Spencer’s Butte’s Shadow

Spencer’s Butte’s Shadow

@brienmcmullen.bsky.social

Teaching reading skills to K-5. Dad. History, Folklore, Jazz, Bass Player, Conjugal, Organic gardening, Hiking, Politics, Finance, Deadhead, Tree Hugging Dirt Worshipper. Incapable of stopping before reaching the character limit.

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9 minutes ago

That's a long ways from Iran???

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11 minutes ago

I'm so glad we decided to import the Middle East violence to America.

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35 minutes ago
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Reports of U.S. strikes on Iranian-backed Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) positions in Iraq tonight. Footage shows USAF A-10s reportedly targeting PMF positions in northcentral Iraq.

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15 minutes ago

I definitely wouldn't feel guilty after reading him that much.
I used to just go into long lectures about how volcanos work and how acorns turn into lumber and bore him to sleep.

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2 hours ago

Dumping rain and 39° for two straight days.
Running a contra dance volleyball with 60 screaming kids under the playshed by day.
Fixing tarps and shoveling chicken mud by night.
Almost got run over today being a crossing guard.

Sloppy days.

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2 hours ago

Link...
rockinst.org/gun-violence...

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2 hours ago
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There were so many shootings during Trump's first term.
My recollection it didn't get bad until the 2nd year. Look here; 2019 is highlighted.
2017-19 were the highest ever,
It 's back up in 2025.

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2 hours ago

Trump to Zelensky (probably);
"You don't hold any cards. Russia holds all the cards. It isn't like you're Iran and you control the world's energy supply or something."

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3 hours ago

The Make-a-wish President.

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3 hours ago

That's how a World war starts;
The need for oil could drag everybody in or cause issues in Asia that currently seem unthinkable.

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3 hours ago
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US using swaps to enable SPR refill plan: Wright | Latest Market News President Donald Trump's administration will use "swaps" to more than offset the effects of a 172mn bl emergency drawdown of crude from the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), US energy secretary Ch...

We are giving ourselves 100M bls of oil and buying 200M to be delivered 12 months.
At no cost!
100M free barrels of oil.
GD this man's a genius.

www.argusmedia.com/en/news-and-...

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3 hours ago

I heard him say that on the show today.
Someone must have fed him that because he never has opinions on world affairs.

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3 hours ago

Let's Go!!!!!!!!!!

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3 hours ago

America is a cult of greed and selfishness.

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3 hours ago

Greed explains so much;
Voting for Trump. Supporting his schemes. Believing his promises.
The media nodding at his lies.
The crypto scams.
The deportations.
The Visa cancellations.
The $100k Visa, the Gold card citizenship.
USAID.
The Billionaires.

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3 hours ago
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The U.S. borrowed $50 billion a week for the past five months, finds the CBO: 'Our fiscal problems will not solve themselves' | Fortune "We need policymakers to come together, agree to reduce deficits ... and put our national debt on a downward sustainable path as a share of the economy."

Who wants to tell them?
fortune.com/2026/03/10/t...

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3 hours ago

Were there two attacks today? Or is Old Dominion the location of the Jewish center attack?

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3 hours ago
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A quick glance at the S&P, it is down about 3.9% from recent highs.
A correction labeled a Bear market would be a 20% drawdown.
Stock market losses are still in normal range, stocks are still overvalued.
None of the pain has happened yet, but it is almost surely coming.

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6 hours ago

But he'll sell it on the a structured way that limits tax liability.

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6 hours ago

White flight

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6 hours ago

So now the smart equity-minded people are going to move into the trades (which are largely still entrenched good-ol-boy clubs) and push out all the Trump dummies.

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6 hours ago

People criticized Hillary for appearing with Jay z and beyoncé the night before her election.
Then they criticized Harris for appearing with Cheney at the end of her campaign.
Opposite choices.
Same criticism.

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6 hours ago

I'm sorry if you believed this when he said it.
It was obviously untrue at the time and you are a fool for having accepted it.

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8 hours ago

That's interesting. I hadn't heard about that. I'll bet he's got it. Worked out to avoid those taxes anyways though.

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8 hours ago

The California's Governor race kind of looks like a mediocre white guys competition.

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8 hours ago
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The stock market is being hurt by the war, but it was already in bubble mode. It been skyrocketing all year on pure hopes and wishes.
The economy has not been very good, definitely not enough to explain a 20% rise.
There's a lot of downside for collapse of confidence before any economic effect.

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22 hours ago

Jedoes that little hand wave when he's implanting prpoganda. I remember used it when he refused to concede the night of the 2020 election being called.

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22 hours ago

here we go

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22 hours ago

Oh yeah, I'm solid.
i had my Uzbek work pants, that's the gold standard.

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22 hours ago

That was a waste of effort, chasing down one lie.

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