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Tom Reed

@tjreed.bsky.social
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Retired geek, veteran, Orioles and jazz lover. Still liberal after all these years.

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Tom Reed @tjreed.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It’s a parable. Hell, the eschatological vision of the ”rapture” isn’t even accepted by most Christian denominations. They don’t preach about the left behind and what not. It’s an evangelical concept and has a whole bunch of different variations. Me, I like Blind Willie Johnson’s version
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Tom Reed @tjreed.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
You: “I’ve been ordained for 2 decades” this is in present tense
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Tom Reed @tjreed.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I said he didn’t preach the rapture only the end of the world. Your reading comprehension is terrible.
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Tom Reed @tjreed.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Btw Enlil’s flood adventure is way cooler then your yahweh guy‘s made up story.
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Tom Reed @tjreed.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
A star can’t fall on a planet but a planet can fall into a star. Gravity wells and all that. I always ignore prophecies since discovering Enlil screwed up flooding the world. U act like I’m a believer. I work to return Xmas back for Horus to allow the return of Queen of the Heaven with her 3 aspects
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Tom Reed @tjreed.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Cud fool me. i argue JC preached love. U then state from Genesis till JC claimed rapture is crap. I say JC only said that a sorting at the end of the world will occur. You then quote JC on the end of the world. Then ask how big a star is. An irrelevant question. U don’t argue in good faith Sea lion
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Tom Reed @tjreed.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Look, Jesus didn’t say squat about rapture. He talked, Mathew yet again, about a sorting at the end of the world. That’s as close as the 4 gospels get. This is getting silly. 2 non Christians arguing the Bible.
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Tom Reed @tjreed.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Not very Jesus like of Paul in my opinion. I’m not Christian or theologian but I see a radical equality at the core of Jesus’s teachings.
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Tom Reed @tjreed.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I like T Jefferson’s approach. Cross out contradictions and miracles and you get the closest one can to Jesus teaching. At least that was Jefferson’s idea. Jefferson’s version of the gospel is an interesting read. Get to St Paul and u got a misogynistic who says obey your betters.
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Tom Reed @tjreed.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I prefer to look at Jesus’ main 2 commandments, again Mathew: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.” That’s the core of his teaching.
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Tom Reed @tjreed.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Tsk tsk. That’s Mark. Same thing in Mathew 10:37: “Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.” There are conflicting accounts thru out the gospels.
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Tom Reed @tjreed.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
They love parts of the old testament that reinforce their world view esp the killing for the lord parts or condemning kinds of people they don’t like. That Jesus guy seemed pretty adamant that killing and hatred of others was really really wrong. I don’t think they take that part literally.
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Tom Reed @tjreed.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I lived overseas for a couple of decades. It’s stunning how untrained our police are compared to the rest of the world.
Chart showing that the US has among the lowest, in terms of average hours required in police training compared to the rest of world
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Tom Reed @tjreed.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
notifying them of a one-time payment of $90 to offset their Medicare Part B premium in October 2026. People enrolled in Medicare Advantage aren’t eligible.
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Tom Reed @tjreed.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
From Medicare site: A letter to people in Original Medicare Part B who are: (1) Living in the United States, (2) not receiving premium assistance from Medicaid; or, (3) not paying an Income-Related Monthly Adjustment Amount,
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Tom Reed @tjreed.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
What is not being reported is that the check is only sent to those in traditional Medicare (parts A & B). These beneficiaries are ~45% of enrolled. 55% of Beneficiaries enrolled in Medicare part C, Medicare advantage, get nothing.
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Tom Reed @tjreed.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
They just don’t understand that these positions show they have no set principles. We can argue over budgets and what not but not human rights.
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Tom Reed @tjreed.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
On Jan 3 2027 at noon all house members and those Senators that were up for re-election in 2026 terms end. 20th amendment, section 1. Johnson is no longer speaker at that time and therefore has no more power than any single representative. Any none seating chicanery must happen at state gov level
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Tom Reed @tjreed.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
But they feel righteous playing the purity game. Screw actual politics. Sigh
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Tom Reed @tjreed.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I don’t give good odds to that army knowing my daughter.
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Tom Reed @tjreed.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
My daughter in Md. is expecting her first in Jan. So no visits to me for awhile. The other set of grandparents are in county and MAGA. Going to be interesting seeing what they do cause it’ll take an army to force my daughter to come up here until her new daughter is vaccinated.
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Tom Reed @tjreed.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I believe you are correct in the fudging of numbers by RFK. The corner here, while a practicing doctor with offices around the corner from me, is republica and disagrees with the state health department measles death count.
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Tom Reed @tjreed.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I live in Lancaster city. There is a caveat to this. Both the Mennonite (~19k) and Amish (~43k) here are very vaccine reluctant. The county (not the city) is pretty red and has a population of ~500K. The talk here is that there is severe underreporting by families in both communities.
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Tom Reed @tjreed.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
physical access by an insider are at the root of many data breaches. Sometimes through a phishing email to capture credentials (stopped by the air gap) but usually through someone doing it for money or a with an axe to grind. People are always the weakest link in IT security.
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Tom Reed @tjreed.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
That’s called tempest and has been a known security issue for a long time. There are actual specs for air gap distances. If one goes completely professional then monitors, keyboards and the like are tempest shielded. I’ve worked for our 3 letter friends.
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Tom Reed @tjreed.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Not if there is an air gap.
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Tom Reed @tjreed.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Same, a hippo
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Tom Reed @tjreed.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It’s like it’s a game to them.
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Tom Reed @tjreed.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
They just don’t understand that these positions show they have no set principles. We can argue over budgets and what not but not human rights. Gay rights=human rights. Trans rights=human rights. Jesus: “Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.”
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Tom Reed @tjreed.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If I actually receive it before the election, then I will give the complete amount to local democrats running this election cycle. Fuck Trump’s attempt to bribe us
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Tom Reed @tjreed.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
My, how times and perceptions change. If I saw those pics in the late 60’s/early 70’s I’d have guessed “hippie chick” as the phrase was then. Today, yeah lesbian. I heard Frank Zappa once say, after a crowd boo’d recognition of his call out to soldiers, ”we all wear uniforms”. PFC me appreciated it.
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Tom Reed @tjreed.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Immediately brings Hemingway to mind.
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Tom Reed @tjreed.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
No, those words are perfect. I’ve used them.
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Tom Reed @tjreed.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
No, no, No. Love always is. It knows neither past nor future.
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Tom Reed @tjreed.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Add another American…
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Tom Reed @tjreed.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
They are already unprofitable.
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Tom Reed @tjreed.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Again and again the least of us get thrown first. When will politicians stop playing their damn game and grow a f’ing backbone. The push back is so damn easy!
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Tom Reed @tjreed.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I have followed and read Hopkins for a while now. Long enough that I would have easily picked up if he as as you claimed. I plain don’t believe you. You either lack reading comprehension or are just trolling. OMG a blue MAGA in the virtual flesh
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Tom Reed @tjreed.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I slowly moved leftward in middle age. GW Bush pushed me more rapidly leftward. The last 10 years has seen me convinced we do a new constitution with a social democratic bent (no citizens united, no treating corporations as individuals Etc). This keeps up I will be one radicalized old guy.
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Tom Reed @tjreed.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
My heart just broke a little
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Tom Reed @tjreed.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Hell, your rant inspired me to go smoke some weed.
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Tom Reed @tjreed.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
That pitch was on the black, outside. He put a great swing on that ball and didn’t try and pull it but instead went to the opposite field with it
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Tom Reed @tjreed.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The man can’t write dialogue despite the source material. He left Achilles lament in Hades on the floor for example. It is a comic book version of the Odyssey.
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Tom Reed @tjreed.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The argument seems to be the Democrats need a Republican lite candidate to win. Variation on the theme of why Obama nomination would be political suicide. Christian Fundamentalists will never ever accept a Democrat, so why cater to them?
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Tom Reed @tjreed.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Being 72…no!
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Tom Reed @tjreed.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Hmmm…who could have known he had a lot of baggage ? There is more coming too. My guess, assuming he has more smarts than ego, is he is going to withdraw soon. He is exactly who I thought he was. www.politico.com/news/2026/07...
politico.com
Exclusive: Woman who dated Graham Platner says he sexually assaulted her
The Maine Democrat denied the allegations and said, “Any accusation of non-consensual behavior is categorically untrue.”
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Tom Reed @tjreed.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Notice Trump sues over smallest little thing but has never sued anyone one accusing him being a pedophile. He is petrified of the discovery process
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Tom Reed @tjreed.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Love those sunglasses!
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Tom Reed @tjreed.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Concrete poetry
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Tom Reed @tjreed.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Yup, other side of the same coin. I remember a woman in the 90’s who I worked with who was both smart and a very hard worker. She rose rapidly and was met with rumors of “she slept her way up”. White males couldn’t deal with being outperformed. She left the company because of it.
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