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Kevin Newman

@kevinnewman.bsky.social
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Edo denizen Blue Ridge raised. UNC / 関西外国語大学 / Fletcher School Early onset curmudgeon 忙中閑あり

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Jared @jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Things got more insane just about as soon as I posted this last night. DHS is now arguing that we cannot even put the names of ICE officers in our lawsuit against those officers. Their position is that, if a defendant works for DHS, they cannot be named in a lawsuit. Never seen anything like it.
All this time, while Defendants have refused to identify Does 4 and 5 or respond to Leo’s discovery requests, the six-month statute of limitations on his FTCA claims has nearly expired. So, on October 6, Leo sought Defendants’ consent to file an amended complaint that (1) adds his FTCA claims against the United States and (2) adds the names of Does 1, 2, and 3. These minimal changes are shown in a redline attached to this filing.
Defendants, however, refused to consent to Leo’s amendments because there is not a protective order in place. One of Defendants’ positions with respect to the protective order is that the “full legal names” of all government employees “should be confidential.” (ECF 109, at 2). That position, apparently, means that Defendants even oppose Leo identifying specific officers in his lawsuit against those very officers based on their misconduct in carrying out their public duties. Because Defendants will not consent to Leo’s amendments, Leo has filed this motion for leave.Justice also requires granting Leo leave to name the Doe officers as defendants. Despite DHS’s remarkable position that all government employees’ names are confidential, parties routinely sue government employees by name. In fact, Rule 10(a) “requires a complaint to ‘include the names of all the parties.’” Doe v. Frank, 951 F.2d 320, 322 (11th Cir. 1992) (per curiam) (quoting Fed. R. Civ. P. 10(a)). “Lawsuits are public events.” Id. Rule 10(a) “protects the public’s legitimate interest in knowing all of the facts involved, including the identity of the parties.” Id. Only in an “exceptional case” can a party’s name be withheld from the public. Id. And that bar is even higher for public employees since their employment “diminishes their privacy interests” given “the corresponding public interest in knowing how public employees are performing their jobs.” Stern v. FBI, 737 F.2d 84, 92 (D.C. Cir. 1984);
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Urban Futurist Democrat @urbfuturistdem.bsky.social · 23h
The thing is, JD Vance is awful in half a hundred ways and is unlikely to ever be elected President, but he is "any functioning adult". So if you have that bumper sticker you might want to reconsider
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Scoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 10/10/2026
She is even more beautiful in person.
Sleeping Hermaphroditus Sleeping Hermaphroditus Sleeping Hermaphroditus Sleeping Hermaphroditus, zooming in on her face
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 23h
Former UK Prime Minster Boris Johnson on traitor Trump buying Russian oil: "The Ukrainians are fighting for their lives. And yet the White House is apparently determined to force American drivers to bankroll Putin’s slaughter."
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Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · 22h
Marion Rice Hart 1st woman chemical engineering grad @ MIT Worked as physicist @ GEC, then Arizona copper mine, radio operator on B-17, ran locomotive on Southern Pacific, took up art, then sailed round world. #WWII joined Army Signal Corps. b. #OTD 10 Oct 1891 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_...
Marion Rice Hart at wheel of a boat, fag hanging out of mouth in B&W photo   #WomenInSTEM #WomensHistory #HistSTM #HistSTEM
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
300,000 tons is the equivalent of 93 million gallons of diesel. U.S. daily consumption? 160 million gallons. So 13-14 hours’ worth. Won’t really move the needle on prices in the market.
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Ambassador Greg Delawie @gregdelawie.bsky.social · 22h
The Trump-Putin diesel scam was always performative regarding lowering US prices. But it does give American money to Russia to help it kill American soldiers in the Middle East, as well as Ukrainian civilians, and Republicans in Congress seem fine with that.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Peter Thiel is about to turn 59 and a half this year, so he’ll be able to withdraw his more than $5 billion in capital gains tax free because he legally gamed the Roth IRA system. Superrich just have different rules. Propublica’s 2021 report: www.propublica.org/article/lord...
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Lord of the Roths: How Tech Mogul Peter Thiel Turned a Retirement Account for the Middle Class Into a $5 Billion Tax-Free Piggy Bank
Roth IRAs were intended to help average working Americans save, but IRS records show Thiel and other ultrawealthy investors have used them to amass vast untaxed fortunes.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 23h
The ship of diesel Putin sent Trump left on September 22. September 23 is when Trump's invite to G-20 was announced. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘We hope he’ll accept’: US invites Putin to G20 summit at Trump golf club
Invitation announced by Marco Rubio is likely to raise concerns from Ukraine and EU countries
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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 23h
How many children will be dead because we let Elon Musk ans Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. decided who gets to live?
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Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau
Recommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 23h
Again, I never again want to hear the Republicans claim the mantle of, or be referred to as, the "party of national security." This, as with threatening to invade our NATO allies, should have long ago immediately ended his presidency. It also should again now.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The NYPD just released surveillance video of the ICE shooting (which occurred off camera). Two men in civilian clothes run up to a car with guns drawn. One second later, one man begins smashing the butt of his gun into the driver’s side window. The driver appears to panic and hit the gas.
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kate conger @kateconger.com · 10/10/2026
Anthropic is the latest lab to report 'rogue' agent activity, which sources said included applying for visas with the State Department www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...
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Anthropic Says Its A.I. Agents Attempted to Access a Range of Government Sites (Gift Article)
The company said rogue A.I. agents acted on their own as they tried to access federal, state and local sites. The Philadelphia Police Department said its site was one of them.
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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
(🚨) PROOF has the details on the Treason scandal rocking the midterms. Everything you feared re: Trump/Israel appears to be true. Click the red button at the link to get a free trial to PROOF you can cancel after reading this if you like (though you won’t want to miss the coverage PROOF has coming).
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2026’s October Surprise Has Arrived—and It’s a Treason Conspiracy Involving Trump and Israel
On both sides of the partisan divide, voters are angrier about the Iran War than anything—as reporting suggests Israel forced us into it. Now the issue is about to become a political atomic bomb.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.
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Tiffany⸆⸉ @tiffanyclay.dev · 09/10/2026
lol El-Sayed dropped a “my guy” in the debate, @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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I support Somali-Americans @adamrothman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
If you want to understand the historical roots and precedents for this, one of my colleagues, an expert on terrorism, wrote a book that is on point. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Book cover for Daniel Byman's American Pogroms: How Forgotten Massacres Shape America
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
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A Starry Knight 🗽⚖🗽 @a-starry-knight.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
We need to adopt Canada's system where if an elected official runs wild, then The People can submit a vote of no confidence to get that person out. Giving someone 4 years to destroy a country is definitely a hostage situation.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I mean, "great grandson of settlers who arrived in the new world from Spain" is quite a creative way to describe "son of immigrants from a place that my boss Donald Trump says is a shithole country"
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Devastating 💔 Abolish ice www.instagram.com/reel/DePkMcN...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $8 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of American households is worth just $4.27 trillion. Read that back. When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Universities bring in foreign students ... to undercut the wages of American residents? What? This is exactly backwards. Foreign students subsidize the tuition of American students. I wonder why the VP who follows Nazis online has this all wrong. Probably an innocent, non-racist mistake.
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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Posted by the RNC to market Trump’s upcoming San Antonio rally. Comments?
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Matthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
spoke to a man who kicked off a city council meeting in Iowa with an invocation to Satan. “I think we're seeing you know a big shift in our politics. I think we've seen a rise of Christian nationalism in this country [...] and I find that highly troubling."
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'It Is Done. Hail Satan:' City Immediately Regrets New Religious Liberty Law That Allows Prayer at City Council Meeting
Iowa city council debates proper time in meeting agenda to "undo the curse that was just put on our city."
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"Rubio’s speeches are dime-store rhetoric grasping at profundity and failing. Because Rubio is play-acting as an adult. A real adult would acknowledge after eighteen months that it’s insane for a single person to serve as secretary of state and national security advisor."
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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 08/10/2026
🧵 The Wehrmacht was a CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION responsible for mass crimes against humanity and genocide.🧵 🔥The mother of threads.🔥 Click below for an exhaustive discussion of the criminality of the German Army during WWII as I try to once again kill the cockroach that is the Clean Wehrmacht Myth!
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 08/10/2026
NEW: We knew in April that DOJ was investigating Hutchinson. Now NBC reports they are seeking a grand jury indictment for lying to Congress. The thing is, she didn't lie to Congress. She testified truthfully about what someone else told her. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
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Justice Department seeks criminal charge for former Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson
The former Trump aide was a star witness before the Jan. 6 committee. The case is being pursued by the Civil Rights Division, led by Harmeet Dhillon.
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404 Media @404media.co · 08/10/2026
Iowa man kicks off controversy over religious freedom in the small town of Ottumwa by opening a city council meeting with a prayer to Satan, which then kicked off a debate about the proper time in the meeting agenda to undo the “curse @mjgault.bsky.social story: www.404media.co/it-is-done-h...
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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
For The New York Times, I wrote about how Rod Serling create The Twilight Zone in part because it was the only way in the 1950 and 60s for him to comment on the subjects he cared about most, and how that's a good blueprint for contemporary media to deal with our surreal current moment:
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Opinion | ‘The Twilight Zone’ Created a Blueprint for Surviving Our Surreal Moment (Gift Article)
With “The Twilight Zone,” Rod Serling created a durable blueprint for understanding our surreal reality.
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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I'm sensing the irony here (and I say that as a multiple-time @yalepress.bsky.social author). In any case, congratulations!
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“Why are you taking him if he isn’t the one you were looking for,” farmworker María told the masked agents who were harassing her friend. “At that moment they turned toward me and said they would arrest me, too, for asking questions and complaining.” americancommunitymedia.org/immigration/...
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ICE Detains Indigenous Mixtec Farmworker, a Single Mother, for 'Asking Questions'
The Mixtec woman, a farmworker in Oxnard, CA was defending a friend when ICE agents handcuffed and detained her, telling her she "spoke too much."
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Here's Marimar Martinez' lawsuit for being shot by Charles Exum. Some additional details in there. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Complaint – #1 in Martinez v. United States (N.D. Ill., 1:26-cv-12187) – CourtListener.com
COMPLAINT filed by Marimar Martinez; Filing fee $ 405, receipt number AILNDC-25756625.(Gallagher, Michael) (Entered: 10/05/2026)
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A very strange political tactic trying to make villains of pediatricians— a group generally respected by most everyone and depended upon and still very trusted by most parents. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/h...
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Texas Pediatricians Face Paxton Investigations for Vaccinating Children (Gift Article)
Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general and Republican Senate candidate, has alleged a sprawling profit-driven conspiracy. Pediatricians say the accusations are an attempt at intimidation.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.
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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’
Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Truly incredible that this is how the media is choosing to eulogize the longest-serving Republican Speaker of the House in US history, who was a serial sexual abuser of children. For all the talk about "deep state" plots to abuse children, no one even remembers this case.
From CBS News: "Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, who represented Illinois for two decades in Congress and was later jailed for violating banking laws, has died."
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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
1. So this touches indirectly on something that is poorly understood. Rees-Mogg pere and Davidson's book, The Sovereign Individual, is held by some to be a blueprint for the reactionary politics that is unfolding today. In fact the book is drenched in disgust and scorn for nationalist populism ...
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I think it's bad that the promotional pathway from "professional athlete" is turning into "modern-day Renfield who procures victims for Dracula"
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
From March. emptywheel.net/2026/03/27/h...
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How Vladimir Putin Intends to Recruit Trump to Russia's Side in WWIII - emptywheel
Trump keeps helping Russia and Iran, against which entities he started an insanely stupid war.
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.
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Drew Engelhardt @amengel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Folks should check out this (open access) article from Dr Solís providing great context for Latino Republican partisanship. Folks offer nuanced links between their panethnic attachments and partisanship, among other themes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The 2024 GOP policy platform was: -Put Trump above the law, let him crime without consequence -Hurt the darkies and the queers -Make things more expensive -Censor media and academia -Empower corrupt tech oligarchs And it worked! Voters were into it. So I can see the logic of trying that again.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Shocked. Shocked.
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masa @masa-nautilidae.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
オチだけは秀逸 全然笑えんけど >一方で、実際に経験した迷惑行為としては「特にない」が51.9%で最多だった。 www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZ...
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居住地で外国人増「いいと思わない」、41%に急増 交流は減少 - 日本経済新聞
住宅情報サービスのLIFULL(ライフル)は、在留外国人に対する日本人の意識調査の結果を発表した。居住地での外国人増加について「いいと思わない」とした割合は41.2%で、2017年の前回調査から10.2ポイント増えた。東京都新宿区や大阪市中央区など外国人の人口比率が高い292自治体に住む18〜79歳を対象に、インターネットを通じて7月に調査して、2060人から回答を得た。居住地域に外国人が増
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
👇🎯 Not a single elite journalist with an Ivy League degree is practicing this advice, & the lifetime income returns to college have not changed despite The Narrative™️ that cannot fail (it can only be failed). Fund the damn public universities, & stop telling people they shouldn’t pursue education.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Trump is set to *expand* his corrupt taxpayer-funded ads starring himself. Meanwhile, a new poll finds his approval among independents at 25% and on the economy that's 23%. Brilliant, Mr. President! On the pod, @davidcorn.bsky.social rips this all apart very well: newrepublic.com/article/2160...
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Trump TV Ads Backfire as New Poll Shows He’s Shockingly Toxic for GOP
As the saga around Trump’s taxpayer-funded ads grows more absurd, the author of a piece exploring Trumpian propaganda explains why no amount of disinfo can protect the GOP from Trump.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."
Ukrainian female soldier: Okay, I said the idea is this: There is enough time to empty one full can of 32 grenades and be gone by the time the return mortar fire reaches us. I did the math.
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
with friends like these etc
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Thanks be to God that the Department of Education is finally doing something to stop the ideological indoctrination that’s been running rampant in our public schools.
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Today, Secretary Linda McMahon called on schools across the nation to strengthen instruction on the history and human toll of communism and socialism.
It is imperative that the next generation understands the principles of liberty that underpin America's constitutional system.
Learn more here: https://ow.ly/bIGL50ZTeaU
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U.S. Department of Education Calls on Schools to Strengthen Education on the History and Dangers of Communism and Socialism
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