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JimCook@JimCook.bsky.social

@jimcook.bsky.social

Retired officer, USAF; retired support contractor @ DOD; now just busily retired! Liberal Democrat. News junkie. Refugee from Post News.

4,065 Followers  |  4,547 Following  |  3,106 Posts  |  Joined: 23.05.2024  |  1.8359

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Why So Many Key Institutions Have Folded Rather Than Challenge Trump Yes, theyโ€™re under pressure. But maybe a lot of these leaders kinda like what Trumpโ€™s doing. Just remember: They were defeated once before.

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The Mediaโ€™s Urge to Be โ€œFairโ€ to Trump Is Killing the Republic 70 percent of Republicans understand that Trumpโ€™s tariffs will raise prices. Why is the press acting like theyโ€™re a huge success?

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04.08.2025 18:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I simply can't understand what is going on in the brains of people who believe this.

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Our new neighbors at Falcons Landing hosted a wonderful party to welcome us!

04.08.2025 16:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Trump Taps George Santos to Head Dept. Of Labor Statistics Beltway insiders are calling it one of the most stunning political comebacks in American history.

Satire...BUT...It could happen!

www.borowitzreport.com/p/trump-taps...

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July 31, 2025 On Monday, at a meeting with U.K.

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Senator & former Florida governor Rick โ€œI donโ€™t want to be poor and am offended the law wants to keep me from getting even richerโ€ Scott oversaw the largest Medicare fraud in US history and walked away from his company that defrauded America with $300 Million.

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I had a dream.

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This is how hot it got here last week!

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August 1, 2025 Economists have been expressing concern about the accuracy of economic statistics coming out of the Trump administration for months.

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INFURIATING!!!!!

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What do you think? Will we ever see that list?

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How NASA Engineered Its Own Decline The agency once projected Americaโ€™s loftiest ideals. Then it ceded its ambitions to Elon Musk.

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July 27, 2025 On July 23 the X account of the Department of Homeland Security posted an image of an 1872 oil painting by John Gast, titled American Progress. Gast represented the American East on the right side of ...

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Russia's economy is now so militarized, it may keep expanding its army even after the Ukraine war Military production and defense spending are propping up Russia's economy and may shape its future long after the war in Ukraine.

www.businessinsider.com/russia-econo...

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I hope so!

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Saturday Report 7/26/25 โ€” CBS is installing a monitor to look out for โ€œleftwing bias.โ€ You know, like facts? The Best of the Rest of the News

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July 25, 2025 โ€œWeโ€™re going to end up shooting some of them.โ€

We've seen this movie before!

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