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Joel Connelly @joelconnelly.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Vladimir Putin is mastering, primarily relishing an English language U.S. expression: “There’s one born every minute.”

Joel Connelly @joelconnelly.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

During his promised Seattle visit, Trump’s border czar Tom Homan will: 1) Raid a cathedral with armed men; 2) Send masked agents into UW classrooms; 3) Seize victim of domestic violence in front of her kids.

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Joel Connelly @joelconnelly.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

A query for ABC News Tonight? why no reporting of Senate vote to defund public radio? What was more important, eulogizing Connie Francis?

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Joel Connelly @joelconnelly.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Right-wing media would be wetting itself over latest inflation figures, had they come under Biden. Tariffs a major reason. A curious silence, both on fascist fringe and in mainstream non-coverage.

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Joel Connelly @joelconnelly.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

I half expect to wake up one morning to Stephen Miller post suggesting 1934 Blood Purge in Germany as model for treating dissent against ICE immigration raids by masked agents.

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Joel Connelly @joelconnelly.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Overmatched, a Fox News mouth in high places: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth pauses military aid to Ukraine at time of record drone attacks.

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Joel Connelly @joelconnelly.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

A Texas joke: What’s the difference between God and Sen. Ted Cruz? God is everywhere, and Ted Cruz is everywhere but Texas.

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Joel Connelly @joelconnelly.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Coyotes spotted prowling in Seattle neighborhoods. Young single men urged to take shelter.

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Joel Connelly @joelconnelly.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

The relentless sameness of local TV news, the same quartet of topics: Car crashes, house fires, fights and drive-by shootings. No depth, e.g. proliferation of guns. Seasonal sermons on fireworks dangers, swimming in cold water.

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Joel Connelly @joelconnelly.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

The relentless sameness, banality and shallowness of TV news. On Sunday of Independence Day weekend, the lineup has consisted of two shootings, two car crashes and two fires. Arrghh!

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Joel Connelly @joelconnelly.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Will Trump use Guadalupe River flood scene in Texas as backdrop to repeat his denial of climate change, call to abolish FEMA and cut National Weather Service? Will Melania break out spike heels worn on Hurricane Harvey trip?

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Joel Connelly @joelconnelly.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

We’re Canada dragooned into becoming the 51st state, can you envision Trump flipping flapjacks at the Calgary Stampede? Or stop as horse in the kickoff parade?

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Joel Connelly @joelconnelly.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Will our Republican U.S. Reps Baumgartner and Newhouse be on the dais as guests at closing of first Eastern Washington rural hospital as the result of GOP slashing Medicaid?

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Joel Connelly @joelconnelly.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

The big grovel: Blue Dog moderate Democrats, led by our Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp-Perez, offer to help draft bipartisan fiscally responsible budget resolution. Offer spurned by Trump toadies.

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Joel Connelly @joelconnelly.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Seattle TV stations offer news without nutrients, an endless succession of car crashes, house fires, drive-by shootings and drownings. Down deep, how shallow!

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Joel Connelly @joelconnelly.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

“True North, Strong and Free” — not 51st state with vengeful, authoritarian ruler — Happy Canada Day!!!!!

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Joel Connelly @joelconnelly.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Watching TV spot with our ghastly Homeland Security Secretary, threatening immigrants and groveling before Trump, question comes up: Will Kristi Noem try to sand blast words of welcome from base of the Statue of Liberty?

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Joel Connelly @joelconnelly.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

In another time and place, would U.S. Secretary of Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem have led a raid on the Frank family’s hiding place in Amsterdam?

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Joel Connelly @joelconnelly.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

I am very worried that Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, will vote to complicate, curtail and cut off Medicaid to thousands of Down East constituents.

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Joel Connelly @joelconnelly.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

The wealthiest 1 percent of Americans own 30 percent of nation’s wealth. Memo to Republicans: They don’t NEED welfare.

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Joel Connelly @joelconnelly.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

How to harm ratepayers, workers & the planet. @Big Beautiful” Republican bill taxes wind and solar, provides new coal subsidy: 300,000 wind/solar workers lost jobs.

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Joel Connelly @joelconnelly.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

J’ever notice? Annual Pride Parade has totally eclipsed Seafair Parade as summer happening in Seattle. The former is more fun, the latter is transposed 1950’s. We are diverse, inclusive, life enriched that it is so.

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Joel Connelly @joelconnelly.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

A stirring service, a standing ovation, St James Cathedral bids farewell to longtime pastor Fr Ryan. A bearer of Christ’s message of love, peace, justice, compassion, care for poor — opposite priorities from current federal regime.

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Joel Connelly @joelconnelly.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

When Trump and MAGA cronies liken socialists to communists, we ought to recall words of former British Columbia Premier Dave Barrett: “We social democrats know all about the communists. We’re the poor bastards they shoot first.” Very true.

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Joel Connelly @joelconnelly.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Strongly recommend new Netflix offering “Downfall”, on how McDonnell Douglas brass took over Boeing, cut corners, the resulting crashes, efforts to offload blame on pilots.Kudos to Oregon ex-Rep DeFazio as truth seeker.

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Joel Connelly @joelconnelly.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Germany, 1933: New National Socialist government ousts rector of Humboldt University in Berlin; USA 2025, Trump Administration forces resignation of University of Virginia president.

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Joel Connelly @joelconnelly.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

The new Gilded Age: Flashy, tacky, forward appearance of new Bezos bride mirrors that of Trump hotel.

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Joel Connelly @joelconnelly.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Kudos to Sen. Cantwell, pushing back against Trump cuts to National Weather Service. He may deny climate change, but we must live with sudden weather extremes, whether Oklahoma tornadoes or NW atmospheric rivers.

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Joel Connelly @joelconnelly.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Fifteen minutes long gone: Rright index finger getting exhausted deleting money appeals by Tim Eyman.

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Joel Connelly @joelconnelly.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Happy Pink Shirt Day, Canada’s annual anti-bullying observance. Orange hair guy, take notice!

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Joel Connelly @joelconnelly.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

A salient line from old Seattle PI colleague Eric Nalder: American fascism has moved from the wilds of northern Idaho to the White House.

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Joel Connelly @joelconnelly.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

What will Trump do next in war on immigrants, sand blast message of welcome from Statue of Liberty?

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Joel Connelly @joelconnelly.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Amb. Carolyn Kennedy is a profile in courage, warning of druggie past and exploitive present behavior of “predator” anti-vaxxer cousin Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Not material for building Cabinet.

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Joel Connelly @joelconnelly.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Proud to have been blocked on “X” by both Jason Rantz and Erica C. Barnett.

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Joel Connelly @joelconnelly.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

What’s the difference between Sean Hannity of Fox News and the Hindenburg? One is a Nazi gasbag. The other was just a dirigible.

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Joel Connelly @joelconnelly.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

One would think all the right wing cranks complaining about immigrants would show sympathy for those fleeing the chaos of socialist/Marxist ruled Venezuela.

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Joel Connelly @joelconnelly.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Four words of guidance in dealing with Trump Administration, courtesy of Walt Whitman: Resist much, obey little!

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