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An old geezer who lives in the Blue Ridge mountains of central Virginia and momma geezer. Retired ed-tech exec. If you lack a sense of humor, do not follow! 😊
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The face of real diversity... antithesis of Trumpism. 🤔 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

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Straight A's?! The Trump administration's first 100 days report cards are in

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100 DAYS...of lying, grifting, lawbreaking, division, incompetence, ignorance, illegal deportations, self-aggrandizement, vulgarity, self-pity, cruelty, ignoring the Supreme Court & due process while attacking: the Media, Universities, Law Firms, the Courts & Journalists. 1362 Days to go...

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"We can never go back... We can go forward. We can find the love our hearts long for, but not until we let go grief about the love we lost long ago... All awakening to love is spiritual awakening." bell hooks on love

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Congrats Canada for not giving up on democracy. 👍

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In November, voters gave Trump a clear signal that they wanted to buy what he was selling. 100 days in, many are suffering from buyer’s remorse. @eurasiagroup.net's Group’s Clayton Allen and Noah Daponte-Smith explain where things will likely go from here. www.gzeromedia.com/viewpoint/vi...

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True this! 😊 open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

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The sounds are growing louder every day. 🤔

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In the 2025 remake of "Catch Me if You Can" Donald Trump reprises Leonardo DiCaprio's role of Frank Abagnale Jr., who performed cons worth millions of dollars. 🤔

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Will the Tesla name become a footnote in history next to Ford Edsel? 🤔 www.cnn.com/2025/04/28/b...

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Isn't that Sleepy Donald? 🤣

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@newyorker.com editor David Remnick on the importance of staying tuned into the news, even though it feels like an avalanche

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Quite amazing these ladies are. 😊 apnews.com/video/austra...

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"Who can deny the human soul its everlasting need to make the unknown known; not for the sake of knowing, not to inform itself or be informed or wise, but for the need to exercise the need to know?" 😊 www.themarginalian.org/2025/04/06/r...

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Chloe Carney, the Prime Minister's daughter. #cdnpoli

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This guy also farts in church. 🙄 www.cnbc.com/2025/04/28/t...

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Trump having a near-living experience. 🤔 www.bbc.com/news/article...

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How very timely! 😊 www.themarginalian.org/2025/04/20/k...

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Here in America we also had a laughing politician, things didn't go well for her. 🤔 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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🤣 substack.com/@krassenstei...

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Maybe humans have a need to suffer! Take the case of "41 year-old" NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers. 🤣

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"Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” is a phrase from the US Declaration of Independence. Nowhere does it say "Stupidity" or "Lying is a pursuit" 🤔

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The Stoic antidote to frustration – Marcus Aurelius, born on this day in the year 121, on how to keep your mental calm and emotional balance when people and the world let you down www.themarginalian.org/2021/04/13/m...

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Applause at the Pope's funeral could only be inspired by an extraordinary person. It was.

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Vance's Easter visit to Rome clogged its streets with a 40-vehicle entourage. He also demanded the Coliseum be closed so he and his family could tour it alone. Tourists who properly booked slots in advance got screwed. He's apparently the first to make that demand. Then he didn't bother to show up.

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Breaking News: Trump mistakes conclave procession of Cardinals for Pope's funeral as a parade in his honor. 😳

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"One thing that happens when you have that much lying is that people begin to ask, is anything true? How do we know whether anything is ever true?" Don't let Trump's lies fatigue you or turn you cynical. @anneapplebaum.bsky.social joins @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social on the The Focus Group pod:

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Audubon – born 140 years ago today, in many ways ahead of his time, in some unfortunate ways a product of his time, as we all are – on the antidote to despair and how to triumph over the challenges of the creative life www.themarginalian.org/2024/09/25/a...

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Is it really all that surprising that Trump picked the most mediocre people in America to serve in his administration? 🤔

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In two decades of doing what I do, it has been my ongoing lamentation to see works of enduring beauty and substance perish out of print. Because the most valiant way to complain is to create, introducing Marginalian Editions

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There you have it, +1 for the big fat orange liar.

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This is Trump's "art of the deal"; start with a big fat lie and then layer on more baloney. He's currently trying to use this same deal making strategy with America. 🙄 www.cnbc.com/2025/04/24/c...

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Breaking News: Putin suggests in call to Trump making United States a Russian autonomous oblast. 😳 www.bbc.com/news/article...

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True that! 🤔

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