Doug Ropa

#writer #poet #copyeditor | retired marketing guy higher ed | 💙 free speech | civil rights advocate

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@Hot_Pepper76 Great band! Love albums Eat a Peach and Live at Fillmore East

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@JoyceCarolOates Be sure you don't offend this bot and his 8 followers

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@RonFilipkowski @Mary88Rz He probably doesn't even want to be upstaged by Don Jr's big day.

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@JonahDispatch Maybe his internal dialogue is something like; I'm old, I need this source of income, and why ruffle any feathers ...

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@stephenRB4 One of my all-time favorites was working with an Iowa farm guy in the office who said, "Son of a biscuit!"

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@RobSandIA These healthcare center closures are devastating for rural communities. Improving access to physicians and care is (or should be) definitely on the ballot this year.

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

Parrot is telling his dog friend the story of the day.. 😅

Sound on

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Oh, thank goodness.
https://t.co/IVwiqSr7Ua

[Dominic Pino @DominicJPino]

Imagining explaining to the Founding Fathers that the president imposed tariffs without an act of Congress and then removed them at the request of the King of England

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@MerriamWebster initiative

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Doing all that work for a ball to fetch? Try servile.

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

Border Collies have to be the most intelligent dogs.

[Human☮🇺🇸🇺🇦🇺🇸🌊 @4HumanUnity]

This is a pretty dishonest framing of what’s actually happening. There is no ‘Democrat DHS shutdown.’ This is a funding standoff over how immigration enforcement is handled, not whether DHS should exist.

Democrats have already supported funding most of DHS, TSA, Coast Guard, FEMA, Secret Service, to keep the department running. Republicans rejected that.

And let’s be clear: asking for guardrails after agents shot and killed two Americans isn’t ‘open borders.’ It’s basic oversight. Democrats aren’t trying to eliminate DHS, they’re trying to put conditions on how enforcement works. That’s not the same thing, no matter how many times you repeat this lie.

Also, the Senate already passed a bipartisan bill that would have reopened most of DHS and paid workers. House Republicans refused to take it up. So claiming Republicans are the ones ‘fully reopening’ the department while Democrats are blocking it is backwards. Senate Republicans agreed with Democrats.

What you’re calling ‘defunding’ is actually a disagreement over policy and accountability. Calling it ‘open borders’ and ‘protecting criminals’ is a lie. Stop lying to the American people.

[Terrible Maps @TerribleMaps]

The spacecraft will travel forwards at high speed before eventually coming back again

Initial ascent is followed by continued ascent until ascent is no longer required

The trajectory has been optimised to go around the moon instead of into it

Interestingly, gravity will be used and also avoided

Landing has currently been scheduled for the end of the mission

NOTE: Astronauts will remain inside the spacecraft throughout

[Doug Ropa @Doug_Ropa]

Look at the bright side! Pre-streaming television decades ago forced everyone to listen to/watch a hourslong bloviating #stateoftheunion speech on every network TV station, and the media rehashing all the talking points. Or we could find something else to do. #writingcommunity

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@Super70sSports Same. I'm always looking for high rollers to impress with my cursive capital Qs and Zs in everyday letter correspondence

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@BobGolen You just put that joke on a pedestal

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@BobGolen I have such respect for the devoted librarian or archivist who scanned this newspaper clip.

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@BobGolen I think the jury's still out about tuna. (!)

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@AlTheBoss03 Kerry Wood, Cubs pitcher. Did amazing stuff many years ago and messed up his arm.

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No touchdowns yet 😑? boring stuff. #SuperBowl2026