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demop469.bsky.social @demop469.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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demop469.bsky.social @demop469.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
What’s their source for those New Jersey voter stats? Alex Jones?
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demop469.bsky.social @demop469.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
They’ll target PBS Masterpiece Theatre next.
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demop469.bsky.social @demop469.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Hughes should advocate for the rule in Japanese professional baseball: position players are ineligible to pitch.
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demop469.bsky.social @demop469.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I, too, am interested in knowing about people who own sheep and harvest wool therefrom; or who can turn spun flax plant thread into linen cloth.
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demop469.bsky.social @demop469.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
What keeps US airlines like United and American in the black are their co-branded credit card and loyalty programs. They are extremely profitable. Credit card programs don’t have the big operational costs associated with flight operations.
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demop469.bsky.social @demop469.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
There is a group of citizens who are members of DSA. But the candidates they support have run in, and many are winning in, Democratic Party primaries, not non-existent “DSA primaries.” Therefore the candidates themselves are Democrats. Period.
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demop469.bsky.social @demop469.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
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demop469.bsky.social @demop469.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
In the Dem Primary for Ill 7th CD this past March the winning candidate got 23.7% of votes while the four progressive candidates combined for 31% of the votes (8 other candidates divided rest of votes). The progressives failed to set aside personal ambitions and unite behind one candidate.
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demop469.bsky.social @demop469.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Are educators beginning to consider face-to-face oral exams of students, or having a student write in their presence
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demop469.bsky.social @demop469.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
I used to think conservatives were inspired by the Alamo - going down in a lost cause with guns blazing in defense of their beliefs. But now, they think Republicans should succumb to Trump’s power, Ukraine should succumb to Russia’s power, maybe Taiwan should succumb to China’s power.
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demop469.bsky.social @demop469.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Daniel Patrick Moynihan's 1993 essay, "Defining Deviancy Down," argued that America was coping with unprecedented levels of crime & violence by simply lowering its standards of what was considered “normal;” saying society can only handle a certain amount of deviant behavior; too much & we normalize
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demop469.bsky.social @demop469.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
I wouldn’t put it past Trump to throw Israel under the bus and cut a deal with Iran, blaming the whole mess on Netanyahu
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demop469.bsky.social @demop469.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
In Stefan Zweig’s “The World of Yesterday” (1942) he wistfully recalls a time - some time prior to 1914 - when a gentleman such as he could cross international borders without any documentation being required. Passports were useful to have but generally not essential. Can you verify this claim?
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demop469.bsky.social @demop469.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
On the other hand, he could be establishing useful policy precedents that will allow us (once back in charge) to shutdown the brutal mendacity of Fox “News”
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demop469.bsky.social @demop469.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
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demop469.bsky.social @demop469.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
I don’t know about Australia but in the US a lot of salaried workers make more money working than they will in retirement, and employers’ former mandatory retirement age rules have gone by the wayside, so if the job isn’t too stressful and pays pretty well, why retire?
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demop469.bsky.social @demop469.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Nobel Peace Prize winner President Theodore Roosevelt, Russo-Japanese War
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demop469.bsky.social @demop469.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
I’ve always been intrigued by Portugal’s dictator Salazar. A prominent academic, specifically an economist and professor at the University of Coimbra, who leveraged his intellectual background to become Portugal's authoritarian Prime Minister (1932-1968).
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demop469.bsky.social @demop469.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
One of those movies that critics like more than ordinary moviegoers.
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demop469.bsky.social @demop469.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
“Titicut Follies” (1967)
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demop469.bsky.social @demop469.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
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demop469.bsky.social @demop469.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
“Kill them all!” - Gothmog, LOTR
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demop469.bsky.social @demop469.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
The largest single ethnic ancestry group in the US are Germans, from a nation that adopted totalitarian Hitlerism and exterminationist anti-Semitism. Did they bring that imbedded mindset with them here? No, but by Miller’s reasoning they would be considered dangerous to democracy.
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demop469.bsky.social @demop469.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
The filling is largely irrelevant. It’s all about the crust. A pumpkin pie with a fantastic crust is better than a cherry pie with a crappy crust
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demop469.bsky.social @demop469.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
And ignoring repeated warnings of an imminent terrorist attack in the months leading up to 9-11.
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demop469.bsky.social @demop469.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Modeled after Electors of Holy Roman Empire I believe?
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demop469.bsky.social @demop469.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Also he slow-walked civil rights legislation - cooperated with Southern Dems. And he dumped Lefty VP Henry Wallace
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demop469.bsky.social @demop469.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Trump cutting off SNAP benefits reminds me of Cohaagen in “Total Recall” cutting off the air supply in the rebellious sector.
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demop469.bsky.social @demop469.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Arch for Albert Speer’s planned “Germania”
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demop469.bsky.social @demop469.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
In Madison WI, in 1973, left-wing activist Paul Soglin was elected mayor in an upset win. The local business community unexpectedly found him to be a pragmatic and constructive ally and ended up being largely supportive of his administration.
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demop469.bsky.social @demop469.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
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demop469.bsky.social @demop469.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
No one seems to be pointing out that military personnel have no training or experience in probable cause arrests, Miranda warnings, gathering evidence, working with district attorneys, writing reports, testifying in court. Police are a component of the criminal justice system.
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demop469.bsky.social @demop469.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
“I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.” - Woody Allen
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demop469.bsky.social @demop469.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
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demop469.bsky.social @demop469.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Dem slogan should be three words: Freedom from Fear.
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demop469.bsky.social @demop469.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
I’m not sure “military” dictatorship is the correct phrasing. A Trump dictatorship, yes. But it’s not going to be a junta of generals running things.
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demop469.bsky.social @demop469.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Apparently ignoring the fact that a lot of Nigerians support Trump, more than you find in a lot of other countries.
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demop469.bsky.social @demop469.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Not to be confused with “The Last American Hero” from 20 years earlier.
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demop469.bsky.social @demop469.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
According to Wikipedia, Jeffrey Hart supported John Kerry in the 2004 election and Barack Obama in 2008.
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demop469.bsky.social @demop469.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Performative cruelty
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demop469.bsky.social @demop469.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Yes but imagine the opposite. In a direct military confrontation with Russia I don’t trust the inept Hegseth to effectively react to a Russian attack on US assets.
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demop469.bsky.social @demop469.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Don’t give him any ideas. He’s never heard of the prime meridian.
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demop469.bsky.social @demop469.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
How about “we inherited a terrible situation from the outgoing administration”
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demop469.bsky.social @demop469.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
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demop469.bsky.social @demop469.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
How about a nationwide protest by which we place our federal tax payments normally due on April 15 into an interest-bearing escrow account until we can be assured that the Treasury is not compromised.
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demop469.bsky.social @demop469.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
My theory is he only looks at Mercator projection world maps and thinks Greenland is bigger than Africa.
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demop469.bsky.social @demop469.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Trump 45: I’ve already gone down in history as having the worst presidential administration ever. Trump 47: Hold my beer.
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demop469.bsky.social @demop469.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Don’t the businesses run by billionaires for Trump require undocumented migrant workers to optimize their profits?
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