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SkierMichael

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Married, Retired. Career half NASA/JPL, half BioPharma. #BlueCrew DC & PR statehood #VaccinesWork #BLM #VoteBlue #LGBTQdad #GunControl #ProChoice #WomensRights , Matt 25:31-46. Please follow. X refugee. 🚫Crypto 🚫OnlyFans/porn🚫Illuminati 🚫MAGA 🚫GoFundMe

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SkierMichael @skiermichael.bsky.social · Nov 29

My feelings about being on bluesky:

Blue skies
Smiling at me
Nothing but blue skies
Do I see

Never saw the sun shining so bright
Never saw things going so right
Noticing the days hurrying by
When you're on Bluesky, my how they fly

Blue days
All of Twitter gone
Nothing but blue skies
From now on

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SkierMichael @skiermichael.bsky.social · 6m

I struggled with hypocrisy of “Christians” supporting Trump despite the clear conflict with the message of Christ, e.g. Matt 25:31-46

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SkierMichael @skiermichael.bsky.social · 11h

A Dec 5, 21 NPR analysis shows that since May 21, 2021 people living in counties that voted heavily for Donald Trump have been nearly three times as likely to die from COVID-19 as those who live in areas that went for Joe Biden. #VaccinesWork tinyurl.com/2p936257

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SkierMichael @skiermichael.bsky.social · 17h

D.C. has 692,000+ residents.

Wyoming has 578,000+ residents.

Wyoming has 2 US senators and 1 US House of Representatives.

D.C. has 0 US senators and 1 non-voting delegate in the House.

D.C. isn't asking for much, only their fair share of federal representation. #DCStatehood #HR51

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SkierMichael @skiermichael.bsky.social · 23h

I wore a mask, even though I was vaccinated, to protect those who are medically fragile, have compromised immune systems or are too young for the vaccines. I knew vaccinated people could still spread COVID-19.

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SkierMichael @skiermichael.bsky.social · 1d

The high number of COVID deaths in urban blue counties occurred when there was no vaccine; the high toll of COVID deaths in red counties occurred after a vaccine being available. #VaccinesWork

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SkierMichael @skiermichael.bsky.social · 1d

One of the cops who created a false justification for the warrant that led to Breonna Taylor’s killing has plead guilty.

www.reuters.com/legal/former...

#BLM

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SkierMichael @skiermichael.bsky.social · 1d

Instead of saying arrest the cops that killed Breonna Taylor can we say arrest Jonathan Mattingly, Brett Hankison, and Myles Cosgrove? They live too comfortably in anonymity for me. tinyurl.com/y57t6cxl #BLM

SkierMichael @skiermichael.bsky.social · 1d

After 120 years, Puerto Rico is the largest, oldest, and most populous colony in the world. Congress has failed to respond to Puerto Rico’s majority voting for statehood in 2012, 2017, and 2020. #Statehood4PuertoRico

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SkierMichael @skiermichael.bsky.social · 2d

“The COVID deaths that are occurring now are virtually all preventable, had people simply gotten the vaccine.” – Dr. Robert Kim-Farley UCLA Fielding School of Public Health LA Times 12/24/21. #GetVaccinatedNow

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SkierMichael @skiermichael.bsky.social · 2d

Jordan Edwards was shot and killed by a police officer in the passenger seat of a car while leaving a party. The car was driving AWAY from the cops and the officer fired inside the car. #BlackLivesMatter
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_...

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SkierMichael @skiermichael.bsky.social · 2d

DC Citizens do not have federal representation. It is literally taxation without representation and it’s wrong #DCStatehood

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SkierMichael @skiermichael.bsky.social · 2d

Three plainclothes LMPD officers executing a no-knock search warrant broke into Breonna Taylor’s apartment after midnight. Taylor's boyfriend believed that the officers were intruders and fired his gun. The LMPD officers fired over 20 shots. tinyurl.com/y7mk77p8 #BLM

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SkierMichael @skiermichael.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve given up arguing with MAGAts. They reject any documented fact that disagrees with what their son’s wife’s sister’s father-in-law’s friend heard in a bar while drunk.

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SkierMichael @skiermichael.bsky.social · 3d

DC residents have fought and died in every war, yet those armed service members are denied the freedoms they have fought to protect. #DCStatehood #HR51

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SkierMichael @skiermichael.bsky.social · 3d

Good life advice. "You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending."

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SkierMichael @skiermichael.bsky.social · 3d

Republican support by young adults is on the decline due to their anti-women & anti-LGBTQ positions. Victimhood is MAGAts rallying cry. Red state legislative cancel culture is their tool. In their grasping to hold on to power they grind marginalized citizens under their heels. #GOPbigots #VoteBlueIn

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SkierMichael @skiermichael.bsky.social · 4d

When I travel to some countries, I am required to show that I have been vaccinated for Yellow Fever. It's no big deal and it is not a sign of a fascist government. #VaccinePassport #CovidIsReal

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SkierMichael @skiermichael.bsky.social · 4d

If Christians are spreading conspiracy theories and misinformation, others have no reason to believe them when they proclaim the gospel of Jesus. We don’t need more Christ in Christmas, we need more Christ in Christians.

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SkierMichael @skiermichael.bsky.social · 4d

On Nov 3, 2020, Puerto Rico voters for the third time chose statehood from the viable options. #Statehood4PuertoRico en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Pu...

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SkierMichael @skiermichael.bsky.social · 4d

In the Winter of 2021-22, In 15 states under 50% of folks had gotten at least one shot of a vaccine. It’s no surprise that those states had the majority of the winter COVID deaths. #VaccinesWork

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SkierMichael @skiermichael.bsky.social · 5d

Not all Trump supporters started out as racists, but all of them have decided that racism is not a deal-breaker, which does make them racist.

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SkierMichael @skiermichael.bsky.social · 5d

Every death from COVID saddened me. Each death meant a family had lost a loved one. For the unvaccinated, who died at rates much higher than the vaccinated, it is even sadder. #VaccinesWork tinyurl.com/22p7tpr9

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SkierMichael @skiermichael.bsky.social · 5d

“People who don’t vaccinate (but could) are imposing costs to the community that they’re not paying for.” We make polluters pay for their impact. -Dorit Reiss UC Hastings College of Law. #VaccinesWork

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SkierMichael @skiermichael.bsky.social · 5d

DC receives between 25-30% of its budget from the federal government; as a percentage, this is less than five states and is on a par with three others. #DCStatehood

SkierMichael @skiermichael.bsky.social · 5d

These days, criminal conduct is verging to become a requirement for Republican leaders. Their claim that Felon 45, S. Bannon, G. Santos, the Jan 6th capital invaders did no wrong & are being attacked by a woke press says law & order isn’t their thing anymore #VoteBlue

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