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gimmecheese.bsky.social
December 6, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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khrisnin.bsky.social
I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
October 31, 2025 at 8:19 AM
gimmecheese.bsky.social
@duolingoverde.bsky.social Seeing what appears to be German popping up in my Brazilian Portuguese lesson instead of the English translation
October 14, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
SCOOP — Pennsylvania prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices against voter fraud. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parents' PA address for years.

From @jsweetli.bsky.social, @slate.com + me:
MAGA’s “Voter Fraud” Watchdog Votes in a Swing State. He Doesn’t Live There.
A long paper trail shows that Jack Posobiec casts a ballot in one state and lives in another.
slate.com
October 3, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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govpritzker.illinois.gov
In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it?

If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say?

Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.
September 30, 2025 at 12:01 AM
gimmecheese.bsky.social
Seems like we're not far from the "Papers, Comrade?" era . . .
September 29, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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ndrew.bsky.social
remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
August 27, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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juliusgoat.bsky.social
The reason people keep claiming that Republicans and other types of creepy religious freaks want to take away the vote for women is because they keep saying that's what they intend to do.
peoplefor.bsky.social People For the American Way @peoplefor.bsky.social · Aug 8
Pete Hegseth shares a clip saying women shouldn’t have the right to vote, the 19th Amendment should be “repealed,” and women should “submit” to their husbands: “All of Christ for All of Life”
August 10, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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juliusgoat.bsky.social
I wrote about the absolute moral necessity of Congress impeaching a president who represents a threat to democracy, the nation, and every person on the planet—and also about the practical necessity of doing so, because not doing so tells a incoherent story.

www.the-reframe.com/impeachment-...
Impeachment is a Duty
The importance of telling a consistent and accurate story on matters of fire.
www.the-reframe.com
July 26, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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bubbaprog.xyz
You can set Epstein aside, this story is absolutely revolting & it was published in 2016. Everybody ignored it!
The American Dream Calendar Girls competition was one of Trump's first show business forays. Claims of sexism and lawsuits came next. Donald Trump with models at the Plaza Hotel in 1993. A flier and invitation for the American Dream Pageant finals. METROPOLITAN OPERA The soprano Kristine Opolais in "Madama Butterfly." ByMattViser GLOBE STAFF NEW YORK Donald Trump piled into his limousine with a group of pin-up calendar models dressed in skimpy dresses. It was a snowy night in Manhattan, December 1992, and the festive group was embarking on a circuit of exclusive clubs after a sumptuous dinner at the Plaza Hotel's Oak Room. As the limo wove through the city, Trump discussed his views on dating, according to one of the women riding along. The billionaire casino mogul declared that "all women are bimbos" and said most were "gold diggers" who would be smart to go after men with money. like him. Rhonda Noggle, the model who relayed the story to the Globe in an interview, said that, at that point, she had had enough. Speaking sharply to Trump, she said, she asked him to stop the limo. The car grew silent. "I told him I would rather be with a trash man who respected me than someone who was a rich, pompous ass," Noggle said. "And I got out. And I took a cab ride TRUMP, Page A18 The following text was pulled by a computer and may not be accurate. Boston Sunday Globe APRIL 17, 2016 A18 The Nation CAMPAIGN 2016 IT HAPPENS ONLY ONCE EVERY 365 DAYS AND TAKES: : 15,000 PLUS COMPETITORS : ONE MILLION PRINTED MATERIALS .- FIVE MILLION DOLLARS IN MEDIA EXPOSURE INCLUDING RADIO LVD TELEVISION SPOTS : OVER 400 NEWSPAPER AND MAGAZINE ARTICLES : 750 VOLUNTEERS : 500 LIVE EVENTS : 10,000 HOURS OF WORK (TIME SPENT ORGANIZING AND RUNNING ALL AMERICAN DREAM COMPETITION EVENTS) World Finals V.I. P. Invitation I am proud and honored to invite you to one of the most glamorous and exciting events of the year. After ten years of standing-room only crowds in Las Vegas, I am delighted to host the American Dream World Finals for the first time on the East Coast at our four-star Trump's Castle Casino Resort. The 'World Finals will feature the top 100 finalists from a field of over 15,000 competitors in several days of thrilling competitions. It will all come down to one final night, Saturday, November 20th, 1993 in our beautiful "Kings Court" Showroom. Here a spectacular two-hour finale will select the American Dream Gold, Silver & Bronze Medal winners. Truly an exceptional event, I hope you will be able to join us at the American Dream World Finals, where dreams will become reality. NOVEMBER 17TH & 18TH 7:30 PM "CALENDAR GIRL MODEL CHALLENGE" Photo, Evening Wear & Interview Competition Coming To Atlantic City's Trump's Castle For The First Time In History, Following 10 Sell-Out Years In Las Vegas-- THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18TH 10:00 PM "COMEDY & VOCAL CHALLENGES" Sincerely, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19TH 8:30 PM "FASHION COMPETITION" "AUTOMOTIVE DESIGN CHALLENGE" 9:30 PM Grand Unveiling Ceremony & Judging SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20TH 8:00 PM ALL COMPETITIONS "WORLD FINALS" Special VIP Room Hale lot Invited Guests Donald J. Trump Please R.S.V.P. to World Finals Headquarters: Phone (407) 391-0789 Fax:(407) 395 -3879 November 1820, 1993 THE PAGEANT OF HIS DREAMS m iifvc lu nice i mem, i u me iu see uie PETE MAROVICH Top, a flier and a VIP invitation for the Donald J. Trump American Dream World Finals at the Trump Castle Casino Resort. Above, some of the American Dream calendars that preceded Trump's involvement with the competition. quality of the girls that I'm going to be sponsoring." The next night, the group gathered at the Oak Room, an elegant wood-paneled restaurant with frescoes of Bavarian castles and 20-foot-high ceilings. "It was us girls and him," said Noggle, who was not a party in any of the lawsuits. "It was kind of like the arm candy, his entourage of women around him." Trump continued talking up the competition during dinner. He might raise the prize now little more than an appearance in a calendar to $1 million. "He said he wanted to sponsor the event, he was going to sponsor the event, he was going to make this the biggest, the best thing around," Harth said in her deposition. "With Donald, everything was always going to be the biggest, the best." "He had taken a liking to Jill for sure," Noggle said. "I remember that." Trump looked at Houraney and gave his business partner a warning. "You know she's very beautiful," Trump said, Houraney recounted in an interview. "You know I'm going to go after her." Harth would later allege in her deposition and her separate lawsuit which she filed without a lawyer, seeking $125 million that Trump that night began referring to her as his "new girlfriend." During the dinner, she alleges, he repeatedly put his hands on her thighs and attempted to touch her "intimate private parts." Trump, in his interview with the Globe, denied all of the allegations of sexual misconduct. Trump played an active role in deciding which models would be involved, in either coming to the parties or in competing in the competition, according to Houraney and Harth. "Basically, he just wanted to make sure that the girls were up to his standards," Harth said in her deposition. "He was always very interested in every phone call about who had the great bodies and who didn't, who was more beautiful. He was always on the search for the most beautiful." Harth alleges in her complaint that Trump "directed that any black female contestants be excluded" from his Mar-a-Lago party. Houraney said in an interview that he would send packets of 4x6 photos to Trump so that he could flip through them and decide which of the women would be invited to a party. He also used photos to select a handful of contestants who would automatically advance to the final round of the calendar competition. Over time, Houraney discovered what Trump's type in women was: "Blond hair. All American look. Not too tall, not too short," he said. He also noticed another pattern: In every packet Houraney would send, he included black women. He was sensitive over charges that the contest was not diverse enough. Never, Houraney says, did Trump pick one. Trump, in an interview, denied receiving pictures to review or excluding blacks. "It's all false. I don't even know what he's talking about," he said. "He never sent me pictures, this and that. It didn't happen. It didn't TRUMP Continued from Page Al home." The incident, which Trump said in an interview he does not remember, occurred on a night of socializing that kicked off Trump's little-known dalliance with a pin-up competition called American Dream Calendar Girls. Noggle's assertion of sexist behavior by Trump foreshadowed allegations of misogyny, racial bias, and sexually aggressive behavior that would roil this brief and fractious deal Trump's debut in the pageant business in which he would in time become a major player. It began as a planned partnership between Trump and a Florida couple, George Houraney and Jill Harth, who operated American Dream Calendar Girls, staging elaborate events in which winning contestants were featured, provocatively posed, in wall calendars. Houraney and Harth were eager to tap into the cachet and glitz of Trump and his casinos. It ended in a bitter, drawn-out legal battle when the planned partnership crumbled after the first pageant. The couple alleged Trump broke his word, cheated them out of a $250,000 fee, and deprived them of up to $5 million in future business. More explosively, they said he continually made aggressive, unwanted sexual advances toward Harth, who was vice president of American Dream. Harth alleged in court documents that Trump repeatedly came on to her and groped her under the table during the Oak Room dinner before the party piled into his limousine. Trump's alleged behavior that night along with his statements and actions at meetings held in his Trump Tower offices in New York and at model-studded parties held at his Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach would become focal points of the tawdry saga. Trump disputed Houraney's case in court but eventually settled with American Dream in 1997, at the same time that Harth dropped a related lawsuit she had filed detailing alleged sexual misbehavior. Trump called the couple's allegations "all false" in an interview with the Globe and played down his role with the American Dream competition even though he socialized with competing models, hosted it at one of his Atlantic City casinos in 1993, and allowed his name to be used for branding. "I didn't get involved other than I rented them one of my facilities," he said. Trump's involvement in the calendar model competition came at a time when his reputation as an eligible New York ladies' man was at its peak. He was between his first and second marriages, and his personal life was regular fodder in the New York tabloid gossip pages. Two years earlier, he had been featured on the cover of Playboy magazine. The case of American Dream Enterprise Inc. v. Donald Trump, et al. told through hundreds of pages of court records, several sworn depositions, and in nearly two dozen interviews shows a darker side of Trump's playboy image. It foreshadows a reputation for sexism and misogyny that sticks with him nearly 25 years later, in his presidential bid, in which coarse descriptions of women and perceived sexist comments have left him with extraordinarily high unfavorable ratings among women. The foray into the Calendar Girls pageant, however, also ushered in Trump's interest in the business of entertainment. He later bought the Miss Universe pageant and gained national renown for his reality show, "The Apprentice." "I don't believe there would have been an Apprentice' if there wasn't a pageant first," said Jim Gibson, a consultant and longtime pageant host who guided Trump into the pageant business and eventually to the Miss Universe event. "That got him in the higher hierarchies of the television business. And it did exactly what Donald wanted to do: It built his name." In his senior year at a New York military boarding school, Trump was voted class "Ladies' Man." In college, he asked Can-dice Bergen out on a date (she turned him down). He has long placed high value on an association with beautiful women. "You know, it really doesn't matter what they write as long as you've got a young and beautiful piece of ass," he told Esquire magazine in 1991. By the early 1990s, he was showing up as a VIP guest at some of the pageants put on by Hawaiian Tropic, a suntan lotion company that sponsored bikini competitions in Hawaii and Las Vegas. "He'd come to our pageants because he enjoys being around the girls," said Ron Rice, who founded Hawaiian Tropic in 1969 and later launched the pageants. "He was kind of a regular with us." Trump would throw parties at Mar-a-Lago, the former Marjorie Merriweather Post estate in Palm Beach that Trump bought in 1985. The Beach Boys would play or Whitney Houston. But he always needed an extra ingredient. "He'd call me up and say, 'I'm having a big party. Bring your girls in,' " Rice said. "So I'd bring in a bunch of models. Sometimes he gave us rooms at Mar-a-Lago." In the early 1990s, Trump's marriage with Ivana was ending and his affair wit… The following text was pulled by a computer and may not be accurate. Boston Sunday Globe The Nation A19 APRIL 17, 2016 CAMPAIGN 2016 PETE MAROVICH continue working together. Now Trump seemed to be reneging on the deal. A letter arrived from the Trump Castle saying they had lost money, and would no longer sponsor the event. Trump wasn't calling them back anymore. And without Trump, there would be no cosmetics line, no television contract, no nationally distributed calendar. Houraney was angry. He thought Trump had cheated him. So he hired a lawyer. While Houraney's 1995 contractual lawsuit dragged on, Harth filed her separate civil lawsuit complaint on her own in April 1997, spelling out the sexual allegations. Harth's move came at a sensitive time. Not only were both sides in mediation for the business dispute case, but Trump was preparing in May to host the Miss Universe pageant for the first time after purchasing it seven months earlier. Trump's attorneys attacked Harth's credibility and her allegations as "delusional." "The tone and the content of the complaint are clear evidence of mental instability," they wrote. The suit was meant to harass Trump, they said. It was even sent anonymously to Trump's mother. A few weeks after Harth filed her complaint, she dropped it as a condition of Trump settling the suit with Houraney. Harth declined repeated requests for an interview. Asked why she withdrew her complaint, she said in an e-mail, "It was withdrawn without prejudice at Trump's demand as a precondition to settling a companion 1995 complaint by the company I worked for. Trump did not want to litigate my complaint. "I stand by everything written in the complaint or I would not have signed it," she added. "It's best for me not to comment about how Donald was then or if we reconciled now." Houraney was interviewed on a recent day in his home in Boca Raton, Fla. As cats meandered through the dining room, which is filled with Egyptian artifacts and an artificial Christmas tree still up four months after the holiday, he said he is still baffled by the amount of time, energy, and legal fees Trump put into the case. Although the case had started with Houraney asking for $5 million, by the end they were negotiating over a relatively small amount. "He owed me about $100,000!" Houraney exclaimed. "That's it!" Houraney says he still has the stub of a check written to him by Trump; under the terms of the deal, he is not allowed to disclose the amount. Top, an issue of the National Enquirer from Oct. 1, 1996, included a story about Jill Harth's suit against Donald Trump. Above, Harth with Trump. A few months after the settlement, Houraney was shocked one day when he opened his mail. After a few weeks of negotiating, they came to terms on many aspects of a deal. It was time to celebrate. Trump invited the American Dream executive team, along with at least nine past and present calendar models, to a party at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach in January 1993. During dinner, Harth alleged, Trump demanded that she sit next to him. "When we got to the dinner table, Donald started right in on the groping under the table, to tell you the truth," Harth said in her deposition. Some of the salacious charges about what happened later that night, based on Harth's assertions, were reported in 1997 in New York tabloids and the National Enquirer. Trump took her into an empty bedroom the one normally used by daughter Ivanka, who at the time was 11. Trump forcibly "kissed, fondled, and restrained" her from leaving, according to Harth's suit. In the early hours of the morning, Harth and Houraney left. But most of the calendar models spent the night at Trump's estate. In the predawn hours, a contestant named Lauren Petrella who, at age 22, was 24 years younger than the 46-year-old Trump allegedly found Trump, unannounced and uninvited, in her bed. "You said you don't sleep with men on the first date," he told her, according to the lawsuit filed by Harth. "Now it's the second date, and here I am." Petrella did not respond to numerous requests for comment. Houraney, in interviews with the Globe, said that Petrella came to him that morning and described the encounter. "I went up to him and said, 'Donald, what the hell are you doing?' " Houraney said. "He says, 'What do you mean?' He said, 'She told me she never sleeps with a guy the first night. She's been here two days.' I just didn't know what to say to that. It's such a stupid comment. "When he started hitting on them I said, 'Donald, not at my event. Or I won't bring any more parties to your house,' " he added. Trump kept calling Harth after that weekend, she alleged, and told her that he "was the best lover you'll ever have," and that if she slept with him, she "would be an awakened woman." Several weeks later, Harth again went to Mar-a-Lago for a meeting to discuss the competition. After some of Trump's business associates left, Harth alleges that Trump forced her into a bedroom, made "unwanted sexual advances," and began touching her "private parts" and "uttering Svengali-type proclamations of love." Harth said in the lawsuit that she immediately "became nauseated and vomited profusely." In an interview with the Globe, Trump said of the allegations in Harth's complaint: "It was false." He declined to comment in detail on the record, however, instead pointing to a 1996 National Enquirer story while the case was ongoing. "The truth is that Jill Harth is obsessed with ME and would do everything she could do to get into my pants!" the story quotes Trump telling an anonymous "close friend." "Her claims are extortion, pure and simple." Trump told the Globe that Houraney and Harth only introduced the sexual allegations after they were losing the arguments over the business dispute. "Later on, they brought this up," he said. "They were losing the business dispute angle, so they brought that up." In a deposition taken in 1996, Trump said he did not remember many of the details alleged. He denied asking Houraney and Harth to bring calendar contestants to the dinner at the Oak Room, and he didn't recall riding in a limousine with them or staying out until late in the night. In the Globe interview, he also denied knowing Petrella or crawling into her bed "It's total nonsense. It's not true. I never even heard of the person!" He also denied Noggle's account of the limo ride, saying he never called women "bimbos" and "gold diggers." "I never made that statement, I never would make that statement," Trump said. "Why would I make a statement like that? I have more respect for women than anybody." "You know, everybody now, they know Donald Trump. 'Well I sat with Donald Trump for 2 minutes,' " he added. "I doubt she even sat with me or was in a limo with me. I never heard the name." Marika Silvan-Valiharju, a contestant from Finland. "He was very friendly and well-mannered. He also had charisma, which is very difficult to describe." After rehearsals at the Trump's Castle Casino Resort in Atlantic City, they went to New York, to meet with Trump. The women piled into buses, dressed in sweat pants and with rollers in their hair. When they arrived at the Plaza Hotel, they changed into evening gowns. They posed for a group photo, with Trump grinning in the middle. One contestant Valerie Tester-man, who had started competing in Danville, Va., to win a local gym membership and then kept winning competitions was positioned behind Trump. "Whose hot hand is that on my back?" Trump called out, playfully. "I was probably as red as my dress," Testerman said. "We all kind of laughed." The women also took separate photos with Trump, where they walked down a long hallway to greet him. "It was like, 'You have 30 seconds with Mr. Trump,' " said Kristina Hughes, a contestant from Med-ford. "It was kind of like when you go and meet the queen." The models also noticed something else: Maples who a month earlier had given birth to their daughter, Tiffany seemed nervous, and would not let Trump out of her sight. A few weeks after the contest, Trump sent a letter to Houraney. "My congratulations to you, Jill and all your staff for successfully planning, promoting and producing a fantastic event," he wrote. "The American Dream Festival surpassed all my expectations, and I am confident it will be bigger and better each year. Bravo for a job well done!" But it was one of the last times Houraney would hear from Trump. Earlier in the year, when they met at Mar-a-Lago, Trump had refused to sign a written contract. He told them verbally that they would go into business together, Houraney and Harth allege, but he wanted them to prove themselves first. Put on a good show, and they would 'I have more respect for women than anybody.' DONALD TRUMP In a Globe interview There was an invitation to go to a Christmas party that Trump was throwing at Mar-a-Lago. He figured it was a joke, so he threw it away. A few weeks later, he got a call from Trump's secretary, who insisted the invitation was real and that Trump wanted to see him. Houraney's lawyers advised him not to go. "Curiosity got the cat and it got me," Houraney said. "I gotta find out what this is about." He dressed up and arrived. When he walked in, the room got quiet. "He comes up to me and says, 'George! I'm glad you made it!' " Houraney recalled. " 'Donald, look,' I said, What the hell is this all about?' " Houraney recalled. "He said, 'I'd much rather have you on my side than against my side.'" Harth and Houraney divorced a few months after the Christmas party. Harth moved to New York, where she is a makeup artist. And she seems to have reconciled with Trump. She recently requested tickets to one of Trump's rallies, which she attended with a friend. They went backstage to meet with the man she once accused of making unwanted sexual advances. "She's not changing the complaint or anything around that. She stands by the complaint," said Chuck Jones, a former publicist for Maples w…
July 22, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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eliyudin.com
When you throw a dead fly in the trash you’re laying it to rest amongst a great fortune like a pharaoh
July 19, 2025 at 3:30 AM
gimmecheese.bsky.social
@americanair.bsky.social can you explain why AA 905 from Miami to Rio de Janeiro is delayed by 13 hours? Thank you
June 18, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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gxldsociety.bsky.social
BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.”

They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.
June 10, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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hypervisible.blacksky.app
Poisoning the air of a Black community for a fucking chatbot.
'How come I can’t breathe?': Musk's data company draws a backlash in Memphis
The company’s turbines — enough to power 280,000 homes — run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations.
www.politico.com
May 10, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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acceber.bsky.social
April 8, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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juliusgoat.bsky.social
I wrote about the worst people in the world, charting the depths of their depravity and vastness of their incompetence, and offered some thoughts about the opportunity presented by their failure to acknowledge reality and their refusal to access any form of human virtue.

www.the-reframe.com/the/
The Worst and the Dimmest
It's not a coincidence that we're being led by the least qualified monsters available; it's a deliberate strategy. Facing the Worst - a series about directional alignment.
www.the-reframe.com
February 16, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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bubbaprog.xyz
As called in Brazil:
February 10, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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jamellebouie.net
i think people who complain about the language police are, by and large, just cowards. say whatever you want! no one is going to stop you. but people may judge you or even, if you say the wrong thing in front of the wrong person, pop you in the mouth. but that’s life!
January 28, 2025 at 3:39 AM
gimmecheese.bsky.social
This place seems nice.
October 18, 2023 at 10:52 AM