Jonell Galloway
@jonellgalloway.bsky.social
I love food and words and I hang out on social media under the moniker The Rambling Epicure. Kentucky, France, Switzerland, Italy.
The Italian government spokesman informed Mr. Trump that Italy was not United States territory and was still a sovereign country.
Italian lawmakers have accused Donald Trump Jr. of hunting a protected duck in Venice’s lagoon. “It is morally despicable,” a lawmaker in parliament said on Tuesday. “And it’s a crime.”
A Trump. A Dead Duck. And an Uproar in Italy.
A video shows Donald Trump Jr. sitting in hunting gear beside a dead protected bird. Italian lawmakers want answers.
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February 5, 2025 at 12:55 PM
The Italian government spokesman informed Mr. Trump that Italy was not United States territory and was still a sovereign country.
No regulations, just AI running the country. It's gonna be like the Wild West. Get used to it. It's the future. “A wholesale removal of regulations.'" (The Guardian)
February 5, 2025 at 12:42 PM
No regulations, just AI running the country. It's gonna be like the Wild West. Get used to it. It's the future. “A wholesale removal of regulations.'" (The Guardian)
Make sure all your vaccines are up-to-date while they're still available!
February 5, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Make sure all your vaccines are up-to-date while they're still available!
This is gonna be fun, a country run by AI. It is a Brave New World with no regulations, sort of like the Wild West. Get used to it. It's the future.
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Musk intensifies government spending attack with push to cut all regulations
Maxine Waters, Chuck Schumer and other lawmakers protest against billionaire outside US treasury
www.theguardian.com
February 5, 2025 at 11:49 AM
This is gonna be fun, a country run by AI. It is a Brave New World with no regulations, sort of like the Wild West. Get used to it. It's the future.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Who would have ever thought the U.S. would imitate Russia?
February 3, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Who would have ever thought the U.S. would imitate Russia?
Who will sign our Social Security checks if all federal employees end up getting fired?
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Elon Musk may now have unique sway over the US Treasury
What could possibly go wrong with giving the tech mogul access to federal payments?
www.motherjones.com
February 3, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Who will sign our Social Security checks if all federal employees end up getting fired?
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
It's time to use the "d" word: Elon Musk’s team has gotten access to Treasury Department’s payments system, giving the administration mechanism to unilaterally restrict disbursement of money approved for specific purposes by Congress.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
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Elon Musk’s team has gotten access to the Treasury Department’s payments system.
www.nytimes.com
February 1, 2025 at 10:03 PM
It's time to use the "d" word: Elon Musk’s team has gotten access to Treasury Department’s payments system, giving the administration mechanism to unilaterally restrict disbursement of money approved for specific purposes by Congress.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
This is my State Representative who sent a Christmas card with a photo of his whole family holding AR15s so this isn't surprising.
Rep. Thomas Massie introduced a bill to get rid of the Department of Education.
Don’t say we didn’t warn you.
Don’t say we didn’t warn you.
February 1, 2025 at 7:54 PM
This is my State Representative who sent a Christmas card with a photo of his whole family holding AR15s so this isn't surprising.
Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. -- George Orwell, 1984
This is how autocrats throughout history have endangered the people they govern by erasing factual information vital to health and well being
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CDC Data Are Disappearing
The agency has already removed scientific data from public view. More could follow.
www.theatlantic.com
February 1, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. -- George Orwell, 1984
The cancer of Trumpism continues to spread to our most cherished institutions
February 1, 2025 at 4:36 PM
The cancer of Trumpism continues to spread to our most cherished institutions
History is repeating itself.
February 1, 2025 at 2:57 PM
History is repeating itself.
The disrupter destructor wants to defund NPR and PBS
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Trump’s FCC chief orders investigation into NPR and PBS sponsorships
FCC’s Brendan Carr also suggests an investigation could be relevant to conservative congressional efforts to defund the public broadcasters.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 31, 2025 at 10:50 PM
The disrupter destructor wants to defund NPR and PBS
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How long will it be before he imposes tariffs on EU products? Goodbye, French perfume and Italian pasta!
January 31, 2025 at 10:24 PM
How long will it be before he imposes tariffs on EU products? Goodbye, French perfume and Italian pasta!
Hey Don, isn't this supposed to be the Golden Age?
January 31, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Hey Don, isn't this supposed to be the Golden Age?
A French gynecologist has been barred from practicing for a month because he refused to examine a transgender patient on the grounds that he was only qualified to treat “real women."
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French gynaecologist suspended for refusing to treat trans woman
Dr Victor Acharian, who sparked a media storm after telling a patient he only treated ‘real women’, has been barred from practising for a month
www.thetimes.com
January 31, 2025 at 5:18 PM
A French gynecologist has been barred from practicing for a month because he refused to examine a transgender patient on the grounds that he was only qualified to treat “real women."
www.thetimes.com/world/europe...
www.thetimes.com/world/europe...
Trump budget nominee Russell Vought tells senators: “I believe that the 2020 election was rigged.”
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Trump budget nominee tells senators 2020 election was ‘rigged’
Russell Vought, President Trump’s pick to head the White House budget office, told senators in his confirmation questionnaire that he believes the 2020 presidential election was “rigged.” Asked by …
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January 30, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Trump budget nominee Russell Vought tells senators: “I believe that the 2020 election was rigged.”
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They are giving away eggs for free at the supermarket today. There's a golden egg in every carton. The New Golden Age has definitely begun.
January 21, 2025 at 7:59 PM
They are giving away eggs for free at the supermarket today. There's a golden egg in every carton. The New Golden Age has definitely begun.
On Day 2, he rose and rescinded the act lowering the price of prescription drugs, which means the price of medicine will probably now have no limits. What a kind, generous man he is.
January 21, 2025 at 7:37 PM
On Day 2, he rose and rescinded the act lowering the price of prescription drugs, which means the price of medicine will probably now have no limits. What a kind, generous man he is.
Maybe if we look really, really hard, we will see a few stars.
“But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.” ― Martin Luther King, Jr.
“But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.” ― Martin Luther King, Jr.
January 20, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Maybe if we look really, really hard, we will see a few stars.
“But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.” ― Martin Luther King, Jr.
“But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.” ― Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Remember: no mandate, no majority. 37.75% of the electorate didn't vote; 31.5% voted for him; 30.6% voted for her.
January 19, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Remember: no mandate, no majority. 37.75% of the electorate didn't vote; 31.5% voted for him; 30.6% voted for her.
Democracy Dies in Darkness.
“The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.” ― H.G. Wells
“The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.” ― H.G. Wells
January 20, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Democracy Dies in Darkness.
“The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.” ― H.G. Wells
“The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.” ― H.G. Wells
I don't need glamor because the earth is like a child that knows poems by heart and living in these Tuscan hills is like living in the middle of a long, never-ending poem.--Nod to Rilke.
November 18, 2024 at 9:16 PM
I don't need glamor because the earth is like a child that knows poems by heart and living in these Tuscan hills is like living in the middle of a long, never-ending poem.--Nod to Rilke.
Reposted by Jonell Galloway
"It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. Of course the great wastage is in the verbs and adjectives, but there are hundreds of nouns that can be got rid of as well. It isn't only the synonyms; there are also the antonyms." --Nineteen Eighty-Four
November 18, 2024 at 8:34 PM
"It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. Of course the great wastage is in the verbs and adjectives, but there are hundreds of nouns that can be got rid of as well. It isn't only the synonyms; there are also the antonyms." --Nineteen Eighty-Four
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Robert F Kennedy Jnr accused of selling out after promising to fight obesity then munching a burger on president-elect’s plane
Trump’s fast food-hating health nominee spotted with a Big Mac
Robert F Kennedy Jnr accused of selling out after promising to fight obesity then munching a burger on the president-elect’s plane
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November 17, 2024 at 7:59 PM
Robert F Kennedy Jnr accused of selling out after promising to fight obesity then munching a burger on president-elect’s plane
A brief, enlightening history of how we are taught to eat, from Ancient Greece to now.
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Erin Maglaque · The Unpoetic Calorie: Food Made Flesh
What is it about the body that resists plain description? When we discuss our bodies, we evoke other things: the body as...
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November 17, 2024 at 4:42 PM
A brief, enlightening history of how we are taught to eat, from Ancient Greece to now.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...