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Roland Merullo

@rmerullo.bsky.social
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Author, Italophile, happy husband and father.

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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Support good journalism because that is being attacked. Keep talking even to the converted. Don't argue with MAGA, just let the facts speak to them. That will make it easier for them to admit they were wrong, a few of them anyway. Protect your mental and physical health.
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
For those naive souls who believe God spared Trump's life so he could make America great again, it might be wise to keep in mind that Hitler and Mussolini (3X) also survived assassination attempts. Maybe the takeaway is that surviving an assassination attempt is not actually a sign of God's love.
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
My accomplishment this week, Musk, is that I am retired and living on Social Security. I'm 71. I started working when I was 14 and have paid into Social Security since then. Your accomplishment this week was to hurt people all over the world and to make an ass of yourself. Nice going.
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
I've spent a lot of time in Italy. What's interesting is that every city and town has a Matteotti Street or a Matteotti Plaza. Giacomo Matteotti was the only legislator brave enough to standup to Mussolini. He was killed by thugs. You never, ever, find a street or square named after Mussolini.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 19/02/2025
Trump is a Russian stooge. Putin may as well written this himself. And any Republican in Congress who said they support our allies before, but are silent today over this, are worthless.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
The amount of secondhand embarrassment I have even just watching this is through the roof.
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
see no truth hear no truth
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
and that was a short list. the long list is....long.
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Yes. trying to make sense of it. Looks like Trump wants a tripartite world: Give Europe to Putin, Asia to XI and he'll be king of the Americas. A child's idea. A fourth-grader's notion.
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Do it!!!!!!!!
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
SO FAR: 1. Freed Jan 6 criminals 2. Obliterated USAID 3. Gabbard put in THE most sensitive position 4. Selling Ukraine down the river (mister dealmaker giving away his two best cards right away.) 5. Consumer protection is gone 6. Dept of Education going 7. Horrible deal with Adams 8. Gaza absurdity
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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
From the Poets & Writers Grants and Awards newsletter. I’d say they’re assholes and scammers, but folks who love to pay $27 to submit will start yelling at me. Anyway, y’all know how I feel about fees. Fuck everything about this. Never pay to play. Period. (via Becky Tuch)
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Exactly zero mention of those terribly high food costs. They must have all come back to 1958 prices.
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
It must be hard as you near the end of your life, if you've spent all those years thinking: me, me, me, I'm the best, the greatest, no one else matters, I can do whatever I want and get away with it. Must be terrifying, no?
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Our latest Substack newsletter on lies and lying.
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
I like BlueSky for the political posts. Impossible not to think about politics in these terrible times. My daughter and I try to discuss the big life issues that bear on politics but also transcend them. This week we are discussing lies and liars. Check us out at Merullo.Substack.com.
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Hi Zan, Hi Pa | Roland Merullo | Substack
A contemplative father-daughter conversation about ordinary life, from two well-traveled writers. Click to read Hi Zan, Hi Pa, by Roland Merullo, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
exactly
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what Trump did.
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what Trump did.
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
It's a waste of breath to argue with Trump supporters. The only hope is that 5% of them will be directly effected in a negative way by one of his evil ideas and will then see the error of their ways. How much damage will be done in the meantime is the question. Project 2026.
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
'war' that should be
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what Trump did.
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
The Russia-Ukraine was was supposed to end 24 hours after Trump took office. I guess I missed it. Wow.
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
That 'common sense' remark was laughable. He bullies reporters. Won't be long until the liberal/middle road press is excluded entirely. Dictators have to control the media. All the media.
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget INSURRECTIONIST TRUMP!
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
1. Pardon of January 6 criminals 2. Withdrawal from the climate accords.. 3. Withdrawal from WHO 4. Unqualified Defense Secretary among others 5. Firing of Inspectors General 6. Cessation of foreign aid. 7. Ending of support for alternative energies 8. ICE raids, people deported in handcuffs
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
When they came for the immigrants I didn't say anything because only my grandparents were immigrants. I was born here.
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Daughter and I discuss Comfort Zone in our latest Substack. Merullo.Substack.com. It's called Hi Zan, Hi Pa and we try to avoid speaking directly about politics as I do that a lot here and on FB. But we go deep into subjects that bear on life now in the US (and elsewhere).
merullo.substack.com
Hi Zan, Hi Pa | Roland Merullo | Substack
A contemplative father-daughter conversation about ordinary life, from two well-traveled writers. Click to read Hi Zan, Hi Pa, by Roland Merullo, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
It was considered radical in Christ's time, no? Hence the crucifix.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Wow. Just wow. To read these words from David Maraniss. This is how bad things have gotten.
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget INSURRECTIONIST TRUMP!
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Jennifer Bennon @jennobenno.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Tough on crime. Ha! Soft on criminals.
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
just right ala mussolini
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget INSURRECTIONIST TRUMP!
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Speak up without mockery. Be a little more generous and a little kinder in our daily life. Avoid trying to change the minds of devout MAGA people. Think about how the Left can become more universally empathetic, more considerate of ALL the poor, not just certain groups of poor and oppressed..
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Thank you. The term 'Christian' has been so badly misused of late. The true meaning of it applies to you.
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Who is surprised. Like a little boy, that's all. A spoiled little boy.
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
@criminalerin.bsky.social
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget INSURRECTIONIST TRUMP!
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
There is no better proof of cult membership than supporting or excusing the pardons of the January sixth criminals.
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
ok who do we invade first?
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
I'm in Italy and was speaking with an Italian friend yesterday. "How could Trump win?" he asked, incredulous. I said, "Why did so many Italians adore Mussolini?" "He gave them an illusion," my friend said. "They believed the illusion. And he created two enemies--the Jews and foreigners."
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
you have paid all our dues be well don’t let them make you sick
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
who is surprised?
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Novels are dangerous, though, because you have to think kind of.
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Infroguration.
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Check out our conversation about your life's big dreams (or lack thereof), today, Jan. 10th, Merullo.Substack.com
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Hi Zan, Hi Pa | Roland Merullo | Substack
A contemplative father-daughter conversation about ordinary life, from two well-traveled writers. Click to read Hi Zan, Hi Pa, by Roland Merullo, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
L.A. is burning. Trump is playing a flute tune about Greenland.
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Right. People wept in the streets when he died. Sheep, we are. And the shepard ain't a good guy. Everybody didn't grow up on Essex Street. And everybody on Essex Street didn't grow up.
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Roland Merullo @rmerullo.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Familiar as I am with history, until now I never completely understood how millions of people could do the bidding of Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini. Not that trump is any of those, but his supporters exhibit the same disregard for facts, kindness, empathy, and discernment. His word is law.
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