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US ex-pat in Denmark, professional beekeeper, mom to two amazing kids, Suzuki violin parent, and avid reader of all genres, including scientific papers related to honey and health.
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My soon-to-be teenage daughter had one of *those* mornings & claimed to HATE everyone in the world!!

I laughed & said "Me too, on many days! Want to see my hate-the-world playlist?"

She was not amused & did not want to see the playlist. =/

She got over it & apologized later.

Kids are awesome
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I’m not saying they’re Nazis. I’m saying being a Nazi isn’t a deal-breaker for them. I’m saying at a minimum they’re Good Germans.
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Bash asks Santos about his commutation, which voids his restitution sentence. "You were ordered by the court to pay $370,000 in restitution to the people you defrauded. Will you still pay that back?"

Santos: "If it's required of me by the law, yes. If it's not, then no."

It's not. And he knows it.
George Santos defends commutation: ‘If President Trump had pardoned Jesus Christ off the cross, he would have had critics’ | CNN Politics
Former Republican Congressman George Santos joins CNN’s Dana Bash after his prison sentence was commuted by President Trump.
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Watch how the media reports yesterday’s march.

Outlets that don’t report it, or dramatically downplay it are showing you precisely who they are.

When it matters.
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For sport, I tell you. For sport.
A bicyclist riding in the intersection tried to join the group on the outside of the police line after it moved and was shoved off his bike by two officers and wrecked into the pavement. He’s bleeding from the head
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🎁🔗"The meeting between the US and Ukrainian presidents descended many times into a “shouting match”, with Trump “cursing all the time”, people familiar with the matter said."
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Trump urged Zelenskyy to accept Putin’s terms or be ‘destroyed’ by Russia
US president tossed aside maps of Ukraine frontline in volatile White House meeting
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A pedophile, a fraud and Kung Fu Panda at the Romanov Cigar Lounge in Moscow.

There is a school within 300m, so we know why Scott chose it.
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Washington Post editorial board, 2 days ago: "The idea that Trump is easily swayed by Putin, let alone manipulated or controlled by him, does not hold water."
Shouting match. Cursing.

And this ⤵️

Trump "adopted many of Putin’s talking points verbatim, even when they contradicted his own statements about Russia’s weaknesses..

"Trump told Zelenskyy that Putin had told him the conflict was a 'special operation, not even a war.'”

www.ft.com/content/7960...
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Breaking news: Donald Trump urged Volodymyr Zelenskyy to accept Russia’s terms for ending its war in a volatile White House meeting on Friday, warning that Vladimir Putin had said he would 'destroy' Ukraine if it did not agree on.ft.com/4ou5h1A
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❗️Combined strike by MLRS 🇺🇦HIMARS and 🇺🇦aerial bombs on the 🇷🇺Russian Command and Observation Post in the Novopavlovsk direction and its consequences

It is reported that as a result of the strike, the Russians lost over 30 personnel wounded and killed.
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What an incredible journey of a sentence
An artillery shell fired during 250th anniversary celebration of the Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton on Saturday detonated prematurely over Interstate 5, damaging a California Highway Patrol vehicle on JD Vance's security detail www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...
Artillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines’ Celebration, California Officials Say
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Decided, after much thought, to return the Season 13 box. I can’t support the blu-rays if this is what they are doing now.
Can confirm: they fucked up the Doctor Who Season 13 blu-ray with AI. How incredibly, incredibly disappointing. Especially after they denied it when the terrible trailer came out.

What a shame. Hold on to your DVDs.
Okay time to crack open The Android Invasion and check that scene versus the trailer.
No.

No one has "given" weapons to Ukraine. They were sold to Ukraine.

No Trump had not been good to Ukraine. He has been & continues to be beholden to Putin
Trump: "We can't give all of our weapons to Ukraine. We just can't do that. And I've been very good to President Zelenskyy and to Ukraine."
War is not a game.

The only thing Putin has won is the right to be tried at the ICC for crimes against humanity
BARTIROMO: Did you get any sense from Putin that he's open to ending this war without taking significant property from Ukraine?

TRUMP: Well, he's gonna take something. I mean, he's won certain property.
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!!! Trump now says he's secured $20 TRILLION in investments in America. His fake number has increased by $2 trillion just since last Thursday! (The entire US GDP is $30 trillion)
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they gave *me* 10%
Trump: "They came in to see me and I said, 'You know, I think the US should own 10 percent of your company.' And they gave me 10 percent!"
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WELKER: Does Trump need to get tougher with President Putin?

ZELENSKYY: Yes
All those words are in English.
But sense, they do not make.
Trump: "The Democrats are kamikazes right now. They are kamikaze pilots ... I looked at Jasmine Crockett. She's a very low IQ person. AOC is -- I watched her the other day. It's like, you gotta be kidding."
If everyone lied as much as the US President humanity would cease to exist with a decade.

"I disarmed that bomb, the blinking light means it is happy"
"Raw water is the bestest, most beautiful water"
"The snake oil will cure you of all pain.."
"I know the science, I have all the vibes"
Trump: "Washington DC was a deathtrap. People would come from Iowa and Idaho and Florida and they end up going home in a casket, right? They were killed. Now it's the safest city in the country."
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He has a point. I can't remember a SecDef inviting a reporter to their classified Signal chat either.
KARL: Why is the Defense Secretary afraid to interact with journalists who cover him?

JOHNSON: I reject the premise

KARL: The guy has only had 2 briefings and he basically forced the press out

JOHNSON: I can't remember a Secretary of Defense who has been so transparent and out in the open
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I'd never vote for Rand Paul, but on this issue he's absolutely correct. This is a clear and profound distinction. No declaration of war. No evidence of crime. What Trump & our military is doing is mass murder. It's no different than any mass-shooting of innocents – just with bigger (military) guns.
Rand Paul: "When you kill someone, if you're not in a declared war, you really need to know someone's name at least. You have to accuse them of something. You have to present evidence. So all of these people have been blown up without any evidence of a crime."
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In the absence of anything approaching an actual uprising, Trump still threatening military action against American citizens.
Trump: "Don't forget I can use the Insurrection Act. 50% of the presidents almost have used that. And that's unquestioned power."