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retired747.bsky.social @retired747.bsky.social · 5h

It's terrible. It looks like there are far more casualties on the ground than on the airplane. Horrible. I didn't know the airplane, though.

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 1d

Omg😱

European negotiators were personally targeted by their American counterparts during a brutal negotiation over green shipping rules, European Commission officials told POLITICO — a highly unusual gambit that left diplomats shaken after the meeting.

www.politico.eu/article/us-a...

US accused of threatening EU diplomats during bid to kill green shipping rules

Negotiators at shipping talks in London were told both they and their countries could be punished unless they voted with the U.S.

www.politico.eu

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12h

Over half of the corporations bankrolling Trump’s vanity ballroom are facing (or recently faced) federal investigations into wrongdoing — including violating workers’ rights or misleading consumers.

They also have a combined $279 BILLION in federal contracts.

Follow the money.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15h

Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps.

McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.

Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay.

See the problem?

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retired747.bsky.social @retired747.bsky.social · 14h

Oh, super.

retired747.bsky.social @retired747.bsky.social · 14h

It sounds like the title of the kind of movie you don't get on airplane entertainment systems, if you get my drift.

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retired747.bsky.social @retired747.bsky.social · 16h

I honestly doubt it was that deep. He doesn't strike me as the fastest jet on the apron.

retired747.bsky.social @retired747.bsky.social · 17h

My best friend calls that "cat yoga."

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retired747.bsky.social @retired747.bsky.social · 18h

Hamas symp says what?

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 1d

It's almost as if letting the ultra-rich own the entire mainstream press and also all the big social platforms had a downside.

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retired747.bsky.social @retired747.bsky.social · 18h

I'm not really attracted to humans, but young Tim Curry was always hot.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

"Speaker Johnson, it looks as though the president is currently stabbing you with a knife. Do you have any comment?"

"Well, look, this is the first I'm hearing about it. As you know, I've been really busy not doing my job, so I just don't know enough about this alleged stabbing to make a comment."

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retired747.bsky.social @retired747.bsky.social · 19h

I honestly don't see the humour.

retired747.bsky.social @retired747.bsky.social · 1d

The only reason anyone cares about what Israel does is tacit antisemitism. If Israel weren't the world's only Jewish-majority state, nobody would give a crap what happens there, including the Arab world. It'd be exactly the kind of underdeveloped backwater it was under the Ottomans.

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retired747.bsky.social @retired747.bsky.social · 1d

Prove it, because that sounds like Palestinian-Nazi shit to me.

A scan of an article from Life Magazine in the 1970s, with the headline "UNWRA SCHOOL HOUSES ARAFAT'S SCHOOL OF VIOLENCE." Prominent on a wall full of Palestinian propaganda posters is a Nazi swastika.

A scan of an article from December 7, 1937, with the headline "Nazis Affiliate with Arabs; To Boycott Palestine Goods" about Hitler Youth leader Baldur von Shirach's visit to the Middle East to network with an Arab youth militia and other organizations, and to distribute Nazi propaganda.

retired747.bsky.social @retired747.bsky.social · 1d

Jesus, take off your tinfoil hat. Probably any Democrats who don't want the client list released are on the list or have friends/family who are, not because it's a nefarious plot by Teh Jooz.

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retired747.bsky.social @retired747.bsky.social · 1d

Alberta really traded down when they swapped Rachel Notley for Danielle Smith.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

James: The day after that zirconium-crowned king was installed in Washington, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith—at a meeting orchestrated by Kevin O’Leary, a man so prostrate at the altar of mammon he’d sell coal to the devil if it fattened his wallet—was down there stroking the lizard of Mar-a-Lago.

retired747.bsky.social @retired747.bsky.social · 1d

That looks like an impressionist painting!

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retired747.bsky.social @retired747.bsky.social · 1d

China hasn't been communist in a long time, if it ever was. State capitalism isn't communism; it's closer to fascism.

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 1d

Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance.

The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income.

They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive.

Wanna fix fraud and abuse?

Fix that.

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retired747.bsky.social @retired747.bsky.social · 1d

So fucking what? Trump isn't Stalin. But the whole point of the American experiment during Stalin's time and afterwards was that the US was supposed to be better than the Soviet Union. The US certainly spent enough time preaching about its relative moral high ground, anyway.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

Trump still has not followed a court order to release SNAP funds for millions of people.

Meanwhile, he hosted a "Great Gatsby" themed party at Mar-a-Lago this weekend.

And he posted seven times about renovating a White House bathroom with marble and gold.

Priorities.

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retired747.bsky.social @retired747.bsky.social · 1d

[CITATION NEEDED]

I believe it's possible, but I want to see the actual evidence. Screenshots of the documents, a link to scans, something.

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retired747.bsky.social @retired747.bsky.social · 1d

Bullshit. 200K people died in 2 years in Darfur. Hamas' war of choice resulted in ~60K casualties in 2 years, mostly because of Hamas' policy of putting civilians in harm's way to get idiots like you to pressure Israel into stopping prematurely so Hamas would be intact enough to do 10/7 again.

A screenshot of an article from the Wall Street Journal with the headline "Gaza Chief's Brutal Calculation: Civilian Bloodshed Will Help Hamas." The article is an interview with former Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, where he said that Hamas' policy is to put innocent people in harm's way to manipulate world opinion into pressuring Israel into stopping their military operations prematurely, leaving Hamas capable of launching further genocidal campaigns against Israel.

A screenshot of an article from LBC with the headline "We will repeat the October 7 attack time and again until Israel is annihilated, says Hamas official Ghazi Hamad."

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retired747.bsky.social @retired747.bsky.social · 2d

I posit that Trump has never been in touch with reality.

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