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@jcsimonds.bsky.social

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Author - The Heirs to Camelot series (paranormal romance), shopping a sci-fi humor book: My Ridiculous Life in Space. Corporate trainer. Cross-stitcher. Liberal old hippie chick who bites. "Feral and not trained."

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jcsimonds @jcsimonds.bsky.social · 24d

I'm posting chapter-by-chapter of THE MIDSUMMER WIFE, my #KingArthur #Romantasy, on Substack.

FIRST CHAPTER! Ava Cerdwen arrives at the #Merlin heir's home to start the descendants on the path to healing recently nuked London. She struggles with her anxieties.

tinyurl.com/55ehxvn3

#BookSky

Caucasian woman's hand with a Lavendar energy ball. Title: The Midsummer Wife

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jcsimonds @jcsimonds.bsky.social · 45m

Please tell me who will watch these hearings? There will be feces flinging by the MAGA wing - shown on Fox, etc - and a few decent moments from Dems - shown on MS Now and maybe PBS.

Who watches those channels?

MAGAs win that battle, unfortunately

Andrew Weissmann @weissmann.substack.com · 1h

Let people see Jack Smith for who he is and not the characters depicted by Trump and others.

Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 4h

BREAKING: Jack Smith is insisting upon a public hearing if Congress wants to talk to him

Good. Why does the GOP want backroom secret questioning? What are Republicans afraid of?

Let the American people see & hear for themselves!

jcsimonds @jcsimonds.bsky.social · 50m

UNBELIEVABLE

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 8h

EPA Commissioner Lee Zeldin announces his agency is launching a major investigation into the right-wing conspiracies about chemtrails and weather manipulation to get to the bottom of it.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 3h

ABC News released before-and-after satellite images of the White House demolition.

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jcsimonds @jcsimonds.bsky.social · 2h

OMG why is loud ignorance a thing these days. People like this used to be ashamed of being morons.

People had a dozen kids because few lived to adulthood. And the grave markers are heartbreaking

Victorian infant's headstone: a stone cradle with an effigy of a child sleeping

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Sabrina McDaniel 🌊💙 @sabrina-mcdaniel.bsky.social · 2h

East Wing Demolition

Trump finished what Bin Laden couldn't do.
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jcsimonds @jcsimonds.bsky.social · 5h

This is perfect except for one fact: Congress is not going to be back in session. Like, ever. There are too many things that could stop the lawless thug in office, so they have basically closed down that arm of the government (bricking the Senate).

That is enshittification of democracy

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 5h

It begins:

In 2022, the tech critic and privacy advocate Cory Doctorow coined the term enshittification to describe what's happened on the Internet to a lot of the most widely used platforms: Google, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, Spotify. He writes: "First, platforms are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die." That could serve as a model for Trumpism too. Trump promised vengeance and cookies to his base, promised he could deliver whatever the hell Make America Great Again meant, even while he failed to deliver much besides corruption and destruction.
He got a lot of business leaders on board with the usual Republican incentives of tax cuts and deregulation. Now the USA is a platform he's downgrading as he, yes, per Doctorow claws back all the value for himself – quite literally with his utterly corrupt side deals, including the self-dealing with Qatar, the Trump family cryptocurrency scams, the extortion of the news media and law firms for tens of millions of dollars, and most recently and outrageously, his demand that the US Justice Department hand over over $230 million to him for compensation for prosecuting him for crimes we know were real and he continues to lie about.
Final-stage enshittification because the most powerful and wealthy country in the world is in crucial respects being run for the benefit of one man. That includes the fact that the obsequious Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, has largely shut down the business of Congress for months in order to protect Trump from whatever's in the Epstein files...

jcsimonds @jcsimonds.bsky.social · 6h

So many things wrong here - not least of which, that person with the gun is NOT a regular law enforcement agent. That's all shit off Amazon he's wearing

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8h

This photo.

@sfstandard.com #SFO
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8h

This photo.

@sfstandard.com #SFO
sfstandard.com/2025/10/23/b...

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jcsimonds @jcsimonds.bsky.social · 10h

I *hate* the whole ugly baronial ballroom thing.

But in point of fact, whenever presidents in the last 40 years needed to have larger functions, they had to erect a big tent in the back of the White House. Tents are hardly secure structures. Or particularly dignified for State functions.

Big tent at the White House with Barack & Michelle Obama in formal attire greeting guests as they arrive

jcsimonds @jcsimonds.bsky.social · 11h

Trump is responsible for nearly half of this.

But go ahead, tell me the GOP are the fiscally responsible party

John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 12h

That’s a trillion dollar increase in two months.

jcsimonds @jcsimonds.bsky.social · 1d

I'll allow it to stand for the duration of the Truth & Reconciliation trials that will held there,

THEN tear that fucker down.

With Fireworks for a day

Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 1d

I used to be a one-issue 2028 voter, which issue being you will prosecute and jail all of them; I add an issue: If that ballroom carbuncle is completed, it must be razed.

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 1d

The last good president. He also didn’t demolish the White House nor democracy.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 1d

Whoever is the next Democratic presidential candidate should vow to tear down the hideous ballroom and rebuild the Rose Garden, I bet there are a lot of votes in that

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Dr Florence AKA Toto @marietoto.bsky.social · 1d

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jcsimonds @jcsimonds.bsky.social · 1d

One of the reasons they don't want pictures taken from the Treasury Department is that the entrance to an emergency bunker is under there

That's the reason FDR had the East Wing built in 1941 - to hide the entrance.

So, yeah, anything can be done now

The White House East Wing demolition with ginormous American Flag in background

jcsimonds @jcsimonds.bsky.social · 1d

No more Forever Wars, huh?

Christopher Miller @christopherjm.ft.com · 1d

'As of Monday, roughly 8 per cent of US warships deployed globally were in the Caribbean, according to a fleet tracker. Until destroyers arrived to start the build-up in August, the only US ship spotted in the region by the tracker this year was a hospital ship.'
www.ft.com/content/dc10...

The US forces threatening Venezuela

Donald Trump has made no secret of his desire to see Nicolás Maduro ousted. Here are the forces he has sent to the region

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 1d

This might be the most unhinged Fed Reg notice I've ever seen.

Proclamation of National Energy Dominance Month, 2025

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jcsimonds @jcsimonds.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly.

The NYC crowd stretched from 14th Street to 47th. And somehow that was only 200,000?

Estimating crowd size used to be difficult. But this is where AI could actually help. Someone turn an AI bot loose on all those crowd pictures.

Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 1d

Raise your hand if you instinctively knew the MSM was going to drastically undercount the No Kings turnout.

It was 12 million. Not seven.

jcsimonds @jcsimonds.bsky.social · 1d

#WednesdayReUp
#KingArthur
#Romantasy
#ParanormalRomance
#ReincarntationRomance
#UrbanFantasy

jcsimonds @jcsimonds.bsky.social · 3d

I'm posting chapter-by-chapter of THE MIDSUMMER WIFE, my #KingArthur #Romantasy, on Substack.

Chapter 7. A woman from the cult of Hela attacks Ava & Ron. Later, they return to his house & make love. Ava realizes there is something more to her attraction to Ron.

tinyurl.com/yc2vrnva

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The Midsummer Wife - Chapter 7

This is Chapter 7 of The Midsummer Wife, Book 1 of the Heirs to Camelot, a King Arthur Romantasy/paranormal Romance/reincarnation Romance/Urban Fantasy.

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jcsimonds @jcsimonds.bsky.social · 1d

It's not a controversy to call out this naked corruption.

What the Orange Tantrum wants is illegal.

It's insane.

That isn't controversial.

Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 1d

THE DAY AHEAD: News that Trump is demanding $230 million from his own Justice Dept unleashes a wave of new controversy

And key court rulings await for Trump’s critics ===>

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DAY AHEAD: News that Trump seeks $230 million from Justice Dept unleashes wave of new controversy

YouTube video by Scott MacFarlane CBS

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jcsimonds @jcsimonds.bsky.social · 1d

When Rand Paul is talking sense, you know all the clocks are broken.

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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Jim Musil Painter @jimmusilpainter.bsky.social · 2d

My new painting in progress

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jcsimonds @jcsimonds.bsky.social · 2d

MUD?

Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 2d

Remember that AI cartoon Turnip posted of his imaginary self dumping 💩 on #NoKings demonstrators? The main character appears to be Harry Sisson, influencer supporting democracy. More here:

economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/interna...

Who is Harry Sisson, the 23 year old Democratic influencer Trump dumped mud over in his AI fighter jet video?

Former President Donald Trump released an AI video showing him piloting a fighter jet and targeting protesters. The video comes as nationwide "No Kings" demonstrations occur. Harry Sisson, a popular T...

economictimes.indiatimes.com

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Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D. @drharmony.net · 2d

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jcsimonds @jcsimonds.bsky.social · 2d

Just completely insane.

And they will probably give it to him.

That's OUR money, BTW

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d

Breaking NYT:

Trump is demanding the Justice Department pay him about $230 million in compensation for the federal investigations into him.

Senior department officials who were Trump's defense lawyers are now in jobs that typically must approve any such payout. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

Trump Said to Demand Justice Dept. Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases