Mike Pedersen

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Hey @Adobe, when I want to install a basic free PDF viewer like Acrobat, that does *not* mean I gave any type of permission for you to install the horrible and unnecessary #bloatware that is @McAfee. It is beyond annoying and I thought companies were past that crap. #Annoying

What happened today in Minnesota is enraging. And heartbreaking. Alex Pretti, a VA worker and ICU nurse, was shot and killed by federal agents. And rather than investigate the truth, our government immediately lied and branded this man — someone who dedicated his life to serving others — a domestic terrorist. This is not justice, this is not fairness. This is not freedom. I fought for our country to defend our rights, not to watch our government perpetrate violence against its own citizens. Congress must act now — with real investigations, real consequences, and real reforms. Anything less is complicity.

Okay so, 1) an American citizen exercises his First Amendment right to peaceably assemble and his Second Amendment right to bear arms, out of apparent concern that a tyrannical federal government is violating basic protections afforded under the Constitution 2) after coming to the aid of an unarmed woman who's been shoved to the ground by a masked federal agent, the citizen -- impaired by pepper spray, holding nothing but a cell phone -- is dragged to the ground by a group of other masked agents 3) during the scuffle, shortly after one masked agent removes the weapon from the restrained citizen's person, several other masked agents open fire, unloading 10 shots from close range and killing the unarmed citizen 4) despite video evidence, a spokesman for the federal government says the citizen approached agents with a gun, provoked a violent confrontation, and planned to "massacre" law enforcement You really want to defend this? Go ahead. Just know, you look like an absolute fool.

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"There are three ways to ultimate success: the first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind." - Fred Rogers

Trump-evangelicalism is a cult. It is a theological heresy. It’s just a new version of the old-school emperor worship of Caesar. Some people calling themselves Christians are actually more in love with Trump than with Jesus. Whenever we stop letting Jesus transform us into His likeness and we start transforming Him into our likeness, we have created a new form of idolatry. Trump literally embraces all the temptations Jesus resisted in the desert. He curses the people Jesus blessed. He betrays nearly every verse of the Sermon on the Mount, and has turned the seven deadly sins into a way of life. Follow Jesus. Not Trump.

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@Georgesantos @POTUS Thanks for confirming once again your low regard for basic decency and humanity.

All of you saying @POTUS should delete this are tone deaf! Are these words nice and fuzzy? No. But this man has been almost killed because of the rhetoric that people like Rob Reiner has spewed. Rob Reiner would be celebrating alongside many Hollywood elites if it were potus who was killed…manny mocked POTUs when he was shot at in Butler with some saying “to find someone with better aim next time”. Here’s a little refresher if y’all already forgot it (tvinsider.com/1145167/sopran…) I don’t make his sentiment mine but I understand his sentiment and will stand by his right to express it. Controversial or not this is America and we have a right to free speech even if you don’t like the speech!

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Many thanks to the team at @AETMinc for an amazing Sydney Harbor dinner cruise last night. Great people, great food, and truly amazing views! We appreciate your collaboration with the @Ed_Tech_Collab Educational Technology Collaborative (ETC)!

With the snow falling outside this morning, I'm glad I took a trip to the range last night; might have been the last outdoor #range trip of the season. #ShootingSports

No, Speaker Johnson: The No Kings Rally on October 18 is not a “hate America” rally. Quite the contrary. It’s a rally of millions of people who believe in American freedom and are not going to allow you and President Trump to turn us into an authoritarian country.

@Enkrateia_Bro @philvischer LOL, this cracks me up. The current mainstream evangelical community worships Trump (and his "state"). Oh, you're offended by that statement I'm sure, but all available evidence of actions would support it. There have literally been worship songs written for Trump.

@philvischer You need to believe that when you worship the state

America wasn't "founded to protect Christian worship." The United States of America was founded to "provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare of and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity." It's right there in writing.

@MiscreaRichard @philvischer The First Amendment mentions religion, but not Christianity specifically. And it says the US Government should never be in the religion business pro or con. Kinda like what Phil said.

@philvischer Never read the First Amendment?

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Me: "Donald Trump ran for president in 2016 and said people with guns should maybe take care of Hillary Clinton to protect the 2nd Amendment. He ran for president in 2020, lost the election, and then incited a violent insurrection at the Capitol where his supporters tried to hang his vice-president. In 2024 he ran for president, he referred to his opponents as 'vermin' and the 'enemy within' and said he would send the military after them... Donald Trump has set the tone here." BBC host: "That is the right. But what about the left?" Me: "Which left? I saw Barack Obama, Joe Biden... all the leading Democrats came out and condemned this and said we need to tone this down." From my appearance on @BBCNewsnight

And if you're perfectly OK with that, you're a racist. Period, full-stop. And if this statement infuriates you, you need to take a moment of serious self-reflection. 3/3

Well, yeah, that's now the reality for every American *citizen* of any dark-skinned decent (particularly Latino), who will now feel the need to carry a passport with them (if they can afford to get one) everywhere they go IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY. 2/3

You know those movie scenes where innocent people run into the police in an authoritarian government who then say "Papers, please." and the officer can then just choose arbitrarily whether to accept if the papers are valid (if they have them) or haul the people off to jail? 1/3