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Elaine Bougie Gilligan @elainebg.bsky.social · 4h

𝒄𝒍𝑨𝑺𝑺 𝑨𝑪𝑻
NYT CROSSWORD No. 0906, 2025, 39 across:
“Dignified and gracious sort”
…made me think of discussion in our house of the kitschy cheapening of the WH premises carried out by its present resident, more to come when he demolishes half the building to install a gilded ballroom.

Elaine Bougie Gilligan @elainebg.bsky.social · 2d

He's transparent alright, almost all his evildoing is shameless and right in front of everybody, including calling for malicious, unjustified prosecution of people he resents.

I suppose the deviation from his display corruption/wrongdoing is knowing there's no forgiveness/exception re Epstein.

Elaine Bougie Gilligan @elainebg.bsky.social · 2d

My husband and I made 2 enjoyable visits to neighbouring Washington State (Seattle, Olympic Pen) from our home in Vancouver BC in Sep&Oct/24 in case Trump was re-elected. We love friendly w. coast states esp. but won't be back to the US under this regime & also hope threats against Canada ease up.

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Elaine Bougie Gilligan @elainebg.bsky.social · 2d

𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗨𝗦 𝗗𝗜𝗩𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗚𝗔𝗜𝗡𝗦𝗧 𝗜𝗧𝗦𝗘𝗟𝗙? Olympic Peninsula, WA
𝐒𝐞𝐞 𝐭𝐱𝐭 𝟏𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐦𝐠
•Window display downtown Port Townsend Oct15/24
•Truck w. a political msg. Hwy 12 from the w. coast of the Penin. to Centralia Oct18/24
The State did vote 58%+ Democrat in the Nov5/24 Presidential election, 12 Elect. Coll. votes.

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Elaine Bougie Gilligan @elainebg.bsky.social · 2d

A REAL LIFE "SUCCESSION" BATTLE & THE RUPERT FAMILY LEGACY
I’ve been wondering what the Rupert media family think of the present impact on the US of Fox News' choice to abandon reporting actual news & function as as a propaganda channel for Donald Trump. A recent BBC story on the legacy battle.

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Elaine Bougie Gilligan @elainebg.bsky.social · 2d

What some Trump allies and appointees had to say about him after his first term (from FB.)

Elaine Bougie Gilligan @elainebg.bsky.social · 3d

UNELECTED FIGURES AT THE WHEEL IN THE WHITE HOUSE:
I wonder what percentage of the US population is in the dark about the unravelling of US democracy under a deteriorating President because of chosen silence from mainstream media plus being deliberately misled by sources like FOX NEWS?

Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 3d

20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke the information that the administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act is the report that Stephen Miller is driving the issue.

Elaine Bougie Gilligan @elainebg.bsky.social · 3d

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Elaine Bougie Gilligan @elainebg.bsky.social · 3d

In afraid it happened to me twice. I was fortunate not to be seriously hurt. Every time I bike up that block where it last happened I'm wary. It's a very narrow street and lots of cars use the side street, crowding the cyclists closer to the parked cars.

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Elaine Bougie Gilligan @elainebg.bsky.social · 4d

Source image of Cheshire cat in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Sir John Tenniel, which I edited:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheshir...

Cheshire Cat - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Elaine Bougie Gilligan @elainebg.bsky.social · 4d

Don't know why but the Trump team members who claim to be ultra Christian but lie outrageously in support of him still bother me the most, including Johnson and Leavitt. The smug, you-can't-touch-me smile he pastes in place when stonewalling just gets me. Evil-doing, dressed up as piety & virtue.

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Elaine Bougie Gilligan @elainebg.bsky.social · 4d

That's encouraging. Here in Vancouver BC people think we are bike friendly but almost all the designated routes are not separated ones. Being "car-doored" on narrow side streets is no fun. Lately there is so much fast-moving, electrified personal transp. in bike lanes it feels less safe even there.

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Elaine Bougie Gilligan @elainebg.bsky.social · 5d

2018 article-Stephen Miller’s uncle repudiated his nephew’s cruelty & hypocrisy re immigrants/refugees. “Trump & my nephew both know their immigrant & refugee roots. Yet, they repeat the insults and false accusations of earlier generations against these refugees to make them seem less than human.”

hillsm321.bsky.social @hillsm321.bsky.social · 5d

www.politico.com/magazine/sto...

Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I’m His Uncle.

If my nephew’s ideas on immigration had been in force a century ago, our family would have been wiped out.

www.politico.com

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Elaine Bougie Gilligan @elainebg.bsky.social · 5d

I didn't check if it follows the cookbook recipe to the letter but this appears to be the same Moosewood cookbook Moroccan vegetable stew I've made over the years:
www.al.com/cooking/2013...

Recipes from Moosewood Restaurant, old and new

Try making Moosewood's Moroccan Vegetable Stew or the original Mushroom Barley Soup.

www.al.com

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Elaine Bougie Gilligan @elainebg.bsky.social · 5d

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗜 𝗖𝗼𝗻 - 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗙𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗕𝗶𝗴 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵'𝘀 𝗛𝘆𝗽𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗪𝗲 𝗪𝗮𝗻𝘁, 𝗘𝗺𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝗠. 𝗕𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿, 𝗔𝗹𝗲𝘅 𝗛𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗮

𝑆𝑒𝑒 𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑠.
I've placed a hold at our library, it looks so interesting. For preview see ebook websites or you may be able to preview at this library page:
vpl.overdrive.com/media/11091109

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Trump to the Navy: "We have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats."

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Elaine Bougie Gilligan @elainebg.bsky.social · 6d

𝗛𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿, 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗠𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿, 𝗗𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗱 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗮 𝗝𝗘𝗔𝗡 𝗚𝗨𝗘𝗥𝗥𝗘𝗥𝗢 (𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟬)

Ebook preview avail. at link below. Text of the prologue in these images. I wanted to know more about S. Miller.
play.google.com/books/reader...

#StephenMiller #Trump #WhiteNationlism #Racism #Populism

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Elaine Bougie Gilligan @elainebg.bsky.social · 6d

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Elaine Bougie Gilligan @elainebg.bsky.social · 11d

UNreality TV...morphs into...IDIOCRACY

A 19 second video I made after seeing social media posts & TV coverage of today's speeches by Pete Hegseth & Donald Trump to US military leaders.

(My MS Powerpoint is suddenly refusing to play any embedded audio, so this is silent.)

Elaine Bougie Gilligan @elainebg.bsky.social · 6d

He forgot to post the judge's home address to aid attacks on this judge, like that visited on Judge Diane Goodstein's house/family.

Elaine Bougie Gilligan @elainebg.bsky.social · 6d

"...Host Cory Doctorow coined the word "enshittification" to describe the state of the modern internet: a broken down, decaying place, once full of promise, now overrun with intrusive ads, hateful trolls, aggressive algorithms, zero privacy, and AI-generated slop..."
www.cbc.ca/radio/podcas...

i.cbc.ca

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Elaine Bougie Gilligan @elainebg.bsky.social · 6d

In recent days Stephen Miller is being outed for his behind-the-scenes hate-fuelled hand in Trump govt. excesses.

"...This conversation raises the question of how involved Trump is in the decisions his administration is making about the use of the military..."

Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 6d

October 5, 2025

On Friday the Minnesota Star Tribune reported a conversation on the messaging app Signal between one of Stephen Miller’s top deputies, Anthony Salisbury, and a senior advisor to Secretary of Defense P...

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

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Elaine Bougie Gilligan @elainebg.bsky.social · 7d

There's one engager dressed like police including a labelled vest & other unidentifiable civies-dressed guys going at that man. I can't fathom why any Americans would see such scenarios as legal or desirable. Are US media so self-censoring now most people just never see such unprofessional acts?

Elaine Bougie Gilligan @elainebg.bsky.social · 7d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=v71g...

Sen. Ted Cruz: Stop Attacking Pedophiles

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

www.youtube.com

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Elaine Bougie Gilligan @elainebg.bsky.social · 7d

"YOU'RE OUT OF YOUR GOURD"
In 2020 I made a joke version of G's photo of pumpkins & squash, prompted by a crossword puzzle answer turn of phrase, “You’re out of your gourd."
There may have also been an influence from one of Gord's driving students who wrote him a note & spelled his name as "GOURD."

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Elaine Bougie Gilligan @elainebg.bsky.social · 7d

www.cnn.com/2025/10/03/p...

Kilmar Abrego Garcia may have been charged because of Trump administration’s vindictiveness, judge finds | CNN Politics

A federal judge says he believes the immigrant defendant Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whom the administration wrongly sent to El Salvador, may have been targeted with a criminal charge by the Justice Departm...

www.cnn.com

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