AlmaL
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AlmaL
@almalita.bsky.social
"For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone." Audrey Hepburn
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1517 co-founder Michael Gibson is a former Thiel Foundation VP & Thiel Capital principal who now advises Pronomos Capital (backed by Thiel & Marc Andreessen). During Thiel’s October “Hereticon” event, Gibson co-led a talk titled “Manifest Destiny:Greenland, Cuba, & the New American Colony.” 1/
April 3, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Seconded. I have read a lot of Trump books, and I think Audience of One is probably the best.
THE APPRENTICE started the ball rolling, taking the Trump who'd become a punchline in the 1990s and turning him into a carefully-crafted fiction. TV made him.

Highly recommend @poniewozik.bsky.social's AUDIENCE OF ONE here.
Heckuva lot of people deserve blame for all this, but I nominate everyone who built the fiction of Trump as some financial and business genius.
April 3, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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I wanna highlight this and the reference from @jerrymcm.bsky.social - by Trump's reasoning he should have slapped a 41% tariff on Russia. He did not. Why? Just remember Speaker Pelosi's words right in Trump’s face.
April 3, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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The United States Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned a ship that we highlighted (with @lloydslistdaily.bsky.social and @yoruk.bsky.social ) in a series of investigations into grain smuggling from occupied Crimea.
home.treasury.gov/news/press-r...
April 3, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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“Trump's Greenland initiative exposes a cynical truth: climate change denial doesn't preclude planning to profit from its effects. This paradox reveals how political positions on climate change can be malleable when economic opportunities arise…” - M. Smith, 1/8/25 www.linkedin.com/pulse/greenl...
April 3, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Very nice, Jazzie!
Latest painting: Ucluelet

I hope you are well, my friends. 💜
March 20, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Stand with Ukraine!
March 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Damn
March 10, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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Go Buffett
March 10, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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For when you need to breathe...
March 10, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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"Your Silence Will Not Protect You."

— Audre Lorde, 1934-1992

🙏🏼🌎🕊️
March 10, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The best use of musical theater! Showtunes plus,
🚨New dates JUST ANNOUNCED for my National Freakin’ Treasure tour!🚨Presale this Wednesday at 10AM local with code: TREASURE before the general on sale Friday. Can’t wait to see you there! Tickets at randyrainbow.com/tour (link in bio). 🦸🏻‍♂️🎶💕
March 10, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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See what they did there……. ?
March 10, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Native America Calling: The ongoing push for MMIP action and awareness indianz.com/News/2025/03...
Native America Calling: The ongoing push for MMIP action and awareness
Efforts continue at all levels to address the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous relatives.
indianz.com
March 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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I really wish people would care about Trump using Pinochet's tactics to disappear people for speaking their mind.
This may be the biggest free speech crisis in living memory. The president now bragging about detaining a lawful permanent resident and smearing him as 'pro Hamas', no outlining any specific crimes he is accused of or charged with. This is what a fascist takeover looks like.
Trump takes credit for Mahmoud Khalil's arrest by ICE:
March 10, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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this is huge
NEW: Perkins Coie has hired Williams & Connolly to fight Trump's executive order targeting Perkins.

There had been concern in the legal community about whether major law firms would shy away from the fight out of fear of incurring Trump's wrath.

But Williams & Connolly is considered formidable.
Top Law Firm Targeted by Trump Over Clinton Campaign Work Hires Counsel
President Trump stripped Perkins Coie of access to federal buildings and personnel, citing its work for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign. The firm hired Williams & Connolly, which is skilled in fightin...
www.nytimes.com
March 10, 2025 at 6:20 PM
This should not be allowed to happen.
An Arkansas state senator is running for secretary of state.

Just weeks of announcing his bid, he filed 6 bills that'll further empower the secretary of state's office to reject popular initiatives.... so paving the way for himself to hold vast authority if he wins!

I wrote about it:
“It Just Feels Like Death”: Barrage of New Rules Target Arkansas Ballot Initiatives - Bolts
It’s a familiar sight in Arkansas: Canvassers stop passersby in front of a local grocery store or town library and ask them if they’d be willing to sign a petition... Read More
boltsmag.org
March 10, 2025 at 9:23 PM
lol
March 10, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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This is how you win shit👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇
March 10, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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March 10, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Absolutely!!!!!
March 9, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Congrats!!! Thank you for all you do. You are an inspiration.
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March 5, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Tomorrow in Nashville…
March 5, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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February 15, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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He who violates the law does not save his country.

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February 15, 2025 at 6:51 PM