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Life c. 2026: democracy, lifestyle, arts & pop culture, experience over things, coastal sustainability, raising 2 Gen Z boys & a Pumi.

Seattle & Camano Island
Joined August 2008
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Replying to @DavidCayJ @SebGorka
Historians need to capture the deep darkness and evil of the Trump administration and his enablers as well as the debilitating shame the rest of us feel psychologically and physically. I have waves of utter despair but know that is their intent. I will not stop fighting.
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You know she’s right.
Hillary Clinton on Jensen Huang: I will predict to you what will happen when Trump meet Xi Jinping in a few weeks He will say to Xi Jinping, like he said to Putin, "Is this true?" And Xi Jinping will say, "Of course it's not, Donald. You know that we wouldn't do that to you." And then Trump will come out and say, "I asked President Xi if it were true, and he assured me it wasn't."
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Sounds like he’s scared, doing everything he can to shift the corruption focus off of him and on to “Blue States.” Like: “No puppet! No puppet! You’re the puppet!”
Busy Morning
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Keep it up, MAGA. At the rate Republicans are going, every seat will soon be BLUE.
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The U.S. president has suffered narcissistic mortification—a public humiliation that forces him to see himself through the eyes of others. He is unable to process shame & loss so he seeks to identify scapegoats and destroy them all. “THE DEMOCRATS ARE CORRUPT AND EVIL, and I am the exact opposite!” “MASSIVE BLUE STATE CORRUPTION & CRIME” “I WAS NOT ON THE BALLOT” “The Republican Senate… one of the greatest mistakes” His psychological collapse is accelerated by frontotemporal dementia. He is severely psychotic. And the people around him like Natalie and Stephen Miller don’t try to mitigate it—they enable it. Having him anywhere near the nuclear football is suicidal.
When a narcissist is publicly humiliated, he doesn’t just feel an injury to his ego. He is forced to look at himself through the eyes of others—and the image terrifies him. The midterms were “narcissistic mortification” for Trump. There will be no bottom. mind-war.com/p/mortified-tru…
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The peace talks are failing because Putin still believes he can win the war, and because Trump, Kushner and Witkoff encourage this belief. By pressuring Ukraine, not Russia, they are prolonging the conflict, which will kill more people.
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Every year from May to September, this Zimbabwe estate dumps tons of leftover orange pulp and low-grade fruit by the river, creating a massive daily buffet for hundreds of wild elephants. [📹 Janice Herlig]
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The White House ballroom is a monument to corruption. It should be torn down in January 2029.
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Dear @WhiteHouse: I attended a closed-door House Foreign Affairs hearing on AI export controls last year in which Jensen Huang testified. Would have been helpful if you told Congress that Mr. Huang was having an affair with a Chinese spy who ran a company that needed AI chips.
If you listen closely to what Trump is saying here, it's clear he was made aware of the Jensen Huang scandal months ago and when he says "it didn't make much of an impact on me," that's his way of explaining that he didn't give an F.
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actually the GOP seems kinda more L-shaped these days
The K-Shaped Republican Party
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To guard this Tomb, you must volunteer. Then memorize 7 pages of history, word for word. Learn nearly 300 graves. Train for months, much of it at night on this plaza. By 2025, only 732 had earned the badge. The watch hasn't stopped since 1937.
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Here are 14 ways to regulate your nervous system you’ve probably never heard of: 1. Shower in the dark (reduces sensory input and is one of the fastest ways to calm your overstimulated nervous system).
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seeing a black man win a senate seat against a vicious racist in a state defined and shaped by racism from its birth in the midst of conservatives trying to bludgeon the voting rights act is perhaps the most cathartic experience of this entire election
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This is a very important piece. Please read it.
NEW: Trump “loves” our vets. I dug into reality At Trump's gutted VA: Shortstaffed hospitals have stopped surgeries for heart attacks They've stopped radiation for cancer A vet w/ burst, gangrenous appendix couldn't get surgery bc OR was closed propublica.org/article/east-…
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I hope everyone takes a good hard look at this picture. Trump’s under-construction ballroom is now bigger than the rest of the White House. Much bigger. The contrast says everything you need to know about this President and his priorities.
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SENATOR-ELECT COLOM: I've been telling everybody that we're going to win this election. I was saying it 8 or 9 months ago. But every time I said it, I pointed out that people were going to give me too much credit for it because it's not something that I did. It's something that we did.  All I did was have the courage to imagine a night like this. I had the courage to believe in Mississippi. I had the courage to understand that we could show the country that Mississippi matters.
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Whose fall from grace was worse than his? I’m sure there are some contenders but 🤷‍♀️
Jensen Huang’s access to Trump has been well-reported (particularly by NYT) but thought this moment was evocative - just hanging out in the Oval Office - flanked by a Susie Wiles deputy - as Trump gives unrelated speech on Dulles airport and occasionally asks for Jensen’s take
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We need to hear more about this guy but he probably wants to remain anonymous. He was just doing his job. Well.
“All visitors will maintain an atmosphere of silence and respect at all times!”
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Amazing.
Dude just got profiled by the WSJ. Quite a story. Christian Lamarco, 31. Went to a small Christian college in Pennsylvania with no Wall Street recruiting pipeline. Once drove to Carnegie Mellon to compete against Ivy Leaguers in a stock-picking contest. Finished second. Won $100. Cold-emailed his research to hedge funds, landed a job at a Chicago long-short fund, then quit in 2019 with just a few months of savings to start Culper Research. Moved to NYC, working out of a Brooklyn apartment. His team? Just two analysts. They started investigating Nvidia last year, then gave up. They doubted three guys could uncover something Wall Street had missed about the world's most valuable company. Picked it back up in March. Interviewed former Nvidia employees, dug through corporate filings in Singapore and Malaysia, examined scrubbed code, even studied YouTube footage outside a Taiwanese noodle shop. May 13: After a sleepless night, a bagel and a cigarette, he published a 40-page short report flagging Nvidia’s China exposure and Jensen Huang’s relationship with Alice Huang. The next day, Nvidia hit an all-time high. Nobody cared. Six months later, the story blew up…
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Veteran and veterans’ advocate @PaulRieckhoff on Hegseth being loudly admonished today at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington: “Pete Hegseth is a piece of shit. I have to say it. We can all see it now. The whole world can see it. He’s disrespectful. He’s despicable. He’s dastardly. He’s a liar. He’s lied to his wives. He’s lied to the country. He’s lied to the president. And they are bad people. And it’s no more obvious and egregious than on Veterans’ Day, when they act like that. And props to that guardian who has to stand up. That sentinel who bravely, basically, said to Hegseth, ‘don’t confuse your rank with my authority.’ He speaks for the troops. He speaks for our democracy. He speaks for America.”
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