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Mark Chadbourn
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Empowering people with news and information about a dangerous and confusing world. Everything is Connected. Journalist, novelist, screenwriter. Always looking for stories. LDN, NYC, LA https://substack.com/@chadbourn Buy Me A Coffee: coff.ee/chadbourn
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · Dec 21
The theme for this feed is Everything is Connected.

The posts cover news and politics from all over the world, things that I think it’s worth paying attention to but which may not always get priority in other media.

Even if it happens 5000 miles away it can still roll up on your doorstep.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 7h
It sounds likely. Trump is only interested in $$$ so it’s who can buy him. Maduro stole the election and he’s no one’s role model and the opposition is conservative so they can speak Trump’s language.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 7h
The White House budget office says it could fire more than 4,000 federal employees during shutdown, AP reports.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 8h
Thank you.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 9h
“You can also say it was given out for 2024, I was running for office in 2024.

“I am happy that I saved millions of lives.”
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 9h
The world’s smallest man:

“The person who actually got the Nobel Prize called me and said that she was accepting it in honor of me.

“I did not say then "give it to me." I think she might have, she was very nice.

“I have been helping her along the way, they need a lot of help.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 11h
I can’t. No one can.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 11h
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 11h
Not many would lose sleep;
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 11h
Yes, a bad one.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 11h
The world’s first cosplay government.
Post Secretary of War Pete Hegseth 2 • @SecWar l O.. At the President's direction, the Department of War is establishing a new counter-narcotics Joint Task Force in the @SOUTHCOM area of responsibility to crush the cartels, stop the poison, and keep America safe. The message is clear: if you traffic drugs toward our shores, we will stop you cold.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 11h
7.8 magnitude earthquake hits Drake Passage.
Map showing location at tip of South America
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 12h
Revolving door spinning faster, can’t get off…
Macron reappoints Lecornu as French PM after days of turmoil
www.bbc.com
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 12h
Thank you, Clint.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 12h
Not here sadly. I like Sam Smith’s.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 12h
The US military stops getting paid from next week.
White House has, for now, ruled out legislative fix for military pay
Over 1 million military paychecks could go unfulfilled on Oct. 15.
www.politico.com
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 12h
I think they were trying to find someone who was Not Trump but also wouldn’t send him into a rage of retribution.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 12h
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 13h
Trump threatens China with tariffs. Stock market falls. Buy low. Sell high when we get the TACO klaxon.

The US is just one big roulette wheel right now.
Stock Market Today: Trump Threatens Higher China Tariffs; Nasdaq Falls More Than 2% — The Wall Street Journal
Tech stocks tumble as trade tensions rise
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 14h
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 14h
There’s a desk free.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 14h
It usually is. (But not the last.)
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 14h
Pay strict attention to this when considering forthcoming US elections.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14h
Why has Dominion Voting Systems been settling defamation lawsuits with Trump allies who falsely claimed the company stole the 2020 election?

Because Dominion has just been bought by a company run by a former GOP election official.

Be warned.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 14h
Venezuela has called on the UN Security Council for an emergency session over the US military buildup near its waters.

Caracas warned of a possible armed attack “in a very short time.”
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 14h
Nice.
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