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@papaesoco.bsky.social

Nothing to see here: Old Guy that express's his opinion on Politics and Scoundrels; they go together so well! BlackLivesMatter SFGIANTS US Navy Vet Free Palestine 🇯🇴 I Stand With Ukraine 🇺🇦🌻 Sonoma County, Ca.; hence PapaESoCo

created November 14, 2024

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Profile picture angelusmerula.bsky.social (@angelusmerula.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

So he knows

1/9/2025, 6:51:07 AM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Desepchun (@desepchun.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

The point of the Trump admin is to make enemies out of them all. He's actively destroying the USA. By isolating us from our Allies and fueling a civil war in the USA he is setting us up to be divided and broken up by the UN. Turning on Canada and Mexico provides ground for staging. 1/ $0.02

1/9/2025, 6:52:31 AM | 5 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Desepchun (@desepchun.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

His DOGE cuts are disguised as corrupt budget shufflong and DEI hunts but they're actually eliminating vital safe guards to our population. The forestry cuts make forest fires far more dangers and harmful. Forestry fires are a great way for insurgencies to cause fear. 2/

1/9/2025, 6:52:31 AM | 3 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Desepchun (@desepchun.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

His cabinet picks are to make it look like they're getting rich off of it, but the end results are more dangerous environments for all Americans in every sector. They're hiding the destruction they're causing by distracting us with who is doing the harm. 3/

1/9/2025, 6:52:31 AM | 3 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Desepchun (@desepchun.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

He's stacked the admin with nazis/white nationalists. Musk got on screen and did nazi salutes at the inauguration. We have a concentration camp. We are actively being set up by our commander in chief and our congress and courts are going along with it. We are in grave danger. $0.02

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Profile picture Paul Eric Scannell (@pauleric70.bsky.social) reposted

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31/8/2025, 8:48:35 PM | 33 19 | View on Bluesky | view

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31/8/2025, 8:44:01 PM | 13 7 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alexander—Thinkin' Texan (I discuss ideas, not people) (@alexander001a.bsky.social) reposted

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31/8/2025, 9:59:27 PM | 3 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Eric Scannell (@pauleric70.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

and seize their vessels for re-purposing as a maritime force for police operations.

31/8/2025, 11:10:19 PM | 10 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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31/8/2025, 11:21:51 PM | 18 10 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Devil's Therapist (@d3v1ls7h3r4p157.bsky.social) reposted

Israel's SIEGE* has lasted 18 years because the world allowed it, the ETHNIC CLEANSING has been going ON FOR 75 YEARS. This August, that changes! When our armada sets sail, it won't just be challenging an EVIL blockade, NO, it'll be CHALLENGING THE ENTIRE SYSTEM that makes such blockades possible!

31/8/2025, 11:30:47 PM | 14 8 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Eric Scannell (@pauleric70.bsky.social) reposted

Whatever Israel has on him, it's gotta be really fucking bad…. -Dave Smith

31/8/2025, 10:18:50 PM | 22 9 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Eric Scannell (@pauleric70.bsky.social) reposted

Houthis say, "IsraeI kiIIed our PM, now we will kiII IsraeI's PM. It is as simple as that"

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31/8/2025, 10:13:33 PM | 46 16 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Johnny Queer (@queerboy66.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Perhaps it’s something we wish for….

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31/8/2025, 10:28:48 PM | 9 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Eric Scannell (@pauleric70.bsky.social) reposted

Authority on genocide Prof Schabas (from a Holocaust survivor family) argues ICJ Gaza case is "arguably strongest case of genocide ever brought before the Court" & leaders could be prosecuted as individuals for failing to prevent genocide & abetting Israel www.populismstudies.org/professor-sc...

31/8/2025, 10:11:11 PM | 65 35 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Raider (@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social) reposted

At Union Station, veterans play a speech from General Mark Milley warning soldiers of the threat that President Trump poses.

31/8/2025, 7:30:41 PM | 1655 698 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Eric Scannell (@pauleric70.bsky.social) reposted

Call to Activism 🚨BREAKING: JB Pritzker just dropped a bomb, saying that Trump is putting military in U.S. cities because he might aim to stop the election in Nov 2026. Pritzker, who's Jewish, compared it to how the Nazis came to power in Germany: "Donald Trump is just following that playbook."

31/8/2025, 9:24:36 PM | 72 28 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Eric Scannell (@pauleric70.bsky.social) reposted

Mike Hudema Over 100 tons of dead fish in the port of Volos in central Greece, following a mass die-off attributed to extreme climate fluctuations. This isn't normal. No time to wait. ActOnClimate

31/8/2025, 10:26:01 PM | 44 29 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Eric Scannell (@pauleric70.bsky.social) reposted

In the Netherlands, the car where Hind Rajab spent her last moments under 355 bullets from the Israeli army has been turned into a symbol. Her death marks a grim chapter in Zionist history.

31/8/2025, 10:28:57 PM | 25 12 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Eric Scannell (@pauleric70.bsky.social) reposted

Respects to this brave reporter. Moreover, 100% Israel is now trying to murder him 🤬🤬🤬

31/8/2025, 10:32:44 PM | 22 11 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Eric Scannell (@pauleric70.bsky.social) reposted

ANOTHER JEWISH ISRAELI TRYING TO ASSAULT A 14 YEAR OLD AMERICAN CHILD 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 Will they let him escape to Israel again?

31/8/2025, 10:37:07 PM | 22 15 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Eric Scannell (@pauleric70.bsky.social) reposted

If I call my son Jesus would you worship him, brilliant.

31/8/2025, 10:44:18 PM | 28 14 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Eric Scannell (@pauleric70.bsky.social) reposted

Matthew Todd It’s so bizarre watching discussions on news programmes. I don’t think most journalists will comprehend how calamitous climate change is until it kills us. I just don’t think they can comprehend it. It’s very very strange.

31/8/2025, 10:48:05 PM | 38 12 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Eric Scannell (@pauleric70.bsky.social) reposted

🚨BREAKING : The Israeli army has killed journalist Islam Abed, a correspondent for Al-Quds Today TV, in a missile strike in Gaza. Is that 241 or 242 ? 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🇮🇱

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31/8/2025, 10:49:39 PM | 21 10 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Eric Scannell (@pauleric70.bsky.social) reposted

Mandla Mandela, grandson of Nelson Mandela, will join 10 South Africans sailing with the largest civilian flotilla yet to break Israel’s siege on Gaza. More than 50 boats from at least 44 countries will converge in the Mediterranean on Thursday under the Global Sumud Flotilla

31/8/2025, 10:54:43 PM | 96 46 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Eric Scannell (@pauleric70.bsky.social) reposted

Zionists are committing genocide in Gaza.The world must see this.Listen to the words of an anti-Zionist Jewish rabbi.Please share them so everyone can learn the truth.Zionists are not Jews.Israel is not a Jewish state.Zionism is the new Nazism. Zionists are the new Nazis.Israel is the new Nazi state

31/8/2025, 10:59:14 PM | 41 21 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Eric Scannell (@pauleric70.bsky.social) reposted

🇮🇱🇸🇪 Israel plans to imprison Greta Thunberg and declare her a 'terrorist' for trying to break the siege and deliver food to Gaza - Telegraph Israeli National Security Minister Ben Gvir is drafting plans to detain Greta Thunberg and co in "terrorist-level conditions,"

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Profile picture Paul Eric Scannell (@pauleric70.bsky.social) reposted

Robert Fisk one of the British independent journalists about Zionist propaganda . Journalism lessons.

31/8/2025, 11:13:13 PM | 29 16 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Eric Scannell (@pauleric70.bsky.social) reposted

Travis Akers This photo is from August 23rd.

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31/8/2025, 11:15:11 PM | 51 20 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture BlueVoter (@bluevoter24.bsky.social) reposted

So I just stay stoned. #politics

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1/9/2025, 12:09:21 AM | 22 7 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Beachbard (@beachbard.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Legacy media chose profit & pandering over the principled responsibilities of the 4th Estate. We watched former gatekeepers fade, quit, or collude. The real revolution we need requires an engaged media & citizenry willing to challenge, investigate, & report objectively with context in real time.

1/9/2025, 1:49:35 AM | 4 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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1/9/2025, 2:04:03 AM | 65 21 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Johnny Queer (@queerboy66.bsky.social) reposted

This is the only truthful statement to come out of 🧠🪱 Herr Eugenics mouth.

31/8/2025, 3:40:06 PM | 20 9 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture earthbound420.bsky.social (@earthbound420.bsky.social) reposted

Hmm! Lock Him Up!🙄💥

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1/9/2025, 2:56:49 AM | 85 30 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pablo (@un5toppabl0.bsky.social) reposted

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1/9/2025, 2:27:58 AM | 17 10 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Eric Scannell (@pauleric70.bsky.social) reposted

Mossad had a factory producing fake Aussie passports in Israel. They should have been sent home 10 years ago and never allowed back. Mossad are terrorists 🤬🤬🤬 www.abc.net.au/news/2010-02...

1/9/2025, 2:05:20 AM | 47 18 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Eric Scannell (@pauleric70.bsky.social) reposted

Timeline Cleanse ⚜️😎⚜️💙⚜️😎⚜️ Roman Legion-Hare - BugsBunny (1955)

1/9/2025, 1:38:25 AM | 27 10 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Eric Scannell (@pauleric70.bsky.social) reposted

Jim Carrey you are AWESOME for speaking up‼️ 💯

1/9/2025, 1:35:13 AM | 81 36 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Eric Scannell (@pauleric70.bsky.social) reposted

Prof Stefan Rahmstorf We’re filling the atmosphere with CO2 like a bathtub with water. Most of it stays for millennia. That is why the cumulative emissions (the total amount, as pictured here) and not yearly emissions determine the amount of globalwarming.

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1/9/2025, 2:40:23 AM | 15 7 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Eric Scannell (@pauleric70.bsky.social) reposted

🚨Horrifying footage captures the very moment an Israeli explosive-laden robot detonates, leveling an entire residential block in Jabalia, northern Gaza.

1/9/2025, 2:51:01 AM | 27 19 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Eric Scannell (@pauleric70.bsky.social) reposted

Why is @realDonaldTrump trying to pass off pictures taken over a week ago as ones taken today?

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1/9/2025, 2:52:23 AM | 35 10 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pablo (@un5toppabl0.bsky.social) reposted

I don't think they want to know what happens to a cult when it's leader dies....that power isn't easily transferable

31/8/2025, 3:40:52 PM | 23 8 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Eric Scannell (@pauleric70.bsky.social) reposted

Matthew Todd ‘The trees are telling us something is fundamentally wrong’. Glad a writer in the Sunday Times is using the term ‘climate breakdown’. There is no bigger catastrophe, bar nuclear war and even that’s debatable, than the degradation of the planet in front of our eyes

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1/9/2025, 2:42:43 AM | 44 18 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Eric Scannell (@pauleric70.bsky.social) reposted

West Antarctic Ice Sheet, could collapse if global temperatures reach 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, raising sea levels by more than three meters, or about 10 feet And a 2 C world could happen as early as 2035 www.wired.com/story/antarc...

1/9/2025, 2:24:19 AM | 23 14 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Eric Scannell (@pauleric70.bsky.social) reposted

Peter D Carter METHANE POURING FROM ARCTIC CANADA PERMAFROST BENEATH FIRES Large hot Fires over Canada PERMAFROST have heated permafrost beneath with sudden huge region of heavy METHANE emissions (like never before) Copernicus surface methane NOT GOOD 😢

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1/9/2025, 2:27:06 AM | 33 18 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Eric Scannell (@pauleric70.bsky.social) reposted

I'm sure people don't know this history 🤔

1/9/2025, 2:31:58 AM | 15 12 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Eric Scannell (@pauleric70.bsky.social) reposted

So a pregnant woman went to Walter Reed to be monitored in Labor and Delivery on Thursday and allegedly Melania Trump showed up for a tour and nobody knew why she was there including the nurses or staff! Numerous people are speculating that’s where Trump has actually been!

1/9/2025, 3:58:02 AM | 46 28 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Eric Scannell (@pauleric70.bsky.social) reposted

This is beautiful to see.😍💓 Northern Lights, Scandinavia

31/8/2025, 11:24:18 PM | 210 49 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Eric Scannell (@pauleric70.bsky.social) reposted

Greatest dance scene of all time!!! ❤️🕺💃 'Singin' in the Rain' is pure magic, where every step is filled with joy, rhythm, and timeless charm. 🌧️💓

31/8/2025, 11:34:30 PM | 211 29 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Eric Scannell (@pauleric70.bsky.social) reposted

Diana, Princess of Wales. July 1st, 1961 - August 31st, 1997 RIP 😪😪😪💔⚜️💙⚜️ Today marks the 28th anniversary of the passing of Princess Diana. Do you recall where you were when you first heard the news of her passing?

1/9/2025, 4:19:52 AM | 39 11 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Pablo (@un5toppabl0.bsky.social) reposted

But men don't create life

1/9/2025, 3:01:53 AM | 10 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Eric Scannell (@pauleric70.bsky.social) reposted

Great music🎶✨, beautifully performed✨⁎✯🌸⁎✫ 🎶✨Chopin E-flat Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2 - Elisabeth Leonskaja✵⁎🍂

1/9/2025, 4:13:07 AM | 20 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Eric Scannell (@pauleric70.bsky.social) reposted

MAGA Cult Slayer Finally, someone called it out in plain English. He is a Russian asset and Putin is our leader.

1/9/2025, 4:05:53 AM | 71 35 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Eric Scannell (@pauleric70.bsky.social) reposted

Clearest image ever taken of Planet Uranus. NASA ✨️✨️✨️

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Profile picture Paul Eric Scannell (@pauleric70.bsky.social) reposted

A flight over Pluto by New Horizons spacecraft 5.1661 Billion Km from Earth 🌎 NASA ✨️

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TON 618 shines 140 trillion times brighter than Sun Compare it - Learn How to Choose a perfect Telescope --> https://www.jameswebbdiscovery.com/how-to-choose-telescope-2025 or choose this best seller --> https://amzn.to/45dxlOF #Astronomy #AmazonAffiliate #NASA #Space

1/9/2025, 5:45:09 AM | 4 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Eric Scannell (@pauleric70.bsky.social) reposted

Greg J Stoker This would mean kidnapping US veterans on a humanitarian mission, enshrined in international law, and placing them in a terror dungeon. I would remind the minister that he’s the only person in this conversation who was convicted of terrorism.

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Profile picture Paul Eric Scannell (@pauleric70.bsky.social) reposted

After the Bay of Pigs, JFK blamed the CIA and moved to dismantle its power. He fired Allen Dulles, Charles Cabell & Richard Bissell, JFK vowed to “splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces.” For men like Dulles & Bissell, that was enough motive. Did Kennedy seal his fate with this?🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

1/9/2025, 6:03:51 AM | 16 7 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) reposted

I’m not an ornithologist. Can anyone identify the bird in this photo?

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Profile picture Paul Eric Scannell (@pauleric70.bsky.social) reposted

Israel is after the total annihilation of Gaza and all its people, in the most monstrous ways imaginable, and unimaginable! 💔💔💔💔💔😢🤬

1/9/2025, 6:20:57 AM | 24 19 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Eric Scannell (@pauleric70.bsky.social) reposted

DO YOU SENSE THE CHANGE??? Thousands took part in a torch procession to salute the ships of the Global Sumud Flotilla, as they set off for Gaza with humanitarian aid to break the siege imposed by Israel. Israel will stop them, but the movement is getting bigger and stronger‼️

1/9/2025, 6:28:19 AM | 45 14 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Eric Scannell (@pauleric70.bsky.social) reposted

Please take a moment to honor the memory of the journalist Israel murdered today. Some people take a moment of silence. Others pray. I say the name of the martyr aloud. Islam Abed | إسلام عابد Martyred in her apartment today, along with her children and husband.💔💔💔💔💔😢🤬

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

And I know exactly how far they’re willing to go. ”Parnas added today that he fully expects Trump to screw Ukraine and normalize relations with Russia over the next month so he can invite his dear friend and mentor Putin here for the FIFA games.

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

“I am not a journalist. I am not a pundit. I am not giving you theories. I was one of them. I was inside the cult. I was in Trump’s shadow diplomacy. I was sent to Eastern Europe to deliver his first quid pro quo to Zelensky. I know these people. I know the inner circle.

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

But this week, the theatrics ended, and reality set in.” Parnas isn’t some wild-eyed liberal; he was one of Trump’s closest guys during his first term and when running for office in 2016. He was also one of Trump’s pipelines to Ukraine and Putin. As he puts it:

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

“This week, what we witnessed was not just news—it was a setting. A preview of what’s to come: full takeover, full dictatorship. Up until now, we’ve been watching theatrics, a carefully choreographed script between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump.

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

Republicans across the country seem not only to have forgotten their earlier fear of federal tyranny; they’re now cheering it on. As Lev Parnas wrote in his excellent Substack newsletter Lev Remembers, calling the raid on Bolton and Blanche’s interview of Maxwell “chilling,” he warned us:

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

Fast forward to today. The federal government has created a masked secret police force and is building concentration camps at a breakneck pace. They’re suing, investigating, and in some cases arresting and even deporting people based on things they’ve said, in clear violation of the First Amendment

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

Trump’s now raiding the homes and launching investigations into political insiders who’ve publicly criticized him; other former Trump administration officials are clamming up. We’ve entered the phase of this transition to fascism where objections to his actions are “chilled.”

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

open.substack.com/pub/thomhart... Here's just one of his posts: Welcome to the "Chilling Stage" of Tyranny—Where the Tyrant Tightens His Grip The last moments to resist are slipping away, and history shows once fascism’s grip tightens, it rarely loosens…

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Those are the ones being targeted by the IDF

1/9/2025, 6:28:19 AM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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

In the half darkness we look at each other and smile and touch arms across this little, startlingly muscled body— this one whom habit of memory propels to the ground of his making, sleeper only the mortal sounds can sing awake, this blessing love gives again into our arms.

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

and he appears—in his baseball pajamas, it happens, the neck opening so small he has to screw them on— and flops down between us and hugs us and snuggles himself to sleep, his face gleaming with satisfaction at being this very child. .

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

but let there be that heavy breathing or a stifled come-cry anywhere in the house and he will wrench himself awake and make for it on the run—as now, we lie together, after making love, quiet, touching along the length of our bodies, familiar touch of the long-married,

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

After Making Love We Hear Footsteps by Galway Kinnell For I can snore like a bullhorn or play loud music or sit up talking with any reasonably sober Irishman and Fergus will only sink deeper into his dreamless sleep, which goes by all in one flash,

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

This Sunday poem is about the gift, the miracle of children; about the joy that eight-year-old Fletcher Merkel and ten-year-old Harper Moyski brought to their parents, and to the world; about the beauty of family love. Let that beauty—and the danger that threatens it—inspire us in the work ahead.

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

open.substack.com/pub/terrymor... What is taken is unspeakable. What was given is eternal. There is so much to do to save our children from the uniquely American evil that threatens them, and from the refusal of so many of our leaders and our fellow citizens to do anything to stop it.

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Profile picture Ross Duncan (@jazzfr33.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

The Trump admin needs to be clear on who it thinks are the enemies of the USA. Future international support is unlikely to be as forthcoming as it has been in the past.

1/9/2025, 6:12:38 AM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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

Sure, tell that to the woman staring down a $15 pound of ribeye while her kid is tugging her sleeve begging for hot dogs. People know the truth every time they scan their debit card. You can’t gaslight a receipt.

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

buy a rack of ribs or pay your electric bill. Maybe both, if you skip the beer. Now, the White House wants you to believe everything is under control. Trump’s minions are out there peddling fairytales about how the economy is “booming” and inflation is just “fake news cooked up by the media.”

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

This isn’t abstract economics. This is your cousin asking why the burgers are sliders this year instead of quarter-pounders. This is your neighbor noticing you “forgot” to serve steak tips. This is you, standing in front of the butcher counter, doing the mental math and realizing you could either

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

meat is the new eggs. Prices for beef, pork, and chicken have gone up nearly 25% in the past six months, and suddenly, those backyard barbecues are starting to look like high-end dinner parties at Peter Luger’s. Except you don’t get the white tablecloths, you just get the bill.

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open.substack.com/pub/therealm... Labor Day weekend is supposed to be about burgers sizzling, ribs slow-smoking, and steak hitting the grill with that perfect hiss. But instead of flipping patties, Americans are flipping out at the grocery store register. Because here’s the new reality:

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Profile picture Guy (@gpswenson.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

I'm worried he is going to encourage the assassination of some beloved person to distract attention away from his poor health, abysmal governance, corruption, and the Epstein files.

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is autobiographical, detailing many of the jobs he had before finding success as a singer-songwriter. He wrote the song when he was driving a truck for a living. “I wrote it when I was actually working. I thought about all of the jobs which just sort of popped out.” Jobs like busboy and bartender.

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

Americans who show up every day. Hopefully you get the day off! There have been a lot of songs written that salute working Americans, but I am partial to rock star Huey Lewis’s “Workin’ For A Living’.” It is our reason to smile. According to Lewis, the song

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

open.substack.com/pub/steady/p... Dan Rather and Team Steady All hail the American worker. On Monday, we celebrate Labor Day, an excellent reminder to honor the people who make this country run:the construction workers, the nurses, the line cooks, the librarians, the school bus drivers, good-hearted

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Profile picture TeeMcfee (@teemcfee.bsky.social) reposted

Remember Mussilini

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Profile picture Victor, the Knaughty Sailor (@victorn86976916.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

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Profile picture WATCHING WOMAN (@javajj.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Are they selling children? 😲💔👹

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Profile picture Blue Gumby (@bluegumby.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

100% stop thinking about it. act to PRESERVE DEMOCRACY worry about "fairness" for fascists later.

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Profile picture Ross Duncan (@jazzfr33.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Are there enforcable rules against corruption and profiteering by government officials?

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Profile picture 🫘Desireé Owen (@oweninthefirst.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

When he and Hegseth, who is Natl. Guard, screw them on pay, health insurance and mortgage protection then we will have a problem. See their employers can't fire them legally, but they don't have to pay them. That means mortgage payments may not be paid. They are one day short of that protection.

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

colonized land stolen from Native Americans. If this is not making you want to gouge your eyes out, you haven’t been paying attention to the fact that Democrats are at their lowest approval rating in our lifetime.

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The DNC’s summer meeting last week kicked off with — you guessed it — a “land acknowledgment” statement. If you have not been spending your time attending these kinds of events, you might not know that a land acknowledgement statement requires you to announce that you stand on

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

open.substack.com/pub/saltypol... It’s time we talk about Washington Democrats. My D.C. friends, what are you doing? Seriously, the only thing standing between Donald Trump and full-on authoritarianism is you — and you can’t get out of your own way.

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

— remember, many voted for him because he promised to bring prices down — and he and his Republican lackeys in Congress will be toast in the 2026 midterms.

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