Grant Shimmin 🏳️⚧️
@shimmo23
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News Director, Opinion, @ Stuff. Own views. Poet, reader for @pocketsmag. Mastermind semi-finalist. He, him. Trans rights are human rights. #beforeallelsebekind
Christchurch City, New Zealand
Joined April 2010
People's humanity is so much more important than their political affiliation, and no, they don't necessarily go hand in hand
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Right, we’ve had our big wobble for the season now, and we’re still 4 points clear Regroup, get behind the boys and get it over the line
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Y’all are embarrassing.
Statistically speaking, you are more likely to die at the hands of law enforcement officers than undocumented immigrants. And it’s not particularly close.
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The sooner we accept that Jesus is more of a mascot than a savior to many, the clearer this becomes. Christians are out here cheering for the crucifiers while claiming the name of the crucified because mascots make you feel good and require nothing but making noise.
Claiming to follow Jesus who was unjustly accused, arrested, and executed by the state, all with religious justification, and then passionately supporting the state without question as it aggressively goes after people has to be one of the most blatant contradictions in history.
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As insane as this sounds, it’s true: Pam Bondi sent Minnesota officials a letter today saying ICE would leave the state if Minnesota turns over its voter files to the Trump Administration. They’re openly using state violence as a bargaining chip to seize election infrastructure.
Pam Bondi just sent a letter to Minnesota officials saying ICE will leave if the state turns over its voter database to Trump. Guess what? This has never been about safety or immigration. It’s a pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states.
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When I wrote these words, I had the individual soul in mind. But it feels like the soul of our country is suffocating. And I think this dynamic is still part of the explanation. Lord help us.
Want to know something DO know? I know a malignant narcissist when I see one. And I know the grave danger *to your own soul* when you convince yourself to ignore, justify, then celebrate one. It’s catastrophic. You suffocate your own soul.
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BREAKING: A new UN report finds that Israel’s assault on Gaza - with the destruction of health care, education, infrastructure, even the banking system - has erased 69 years of human development, marking the worst economic collapse ever recorded. This is not war: it is genocide.
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I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening. The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.
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Today, we have all seen the horrific killing of Alex Pretti, a VA nurse, by a group of heavily armed and masked men, resembling a paramilitary force. I served in the army for 21 years. Watching that video, I saw untrained, reckless agents acting aggressively and with a posture
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I helped to establish DHS in 2002 and 2003 and later had the homeland security portfolio as a White House Counsel and served as General Counsel of the Department. I am enraged and embarrassed by DHS’s lawlessness, fascism, and cruelty. Impeach and remove Trump—now.
The deadly shooting in Minneapolis today was a straight-up execution of a protester by Trump's federal brownshirts. The thugs wrestled him to the ground. They pistol-whipped him, then shot him multiple times. They murdered him. The videos don't lie. A man is dead, killed
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Strong on the silence of Winston Peters - (also could have included Judith Collins) from former defence and foreign minister and ex High Commissioner to London Phil Goff:
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Okay so, 1) an American citizen exercises his First Amendment right to peaceably assemble and his Second Amendment right to bear arms, out of apparent concern that a tyrannical federal government is violating basic protections afforded under the Constitution 2) after coming to
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The evil done by this administration—from its lawless rampage in Minnesota, to deporting persecuted people back to totalitarian states, to taking food and medicine from starving children, often while blaspheming the name of Christ—is staggering. May justice roll like a river.
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Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. Mark Twain
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Too obvious a point even to make, perhaps. But there was no “unrest” in Minneapolis before ICE and CBP showed up. ICE and CBP are the cause of the chaos…and the killings. Get them out of there.
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If there was ever a moment for libertarians and conservatives to step up and join the rest of us, we’re in it. Americans have to unite and stop this descent from a freedom-loving nation into the kind of place where masked, militarized government agents are sent to politically
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The ultimate insult for the ultimate sacrifice - in today’s HeraldOnSunday
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The is just flat, base blasphemy. Calling evil good. Violence peace. Anti-Christ. God have mercy on us for we shall surely have His judgement.
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Alex Pretti spent his life caring for others as a VA nurse and today he gave his life protecting a fellow protestor who was being violently assaulted by ICE. He lived helping people in need and died helping people in need. I hope my two sons grow up to be men who stand in the
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Horrible. This is a remarkably irresponsible statement. It is vile to cast such remarkably negative aspersions on a dead man in the absence of evidence. Lawful concealed carry (police have said he had a carry permit) is not evidence of a desire to commit mass murder.
.@Sec_Noem: "This looks like a situation where an individual arrived at the scene to inflict maximum damage on individuals and to kill law enforcement... This tragedy did not have to happen."
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Kill and slander. We saw it with Renee Good. We're seeing it now. It's vile. Absolutely vile.
As is becoming the norm with these DHS statements, they bear zero resemblance to the facts plainly visible on video. The idea that the victim "wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement"--based on the simple fact he was packing--doesn't even pass the laugh test.
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