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If only the Democrats had bothered to listen to and address real Americans’ need to have the Gulf of Mexico renamed

We have to tolerate everyone having guns because it’s essential to have the right to resist a tyrannical government but also if you hold one of those guns when the government breaks into your house in the middle of the night they can shoot you. RE:

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Radley Balko (@radleybalko.bsky.social)

Ending the year with the same story I’ve been writing about my entire career. Kentucky police shot and killed a man while serving search warrant ...

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Bobcat, at a safe remove, during wife’s hike today. Those are the San Gabriels, the start of the Angeles National Forrest, seen from the Verdugos. https://lionsmane.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:s6j27rxb3ic2rxw73ixgqv2p&cid=bafkreifkrbpumuay7zcqwqvzfp7wlqizpk4perfq7kdzlvsr7wdz2i4er4

Anyway this is an inevitable rift between the faction of the American Right that sees foreigners as a subhuman Other to be demonized for votes and the faction that sees them as cheap exploitable labor to make things that explode whether on purpose or not RE:

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Your Last Merry Popehat (@kenwhite.bsky.social)

Terrible, terrible shame about this rift among different Trumpist factions. And during the holidays! The happiest time of year! Can’t they all...

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Terrible, terrible shame about this rift among different Trumpist factions. And during the holidays! The happiest time of year! Can’t they all just get along? Very sad. Many people saying so. [a man in a suit and tie is smi...]( )

I expect the trend away from religion to continue in America, which will likely provoke more anxiety and aggression and thirst for power from the Deus vult crowd. How many will remember the embrace of Trump as the thing that turned them away from faith? [themindshield.com/cardinal-say...](https://themindshield.com/cardinal-says-donald-trump-takes-his-christian-faith-seriously/ ) [Cardinal says Donald Trump  “t...](https://themindshield.com/cardinal-says-donald-trump-takes-his-christian-faith-seriously/ )

I am informed that everything I have ever said about the justice system is refuted by the fact that the Magistrate Judge assigned to the Mangione case is married to a former Pfizer executive. The MAGISTRATE JUDGE

I have great respect for agnostics and atheists. My dad was a thoughtful and devout agnostic. Their rights are fundamental to my rights. But I have never understood this childish urge to piss on any reference to church you encounter, like a dog with a telephone pole. https://lionsmane.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:s6j27rxb3ic2rxw73ixgqv2p&cid=bafkreial3v4tz65elsnivycf44jmbcjvgv5fadyq3ldrr3uzh2cwqsyvn4

He sure has a type, is all I’m saying RE:

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Shannon Heffernan (@shannonheffernan.bsky.social)

"Elon Musk is backing the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD)," writes @politico.com, "The AfD is surging despite its growing radicalism and pe...