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BlanchardJRB @blanchardjesser.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t trust a restaurant that charges for chips and salsa.

Don’t trust a church that charges for coffee.

If a church has a U.S. flag on the same stage as the cross, it’s trash.

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 4d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

BlanchardJRB @blanchardjesser.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t trust a restaurant that charges for chips and salsa.

Don’t trust a church that charges for coffee.

If a church has a U.S. flag on the same stage as the cross, it’s trash.

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 4d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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BlanchardJRB @blanchardjesser.bsky.social · 18d

It’s somewhat revealing that Democrats leadership has called this continuously escalating fascism from Republicans a distraction from the prioritized business of subsidies for insurance companies raising rates.

BlanchardJRB @blanchardjesser.bsky.social · 18d

Trump spews violent rhetoric towards marginalized groups.

Dems: “We can’t let that distract us from the economy.”

Trump posts Schumer and Jeffries in sombreros.

Dems: “DROP EVERYTHING, THE MEME WAR IS ON!”

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BlanchardJRB @blanchardjesser.bsky.social · 20d

🙏🏻 thanks

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BlanchardJRB @blanchardjesser.bsky.social · 21d

Yo, @btoporek.bsky.social ... You still edit? jblanchard.substack.com/p/the-revolu...

The Revolution Will Be Televised

Spurs Basketball Enters Its Next Era

jblanchard.substack.com

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 22d

“Israeli Forces Kill 198 Palestinians in Gaza Over Three Days”

It’s a genocide. Daily endless massacres, largely ignored in the West.

Israeli Forces Kill 198 Palestinians in Gaza Over Three Days - News From Antiwar.com

Israeli attacks have killed at least 198 Palestinians and wounded 786 in the Gaza Strip over 72 hours, according to death toll updates released by Gaza's Health Ministry, as Israel continues its US-ba...

news.antiwar.com

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BlanchardJRB @blanchardjesser.bsky.social · 23d

Where my Spurs fans at?

Revolutionary change arrives gradually, then suddenly.

This Spurs revolution will be televised. For free:

jblanchard.substack.com/p/the-revolu...

The Revolution Will Be Televised

Spurs Basketball Enters Its Next Era

jblanchard.substack.com

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BlanchardJRB @blanchardjesser.bsky.social · 23d

Yep.

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BlanchardJRB @blanchardjesser.bsky.social · 26d

“If fans can’t afford to watch the games, they can always watch the highlights.”

- Will Stancil

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BlanchardJRB @blanchardjesser.bsky.social · 26d

Democrats deserved to lose.

Trump shouldn’t have been a viable alternative, him being absolute evil, but Dems were absolutely horrible.

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BlanchardJRB @blanchardjesser.bsky.social · 26d

But, people were going out to eat between their two jobs that left no time to cook!

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BlanchardJRB @blanchardjesser.bsky.social · 28d

Based on?

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BlanchardJRB @blanchardjesser.bsky.social · Sep 20

Appropriate for the times we are in.

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BlanchardJRB @blanchardjesser.bsky.social · Sep 19

If only Dems had power after January 6 so the attorney general and DOJ could have held him accountable.

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BlanchardJRB @blanchardjesser.bsky.social · Sep 18

Shook the hand implies they are equal partners. Bent the knee is correct.

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · Sep 13

www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning

The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn’t a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division

www.thenation.com

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BlanchardJRB @blanchardjesser.bsky.social · Sep 12

Wanting to blame it on foreigners or some “other” instead of dealing with the rot in their own society and culture is so on brand…

And I guess a fitting tribute to Charlie Kirk, who made his living doing exactly that.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Sep 11

Political violence is abhorrent. I have not celebrated Kirk's death.

But Newsom calling for his followers to "continue Charlie Kirk's work," someone who praised stoning gay people as "god's perfect law," who called for men to "take care of" trans people like they did in the 50s and 60s, is not it.

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · Sep 11

I'm really having trouble processing the relative silence from Barack Obama about a colleague who he'd hosted at the White House, the Minnesota State House Speaker, being assassinated, but rushing to get out a weepy statement about Charlie fucking Kirk.

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BlanchardJRB @blanchardjesser.bsky.social · Sep 11

No one thinks about Rush Limbaugh anymore. They both lacked substance.

Just hot air and empty anger. There are hundreds of grifters ready to take their place and spread more of the same.

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Sean Fay-Wolfe | Diamond Axe Studios @seanfaywolfe.bsky.social · Sep 10

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life.

The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · Sep 11

Remember the man by his words.

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BlanchardJRB @blanchardjesser.bsky.social · Sep 11

I’ve seen Democrats say nothing on genocide, little on the assassination of one of their own, and then bend over backwards for someone who caused pain and suffering so many.

Loving your enemy is Christ like. But doing so while being silent about vulnerable people is insane.

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