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There is a pattern here…

— Being Liberal ®🗽🇺🇲🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇺🇳🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 (@beingliberal.bsky.social) 2025-03-20T14:09:45.517Z

USA is ruled now by a government of the rapists, by the rapists and for the rapists. 😭😡🤬‘Sinister’, says Irish rape crisis center.The White House visit could help rebuild rapist’s reputationwww.theguardian.com/sport/2025/m…

— Being Liberal ®🗽🇺🇲🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🇺🇳🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 (@beingliberal.bsky.social) 2025-03-20T08:27:10.850Z

The Commerce Secretary is promoting a company’s stock on live TV, and not just any company’s – the company owned by a ‘special government employee’ and the president’s biggest donor.The corruption is the point.

— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan.bsky.social) 2025-03-20T02:29:21.121Z

The Commerce Secretary of the US is telling people to go out and buy stock in a specific company on national television.

— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) 2025-03-20T00:38:02.217Z

I love this level of petty 😂

— The 92% 🤎Trust Black Women🤎 (@ongawdimtired.bsky.social) 2025-03-19T15:59:48.170Z

This is the story that Karoline Leavitt said probably wasn’t accurate when it was first reported by Reuters because she said they aren’t reliable.

— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) 2025-03-20T15:19:12.725Z

Yes he does.

— Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.bsky.social) 2025-03-20T02:44:08.800Z

"It is truly chilling…we are in a very dark place because if you accept the [Trump] argument that there is no due process for people then what is to stop them from going after citizens & political enemies?"I spoke to @therickwilson.bsky.social & @stuartpstevens.bsky.social about this dark moment.

— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan.bsky.social) 2025-03-20T02:52:25.756Z

The administration is removing phone support for Soc Security recipients. Making it more difficult for seniors to get their checks. It’s a back door way to cut SS benefits. Horrific. If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved

— Mark Cuban (@mcuban.bsky.social) 2025-03-19T17:40:10.950Z

So this is how Canadians show a 🖕Buy Australian and help a fellow commonwealth nation push their GDP up by a few billion. http://www.thestar.com/politics/fed…

— Phat Hobbit (@phat-hobbit.bsky.social) 2025-03-19T18:52:38.142Z

— JimCook@JimCook.bsky.social (@jimcook.bsky.social) 2025-03-20T01:03:03.861Z

There are so many examples of this that you really have to conclude their very clear intent is to not ever be out of power again.

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes.bsky.social) 2025-03-19T22:43:04.186Z

Badar Khan Suri, a Georgetown post doctoral fellow who is a legal immigrant, was detained solely for sharing pro Palestinian views on social media. He was detained under the same provision as Mahmoud Khalil.He's already been moved to Louisiana.www.politico.com/news/2025/03…

— Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) 2025-03-19T23:34:23.942Z

While Elon Musk is playing the victim keep this in mind: he will have deprived millions of the poorest people around the world AIDS medication and pre-digested food this year alone. Millions will die because of him. He's one of histories greatest monsters.

— The Serfs (@theserfstv.bsky.social) 2025-03-19T22:23:25.690Z

Pie

— RISE UP..#BLUMOB..STRENGTH IN NUMBER AND BOTTLED UP RAGE. (@stanzman.bsky.social) 2025-03-19T16:42:15.473Z

— Freethinker (@69eerrr.bsky.social) 2025-03-20T00:52:53.051Z

Billionaires removing all the people keeping them in check.

— JamieBQuynn (@jamiebquynn.bsky.social) 2025-03-20T12:14:53.147Z

— Cindy 💙 💙 (@zindyo1.bsky.social) 2025-03-19T17:21:53.122Z

Felon Liberace Boasts About Gilding Of Oval Office – Joe.My.God.

Some how we have fallen in to the time line where the most stupid people are the ones leading the country and the most greedy are in charge of the public money. There was a movie based on this … or several dystopian ones. But anyone who has seen this simpleton’s tRump Towers penthouse apartment can tell you he has no clue what looks good or is even acceptable. The idea that making everything gold is good taste shows just how lacking in good taste this moron is. Hugs

https://www.joemygod.com/2025/03/felon-liberace-boasts-about-gilding-of-oval-office/

Best Wishes and Hugs,
Scottie

US Falls To New Low In World Happiness Ranking – Joe.My.God.

Yet big tough weak president in name only keeps claiming that the world respects us now. According to the orange bloat owned by Putin and Musk the world laughed at the US durning Obama and out right eat the US lunch after stuffing us in the our locker during Biden. Yet ever poll and by every measure the reverse is true. But when did reality or facts matter to the dear cult leader and his maga lemmings cult followers. Hugs.

https://www.joemygod.com/2025/03/us-falls-to-new-low-in-world-happiness-ranking/

Best Wishes and Hugs,
Scottie

THE GUARDIAN: French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump found

Think how petty and stupid this is. One must never criticize the dear leader, the god of the maga cult. Think again if Biden had done something like this, the right wing media would have lost their minds saying how weak it made the US look. But because they are either enamored of tRump or terrifying of him, they accept it with out thinking what it means. Hugs.

French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump found
France’s research minister said the scientist was traveling to Houston for a conference when his phone was searched

Read in The Guardian: https://apple.news/AyxaHZZEQR5ySub9oZgNTgg

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Best Wishes and Hugs,Scottie

CNBC: Why so many people are getting scam texts saying they have unpaid tolls

This is important to read. Ron and I get lots of these and because we did have a car mistaken for ours that came by mail, Ron keeps panicking that these are really. I know he is struggling with memory but I am worried he will try to pay one of these. Yesterday I walked by his desk as he was calling someone, then I noticed the toll file folder. I asked him and he said he was calling the state toll people to make sure. I told him Ron please hang up. I showed him how they all come in from different email or addresses. None of them the official state toll places. Hope this helps others getting these scam texts. Hugs

Why so many people are getting scam texts saying they have unpaid tolls
A rise in text messages telling people they have unpaid toll fees is emerging as the latest iteration of a ballooning form of fraud.

Read in CNBC: https://apple.news/AqiQA7HdrRTqV8k8YmJfrkg

Shared from Apple News

Best Wishes and Hugs,Scottie

POLITICO: USDA halts millions of dollars worth of deliveries to food banks

I am sitting in the car waiting for Ron to get his Brian MRI for dementia. I got my own blood work done as the doctor checks for the salt wasting and cancer signs. Won’t that be fun if I end up having cancer just when Ron gets diagnosed with dementia. Hugs. Kamyk is still in the ICU fighting pneumonia and sepsis so of course his family is arguing over what to call him. He hates his first name, it is the same as his father which he feels abused him and is a narcissist. He chose the name Kamyk pronounced Camick or Kamick. Soft kay sound, am then followed by ick. I guess the father feels slighted with everyone calling him Kamyk and I noticed his sisters have gone back to calling him by his dead name. I told them how I felt about it and that I wouldn’t dead name him until I heard from him that he wanted me to. Hugs

USDA halts millions of dollars worth of deliveries to food banks
The halt in deliveries comes after the Trump administration separately slashed $1 billion for schools and food banks to buy food from farms.

Read in POLITICO: https://apple.news/AyhCBd7aHTNCgGIqs27KAjQ

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Best Wishes and Hugs,Scottie

Peace & Justice History for 3/20

https://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistorymarch.htm#march20

Well, We’ll Know Them By Their Fruits

Personally, I fail to see how they’re preventing serving 2 Masters, but I guess we will see. I do see flaws (bringing the Kingdom of Heaven to Earth is not possible in Christianity, and is said to mean similar actions to what the current US President is doing in regard to “undesirables,) but am trying to not judge just yet; techies may have mixed up some terms, or could be trying to redefine terms.

Lauren Goode Business Mar 14, 2025 6:30 AM

The Silicon Valley Christians Who Want to Build ‘Heaven on Earth’

Is work religion, or is religion work? Both.

A high-profile network of investors and founders in Silicon Valley are promoting a new moral vision for the tech industry, in which job choices and other decisions are guided not by the pursuit of wealth, but according to Christian values and Western cultural frameworks.

At an event in San Francisco last week hosted in a former church, Trae Stephens, cofounder of the defense contractor Anduril and a partner at the Peter Thiel–led venture capital firm Founders Fund, characterized the idea as the pursuit of “good quests” or careers that make the future better, a concept that he said has theological underpinnings.

“I’m literally an arms dealer,” Stephens said at one point, prompting laughter from the crowd of roughly 200 people, which included Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan. “I don’t think all of you should be arms dealers, but that’s a pretty unique calling.”

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The hour-long discussion was part of a series of ticketed gatherings organized by ACTS 17 Collective, a nonprofit founded last year by Stephens’ wife, health care startup executive Michelle Stephens. The group, whose name is an acronym that stands for “Acknowledging Christ in Technology and Society,” is on a mission to “redefine success for those that define culture,” she says.

In Michelle’s view, tech workers mostly believe in arbitrary metrics of success, like money and power, leaving some of them feeling empty and hopeless. She wants them to believe instead that “success can be defined as loving God, myself, and others.”

People of all denominations—including atheists—are welcome at ACTS 17 events. Last Thursday’s event had low-key party vibes. Bartenders served beer and wine, a DJ was spinning light worship beats, and prayer booklets rested on a table. The idea for ACTS 17 and a speaker series on faith actually took root at a party, Michelle says. In November 2023, during a three-day 40th birthday party for Trae in New Mexico, Peter Thiel led a talk on miracles and forgiveness. Guests were intrigued.

“Folks were coming up to us saying things like ‘I didn’t know Peter is a Christian,’ ‘How can you be gay and a billionaire and be Christian?,’ ‘I didn’t know you could be smart and a Christian,’ and ‘What can you give me to read or listen to learn more?’” Michelle says.

The Stephens have long-standing connections to Thiel. In addition to helping start Anduril and working at Founders Fund, Trae was also an early employee at data intelligence firm Palantir, a company cofounded by Thiel that develops tools used by the US military.

At the ACTS 17 last Thursday, Trae appeared to echo a number of ideas Thiel has also espoused about technology and Christianity. He emphasized that jobs outside the church can be sacred, citing Martin Luther’s work during the Protestant Reformation. “The roles that we’re called into are not only important and valuable on a personal level, but it’s also critical to carry out God’s command to bring his kingdom to Earth as it is in heaven,” Trae said.

Thiel made nearly identical comments in a 2015 essay arguing that technological progress should be accelerated. Science and technology, he wrote, are natural allies of “Judeo-Western optimism,” especially if “we remain open to an eschatological frame in which God works through us in building the kingdom of heaven today, here on Earth.” (snip-MORE)

This Is Nice For The Equinox.

The sun will shine in my back door someday/ The sun will shine in my back door someday/ March winds will blow all my troubles away by Worriedman

“I Know You Rider”.- Traditional Read on Substack

It was a blustery weekend. “ Blustery” was a word I learned in the fourth grade from our teacher, Mrs Wigel. She spent the first period reading to the class every morning. She read us “Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day “ which was a Disney product and not the original book by AA Milne . I was never much of a Winnie the Pooh fan. I did learn “blustery” though and use it every time the situation permits.

It was blustery today up on the Hill with the Mule in his Minions. They were pretty muddy!

Crocus ! Crocus ! Crocus !

German Iris. These poor things don’t know what time of year it is – they are reblooming like nobody’s business.

Amaryllis!

That’s all I got room for – thanks for dropping by! (snip)

Damn, It’s Morning Again.

Hello Everyone! This week I decided to try something new. I’m going to leave work at a decent time. So, for a week, my goal is 6:30am – 4:00pm. I’ve managed two of three days so far, and I’m really feeling better. It’s bothersome, a bit, to walk out of the shop and know that I have so much left to do, but I’ve found that doesn’t change no matter what time I leave.

I still hate mornings, though. So, a bit of morning coffee humor. Hugs! Randy