ElegantPride

ElegantPride

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Aging Deadhead hoping it's not too late to hold on to this democratic way of life. As in the song: A peaceful place or so it looks from space A closer look reveals the human race

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Noah Shachtman
@noahshachtman.bsky.social

The Russians hacked Jared's phone. Then Dutch cyberspies then reverse-engineered that hack, giving them unprecedented access to his world. Bananas story in @vanityfair.com

Vanity Fair@vanityfair.com

Jared Kushner’s Hacked Phone Revealed His Secret Negotiations—Including More Than $700 Million In Transfers

vanityfair.comThe Art of the Deal: Jared Kushner’s Hacked Phone Revealed More Than $700 Million in TransfersAn exclusive excerpt from ‘Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed’s Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East’ examines how bank accounts linked the president’s son-in-law—and former sen...

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Ron Filipkowski
@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff to Vladimir Putin today: “You talk so much about Trump being a humanitarian, you are a humanitarian also, sir. And I salute that. I commend you.”

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Dr. Jack Brown
@drjackbrown.bsky.social

Canada is a sovereign nation. You have no voice or power there. Your baseline personality is a Psychopath-Sociopath, Narcissist, Machiavellian, paranoid, sadist with significant advancing dementia. Take your word salad and your authoritarianism and go crawl in a hole.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "I do not want to lose as your representative $90 billion for the privilege of allowing Canada to have a healthcare system and other things that they shouldn't be having"

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A novel and movie "Electric Dreams" several decades ago featured a home computer that sat alone watching TV all day. I learned language and became sentient enough to "think" like a human being. It eventually learned how to replicate itself!! finance.yahoo.com/technology/a...

finance.yahoo.comAnthropic warns AI could 'self-replicate' across smart home devices, become ‘challenging’ to shut downAnthropic says that AI models could soon self-replicate across smart home devices.

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Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.com

Trump shouts out Russ Vought and then says, ominously, "we have some big surprises coming up in a few weeks, right Russ? He's gonna be one of the important people in the history of our country."

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Las Playas Intaglio, a giant fish carved into the Sonoran Desert in AZ, is considered the oldest example in the Americas of a geoglyphic, the ancient art form that is carved into or drawn on the ground. == That does it-the ballroom&Arch will be 1st to go when he does! www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...

yahoo.comTrump’s border wall construction cut into an ancient ground carving older than StonehengeThe Las Playas intaglio carving of a huge fish is at least two thousand years older than the first Egyptian pyramid, according to researchers’ recent estimations.
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Washington Post… “Major League Baseball has approached the Trump administration about hosting a game at a national park, officials from the White House and MLB confirmed Saturday. The administration has scouted locations in Grand Teton National Park to build a baseball park to host an MLB game.”

apple.newsTrump administration considers building baseball park in Grand Teton National Park — The Washington PostMajor League Baseball contacted the administration about hosting a game in a national park, with an agency official scouting Grand Teton as a possible location.

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Mark T. Sneed
@marktsneed.bsky.social

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted.... History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” ― George Orwell, 1984

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Ovechkin appeared in an ad last week for a Russian political party that is aligned with Russian president Vladimir Putin. That decision was not out of character for Ovechkin, who has publicly supported Putin long before Russia invaded Ukraine. sports.yahoo.com/articles/opi...

sports.yahoo.comOpinion: Ovechkin's Political Actions Have Tainted His NHL LegacyWashington Capitals star Alexander Ovechkin's endorsement of Russian President Vladimir Putin makes him fair game for public criticism.

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Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.com

LMFAO -- Trump is holding an event at the White House right now but there's no audio because the press pool isn't there. The Newsmax host notes that this is an example of Trump's attacks on the press "backfiring just a little bit"

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By its own accounting, DOGE fell far short of the $2 trillion Musk claimed he would save , and an independent report from the GA Office has found DOGE's own savings figures to be flawed. But Hassen told The Post he believes the effort was a success. www.yahoo.com/news/politic...

yahoo.comHe spent 11 months inside DOGE. Now he wants to set the record straight.Tyler Hassen’s initiation into Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, started as a series of tests. The Houston oil executive says he was given vague instructions to show up at an u...

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Kelly
@broadwaybabyto.bsky.social

This is straight out of Handmaids Tale. A high school trying to force girls to disclose the dates and lengths of their menstrual cycle. Don’t comply? You lose a grade. There’s absolutely no reason a school needs this information other than to exert control over our bodies.

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The board may not vote to inscribe trump's name-it had circulated a resolution to trustees with 10 proposals for what the inscription might say. Some of the wording is highly flattering. == An inscription should be inscribed... FUCK TRUMP !! www.yahoo.com/news/politic...

yahoo.comKennedy Center Board Votes To Close Immediately For Renovations, Report SaysThe Kennedy Center’s board of trustees voted to close immediately for renovations, shortly after a judge ruled the venue cannot inscribe Trump’s name on the building.

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JoanHaskins6
@fusciacat.bsky.social

Okay I’m dying, reporter had asked Trump, out of all of the lies that you’ve told, which one is your favorite? He said I don’t lie. And then the reporter said, yeah, that’s my favorite one, too.

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Joesly Batista, whose company JBS was the single largest donor to Trump’s inaugural fund through one of its subsidiaries, met with the president in the Oval Office and lobbied him to lift a 26% import duty on Brazilian beef, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Ride Or Die Dem 🇬🇧🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🗽@hocuspocusblade.bsky.social

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forbes.comBillionaire-Backed Beef: Trump Lifts Tariffs on Brazilian Meat Banned by EuropeThough Trump has refused to say where the tariff-free beef is coming from, the specifics of global beef trade point directly to Brazil as the primary source.