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Jonathan Pollard

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Retired federal attorney; cancer refugee; trying to find my way on this platform

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It’s Project 2025 or Joe Biden. This really isn’t a difficult choice, folks.

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Just vote for Biden. This isn’t difficult or controversial. Keep the authoritarian out of the White House.

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More two-wheeled fun.

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I have no influence over that. I can only control who I vote for. That will be the Democratic Party’s nominee.

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I understand The System. I will support the Democratic Party’s nominee. Other people can clutch their pearls about who that will be, but I understand The System.

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An undecided voter on MSNBC just said she voted for the lesser of two evils in 2020 and the result was January 6 and she isn’t doing that again and my brain fell out the back of my head

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If you’re relying on the debate to decide which candidate to vote for, it’s probably best for you to sit this election out and not vote at all.

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If this piece is right, the Putinites see Trump as their revenge for the demise of the USSR, and, honestly, that's some pretty good revenge.

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This is your semi-regular reminder to vote for Democrats across the ballot because Republicans are assholes.

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Sky is blue. Check. Water is wet. Check. Trump is guilty of 34 felony counts. Check.

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“Rent me an old, slow, white Bronco.”

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I love suits. I would wear them every day except I also love sport outfits, jeans, pullovers, sport shirts and everything else.

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Is it impossible to condemn both Hamas and the current Israeli government for their crimes in this conflict? This is a disaster on all levels.

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Best passing big in the game. He made every player on his team better. I saw him in La Jolla at a sidewalk restaurant. He saw I recognized him and seemed apprehensive. Maybe he just wanted to eat his lunch in peace? Anyway, I smiled and waved. He grinned and waved back. Better than an autograph.

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A major party’s candidate for president threatening punishment for exercising First Amendment rights. Sounds legit.

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You should embroider “The Academic” on your dress shirts. 😄

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Looking forward to this one. I don’t know much about Treblinka beyond what I read in Jean Francois Steiner’s book and saw in the film Shoah.

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One of the benefits of getting old is that I have seen a lot of this bullshit before.

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Right around the time of the Kent State murders, my university (University of Oregon) closed the campus to vehicular traffic because of the protests. This was an excellent response, much preferable to dragging protesters off the campus in chains. Your take on this current situation is informative.

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It’s a bilateral agreement. Two parties . . . unless the parties agree to admit additional signatories.

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Low-hanging fruit. See? Another way is possible. This one from Wesleyan president.

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Were any of the tweets removed for violating the terms of use? I’m guessing no.

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I am retired now, but as a manager I valued employees who completed their assignments at a high level. I rewarded them for their diligence and didn’t expect them to sacrifice their home lives. What is happening?!?

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Makes sense. American football is a religion in this country.

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If the public interest were paramount, National news media sources would broadcast Supreme Court arguments on a regular basis. They won’t because profit, not the public interest, is their primary concern.

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This is what happens when the Socratic Method exposes BS . . .

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I feel that the wheels are coming off the Trump Train. It seems just a matter of time now.

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“Sir, with all due respect to you, fuck off.”

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Rough episode. The sadistic acts of alcohol-fueled cruelty depicted in this episode are tough to hear about. They don’t square with the Holocaust as a “machine of death” operating with bureaucratic efficiency. There is nothing bureaucratic or efficient about this. This is something else.

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Probably more efficient to ask Congressional Republicans.

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I probably wouldn’t be ranting about Jimmy Kimmel if I were a defendant in an ongoing criminal trial, but maybe that’s just me. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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“This is not just a figment of my imagination,” writes the independent researcher.

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Went for a morning ride in Bellingham, Washington. It was cold but I’m glad I went.

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So depressing to me that this still needs to be said in 21st Century America.

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I certainly am no expert on these matters, but the gratuitous violence of some - many? - Holocaust perpetrators cannot easily be explained away by the “just following orders” excuse. I may need a 🍸 myself before I listen to this episode . . .

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