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Trump’s EPA canceled a $20M flood protection grant for the area in May, calling it “wasteful DEI spending.”
October 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Having a similar experience moving from the U.S. and becoming a British citizen, I couldn't agree more
Keir Starmer is my MP. This is the letter I wrote to him today.

Subject: Island of Strangers?

Mr Starmer,

Let me tell you about this ‘stranger’.
May 15, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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You’re allowed to argue that black people and women are genetically inferior. But you’re NOT allowed to argue they are NOT inferior because that’s divisive. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...
May 10, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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May 9, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.
April 20, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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April 19, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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In a piece for The Atlantic, the Russian chess grandmaster Gary Kasparov writes about how Putin seized power, parallels in with the current state of U.S. politics, and what Americans should do to avoid the same fate.

www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
April 18, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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The most daming claim in this statement IMO:

Within 15 minutes of DOGE accounts being created…
Attackers in Russia tried logging in using those new creds.
Correct usernames and passwords.

2 options here. The DOGE device was hacked. And I don't think I need to explain the 2nd.
April 18, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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I enthusiastically aid and abet terrorism.
JUST IN: Deputy Assistant to the President and "Counterterrorism Czar" Sebastian Gorka says anyone advocating for due process for Kilmar Abrego Garcia could be viewed as "aiding and abetting a terrorist" and be federally charged. (h/t Philip Germain)
April 17, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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Foreign Friends with Travel Plans to the U.S. for Conventions:

A bit back I said you should maybe reconsider those plans.

I would like to amend my prior statement.

Cancel them. Cancel them now. We cannot keep you safe from our own government. Take your holiday in Spain or something.
April 14, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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The man is entirely correct on this. Well worth listening to.
🔥 OBAMA: “IMAGINE IF I HAD DONE ANY OF THIS… I say this not on a partisan basis. This has to do with something more precious — who are we as a country, and what values do we stand for?” 🇺🇸
April 5, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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The admin officials talking about using tariffs to return manufacturing to the US a.) do not know anything about trade, b.) do not understand how tariffs work, c.) do not understand how global supply chains work, d.) do not understand what a modest percentage of overall output, trade or jobs...
April 4, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Evergreen
March 13, 2025 at 5:54 PM
@matthewdgreen.bsky.social Seems you have an impersonator. Reported them.

bsky.app/profile/matt...
bsky.app
January 11, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Everyone come over to where I am, I have hugs for all of you
January 11, 2025 at 3:55 AM