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Ellen

@sleepygardener.bsky.social

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Coffee drinker, project juggler, tree hugger, democracy & climate defender. Owned by cats. Lover of ice-cream, hater of blue cheese and autocrats. Anti-fascist. Luckily 🇪🇺 (well hi there, Canada). Still believes there is intelligent life on planet earth

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Ellen @sleepygardener.bsky.social · 13h

Or the scariest, considering he is the President of the United States.

Ellen @sleepygardener.bsky.social · 1d

And he tries so desperately. But he will always be a weak, petty, narcissistic small man who no one really likes. Sad.

Ellen @sleepygardener.bsky.social · 1d

It´s like calming your senile aggressive grandpa who just destroyed the furniture in his nursing home room so he does not go on a bigger rampage destroying the whole house.

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Ellen @sleepygardener.bsky.social · 2d

Armenia and Cambodia are still celebrating the end of their long lasting war

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 4d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Ellen @sleepygardener.bsky.social · 8d

To quite a few, also all peaceful, with the occasional water canon (with bigger protests you almost always have some trouble makers, at least here in Europe). It´s great to hear you are committed, it gives hope. People united can be a force to be reckoned with. We are rooting for you over the pond 🤞

Ellen @sleepygardener.bsky.social · 8d

I do know. Let´s hope the next one on the 18th will get more people to raise their voice. Like you said, it needs to be in huge numbers - otherwise the government will shrug it off.

Ellen @sleepygardener.bsky.social · 8d

Probably by starting to protest ? Like it is happening in other countries when they have corrupt and authoritarian governments ? But it seems like a lot of Americans are either too ignorant or just fine with the direction the country is going. Which does not bode well for the US.

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Ellen @sleepygardener.bsky.social · 9d

Despite the fact that this is absolutely tasteless coming from a country with high gun death and mass shooting rates - why does the FBI director print 3D guns ?

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 9d

It really can not be emphasized enough that "exaggerating the danger of the left" is a key, central tactic of aspiring fascists. Look back at every country that slid into authoritarianism & you'll find a campaign like this preceding it. Every time. It's part of the script.

How Trumpworld inflates the perceived danger of the left

It is stipulated at the outset that there have been gruesome acts of political violence in recent months that appear to have been motivated by hostility to right-wing politics or the administration. T...

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Ellen @sleepygardener.bsky.social · 14d

VOTUS - Victim of the United States. In a sane country this guy would have been long impeached and removed for constant embarrassment and humiliation of a whole nation.

Ellen @sleepygardener.bsky.social · 14d

What an insecure, petty little caricature of a man Trump is

Three pictures of the presidential portraits in the White House, on the left an dright Pictures of Trump, in the middle some

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Ellen @sleepygardener.bsky.social · 15d

The problem is his position will quite probably change again the next day - I really hope not, but Trump changes his "positions" like other people change their socks.

Ellen @sleepygardener.bsky.social · 15d

The UN teleprompter worked just fine, the Trump team brought their own equipment which mirrored the success of the current US government and epically failed.

Ellen @sleepygardener.bsky.social · 15d

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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 15d

"A broken escalator and a malfunctioning teleprompter — that's what I got from the UN." - Trump.

Before the UN speech, the escalator "refused" to carry the U.S. President and First Lady.

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Ellen @sleepygardener.bsky.social · 15d

And what compensation does he plan to pay for the oral attack on the people who had to sit there and endure the most embarrassing gibberish a US president ever uttered in front of the United Nations ?

Ellen @sleepygardener.bsky.social · 15d

So Europe has to told his hand,cause Trump can not put sanctions on Russia in his own ? And what about the over $ 3 Billion US imports from Russia ? While he is right that the EU needs to stop buying energy from Russia (which we will), he surely expects we are buying it from the US instead.

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Ellen @sleepygardener.bsky.social · 15d

I really do not know why the majority of the people in the US tolerate these enormous embarrassments and humiliations over and over again.

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Ellen @sleepygardener.bsky.social · 15d

Totally made up number, as always.

Ellen @sleepygardener.bsky.social · 15d

Good god this is so embarrassing for the US.

Ellen @sleepygardener.bsky.social · 16d

We know he takes no advise from doctors or scientists, no need to confirm it.

Ellen @sleepygardener.bsky.social · 16d

Oh well, i will classify as a terrorist then from now on.

Ellen @sleepygardener.bsky.social · 17d

Probably bit his tongue not to ask the assembled cult if they want a total war.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 17d

Twenty years before MAGA came into existence, Umberto Eco captured it perfectly. He was able to do so because he had a deep understanding of so many elements of fascism.

Yeah. It’s Fascism.

Earmuffs, JD.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 17d

Done.

UK recognises Palestine as an independent state

Deeply symbolic move comes seven decades after end of UK mandate in Palestine and formation of state of Israel

www.theguardian.com

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