Slines

Slines

@slines202.bsky.social

retired librarian, interests: SE Mountains, photography, iPhone, fantasy books, gardening, learning, iPhoneography, meeting people, sharing ideas.

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Robert Rowley
@robrow.bsky.social

Post-sunrise; Willow after drinking cherry Kool-Aid (actually her dog tag); yuccas and ocotillos; north toward Tortugas Mountain.

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@slines202.bsky.social

“Beauty there is, which no storm can blight; It will bloom undimmed through winter's night. Then guard thou well thy heart's sweet flowers, Till they bloom again in heavenly bowers.” – from ‘Flora’ by Sarah C. Carter (1853)

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Techdirt
@techdirt.com

How Trump’s FBI Purge Saved Lindsey Graham And James Clyburn From A Bribery Investigation This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/23/how-trumps-fbi-purge-saved-lindsey-graham-and-james-clyburn-from-a-bribery-investigation/

techdirt.comHow Trump’s FBI Purge Saved Lindsey Graham And James Clyburn From A Bribery InvestigationThis story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. On March 3, 2020, Sen. Lindsey Graham walked into a private dining room at Charlie Palmer Steak in Washington, D.C. Graham’s time was expensive. He was meeting with two executives and a lobbyist from a Hawaiian naval defense contractor called Navatek....

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Mother Jones
@motherjones.com

“I have never seen a rally with this much excitement and this kind of crowd, ever.” Congressman Shomari Figures (D-AL) drew 400-500 people in a county that Trump won by 48 points. Dothan locals said the Supreme Court’s gutting of the VRA is motivating democrats to get out to the polls.

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Mondoweiss
@mondoweiss.net

Israeli settlers are blocking, assaulting, and robbing Palestinian olive harvesters. For some 100,000 families in the West Bank who rely on the harvest for income, this season may decide whether the olive harvest survives at all.

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Meduza in English
@meduza.io

Russian lawmakers want to triple prison terms for online “calls to riot,” saying tougher penalties would discourage people from “provoking” Russians into “taking part in various provocations and dragging them into committing crimes.” meduza.io/en/news/2026...

meduza.ioRussian lawmakers want to triple prison terms for online ‘calls to riot’ to keep ‘foreign agents’ and Russians abroad from ‘provoking’ unrest — MeduzaLawmakers have submitted a bill to Russia’s State Duma that would increase criminal penalties for calls to mass riots, one of its authors, Vasily Piskarev, said.

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Raw Story
@rawstory.com

Trump's 'fundamental' flaw is breaking the GOP's midterm wall: 'Can't fully contain it'

bit.lyTrump's 'fundamental' flaw is breaking the GOP's midterm wall: 'Can't fully contain it'The GOP had what appeared to be a sizable wall built up to blunt any gains made by the Democrats in the upcoming midterm election, but President Donald Trump's astonishing decline has thrown all of that work into jeopardy, according to one political expert. The GOP is approaching the midterm electio...

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CNN
@cnn.com

Today, the High-Altitude Training Center is a small campus with accommodation, a gym, a swimming pool, a sauna, a private tarmac track and nature on every side. It’s one of roughly a dozen training centers in Iten now — but when it launched, it was pioneering. https://cnn.it/47g2XEH

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The Guardian
@theguardian.com

Zelenskyy furious as Trump announces deal to buy Russian diesel

theguardian.comZelenskyy furious as Trump announces deal to buy Russian dieselPresident says deal essential to lower US fuel prices but move set to create fresh crisis with Ukraine and Nato allies * US politics – live updates Donald Trump was on a fresh collision course with the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and European allies on Friday after a stunning agreement to buy Russian diesel, upending years of US and western pressure on the Kremlin to end its four-and-a-half year war against Ukraine. Zelenskyy reacted furiously to Trump’s announcement of the deal with President Vladimir Putin of Russia, calling it “absolutely terrible” and “not fair and not honest”. Continue reading...