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Roy Ciampa

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Retired New Testament professor (Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and Samford University); seeking to follow Jesus and to learn to love God and all my neighbors. Learning from those who are different from myself and who help me grow in understanding.

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Hassett is the one who decided to go with the Walmart Thanksgiving package as proof that prices are down. Then when called out on the deceit he acts like the other guy is nuts.

16.11.2025 21:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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So they are just going to keep announcing fake trade deals with China every few months

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Bingo. Corporate welfare is the real welfare you should be talking about.

16.11.2025 18:49 β€” πŸ‘ 12532    πŸ” 4750    πŸ’¬ 373    πŸ“Œ 207

Question: β€œhow could he run on releasing the Epstein files and not do it?”

Answer: because he’s lied his whole life without consequences. Why would he think this situation would be any different?

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Trump yesterday: They have this new word called
"affordability" and [Republicans] don't talk about it enough. Democrats did.

Trump today: I don't want to hear about the affordability.

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Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

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Abigail Spanberger, a former congresswoman and CIA agent, will be the first woman to serve as governor of Virginia, following a streak of 74 men. Spanberger's campaign was laser-focused on attacking President Trump's policies. nyti.ms/498lHIB

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Gallego: "It's murder. It's very simple. If this president feels they are doing something illegally, then he should be using the Coast Guard. If this is an act of war, then you use our military and then you come and talk to us first. But this is murder ... it's disgusting."

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It’s amazing how all the reporting is just memory-holing this part

14.10.2025 13:16 β€” πŸ‘ 18637    πŸ” 8039    πŸ’¬ 473    πŸ“Œ 452

I have lived and worked in and around Chicago for 27 years and I have been assaulted less often than Sen Paul has been in his own back yard.

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If you are Border Czar Homans, and you did NOT take the $50,000 in a paper bag, wouldn't you been screaming at the top of your lungs that you want the FBI tape of the transaction released publicly in order to clear your name?
Yet he isn't doing that. Hmmmm......

23.09.2025 18:55 β€” πŸ‘ 9942    πŸ” 2674    πŸ’¬ 372    πŸ“Œ 133
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They've known it for years.

23.09.2025 20:06 β€” πŸ‘ 15195    πŸ” 3750    πŸ’¬ 468    πŸ“Œ 137
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Some of us do.

23.09.2025 15:18 β€” πŸ‘ 38836    πŸ” 10054    πŸ’¬ 2246    πŸ“Œ 884
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Looked at my data collections for state-backed activity. If the report were a picture:

13.09.2025 23:47 β€” πŸ‘ 16931    πŸ” 4794    πŸ’¬ 243    πŸ“Œ 213

It's incredible intellectual gymnastics to accuse the anti-gun Left of causing gun violence.

The self-delusion is staggering.

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Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."

13.09.2025 14:56 β€” πŸ‘ 20072    πŸ” 9559    πŸ’¬ 7418    πŸ“Œ 8189

This is unreal.

Jesus would be hanging out with the people Brian Kilmeade wants the state to murder.

They do not follow God

13.09.2025 22:32 β€” πŸ‘ 7962    πŸ” 2327    πŸ’¬ 921    πŸ“Œ 204

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As a survivor, I can't think of a more fitting metaphor than a rapist creating loud noises with planes as a survivor tries to tell her story. I mean... just wow. Nevertheless, she persisted.

03.09.2025 18:45 β€” πŸ‘ 32459    πŸ” 7683    πŸ’¬ 1009    πŸ“Œ 315
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senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaignπŸ‘‡πŸ½

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Honoring Ashli Babbitt Dishonors the Military If there’s no difference between upholding the Constitution and attacking it, then there’s no honor in service.

β€œβ€¦I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.”

My latest in @thebulwark.com

www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...

30.08.2025 11:44 β€” πŸ‘ 21816    πŸ” 6227    πŸ’¬ 972    πŸ“Œ 404

Yes, this makes perfect sense.

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Here’s what was NOT released today:

- the proffer agreement between Maxwell and the DoJ

- the agreement transferring Maxwell to club fed

- communications showing who waived Maxwell’s sex offender status allowing her transfer and possible work assignments outside prison

- the Epstein files

23.08.2025 02:51 β€” πŸ‘ 27526    πŸ” 10446    πŸ’¬ 527    πŸ“Œ 383
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Hey MAGA America, Trump is Putin You On Trump supporters, are you seeing this?

Trump Supporters,

Watching Donald Trump literally roll out a red carpet and gleefully applaud Vladimir Putin’s arrival here, it can’t be lost on you, can it?

We see it.

The world sees it.

When are you going to see it?

johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/hey-maga-a...

16.08.2025 15:01 β€” πŸ‘ 891    πŸ” 270    πŸ’¬ 66    πŸ“Œ 16

Wonder what Foxnews would be talking about all day this week if Obama had done this?

16.08.2025 12:21 β€” πŸ‘ 11613    πŸ” 3059    πŸ’¬ 699    πŸ“Œ 162

As he unleashes troops to combat "crime," Trump is simultaneously gutting the cops on the beat that stop corporations from harming us β€” the EPA, IRS, SEC, Labor Department, FTC, CFPB, Consumer Product Safety Commission, FDA, and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Hello?

16.08.2025 20:00 β€” πŸ‘ 3417    πŸ” 1195    πŸ’¬ 100    πŸ“Œ 40

The upward redistribution of wealth over the past 50 years has shifted $80 trillion from the bottom 90% of Americans to the top 1%.Β 

That’s $80 trillion that would have gone into the paychecks of the working class.

The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.

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Russian Lures Confused Old Man to Alaska in Elder Scam β€œWe’re afraid the Russian will trick him into signing something away," said an associate of the geriatric dupe.

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WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)β€”An unscrupulous Russian man has lured a confused septuagenarian to Alaska in an apparent elder scam, concerned associates of the old man reported on Thursday.

According to those associates, the Russian has posed as a

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