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@birdmann56.bsky.social

Mostly-retired Teacher. Orchestral Musician. Unabashed Liberal, member of Like Minded Friends. Fanatical birder.

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The Hubris Is Off the Charts We’re in the middle of a self-inflicted financial collapse, but look at the bright side: The president won a golf tournament this weekend.

"Life and literature suggest that hubris fails. It brings nemesis. It results in tragedy. The trouble is that great damage is done. Trump’s hubris will do him in. He will be a failed president. The question is whether he’ll leave us a failed country."
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07.04.2025 13:37 β€” πŸ‘ 398    πŸ” 77    πŸ’¬ 24    πŸ“Œ 7

I really do think we’re well beyond this point.

If you pretend that your differences with friends and coworkers and family are about β€œpolitics” when in fact they’re about right versus wrong and fascism versus the rule of law, you’re doing your country a grave disservice.

06.04.2025 16:08 β€” πŸ‘ 18092    πŸ” 3634    πŸ’¬ 514    πŸ“Œ 131

We can hope!

07.04.2025 14:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

In years to come, the people who did this will be the ones who will go to jail.

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Elon Musk must face fraud lawsuit over disclosure of Twitter stake A U.S. judge on Friday rejected billionaire Elon Musk's bid to dismiss a lawsuit claiming he had defrauded former Twitter shareholders by waiting too long to disclose his initial investment in the social media company, now known as X.

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Exclusive | Hegseth Brought His Wife to Sensitive Meetings With Foreign Military Officials The defense secretary’s handling of sensitive information is under criticism after he shared details about a strike on Houthi militants in a group chat on a widely used app.

Wut??

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March 28, 2025 β€œAnother wipeout walloped Wall Street Friday,” Stan Choe of the Associated Press wrote today.

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29.03.2025 11:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Pho king moron she is! WMD really???

24.03.2025 15:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Wow.

Rep. Chuck Edwards is getting torn apart at a town hall in Asheville, NC.

β€œI’m a veteran & you don’t give a fuck about me. You don’t get to do this to us!”

Edwards orders veteran to be thrown out.

We’re approaching a tipping point now. Anger across the country is going to boil over soon.

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2.6K views Β· 18K reactions | What is happening in the state of Texas is not an anomaly. The ”experiment” is accelerating. Oligarchies are being installed at the state government levels all across the ... What is happening in the state of Texas is not an anomaly. The ”experiment” is accelerating. Oligarchies are being installed at the state government levels all across the country. The masses are fast....

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07.03.2025 13:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Trade War! Expect $2000 whack per household. Making Inflation Great Again.

05.03.2025 00:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Zelenskyy has been thanking the US and EU many, many times. Here he was objecting to an act of extortion and Trump/Vance expected groveling.

04.03.2025 13:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And projected Quarterly GDP is falling like a stone.

04.03.2025 13:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ya mean he’s LYING? Who knew?

04.03.2025 13:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So much winning

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A National Security Disaster in the Oval Office The Trump administration seems eager to give Vladimir Putin a big win.

"American support for Ukraine is an investment in global stability and deterrence against adversaries who seek to dismantle the international order."

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The Halfway Cafe on Substack BREAKING: An administrator for the Nobel Peace Prize Committee reportedly just accidentally said on a hot mic in Sweden that the only award they'd ever give Donald Trump is a "Nobel Little Bitch Prize...

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01.03.2025 23:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Democrats discover how to defeat Trump & Elon The left accidentally stumbled upon the single most effective way to overcome Republican overreach.

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Andy Borowitz on Substack Trump really is a king in the sense that after generations of inbreeding monarchies produce straight-up morons

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21.02.2025 04:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Cruelty is policy. Our country is sick with the fever of White Nationalism.

20.02.2025 13:45 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Dark Pence is back.

19.02.2025 18:12 β€” πŸ‘ 90375    πŸ” 20578    πŸ’¬ 4312    πŸ“Œ 1718

Both can be true. He IS an idiot and pretends to not know important truths.

20.02.2025 02:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump-Musk Scandal at USAID Takes Unnerving Turn With Vile Leaked Memo Can Trump and his top advisers really just act with total impunity? Or is there, just maybe, a price to be paid for starving poor people and un-indicting a corrupt mayor?

Awful: Internal USAID memo instructs employees to refrain from talking to the media about cuts in assistance to the most vulnerable or they may get fired, WaPo reports.

Trumpworld knows this is a big political problem for them. Keep the focus on it.

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1915...

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Doing great πŸ‘

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