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Roy Ciampa

@royciampa.bsky.social
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Retired New Testament professor (Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and Samford University); seeking to follow Jesus and to learn to love God and all my neighbors. Learning from those who are different from myself and who help me grow in understanding.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 16/11/2025
So they are just going to keep announcing fake trade deals with China every few months
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Bingo. Corporate welfare is the real welfare you should be talking about.
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Dog the Wag @dog-the-wag.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Question: “how could he run on releasing the Epstein files and not do it?” Answer: because he’s lied his whole life without consequences. Why would he think this situation would be any different?
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 07/11/2025
Trump yesterday: They have this new word called "affordability" and [Republicans] don't talk about it enough. Democrats did. Trump today: I don't want to hear about the affordability.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 05/11/2025
Abigail Spanberger, a former congresswoman and CIA agent, will be the first woman to serve as governor of Virginia, following a streak of 74 men. Spanberger's campaign was laser-focused on attacking President Trump's policies. nyti.ms/498lHIB
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/10/2025
Gallego: "It's murder. It's very simple. If this president feels they are doing something illegally, then he should be using the Coast Guard. If this is an act of war, then you use our military and then you come and talk to us first. But this is murder ... it's disgusting."
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
It’s amazing how all the reporting is just memory-holing this part
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
I have lived and worked in and around Chicago for 27 years and I have been assaulted less often than Sen Paul has been in his own back yard.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
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Andrew Weissmann @weissmann.substack.com · 23/09/2025
If you are Border Czar Homans, and you did NOT take the $50,000 in a paper bag, wouldn't you been screaming at the top of your lungs that you want the FBI tape of the transaction released publicly in order to clear your name? Yet he isn't doing that. Hmmmm......
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
They've known it for years.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Some of us do.
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E. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com · 14/09/2025
Looked at my data collections for state-backed activity. If the report were a picture:
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
It's incredible intellectual gymnastics to accuse the anti-gun Left of causing gun violence. The self-delusion is staggering.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2025
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 13/09/2025
This is unreal. Jesus would be hanging out with the people Brian Kilmeade wants the state to murder. They do not follow God
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Roy Ciampa @royciampa.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
😂🤣
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/09/2025
As a survivor, I can't think of a more fitting metaphor than a rapist creating loud noises with planes as a survivor tries to tell her story. I mean... just wow. Nevertheless, she persisted.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign👇🏽
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Mark Hertling @markhertling.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
“…I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.” My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
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Honoring Ashli Babbitt Dishonors the Military
If there’s no difference between upholding the Constitution and attacking it, then there’s no honor in service.
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Roy Ciampa @royciampa.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Yes, this makes perfect sense.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/08/2025
Here’s what was NOT released today: - the proffer agreement between Maxwell and the DoJ - the agreement transferring Maxwell to club fed - communications showing who waived Maxwell’s sex offender status allowing her transfer and possible work assignments outside prison - the Epstein files
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Trump Supporters, Watching Donald Trump literally roll out a red carpet and gleefully applaud Vladimir Putin’s arrival here, it can’t be lost on you, can it? We see it. The world sees it. When are you going to see it? johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/hey-maga-a...
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Hey MAGA America, Trump is Putin You On
Trump supporters, are you seeing this?
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 16/08/2025
Wonder what Foxnews would be talking about all day this week if Obama had done this?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
As he unleashes troops to combat "crime," Trump is simultaneously gutting the cops on the beat that stop corporations from harming us — the EPA, IRS, SEC, Labor Department, FTC, CFPB, Consumer Product Safety Commission, FDA, and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Hello?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
The upward redistribution of wealth over the past 50 years has shifted $80 trillion from the bottom 90% of Americans to the top 1%.  That’s $80 trillion that would have gone into the paychecks of the working class. The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.
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papaesoco.bsky.social @papaesoco.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
open.substack.com/pub/borowitz... WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—An unscrupulous Russian man has lured a confused septuagenarian to Alaska in an apparent elder scam, concerned associates of the old man reported on Thursday. According to those associates, the Russian has posed as a
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Russian Lures Confused Old Man to Alaska in Elder Scam
“We’re afraid the Russian will trick him into signing something away," said an associate of the geriatric dupe.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Fox News Reporter Jacqui Heinrich: The way that it felt in the room was not good. It did not seem like things went well. And it seemed like Putin came in and steam rolled, got right into what he wanted to say and got his photo next to the president and then left
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/08/2025
Blumenthal: "My stomach turned when I heard the president of the United States characterize Vladimir Putin as his fabulously good friend. Vladimir Putin is a war criminal."
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Roy Ciampa @royciampa.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
People like this are now put in places of influence in our government. SAD!!!!
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 07/08/2025
#medsky
Bill Hartman, MD, PhD
This is so wrong.  As doctors, we work day and night, weekends and holidays, literally every hour of every day to help make people better
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
The President of the United States went on CNBC today and said: He won the 2020 election (he didn’t). He has a 71% approval rating (he doesn’t). The jobs numbers were rigged (they weren’t). I could say something funny here, but I won’t. It’s just so damn dangerous to have him in the White House.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/08/2025
kennedy is going to kill a lot of people
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/07/2025
"In 2020, the government pointed to Maxwell’s 'willingness to brazenly lie under oath about her conduct' as a reason to deny her bail. Now, with her entire life in the government’s control, it turns to her as a source of truth. Or, if not truth, a story that can help the president out of this jam."
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DOJ slides into DMs of convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell
They're gonna make her an offer she can't refuse.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
I’m not interested in the lies that Trump’s corrupt DOJ bribes Ghislaine Maxwell into telling. I’m interested in the truths that the victims and witnesses told investigators years ago, which are in the files that Trump’s DOJ refuses to release. Release the files.
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Bony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 18/07/2025
WGBH building in Boston today
View of the WGBH building in Boston with an electronic marquee reading “Local. Trusted. Defunded.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/07/2025
Padilla: "What if I was outside a Home Depot, because I like to do some work around the house, not dressed in a suit. Would I be a target of ICE enforcement under Tom Homan? Probably. And it is just wrong."
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David French @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Want to understand the MAGA crackup over Epstein? After stoking years of speculation, some of MAGA’s most trusted voices — including Patel, Bondi, Bongino and Trump himself — are telling their movement: Move along, there’s nothing to see here. But MAGA does not want to hear what they have to say.
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Opinion | MAGA Is Tearing Itself Apart Over Jeffrey Epstein
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Wolff: I remember once, when I was at Mar-a-Lago to do a sit-down interview, his aides asked for a rough outline of what I wanted to talk about. I had a lot of subjects, but I also said Epstein. And they told me, “If you ask about that, he’ll just stop the interview and you won’t get anything.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/07/2025
Every Republican who goes on the Sunday shows tomorrow should be pressed to denounce this illegal and authoritarian proclamation from the president. And none of this "I didn't read the tweet" bullshit.
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Patty Hartman, a 17-year former Justice Department official who was fired Monday by AG Pam Bondi, is warning of rising political retribution inside the DOJ: “There used to be a line, used to be a very distinct separation between the WH and the DOJ…That line is very definitely gone”
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
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Roy Ciampa @royciampa.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
The whole idea of principles of American governance are thrown out in Trump's administration.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
I’m thinking InfoWars.
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Roy Ciampa @royciampa.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
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Trump Pardons Criminal Whose Mom Attended Mar-a-Lago Fundraiser
Donald Trump pardoned tax criminal Paul Walczak weeks after his mother attended a lavish fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago, The New York Times reports.
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Roy Ciampa @royciampa.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
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How to Hide a Constitutional Crisis — The Atlantic
The executive branch is relying on the language of the law as cover to claim that it is complying with court orders when in fact it is not.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 29/04/2025
Credit where due: Fox News this morning aired a fascinating snippet from a North Korean news broadcast, providing an unusual bit of insight into how an autocratic regime works.
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
We aren’t paid. We are pissed.
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