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Ben Lizarraga
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March 20, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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March 19, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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mjgault.bsky.social
the Pentagon "woke" media purge is a little weirder and, dare I say, stupider that I thought

gizmodo.com/here-are-som...
Here Are Some Images the Pentagon Thought Were Too 'Woke' for You to See
The DoD has purged 26,000 images from its public database as part of a “digital content refresh.”
gizmodo.com
March 7, 2025 at 6:13 PM
alexben.bsky.social
It’s troubling to see the VP downplay the role of our allies played during GWOT(and still do). It’s awesome to see troops shine light on our amazing allies.
March 4, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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beckyhammer.bsky.social
Trump take beer
Bill Butcher, founder of Port City Brewing Company in Alexandria, is worried about the new 25% tariffs that begin today on Canadian and Mexican goods. “We get our bottle caps from Mexico,” Butcher explained to Hearst Television’s Washington D.C. Bureau. “Our main ingredient, pilsner malt, comes from Canada. We use it in all our beers, so we’ll have to raise our prices quite a bit.”
March 4, 2025 at 1:19 PM
alexben.bsky.social
@drbirdofsand.bsky.social When the Monroe 2.0 is finally started I would like to see two things taken into account. Preventing another GWOT and weighing the concerns of Global Warming/the Food Supply. We need to be specific with our goals, or it will go to waste.
March 4, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
One reason why I think respectability is stupid is because it's often used as a mask. Such judgements are rarely about the clothes themselves, but more often about the bodies beneath them. To wit, no one raised an issue when Elon wore a graphic t-shirt and ball cap to meet the Trump cabinet.
Two photos: One shows Zelenskyy in a black quarter zip at the White House meeting, the other shows Elon Musk in a black graphic t-shirt, black topcoat, and black ball cap, also meeting with the Trump cabinet.
March 1, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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lizdye.bsky.social
USAID plaintiffs' SCOTUS opposition:

"The gov comes to this Court with an emergency of its own making."

Calls the aid cuts an "industry-wide extinction," leaving "Americans out of work, businesses ruined, food rotting, and critical medical care withheld."

www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...
The government comes to this Court with an emergency of its own making. On January 20, 2025, President Trump issued an executive order directing an immediate halt to thousands of congressionally funded foreign-assistance projects across the globe. In the following days, executive agencies issued wave after wave of stop-work orders, withheld the funding necessary for countless American businesses and nonprofits to maintain operations and pursue their missions, and upended the reliance interests of communities worldwide that depend on congressionally authorized foreign assistance. Respondents—recipients of foreign-assistance funding and associations thereof—challenged this foreign-assistance freeze as an unconstitutional exercise of presidential power in contravention of congressional will and as an arbitrary and capricious agency action. More than two weeks ago, on February 13, the district court agreed that the foreignassistance freeze was likely unlawful and found that respondents would suffer irreparable harm if the freeze were not immediately suspended. The court therefore entered a temporary restraining order (TRO) requiring the government to preserve the status quo that had prevailed prior to the executive order. Following entry of the TRO, however, the government took no steps toward compliance. On February 20, responding to a motion to enforce the TRO, the district court entered an order directing the government to comply. The government took no steps toward compliance. A stay would also be contrary to the public interest. Respondents have submitted unrebutted evidence that the government’s actions bring their very existence—and the existence of fellow foreign-aid partners—to the brink. This industry-wide extinction is sure to have devastating and far-reaching effects on the American economy. See, e.g., GHC Dkt. 4, at 35-36. And respondents’ work advances U.S. interests abroad and improves—and, in many cases, literally saves—the lives of millions of people across the globe. In doing so, it helps stop problems like disease and instability overseas before they reach our shores. The government’s actions have largely brought this work to a halt. See, e.g., id. at 36-37. With Americans out of work, businesses ruined, food rotting, and critical medical care withheld, see, e.g., GHC Dkt. 1, at 19-24, the public interest weighs heavily against the government. These are the fruits of the government’s actions; its application—like the arbitrary agency actions challenged in this case—grapples with none of them. CONCLUSION The Court should lift the administrative stay and deny the application. Respondents respectfully request that the Court act as quickly as possible to lift the administrative stay so as to prevent ongoing irreparable harm to respondents and the communities that depend on their work. Respectfully submitted.
February 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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@drbirdofsand.bsky.social
The link to the article doesn’t support Bluesky yet. Website is supported by SOCOM(military in charge of Latin America). Feb 2024(election year in America does change the press focuses)
February 28, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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@drbirdofsand.bsky.social I’m a full supporter of free markets but this is not the way.
February 26, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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atherton.bsky.social
Diplomacy is just Goldeneye set on Stabbers Only
December 18, 2023 at 7:21 PM
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mcopelov.bsky.social
👇🎯 “Political will” is term that allows people to avoid using proper nouns & talking about the actual actors & institutions that are the problem. It should be consigned to the hellfire of oblivion, for the sake of the sanity of long-suffering political scientists everywhere.
December 10, 2023 at 11:29 PM