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Maite Chaves Penna 🇨🇺🇺🇸🇫🇷

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Lord, what fools these mortals be! Puck, Midsummer Night’s Dream. Professional level lurker. Happily married and living in France. No crypto, no porn, no AI!

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Maite Chaves Penna 🇨🇺🇺🇸🇫🇷 @mtpenna.bsky.social · 6d

Testing different media on handmade paper: colored pencil, pencil, markers, watercolor. Gouache is next.

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Maite Chaves Penna 🇨🇺🇺🇸🇫🇷 @mtpenna.bsky.social · 3d

Something to think about:
Who was Who in Weimar Germany (video) open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

When Anti-antifa means Pro-Nazi (video)

Notes from a Presidential "Roundtable"

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Maite Chaves Penna 🇨🇺🇺🇸🇫🇷 @mtpenna.bsky.social · 4d

Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeated it...and those of use who learn from history are doomed to stand by and watch as history repeats itself.
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

Stalinism and Stephen Miller (video)

Cause for concern

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Maite Chaves Penna 🇨🇺🇺🇸🇫🇷 @mtpenna.bsky.social · 5d

It’s scallop season!

Maite Chaves Penna 🇨🇺🇺🇸🇫🇷 @mtpenna.bsky.social · 5d

A well-deserved prize!

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 5d

BREAKING: Maria Corina Machado wins Nobel Peace Prize

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Democrats Abroad France @demsabroadfrance.bsky.social · 13d

An entirely predictable situation... only thing different than Trump 45 is that he and Republicans haven't bailed farmers out (yet... and might not, because the Freedom Caucus won't want to balloon the deficit for them).

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 13d

Soybean farmer: What we need more than anything is access to markets on a level playing field. With the trade war and the tariffs, we're at about a 20% price disadvantage when it comes to what the Chinese have to pay for our soybeans versus the Brazilian soybeans.

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Maite Chaves Penna 🇨🇺🇺🇸🇫🇷 @mtpenna.bsky.social · 6d

Testing different media on handmade paper: colored pencil, pencil, markers, watercolor. Gouache is next.

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Maite Chaves Penna 🇨🇺🇺🇸🇫🇷 @mtpenna.bsky.social · 9d

I read it last night, just after he published it and before he deleted it.

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Florida Wild Child @floridawildchild.bsky.social · 9d

Fake enjoys Fake

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Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 9d

Even Thomas Jefferson drew the line clearly: government should never cross into religion.

“…thus building a wall of separation between Church and State.”
-Thomas Jefferson, 1802 letter to the Danbury Baptists

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Maite Chaves Penna 🇨🇺🇺🇸🇫🇷 @mtpenna.bsky.social · 9d

I know who Bad Bunny is and he is more American than the so-called “president.” I don’t watch the Super Bowl but I would watch Bad Bunny’s half-time show.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 9d

omg

Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 10d

Hell of a thing to put next to a statue of Joan of Arc. (h/t David Pilling)

Fire extinguisher next to a statue of Joan of Arc

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 9d

JD Vance wants to use the 25th Amendment to become president. Stephen Miller wants to exploit Trump’s dementia to run the country himself. Call it the new checks and balances.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 9d

Neither blacks nor women nor poor people had a voice when the Constitution was framed. So it’s hard to see why we should tolerate all this whining.

by Jonathan Turley

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Maite Chaves Penna 🇨🇺🇺🇸🇫🇷 @mtpenna.bsky.social · 9d

For all his strutting bravado and posturing Trump is just a pathetic old man sundowning and suffering from dementia.

Maite Chaves Penna 🇨🇺🇺🇸🇫🇷 @mtpenna.bsky.social · 9d

Let’s hope so, otherwise the 250-year experiment that is democracy in America is doomed.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 9d

scroll up — this thread was a BANGER. the judge was NOT happy that the DOJ tried to run around her previous order barring nat’l guard troops in oregon.

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 9d

DOJ: I would just reiterate request for stay pending appeal and admin stay and note request in order.

Judge: I am denying both requests for stays.

[HEARING ENDS]

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 13d

A new KFF study reports: 24 million Americans will see their health care premiums under the Affordable Care Act DOUBLE.

Further, 15 million people will be thrown off their health care entirely.

Unacceptable. We can’t subject millions of Americans to this unnecessary suffering.

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 10d

Violent thugs are terrorizing Americans and they were sent by the White House.

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Dutchy Patrick @dutchiepatrick.bsky.social · 9d

The Speaker of the House and every other GOP member who supports this are complicit.

The GOP is a criminal organization, protecting pedophiles…

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 10d

UPDATE: Hegseth today called up 400 members of the Texas National Guard, with Gov. Abbott's apparent permission, to be deployed "where needed, including in the cities of Portland and Chicago." www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 10d

Everything by Trump and Miller right now is weakness.

They know they've lost the majority and their policies are unpopular and they've F'd up the economy.

So, they'll use the military and threats and unleash their Reeks.

But, they don't have the numbers.

All hands on deck resistance.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 9d

It’s of note that during tonight’s hearing the DoJ didn’t even try to make the case that changing conditions on the ground in Portland warranted the CA National Guard. Instead they relied on legal technicalities. Proving again that what they say in court is different than lies they tell the public.

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