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margieluke.bsky.social
Retired, but not tired! BAppSc, MHealthInfo (Hons) Co-founder, Ablution Project (Kenya). Philanthropist, art/music patron, liberal, craft artist & working on a memoir. Cook extraordinaire. Fur baby ‘Pinot’.
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This isn't The Art of the Deal. It's insider trading with a bad comb-over. Step 1: Tank the Market, Scare the Non-Millionaires Step 2: Let the Aristocrats Feast Step 3: Flip, but say ‘Winning’ Step 4: Pretend None of This Ever Happened & Get Your Media Dregs To Do The Same Rinse, Enrich, Repeat.

submitted 3 days ago • 753 comments

We have 3 branches of federal government. Usually, if one is not working properly, the other 2 can step in. Have we ever had another time in our nation's history when *none* of the branches were working? Yes, the judiciary seemed prepared to step into the breach--until SCOTUS ruined things again.

submitted 3 days ago • 472 comments

What some people aren’t factoring into their analysis is the reality that companies were buying tons of inventory to beat the tariffs. That’s cash taken from being able to invest or hire. In fact the probably cut costs and jobs as a result. #econsky

submitted 3 days ago • 1158 comments

“We set an ambitious target..by recruiting 1,000 new GPs within six months. And today, we can announce that we’ve already gone above and beyond that, bringing in 1,500 new GPs since October” Stephen Kinnock www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

submitted 4 days ago • 22 comments

Heaven help us

submitted 5 days ago • 306 comments

“Steel…we are hearing from industry sources that unless you, the government, order raw materials this week in order to keep the blast furnaces burning that they go past the point of no return” @vicderbyshire.bsky.social

submitted 5 days ago • 11 comments

JUST IN: “Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts has temporarily placed on hold a judge’s order that the Trump administration must bring back to the United States a Maryland father it had mistakenly deported to El Salvador.” www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

submitted 5 days ago • 365 comments

Are you READY?! 🤚 Let’s. Do. This. 😎✨

submitted 5 days ago • 277 comments

What are the odds that enough Supreme Court Justices believe we shouldn't put people in foreign torture prisons without due process & especially when the government misrepresents the evidence it has in briefs it submits to the Court?

submitted 5 days ago • 1807 comments

When the world is in turmoil, I go to the ballet. 🩰 last night , I saw the performance of Australian Ballet Nijinsky- achingly beautiful and mesmerising! www.sydneyoperahouse.com/the-australi...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Check out my late night post on Trump's clumsy attempts to whitewash American history open.substack.com/pub/joyannre...

submitted 5 days ago • 32 comments

Their crime is being Latino in a country quickly emerging as majority non-white. Tell a conservative Latino friend.

submitted 5 days ago • 50 comments

youtube.com/watch?v=h229...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

The absolute truth!👇

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

Schimel lost.

submitted 11 days ago • 2569 comments

Don’t mess with the French!🇫🇷

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

So we could lose $200B in tourism, $100B in immigrants paying taxes, $100B in weapons manufacturing, $500B in lost tax revenue from firing IRS employees… is it sinking in yet?

submitted 14 days ago • 1472 comments

BREAKING NEWS: Susan Crawford, who is running against Elon's puppet Brad Schimmel in the Wisconsin Supreme Court election, has now pulled to the lead in the last two polls, and MAGA is freaking out.

submitted 16 days ago • 184 comments

It’s like Watergate, only in this version Nixon directly mails the tapes to Woodward and Bernstein

submitted 18 days ago • 1143 comments

absolute insanity as Mike Waltz suggests Jeffrey Goldberg somehow deliberately hacked his way into the Signal group

submitted 18 days ago • 1759 comments

💯 — not to mention the guy who chose them all

submitted 17 days ago • 370 comments

Honored to join veterans in calling for accountability and investigations into Secretary Hegseth’s FUBAR situation where he texted secret war plans on Signal to a journalist. We all wore the uniform. If we had texted secret war plans to a journalist, we likely would have been court-martialed.

submitted 18 days ago • 357 comments

Trump's intelligence leaders respond to leaked military plans in group chats

submitted 18 days ago • 9 comments