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Craig Paterson

@cspaterson.bsky.social
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Retired United Methodist pastor living near Napa, CA.

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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
“Despite the Trump administration’s claims, many of the immigrants sent to El Salvador had entered the United States legally and were actively complying with U.S. immigration rules.” The more we learn about ElSalvadorGate, the worse this outrage gets. . . www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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Trump’s 48-hour scramble to fly migrants to a Salvadoran prison
The administration rounded up some of the Venezuelans two days before the flights took off, pressing forward even as Venezuela agreed to accept deportees.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
And then on Sunday’s they’ll claim their religiosity. Disgusting.
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
It's not the dolls you blithering idiot.
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VoteVets @votevets.org · 04/05/2025
🔥🔥Rep. Chrissy Houlahan just lit it up: Trump shrugs off the Constitution like it’s optional. Congress is barely passing anything real. And the GOP? They literally voted to not vote. This isn’t gridlock—it’s surrender. And it should piss every American off.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 05/05/2025
Survivors of sexual abuse and those who monitor the Roman Catholic Church’s handling of abuse cases are hoping to persuade cardinals to make the issue a priority when considering who should next be pope.
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Survivors Urge Cardinals to Discuss Sex Abuse Crisis in Choosing Next Pope
Pope Francis is credited with addressing the issue more strongly than his predecessors did, but clerical abuse remains a ruinous issue for the Roman Catholic Church.
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
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VoteVets @votevets.org · 05/05/2025
On this day, we honor the bravery of the Mexican Army at the Battle of Puebla, as they defended their nation against the French Empire. We also recognize the many Mexican Americans who have proudly served in the US Military and continue to embody that same courage.
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VoteVets @votevets.org · 05/05/2025
FWIW, movies being made outside of the U.S.A. are not a national security threat.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
The Trump family's crypto business just got a huge $2 billion investment from a UAE government-backed firm. We are witnessing a foreign government effectively bribe the President of the United States — right out in the open. Hello?
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Trump Crypto Corruption Intensifies as Abu Dhabi Firm Invests $2 Billion
President Donald Trump and his family are deeply involved in the world of cryptocurrency as his administration seeks to
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Stop looking for fascism to show up in some louder, more violent, more obvious way that will move you to act against it. It's here. Act now. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/americans-...
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 05/05/2025
Trump’s back in the White House—and his kids are cashing in. Saudi towers, Qatari golf deals, crypto schemes. This isn’t public service. It’s a shakedown. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/the-trump-...
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The Trump Crime Family Business: Selling America from the Inside
While Trump sits in the Oval Office, his sons are cutting foreign deals—from Saudi towers to Qatari golf resorts.
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Stop looking for fascism to show up in some louder, more violent, more obvious way that will move you to act against it. It's here. Act now. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/americans-...
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Americans, Stop Waiting for America to Look Like What You Think Fascism Will Look Like
America is tragically deceptive right now.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
“I’m humbly fulfilling my small part in this…constitutional paradigm,” said Judge Lamberth. “If our nation is to thrive for another 250 years, each co-equal branch of govt must be willing to courageously exert the authority entrusted to it by our Founders.” www.americaamerica.news/p/look-to-th...
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Look to the Judges
While Trump despicably denies his duty to uphold the Constitution, let's take strength from judges who oppose his regime's illegal actions
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Dear Historians of the Future: you’re asking how this could’ve happened again in 2024?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Tyrants view educated citizens as their greatest enemy. Slaveholders stopped the enslaved from learning to read. Nazis burned books. Dictators censor media. That’s why Trump is attacking education, science, and the arts – to prevent us from learning. It's Fascism 101. [Cartoon by Adam Zyglis]
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
My driver, Mohammed, quickly grew animated: "How can the worst person in the world be given the greatest country in the world to lead?" he remarked. "It's disgusting." It really is, Mohammed. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/when-the-w...
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When The Worst Person is Leading the Greatest Nation
I’d just hopped into a cab in Toronto, on my way to the airport after a weekend speaking engagement.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Trump's executive order to gut funding for public media (including NPR and PBS) will cut off news sources for millions. That’s exactly what he wants: to exert even more control over the information that the public receives – or doesn’t even receive at all. It’s a hallmark of dictatorship.
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VoteVets @votevets.org · 02/05/2025
Pete Buttigieg is headed back to Iowa for a May 13 town hall in Cedar Rapids, talking Veterans' issues and the damage done by Trump-Vance policies. It’s his first public event since leaving the Cabinet—hosted by VoteVets Action Fund. MORE: www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/p...
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Craig Paterson @cspaterson.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
So… when are MAGA “Christians” going to recognize how utterly disgusting this man is?
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
This isn't hypothetical. The coming days are bringing higher prices and disrupted supply chains, this time not because of a pandemic or a war, but self-inflicted by our country's government under this president.
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
No question. The Dems failed to do the bare minimum to verify the results. A tragedy.
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
“The US is treading the path followed by democracies that descended into authoritarianism and dictatorship, four former U.S. ambassadors to countries that underwent autocratic takeovers have warned.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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US ex-ambassadors warn of slide into authoritarianism amid ‘climate of fear’
Four ex-heads of US embassies in nations that swung from democracies to dictatorships say landscape eerily familiar
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AltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · 01/05/2025
RESIST news.yahoo.com/news/thousan...
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Thousands to rally against Trump, Musk in nationwide May Day protests
Protests against what organizers are calling a "billionaire takeover" are planned in every U.S. state.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Find a May Day event and go !!!
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Catholic Cardinal says the next pope must move against homosexuals because church doctrine has to be based on what Jesus said. Only problem? Jesus never said one single word about homosexuality. Or abortion. www.joemygod.com/2025/04/card...
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Cardinal: Next Pope Must Defy "Homosexual Lobby" - Joe.My.God.
“Doctrine is not the property of the pope, the bishops or the faithful. It must conform to the word of Jesus, no one can modify it. If Jesus says that marriage is between a man and a woman, no one can...
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Craig Paterson @cspaterson.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
As a former Army cryptanalyst in the Vietnam War era, I salute her!
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 01/05/2025
Julia Parsons, a U.S. Navy code breaker during World War II who was among the last survivors of a top-secret team of women that unscrambled messages to and from German U-boats, has died at 104.
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Julia Parsons, U.S. Navy Code Breaker During World War II, Dies at 104
Soon after her officer training in Washington, she was recruited to a classified code-breaking team. She kept her work secret for decades, even from her family.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
On May Day, it's more important than ever to remember that solidarity is necessary to overcome the imminent dangers we now face — from Donald J. Trump and the oligarchy. robertreich.substack.com/p/mayday-m…
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VoteVets @votevets.org · 01/05/2025
Trump’s VA quietly ended a key program that helped Veterans avoid foreclosure. Now thousands are at risk of losing their homes—with no replacement in place. Just more proof that Trump has zero respect for those who’ve served. MORE: www.npr.org/2025/05/01/n...
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Raskin: The lowest 100 day approval rating since polling began. He controlled the agenda. He controlled the House, the Senate— he’s got everything going for him and his numbers are in the gutter
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iWillVote.com Pollock ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 30/04/2025
we need to spend more time with @repdangoldman.bsky.social's clip. not a single penny toward disaster relief but TONS OF YOUR CASH to "protect" drumpf's golf habit 🧢 @mrsquirrel.bsky.social @zentrixter.bsky.social
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Canada is great, and Donald Trump shouldn't get a damn bit of credit for it. Canadians are just smarter. They chose to reject fascism instead of embracing it. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/canada-is-...
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Canada is Great—and Trump Has Nothing to Do With it
I owe Canada an apology.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Both evil and a moron. Abrego Garcia's lawyers should be racing back to court, seeking sanctions on govt. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/u...
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Trump Says He Could Free Abrego Garcia From El Salvador, but Won’t
Trump’s comments undermined previous statements by his top aides and were a blunt sign of his administration’s intention to double down and defy the courts.
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VoteVets @votevets.org · 30/04/2025
Imagine leaking classified strike plans from a personal phone to your family—putting U.S. Troops at risk—and then whining about media coverage. Pete Hegseth isn’t just reckless. He’s 100% unfit to lead. Fire him.
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Craig Paterson @cspaterson.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
These ghouls are out of control!
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
he is fucking insane and in a real democracy we'd have 25th A conversations www.wsj.com/us-news/trum...
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Trump Insists Wrongly Deported Man Has ‘MS-13’ Tattooed on His Knuckles
The president also says that he could ask for Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s return from a Salvadoran prison, but ‘I’m not the one making this decision’
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Trump Voters, Was losing your fundamental freedoms a fair trade for reinforcing your racism by ensuring that the qualified, experienced, rational woman of color didn’t get to continue the work she had already been adeptly doing? johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/was-this-w...
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Was This Worth It, Trump Voters?
A 100-Day MAGA Check-in
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Craig Paterson @cspaterson.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
So sad! I grew up on a family farm, and I know many farmers are always on the edge with their profits. Now… promised program funding is shut down and tariffs are threatening the foreign markets they depend on for survival. Let’s face it… Trump hates the farmers who got him elected.
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Wolf Conservation Center 🐺 @nywolforg.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
With just 16 Red Wolves known to remain in the wild, every wolf is essential + worth protecting. #SaveRedWolves
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Trump’s comments undermined previous statements by his top aides and were a blunt sign of his administration’s intention to double down and defy the courts. No Supreme Court can permit such blatant defiance to go unanswered. Your move, Mr. Chief Justice. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/u...
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Trump Says He Could Free Abrego Garcia From El Salvador, but Won’t
Trump’s comments undermined previous statements by his top aides and were a blunt sign of his administration’s intention to double down and defy the courts.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
The so-called “moderate” GOP position on Medicaid cuts is no cuts above $500 billion. Hello? That would mean 18 million children and 2 million adults with disabilities lose health care coverage, according to the latest estimates. What’s “moderate” about that?
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 29/04/2025
Facts are neither hostile nor political, they’re just facts. It’s telling that this administration is so desperate to hide the truth from the American public.
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Does Neil deGrasse Tyson Believe in God?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
On Workers Memorial Day, we mourn the 385 American workers who die every day due to dangerous working conditions. Meanwhile, Trump put a former Amazon exec in charge of worker health and safety and will shutter 11 regional OSHA offices. Make no mistake: these moves will cost workers their lives.
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
President Trump 2.0 has openly committed more impeachable abuses of power than all prior presidents combined, including Trump 1.0. The question isn’t whether he should be impeached, convicted, and removed from office but whether Republicans have the guts to do their job. www.cnn.com/2025/04/25/p...
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Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff says he ‘strongly’ agrees Trump needs to be impeached | CNN Politics
Georgia Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff told a voter in Georgia on Friday that he “strongly” agrees that President Donald Trump needs to be impeached.
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Politico @politico.com · 29/04/2025
Rep. David Valadao expressed deep concerns that many of his GOP peers are pushing politically toxic, and ultimately doomed, proposals to make deep cuts to Medicaid
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‘It's a dangerous situation’: GOP Rep. with most Medicaid constituents sends a warning
Rep. David Valadao is telling his leadership to tread carefully but not drawing a red line, at least for now.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Trump’s DOJ ordered ICE agents to conduct home raids without a warrant, in clear violation of the 4th Amendment. And three American children were just unlawfully deported, including one with cancer. Where is the outrage from the so-called “party of freedom”?
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VoteVets @votevets.org · 29/04/2025
Maybe if someone had sent Pete Hegseth a fact check over Signal, he would've gotten it right: Trump signed the Women, Peace, and Security Act in 2017.
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