TerryBallard (@terryballard.bsky.social)
This graveyard in the Bronx tells a silent story. Looking at the dates, these 4 baby girls never made it to their 3rd birthday. Before there were vacciines for childhood diseases.
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This graveyard in the Bronx tells a silent story. Looking at the dates, these 4 baby girls never made it to their 3rd birthday. Before there were vacciines for childhood diseases.
Andrea Junker (@strandjunker.com) reposted
Just for those who may be a little confused: This is how an American president should treat Putin.
TerryBallard (@terryballard.bsky.social) reply parent
Gosh, I guess he can forget thatNobel Peace Prize.
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Birds of a feather...
TerryBallard (@terryballard.bsky.social)
Got out my crystal ball to see Project 2026. I see armored cars raiding homes for videos of Star Trek. According to the administration 'How woke can you get? A black woman, a Russian and an alien WUSS, the Woke Undoing Secret Service is on the case. All TV channels folded immediately of course
TerryBallard (@terryballard.bsky.social)
We've finally decoded Project 2025.
TerryBallard (@terryballard.bsky.social)
Ghislane - if they offer you tea, don't accept.
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Looks like the "Boys will be boys" line didn't sell.
TerryBallard (@terryballard.bsky.social)
Trump has heard enough about Epstein. How about movie titles where you change one word. I'll start. The Grapes of Epstein.
CALL TO ACTIVISM (@calltoactivism.bsky.social) reposted
🚨BREAKING: A video is going viral showing JD Vance calling for the full Epstein list to be released - on Theo Von’s podcast. Hey JD, what changed? Let’s blast this everywhere before he tries to erase it.
Dr. Mar 💙 (@boldnewme.bsky.social) reposted
Hey Jake Tapper, fodder for your next book!👇
TerryBallard (@terryballard.bsky.social) reply parent
Never thought the leopard would eat HIS face.
TerryBallard (@terryballard.bsky.social) reply parent
No more Mr Nice Guy
TerryBallard (@terryballard.bsky.social)
Sounds like SOCIALISM!
TerryBallard (@terryballard.bsky.social) reply parent
What I have to say to her rhymes with " ake a frying duck at a bowling crow nut."
TerryBallard (@terryballard.bsky.social)
News report: America is disintegrating under Trump. What Trump heard: Trump.
TerryBallard (@terryballard.bsky.social)
For some reason, this just keeps playing in my head www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3OT...
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No.
TerryBallard (@terryballard.bsky.social)
Said he'd be a dictator on day one. Never said when he'd stop
TerryBallard (@terryballard.bsky.social)
Google just changed their motto from Do No Evil. Now it is Bend Over and Spread Your Legs
TerryBallard (@terryballard.bsky.social)
Just a photo of an Irish sheep or a salute to individualism. You decide.
TerryBallard (@terryballard.bsky.social) reply parent
I needed that
TerryBallard (@terryballard.bsky.social) reply parent
Must be something in the water
TerryBallard (@terryballard.bsky.social) reply parent
Here in New York we just kicked all unicorns out of the Bronx Zoo.
TerryBallard (@terryballard.bsky.social) reply parent
Really trimmed down I see
TerryBallard (@terryballard.bsky.social) reply parent
He uses Steve Bannon's dermatologist
TerryBallard (@terryballard.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm the land of the free and the home of the brave
TerryBallard (@terryballard.bsky.social) reply parent
Gutless wonder.
TerryBallard (@terryballard.bsky.social) reply parent
They have buyer's remorse? Boo hoo.
TerryBallard (@terryballard.bsky.social) reply parent
The axis of evil.
TerryBallard (@terryballard.bsky.social) reply parent
AI.
TerryBallard (@terryballard.bsky.social) reply parent
Golly?!!
TerryBallard (@terryballard.bsky.social) reply parent
Step 5. Blame Biden/African Americans/Woke.
TerryBallard (@terryballard.bsky.social) reply parent
Glad to help!
TerryBallard (@terryballard.bsky.social) reply parent
Venus
TerryBallard (@terryballard.bsky.social) reply parent
And he'll be blaming everyone else. Count on it
TerryBallard (@terryballard.bsky.social)
The obvious solution is to staff our traffic control towers with zealots loyal to trump.
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Can't stop laughing.
TerryBallard (@terryballard.bsky.social)
I am sick to death of playing cell phone games with vendors who need this to prove I'm REALLY me. Some day, I swear, I am going to throw my phone into a deep well. My favorite conversation is that the text message you sent will not go to my land line. "Go ask your mommy if you're still confused."
TerryBallard (@terryballard.bsky.social) reply parent
When he claims ignorance you gotta pause and reflect.
TerryBallard (@terryballard.bsky.social)
Unscheduled rapid dissembly. That phrase works on many levels
TerryBallard (@terryballard.bsky.social) reply parent
Ignorant Goober
TerryBallard (@terryballard.bsky.social)
Clean, cleans, it's on the tip of my tongue....
Schooley (@schooley.bsky.social) reposted
If Google is going to go along with renaming the Gulf of Mexico I think we need to rename them.
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The party of sanity. Not fashionable at the moment.
TerryBallard (@terryballard.bsky.social)
Felonious schmuck.
TerryBallard (@terryballard.bsky.social)
I see that Crusted Caligula claims to be supporting the rights of women, by taking away their rights at the doctor's office. In a related development, War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength,
Theprogressive (@treadres.bsky.social) reposted
Whoever started calling the Tesla vehicles 'Swasticars' is a genius!
TerryBallard (@terryballard.bsky.social)
#Photography #AmericanHistory My project of upgrading more than 1100 images of Civil War soldiers complated months ago. It has been seen more than half a million times, allowing you to zoom in and look these men in the eye. A slide show about the work found at docs.google.com/presentation...
Andrea Junker (@strandjunker.com) reposted
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943
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Before he found Jesus, I suppose.
TerryBallard (@terryballard.bsky.social) reply parent
From my perspective most of them are Asian women who want to be my bestest friend
TerryBallard (@terryballard.bsky.social)
I saw the list of Oscar nominees. Most were films I didn't know existed. I am becoming my parents
TerryBallard (@terryballard.bsky.social) reply parent
Trump don't need no stinking lawyers. He IS the law. Sarcasm alert.
TerryBallard (@terryballard.bsky.social) reply parent
The decision is indefensible
TerryBallard (@terryballard.bsky.social) reply parent
The land of the free
TerryBallard (@terryballard.bsky.social) reply parent
Zorro rides again today
TerryBallard (@terryballard.bsky.social) reply parent
Sure. Gave him a chance to play victim
TerryBallard (@terryballard.bsky.social) reply parent
But how about the cost of eggs?
TerryBallard (@terryballard.bsky.social) reply parent
I am getting completely ignored here except for Spambabes
TerryBallard (@terryballard.bsky.social) reply parent
Excellent!
TerryBallard (@terryballard.bsky.social) reply parent
I hear America singing
TerryBallard (@terryballard.bsky.social)
Happy MLK Day!
TerryBallard (@terryballard.bsky.social)
Right now Blue sky is Acting like I don't exist, except for 10000 Spambabes.
TerryBallard (@terryballard.bsky.social)
Rodin's the thinker, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. From a time when thinking was encouraged.
TerryBallard (@terryballard.bsky.social) reply parent
I'd let him run a dog pound if I hated dogs that much.
TerryBallard (@terryballard.bsky.social) reply parent
This time no doubt she will find true h appiness.
TerryBallard (@terryballard.bsky.social)
Today's sentencing hearing had all the drama of a judge striking an elderly man with a wet noodle. (warmed of course).
TerryBallard (@terryballard.bsky.social)
Is there any other activity in BS these days other than young Asian women wanting to be my friends.They all look great, have greeting messages that read like fortune cookies. They all follow 10 old men for every one that replies. If someone knows where the actual content went, please send me a clue
TerryBallard (@terryballard.bsky.social) reply parent
Obama is being civil because that's how he rolls.
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TerryBallard (@terryballard.bsky.social) reply parent
Shows why the Big Book of Republican humor is 17 pages long. Half of that is Lincoln.
TerryBallard (@terryballard.bsky.social)
Apparently the geniuses at the FBI are confused about the matter of what is terrorism. I suggest that they should find the term in JSTOR, where they will see that it first appeared before 1800. No Islamic problem back then. As Mark Twain put it, someone should take out their mind and dance on it.
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He's got his excuses ready for the press. Starts with "This mess was left by the Democrats
Jack Hopkins-The Original (@therealjackhopkins.bsky.social) reposted
I’ll go ahead and say it again for those in the back: Russia and China long ago declared war on the United States. “Rumors” have long circulating that the GOP has been an important part of allowing this to happen.
TerryBallard (@terryballard.bsky.social) reply parent
Don't bother me with the truth
TerryBallard (@terryballard.bsky.social) reply parent
It got squelched by pesky grownups
TerryBallard (@terryballard.bsky.social) reply parent
Trump got what he wanted from Elon
TerryBallard (@terryballard.bsky.social) reply parent
Eating their young?
TerryBallard (@terryballard.bsky.social) reply parent
Pretty ambitious agenda for a man whose mother was an immigrant
TerryBallard (@terryballard.bsky.social) reply parent
Big thanks to Trump employee Jill Stein.
TerryBallard (@terryballard.bsky.social) reply parent
Einstein never once referred to himself as a genius..
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TerryBallard (@terryballard.bsky.social)
After that foggy Christmas the other reindeer despised Rudolph more than ever. They held back, waiting for the moment.
TerryBallard (@terryballard.bsky.social) reply parent
Putin should be there.
TerryBallard (@terryballard.bsky.social) reply parent
Should have thought about that earlier
TerryBallard (@terryballard.bsky.social) reply parent
Even copied the expression.
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The axis of evil