Poet, writer, composer, cheerful bureaucrat. Believer in things, 🌊curious about everything. Medicare enthusiast. I'm what happens when dull meets old age.
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Last Notes npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. Curious that there's so much perseverating about "revenge". Let's be clear, when you deliberately mischaracterize justice as "revenge" you succumb to enabling corruption and criminality. npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. Sometimes, existence is resistance. npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. Why is Trump buying 36 Million barrels (4.8M tons) of Russian diesel? npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. Uh, 72 million children under age 18 in the US, at $1000 a pop Auto-Enrolled by Trump into his Trump accounts paid from US taxes = $72 BILLION gift (grift) to US Treasury/Scott Bessent to redirect to The Bank of NY Mellon - Financial Agent (Tim Mellon is one of Trump's biggest donors) and Robinhood Securities / Trustee Administrator holding those assets ( top donor to Trump Inaugural). npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. Trump jokes about nuking San Diego as a small price to pay for "Winning". San Diego hosts the largest US military community in the nation and is home port to the Nimitz class nuclear carrier USS #AbrahamLincoln (stuck at sea by Trump). npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. Obvious. Horses have many more olfactory receptors in their nasal passages than do monkeys. So, I'd rather smell like a horse. npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. Besides the usual staples, we just bought a bunch of bottles of spices to donate to our local pantry, oft overlooked but necessary to a fulfilling meal. npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. Odd, the Proclaimers are worried about men masquerading as women then raping women because of trans equity legislation - meanwhile for CENTURIES MEN HAVE BEEN RAPING WOMEN without trans equity legislation. Where the heck were the Proclaimers condemning cis men? npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. #TrumpIRS unlawfully violates taxpayer privacy of 47,000 Americans. npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. Trump has instituted a new Presidential order for Customs & Border Patrol and the FDA to block ALL prescription medicines shipped to the US from certified licensed Canadian manufactured pharmacies. npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. Fontly clever. npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. Lol. I once had a rando guy yelling "Where's my First Amendments! Where's my First Amendments! I got Rights! Let me talk, I'm talking now!" about crazy train stuff. I grinned and said "I am not infringing on your Right to Free Speech. The First Amendment, however, does not require me to listen. And I don't allow any yelling in my office, so you can get out of my office and go First Amendment yourself all you want outside at the mailboxes. Talk to anyone who cares. Have a great day!" npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. News That Will Drive You To Drink https://mockpaperscissors.com/2026/08/29/news-that-will-drive-you-to-drink-2510/ npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. Wow. You are totally self-absorbed and oblivious. npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. Background on vid clip: This is smug know-it-all Musk on Aug 1, 2021 in Brandenburg. npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. There is insane manipulation and gouging by oil refineries...the price of the crack is now $35! In Jan 2025, the global price to "crack" the oil molecule into refined product was $16.75. Since 2006 it's held steady between $12-$18. Why the doubling/tripling of a fixed process cost? npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. RE: https://mstdn.social/@_L1vY_/117074318720436538 npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. Tech folks bought the lie that were unique specialists who happily sneered at the rest of the workers who were paid less. Welcome to the disposable truth - unless you are a majority owner of the means of production, capital sees you simply as a means to profit. Cheaper faster less obnoxious comes along, and it's just as easy to reclass you as a cost center and not a profit generator. Human labor is expensive. You have to give it a heated/cooled environment, pee breaks, food, overhead lights, fire escapes, health insurance, paid vacations, sick time, workers comp, unemployment, air quality, potable water...they complain, take breaks, need office supplies, a janitor, plumber, flushing toilets, toilet paper, and they demand safe for humans working conditions, and a paycheck. npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. Lol. Pesky humans. Pesky staffers and pesky human conference attendees demanding geographic accuracy. npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. A well connected dick punch is pretty frightening, I'm told. npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. RE: https://flipboard.com/@vox/immigration-qmjdlv8vz/-/a-_CJal0wsR7ers8u2tKe-dg%3Aa%3A1444157402-%2F0 npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. YES, really, there is a global stock tech sell off, with #SpaceX leading the losses. npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. The Fedi giant shared Brain: npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. Make Algae Great Again npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. Pouty #SnoreLoser Trump will leave the tarps up until after his birthday, because he's a petty #StolenValor thin-skinned old old fraud... npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. DDT was considered safe, and fear of mosquito borne illness was high. I grew up in a plantation town with lots of irrigation channels for sugar cane. It's why Carson's book was so earth-shattering. npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. My quiet mother read the Silent Spring the year it was published. DDT fog trucks were a regular dusk thing in Hawai'i. Unlike all the other kids, we were forbidden from running behind it and playing in the poison. We watched the other teens and kids laughing and cavorting while we stood behind closed windows inside peering out at the fun. Mom was po'e akamai. The land is a living being. npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. I was alive during that detonation of Starfish Prime. It sent an EMP rocketing across the Pacific to Hawai'i. People climbed on roofs with deck chairs to watch. npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. Jesus looks suspiciously like my cat. npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. Jobs are: wages, benefits, and conditions of work. Conditions of work -- token access to the best equipment is not a wage. Wages are taxable and subject to Soc Sec and Medicare points eligibility and contributions. DOL, IRS, SEC, Soc Sec, CMS, and each state defrauded out of state income taxes may be interested. npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. You mean the same Kurds that Trump f-ed and left to die in Syria? npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. I just watched a long but engrossing video by Will Stancil driving in a small Honda Fit doggedly filming and tailing and reporting on two ICE vehicles in Minneapolis. He is live on the phone with a centralized coordinating base where he gives constant updates on location and movement while honking his horn in repeated beeps to warn others and rip anonymity from ICE. Apparently the Resistance has separate districts covering the city with 24/7 coordinated volunteer observers in cars (over 200 drivers in each district) and on bikes and on foot (over 1000 observers in each district with whistles and phones) all following, reporting to a centralized bank that is notifying and coordinating citywide coverage to protect their city. At one point he hears someone else following ICE who reports there is a car between her and the ICE vehicles she is tailing and reports his plate and car description. He happily exclaims "That's me!" The two ICE appear to split up, and he follows the first (she warns him of an ICE tactic to try to shake him) and she says she'll stay on the second. ICE gives up trying to shake them, as the two spotters work together to tail. npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. Into the unknown both hope and fear reside. npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. Why are cat feet so irresistible? I can't help it. Boopable feets. npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. MAGA GOP Wesley Hunt (R-TX) on the killing of Renee Nicole Good: ...if Americans obey orders from federal officers "you get to keep your life". npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. The case may hinge on audio. "GET OUT OF HERE!" Directs the driver to comply and do as she was told before being executed by an ICE agent who appears to have positioned himself in the road directly in front of the car with his weapon. If it is this command, the ICE agent committed a 1st degree execution. Notice after he shoots her at near point blank range, he casually walks toward the car vs the other agent who runs toward it. npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. You live in the Netherlands. So, you voted in which elections? Trolling much? npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. Trump brags about bombing villagers in Nigeria as revenge for murders of Christian Nigerians. You know who has murdered thousands of Christians, including Christian children in grade schools and playgrounds, and deliberately targeted and bombed Christian churches? On Christmas Day? Putin. npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. The cruelty is Trump and DHS point. Gregory Laverde has Downs Syndrome and he and his brother Victor (an asylum seeker targeted by Venezuela as a public critic of Maduro) were found innocent of the local Athens Ohio charges by a local judge who dismissed the criminal charges against them WITH PREJUDICE (they cannot be recharged), they are nevertheless in ICE prison as "criminals" and housed with actual violent felons who abuse them. npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. Who knew the very simple power of a whistle to summon those to bear public witness to acts of evil could end up up-ending the power of those who depend on silence to force complicity to their acts of terror. npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. Amen. We are with each other, through this darkness. And the simplest and yet most profound of our tasks now, of our acts of faith in democracy, in religious and ethical beliefs, in our nation, in each other...is to prove we will not allow anyone suffering to do so believing they are alone. npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. US purchased 10-15% of potash from Belarus and Russia. 80% from Canada. This "concession" from Trump is proof of BOTH the success of Biden's sanctions on Russia & Belarus, and the failure of Trump's stupid Canadian tariffs. npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. It's a mortifying moment when someone as old and tech befuddled as I am is digitally literate. Yikes! npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. It's no different from using any work equipment. It belongs to the employer, not to you, which is why work pays for it, for work use. npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. Don't ever use work devices for personal communication. Don't ever assume any transaction using a work device is private. Don't document your own trashing of coworkers or bosses by messages. If you didn't buy, pay for coverage, connections, or pay for tech services, it's NOT yours and you have no rights or expectation of privacy. npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. Sixteen Minutes npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. Most of my poetic characters are small ordinary accidental witnesses to major historical events, unaware of its import or its looming outcome - they don't have the perspective to fully understand their own experience as part of something larger. It's how I write, I start with a feeling, a glimpse, a sense memory and I let it unfold until I find myself at the end. I sometimes don't fully understand my own poems until years later, with time and perspective. But there's often a deliberate emotional gut punch written into most of my work, which while not fully understood by the characters, is meant for readers who have a broader context of time and events to fill in meaning that the characters themselves cannot yet. In one prose poem I wrote, I liken it to how a seamstress carefully sews different odd disparate pieces - which make little sense as pieces, but once sewn together make a thing, a whole, both seamed and seamless. npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. #phantastikprompts 23.11.25 npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. Golly, you're as smart as physician Dr Senator Roger Marshall. npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. Beautiful. npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. The bases for my protest are rooted in a mix of love, despair, fury, and hope for my country. npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. I just read up about the FC petition. It's urgent for Canadians in Alberta to get this Forever Canada petition to the referendum threshold first, if they do, it blocks the RW separatists from controlling the narrative and using Alberta as a national platform for malign actors who seek to destroy your nation. Bravo to your mum. Been reading a number of older Canadians in Alberta are getting involved for the first time to stand up for Canada. npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. My uncle was arrested at gunpoint by US troops with fixed bayonets after spending the whole day as a first responder diving into the burning waters of Pearl Harbor to rescue and recover US sailors and marines on Dec 7, 1941, as a soldier of the Hawai'ian Territorial Guard -- he was suddenly arrested as an enemy Jap. He and his fellow Japanese Americans guardsmen were imprisoned for days in a brig, incommunicado, without a clue what was happening, until a local white officer intervened and white plantation owners vouched for them as loyal US citizens born and raised on O'ahu. He would later volunteer and serve in Europe in the segregated "Purple Heart Battalion" -- the 100th Battalion of the segregated 442nd Regimental Combat Team - the most decorated unit of its size in US Army history. He loved a nation that criminalized him for his race. npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. This is clear evidence of the innate dysfunction and lack of cohesive and consistent actual leadership by Trump, and explains why "needs anger management" Scott Bessent is getting into physical fights with other cabinet members. Trump likes to be called an authoritarian dictator because he likes the myth that he is in total control, but he's not -- he's cosplaying Leader while a bunch of adolescent-brains are doing whatever they think he wants or they can get away with. npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. My uncles fought and killed Nazis and Italian Fascists under the US flag. The Stars and Stripes flew over the all Black units that fought and defeated the Confederacy. In the US, I fly my flag. I also post a BLM sign. npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. Gabbard is the epitome of Trumpism: superficial, shallow, smug, incompetent, ambitious, arrogant, haughty, lying, contemptuous, and...a Russian agent. npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. So, Trump wants California taxpayers to pay his federal government one billion dollars. California taxpayers should agree to do so only if Trump's federal government returns $82 Billion dollars of the $83 Billion dollars in excess taxes Californians pay to the feds but does not receive back. That's a fair deal. npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. Good news: By the time Elon is through with destroying Tesla, the value of that stock option will be "mere" millions. npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. All contract negotiations are predicated on "good faith" negotiations and good faith negotiators who have the authority to deal. Without that "good faith" and the authority the handshake, the Memorandum of Agreement, the signed contract are a worthless waste of time, investment, and outcome. npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. Hawai'i - potential tsunami to hit in three hours 4:15 pm HST. ALL ISLANDS. ALL coastal areas. 8.7 magnitude (huge) earthquake. npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. Is it so wrong that I call our cat "Cuteness Everdream"? npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. Death is hard. Her face tied up in love and loss and suffering is familiar. It's my face at the loss of my cat, as a child. She lay dying in the ferns, and I stayed with her crying. When she took a breath and then no more, I wailed in abject grief. I remain grateful that my parents did not interfere or intervene, but let me be in my feelings, however hard it must have been for them. This is how we learn what is most essential about living, to love deeply enough to mourn. 💔 npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. They chose to ignore the target on her own husband's back, like Hilter-supporting Niemoller did, supporting every other horrible thing Trump did to others, until he arrested her Trump supporting husband. npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. Wow. As someone who grew up on the Middle Loch of Pearl Harbor, whose families' homes were strafed by Japanese planes, whose Dad was chased by a Zero while driving his car by Wheeler, whose uncle was a first responder diving into the burning oil filled waters as part of the mobilized Hawai'ian Territorial Guard, nothing energizes a people like an attack on home soil by an enemy nation. npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. That's okay. It happens. Did the "i" also appear on the end of her name? npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. Her Majesty's name is correctly spelled Queen Lili'uokalani. npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. Snowed overnight. npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. This is a calculated negotiator's move: carefully build a box around a stubborn recalcitrant opponent so there is only one exit left at the end. npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. The National Academy of Science was established under Abraham Lincoln, its membership is peer nominated and peer elected. The National Academy of Engineering, and the National Academy of Medicine are similarly constituted and operate under the National Academy's initial charter. npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. I knew tenured Berkeley faculty. I also knew the former Chancellor of Berkeley who was a member of that faculty, along with her late husband. Most Chancellors, and often most Presidents, are academics who chose a dual path as administrators. Why do you not know this, when you suggest the answer is simply more faculty control when you guys are part of what you identify as the problem. npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. Ruled by faculty? Faculty who have no expertise in labor law, union grievances, family & medical leave, payroll, office equipment, terminations, theft, scheduling, personnel complaints, OSHA, HVAC contracts...? In what universe is that a reasonable alternative? npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. GET READY: npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. OK, but can we not elevate Rogan to any kind of "warrior" when he's never served, been shot at by enemy bullets, never been in any war - he's a highly paid gym-rat microphone blabber. "Warrior" steals valor he hasn't earned unlike the men in my family who bled to earn their Purple Hearts. npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. Bargaining is predicated on trust. Bargaining without trust is appeasement and surrender. Even the worst enemies bargaining require trust, like Bibi and Hamas. But Trump is different. He lies constantly, pathologically. And any deal with him is a lie. He cheats, he lies effortlessly, without remorse. His word is nothing. npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. Why don't countries agree to "a deal" with Trump, and then simply lie, renege, and welch like Trump does? npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. An uncle was a librarian during a war. His side lost. The victors came to burn and loot books and confiscate. But when they arrived, certain first editions and historically unique books "had been checked out" to a scribble of a name. My uncle hid those books for 20 years, then returned them to his nation when the books would be safe. npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. For our future? I disagree, I think we need to flood Jeffries and Clark with calls to demand AOC be in leadership. She's got the skills, she needs the power. npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. AOC, Tim Walz, Raskin, Buttigieg.. npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. So a group of masked men in unmarked cars WITHOUT LICENSE PLATES pulling a woman out of her car on a public street, putting her in another car and disappearing, then one of them drives away with her car. Is any woman safe from predatory gangs of men pretending to be LEOs? Is your daughter or granddaughter or wife or mother or sister safe? npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. I was just talking to someone from our volunteer fire dept today about a wildfire. We haven't had a major wildfire here in a 100 years. Most of our woods are second growth from the 1920s, and many of the old pastures for dairy have been abandoned back to woodlands as family dairy farms have disappeared. While we still have water up in the hills and streams and rivers, it's getting drier, with less snowfall. Only one small hilltown has had a plan for the last 30 years or so in case of a major wildfire, and that is to use their armada of surplus military dozers to cut a fire break around their entire town, and watch the other towns burn. It's a little ruthless, but it's a plan, I guess. npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. Great tool for seeing the scope of each CA fire in local terms. The Palisades Fire would burn up the equivalent in Western Mass of Northampton, Hadley, and Amherst Mass. And thus, Smith College, Amherst College, UMass, and Hampshire College all in ashes, leaving only Mt Holyoke of the Five Colleges left. npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. On this day, December 7th, I remember my Uncle Bob who was a member of the Hawai'ian Territorial Guard in their WW1 surplus Tin Hat helmets and rifles in the 1930s and 40s. They were mustered as first responders to save sailors and marines from the burning waters of Pearl and transport to Tripler immediately at the attack. npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. "Weird because numbers of migrants coming through Mexico are down 77% under Biden according to ICE, so Trump is now threatening Americans with 25% higher food and construction prices to force Mexico and Canada to do what? ...Ok, you win, you guys really are weird." npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. The statement of a guy who tanked one of the two major legacy papers in the US. Loss of subscriptions is no small thing, loss of tens of thousands on a single day is crushing. He brought in Murdochy Lewis to save his paper financially and he blew up its credibility all by himself. npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. Peter Thiel espouses eugenics, consistent with the white South African childhood he lived, an experience he shares with South African Elon Musk. Like Musk, both espouse viscious racist anti-immigrant beliefs (about spoiling the pure blood of America) even as both are naturalized citizens who were non-US immigrants to our country. npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. Nate Silver now works for Peter Thiel, just like JD Vance. Silver's been pushing Trump since Jan. He's a bro in the pay of a bro. I am certain his business circle gut is all in for Trump. npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. On a wholly separate note, Kamala Harris gives a really good sermon. She is an inheritor to Jimmy Carter's legacy of faith inspired good works. She's an actual good person. One more reason I'm super proud to have already voted for her. npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. Do people realize this is the "Great" the Trumpist "Make America Great" wants us to be "Again"? Where young women gave up jobs to men for lesser paying work or remained at home pregnant, and working older women gave up jobs to stay home and babysit their grandchildren. JD Vance says this quiet MAGA part out loud, and elderly Trump has annointed him his MAGA successor. Men, expect the great MAGA working life of your great-grandfathers, it wasn't romantic, it was crushingly stressful, my dad (b. 1907) worked multiple jobs from the age of 11, and didn't have time to relax, socialize, play games, sports, or indulge in "self-care". Your wife will lose her job to a man, and you will be a one income family, your income. npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. Crows famously took to disliking one researcher, so that the whole group would dive bomb him. He tried different clothes without luck. He finally resorted to a cheap Halloween Nixon mask, and they ignored him. They recognize faces, it turns out, and they teach each other who not to like. npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. Crows are like mules - underrated, highly intelligent, remembers those who harm, and never to be forced or messed with. You'll regret it. npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. Can we get a correction here, folks? The "covid tests" Trump took from scarce US supplies to send to Putin were not the two-to-a-box OTC kits you can get at CVS today. What Trump sent were the scarce Abbott Labs Covid Testing Machines (plural), not cardboard boxed kits; These 2020 Abbott machines were Emergency Authorization early approved state-of-the-art 6.6 pound molecular point-of-care testing machines the size of a toaster. Hospitals and clinics desperately needed these rapid (5 minute) test machines to determine who was or wasn't infected to stop the spread. Americans likely died because they were denied access to US machines that Trump was stealing from US supplies to send to his KGB handler. npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. I know, which is why I love you (in the most appropriate way) and boost you! Thank you! npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. Nobel Prize awarded to Dr Gary Ruvkun who is pictured celebrating with his wife Dr Rosalind Lee WHO WAS THE FIRST AUTHOR on the published paper in 1993. What? Where's her Nobel? npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. So. An argument between a smug liar and an honest man. npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. "The Mike Lindell signature pillow on his left is called the MEIN the one on the right is called the KAMPF... for tonight's blitzkreig price of only 14.88 you, too, can be part of the Lindell Good Reich's Rest. Call the number on the screen, and our operators will greet you with a snappy 'Heil Neighbors!, Willkommen to Mein Pillow'" npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. When I did door knocking in 1983 for Harold Washington on the northside of Chicago, whites said they'd never vote for a Black Mayor because he'd do to them what white Mayors had done to Blacks on the southside. They assumed that "reverse racism" was a real thing AND they tacitly admitted they benefited from a racist government that unfairly privileged them. They said "We're going to lose our services to "the blacks." npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. Lev Parnas specifically ties NYT reporter Ken Vogel as mouthpiece, inside man, and apologist for Rudy Giuilani at NYT. A review of his articles appears to support this in Vogel's curious erasures of Giuilani's role in Hunter Biden's cases in his articles. He has a bias. Protect your friends, aid and abet the damage done to the victim of your friend. And cover up. npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. Hitler and modern neo-Nazis and fascists would agree with your statement that the US military fighting WW2 was neither beneficial or necessary. My uncles, all of were wounded, who liberated a satellite camp of Dachau would find your opinion privileged and parochial, as they watched in horror "human skeletons walking". npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. No veteran in my family carried guns except in combat. 100th Battalion, 442nd RCT. Called the Purple Heart Battalion. Look them up. 4 of my uncles and one cousin served there. It was a segregated unit used as cannon fodder. No guns at home. One Uncle served in New Guinea with Aussies in US Army Intelligence behind enemy lines. No guns. I was born and raised in the Middle Loch of Pearl Harbor, my families homes were straffed by Zeros on Dec 7th. No guns. My cousins were in combat in Vietnam, one in the Green Berets. No guns. My brother served in the Gulf. No guns. My younger second cousin served in Special Forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. No guns. You don't sound like you respect their service - Trump does call all of them losers and suckers. In my family we call them patriotic Democrats. #HarrisWalz2024 npub198y6g0jr93j6usuzhrf0d5qplsasr4a068r8veaajlsz83qdnahqulk0a9 Duckbilled Plattypus. Really? Wasn't W Bush a Republican who declared two long lasting wars in Afghanistan and Iraq? Are you a tankie?
