choose between food and the medicine they need to stay alive.

O.P.Dire
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Anyone else wondering how Giuliani came up with the funds to satisfy this judgement? Didnt think Attorneys or Mayors legitimately earn that much… www.reuters.com/legal/giulia...

reuters.comGiuliani has fully satisfied Georgia election workers' $148 million judgmentRudolph Giuliani has "fully satisfied" a $148 million judgment won by two Georgia election workers who said he defamed them by falsely claiming they helped steal the 2020 U.S. presidential election from Donald Trump, a Monday court filing shows.
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Radically conservative policies kill people.

Jon Cooper@joncooper-us.bsky.social

Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, ProPublica’s analysis shows. As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.

propublica.orgTexas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
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You know the hate has gone too far when a Jewish man opens fire on two people he thought were Palestinians but were actually Israelis. Then one of the Israeli victims posts “death to all Arabs” online thinking the assailant was a Palestinian. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

theguardian.comJewish man mistakes two Israeli tourists for Palestinians and opens fire on them in MiamiVictims reportedly posted ‘death to Arabs’ on social media after shooting while suspect held on attempted murder charges
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This is how bullies try to get their way. The AP is a global news organization and was reporting using both the Gulf of Mexico and Gulf of America names so as not to confuse their audiences around the world. The mainstream press need to unify in support of the AP. www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/m...

cnn.comThe White House bans the AP indefinitely over the use of ‘Gulf of Mexico’ | CNN BusinessThe Trump White House said Friday that The Associated Press is banned from the Oval Office and Air Force One indefinitely.
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There is hope! Danielle Sassoon may have an ultra conservative resume but at least she has the bravery and honor to stand up against blatant corruption as Bondi and her cronies continue to weaponize the DOJ and engage in blatant corruption. apnews.com/article/new-...

apnews.comOrder to drop New York Mayor Adams' case roils Justice Department as high-ranking officials resignDanielle Sassoon, a Republican serving as interim U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced her resignation in an email to her staff.