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created January 13, 2025

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Sadly true.

5/8/2025, 1:44:43 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I think Bob Reich may be Bernie's cousin.

5/8/2025, 1:30:02 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Beautiful.

27/7/2025, 3:44:07 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Amen. Money OUT of elections - right now!

25/7/2025, 3:36:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Cute, but at what price? This is an exotic animal kept in a cage.

24/7/2025, 8:49:28 PM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Dude said to leave him alone.

20/7/2025, 9:55:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Moving the depository accounts around. _Somebody_ looked at the numbers. Very standard gangland profit-sharing.

16/7/2025, 9:34:47 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent

Not really analysis; just a grumpy staff writer whining in print. Should be marked 'Commentary'.

13/7/2025, 10:58:22 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent

Well, I hope not before Bill Clinton decides to do the right thing and share what he knows, saw, took part in and regrets, of course. His life will be over, sure, but the whole world will hail him.

13/7/2025, 10:55:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent

Was not the easiest mini, except for this one

13/7/2025, 12:22:18 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent

The toast landed jam side up.

13/7/2025, 12:13:10 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent

Take a walk. Breathe. Let negative thoughts walk thru your mind and keep going. Stay in the fight. We need you.

12/7/2025, 12:19:59 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent

kind of has an AI flavor

12/7/2025, 12:17:19 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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breakdown is one word, thus emphasizing what it means

12/7/2025, 12:16:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social)

Anyone else? I received a letter last week from the IRS informing me that I was "one of 525,000 [oddly round number] current or retired federal employees who are noncompliant with respect to their tax obligations as of April 30, 2025." It goes on to scold me. I have the canceled check, DOGE dogs.

6/7/2025, 4:46:54 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent

AND, thanks to Reagan, we have at least 3 generations of folks not comfortable reading bc of the gutting of early childhood education. These guys knew _exactly_ what they were doing.

6/7/2025, 4:23:45 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent

Sadly,they appear to have firearms as well as badges.Not a question of "if" and we all know it. IMO They've been played. For years. Reagan gutted early childhood ed. hence 4 generations of folks uncomfortable reading. Even if we started now, it might take that long again. Ah, live history.

5/6/2025, 9:12:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent

That is an otter baby, yes?

5/6/2025, 8:48:14 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent

The Old Testament is full of strict rules that evolved from the need to keep a large group of people in line. The Sermon on the Mount "updates" the 10 Cs almost line for line. People who follow the OT are not, by definition, followers of Jesus.

4/6/2025, 9:21:47 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh-kay. Blink if you need help.

27/5/2025, 12:27:44 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent

Can't be a diva, only male peacocks do this. Just a typical insecure entity looking to get lucky.

26/5/2025, 4:47:54 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wish her luck and fresh essential oils when getting treated for a medical problem.

26/5/2025, 4:45:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It is breathtaking and heartbraking at the same time.

26/5/2025, 4:44:06 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social)

Sunday's 'Doonesbury' includes a link to the list of words the current executive office has banned from gov sites. Where you get a 404. Anyone know anything?

18/5/2025, 12:04:47 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I read the news today, oh boy

7/5/2025, 3:10:09 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent

To those asking, it was MTG who used the word "garbage"

2/5/2025, 11:53:48 AM | 30 5 | View on Bluesky | view

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23/4/2025, 12:00:00 AM | 3137 216 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent

Please take your desperate attempts someplace else. As the great poet said, "Respect yourself".

20/4/2025, 1:41:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The true neaning of 'Easter'

20/4/2025, 1:36:57 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It was a tough one, I'll admit.

20/4/2025, 1:34:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent

Maybe you erred?

20/4/2025, 1:18:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Some very disturbed stuff done very well

20/4/2025, 1:07:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent

Did you mean genres or am I just too %$#@$ old to get it?

17/4/2025, 9:18:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent

Please, where/when was this?

17/4/2025, 8:58:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent

If I _never_ see or hear the name again, fine.

17/4/2025, 5:54:15 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Maybe the most repellant action taken, so far. To use a mother's grief in such a callous and vile way. Whew. Never say, "This is the worst", bc they aren't finished - yet.

17/4/2025, 1:53:25 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Pretty sure the word 'blonde' should have been within quotation marks.

17/4/2025, 1:40:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent

Insh'allah

17/4/2025, 12:35:17 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh, that oath thing. Someday, schools will be named after them.

16/4/2025, 6:58:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent

Sadly necessary

16/4/2025, 6:35:15 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent

What makes you convinced in that person's existence?

11/4/2025, 12:56:48 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent

I read the headline too fast. I thought it said 'Lewis Black talks back to God'. Haha. He would too.

9/4/2025, 3:45:19 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What are the Vegas numbers on this occuring? Asking for a friend.

6/4/2025, 5:02:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And inclue 30 grams of protein, 12 of fibre.

6/4/2025, 12:16:57 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent

Who lit his lamp?

2/4/2025, 11:49:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent

Explain the capitulation, please

2/4/2025, 11:42:32 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent

I am sorry you didn't get it. He accomplished this: he got you to post that your heart is broken. Walk away from despair, friend. Hope lives.

2/4/2025, 1:02:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent

That is terrible. Never do that again.

30/3/2025, 1:42:23 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Pretty sure he's "the minder."

30/3/2025, 1:39:41 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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OMG. His cheese has completely slipped off his cracker.

29/3/2025, 11:30:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And we love you back, Sky Daddy.

26/3/2025, 1:34:51 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is brilliant. Thank you so much for the effort and thoughtfulness that went into it.

24/3/2025, 11:55:17 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Despicable.

22/3/2025, 10:59:00 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent

And, it led all the national news this morning. Oh, wait.

22/3/2025, 10:54:57 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is true.

20/3/2025, 8:02:30 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent

Right arm, sister!

20/3/2025, 8:00:02 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent

I dug this up the other. Highly recommend ""How the World Made the West" 4K years of empires rising and falling. And so it goes.

19/3/2025, 12:31:53 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent

Please describe "standing up"?

19/3/2025, 12:27:14 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Please buy from an independent bookstore. Check out bookshop.org

18/3/2025, 11:18:33 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is the most astonishingly ignorant thing I have ever heard. This guy knows nothing about what he insists on talking about. If I was a nicer person, I'd be embarassed for him.

11/3/2025, 12:54:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent

Predates punk by a couple of generations, but still important and valid.

11/3/2025, 12:51:27 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Inspiring. Gracias, Senhora.

9/3/2025, 1:55:40 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social)

My sign. Someone else's Confederate soldier. Winchester, Va. Outside Ben Cline's office. There were @ 150 of us, but no Ben.

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5/3/2025, 10:42:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent

The average Neanderthal knew the uses and differences of hundreds of lithic varieties, how to make a fire and tan the hides of animals. You have, inadvertently, I am sure, insulted them.

1/3/2025, 2:54:05 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent

Honestly, pretty much all of this started under Roosevelt. Have you seen the movie, 'Amsterdam'? It is all laid out there.

1/3/2025, 2:47:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Darkness you speak of is here.

1/3/2025, 2:45:25 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This one. (Non-confrontational)

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28/2/2025, 2:08:46 AM | 42 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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If you click the heart, does that mean you _love_ it?

27/2/2025, 11:42:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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As my mother would say, Jesus, Mary and Joseph.

27/2/2025, 11:41:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social)

Words I never, in my life, I expected to say: Tip o' the hat to Josh Hawley and Susan Collins for pushing back on the Mcaid cuts.

27/2/2025, 11:40:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Belongs to Bezos now. Maybe it could be an underpaid warehouse worker w no health insurance.

25/2/2025, 1:31:22 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Thank you for your service. Please take Pelosi and Schumer with you.

25/2/2025, 1:28:53 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent

At last.

25/2/2025, 1:19:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent

Smart? Freaking brilliant AND unafraid. The (almost) only political leader who has been talking about working class problems since EVER.

24/2/2025, 1:13:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Gosh.

20/2/2025, 3:06:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Amen. If only those who will be paying with their lives - literally- could/would read.

15/2/2025, 12:41:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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She is an Episcopalian. I literally LIVE for the day of women bishops in the Roman Catholic church. [Tip o' the hat to Conclave.] IYKYK

11/2/2025, 1:07:23 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Photoshop so obvious it looks like I did it.

10/2/2025, 1:39:46 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Where is the slice of pie?

10/2/2025, 1:36:12 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Remember when Barry Goldwater was the scariest person?

9/2/2025, 2:28:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Huge shout-out to my sister-in-heart, Ann, for being there and representing ALL OF US. I wish I lived closer.

5/2/2025, 12:47:14 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sakamoto Days. Check it out.

3/2/2025, 9:59:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Thanks. This is helpful. "Moderate" might need some firming up, but I do appreciate learning.

2/2/2025, 5:47:34 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Actually, the "hydrocucks" are correct. It is science, not politics.

2/2/2025, 1:26:27 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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So absolutely true.

26/1/2025, 1:46:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Maybe he is this time, but he isnt the first to say it, and he was pretty much in complete left field during the election. Running on fumes. We need new voices.

26/1/2025, 1:34:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent

It is horrifying and yet fascinati g to see a struggle betw the "OT" (more aptly called the Goatherder's Guide to the Galaxy" and the "NT" which tries to teach compassion and tolerance.

25/1/2025, 1:16:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent

Because you can't spell?

24/1/2025, 9:12:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I would like to see if the NYT uses the words"deranged" or "patently false" or "who will tell him"? in discussing this, but im on a total blackout so i wont. When will the Emperor be exposed?

24/1/2025, 9:08:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture jmacosta413.bsky.social (@jmacosta413.bsky.social) reply parent

Reagan gutted early childhood education. Your number represents 3 generations of people nervous about words. Without the words they cannot describe what they are so angry about.

15/1/2025, 8:51:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'm so afraid they DO know.

13/1/2025, 8:33:37 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It truly is unbelievable.

13/1/2025, 8:26:34 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Well, you know, if they can find them and if not the community-run handout stores may have some and theycan get some clean socks too for the pulling. Damn ash and smoke everywhere.

13/1/2025, 8:25:33 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oh, don't challenge them.

13/1/2025, 8:22:42 PM | 12 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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From what Ive seen; specifically requested by President Carter in his extensive plans. Both song and performers.

13/1/2025, 8:04:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view