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@mckaufman.bsky.social

Photographer, do-gooder, garden designer, passionate outdoor adventurer, cyclist, marketer, homesteader, free-thinker, and hater of oppression.

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My friend told me she always bakes muffins with her leftover cranberry sauce, and I was amazed that had never occurred to me.

So I looked up a recipe for cranberry coffee cake. Will be trying that tomorrow.

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When you call yourself "Secretary of War" and most everyone else calls you "Secretary of Defense" – we know what your motives are.

30.11.2025 01:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1125    πŸ” 172    πŸ’¬ 40    πŸ“Œ 1
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This is madness! The β€œno new wars” president is taking us to war with Venezuela.

Bombing ships in the Caribbean, as an ongoing operation, without congressional authorization, crosses the line into an unconstitutional use of military force.

29.11.2025 14:19 β€” πŸ‘ 3766    πŸ” 1182    πŸ’¬ 388    πŸ“Œ 113
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How to Get Rid of "Citizens United" We can do away with it without a new Supreme Court. Nor do we need a constitutional amendment. There’s a far simpler way.
29.11.2025 23:17 β€” πŸ‘ 257    πŸ” 97    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 5

He's hiding the Epstein files for the same reason he hides his medical records and jobs reports. And it's not because they make him look good.

29.11.2025 13:59 β€” πŸ‘ 8394    πŸ” 2177    πŸ’¬ 195    πŸ“Œ 64

One of my favorite Douglas Adams quotes:

β€œAll opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated, and well supported in logic and argument than others.”

More timely today than ever, don't you think? πŸ’™

#WritingCommunity #WriteSky #BookSky

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My periodic reminder that Sarah Palin (quite correctly) called for Rahm Emmanuel to be fired when he used the "R" word.

And my periodic reminder that maybe a political reporter wants to ask her what should happen when Trump uses it.

Like any reporter.

29.11.2025 15:48 β€” πŸ‘ 3127    πŸ” 464    πŸ’¬ 69    πŸ“Œ 13
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How to Get Rid of "Citizens United" We can do away with it without a new Supreme Court. Nor do we need a constitutional amendment. There’s a far simpler way.

open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

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Looks like we’re going to war.

I didn’t vote for this, did you?

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Beautiful! We took a six-mile hike in Farmington at Quebec Run yesterday in 30-degree weather. So invigorating! I never regret time in nature.

30.11.2025 03:23 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States. He has brought the office down so low in such a short time. Other presidents have tried but none have come close to this.

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Trump says he will pardon former Honduran president serving sentence in drug-trafficking case | CNN Politics President Donald Trump said Friday he intends to grant a β€œfull and complete pardon” to former Honduran President Juan Orlando HernΓ‘ndez, a move that would erase a major US drug-trafficking conviction ...

Nothing proves the Trump administration is made of mean whims based on lies better than a president who is murdering people in boats "because I am so strongly against drug trafficking" pardoning someone who trafficked more drugs than a hundred fishing boats could carry.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/28/p...

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People keep calling the shooting random. He didn't go to a grocery store and murder a pregnant person or an elder, he specifically picked armored people in uniform carrying guns. That is literally the opposite of random, which is: targeted

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Trump Announces Pardon for Honduran Ex-President Convicted in Drug Case

"We blow up β€˜alleged’ drug boats in the Caribbean but pardon actually convicted drug traffickers in the U.S. Someone help me make sense of this.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...

29.11.2025 03:24 β€” πŸ‘ 7983    πŸ” 2790    πŸ’¬ 395    πŸ“Œ 159

Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.

29.11.2025 16:38 β€” πŸ‘ 19916    πŸ” 7297    πŸ’¬ 777    πŸ“Œ 437
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🎩Get this POS outta the White House! πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

29.11.2025 17:25 β€” πŸ‘ 10021    πŸ” 1966    πŸ’¬ 415    πŸ“Œ 112
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There is seriously something wrong with this man.

Also, he is devoid of any joy. He is bitter and rotten to the core. This post proves it.

Basically a shit for brains.

29.11.2025 04:14 β€” πŸ‘ 7712    πŸ” 1428    πŸ’¬ 995    πŸ“Œ 238

You know, apropos of nothing in particular, οΏΌand οΏΌalthough I haven't researched it yet,οΏΌ I strongly suspect that a president starting a foreign war to distract from his extensive ties with child sex traffickers is probably a high crime or misdemeanor under the Constitution's impeachment clauses.

29.11.2025 21:43 β€” πŸ‘ 10720    πŸ” 2745    πŸ’¬ 400    πŸ“Œ 100
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This absurd pardon shows the murderous boat bombings were never about stopping drugs

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How to Get Rid of "Citizens United" We can do away with it without a new Supreme Court. Nor do we need a constitutional amendment. There’s a far simpler way.

The Citizens United decision has corrupted our government and is destroying our democracy. Here's a way to get rid of it. robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-get...

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Real photo.

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I think Pete Hegseth is gonna wish he had lived out his professional life as a third-tier Fox News on-air talent

28.11.2025 21:18 β€” πŸ‘ 3238    πŸ” 366    πŸ’¬ 144    πŸ“Œ 43

1/X Everyone and anyone is expendable.

There is something suspiciously covert about the shooting of two members of the West Virginia National Guard in Washington, D.C., that should not be easily dismissed as a false conspiracy theory.

29.11.2025 00:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1228    πŸ” 322    πŸ’¬ 75    πŸ“Œ 21

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

Nothing has ever trickled down.

29.11.2025 23:01 β€” πŸ‘ 16747    πŸ” 6307    πŸ’¬ 505    πŸ“Œ 281
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In case you’re in the mood for some good news . . .

29.11.2025 22:14 β€” πŸ‘ 18481    πŸ” 3053    πŸ’¬ 1172    πŸ“Œ 362
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Happy Thanksgiving everyone
A beautiful message from President Obama
With gratitude and love

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Disgusted to hear of the targeted shooting of National Guard members in DC today. All Americans should unite in condemning and rejecting this violence. Sending prayers to these victims and their families, and thankful to the responders who acted so quickly.

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