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History, pop culture, Canadiana, law, theatre, politics. Tweets are general commentary and not intended as advice on any of them. For #genealogy, I'm @deckofancestors.bsky.social

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And so our lives become little more drab. πŸ₯²

06.10.2025 20:00 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

They could still stick a little closer to the old design with other materials. So drab, so sad!

08.10.2025 01:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Super disappointed to see the Canadians on this list.

04.10.2025 21:30 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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a man in a suit says oh you did did you ALT: a man in a suit says oh you did did you

Did ya hear the one about the dismembered journalist....

Oh. you did and you still went to collect $ talking about free speech in another country that did the dismemberment?

And you still went...

04.10.2025 19:17 β€” πŸ‘ 194    πŸ” 33    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

George Carlin would never have taken blood money to perform comedy for a Saudi Arabian tyrant.

04.10.2025 19:12 β€” πŸ‘ 11953    πŸ” 2039    πŸ’¬ 401    πŸ“Œ 112
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Spot on.

04.10.2025 12:08 β€” πŸ‘ 23458    πŸ” 10699    πŸ’¬ 723    πŸ“Œ 479
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04.10.2025 03:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

For the love of all that’s good and holy, how is the press still doing this? Congratulations to Woman, wife of Eamonn Mullally, on her appointment.

03.10.2025 14:47 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The end of due process for immigrants is the end of due process for citizens.

Few understand this.

03.10.2025 14:16 β€” πŸ‘ 9452    πŸ” 2948    πŸ’¬ 217    πŸ“Œ 116
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They're fun to draw, too.

04.10.2025 02:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The rule of law means that civilians who commit crimes are prosecuted in courts of law with benefit of due process. Extrajudicial executions in international waters are an affront to our Constitution and the law of nations. It isn’t national defense. It’s murder.

03.10.2025 17:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1408    πŸ” 455    πŸ’¬ 40    πŸ“Œ 18

Again, β€œmurder” is the word people should be using. These were unjustified killings of human beings. Acting in defense of third parties is a potential justification, but the harm has to be imminent. Here it obviously was not. And murder in international waters is still murder. So, β€œmurder.”

03.10.2025 17:12 β€” πŸ‘ 46    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Same guy who declared bankruptcy 6 times shut down the U.S. government 4 times in 5 years of being President. They wanted him to run the government like his businesses and that’s exactly what he’s doing.

03.10.2025 14:56 β€” πŸ‘ 12898    πŸ” 3645    πŸ’¬ 340    πŸ“Œ 159

The details on why blowing up those boats wasn’t war, it was 17 murders.

03.10.2025 14:54 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Gov. Pritzker has said all the right things, but now he needs to act and get these state troopers out of there.

03.10.2025 14:20 β€” πŸ‘ 6052    πŸ” 1585    πŸ’¬ 200    πŸ“Œ 84
Nothing says Nobel Peace Prize like deploying the military against your own citizens.  @AudreyLovesParis

Nothing says Nobel Peace Prize like deploying the military against your own citizens. @AudreyLovesParis

I'm not the biggest fan of memes. It's like "oh look! Words in a perfect square! It must be true!" But this is art.

03.10.2025 23:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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They’re baaack. 🀣

Repairs and all…

02.10.2025 23:21 β€” πŸ‘ 27751    πŸ” 7269    πŸ’¬ 807    πŸ“Œ 448

From 1939-1945 German officers also listened to speeches from civilians about how the laws of war didn’t apply to them. And then they participated in the Holocaust, starved millions of prisoners of war, destroyed villages and cities, and were defeated.

02.10.2025 00:47 β€” πŸ‘ 5369    πŸ” 2053    πŸ’¬ 251    πŸ“Œ 80

It would be great to find out if Patel is still sending new agents to the Holocaust Museum as part of their training. We went in the first week and after seeing the museum had a discussion about complicity and law enforcement that was led by someone from the ADL. This was started in 2001 by Freeh.

01.10.2025 21:49 β€” πŸ‘ 535    πŸ” 166    πŸ’¬ 28    πŸ“Œ 1

I cannot emphasize enough that this administration shouldn’t get 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘴π˜ͺ𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘦 𝘷𝘰𝘡𝘦 from the Dems until they start obeying the law.

Not. One.

Optics matter: if you want people to turn out next election despite troops in the streets, then show them it matters.

Do your goddamn jobs and hold the line.

01.10.2025 14:05 β€” πŸ‘ 9912    πŸ” 2552    πŸ’¬ 236    πŸ“Œ 170

So many lectures about violent rhetoric from the folks promising to let Federal forces shoot to kill without due process.

02.10.2025 14:40 β€” πŸ‘ 393    πŸ” 91    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 4

That's a lot of kapital.

02.10.2025 16:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Maybe this is what the US government shutdown is all about. Fingers crossed.🀞

02.10.2025 04:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Jane Goodall, conservationist and chimpanzee researcher, dead at 91 | CBC News Jane Goodall, the world-famous primatologist, activist and environmentalist whose discoveries about chimpanzees forever changed what it means to be human, has died at 91.

When I suddenly saw a lot of apparently random posts about Jane Goodall in my feed, I should have realized. Primates of all kinds, including but not limited to humans, will miss her.

www.cbc.ca/news/world/j...

02.10.2025 00:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

While you're at it, can you please ask the Universe to stop scheduling absolutely everything for Thursday evenings?

02.10.2025 00:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Easily, his most elaborate and destructive distraction from #TheEPSEIN_Files... yet.

01.10.2025 18:34 β€” πŸ‘ 17252    πŸ” 5523    πŸ’¬ 507    πŸ“Œ 163
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a man speaking in front of a crowd with a sign that says trusted leadership for a stronger america ALT: a man speaking in front of a crowd with a sign that says trusted leadership for a stronger america

This sums up the end of Hegseth's sad and pathetic address to the military brass.

01.10.2025 04:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

More capitulation. 😑

01.10.2025 04:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

More of this please. Set to β€œYakety Sax” if possible

01.10.2025 00:26 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

β€œNice grandma you got there. It’d be a shame if anything happened to her.”

30.09.2025 17:01 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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