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@PJLM

@pjlm.bsky.social
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Oldest of GenX. Midwesterner turned New Englander. Evangelical turned Episcopalian. Always a Democrat. Non-profit consultant. Married w/ 3 grown kids. Military mom. 1 step at a time; we will figure this out.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
An easy iq test is “does that Republican care about women’s sports and should you believe what they have to say about it”
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It is about as easy as: does that longtime conservative activist actually like American Jews
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Vance's midterms pitch: "Give us another chance. Give us another couple of years"
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 16/09/2026
Dawg the guy who’s a heartbeat away from the presidency is talking like he’s the bad boyfriend who forgot your birthday
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Eugene Finkel @efinkel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This loud sound that you hear are the exploding heads of keyboard warriors who just discovered that Middle East is, in fact, quite complicated and actors have more than one interest www.reuters.com/world/middle...
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Mnfarmer @jerrysdelicates.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Claude wouldn’t give me typical prophylactic anabiotic dosage for a tick bite the other day, but it’s walking Iran through military plans? I don’t get it.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Was so busy worrying about climate change I forgot about the possibility that AI might kill us all first 
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The most Christian nationalist administration of my lifetime is the one doing this since early last year. I’m as secularist as they come, and it’d be nice if the most powerful Christian and evangelical leaders in the country were a fraction as appalled by all this as I, a dipshit atheist, am.
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Bonhoeffer's Child @bonhoefferchild.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Christian Nationalism is the bag that holds the Evangelical Church's 30 pieces of silver.
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Julia Is Waving, Not Drowning @booktweeting.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
podbros: we must have Graham Platner, there is no other possible man candidate with working class cred in the entire state of Maine, pay no attention to the prep school or the trust fund or the Nazi tattoo or the sexual assault allegations Troy Jackson: ::exists::
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Jay Mallow @jaymallow.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Ok those of you saying something similar the known rapist and pedophile just repeated the talking point all rapists repeat
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Eric Schultz @wwahammy.com · 04/07/2026
But how can they breathe? I thought it wasn't possible to breathe with a mask on.
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markmark73.bsky.social @markmark73.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
He might be right on the “extra gasoline costs,” but he’s deliberately ignoring the fact that increased gas costs has had impact on costs for other products and services which is hard to calculate.
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Prof. Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
So for everyone telling me "the Catholic church should do X because women, lgbtq, sexual abuse etc.I hear you. Trust me, getting the slavery apology on behalf of the church is a big deal, but it also has a purpose, which I've explained here. www.ms.now/opinion/pope...
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Opinion | Why the pope included an apology for slavery in a warning about AI
Anthea Butler: Pope Leo putting slavery and emergent AI technology together is not strange at all.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Without using AI
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pcrritesgood.bsky.social @pcrritesgood.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Wikipedia lists about 20 incidents of assassination plots or threats to Obama and most of us never heard about any of them because he wasn't a flaccid loser who whined like a baby about every one of them.
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@PJLM @pjlm.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
@mcuban.bsky.social joins the merry band of billionaire syncophants, slobbering over “TrumpRX.” This stuff matters.
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emigre80 @emigre80.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
This is only the 137th time Trump has threatened Iran with total destruction, so I'm sure that this time Iran will actually pay attention and cave.
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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Lotta work has been done about the “spiritual but not religious.” I find the “religious but not spiritual“ folks more interesting sociologically. I think they make up a much larger % of Americans than we realize: folks for whom religious identity, symbols, & rituals matter, but not God-connection.
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TJ "Henry" yosh @tj99er.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Nothing makes me feel more asexual than hearing how much the president of the United States desperately wants me to have a child.
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Opening a lucrative PR firm where for $100k I will hand my wealthy clients a note that says “stop commenting for stories like this”
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Oh good lord corporate media is going to push Rubio and Newsom and Rahm Emmanuel so hard and absolutely no one is going to bite. God this whole thing is just beyond pathetic and transparent.
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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
The right’s repeated insistences that NOW they are now finally truly violently angry (the left, collectively guilty, cannot even conceive the anger!) would carry more weight if they didn’t also say that kind of thing when they see a video of women having fun at work.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
If you weren’t “lucky” enough to live through this like some of us, go watch Jimmy Swaggart’s apology and marvel at the performance and his Trumpian hair. The fallen autocratic grifter as savior is as American Evangelical as shaking hands on the way out the door or potluck dinners.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Trump didn’t just emerge as a blasphemous autocrat / swindler of the Christian Right. They’ve had one Trumpian figure after another their entire lives because the entire culture is absolutely rotted through with swindlers and abusers. He’s actually quite comforting and familiar to them.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
THE DALAI LAMA IS WEAK ON MONETARY POLICY.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
scrub harder, lady macbeth
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
I did not know Epstein on a boat I did not know Epstein with a goat I did not know Epstein in the air I did not know him anywhere!
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
starting to think perhaps fifa and its peace prize board were too hasty
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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
The word "centrist," like "civil," is an exercise of definitional power: the claim to label people according to one's own criteria. This is a corruption of public discourse enabled by the culture of polling. This is Ellison trying to brand publics as his own. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/a...
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David Ellison says 70% of Americans are centrist. Surveys tell a different story
Paramount Skydance CEO has repeatedly cited the statistic when laying out the approach that CBS News and potentially CNN would take
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
I'm supposed to be submitting an article on how to win the culture war, and I've rewritten it 3 times and I'm way past the deadline and I'm super stuck because I keep realizing I don't believe what I'm writing. I don't think the problem is right-wing media control. I think the problem is Trump
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
$200 billion sounds like a lot but it’s a small price to pay for global economic instability.
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🏆Champion Knicks🏆 @aangtifa.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
She's the JD Vance school of annoying suck up that doesn't appeal to anyone but her billionaire audience. Flatter the rich is a strategy for rapid rise in America, but not popularity. You can't boot lick your way to a personality.
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Is Tom Cotton planning on laying waste to Tehran and then dividing it between four powers?
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
He's not the right messenger for speaking on our behalf, but he's a perfectly fine messenger for splintering the MAGA coalition.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
When I say Netanyahu didn’t puppet-master Trump into war, that’s no defense of that genocidal fascist. It’s an insistence on understanding fascisms as in narcissistically self-interested alliances. “Axes,” if you will, & a rejection of fascist friendly explanations that settle on conspiracies.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
The Venn diagram of people I'd want speaking for me and people who could have influence within the MAGAsphere is two circles that never touch.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
It’s probably a coincidence that every person in Trump’s stories that he refuses to name always agrees with him and praises him.
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cusoman 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cusoman.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Always pay attention to the rehearsed words. "Whether they say it or not" has been rehearsed and repeated now, and what this says about how they communicate about this war says everything. They're *trying* to give themselves a get-out-of-war-free card they can use whenever they want
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
The economist Alan Cole recently became a folk hero for betting his life savings that DOGE would fail, and winning. But it turns out the Musk and Trump loyalists he took to the cleaners are only slightly more gullible than political, financial, and media elites. www.offmessage.net/p/elites-mag...
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Elites Aren't Much Savvier Than MAGA
They're both easy marks for Donald Trump.
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Julie Ingersoll @julieingersoll.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
There are people who could stop this insanity. They just are not doing it
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/03/2026
Biden: "Jesse kept hope alive for us, and we've gotta continue to do it in our lifetime for our children. Because there's nothing beyond our capacity when we work together. So stand up! And finish this job."
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
> @benstiller.redhour.com
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Alex Halpern @halpernalex.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
If Markwayne Mullin wasn’t a senator he would be an ICE agent so this makes a lot of sense from a “what should a dumb middle aged guy on heavy doses of steroids do for a living” perspective.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
I'm sorry, if you're going to make a big show about how you've got a Department of WAR helmed by a Secretary of WAR and staffed by WARfighters, it's totally inane to then claim that your massive bombing of a foreign country constitutes something other than a war.
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Todd Lambert @toddlambert.com · 03/03/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/03/2026
KAINE: To wage offensive war, the framers of the Constitution were absolutely plain that you gotta come to Congress KERNEN: But it's almost a moot point KAINE: Let me just underline the fact that I made an argument about the Constitution and you said it's a 'moot point.' I don't believe that
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
hey gen z welcome to republican governance
James Franco being executed by hanging. "First time?" he asks, as though he's been hanged before.
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Alex Halpern @halpernalex.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Five GOP representatives could switch sides and start ending this today. Five people.
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Alex Halpern @halpernalex.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
I guess the only genuine upside is that in the history of crazy dictators it has always been their foreign adventures that have tipped the scale towards their collapse.
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