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Rita Albrecht

@bemidjirita.bsky.social

Thankful to live in MN! Two great kids, their spouses, and 5 precious grandkids. Blue volunteer, gardener, former mayor. Stay in the fight. Canada, we love you; not coming for you.

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FYI...

What the vast majority of Americans don't understand is that the DATA centers for AI Technology consumes a LARGE amount of WATER and ENERGY to operate these DATA Centers. Does the environment allow for this massive consumption??????πŸ€” Are we doomed to self destruct????

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Dang it.

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Like a sack of sh*t.

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Yeah! Got out of that bases loaded situation.

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🚨DEI firings at CBS🚨
He asks for this to be downloaded and shared. He and his colleagues deserve so much more, but this is an easy ask. We see you CBS 1/2

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This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

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The federal criminal justice system is being systematically dismantled and destroyed piece by piece and turned into a mob boss’s network of corrupt consiglieres and thugs, where good people simply doing their jobs are rooted out and eradicated.

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A woman sits on her couch and watches a television depicting a building in shambles. A man standing behind her asks, "More senseless destruction in Ukraine?" and the woman responds, "East Wing of the White House"

A woman sits on her couch and watches a television depicting a building in shambles. A man standing behind her asks, "More senseless destruction in Ukraine?" and the woman responds, "East Wing of the White House"

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via Peter Jenkins
#TaxTheRich

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Here's why the new White House ballroom project is not real. (The demo is obviously real.) Some background - I am a licensed Architect with 20+ years of experience. I have worked on multiple Federal projects with sensitive building programs that required background checks.

1. With a projected size of 90,000sf and a newly revised budget of $300M, the cost per square foot would be $3,333. No building costs anywhere near that. $1,000/sf is astronomical.

2. Let's assume, since we are drawing in the classical, style, that the proportions of the building adhere to the Golden Ratio. A 90,000sf would be a building with a footprint roughly 380' x 235'. Longer than a football field and 1.5x as wide.

2. The building is projected to accommodate 999 people. 15sf/person is required for a banquet area; 20sf/person is pretty comfortable. What you see in the rendering below is closer to 20sf/person. That's only 20,000sf, or a space that is 200'x100'. It's supposed to be a ballroom, so let's be extraordinarily generous and provide 10,000sf for the ballroom support functions, and another 10,000sf for pre-function. Extraordinarily generous. That's STILL only 40,000sf, not even half of the supposed building. 

3. There are no drawings for the building. The renderings are poorly coordinated - exterior views do not match the interior views. See below - the White House is 70 feet tall, to the roof. The interior renderings show a room that is roughly 100' x 200', with a ~20 foot ceiling. The exterior renderings show a building footprint of 4.5x that amount.

Those are renderings that could be produced by young staff in a week or two, at most. Nothing else exists.

Here's why the new White House ballroom project is not real. (The demo is obviously real.) Some background - I am a licensed Architect with 20+ years of experience. I have worked on multiple Federal projects with sensitive building programs that required background checks. 1. With a projected size of 90,000sf and a newly revised budget of $300M, the cost per square foot would be $3,333. No building costs anywhere near that. $1,000/sf is astronomical. 2. Let's assume, since we are drawing in the classical, style, that the proportions of the building adhere to the Golden Ratio. A 90,000sf would be a building with a footprint roughly 380' x 235'. Longer than a football field and 1.5x as wide. 2. The building is projected to accommodate 999 people. 15sf/person is required for a banquet area; 20sf/person is pretty comfortable. What you see in the rendering below is closer to 20sf/person. That's only 20,000sf, or a space that is 200'x100'. It's supposed to be a ballroom, so let's be extraordinarily generous and provide 10,000sf for the ballroom support functions, and another 10,000sf for pre-function. Extraordinarily generous. That's STILL only 40,000sf, not even half of the supposed building. 3. There are no drawings for the building. The renderings are poorly coordinated - exterior views do not match the interior views. See below - the White House is 70 feet tall, to the roof. The interior renderings show a room that is roughly 100' x 200', with a ~20 foot ceiling. The exterior renderings show a building footprint of 4.5x that amount. Those are renderings that could be produced by young staff in a week or two, at most. Nothing else exists.

There are no plans for the ballroom

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Why are there stories analyzing Reagans tariff speech? The STORY is "Manbaby President Threw a Hissy Fit Because of an Ad Quoting Ronald Reagan"

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Americans are standing on a health care cliff.

More than 20 million Americans could see their premiums double.

Doctors, nurses, rural Americans, patients, and families are speaking out.

This isn’t political theater.

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It's humiliating. We are the laughing stock of the world.

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I find I can’t muster a proper response to either the Tylenol madness or the U.N. appearance. At some point it is just too ridiculous. It would feel insane to offer sane commentary.

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Itasca State Park, Minnesota. Headwaters of the Mississippi, September 18, 2025.

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Tim Walz: "I'll tell you what doesn't make people feel safe -- a tank next to Chipotle. It's stupid and it's for the cameras ... where are the 'don't tread on me' people?"

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πŸ‘‡πŸ‘‡

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Lovely flowers still producing in September gardens of northern MN. #gardens

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Charlie Kirk called his opponents evil, drew up a hit list of left-wing professors, called George Floyd a scumbag, said black people were better off in slavery, black women were too stupid to take seriously & gay people should be stoned to death, but our rhetoric is the problem?

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Just an observation, but the concept of free speech, a right guaranteed in the constitution, seems to have died in the aftermath of this shooting. It feels like, in a nation with more guns than people, that the 2A killed the 1A.

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Americans have short memoriesβ€”keep reminding them. PLEASE SHARE!

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There are violent extremists on the left but they are not in charge of the party. You can find them on social media, not in the halls of power.

The violent extremists on the right are in congress, on courts, and sitting in the Oval Office.

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Here's an update on the global monthly surface temperature anomaly, with data from 1940 through September 2025 (to date).

The recent cooling trend has pushed the official passing of the Paris limit of 1.5Β°C to late 2026 or early 2027. The Climate 8-Ball is taking the under.

11.09.2025 13:03 β€” πŸ‘ 142    πŸ” 50    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 1

The UK fired their ambassador to the US over his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.

Meanwhile, Epstein’s best friend remains the President of the United States.

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