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@madammem.bsky.social
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US ex-pat in Denmark, professional beekeeper, mom to two amazing kids, Suzuki violin parent, and avid reader of all genres, including scientific papers related to honey and health.
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My soon-to-be teenage daughter had one of *those* mornings & claimed to HATE everyone in the world!!

I laughed & said "Me too, on many days! Want to see my hate-the-world playlist?"

She was not amused & did not want to see the playlist. =/

She got over it & apologized later.

Kids are awesome
When I visited Hong Kong many people (men & women) used umbrellas to block the sun, which is what umbrellas were originally used for.

There are now umbrella loaning companies that work with metro stations & hotels for those who forget to take an umbrella & are caught unawares by the sneaky weather.
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A couple of weeks ago, Trump struggled with a broken umbrella as he boarded Air Force One.

Let me tell you how we got to this point — and the tragic downfall of the noble umbrella. 🧵
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This Alpha House sketch where a Ronald Reagan impersonator horrifies a Tea Party audience with actual quotes from Ronald Reagan is strangely prophetic #canada youtu.be/qo4lXLj343M?...
Ronald Regan Impersonator from Alpha House
YouTube video by TheAlmightPat
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the most corrupt administration in my lifetime
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"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something
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By my admittedly rough math, that would fund the U.S. military for about an hour and eighteen minutes
Trump: "By the way, a friend of mine called us the other day and he said 'I'd like to contribute any shortfall you have because of the Democrat shutdown. I'd like to contribute any shortfall you have with the military.' Today, he sent us a check for $130 million. It's gonna go the military."
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Brought to you by the same voters who started losing faith in the government when government forces attacked the Branch Davidian complex in Waco in 1993

....sigh
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Trump is pissed about an ad that Canada recently ran in the U.S. showing Ronald Reagan talking about tariffs in 1987.

“Based on their egregious behavior, ALL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH CANADA ARE HEREBY TERMINATED.”
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Third party funds must be deposited in the U.S. Treasury and appropriated by Congress and apart from that I believe service members aren’t allowed to accept outside compensation so
Trump: "By the way, a friend of mine called us the other day and he said 'I'd like to contribute any shortfall you have because of the Democrat shutdown. I'd like to contribute any shortfall you have with the military.' Today, he sent us a check for $130 million. It's gonna go the military."
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A Bard College student was kidnapped by ICE and Bard’s administration is advocating for his release and has created a website to assist the rest of the community in joining them.

That’s what academic leaders should be doing for their students right now. www.instagram.com/p/DQKSTDJkeF...
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“Although I spent many of my formative years living in the White House, I always knew it wasn’t my house. It was my home, absolutely, but not my house. The White House belongs to the American people, and that’s why we call it the People’s House.” www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
Chelsea Clinton: Trump is wrecking the People's House | Exclusive
President Trump has authority over the White House and the right to turn the East Wing into a ballroom. But authority is not the same as stewardship.
www.usatoday.com
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Chicago, IL: Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino personally joined an ICE raid at a laundromat in the city, but the owner locked the doors and refused entry, halting the operation on site
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The dialogue is a whole other thing but the bit about "fuck you shoot me I'll die for this shit" and the reaction is the crux here, from Gandhi's time on down, no authoritarian in history ever knows how to respond to this and it's why it beats them whenever deployed
"Man goes scorched earth on ICE agents kidnapping people in his hometown."

Source:
old.reddit.com/r/PublicFrea...
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The Art of the Deal.
Breaking News: Mayor Eric Adams will endorse Andrew Cuomo for mayor of New York City to try to stop the momentum of Zohran Mamdani. nyti.ms/4nfliHv
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I think Tesla would pretty clearly make better products and sell more units of them if it could somehow divorce itself from Musk entirely.
Musk ended Tesla’s earnings call with a fiery outburst over his proposed $1 trillion pay package, blasting advisers who tried to block it and warning his future at Tesla is on the line. He suggested he may leave if the deal doesn’t pass the Nov. 6 vote.
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
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Washington Post editorial board: Right-wing idiots who also cannot spell.
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Trump says he’s making military decisions based on what random “friends of mine” tell him about crime.
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There's a *lot* going on in the three different state lawsuits challenging President Trump's federalization of National Guard troops under 10 U.S.C. § 12406.

Via "One First," my attempt to break down where things stand, how we got here, and what to expect next:

www.stevevladeck.com/p/185-the-st...
185. The State of Play in the National Guard Cases
It's hard to keep track of the whirlwind of litigation surrounding President Trump's unprecedented deployments of federalized National Guard troops. Here's a quick update on where things stand.
www.stevevladeck.com
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Not the WSJ having the only even moderately acceptable push alert here.

NYT and NBC with basic journalism fails here.
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ABC News pulled the satellite imagery of the White House comparing Sept. 26 to today.

abcnews.go.com/Politics/new...
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2025 is truly the year of "Nobody asked for this, nobody wanted this".
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An immigration agent to a protester who was filming their vehicle’s license plate: “You can record all you want. We change the plates out every day.”
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Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.
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Did this mf really just say it's common for veterans to get Nazi tattoos because, like. Certainly not in my experience. At all

What veterans are you hanging out with man I just wanna talk
“A common military tattoo”

Yeah, in the Waffen SS
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People were never applying "media literacy" to begin with, AI is just using the same tricks but faster. I guess I'll drag out this old picture.