Choying Palmo
@cchoetso.bsky.social
Ordained Soto Zen Buddhist chaplain and lay minister working toward Beloved Community
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Rob Reiner was one of the key people behind the effort to go to court to overturn California's anti-marriage equality Proposition 8 when it passed in 2008.
Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.
Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.
December 15, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Rob Reiner was one of the key people behind the effort to go to court to overturn California's anti-marriage equality Proposition 8 when it passed in 2008.
Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.
Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.
This country's unbelievably pathological fetish with guns has absolutely got to stop. It's so, so very sick.
September 10, 2025 at 11:12 PM
This country's unbelievably pathological fetish with guns has absolutely got to stop. It's so, so very sick.
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Right wingers are really not prepared for an era where their own normalization of gun culture and gun violence might be used against them and not just the people they hate
September 10, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Right wingers are really not prepared for an era where their own normalization of gun culture and gun violence might be used against them and not just the people they hate
Washington DC IS the most crime-ridden place BECAUSE the Felon-in-Chief and the law-breaking Republicans and SCOTUS rule from there.
August 14, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Washington DC IS the most crime-ridden place BECAUSE the Felon-in-Chief and the law-breaking Republicans and SCOTUS rule from there.
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I fucking love Los Angeles
August 14, 2025 at 1:30 AM
I fucking love Los Angeles
Remember: Trump’s administration deported 3.13 million people during his first term. In comparison, Obama deported 3.16 million, while Biden deported 4.44 million individuals in 2021 and 2022.
July 15, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Remember: Trump’s administration deported 3.13 million people during his first term. In comparison, Obama deported 3.16 million, while Biden deported 4.44 million individuals in 2021 and 2022.
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Does NY Times Editor in Chief Joseph Kahn Beat his Wife?
Joseph Kahn Not a Domestic Abuser, Some Say
Kahn Faces Scrutiny Over Wife-Beating Allegations
Party Concerned Domestic Abuse Allegations Undermine Joe Kahn's Prospects
Joseph Kahn Not a Domestic Abuser, Some Say
Kahn Faces Scrutiny Over Wife-Beating Allegations
Party Concerned Domestic Abuse Allegations Undermine Joe Kahn's Prospects
1/2 You could write a book about one atrocious headline in print NYT today
(I sort of wrote this book 30 years ago, Breaking the News, but others can take a turn.)
What's wrong this headline? Mamdani "faces scrutiny" **ONLY AND EXCLUSIVELY** because NYT decided to make this a "thing."
Really bad.
(I sort of wrote this book 30 years ago, Breaking the News, but others can take a turn.)
What's wrong this headline? Mamdani "faces scrutiny" **ONLY AND EXCLUSIVELY** because NYT decided to make this a "thing."
Really bad.
July 7, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Does NY Times Editor in Chief Joseph Kahn Beat his Wife?
Joseph Kahn Not a Domestic Abuser, Some Say
Kahn Faces Scrutiny Over Wife-Beating Allegations
Party Concerned Domestic Abuse Allegations Undermine Joe Kahn's Prospects
Joseph Kahn Not a Domestic Abuser, Some Say
Kahn Faces Scrutiny Over Wife-Beating Allegations
Party Concerned Domestic Abuse Allegations Undermine Joe Kahn's Prospects
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The city of Santa Ana, California, has created a special fund to help families pay for food, rent and utilities when people get abducted by ICE.
'We are in a crisis': Santa Ana creates emergency fund for families harmed by ICE raids
As immigration raids sweep through Santa Ana, the city has created a $100,000 fund to help affected families cover needs such as food, rent and utilities.
www.latimes.com
July 3, 2025 at 3:39 PM
The city of Santa Ana, California, has created a special fund to help families pay for food, rent and utilities when people get abducted by ICE.
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people vote their values, not their material interest. and conservative values of deference to the wealthy, refusing assistance to the poor, refusal to invest in public good naturally demand the destruction of their own poorer communities.
A rural hospital in a Nebraska county that voted 75-25 for the GOP Senator in November closed due to the Republican Party's impending Medicaid cuts. This is a harbinger of a bleak future to come for rural communities. www.splinter.com/rural-hospit...
Rural Hospital Closes Due to GOP’s Gargantuan Medicaid Cuts
Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.
www.splinter.com
July 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM
people vote their values, not their material interest. and conservative values of deference to the wealthy, refusing assistance to the poor, refusal to invest in public good naturally demand the destruction of their own poorer communities.
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I know this can sound kind of silly at a time like this, but doing a war without congressional authorization is ample grounds for impeachment
June 22, 2025 at 12:03 AM
I know this can sound kind of silly at a time like this, but doing a war without congressional authorization is ample grounds for impeachment
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JD Vance looks like he’s hiding something from Mariska Hargitay
July 17, 2024 at 4:13 PM
JD Vance looks like he’s hiding something from Mariska Hargitay
More jackboots strapped on and on the march.
The sudden appearance of sudden colonels: fast-tracking defense contractors into top brass jobs in the U.S. military.
taskandpurpose.com/military-lif...
taskandpurpose.com/military-lif...
Army bringing in big tech executives as lieutenant colonels
The Army is swearing in top tech executives from Meta, OpenAI and Palantir as senior officers to be part-time advisors.
taskandpurpose.com
June 17, 2025 at 12:56 PM
More jackboots strapped on and on the march.
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The NYT’s politics are about as hard to figure out as Elon’s.
June 16, 2025 at 1:42 PM
The NYT’s politics are about as hard to figure out as Elon’s.
@nytimes.com Did you know that 98% of political violence and attendant assassinations in this country has been enacted by right-leaning people? By MAGA adherents? Do you have any idea??? Or do you not have access to any of that data? WTF, NYT???
June 15, 2025 at 3:28 PM
@nytimes.com Did you know that 98% of political violence and attendant assassinations in this country has been enacted by right-leaning people? By MAGA adherents? Do you have any idea??? Or do you not have access to any of that data? WTF, NYT???
Same.
I probably like Rand Paul right now more than any other elected Republican ... and I HATE Rand Paul.
Sen. Rand Paul: "I just never liked the idea of the parade because I grew up in the '70s and '80s and the only parades I can remember are Soviet parades or North Korean parades...Then there's the cost, I mean we're $2 trillion in the hole. I'm not for it."
June 15, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Same.
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Our able men and women in uniform swear an Oath to support the Constitution—they didn’t sign up to spend the weekend in a military parade to feed the insatiable narcissism of an incorrigible insurrectionist/dictator.
June 14, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Our able men and women in uniform swear an Oath to support the Constitution—they didn’t sign up to spend the weekend in a military parade to feed the insatiable narcissism of an incorrigible insurrectionist/dictator.
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Ok, *this* is best comparative stat, members of media: The DC Pride parade one week ago had a bigger turnout.
June 15, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Ok, *this* is best comparative stat, members of media: The DC Pride parade one week ago had a bigger turnout.
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I am wondering why Lisa Leher from the @nytimes.com did not discuss the data that suggests political violence in the US in the current era mostly comes from the right. Seems like a strange fact to ignore. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/u...
Like School Shootings, Political Violence Is Becoming Almost Routine
www.nytimes.com
June 15, 2025 at 11:06 AM
I am wondering why Lisa Leher from the @nytimes.com did not discuss the data that suggests political violence in the US in the current era mostly comes from the right. Seems like a strange fact to ignore. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/u...
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Over the past 60 years, consider all of the assassinations in the US of those politicians and social movement leaders. Then consider that almost all of those killed were left leaning leaders challenging the conservative order run by the rich and corporations.
June 15, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Over the past 60 years, consider all of the assassinations in the US of those politicians and social movement leaders. Then consider that almost all of those killed were left leaning leaders challenging the conservative order run by the rich and corporations.
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For nearly a decade, since Election Day 2016, the media and politicians have had a choice: Recognize that we were in a crisis like no other in our lifetimes, or pretend that we aren't. Nearly all politicians, and too many in the media, have chosen the latter.
I thought I was losing my mind when this happened because it was an attempted assassination of a national political leader and it was treated like it was nothing.
We should've made a bigger national crisis of someone breaking into Nancy Pelosi's home & trying to kill her husband. But then, we should've made a bigger national crisis about hundreds of someones breaking into the Capitol & trying to steal an election. But then, we should've done lots of things.
June 15, 2025 at 2:06 PM
For nearly a decade, since Election Day 2016, the media and politicians have had a choice: Recognize that we were in a crisis like no other in our lifetimes, or pretend that we aren't. Nearly all politicians, and too many in the media, have chosen the latter.
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I hope every elected official, business owner, university president, and media executive sees the millions of people out in the streets today and understands: If we fight back, this is the power on our side.
June 14, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I hope every elected official, business owner, university president, and media executive sees the millions of people out in the streets today and understands: If we fight back, this is the power on our side.
Awwwwwww. Poor little dementiaed fascist baby. No one came to his wittle party.
Trump looking absolutely inconsolable at his fascist-themed 79th birthday party which no one turned up to other than those who had to because he's their boss.
June 14, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Awwwwwww. Poor little dementiaed fascist baby. No one came to his wittle party.
Posse Comitatus violated. And incompetently, at that. He's a vet who was on his way to the VA office.
The Department of Defense has confirmed that U.S. Marines detained a civilian—reportedly an Army veteran who crossed a yellow tape boundary on his way to an office of the Department of Veterans Affairs. This is an apparent violation of the Posse Comitatus Act. 1/16 www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
Exclusive: US Marines carry out first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles, video shows
Marines deployed to Los Angeles carried out the detention of a civilian on Friday, the U.S. military confirmed after being presented with Reuters images, in the first known detention by active-duty troops deployed there by President Donald Trump.
www.reuters.com
June 14, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Posse Comitatus violated. And incompetently, at that. He's a vet who was on his way to the VA office.
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This is what rule by the confidently ignorant looks like; sabotage stuff you don't understand and then discover it was actually doing vital work well at trivial cost
US scrambles to bring back VOA’s Persian service amid Iran-Israel conflict politi.co/3HHsTQ4, via @politico.com
US scrambles to bring back VOA’s Persian service amid Iran-Israel conflict
President Donald Trump ordered the service to shut down in March.
politi.co
June 14, 2025 at 12:44 PM
This is what rule by the confidently ignorant looks like; sabotage stuff you don't understand and then discover it was actually doing vital work well at trivial cost