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Trump has no core beliefs beyond “immigrants bad”however I doubt he would authorize war against Iran. He has a natural skepticism to Middle East wars and he’s politically astute enough to know how unpopular it would be.

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Took a few years off my life but proud to say we graduated another 60 eighth graders off to competitive, college preparatory high schools throughout RI yesterday!

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An eagle eyed observer of MAGA content spies a repulsively interesting divide over Iran, one that almost makes you think some of these luminaries believe stuff

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Israel’s attack on Iran is also an indictment of Biden’s failure to rejoin the JCPOA on day one. Biden’s team told us to accept a humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza because they could still pressure Bibi to ‘contain’ the war. They overestimated their pull every time. @rhodesben.bsky.social

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If the Israelis really did not notify the Trump dopes before this it would be, as my middle schoolers often say, willlllllllld

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The situation is so bad that even Gov Newsom can be a populist hero for our most cherished ideals

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It’s been 2 months and I have many thoughts and feelings I’m now ready to share about the new Bon Iver album. It’s good! Great, even. 22, A Million was truly transcendent & it’s unfair to compare anything to that album or i,i. But I love & appreciate this guy and he is our generation’s Bob Dylan.

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@pedrothelion.bsky.social Winners Never Quit is still and has always been the most perfect album of all time

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The Afrikaner thing is gross because of its abject racism but it’s also a scary example of POTUS being captured by rando internet message board conspiracy theories

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Disappointed to see the Jewish Alliance of Rhode Island expressing “concern” over the Palestinian flag at City Hall. Really? Are we not more concerned about 50,000 dead civilians, so many of whom also oppose Hamas? We can be proud Jews and compassionate humanitarians at the same time.

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…what? That’s all we were waiting for this entire time? One judge to say “yeah, no.” I need someone to explain how law works to me, like immediately.

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I doubt there is a single person in the government currently tasked with this project or any plan whatsoever to actually assign it to someone

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Stephen Miller Dead Behind Eyes At 39

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The hyper sensitivity and reflexive, constant defensiveness are all tells that these folks are not confident in what they are doing. A self assured, confident team doesn’t communicate like this.

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Day 52: Discovered anomalies in the plant samples. Microscopic structures that don’t correspond to any known taxonomy. When I brought this to Grace’s attention, she claimed the equipment was malfunctioning. The samples have since disappeared -Whitby’s Journal (SR5) @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social

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RI school siting regs = perfect example of @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social Abundance. I’m not a Ezra Klein ideologue but it’s a textbook example: we allow apartment complexes on sites that preclude schools.

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This meme but its Speaker Johnson looking at SCOTUS looking at the bond market @jonlovett.bsky.social

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MIT following Harvard's lead here

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About time. Leadership like this has been categorically absent by the businesses and institutions we thought were so independent and powerful: the big law firms, major universities, media companies, the tech sector, etc. It has felt like our entire civil society preemptively rolled over for Trump.

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Spending Saturday morning of my April break cranking out grant applications to local banks for some $$ to remediate mold at my little public school. It's a cool society we've made.

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Whitby, as Rogue, visits Whitby as child. Whitby, older, joins SR because of whatever he told himself. Whitby, at SR, conducts illicit expedition and is doubled inside/by Area X. One Whitby returns to SR, other stays in Area X to become the Rogue. Travels thru time (and border?) #southernreach

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Wait a minute… so was Hargraves aka Cass aka the false daughter also the Realtor that Gloria chats with at Chippers? #southernreach

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Did ya know PVD Prep is in the top 3 of middle school chess teams in Rhode Island??

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Why are trade deficits bad? We don’t grow a lot of coffee beans in America but I’m glad we import it from places that do? Toby doesn’t get it

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Something Saul would say, in a brackish, preternatural sort of way to Gloria - hollow, like a holding pond at the gash by the side of the building. With a greater darkness within. The way it… pulsed, in its own kind of biosphere

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Feel the need to say once again that I had a class with Pete Hegseth 14 years ago and he was super annoying. Exactly how you picture that guy to behave in a grad school seminar.

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Senate Democrat: I’m voting for Trump nominees I think are qualified Us: WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING Senate Democrat: Gosh, those nominees have done something awfully silly! Here is a meme Us: SERIOUSLY DO SOMETHING Senate Democrat: Damn, why these people hate us? Us: JESUS GOD DO ANYTHING

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Imagine if @columbiauniversity.bsky.social Trustees published an epic take down of Trumpism. People would go nuts. I bet they would gain and not lose donors. We lack courage, creativity, inspiration.

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Family is away this weekend which means I can lie in bed, stare at the ceiling and ponder the Whitby timeline for at least 48 hrs @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social

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My wife gets those speed camera tickets like, once a week. But I realized they are all signed with autopen or at least an electronic signature. So I herby declare these tickets null and void and totally illegal - thank you, Donald!

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@crooked.com I am a PSA super fan, and also a Rhode Islander and fan of local USAID food supplier Edesia - pls tell Favs they have not been paid as of 3/13/25! See: www.providencejournal.com/story/news/p...

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Are we supposed to apologize to Dean Phillips yet

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These guys are so oddly inconsistent. Imagine if Michelle Obama had been anti food dye, Trump would be replacing the fluoride with food dye

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I don’t hate Guv Newsom having the nazi Steve Bannon on his podcast. It’s interesting content and debate or whatever. No, that’s not right, I do hate it. Do I hate it? I don’t hate it. Wait, yeah. I hate it. I definitely hate it.

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“Every child left behind! Every child left behind!” - Trump rally

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Zohran Mamdani seems awesome

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They told you people those wipes were not flushable but you didn’t listen did you

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Interesting argument that the Biden team’s insistence that we ignore the evidence of our eyes re: his age and his faculties was the left’s version of Trump insisting he had the biggest inauguration crowd ever when he obviously did not.

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What terrible things do you need to do to look like this at 42 years old

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The Trump SCOTUS dunk that Elon Musk doesn’t have an official/actual role in eviscerating our government is very “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

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The fact that it isn’t a no brainer for all congressional democrats as a unified bloc to skip the SOTU is baffling

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Zelenskyy, panicked, tries to distract Trump by throwing out the names of American programs he hasn’t thought to gut yet. “…the Peace Corps!” he shouts. @jonlovett.bsky.social

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President Trump shocked the nation by berating Ukrainian President Zelenskyy on live television on Friday. “How many times do I have to tell you to pre-rinse the plates and load them facing out?” he raged, kicking the dishwasher shut. @jonlovett.bsky.social

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If Xi had any sense of humor he would start tweeting about the United States becoming the 23rd province of China @jonlovett.bsky.social

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Wow

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Yeah no I highly doubt that

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Things that are limiting the Trump administration’s effectiveness: 1. Their overall laziness and lack of attention to detail 2. Judges / lawyers / courts (97 other things) 3. Democrats

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