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A married curmudgeon. Rule of Life: On Earth as it is in Heaven.

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Pete
Pete@backyard_pete·
For the love of peace, please read the Katzenbach Commission report & the Kerner Commission report. Many of the problems we are facing as a society are documented in them. Many conclusions & solutions to our problems recorded in there have never been attempted to be implemented.
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🍂@Lovandfear·
ADHD people being mentally and physically exhausted but still staying up because they didn't get enough "me time" after surviving the whole day.
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Pope Leo XIV
Pope Leo XIV@Pontifex·
As evidenced by the unbridled promotion and implementation of technology at the expense of human dignity, we are truly experiencing an eclipse of the sense of what it means to be human. It is imperative to recover an understanding of the true meaning and grandeur of humanity as intended by God. It is in this sense that the challenge we currently face is not technological, but anthropological, and it is my hope that the Encyclical Letter to be published within a few days will contribute to answering this challenge.
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hannah anderson
hannah anderson@sometimesalight·
Just b/c your position is regressive doesn't mean it's traditional or conservative.
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hannah anderson@sometimesalight·
The framing of SBC debate re: women & title of pastor is so ironic to me b/c it's not traditional or conservative by any historical metric to define a vocation by "function." That's a modern, techno-cosmology in which we're all just cogs in institutional & social machinery.
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Pete@backyard_pete·
@kmedved The league can do this. I’m pretty sure they still have the non-sportsmanlike techs that would not count toward the 2-technical foul ejection. But since it is under technical foul the refs don’t have to call it in real time and can review at a break in the action. They refuse to.
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Trey Ferguson
Trey Ferguson@PastorTrey05·
An interesting thing about Jesus: he DOES imply that everyone is your neighbor. The Samaritan is a “neighbor” cuz he shows mercy. The sheep of Matt 25 are rewarded cuz they’ve served Jesus without knowing it by showing mercy to those who need it. AND he says to love ENEMIES.
Mark Taylor@Mark___Taylor

The argument that “neighbor” actually means “everyone” hinges on the idea God meant to say “everyone” but just couldn’t think of the right word.

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NYTPitchbot@DougJBalloon·
Whether it’s Donald Trump stealing $1.7 billion from the treasury to share with his friends or Hillary Clinton using a private email server to share risotto recipes with her friends, there’s been plenty of inappropriate sharing on both sides.
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Caitlin Flanagan
Caitlin Flanagan@CaitlinPacific·
No one tell this man about the Iwo Jima photograph or he’ll think we lost the war
Wall Street Apes@WallStreetApes

We have literally been lied to about everything Matt Walsh “The Rosa Parks story you were taught in school was fake too. This was not just some woman on her way home from work. Civil rights leaders thought Parks would make a sympathetic face for their lawsuit and then told her, a longtime NAACP volunteer, to create a situation where she'd be arrested. This gets sold to the public as totally organic when actually it's playacting to create ideal conditions for a court case or scandal. The iconic photo of Parks on the bus was staged months after the incident as part of a press campaign. (The photo is shown in the clip) The white man, sitting behind her in the bus photo was a journalist, which you probably didn't know.” Let’s fact check this. It’s 100% true What Actually Happened on December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks was a longtime NAACP volunteer and secretary of the Montgomery chapter. She had been deeply involved in civil rights activism for years (including work on cases like the Recy Taylor rape and voter registration efforts). She was not just a random tired seamstress on her way home from work who spontaneously refused to move. Local civil rights leaders had been looking for a strong test case to challenge bus segregation. They even had people cast for the role before Rosa Parks. Earlier attempts include 15 year old Claudette Colvin were passed over because leaders felt Rosa Parks, a mature, respected, married woman with a spotless reputation, would be a more sympathetic plaintiff in court and to the public The Iconic Photo was 100% staged The famous photo was taken on December 21, 1956, this is over a year after her arrest and on the first day the buses were integrated after the Supreme Court ruling It was deliberately staged by journalists, Look Magazine and UPI, for a press campaign to dramatize the victory The white man sitting behind her is Nicholas Chriss, a UPI reporter, not a random angry passenger or segregationist

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Bill Kristol
Bill Kristol@BillKristol·
Congress could presumably use its power of the purse to ban any expenditure of taxpayer funds by this commission. Seems like Dems should insist on votes on this?
Katherine Faulders@KFaulders

MORE - I’m told the potential commission tasked with approving payouts to Trump allies will likely be called, ‘The President Donald J. Trump Truth and Justice Commission,’ and the total amount available in the fund will be… $1.776 billion.

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Acyn
Acyn@Acyn·
Trump on Iran War: Reporter: What extent are Americans’ financial situation motivating you to make a deal? Trump: Not even a little bit. I don't think about Americans’ financial situation
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Mehdi Hasan
Mehdi Hasan@mehdirhasan·
How do you cover this? A previous president would have received wall to wall coverage for even one of these tweets. And yet Trump floods the zone and the media cannot and often will not cover the sheer extent of his insanity and indecency.
Harry Sisson@harryjsisson

Trump had one of his worst mental health episodes yet last night, posting over 55 times in 3 hours. Here is the list: 10:15 PM - Accuses Obama of attempting a coup in 2016 10:15 PM - Says Obama worked with CIA to overthrow Trump 10:15 PM - Reposts tweet saying Obama is a “traitor” and that he should be arrested 10:22 PM - Attacks dominion voting systems for 2020 election saying they switched votes 10:22 PM - Says Fulton County, GA had their 2020 fraud exposed (there was none) 10:23 PM - Accuses Obama of personally making $120 million from Obamacare (wtf?) 10:23 PM - Cites quack lawyer Sidney Powell on the 2020 election 10:24 PM - Posts fake JFK Jr account that says Obama wiretapped Trump Tower 10:27 PM - Demands Senator Mark Kelly resign 10:29 PM - Claims neither Biden nor Harris were in charge of the Biden admin 10:29 PM - Attacks Fulton County, GA again 10:29 PM - Posts Fox News clip of Rep Ro Khanna 10:30 PM - Demands Jack Smith be arrested 10:30 PM - Accuses Obama, Clinton, and Comey of treason 10:39 PM - Reposts a tweet from a MAGA account saying they have secret intel proving Clinton and Obama committed crimes 10:39 PM - Reposts a MAGA tweet saying Hillary Clinton should be sent to Haiti 10:40 PM - Says the DOJ is “working hard” to arrest his enemies for treason 10:40 PM - Reposts a tweet attacking his own DOJ and Todd Blanche for no arrests of political enemies 10:40 PM - Posts a TikTok video of people stealing from a convenience store 10:41 PM - Posts a TikTok of someone taking a Door Dash order 10:41 PM - accuses Obama, John Brennan, and Clinton of sedition and treason again 10:42 PM - Posts a video of a man on CCTV footage knocking over food a waiter was carrying 10:47 PM - Calls Obama the “most DEMONIC FORCE” in American politics 10:47 PM - Posts a tweet from Mike Flynn saying 2020 election wasn’t fair 10:49 PM - Attacks Dominion again claiming they stole the 2020 election (it wasn’t) 10:51 PM - Reposts a fake Charlie Kirk account that claimed Obama blocked Hillary Clinton from being prosecuted 10:53 PM - Claims Obama was part of Hillary Clinton’s emails in some way 11:28 PM - Claims a senior Democrat just testified under oath that Senator Adam Schiff leaked classified information 1:13 AM - Attacks the New York Times for reporting on the reflecting pool This man is clearly not well.

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Pete@backyard_pete·
@cjoe1103 His pivot foot moved 5+ feet from where it was initially set 😭
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Conner Evans@cjoe1103·
I JUST WATCHED EVAN MOBLEY TRAVEL FOR LIKE 20 STRAIGHT SECONDS AND THEY NEVER FUCKING CALLED IT
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The Darkpulse Files  𝕏
This is getting wild now 👀 So I started looking at the ballroom after digging into the Reflecting Pool yesterday. I’m starting to see some patterns. The playbook works like this. Pick your contractor personally. Invoke “Unusual and Compelling Urgency” to skip competition. Use the 250th anniversary as the justification. Inflate the price. Don’t disclose who’s actually doing the work. Repeat. Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. $13.1M. No bid. No competition. Justification: “Unusual and Compelling Urgency” 250th anniversary. Contractor: Atlantic Industrial. Zero prior federal contracts. No pool or monument experience. The subcontractor doing the actual work doesn’t appear anywhere in the justification documents. Now the ballroom. Trump personally selected Clark Construction to build his $400M White House ballroom. Clark is already on site with people and equipment. Then NPS quietly awards Clark a separate $17.4M no-bid contract to fix two fountains in Lafayette Park directly across the street. Never posted publicly. Never competitively bid. The justification? Clark was already nearby. That’s it. The original estimate for those fountains in 2022 was $3.3M. The consultant who wrote that estimate said the administration literally took his cover page and added millions with no itemization. Final price: $17.4M. Same urgency exemption. Same 250th anniversary justification. Both contracts bypassed competitive bidding. Both used the same urgency exemption. Both cited the same 250th anniversary. Both awarded to contractors with direct Trump connections. The Lafayette Park contract was never posted in public federal spending databases. The Reflecting Pool contract was posted but the subcontractor doing the primary work appears nowhere in the paperwork. Combined taxpayer bill: over $30 million. Combined competitive bids received: zero. This urgency exemption has been used in less than 1% of NPS contracts over the past decade. They used it twice in the same year. For birthday decorations. Senator Blumenthal is already demanding answers on the Lafayette Park contract by May 15th. The Reflecting Pool has a Cabinet secretary photographed on site and a subcontractor with an expired federal registration that isn’t mentioned anywhere in the contract documents. This isn’t two separate stories. This is one story. The 250th anniversary isn’t just a celebration. It’s a billing mechanism. And taxpayers are footing the bill with zero say in who got the work or why..
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Leslie Proll
Leslie Proll@LeslieProll·
Justice Sotomayor nails it: “The Court today unceremoniously discards District Court’s meticulously documented and supported discriminatory-intent finding & careful remedial order without any sound basis for doing so and without regard for the confusion that will surely ensue.”
The Associated Press@AP

BREAKING: The Supreme Court lifts the mandate for Alabama to use a U.S. House map with two majority-Black districts. apnews.com/article/alabam…

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Pete@backyard_pete·
@ChrisFried78 @NateSilver538 Because it’s only the first 2 rounds whereas the rest of the top 10 is for entire playoffs. Thunder & spurs will face each other & one or both will have their point differential decrease. At some point the Knicks will get knocked out or face the thunder or spurs in the finals.
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Nate Silver
Nate Silver@NateSilver538·
Guess my intuition that it's hard to remember something like this recent Knicks performance was right. These are the highest per-game playoff scoring margins since the NBA-ABA merger as of last night (StatMuse). Knicks up 30 with 4 mins to go in the 3Q today.
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Pete@backyard_pete·
CHINATOWN (1974) is the most American movie ever, and I’m not sure anything is particularly close.
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