Morag Joss πŸ‘‰πŸ»πŸ‘‰πŸ»πŸ‘‰πŸ» @moragjoss.bsky.social (@moragjoss) profile picture

Writer, mainly novels, sometimes libretti. Apprentice grandmother

Joined February 2010
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Morag Joss πŸ‘‰πŸ»πŸ‘‰πŸ»πŸ‘‰πŸ» @moragjoss.bsky.social retweeted
I've seen a few articles about this regarding Reform and the RNLI, here's an account from a Lib Dem councillor who was in the chamber, all Reform care about is demonizing imigrants markellis786819.substack.com…
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Morag Joss πŸ‘‰πŸ»πŸ‘‰πŸ»πŸ‘‰πŸ» @moragjoss.bsky.social retweeted
When his rich father lost his job, teenage psychopath Stephen Miller had to go to public high school in Santa Monica with Black & brown people. This made him so angry he consumed racist literature & devoted himself to impersonating Joseph Goebbels. Racism is his religion and now he has a demented, raging, dead-end president to manipulate. He will traumatize, deport & kill as many minorities as he can over the next two years. He feels he is destined for the role of making America a white nation. Congress must wage full scale war on this particular psychopath. He cannot have a moment’s rest. He must be put on defense with every tool available. Everything the regime must be blocked. No money should flow. There are no limits to his sadism and he must not be provided with oxygen.
This speech by @StephenM is so deeply evil it’s hard to fathom it coming from a White House employee. This is pure Nazism. The in-group is β€œmorally superior,” β€œordered,” β€œbeautiful” & β€œnormal.” The out-group is β€œabnormal,” β€œscarred” & β€œdeformed.” The in-group goes to church on Sunday (Miller is Jewish). The out-group is β€œviolent,” β€œjunkies,” & β€œpredators” This is precisely how the Nazis spoke about their political opposition. It is a full-throated commitment to eugenics as policy. In reality, you just need to watch Miller to see everything he claims to be afraid of: hatred, jealousy & violence. He is the most β€œdeformed” man in America. Finally, when Miller brings up the boogeyman of β€œAntifa,” it’s important to remember the original β€œAntifa” were antifascists in Weimar Germany who were the first people sent to Dachau. There is no left vs. right anymore. There is life vs. death. β€” β€œThe leftist is fundamentally motivated by envy, by hatred, by jealousy. The leftist looks at what is beautiful and what is good and what is natural and is filled with envy and hatred. The leftist looks at a perfect family with the perfect life and a perfect job and perfect kids who goes to church every Sunday and is filled with the feeling of inadequacy and jealousy and they covet and they turn those emotions ultimately into a desire to subjugate, to oppress and to inflict pain and suffering. It's not a coincidence that when you look at these violent antifa demonstrations and you see any photograph of those who were assembled to be blunt, not one of the people that is demonstrating looks like a normal person. Not one looks normal. They're all deformed in some way in their appearance, in their dress, in their mannerism. Why is that? Why? You look at two photographs and you see a normal American street, you see an antifa protest. Why did the people that are violently demonstrating? Why is there not one normal looking person among them? Every one of them through the course of their life and their decisions has scarred their body and their appearance in many different ways. The point in which their outer appearance becomes a manifestation of their inner hatred. Trust your instincts to all people and cross all civilizations. You know what normal is. You know what beautiful is. You know what good is. You know that families are right. You know that children are precious and beautiful and must be protected. You know that the criminal and the junky and the predator is a threat to normal, healthy living. This is so much deeper than issues about taxation and regulation, although they're incredibly important. It's about normal, healthy, ordered living. And the violent leftists for these deep-seated reasons, going back to the earliest wisdom taught to us in the Bible about coveting. And I'm not talking about rich versus poor. I'm talking about a much deeper kind of coveting. Coveting people who are morally superior. Who are superior in the simple, truthful way they live their lives. People that they look at who are happy and ordered and peaceful and contributing to the communities. That burns an ember in them and that's how you end up with the horrors we've seen throughout history. Where good families are dragged that into the street and executed.”
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Morag Joss πŸ‘‰πŸ»πŸ‘‰πŸ»πŸ‘‰πŸ» @moragjoss.bsky.social retweeted
I’m sorry but he’s legit hilarious
Hey Leo! Don't forget to tag me @LeoDiCaprio
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Morag Joss πŸ‘‰πŸ»πŸ‘‰πŸ»πŸ‘‰πŸ» @moragjoss.bsky.social retweeted
Turn up the volume
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Morag Joss πŸ‘‰πŸ»πŸ‘‰πŸ»πŸ‘‰πŸ» @moragjoss.bsky.social retweeted
You can probably take Trump's name off the Kennedy Center now. And rename the Gulf of Mexico. Then take all that gold shit out of the Oval Office and remove the insulting gallery of former Presidents, most of whom polled better than the Orange. The toddler nursery is closed.
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Morag Joss πŸ‘‰πŸ»πŸ‘‰πŸ»πŸ‘‰πŸ» @moragjoss.bsky.social retweeted
I have been holding my tongue about something that happened during the Ohio gubernatorial race. I refused to speak while the election was underway because I did not want my words mistaken for an attempt to influence anyone’s vote. But now that the election is over, I have something to say. For nearly twenty years, my ministry has taken me among the homeless, the abused, the exploited, and the forgotten. I have sat with victims of sexual violence and witnessed the lifelong wounds of childhood trauma. What Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign did to Amy Acton was among the most morally repulsive things I have witnessed in American politics. They took a woman whose stepfather was indicted for raping her when she was twelve years old and featured her mother, from whom she had been estranged for nearly fifty years, in a political advertisement attacking her credibility. The advertisement challenged Acton’s account of her childhood without mentioning the sexual abuse allegations or the circumstances of that estrangement. When people expressed their horror, the campaign defended it. Imagine examining another person’s childhood suffering and fractured family relationships, then deciding those wounds might help win an election. Anyone who has worked with survivors of childhood sexual abuse understands the painful realities of denial, betrayal, shame, and estrangement. A child growing into a successful adult does not erase what happened. Nor does a parent’s denial make that suffering disappear. I find it equally disturbing that an elderly mother, whom Acton herself described as unwell, was brought into this spectacle. Whatever her own struggles or responsibility for the past, exploiting that fractured relationship was grotesque. To everyone who defended this, consider the message you sent to survivors. To the young woman whose family refuses to believe her. To the man who has carried the shame of childhood abuse for forty years. To the frightened child who has yet to tell anyone. What did you teach them about the value of their suffering? I am a priest. I believe in repentance, forgiveness, and redemption. But none of those things requires me to pretend that deliberate cruelty is anything less than a grave moral failure. Your political allegiance does not absolve you of moral responsibility. You do not get to set aside your conscience during an election and retrieve it afterward. If your loyalty requires you to defend the exploitation of a childhood sexual abuse survivor, your loyalty has become an idol. And if your conscience cannot recognize the wrong here, examine what political tribalism has done to it. This is not about Republicans or Democrats. We have a choice as a people: continue excusing cruelty from our preferred political camp, or summon the courage to condemn it wherever it appears. Amy Acton deserved better. Every survivor who watched this unfold deserved better. And God help us if we have reached the point where winning an election matters more than protecting the dignity of a wounded human being.
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Morag Joss πŸ‘‰πŸ»πŸ‘‰πŸ»πŸ‘‰πŸ» @moragjoss.bsky.social retweeted
for your breakfast pleasure
It's a new day in America
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Morag Joss πŸ‘‰πŸ»πŸ‘‰πŸ»πŸ‘‰πŸ» @moragjoss.bsky.social retweeted
wonderful. I tripped over a loose rug at Christ's College and fell right in front of Mac who without mising a beat said " gratitude one thing young man, prostration quite unnecessary"
'The Archbishop of Canterbury… accused me of demoralising the English people. Sir Harold Wilson, a more powerful authority on ethics and morals, accused me of debauching the[m].’ - Harold Macmillan recalls the introduction of premium bonds, first sold on this day 70 years ago
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Morag Joss πŸ‘‰πŸ»πŸ‘‰πŸ»πŸ‘‰πŸ» @moragjoss.bsky.social retweeted
As a nurse practitioner married to a surgeon, I am so happy this physician responded to JD Vance’s racism and hate. This is how you do it. Expose their rot.
How does the physician πŸ‘¨β€βš•οΈ have to explain this to our dipshit VP?
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Morag Joss πŸ‘‰πŸ»πŸ‘‰πŸ»πŸ‘‰πŸ» @moragjoss.bsky.social retweeted
JD Vance is like the opposite of Pete Buttigieg. Back when Pete was Mayor, a doctor recalled how Pete appeared out of nowhere and served as a translator for a family in the ER:
JD Vance whines about translators in hospitals and says, "how about if everyone just spoke English?"
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Just thinking exactly the same thing.
Also, a delight to hear @tds153 with John Mullan and @KateMaltby - two proper critics who know their stuff. Unlike some.
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RIP legend Sir Patrick Stewart - a powerful force in British theatre and an extraordinary actor x
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Morag Joss πŸ‘‰πŸ»πŸ‘‰πŸ»πŸ‘‰πŸ» @moragjoss.bsky.social retweeted
RIP legend Sir Patrick Stewart - a powerful force in British theatre and an extraordinary actor x
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Morag Joss πŸ‘‰πŸ»πŸ‘‰πŸ»πŸ‘‰πŸ» @moragjoss.bsky.social retweeted
After what seems like days and days of wet and windy weather, blue skies have returned and #BookyMcBookface is away across the Churchill Barriers to the beautiful islands of Burray and South Ronaldsay. πŸ“š
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Morag Joss πŸ‘‰πŸ»πŸ‘‰πŸ»πŸ‘‰πŸ» @moragjoss.bsky.social retweeted
I agree with everything he said
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Morag Joss πŸ‘‰πŸ»πŸ‘‰πŸ»πŸ‘‰πŸ» @moragjoss.bsky.social retweeted
If he keeps saying things like that, it will become impossible for Canadians to pay for their own drinks in any bar in the democratic world.
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Morag Joss πŸ‘‰πŸ»πŸ‘‰πŸ»πŸ‘‰πŸ» @moragjoss.bsky.social retweeted
The Trump administration is considering dropping sanctions on the Russian Direct Investment Fund, run by Kirill Dmitriev. An unbelievable betrayal of Ukraine. nytimes.com/2026/10/27/us/po… via @NYTimes
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Morag Joss πŸ‘‰πŸ»πŸ‘‰πŸ»πŸ‘‰πŸ» @moragjoss.bsky.social retweeted
β€œThe easiest thing for a political leader to do is to appeal to our bigotry and our hatred and xenophobia and prejudice, and point to people who are unlike us and say they’re the ones who are damaging our country," Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., August 5, 2016 on Larry King Now. There was a time when I completely agreed with my brother. Today, I am deeply ashamed of him. Arab and Muslim people alike have made extraordinary contributions to the world across literature, science, mathematics, medicine and countless other fields. To name a few, Omar M. Yaghi won the Wolf Prize in Chemistry in 2018 and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2025. Ahmed Zewail won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1999, and Naguib Mahfouz won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1988. A person’s race, religion, ethnicity or socioeconomic background does not determine their intellect, creativity or capacity to contribute to humanity. My thoughts are with all those hurt by my brother’s false, cruel and derogatory words. nytimes.com/2026/10/27/us/rf…
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Morag Joss πŸ‘‰πŸ»πŸ‘‰πŸ»πŸ‘‰πŸ» @moragjoss.bsky.social retweeted
Wow she is fantastic.
I believe this will be considered one of the most important videos in US history from this time.
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Morag Joss πŸ‘‰πŸ»πŸ‘‰πŸ»πŸ‘‰πŸ» @moragjoss.bsky.social retweeted
I think that this sort of statement, from a U.K. university @uniofleicester is unprecedented.
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