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Fleuron
@printersflower.bsky.social
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Trying to read more books again. Enjoys reading, learning, gardening, cooking, needlepoint, civics. Wears gardening gloves, after that last infection. she/her/hers
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We are the world's cautionary tale
A lot of the elderly don’t see what he’s posting online. They’re not on his platform.
AWS is down, post hog (pig)
Then there are the "I'm not going to vote for Democratic candidates. I would never do that."
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Oh it’s not appropriate for your program to air the president wearing a crown and shitting on American citizens?

You’ll talk about it in euphemisms? Maybe call it the “crown video” and ignore the shitting part? Because that’s appropriate?

Tell me, was it appropriate for the president to do it?
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Just as you can not pick and choose when history starts to suit your own ends, once you set something big & awful in motion you cannot simply expect to halt it when it approaches your own moral limit of awfulness or ceases to serve your self-interest.
WSJ interviews a No Kings participant.
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Breaking news: Donald Trump urged Volodymyr Zelenskyy to accept Russia’s terms for ending its war in a volatile White House meeting on Friday, warning that Vladimir Putin had said he would 'destroy' Ukraine if it did not agree on.ft.com/4ou5h1A
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In exchange for getting to house migrants in El Salvador's notorious prison, the Trump administration agreed to give up top MS-13 cooperators, "a key step in hindering an ongoing U.S. investigation" into the Salvadoran government's relationship with the gang.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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What's up Bluesky, this is the Department of State and we're here to post some Hatch Act violations
The British are not like American conservatives who support a politician who says, “It was a different time” (checks notes) in the late 90s. They. are. not.
www.reuters.com/world/uk/bri...
www.reuters.com
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President Trump's tariffs will cost businesses more than $1.2 trillion this year, with most of that cost being passed on to customers, according to a new study from S&P Global.
Trump tariffs to cost companies $1.2 trillion this year, mostly hitting consumers, study finds
S&P Global said its estimate of additional expenses for companies is likely conservative.
www.axios.com
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Trump and Vought are now breaking both sides of spending law. They’re illegally not spending where the law requires them to spend, and they’re illegally spending where they don’t have the money to spend.

What we have is an appropriations king.

Spending “deals” are meaningless under that setup.
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As I got to know them, they gave me a $400m plane.

@acyn.bsky.social
Lots of "man bites dog" reportage and opining.
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Apart from helping Comey's selective prosecution defense, this also means the president of the United States uses direct messages on Truth Social to communicate with cabinet officials.

I didn't know that, but we can be sure intelligence agencies all over the planet already did.
Never ceases to amaze me that living to or past 100 years of age is something an American adult would want. Or that reporters think they should spend time on. time.com/7322647/long...
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