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David Brooks
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Microsoft alum, UK/US citizen, municipal volunteer. Lt-Col (retd), Antifa Freedonia regiment. Proud husband of @jeanniebrooks.bsky.social and dad of @johnbrooks.bsky.social. "Use every man after his desert, and who should ’scape whipping?"
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David Brooks @grandpadavid.bsky.social · May 4
Prayer card reading: May they be Happy/May they be healthy/May they be safe/May they live in peace.
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David Brooks @grandpadavid.bsky.social · 7h
Kubernetes failure slams Azure.
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David Brooks @grandpadavid.bsky.social · 15h
None of which is happening. It's a training agreement that started 8 years ago. Source:

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Things to know about the Qatar training facility planned for an Idaho Air Force base
When U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Friday morning that the federal government had reached an agreement with Qatar to build a facility at an Air Force base in Idaho, social media posts ...
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David Brooks @grandpadavid.bsky.social · 15h
Jim is my MOC and he's great, but he really should fact check the Qatari thing.

Training and maintenance on the F15s they bought, in the works since 2017.

Aren't we supposed to be the fact-based guys?
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David Brooks @grandpadavid.bsky.social · 15h
Things to know about the Qatar training facility at an Air Force base in Idaho | AP News share.google/dbTshH2REpkW...
Things to know about the Qatar training facility planned for an Idaho Air Force base
When U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Friday morning that the federal government had reached an agreement with Qatar to build a facility at an Air Force base in Idaho, social media posts ...
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David Brooks @grandpadavid.bsky.social · 1d
Mr and Mrs Brooks are currently in a Costa in Stroud, Gloucestershire. But, honestly, things aren't looking so great in the old country either.

Except visually of course.
View at dusk from Lypiatt, Stroud, showing the River Severn and South Wales, with Rodborough Common across the valley.
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David Brooks @grandpadavid.bsky.social · 1d
Thinking about a recent President... 'tis a mystery.
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David Brooks @grandpadavid.bsky.social · 1d
Also no MRI/MRA equipment at the White House. I understand everything you'd need for a routine medical are there.
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David Brooks @grandpadavid.bsky.social · 1d
As that nutso doctor wrote on 2016, "all his tests were positive".

Including HIV, syphilis, urine dip for glucose, etc?
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David Brooks @grandpadavid.bsky.social · 1d
MRA of his leg blood vessels?
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David Brooks @grandpadavid.bsky.social · 2d
We are building dorms in the airbase because they will come to Idaho to be trained on jets we sold them. Common practice. And the program started under Biden.

Always worth checking the facts.
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David Brooks @grandpadavid.bsky.social · 2d
In a Premier Inn in the English Midlands: We were woken up at 5am by a fire alarm. There was an apparent fire in the separate restaurant, and we were soon sent back to bed.

When we woke up again we turned the radio on, in time to hear an ad about what a deep sleep you can enjoy at Premier Inns.
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David Brooks @grandpadavid.bsky.social · 3d
So that's what Europa looks like from the inside!
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David Brooks @grandpadavid.bsky.social · 3d
No, Marge, you can't caucus with the Democrats. (Democratics?)
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David Brooks @grandpadavid.bsky.social · 3d
Not if they meet the asking price of one of the Republican signatories.
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David Brooks @grandpadavid.bsky.social · 3d
Just a wild guess, it says "Professor Doctor Kruse's book are AMAZING! Read them all! Buy copies, but not second-hand!"

You did say you wrote it yourself, right?
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David Brooks @grandpadavid.bsky.social · 3d
But we can't say we are interdicting cocaine because that will make Jr sad.
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David Brooks @grandpadavid.bsky.social · 3d
One of my devices was logged out and just sat there when I tried to log in again yesterday. So I won't risk that.
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David Brooks @grandpadavid.bsky.social · 3d
They'll blame Obama because they can't get Obamacare.
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David Brooks @grandpadavid.bsky.social · 3d
Who is ESPN going to idolize now?
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David Brooks @grandpadavid.bsky.social · 4d
$6 per dozen
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David Brooks @grandpadavid.bsky.social · 4d
So the bot has resorted to copying verbatim from the NYT editorials.
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David Brooks @grandpadavid.bsky.social · 4d
Unfortunately that's what separation of powers means. And the writers of the Constitution were incredibly naive when they made the impeachment option vulnerable to their feared factionalization.
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David Brooks @grandpadavid.bsky.social · 4d
The arrogance and contempt on that face tells you all you need to know.
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David Brooks @grandpadavid.bsky.social · 5d
She is also ready with a pre-fabricated criticism of every Democratic member of the committee, instead of an answer.
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David Brooks @grandpadavid.bsky.social · 5d
And who is responsible for bringing a charge of perjury?

Wait, it's on the tip of my tongue...

Pam somebody?
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