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The Web Optimist
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Retired SEO and former journalist living out my golden years (hint: there ain't no gold) in the desert paradise of Palm Springs, CA. Expect the unexpected... #VoteBlue 🏳️‍🌈

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Trump voters did this...
November 26, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Scary.
The stock market's gains are being overwhelmingly driven by seven Big Tech companies who have invested heavily in AI, which has made tech oligarchs even wealthier.

But when that AI bubble bursts, the rest of us will be stuck holding the bag.

Be warned.
November 25, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Only a criminal administration would figure out a way to make it illegal for members of Congress to call for the military to ignore illegal orders.
November 25, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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November 25, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Trump voters did this...
Average electricity cost increase since Jan:

Missouri ⬆️ 37%
Iowa ⬆️ 30%
North Dakota ⬆️ 30%
Oklahoma ⬆️ 30%
New Jersey ⬆️ 27%
Nebraska ⬆️ 25%
Montana ⬆️ 25%
Wyoming ⬆️ 23%

NATIONWIDE ⬆️ 11%

Instead of working to lower costs, Trump is boosting power-hungry AI data centers.
November 25, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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November 25, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Don’t be distracted by their daily threats to ”investigate” Congress members or bomb Venezuela or send troops to another American city. Stay focused.
November 25, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Why I have trust issues...
November 25, 2025 at 6:45 PM
If only OUR justice system had not failed us.
Lesson: Never plot a coup.

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Brazil's Bolsonaro exhausts appeals, will have to serve 27-year sentence: court
November 25, 2025 at 6:27 PM
LOL!
Pete Hegseth bullying Mark Kelly?
November 25, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Yep
November 25, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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November 25, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Trump voters did this...
The U.S. private sector shed more than 13,500 jobs per week on average in October and early November, according to data released Tuesday by the private payroll processing firm ADP, offering one of the few real-time reads on a weakening labor market.
Private Job Losses Sped Up This Month — Here's What To Know.
ADP’s weekly data shows private sector job cuts accelerated — as economists look toward alternative indicators as the federal government has not released labor reports.
www.forbes.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Every single elected republican who is supporting Trump is in violation of the oath they took to support and defend the Constitution..
November 25, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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Page One, WAPO:

The going rate for a Trump pardon? About $1 million.

@washingtonpost.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:05 PM
November 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Trump voters did this...
November 25, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Love it!
I have always been terrified and mesmerised by Udo Kier. 🧛‍♀️
Once, in a gay bar in Palm Springs, I turned around and he was just standing there, holding a drink. I checked in the bar mirror to see if he had a reflection. He saw me checking and smiled. It was perfect.
November 25, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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I'm not religious, but I am so seeing a different meaning to "And a child shall lead them" this year...
November 25, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The only health care plan the Republicans have ever had is that if you get sick, you die...unless you are wealthy.
November 25, 2025 at 3:40 PM
He lies you know...
November 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Still waiting...
November 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM