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cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 9h

cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 11h

If domestically produced cooking oil was competitive with the Chinese, the market would already have shifted away from the imports.

Consumers will, once again, pay for the Trump administrations stupidity.

cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 11h

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cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 11h

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cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 12h

Nice chin waddle though.

cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 12h

If it's North Carolina, doesn't that mean he solicited an 11 year old?

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cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 12h

But they forgot to paint his little hands!

cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 12h

I have no doubt she does. And no doubt that he believed that.

The Kirk brand of Christianity is profoundly un-Christian.

If they hate Black people, I think it's in part because Black Christian evangelicals know that.

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cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 12h

This court wants to see power returned to the individual states and away from the national government. "Originalist" doctrine, based on"enumerated powers" and "dual sovereignty" arguments.

If the Democrats hold the line on the shutdown, the Supreme Court MIGHT learn something about that.

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cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 13h

I've seen this multiple times over my life.

This isn't a "peace." It's another pause.

Israel still faces an existential threat. New generation of threat and threatened this time.

The Palestinians face continuing injustice. With thousands more dead for the young to bury this time.

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cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 13h

82 - 84% of U.S. farmers voted for Trump and his administration. Many of them three times.

Farmers are not dumb. They are business men in a very complex and risky business.

They knew EXACTLY what they were voting for.

The taxpayers deserve an apology before they bail the farmers out again.

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cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 17h

It's good that Mr. Mamdani is meeting with those power brokers. He is going to need to govern the city, and that is going to be difficult enough without having the political establishment on a crusade to take full power back from the city's people.

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cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 17h

I doubt if we have a "peace." We have another pause while the little boys that saw their parents and sisters killed grow up.

Been there so many times in my lifetime.

cjcarpenter @cjcarpenter.bsky.social · 17h

Sadly, the question is "will the Congress ever pass a budget."

Or will they continue to refuse their Constitutional duty in the hope of finding a little political cover behind a King-like executive branch?