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CJ and the Dude

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Pissedoffpundit @pissedoffpundant.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
No shit🤔💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯
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CJ and the Dude @outbeyondideas.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Proof they have never had to educate themselves on how insurance — especially in the greedy U.S. corporate climate — actually works.
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Mr Natural @neilmatheson66.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Claire Wiltsher (b.1962, Wales) Autumn Mist. - Oil on canvas.
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omgisme @omgisme.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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CJ and the Dude @outbeyondideas.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Yikes! Toddler toy time!
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CJ and the Dude @outbeyondideas.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Brings to mind the time back in the ‘80s when my (still conservative) brother told me I had been “brainwashed” via my time at a liberal arts university. Yeah, my brain washed clean from all my small town biases and prejudices.
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CJ and the Dude @outbeyondideas.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
100 percent this
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 06/08/2026
Don’t know who wrote this — it was posted on Instagram by “Warpaint Journal” in April 2025 — but it’s making the rounds today and is pretty great. I dream of this too ❤️
Most people don't dream of being fancy-rich.
I dream of being rich enough to say, "Treat's on me," without thinking twice. Rich enough to have a home that feels like a hug, a fridge stocked like a five-year-old with adult money, and a tray of chocolates waiting for someone to grab. Rich enough to quietly help a friend before they even have to ask. To send a care package when someone's too tired to reach out. To buy all the pencils from a kid on the street so they can go home early. For me, the real money dream isn't about luxury - it's about having enough to give, enough to comfort, enough to turn ordinary moments into something extraordinary.
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CJ and the Dude @outbeyondideas.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Ah, and then you have Joan Baez with Diamonds and Rust or Simon and Garfunkel’s The Boxer. Among so many others. Those are songs you can sink your heart into!
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CJ and the Dude @outbeyondideas.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
This always hurts
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CJ and the Dude @outbeyondideas.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
you are so spot on
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CJ and the Dude @outbeyondideas.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Love is THE miracle drug! 💗
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CJ and the Dude @outbeyondideas.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Saw three rainbows on a 30-minute drive east from Williamsburg, VA, tonight. June is strutting her stuff. It’s glorious!
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CJ and the Dude @outbeyondideas.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
How wonderful that there are still those among us who both can and choose to create so much beauty. This world needs you.
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Dr David S Anderson @dsaarchaeology.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
As an anthropologist, I endorse this message!
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CJ and the Dude @outbeyondideas.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Husband requested blackberry cobbler but with a double crust. So what he really wanted was pie!
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CJ and the Dude @outbeyondideas.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Have read more novels since January 2025 than I had during the previous decade. Dissociation is a thing. . . (Have assiduously avoided dystopian fiction. Feels too real.)
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CJ and the Dude @outbeyondideas.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Of course it did. As a Virginian who has had to come to terms with her outrage and sense of helplessness over the last week, I am not surprised.
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CJ and the Dude @outbeyondideas.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Love is not a finite thing. #sixwordstory
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CJ and the Dude @outbeyondideas.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Greet everything with a kiss hello. #sixwordstory
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.
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CJ and the Dude @outbeyondideas.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
No, I have children and grandchildren here, and I love this country even as I despise what this regime has done and continues to do to her. The term “Ameriphilia comes to mind.”
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CJ and the Dude @outbeyondideas.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
as a fellow Virginian feeling exactly this!
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CJ and the Dude @outbeyondideas.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
My handsome Dude showing a little attitude #DogDay
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CJ and the Dude @outbeyondideas.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
An osprey dive bombing breakfast in the Outer Banks! #OBX #birds
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CJ and the Dude @outbeyondideas.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
I have done this. I agree with everything you write here. I would do it again.
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CJ and the Dude @outbeyondideas.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
This Baby Boomer is feeling more than a little vindicated by this survey. We’re always catching flak about our so-called conservatism. Meanwhile most of my closest friends and I have consistently voted for Democrats our entire adult lives.
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CJ and the Dude @outbeyondideas.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
You always manage to break my heart . . . in a good way.
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CJ and the Dude @outbeyondideas.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
. . . but of course still there. ❤️
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CJ and the Dude @outbeyondideas.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
The number of misleading mailers we received here in Hampton was off the charts. I can certainly see how that might have skewed the numbers!
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Steve Woodsmall, PhD @drstevew.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
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CJ and the Dude @outbeyondideas.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
As someone who has nurtured a sourdough starter for six years, this “meal” is VERY familiar.I mean, it has all the food groups covered .
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CJ and the Dude @outbeyondideas.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
What an eloquent way to express it . . . “thoughts I didn’t know I had.” I agree.
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CJ and the Dude @outbeyondideas.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Mama said there’d be days like this . . .
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CJ and the Dude @outbeyondideas.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Love these, James. Love Mary Oliver. Thank you for sharing.
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CJ and the Dude @outbeyondideas.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
very cool!
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CJ and the Dude @outbeyondideas.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Yeah, oldest trick in the book. Dates back to . . .hmmm. . .2024.
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CJ and the Dude @outbeyondideas.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Oh, shit. This, then, is who we are . . .I apologize for my naïveté but how are there this many men in our country who choose to rape children? Please don’t respond because they can.
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CJ and the Dude @outbeyondideas.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Maybe they just can‘t navigate a world where electricity costs $400 a month, natural gas is $365, water and sewage are $125 and a routine visit to the doctor or dentist costs more than $200. Not to mention the ever escalating costs of food, clothing and shelter! Handout!!!!! Give me a break!
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CJ and the Dude @outbeyondideas.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
I know the trope is MAGA and their pickups. But not everyone with a big old truck is MAGA. My very liberal husband drives a 2007 F-150 that he needs to haul heavy materials and pull a mixer for his small masonry business.
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CJ and the Dude @outbeyondideas.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Sacrifice your health care! Sacrifice your jobs! Sacrifice your money. If you are not already wealthy in this country, the regime’s mantra is Sacrifice! Sacrifice! Sacrifice! Meanwhile, the rich just get richer.
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CJ and the Dude @outbeyondideas.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Her face says it all . . .and then some!
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CJ and the Dude @outbeyondideas.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
no words. . .
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CJ and the Dude @outbeyondideas.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
No brainer
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TheColfaxxx 🐢 @thecolfax.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved - Kurt Vonnegut Pic of the day #photography
The Grand Teton mountains in GT National Park as the sun sets behind them. Sun streaks reach above the peaks as night begins to settle in.
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CJ and the Dude @outbeyondideas.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Ah. . .of course
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CJ and the Dude @outbeyondideas.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
My take from that as well
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CJ and the Dude @outbeyondideas.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Read it last week and I agree. Beautiful writing. Compelling reading. (Also made me both grateful and nostalgic for my coming of age when I exchanged letters with friends and lovers. So much delicious anticipation and delightful surprise.)
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CJ and the Dude @outbeyondideas.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Plus, Christmas cap!
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CJ and the Dude @outbeyondideas.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Interesting that they redact so many names of email correspondents and leave other’s — like Peggy’s here — in.
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