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SkierMichael

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Married, Retired. Career half NASA/JPL, half BioPharma. #BlueCrew DC & PR statehood #VaccinesWork #BLM #VoteBlue #LGBTQdad #GunControl #ProChoice #WomensRights , Matt 25:31-46. Please follow. X refugee. 🚫Crypto 🚫OnlyFans/porn🚫Illuminati 🚫MAGA 🚫GoFundMe

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SkierMichael @skiermichael.bsky.social · Nov 29

My feelings about being on bluesky:

Blue skies
Smiling at me
Nothing but blue skies
Do I see

Never saw the sun shining so bright
Never saw things going so right
Noticing the days hurrying by
When you're on Bluesky, my how they fly

Blue days
All of Twitter gone
Nothing but blue skies
From now on

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SkierMichael @skiermichael.bsky.social · 4h

William Green. Shot six times while his hands were cuffed behind his back in a patrol car.

SkierMichael @skiermichael.bsky.social · 6h

COVID “deaths continue…most of them unvaccinated, most of them unvaccinated because somebody, somewhere fed them information that was categorically wrong and dangerous.” - Dr Collins, Dir NIH, LA Times 12/14/21. #VaccinesWork

SkierMichael @skiermichael.bsky.social · 10h

George Flloyd was killed after allegedly passing a counterfeit $20 bill. Derek Chauvin, knelt on Floyd's neck for nearly eight minutes. For the last three of those minutes Floyd was motionless, officers made no attempt to revive him tinyurl.com/ya9cnj3k #BlackLIvesMatter

SkierMichael @skiermichael.bsky.social · 10h

Trump summoned the domestic terrorist to DC. Incited them to attack the capital by saying to them "you'll never take back our country with weakness, ... you have to be strong." Capital Office Brian Sicknick, beaten by a fire extinguisher by thugs wearing MAGAt hats died.

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SkierMichael @skiermichael.bsky.social · 10h

When I read Matt 25:31-46, I am reminded of what St Francis of Assisi. said “Preach the gospel at all times. Use words if necessary.” Helping the hungry, the sick, the stranger is not optional. It is not woke. It is the gospel.

SkierMichael @skiermichael.bsky.social · 1d

I find the people claiming to be pro-life are not. They are just anti-abortion. Being pro-life would be 20 Sandy Hook kids in high school. I am tired of “pro-life” folks only offering thoughts & prayers, when they plan to do nothing to stop the mass shootings #GunControl

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SkierMichael @skiermichael.bsky.social · 1d

Trump ignored the scientists, enabling Covid to spread. Over one million Americans have died from COVID. Many of his supporters refuse to take the vaccine. which keeps COVID going.

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SkierMichael @skiermichael.bsky.social · 1d

DC has 712,000 residents, more than Vermont and Wyoming and comparable with other states including Delaware, Alaska, and several others, but they have no voting representatives in the senate or congress. #DCStatehood

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SkierMichael @skiermichael.bsky.social · 1d

The culture of right wing distortion has resulted in 42.4% of folks saying having a strong leader is more important than having a democracy - political violence survey by Dr Wintemute, UC Davis, July 22. #VoteBlue

SkierMichael @skiermichael.bsky.social · 1d

Tamir Rice - black - was 12 and was killed for having a fake toy gun.

SkierMichael @skiermichael.bsky.social · 1d

The senate’s choice is to either expand background check or keep practicing what to do during a school shooting as our only response to school shootings. Thoughts and Prayers have been shown not to work. #GunControl

SkierMichael @skiermichael.bsky.social · 1d

I struggled with hypocrisy of “Christians” supporting Trump despite the clear conflict with the message of Christ, e.g. Matt 25:31-46

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SkierMichael @skiermichael.bsky.social · 1d

A Dec 5, 21 NPR analysis shows that since May 21, 2021 people living in counties that voted heavily for Donald Trump have been nearly three times as likely to die from COVID-19 as those who live in areas that went for Joe Biden. #VaccinesWork tinyurl.com/2p936257

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SkierMichael @skiermichael.bsky.social · 2d

D.C. has 692,000+ residents.

Wyoming has 578,000+ residents.

Wyoming has 2 US senators and 1 US House of Representatives.

D.C. has 0 US senators and 1 non-voting delegate in the House.

D.C. isn't asking for much, only their fair share of federal representation. #DCStatehood #HR51

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SkierMichael @skiermichael.bsky.social · 2d

I wore a mask, even though I was vaccinated, to protect those who are medically fragile, have compromised immune systems or are too young for the vaccines. I knew vaccinated people could still spread COVID-19.

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SkierMichael @skiermichael.bsky.social · 3d

The high number of COVID deaths in urban blue counties occurred when there was no vaccine; the high toll of COVID deaths in red counties occurred after a vaccine being available. #VaccinesWork

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SkierMichael @skiermichael.bsky.social · 3d

One of the cops who created a false justification for the warrant that led to Breonna Taylor’s killing has plead guilty.

www.reuters.com/legal/former...

#BLM

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SkierMichael @skiermichael.bsky.social · 3d

Instead of saying arrest the cops that killed Breonna Taylor can we say arrest Jonathan Mattingly, Brett Hankison, and Myles Cosgrove? They live too comfortably in anonymity for me. tinyurl.com/y57t6cxl #BLM

SkierMichael @skiermichael.bsky.social · 3d

After 120 years, Puerto Rico is the largest, oldest, and most populous colony in the world. Congress has failed to respond to Puerto Rico’s majority voting for statehood in 2012, 2017, and 2020. #Statehood4PuertoRico

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SkierMichael @skiermichael.bsky.social · 3d

“The COVID deaths that are occurring now are virtually all preventable, had people simply gotten the vaccine.” – Dr. Robert Kim-Farley UCLA Fielding School of Public Health LA Times 12/24/21. #GetVaccinatedNow

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SkierMichael @skiermichael.bsky.social · 4d

Jordan Edwards was shot and killed by a police officer in the passenger seat of a car while leaving a party. The car was driving AWAY from the cops and the officer fired inside the car. #BlackLivesMatter
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_...

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SkierMichael @skiermichael.bsky.social · 4d

DC Citizens do not have federal representation. It is literally taxation without representation and it’s wrong #DCStatehood

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SkierMichael @skiermichael.bsky.social · 4d

Three plainclothes LMPD officers executing a no-knock search warrant broke into Breonna Taylor’s apartment after midnight. Taylor's boyfriend believed that the officers were intruders and fired his gun. The LMPD officers fired over 20 shots. tinyurl.com/y7mk77p8 #BLM

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SkierMichael @skiermichael.bsky.social · 5d

I’ve given up arguing with MAGAts. They reject any documented fact that disagrees with what their son’s wife’s sister’s father-in-law’s friend heard in a bar while drunk.

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SkierMichael @skiermichael.bsky.social · 5d

DC residents have fought and died in every war, yet those armed service members are denied the freedoms they have fought to protect. #DCStatehood #HR51

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