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jcsimonds
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Author - The Heirs to Camelot series (paranormal romance), shopping a sci-fi humor book: My Ridiculous Life in Space. Corporate trainer. Cross-stitcher. Liberal old hippie chick who bites. "Feral and not trained."
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I'm posting chapter-by-chapter of THE MIDSUMMER WIFE, my #KingArthur #Romantasy, on Substack.

FIRST CHAPTER! Ava Cerdwen arrives at the #Merlin heir's home to start the descendants on the path to healing recently nuked London. She struggles with her anxieties.

tinyurl.com/55ehxvn3

#BookSky
I'll allow it to stand for the duration of the Truth & Reconciliation trials that will held there,

THEN tear that fucker down.

With Fireworks for a day
I used to be a one-issue 2028 voter, which issue being you will prosecute and jail all of them; I add an issue: If that ballroom carbuncle is completed, it must be razed.
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The last good president. He also didn’t demolish the White House nor democracy.
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Whoever is the next Democratic presidential candidate should vow to tear down the hideous ballroom and rebuild the Rose Garden, I bet there are a lot of votes in that
One of the reasons they don't want pictures taken from the Treasury Department is that the entrance to an emergency bunker is under there

That's the reason FDR had the East Wing built in 1941 - to hide the entrance.

So, yeah, anything can be done now
No more Forever Wars, huh?
'As of Monday, roughly 8 per cent of US warships deployed globally were in the Caribbean, according to a fleet tracker. Until destroyers arrived to start the build-up in August, the only US ship spotted in the region by the tracker this year was a hospital ship.'
www.ft.com/content/dc10...
The US forces threatening Venezuela
Donald Trump has made no secret of his desire to see Nicolás Maduro ousted. Here are the forces he has sent to the region
www.ft.com
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This might be the most unhinged Fed Reg notice I've ever seen.
Exactly.

The NYC crowd stretched from 14th Street to 47th. And somehow that was only 200,000?

Estimating crowd size used to be difficult. But this is where AI could actually help. Someone turn an AI bot loose on all those crowd pictures.
Raise your hand if you instinctively knew the MSM was going to drastically undercount the No Kings turnout.

It was 12 million. Not seven.
It's not a controversy to call out this naked corruption.

What the Orange Tantrum wants is illegal.

It's insane.

That isn't controversial.
THE DAY AHEAD: News that Trump is demanding $230 million from his own Justice Dept unleashes a wave of new controversy

And key court rulings await for Trump’s critics ===>

youtube.com/shorts/C-X40...
DAY AHEAD: News that Trump seeks $230 million from Justice Dept unleashes wave of new controversy
YouTube video by Scott MacFarlane CBS
youtube.com
When Rand Paul is talking sense, you know all the clocks are broken.
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Just completely insane.

And they will probably give it to him.

That's OUR money, BTW
Breaking NYT:

Trump is demanding the Justice Department pay him about $230 million in compensation for the federal investigations into him.

Senior department officials who were Trump's defense lawyers are now in jobs that typically must approve any such payout. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...
Trump Said to Demand Justice Dept. Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases
www.nytimes.com
HOLY SHITBALLZ

Meanwhile, no funding for disasters, Meals on Wheels, Cancer research, or anything that doesn't serve the fascist regime
ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.

The President is building an army to attack his own country.
Why are they launching a weather balloon? Why was it in a flight path?

Oh, right. Silicon mouth breathers don't believe regulations apply to them
Ringing that bell is an important milestone!

Wishing him the best!
Good morning
Good news
It's great to start the day
with the news that President Biden rang the bell !!
He has successfully completed his radiation therapy
God Speed Joe !!
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Amazon controls over a third of the global cloud computing market.

Its customers include Capital One, United Airlines, and the US Army.

Today's outage should be a wakeup call: Dependence on a handful of powerful corporations is a threat to economic and national security.
BREAKING: Amazon Web Services

A massive AWS outage early this morning sent major websites and apps down for several hours

Tracking site Downdetector has received over 8 million reports around the globe
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Argentina - $40,000,000,000

Dog Killer's planes - $172,000,000

Destroying The People's House - $250,000,000

Healthcare subsidies for Americans - $0

this isn't a drill people - your country is on fire and the Repugnicans are pouring gas on it
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it’s not a particularly bold prediction, but i expect none of these companies will still be in business five years from now
The grind culture that birthed many Big Tech companies from Google to Amazon is back.

As the AI race heats up, startups are promoting hardcore cultures like “996,” or working 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week.
Why these companies insist on a 72-hour work week
Start-ups are promoting hardcore cultures such as “996,” meaning working from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. six days a week, as they race to compete in AI.
www.washingtonpost.com
... and destroying the East Wing of the White House
While Republicans refuse to reopen government, pay federal workers, or address the impending health care crisis, here are a few of the things they are doing:
The whole picture is so emblematic of this administration I'm pretty sure it will be on the cover of most books about it
Trump using a Chinese* excavator to destroy the White House is a bit on the nose as metaphors go.

*Volvo is owned by Geely Holding, a Chinese company.
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This is what they will leave