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FG Fitzer @fgfitzer.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Christian Nationalists want to teach the Bible in public schools? If they really want that, they should teach Book of Revelation chapter 9, in which Jesus advocates torture as a tool of social control. They could use this book in the curriculum. www.stopchristiannationalism.com/store/p/bibl...
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Bible Story — The Fury of Jesus and Abaddon — Religious Board Book — Stop Christian Nationalism
There are a few Bible stories that people tell over and over again. This isn’t one of those. It’s the story of the time Jesus shared his plans to work with ferocious monsters to unleash a months-long ...
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FG Fitzer @fgfitzer.bsky.social · 13h
This satirical book skewers the insane Christian Nationalism of Republican US Senate candidate Barry Moore. It's called When God Came Down To Alabama, and yes, its cover shows the Christian god walking alongside a giant guinea pig. That's how crazy Barry Moore is. www.amazon.com/When-God-Cam...
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When God Came Down To Alabama: A memoir of the demonic possession of the career of Congressman Barry Moore
When God Came Down To Alabama: A memoir of the demonic possession of the career of Congressman Barry Moore [Disraeli, Jesus] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. When God Came Down To Alabama: A memoir of the demonic possession of the career of Congressman Barry Moore
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Darth Liberal @jonathanccook.bsky.social · 6h
Hanuman is your uncle. You were made by a piece of divine toe lint. Blah blah blah. your god is not real.
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Darth Liberal @jonathanccook.bsky.social · 15h
Not Everyone Believes Ross Douthat is a new podcast that examines the arguments made by Ross Douthat (a Christian Nationalist pundit on the new MAGA CBS 60 Minutes) in his book Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
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Not Everyone Believes Ross Douthat
Christianity Podcast · Updated Weekly · Ross Douthat wrote a book called Believe - Why Everyone Should Be Religious. This podcast reviews that book, page by page, to seek whether the arguments Ross Do...
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The Scot 💙🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇦 @thescot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.” www.wired.com/story/ice-ha...
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Darth Liberal @jonathanccook.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This isn't uncertainty. Uncertainty is agnosticism. Positive atheism is the assertion that gods & spirits don't exist. Negative atheism is the firm statement of having no belief in gods and spirits. I wish that Ross Douthat would take more effort to understand the diversity of non-Christianity.
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Mike NC @mike1545.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
UNCONSTITUTIONAL: Hegseth has infused his evangelical Christianity into his leadership of the Pentagon, hosting Christian worship services for employees and often speaking of the U.S. as a Christian nation. #1A apnews.com/article/pete...
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Pete Hegseth creates a Pentagon Office of Religious Affairs reporting directly to him
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is launching an office of religious affairs at the Pentagon. He announced Wednesday that the office will provide “first-class religious support” and report directly to h...
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Darth Liberal @jonathanccook.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Atheism is the lack of belief in magical spirits. That doesn't require a leap of faith. It just requires stepping away from supernatural hucksters. Ross Douthat's claims fail to stand up to serious scrutiny. Not a single one holds water.
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FG Fitzer @fgfitzer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ross Douthat says that he'll prove that it's rational to believe in religion, but in his very first page of his book Believe, he tells his readers that wisdom begins with being afraid of the Christian god. Fear is not rationality. www.stopchristiannationalism.com/douthat/can-...
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Can Reason Ever Begin In Fear? — Stop Christian Nationalism
Ross Douthat, in the book Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious, claims that he will make a rational argument, but even in the acknowledgements, he tells his readers that they should BEGIN by bein...
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FG Fitzer @fgfitzer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
EFT Tapping is a MANIFESTATION of mental illness, not a treatment for it. Obsessively tapping your face and muttering is not a reliable pathway to mental health. Buyer beware: Emotional Freedom "Therapy" is a New Age gimmick, not a science-based practice.
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The Ohm @ohmtheohm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
EFT Tapping is snake oil. You don’t create mental health and happiness by obsessively tapping your face. So-called Emotional Freedom Therapy is just a rehashed kind of faith healing. Don’t fall for the gimmick. Say no to EFT Tapping scammers.
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Darth Liberal @jonathanccook.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The US government has jumped headfirst into insanity. Under Pete Hegseth, the US military will now subject soldiers to religious tests of their "spiritual fitness". This comes from a military that insists that bombing a school full of children was perfectly fine. ffrf.org/news/release...
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FFRF investigates Hegseth’s new religious office at Pentagon
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is launching an investigation into Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s alarming creation of a powerful new Office of Religious Affairs.
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Darth Liberal @jonathanccook.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Last night, Terawulf learned that its proposed flagship data center in Lansing, New York on the side of Cayuga Lake will be BANNED not just by state law but the town board as well.
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Darth Liberal @jonathanccook.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Terawulf is consistently dishonest with communities about what it will and will not do. The company is on the verge of being run out of Lansing, New York, where it sought to build a data center on the shore of a beloved Finger Lake.
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Darth Liberal @jonathanccook.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Lansing, New York says no to Terawulf's data center. This is the start of a downward spiral for Terawulf. The bitcoin mining, AI corporation is a house of cards. ithacavoice.org/2026/09/lans...
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‘We just need to rip off the bandage and say no’: Lansing Town Board in favor of banning data centers - The Ithaca Voice
About a year after a proposal to construct a data center on the shores of Cayuga Lake upended local politics in the Town of Lansing, local officials took a step […]
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The Audacity! Creative Action Together in Midcoast Maine @theaudacitymaine.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The article ends with a neighbor of John Roberts: “…she left the picnic. The next morning, she protested her neighbor for the first time, grabbing a sign that said ‘Justice for All’ and paddling back and forth in front of his home, hoping he would see.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u... #MEPolitics
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John Roberts Retreated to His Island. Supreme Court Critics Found Him. (Gift Article)
After decades of potlucks and paddle-boarding on Maine’s midcoast, rising anger and protests have left the Supreme Court’s chief justice more isolated than ever.
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Darth Liberal @jonathanccook.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ross Douthat is hardly soft. He's pretty darned extremist. www.stopchristiannationalism.com/douthat
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Not Everyone Believes Ross Douthat — Stop Christian Nationalism
Reviewing the book Believe - Why Everyone Should Be Religious by Ross Douthat
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Darth Liberal @jonathanccook.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You might want to listen to the podcast Not Everyone Believes Ross Douthat before giving much credence to what Douthat says about rationality and religion. The arguments you present are old & debunked. www.stopchristiannationalism.com/douthat
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Not Everyone Believes Ross Douthat — Stop Christian Nationalism
Reviewing the book Believe - Why Everyone Should Be Religious by Ross Douthat
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Maine People's Alliance @mainepeople.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Do you want to show Sen. Susan Collins that we are not going to sit back while she does nothing to protect Mainers? Join us as we spend Oct. 5-9 marching from her office in Biddeford up to her office in Augusta to demand that she stop giving money to ICE and stop making cuts to our health care!
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March to Hold Collins accountable
Join MPA and our coalition partners as we march from Biddeford to Augusta to highlight Collins's complicity in the attacks on our freedoms, the kidnapping of our neighbors and her vote to fund ICE whi...
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Darth Liberal @jonathanccook.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pete Hegseth announced a new military project today, to create a force of thousands of robot soldiers. It’s named Project Agincourt. The Battle of Agincourt was infamous, even in medieval times, when King Henry slaughtered French prisoners, an atrocity. So, you trust those robot soldiers?
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The Ithaca Voice @ithacavoice.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Tompkins County clerks have been instructed to halt all local naturalization ceremonies for immigrants by the federal government, canceling three scheduled for next year. At least seven other counties in New York received similar instructions.
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Feds tell county to cease naturalization ceremonies - The Ithaca Voice
ITHACA, N.Y. — Tompkins County officials received a directive from federal immigration officials to cease all local naturalization ceremonies. Naturalization ceremonies are typically held throughout t...
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14850 Magazine @14850.com · 26/09/2026
Rep. Ocasio-Cortez visiting Ithaca as part of "upstate" voter outreach swing. @aoc.bsky.social's talk is aimed at students, but is open to the public. www.14850.com/092647144-oc...
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Rep. Ocasio-Cortez visiting Ithaca as part of "upstate" voter outreach swing • 14850
U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez kicked off a campaign tour through "Upstate" New York this week ahead of the midterm elections, and she'll be visiting Ithaca as well as Buffalo and Syracu...
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Darth Liberal @jonathanccook.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"EFT is busily ‘wrapping’ itself in the trappings of plausibility, whilst steadfastly refusing to do proper research. Tapping IS a weird woo woo thing..." I support the freedom of people to be weird. I don't support people selling weird therapies that are not supported by independent science.
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Darth Liberal @jonathanccook.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"EFT research is decidedly dodgy, and any evidence for what looks like efficacy can be explained by the placebo effect, or by the confounding presence of techniques stolen from other theoretical models, such as relaxation techniques..." untrapped.com.au/the-truth-ab...
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The Truth About Tapping | UNTRAPPED Academy
In a recent episode of the All Fired Up! Podcast, I was was ranting with Fiona Willer, advanced accredited practising dietitian and a regular guest on the show. We were […]
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Darth Liberal @jonathanccook.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"When scientists test EFT by having subjects tap on completely random points or on a doll, the results are identical. Tapping the specific "meridians" is irrelevant." EFT tapping / Emotional Freedom Therapy is based on pseudoscience and New Age religious faith. EFT is not trustworthy.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 25/09/2026
Peter Thiel says the "Antichrist" will preach "peace." Now his cronies in the Trump regime are pushing "Pax Silica" ("Silicon Peace"). It's a grandiose name for AI colonialism and imperialism. 1st target: The Philippines. More from @kieraevebutler.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Tech Bros and the Trump administration are building an AI empire—in the Philippines
Pax Silica aims to lock up rare earths, and hand Silicon Valley the keys.
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Darth Liberal @jonathanccook.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I’m here trying to stop people from bamboozling people out of their money and standing in the way of getting real help. EFT is bogus faith healing.
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Darth Liberal @jonathanccook.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
studies that purport to prove EFT is effective beyond placebo levels have shoddy research design and are conducted by practitioners of EFT, not independent entities.
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Darth Liberal @jonathanccook.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Texas A&M is a fascist institution, through and through.
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Cat Hobbs @cathobbs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"The planet is telling us, in every region at once, that it is out of balance" theguardian.com/environment/... Time for PUBLIC OWNERSHIP OF ENERGY - relying on a profit-driven system is driving up costs and jeopardising climate targets @tuedglobal.bsky.social tuedglobal.org/working-pape...
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‘Planetary boundaries’ necessary for flourishing of life have been massively breached, scientists warn
New report shows key indicators of Earth’s health are ‘outside the safe operating space’ as climate disaster looms
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Darth Liberal @jonathanccook.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Ed Sheeran is a weasel. You can't weasel out of being a weasel.
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Grandma @grandmasweb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
An ICE officer in Austin, Texas rammed a man’s car then got out of his federal vehicle and opened fire at least five times. When are we going to demand this sort of thing stop?
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ICE agent shoots and wounds man in Austin, Texas, officials say
A local official says a federal immigration agent has shot and wounded a man in Austin, Texas. City Councilmember Mike Siegel says the Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer rammed the man’s car ...
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ffrf.org @ffrf.org · 16/09/2026
100% correct. So is biblical law. That’s the whole point of our secular government: Christians, Muslims, atheists and everyone else live under the Constitution, not somebody else’s religion.
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ffrf.org @ffrf.org · 17/09/2026
The time has come for politicians to stop imposing their religious beliefs on everyone else. Medical decisions belong to patients and their doctors, not politicians enforcing religious doctrine.
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Darth Liberal @jonathanccook.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Would AOC coming to Ithaca really "boost turnout"? It looks more like a trip to test the waters for a Presidential campaign in 2028.
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Darth Liberal @jonathanccook.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
More than a bit overpriced.
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Darth Liberal @jonathanccook.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
And yet, EFT is the quackiest of the quackeries. EFT has all the hallmarks of pseudoscience, says the Oxford Handbook of Psychiatry. It's linked with Reiki and chakras and auras. It's a New Age workshop model, not a serious therapeutic technique. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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Acupressure in Psychotherapy as an Unsinkable Rubber Duck: A reply to Feinstein (2023)
In a recent publication entitled “Integrating the Manual Stimulation of Acupuncture Points Into Psychotherapy: A Systematic Review with Clinical Recommendations,” appearing in this journal, Feinstein ...
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Darth Liberal @jonathanccook.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
An SUV slammed into a 30 year-old woman in Framingham, Massachusetts and killed her. The local newspaper reported it as a "pedestrian crash", as if it was the pedestrian who was traveling at high speeds and ran into the vulnerable SUV. The SUV killed the pedestrian. www.boston.com/news/local-n...
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30-year-old woman killed in Framingham pedestrian crash
The crash remains under investigation.
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The Audacity! Creative Action Together in Midcoast Maine @theaudacitymaine.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Voices of AudacityCAT #Podcast Episode 12 - The Power of Organized Protest in an Age of Fascism: youtu.be/7x6XGCYpUCo Former State Rep. addresses the current dark state of our politics, lessons to be drawn from protests in Minnesota & #Maine, & why he remains hopeful about the future. #MEPolitics
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Episode 12 - The Power of Organized Protest in an age of Fascism and the lessons to be learned.
YouTube video by The Audacity: Creative Action Together in Maine
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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Once we open our eyes to the damage done by the #WarOnWalking, it’s impossible NOT to see it. At every scale, in every detail & decision, affecting every constituency, and influencing every element of culture. And when we try to improve things, they have the audacity to claim there’s a #WarOnCars.
“The Road Lobby claims that there’s a war going on in our cities. There is, but it’s not the war they’ve been lying about. They’ve been waging a war on walking for a century.“ Text on white background, via the Urban Truth Collective. #UrbanTruth
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Darth Liberal @jonathanccook.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Bicyclists are heroes who put their lives on the line to get where they need to go without spewing filth into the air. Bikes rock. Cars kill. #waroncars www.wfla.com/news/polk-co...
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Man arrested after bicyclist killed in Lakeland hit-and-run, sheriff says
A man was arrested after fatally hitting a bicyclist with his car and fleeing the scene of the crash, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office reported.
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Darth Liberal @jonathanccook.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Cars are killing people in gruesome ways across America day after day. They do this while polluting the planet and dragging the climate into disaster, and funding fascism through corrupt fossil fuels corporations. Cars suck. www.expressnews.com/news/article...
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Pedestrian in crosswalk is struck, dragged, killed in San Antonio hit-and-run
Police said the man was walking in a crosswalk when a driver accelerated into the intersection, hitting him and dragging him several feet before driving off.
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Darth Liberal @jonathanccook.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The 4th amendment to the Constitution’s guarantee of judicial warrants for search has been replaced by a Flock camera software data field in which police officers can enter babble to be granted search power. www.404media.co/cops-search-...
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Cops Search Thousands of Flock Cameras for Reasons of ‘LMAO,’ ‘IDK,’ ‘Hehe,’ and ‘asdfg’
The EFF found cops writing “idiot,” “WEIRD KID,” "blah," "leave me alone," and button mashing in Flock's 'reason' box.
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Darth Liberal @jonathanccook.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The United States of America is now home to concentration camps. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Alligator Alcatraz held detainees in cages the size of phone booths, DHS watchdog says
Office of inspector general’s report says practice at Florida immigration jail is not aligned with ‘humane treatment’
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Darth Liberal @jonathanccook.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It is tragic that you understand the right of people to take control of their own identities, but are incapable of understanding the urgent suffering that leads people to take control of their own deaths. The right of medical decision-making for identity doesn't exist for just one group of people.
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Darth Liberal @jonathanccook.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This statement only reveals the narrow scope of your experience.
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Darth Liberal @jonathanccook.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It will be.
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Darth Liberal @jonathanccook.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
No, you're creating a distorted version of what I've said. It's interesting to me that you would do that.
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Darth Liberal @jonathanccook.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I’m not telling anyone to die. Never have. it’s weird that you would say that.
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