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Peter @peterinnorthfield.bsky.social · 1m

Completely agree.

Peter @peterinnorthfield.bsky.social · 1m

Are you a little child? No, I am not insulting you or your intelligence. I am concerned if little children might be in a room with a Republican. If so, I will contact social services and the local police immediately. If it’s a bear then you’re on your own. After all bears have to eat.

Peter @peterinnorthfield.bsky.social · 6m

I’ve consistently said, since Trump began his move towards authoritarian rule, that the World Cup and the Olympics should not take place in the United States. And if they do, anyone who attends them from abroad should feel the same shame as those who attended the Nuremberg Olympics in 1936.

Peter @peterinnorthfield.bsky.social · 48m

Sadly, it has been done before: Nixon and Vietnam, Reagan and the Iranian hostages.

Peter @peterinnorthfield.bsky.social · 51m

“One lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.” Mario Puzo

Peter @peterinnorthfield.bsky.social · 56m

I hope you are successful. As an outsider looking in, it seems to be the Republicans who have no reluctance to bend rules to suit themselves. And it works. whenever there is a fight, the Republicans bring knives, and the Democrats bring tea and cake and reasonableness.

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Peter @peterinnorthfield.bsky.social · 1h

Nice rename. It’s says so much more.

Peter @peterinnorthfield.bsky.social · 1h

I just have a slight concern that this is exactly what Trump‘s entourage want. The press coverage will all be by the Trump sympathisers from the fringes – even beyond Fox!

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Peter @peterinnorthfield.bsky.social · 1h

The next steps will be setting up camps for conversion therapy for anyone who is not their brand of Christianity. And other camps for those who are liberals. And before laughing at this idea look where you are in America today compared to a year ago. I hope Saturday is beyond ginormous.

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Grandpa Phil @tiller02.bsky.social · 11d

Trump is deranged, but we see this every day.

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Peter @peterinnorthfield.bsky.social · 9h

Why is it that in the UK whenever someone suggests we have a president rather than Monarch they respond by asking if we would prefer some divisive politician? Ireland counters that by having intelligent and mature presidents who the people can be proud of on the national and international stage.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

Authoritarianism is a cancer. And it's growing, metastasizing. In America. Now.

YOU are the cure. Do your part and join us on Saturday.

Do it for your country. For the Constitution. For your freedoms.

While you still can.

@ofthebraveusa.bsky.social

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 11h

Apparently, they don’t hand out a Nobel Peace Prize to those who negotiated a ceasefire they had sabotaged a year ago just to get elected.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

TUR: Have you met with Mike Johnson?

JEFFRIES: No

TUR: Why not?

JEFFRIES: Donald Trump has not given him permission to meet, Katy and we know that until Donald Trump gives them permission to meet, they're going to continue to hide.

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Peter @peterinnorthfield.bsky.social · 16h

That is being charitable. His conservatism, for me, has unpleasant reminders of Cardinal Spellman at the beginning of the Vietnam war.

Peter @peterinnorthfield.bsky.social · 22h

Pope Leo: “The church cannot remain silent” about the situation of migrants in the United States. He wants the bishops and the church in the US “to be united” on this crucially important issue, which is “a matter of human dignity.”
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Cardinal Dolan on Fox: Charlie Kirk was “a modern-day St. Paul”.

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Peter @peterinnorthfield.bsky.social · 23h

These are the words of a true spiritual leader. Come on American Bishops get off your plush cathedras and stand with your neighbours.

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Peter @peterinnorthfield.bsky.social · 23h

This must really rile up Trump that America’s strongest and most popular leader Governor Gavin C for Charisma Newsom got five Nobel prizes and he got none.

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Peter @peterinnorthfield.bsky.social · 23h

Spike was super smooth. But Faith was the best. Perhaps it’s just the TV programmes I watch but I haven’t seen either of them in a huge amount of programs and I thought they would be enormous. It’s nice to think about light things rather than ‘him’ all the time. And you knew which him I meant!

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Jacqs @fooyoo2.bsky.social · 23h

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

OBAMA: “There has always been this fight over what is the true story of 🇺🇸?”

The former president boils it down powerfully on Maron’s final episode

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

"Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children." —MLK Jr.

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Peter @peterinnorthfield.bsky.social · 1d

Why is it that this cannot be seen by so many people? What you say is completely accurate and indeed it is from

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Peter @peterinnorthfield.bsky.social · 1d

Oh dear God. Did I have to see that just before going to bed? Now it’s time to stick pins in my eyes to try to destroy that image. In time I might forgive you. It is well imagined though. Now off to get those pins.

Peter @peterinnorthfield.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone with any historical knowledge couldn’t argue with your post. But tradition dies hard. In a generation at the most it will be gone. And there will be the others fighting to stop that loss. It’s called change and that is what history is made of and there are always winners and losers.