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Jake

@jp1102.bsky.social

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I am a retired teacher, proud liberal, coffee drinker, dog lover, classic rock listener, bourbon devotee, reader, nature lover, and advocator of human rights. Peace.

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Jake @jp1102.bsky.social · May 8

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Noel Casler Comedy @noelcaslercomedy.bsky.social · 14h

I remember working on a VH1 special with D’Angelo back in 2000, we taped it at the Theater at MSG and I STILL remember his soundcheck. Massive talent and had the charisma to back it up. Rest easy, Sir, you will be missed.🙏

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Jake @jp1102.bsky.social · 13h

The Volo Bog NW of Chicago.

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Sherida Jayne @trustmeimagrandma.bsky.social · 14h

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Noel Casler Comedy @noelcaslercomedy.bsky.social · 16h

The ‘Peace President’ killed six more people off the coast of Venezuela this morning. We have no evidence other than his word that they were a threat to anyone, anywhere and also release the Epstein files. Thank you for your attention in this matter!

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 16h

BREAKING:

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Jake @jp1102.bsky.social · 21h

What he meant was, “…with an actual woman.”

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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 1d

It's insanity, and it's real.

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 1d

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 1d

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 1d

Trump, speaking in the Israeli parliament, boasts about the weapons the U.S. has provided and says "you obviously used them very well."
An estimated 20,000 children have died in the war in Gaza.

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Beck The Feminist Lawyer @beckduff.bsky.social · 1d

What an epic weekend. Singing at Porchfest, taking in a show at Shakespeare Tavern, and we even got the garage cleaned out!

Today, gonna spend some time learning about the Muskogee people, because… well….

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 1d

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jeffreyalexander07.bsky.social @jeffreyalexander07.bsky.social · 2d

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Jake @jp1102.bsky.social · 2d

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Jake @jp1102.bsky.social · 2d

Winterberry holly (Ilex verticillata): This deciduous holly is famous for its bright red berries that remain on the branches throughout the fall and winter after the leaves have dropped. The berries provide a critical food source for birds during the cold months.

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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 2d

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godlessbitch.bsky.social @godlessbitch.bsky.social · 2d

Be Kind

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Jake @jp1102.bsky.social · 2d

Well, you wound up with the correct answer.

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Undivided@bsky @mcbf.bsky.social · 2d

Most of us are raised to avoid shaming ourselves, our families & our communities. First Trump then his acolytes cast aside shame. No shame equals no guilt & those who feel neither are capable of great evil.

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Just Lynn 💙🦋✌️🇺🇦 @shoredweller7.bsky.social · 2d

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Kepano Kolohe @alala55.bsky.social · 2d

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