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mnemosynec.bsky.social @mnemosynec.bsky.social · 33m

FOR DRINKS AND COCKTAILS!!!

The Trump response to Marie Antoinette.

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 1h

Kind of amazing to think about how different the world might be today if PayPal had just... failed early on and shut down. You can trace so much nonsense today back to PayPal getting bailed out by eBay.

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mnemosynec.bsky.social @mnemosynec.bsky.social · 1h

It beggars belief the offensiveness of the entire scenario.

But we will demolish the white house to produce an opulent space to have drinks & cocktails.

"Let them eat cake"

& hope an en banc judiciary can debate whether one month or four years of maybe 30 protesters warrants a military response

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mnemosynec.bsky.social @mnemosynec.bsky.social · 1h

Patience, from the collective punishment of an unrelenting lie that a city, with all the urban problems one might expect, egged on by a social media influencer "journalist" group invited to the white house. Heavily militarized dhs seeking "protection" by the national gaurd from unarmed civilians.

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mnemosynec.bsky.social @mnemosynec.bsky.social · 2h

Bessent & the US treasury support the Argentinian Peso long enough for Bessent's & Trump's friends to sell out their stake.

It was a great deal for the US soybean farmers & cattle ranchers.

mnemosynec.bsky.social @mnemosynec.bsky.social · 3h

Do they know the definition of communism?

finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-a...

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mnemosynec.bsky.social @mnemosynec.bsky.social · 1d

Trump's behaviour has never changed. Fabululist, entitled, couched in "I always win, you should just give up & lose". But he doesn't always win. It is a lie.

Stand up. He & all his sycophants would have you believe he is unbeatable. Lies all.

www.cato.org/commentary/d...

Donald Trump's Eminent Domain Love Nearly Cost a Widow Her House

Trump has had no compunction about benefiting from the coercive power of the state to kick innocent Americans out of their homes.

www.cato.org

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2d

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’

Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...

www.volkskrant.nl

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CarpinSanDiego @carpinsandiego.com · 2d

Im dead 😂😂😂

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mnemosynec.bsky.social @mnemosynec.bsky.social · 3d

What foreign government or billionaire buddy purchased them a new home?

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mnemosynec.bsky.social @mnemosynec.bsky.social · 3d

Will they survive?
Blown out of a submersible, on the IWO JIMA. From the WSJ:

Looks like the IWO JIMA has a surgical & ICU staff.

When do they get an ICRC visit to determine their status? Which laws cover their treatment? What is the standard of care for transfer to civilian hospital?

mnemosynec.bsky.social @mnemosynec.bsky.social · 3d

Are they getting medical care? What MEDICAL assessment are they getting to determine the level of care required?

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mnemosynec.bsky.social @mnemosynec.bsky.social · 3d

It is a big enough deal that Andrew is giving up his titles.

No longer Duke of York.

Very sorry that Virginia Giuffre endured her life of torment.

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Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 3d

The U.S. has seized survivors after a strike on a suspected drug-carrying vessel in the Caribbean.

The survivors of this strike now face an unclear future and legal landscape, including questions about whether they are now considered to be prisoners of war or defendants in a criminal case.

US has seized survivors after strike on suspected drug-carrying vessel in Caribbean

www.stripes.com

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 3d

For more on that, T.E. Ricks, Waging a Good War (2022)

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mnemosynec.bsky.social @mnemosynec.bsky.social · 3d

Even better, both the book and audio book are available on "Libby"

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mnemosynec.bsky.social @mnemosynec.bsky.social · 3d

In their place were scores of draftees whose fitness for leadership in the field of battle was questionable at best."

www.pbs.org/wgbh/america...

The My Lai Massacre | American Experience | PBS

An event that stunned the nation and forced an examination of U.S. military training and tactics.

www.pbs.org

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mnemosynec.bsky.social @mnemosynec.bsky.social · 3d

Old enough to remember My Lai.

" A military commission investigating the massacre found widespread failures of leadership, discipline, and morale among the Army's fighting units. As the war progressed, many "career" soldiers had either been rotated out or retired. Many more had died. In their place

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 3d

“The United Nations didn’t mince words. Tether’s stablecoin, USDT, is the “preferred choice“ for money launderers and cyber fraudsters. Yet this $180 billion stablecoin sits at the center of US crypto policy and is managed by officials with financial stakes in it.”

open.substack.com/pub/deklepto...

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mnemosynec.bsky.social @mnemosynec.bsky.social · 3d

I do too.

mnemosynec.bsky.social @mnemosynec.bsky.social · 4d

Not only are they adult men, but when did ANY of your children support nazis & Hitler.

It's a fake buy.

For both the reasons.

& if your children thought praising nazis & Hitler was cool, I'm looking at you...

&Adam, you know this isn't about you. The universal you.

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mnemosynec.bsky.social @mnemosynec.bsky.social · 4d

Will you please follow up on this.

Survivors. In international water. That's almost 14 land miles at minimum.

Are we a country that aims for kill movies & then watches injured people drown?

People keep saying we will interview the survivors.

swim injured? injured?

Exactly who are we?

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mnemosynec.bsky.social @mnemosynec.bsky.social · 4d

First point is to define this "masculinity". & predominantly it means some full time 24 hr on clock worker who arranges schedules, cooks, cleans, launders, soothes, pleasures, so that this being can be at work at all hours. The necessary ingredient is the support staff. Wife unpaid or unaffordable.

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mnemosynec.bsky.social @mnemosynec.bsky.social · 4d

I have ironed on my " official ANTIFA staff " to my reflective safety vest for this weekend but don't ask me for a paycheck as it is an unfunded position

There is no money in an antifa bank account to draw upon

mnemosynec.bsky.social @mnemosynec.bsky.social · 4d

All these billionaires who keep coming up with millions to fund pacs, & anti-candidate races, & buildings, & volunteer to pay all the military salaries...
Maybe they could just pay taxes
& estate taxes

Maybe they could pay their workers & healthcare

They seem to have more money than entire nations

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