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PapaJ @michiganpapa.bsky.social · 4h

“I’m an American who loves an America which doesn’t exist, which is a land of freedom and free ideas.” Bill Hicks

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PapaJ @michiganpapa.bsky.social · 4h

"No man is great if he thinks he is." Will Rogers

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PapaJ @michiganpapa.bsky.social · 5h

"A downtrodden class... will never be able to make an effective protest until it achieves solidarity." H. G. Wells

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PapaJ @michiganpapa.bsky.social · 6h

El-Sayed has Trump fuming, AOC buzzing and Obama stumping www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...

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Leftist Luddite (formerly Leftist Renegade) @leftistrenegade.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I'll believe corporations are people when I see one executed in the middle of the street by a cop.

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PapaJ @michiganpapa.bsky.social · 13h

Good morning ☕✌️ "If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else." Yogi Berra

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PapaJ @michiganpapa.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Catch ya tomorrow. Have a good night!👊✊✌️

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PapaJ @michiganpapa.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Union sets strike vote amid Stellantis stalemate www.msn.com/en-us/autos/...

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PapaJ @michiganpapa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“They call it the ‘Patriot Act,’ but it’s really the ‘Police State Authorization Act.’ Section 215 lets them seize your library records, your medical files, your bookstore receipts—no probable cause, no warrant, no judge. Just a rubber stamp from a secret court.

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PapaJ @michiganpapa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Zach Bryan wears "Free Palestine" shirt during concerts at Gillette Stadium www.msn.com/en-us/entert...

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PapaJ @michiganpapa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"The two party electoral system performs the essential function of helping to legitimate the existing social order." Michael Parenti

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PapaJ @michiganpapa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“The government doesn’t fear the people. The people fear the government—and that’s exactly how fascists like it.” George Carlin (2004)

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PapaJ @michiganpapa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"We want a better America, an America that will give its citizens, first of all, a higher and higher standard of living so that no child will cry for food in the midst of plenty." Sidney Hillman (1887-1946)

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PapaJ @michiganpapa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“Historically, the most terrible things – war, genocide, and slavery – have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.” Howard Zinn

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PapaJ @michiganpapa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases." Kurt Vonnegut

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PapaJ @michiganpapa.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"They muddy the water, to make it seem deep." Friedrich Nietzsche

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PapaJ @michiganpapa.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Everything which bars freedom and fullness of communication sets up barriers that divide human beings into sets and cliques, into antagonistic sects and factions, and thereby undermines the democratic way of life." John Dewey

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PapaJ @michiganpapa.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“I would say that today, dishonesty is the rule, and honesty the exception. It could be, statistically, that more people are honest than dishonest, but the few that really control things are not honest, and that tips the balance.” Frank Zappa

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PapaJ @michiganpapa.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“We don’t go to war to defend freedom. We go to war to create markets, secure resources, and keep the defense contractors rich. Peace is bad for business. Ask Lockheed Martin.” George Carlin

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PapaJ @michiganpapa.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Good morning ☕✌️ "If you come to a fork in the road, take it." Yogi Berra

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PapaJ @michiganpapa.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the People.” Eugene V. Debs

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PapaJ @michiganpapa.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“They need you scared. Scared of immigrants. Scared of terrorists. Scared of your neighbor. Fear makes you obedient. Obedience makes you profitable—for them.” George Carlin

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PapaJ @michiganpapa.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“The owners of this country know the truth. Their wealth, their power, their status—they’re all built on lies. Lies about history. Lies about economics. Lies about democracy. And the biggest lie of all: that this system is natural, inevitable, and unchangeable.” — George Carlin (2005)

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PapaJ @michiganpapa.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Good morning ☕✌️ "A society with too few independent thinkers is vulnerable to control by disturbed and opportunistic leaders. A society which wants to create and maintain a free and democratic social system must create responsible independence of thought among its young." John Dewey

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PapaJ @michiganpapa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Poor people have the blues because they're poor and hungry. Rich people can't sleep at night because they're trying to hold on to their money and everything they have." John Lee Hooker

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PapaJ @michiganpapa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"It's hard to convince people that you're killing them for their own good." Molly Ivins

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PapaJ @michiganpapa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Petey has something against diversity - Shocking!!!!! "As the publisher of the 'Tory,' I strive to defend the pillars of Western civilization against the distractions of diversity." Pete Hegseth (April 2002 issue of The Princeton Tory, the conservative student magazine at Princeton University)

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Rick Havoc @rickhavoc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The urge for the need to know versus the horror of knowing.

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PapaJ @michiganpapa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Good morning. A little George Carlin is in order ☕✌️

I don't know how you feel, but I'm pretty sick of church people. You know what they ought to do with churches? Tax them. If holy people are so interested in politics, government, and public policy, let them pay the price of admission like everybody else. The Catholic Church alone could wipe out the national debt if all you did was tax their real estate.

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PapaJ @michiganpapa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

HOLY SHIT! "Pete Hegseth slammed as 'insane' by critics after announcing Office of Religious Affairs: 'So much for separation of church and state' www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...

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PapaJ @michiganpapa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience." Harper Lee

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PapaJ @michiganpapa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"You don't stop laughing because you grow old; you grow old because you stop laughing." Michael Pritchard

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PapaJ @michiganpapa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Caught this while surfing the internet...

Meme showing the back of a tee shirt with an image of a pumpkin carved to look like a scowling Trump with a wig. Reads "Orange on the outside / Hollow on the inside / Should be thrown out in November."

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PapaJ @michiganpapa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." Upton Sinclair

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PapaJ @michiganpapa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Wealth has never yet sacrificed itself on the altar of patriotism." Robert M. La Follette, Sr.

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PapaJ @michiganpapa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Talk of democracy has little content when big business rules the life of the country through its control of the means of production, exchange, the press and other means of publicity, propaganda and communication." John Dewey (1859 - 1952)

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PapaJ @michiganpapa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Good morning ☕✌️ "The world will ask you who you are, and if you do not know, the world will tell you." Carl Jung

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PapaJ @michiganpapa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Dawn of Democrats' new socialist era www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...

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PapaJ @michiganpapa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace." Ludwig von Mises

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PapaJ @michiganpapa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them." George Orwell

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PapaJ @michiganpapa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting." George Orwell

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PapaJ @michiganpapa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself." Lily Tomlin

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PapaJ @michiganpapa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Third aircraft carrier and thousands of troops head to Mideast as Trump weighs new Iran strikes www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...

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PapaJ @michiganpapa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Canada fast-tracks Pacific oil pipeline to reduce US dependence as Alberta separation vote nears www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...

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PapaJ @michiganpapa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke." Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)

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PapaJ @michiganpapa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Bullshit Overload... Pete Hegseth has a bonkers party favor for soldiers at his speech www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...

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PapaJ @michiganpapa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Still enjoying summer colors. Fall can wait a bit longer.

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