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langwoodj.bsky.social
@langwoodj.bsky.social
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Writer, political hobbyist. With built- in BS detector. https://endofdaysblog.blogspot.com/?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaYfcOU-xn19pDFiz9auImI3AJrMaBRvYCw_2mvyMQ7ZY8eimkJmilEPWmA_aem_p5K5tZzjHIymrv6k0bxyjg&m=1
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"Pope Leo said Scripture emphasizes the question that will be posed at the end of the world:

'How did you receive the foreigner, did you receive him and welcome him, or not? I think there is a deep reflection that needs to be made about what is happening'..."

chicago.suntimes.com/pope-leo-xiv...
Pope Leo calls for ‘deep reflection’ about treatment of detained migrants in U.S.
“Many people who have lived for years and years and years, never causing problems, have been deeply affected by what is going on right now,” Chicago-born pope says.
chicago.suntimes.com
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It is possible that I have never seen a picture that better sums up a presidency.
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6 November 1890 | Czech Jewish woman, Zdeňka Federerová, was born in Prague.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from Theresienstadt on 26 October 1942 and murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.
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This is officially one of the strangest pictures in American history, and I do not doubt that it will be considered iconic a hundred years from now.

100% serious here.
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This is a real picture captured in the white house today.
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ICE detain father in unmarked white van—drive off in his car with his toddler still in the back car seat.

One agent threw volleyball into the car—it bounced hitting the toddler in head.

"There's a baby in there!" people cry out. "They covered up his face! That's child abuse!"

(Part 1)
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Dems, Indy's, both elected and electorate...

DO NOT TAKE YOUR FOOT OFF THE GAS
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TURNS OUT, THE ONLY THING RUSSIA NEEDED TO DO TO BECOME A SUPERPOWER AGAIN WAS TO INSTALL A PLANT IN THE US GOVERNMENT’S SEAT OF POWER. IN THAT IT HAS SUCCEEDED.
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It seems like Finland, and Denmark, ranking #1 and #2 on the happiness scale are also "social democracies" based on the "Nordic" model which apparently makes people happy. Wouldn't the oligarch's hate that?
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Newsom is setting a very high standard for jumping into Trump's shit. Truly impressive.
Newsom’s social media team is on a level we’ve never seen before
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Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative

electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
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Me in the @washingtonpost.com, January 22, 2021, arguing that Garland should appoint *multiple* special counsels to investigate Donald Trump:
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Imagine how much more about Donald Trump's crimes we would know, and how our politics would have unfolded differently, if everyone of significance had been either interviewed by the FBI or put before a federal grand jury in the spring of 2021, while memories were still fresh.
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I don’t understand camps saying: Dems need to follow the Mamdani model to win the midterms; or Dems need to follow the Spanberger model to win. It’s a big country. Different approaches work in different places. Candidates who connect w/their specific constituencies is the model.
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Hey, Republican voters. Where's your 4-month paid vacation with full benefits? That's what the people you elected are doing right now.