Mike Shaw
@zax2000.bsky.social
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A yokel Bostonian bumbling around Seattle. Stints in 北京 and Bali along the way. I used to craft/edit journalists' spam. Geopolitics is my jam. I post, therefore I am.
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In April of 2009 I observed the Tea Party rally in Salem. As this front page story says, there were a couple hundred people there. This past weekend in Salem there were roughly 2-3000 people at the Hands Off rally. Yet the Tea Party coverage seemed to take that event far more seriously.
Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...
Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’
Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...
www.volkskrant.nl
DOOCY: What do you think about a Russia to Alaska tunnel?
SEN. JIM BANKS: Maybe it's something that's possible. I don't know. I'll defer to President Trump. I'm sure there's a reason he's raising that prospect. He's several steps ahead.
SEN. JIM BANKS: Maybe it's something that's possible. I don't know. I'll defer to President Trump. I'm sure there's a reason he's raising that prospect. He's several steps ahead.
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The brand new GOP position this morning, apparently, is that old white people suck. I kid you not. #NoKings
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You laugh but if there's another massive fire, the president can put it out with his shit plane. Then who'll be chanting, "Thank you for being the diarrhea president, sir!"? You will
"A beloved family-run grocery store in Florida may have to close its doors after 43 years because of tariffs." www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/ar...
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“This is what democracy looks like.”
“This is what America looks like.”
NYC
“This is what America looks like.”
NYC
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Y’all here is a fun fact: Portland has a brand new volunteer organization called “operation inflation” that allows people to borrow inflatable costumes for protests. They just started a couple weeks ago and have like a 160 costume library (and counting because people keep donating).
OPERATION INFLATION
www.operationinflation.com
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