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@shoomer5

Happily married mom of 5. Catholic convert, still love the Anglicans. Neurodivergent. Probably reading Goodnight Moon.

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I'm honestly surprised CENTCOM doesn't have a plan for this? What have they been doing for 45 years?

11.03.2026 01:30 πŸ‘ 273 πŸ” 25 πŸ’¬ 23 πŸ“Œ 14

"President Trump could never have backed the Iranians into a corner and they fired off their doomsday weapon as a result"

11.03.2026 02:35 πŸ‘ 503 πŸ” 59 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 2

oh also, don't forget the US violently killed a bunch of his family in front of him. he's probably upset about that. bsky.app/profile/sky....

11.03.2026 02:46 πŸ‘ 409 πŸ” 34 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 2

Reupping, because who couldn't use a heartwarming tale today.

11.03.2026 00:01 πŸ‘ 39 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Sure sounds like somebody at DOGE took the Social Security numbers and personal information of every American on record, and put it on a thumb drive to bring home to Elon Musk’s AI company.

10.03.2026 22:11 πŸ‘ 1564 πŸ” 703 πŸ’¬ 52 πŸ“Œ 72
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Video appears to show U.S. cruise missile striking Iranian school compound The seven-second video was released by Iranian state media and directly contradicts statements made by President Trump, who said Iran was responsible for the strike.

The Iranian girls’ school was hit by a US tomahawk cruise missile. NPR has confirmed the footage.

09.03.2026 17:21 πŸ‘ 2096 πŸ” 826 πŸ’¬ 42 πŸ“Œ 124

My quibbles aside, this is an interesting paragraph in the Times piece, one that discusses a hard-to-summarize thing in a way that is still helpful in showing how Scriptural debates across Christian divisions can (often, albeit not always) involve very different approaches to reading the same words.

09.03.2026 21:25 πŸ‘ 24 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 2
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Key Details of 13-Year-Old Trump Accuser’s Accounts Are Verified The newly corroborated details suggest the woman was truthful about numerous aspects of her life.

There is apparently credible evidence that the president of the United States is a pedophile. The comforting phrase β€œaccused him without evidence” no longer fits this situation, and journalists must resort to the more perfunctory β€œhasn’t been formally charged.” www.thedailybeast.com/key-details-...

09.03.2026 12:50 πŸ‘ 6589 πŸ” 2378 πŸ’¬ 94 πŸ“Œ 79
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One of the things we’re experiencing right now that makes all this worse is narrative rupture. The stories most of us have told ourselves abt this country are (& have been) plainly wrong. In the absence of new stories that reflect actual reality, what we get is stasis.

09.03.2026 12:43 πŸ‘ 194 πŸ” 53 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 15
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We are a very stupid country

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/o...

09.03.2026 14:57 πŸ‘ 789 πŸ” 241 πŸ’¬ 53 πŸ“Œ 26

That would be Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the nation’s top diplomat, who was a member of the United States Senate on January 6, 2021.

09.03.2026 14:53 πŸ‘ 234 πŸ” 85 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 4

American-born children, bishops say, β€œwill be faced with an impossible decision: forever being an underclass citizen, with limited access to the necessities of life, such as healthcare, education, housing, and the right to vote, or being forced to migrate to a country that they have never known …”

09.03.2026 14:49 πŸ‘ 39 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

half my timeline is just people smarter than I am posting "dawg" "chat is this good" "woof" and/or horrifying graphs

09.03.2026 01:56 πŸ‘ 2025 πŸ” 275 πŸ’¬ 29 πŸ“Œ 12
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Daniel Berrigan, S.J. & companions
St. Patrick’s Cathedral, New York
July 25, 1973

09.03.2026 10:00 πŸ‘ 24 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This illustrates an imp point that we are trained to ignore in our society: the ways that policies are implemented (or not) determine their impact, rather than the abstract values they purport to embody.

08.03.2026 14:18 πŸ‘ 62 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 4

Camp Guards sure seem to think it’s a death camp.

08.03.2026 03:37 πŸ‘ 283 πŸ” 123 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 2
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06.03.2026 07:52 πŸ‘ 14459 πŸ” 4649 πŸ’¬ 655 πŸ“Œ 250

Underground...stations, if you will, perhaps connected to a means of transportation that became popular in the 19th century.

03.03.2026 21:49 πŸ‘ 88 πŸ” 26 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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White House tweets out Rubio’s statement seeming to say that basically Bibi maneuvered Trump into attacking Iran.

02.03.2026 21:55 πŸ‘ 639 πŸ” 242 πŸ’¬ 70 πŸ“Œ 70
my tax dollars attacking with missiles more missiles that are somehow also my tax dollars

my tax dollars attacking with missiles more missiles that are somehow also my tax dollars

funding USAID (an agency which Trump and Musk illegally destroyed) cost each individual American taxpayer about $64 annually while saving millions of lives around the world.

instead, we've got:

02.03.2026 14:41 πŸ‘ 484 πŸ” 120 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

had a death in the family and was almost completely off the internet for a few days & my observation is that there is too much happening too fast such that basic facts abt the world are difficult to ascertain unless you are mainlining info all the time & doing that seems to drive people insane

02.03.2026 22:35 πŸ‘ 3488 πŸ” 433 πŸ’¬ 74 πŸ“Œ 46

As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.

02.03.2026 20:39 πŸ‘ 8071 πŸ” 2220 πŸ’¬ 120 πŸ“Œ 70

how are poll respondents supposed to say whether they approve or disapprove of a war that was never given any publicly-discernible justification

02.03.2026 18:03 πŸ‘ 830 πŸ” 94 πŸ’¬ 33 πŸ“Œ 5

god fucking dammit

02.03.2026 16:07 πŸ‘ 4396 πŸ” 594 πŸ’¬ 39 πŸ“Œ 30
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β€œConclave” the movie provides a gripping, if fictional, behind-the-scenes look inside the secretive election of a new pope. But last year’s real-life conclave was just as dramatic, with plenty of plot twists, political battles among cardinals and a surprise outcome. https://cnn.it/3MWkY4g

01.03.2026 21:59 πŸ‘ 78 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 0

No he hasn't. Stop it.

01.03.2026 21:53 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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MAGA Faces Backlash Over Tone-Deaf Response to Fallen Troops Donald Trump’s party had some eyebrow-raising tributes.

Using phrases like β€œfreedom is never free” or β€œthat’s just the way it is” to describe American service members killed in action feels dismissive. These lives weren’t slogans or inevitabilities β€” they were people, and their loss deserves more than a shrug wrapped in a clichΓ©.

01.03.2026 22:01 πŸ‘ 306 πŸ” 94 πŸ’¬ 23 πŸ“Œ 4

No one learned anything from Dubya's war.

01.03.2026 22:02 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

in case anyone ever needed confirmation that it's not about building a democratic Iran, it's about collapsing Iran and turning it into a land of rubble that can be bombed every six months

01.03.2026 02:18 πŸ‘ 2847 πŸ” 1079 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 19