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Heidi Reinberg

@heidireinberg.bsky.social

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Ex-Tex. Documentary producer (HBO/PBS/HGTV/LOGO). Brooklyn ride or die. Make it my business not to spread misinfo when I can help it. Been told I am "exuberant." Also "resilient," but that's a real f'in challenge these days. Do not answer DMs.

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Heidi Reinberg @heidireinberg.bsky.social · 28m

In answer to your question, yes.

Heidi Reinberg @heidireinberg.bsky.social · 34m

Only smart thing they've ever said.

Heidi Reinberg @heidireinberg.bsky.social · 36m

They're also going to change the country's name to "The United States of Trump."

onion person @junlper.beer · 49m

they’re going to start saying tylenol makes you grow extra fingers

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 16h

Trump launched the TrumpRX website today.

It has a photo of Trump and an AI-generated family with too many fingers and mangled toes.

Heidi Reinberg @heidireinberg.bsky.social · 2h

. . . except that's not what he said. He said he was in a room with portraits of all winners on the walls, and all those winners were people of courage and integrity. The inference is certainly there, but he didn't outright say what this meme purports he said.

Heidi Reinberg @heidireinberg.bsky.social · 2h

God bless us, every one.

Why does he want a war on Christmas?

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 18h

NEWS: Trump just announced the U.S. will impose a 100% tariff on all Chinese goods starting November 1

Heidi Reinberg @heidireinberg.bsky.social · 2h

If this is true . . . just no words.

THIS is the insane toddler that has the nuclear codes.

Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 17h

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@pixelatedboat
Wow, this extract from Wolff's book is a shocking insight into Trump's mind:

On his first night in the White House, President Trump complained that the TV in his bedroom was broken, because it didn't have "the gorilla channel.” Trump seemed to be under the
impression that a TV channel existed that screened nothing but
gorilla-based content, 24 hours a day.
To appease Trump, White House staff compiled a number of gorilla documentaries into a makeshift gorilla channel, broadcast into Trump's bedroom from a hastily-constructed transmission tower on the South Lawn. However, Trump was unhappy with the channel they had created, moaning that it was "boring"
because "the gorillas aren't fighting".
Staff edited out all the parts of the documentaries where gorillas weren't hitting each other, and at last the president was satisfied. "On some days he'll watch the gorilla channel for 17 hours straight," an insider told me. "He kneels in front of the TV, with his face about four inches from the screen, and says encouraging things to the gorillas, like 'the way you hit that other gorilla was good'. I think he thinks the gorillas can hear him."
1/4/18, 9:07 PM

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14h

“.. Inside the White House, top advisers joke that they are ruling Congress with an “iron fist,” according to people who have heard the comments. Steve Bannon, the influential Trump ally, likened Congress to the Duma, the Russian assembly that is largely ceremonial.”

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Heidi Reinberg @heidireinberg.bsky.social · 2h

Add his dementia to that, and it's a complete double whammy.

Heidi Reinberg @heidireinberg.bsky.social · 2h

His narcissism is so persistent that it blinds him to any other way of viewing his situation or the world. He literally cannot stop himself from acting out.

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Heidi Reinberg @heidireinberg.bsky.social · 3h

Therein lies the rub:

Many in positions of power these days don't want to be leaders; they want to be Bosses.

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Heidi Reinberg @heidireinberg.bsky.social · 3h

I don't see how the GOP thinks this is a good look for them, regardless of one's politics.

I also don't see how they think it makes any sense at all, since they could have stayed shut down without firing people.

More brazen & craven to appease the Boss.

Heidi Reinberg @heidireinberg.bsky.social · 17h

400, 600, 1,000% . . . Do I hear 2,000%?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Trump: "Drug prices are going to be going down 100%, 400%, 600%, 1,000% in some cases."

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Heidi Reinberg @heidireinberg.bsky.social · 17h

I gotta say that's better and more realistic that watching this slob of a president stand up and say, "Well, everything is okay."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Trump: "We're heading to Chicago, because we want to save Chicago. Do you know they had over 4,000 people killed in Chicago over a short-- 4,000 people. And I have to watch this slob of a governor stand up and say, 'Well, everything is okay.'"

Heidi Reinberg @heidireinberg.bsky.social · 17h

Boy, he looks bad.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Trump: "I saw Israel dancing in the streets. But they were dancing in Qatar and Saudi Arabia and UAE and many many countries. I saw Egypt, they were dancing."

Heidi Reinberg @heidireinberg.bsky.social · 18h

My answer to your question is: Because it's not what we all want anymore.

(And thanks for sharing it, so much. Have been sending it to so many people, both in and out of documentary making).

Heidi Reinberg @heidireinberg.bsky.social · 19h

Read it for the below, but as a documentary producer, I gotta say it is one of the fascinating and beautiful pieces of writing I've ever read about making documentaries.

Desert Princess @desertprincess.bsky.social · 21h

Read the article than read the quote I posted below. This is what American goals were that they were fighting for.
What happened? Why is the country so divided today when this is what we still want?
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Heidi Reinberg @heidireinberg.bsky.social · 19h

It's de*li*cious, isn't it?

Heidi Reinberg @heidireinberg.bsky.social · 19h

Having moved from the city to the country this past year, I can say definitively that the world would be much better if men just went out and split wood when they feelin' their masculine side.

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Heidi Reinberg @heidireinberg.bsky.social · 21h

If your last name is T****:

YOU get a security clearance! And YOU get a security clearance! And YOU get a security clearance!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Melania Trump: "President Putin and I have had an open channel of communication."

Heidi Reinberg @heidireinberg.bsky.social · 21h

Those "calls" were coming from inside the house, Fox!!

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

RIGGED AND STOLEN!!!

Heidi Reinberg @heidireinberg.bsky.social · 21h

Who's paying for it?!

Heidi Reinberg @heidireinberg.bsky.social · 21h

With all those runners from different countries? The immigrants who run?

Whoo-boy.

Heidi Reinberg @heidireinberg.bsky.social · 22h

Nor does someone who goes swimming in a creek with his grandchild in a creek awash in sewage.

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 23h

I am writing this because it has swiftly become crystal clear to me that many people have no idea what is happening or how this works. Here is a thread for non-academics to put into context what just happened to Dr. Mark Bray, a fellow historian.

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