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Charlie Reece ✅ @charliereece.com · 1d

omg we love that place SO MUCH, we try to get there whenever we're back in the area ♥️

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 2d

It’s just work, hard work, for the rest of our lives and our kids’ and grandkids’ lives, and so on and so on. Winning every election isn’t possible but neither is designing (let alone implementing) a set of rules where everything stays fine even if we lose.

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 2d

“Win every election” is not a viable strategy for preventing authoritarianism

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Marine Tondelier @marinetondelier.fr · 2d

L'arrogance et l'absence totale de remise en question d'Emmanuel Macron sont des cas d'école à enseigner sur la toxicité de la Vème République.

Son refus d'admettre sa défaite est le seul responsable du chaos actuel, mais il prétend incarner la stabilité.

Hallucinant.

Depuis l’Égypte, Macron nie toute responsabilité dans la crise politique et dénonce ceux qui font des « paris sur l’instabilité »

À son arrivée à Charm el-Cheikh en Egypte, le chef de l’État s’est dédouané de toute responsabilité et a rejeté la faute sur les oppositions et certains partenaires du « socle commun ».

www.huffingtonpost.fr

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 2d

Police officers who publicly declare that they’ll quit if a mayoral candidate they dislike wins the election are (1) usually bluffing—sure buddy, toss away that paycheck and pension—and (2) exactly the sort of cops cities would be better off without, ones who don’t see themselves as public servants.

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Charlie Reece ✅ @charliereece.com · 3d

Another couple of losses… 🤞🏻🙏🏻

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Charlie Reece ✅ @charliereece.com · 3d

But only if Economy Comfort isn’t sold out!!! ✊🏻

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Charlie Reece ✅ @charliereece.com · 3d

Flights are pricey tho! 😫

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Charlie Reece ✅ @charliereece.com · 3d

This.

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3d

No institutional design can overcome a lawbreaking president, a Congress defending lawbreaking and forfeiting its own power, a Supreme Court that pretends legal text doesn’t count to facilitate lawbreaking, and a citizenry that votes for all that.
Need at least one that wants rule of law. Maybe two.

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Charlie Reece ✅ @charliereece.com · 3d

Definitely a fave for me too!

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Julien Hoez @julienhoez.eu · 4d

Theoretically, with the centre left / left in agreement, there's a majority to do some things

More so than Centrists + Les Republicains

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Joe Vilas @jhv.bsky.social · 4d

www.cbsnews.com/news/oklahom...

An Oklahoma girls basketball team returned its championship after discovering it actually lost the title game

Brendan King, head coach of the Academy of Classical Christian Studies high school girls basketball team, recounted every basket of the title game and discovered his team had actually lost.

www.cbsnews.com

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Charlie Reece ✅ @charliereece.com · 5d

Yes of course! But would that stop the budget from becoming law?

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Charlie Reece ✅ @charliereece.com · 5d

Vive la France!!! 🍷🥂🍾

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Charlie Reece ✅ @charliereece.com · 5d

Theoretically couldn't a leftwing PM pass a leftist budget using Article 49.3?

Charlie Reece ✅ @charliereece.com · 5d

France is overflowing with absolute bangers for 6€ and under!!

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Charlie Reece ✅ @charliereece.com · 5d

Such a dogwhistle! 😡

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Laura Helms Reece @laurareece.bsky.social · 5d

It was an adjustment to learn baked goods don’t last that long. But baked goods without shelf life taste better.

un Américain perdu à Paris @paris75009.bsky.social · 5d

Croissant ingredients: France vs USA

France: flour, water, eggs, yeast, salt, granulated sugar, honey, butter

USA: picture from Costco

Food should not require a chemical engineering degree or a laboratory to make

#france #usa #food #healthy #croissant #preservatives #processedfood #bakery

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un Américain perdu à Paris @paris75009.bsky.social · 5d

Croissant ingredients: France vs USA

France: flour, water, eggs, yeast, salt, granulated sugar, honey, butter

USA: picture from Costco

Food should not require a chemical engineering degree or a laboratory to make

#france #usa #food #healthy #croissant #preservatives #processedfood #bakery

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Charlie Reece ✅ @charliereece.com · 5d

Hamilton voice: THAT’S TRUE

Iruka @iruka88.bsky.social · 5d

Major cities should do a Paris.

Less cars, more peds, more bikes, more green.

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Charlie Reece ✅ @charliereece.com · 6d

100%

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Charlie Reece ✅ @charliereece.com · 6d

There is no truth to the rumor that I will soon be named the next Prime Minister of France.

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Charlie Reece ✅ @charliereece.com · 6d

Han Solo voice: IT'S ALL TRUE

Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 6d

It takes 67 Senators to impeach a SCOTUS justice but only 51 with sufficient will to add 6 more justices

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Charlie Reece ✅ @charliereece.com · 6d

And especially doing #1 and #2 together!!! 🤬

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Charlie Reece ✅ @charliereece.com · 6d

This is the best review of Waiting for Godot I’ve ever read. Maybe the best ever written.

So good!!

Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 7d

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

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Soren Larsen (SEGL) @sorenlarsen.bsky.social · 6d

Annual COVID Vaccines Protect People against Severe Disease, Even with Prior Immunity

"The new research also “calls into question the idea that younger individuals and those without risk factors don’t need the vaccine,” Viswanathan says."

Annual COVID Vaccines Save Lives, New Study Shows

A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

www.scientificamerican.com

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