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Joan Chaffee

@kitchenwitch1221.bsky.social

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Gardner, cook, sewer, quilter, painter, designer, jack of all trades lot of trades. Enjoy watching my family grow

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surfveg.bsky.social

@surfveg.bsky.social

I think this needs to be my new morning mantra

February 9, 2025 at 10:33 PM

Joan Chaffee

@kitchenwitch1221.bsky.social

HANDS OFF!

February 6, 2025 at 12:31 AM

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Mark Cuban

@mcuban.bsky.social

Facts. Love Adam’s insights

Adam Grant @adamgrant.bsky.social · Jan 29

The highest compliment from someone who disagrees with you is not “You were right.” It’s “You made me think.”

Good arguments help us recognize complexity where we once saw simplicity.

The ultimate purpose of debate is not to produce consensus. It’s to promote critical thinking.

January 29, 2025 at 10:07 PM

Joan Chaffee

@kitchenwitch1221.bsky.social

Rebuilding in the Yucatan

January 27, 2025 at 12:47 PM

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Jake Tapper, long-suffering Philly sports fan

@jaketapper.bsky.social

On this day Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria in 1756; as was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson aka Lewis Carroll in Cheshire, England in 1832. Quite a thing to be remembered centuries later!

January 27, 2025 at 12:23 PM

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Joshua J. Friedman

@joshuajfriedman.com

This goes hard

Extremely long tweet by Colombian president Gutavo Petro, auto-translated from Spanish. Continued in next post.

Trump, I don't really like traveling to the US, it's a bit boring, but I confess that there are some worthy things, I like going to the black neighborhoods of Washington, there I saw an entire fight in the US capital between blacks and Latinos with barricades, which seemed like bullshit to me, because they should unite. I confess that I like Walt Whitman and Paul Simon and Noam Chomsky and Miller. I confess that Sacco and Vanzetti, who have my blood, in the history of the US, are memorable and I follow them. They were murdered by labor leaders with the electric chair, the fascists who are inside the US as well as inside my country. I don't like your oil, Trump, you are going to end the human species because of greed. Maybe one day, over a shot of whiskey, which I accept, despite my gastritis, we can talk frankly about this, but it's difficult because you consider me an inferior race and I am not, nor is any Colombian. So if you know someone who is stubborn, that's me, period. You can, with your economic strength and your arrogance, try to carry out a coup d'état as they did with Allende. But I will die in my law, 1 resisted torture and I resist you. I do not want slavers next to Colombia, we already had many and we freed ourselves. What I want next to Colombia are lovers of freedom. If you cannot accompany me, I will go elsewhere. Colombia is the heart of the world and you did not understand it, this is the land of the yellow butterflies, of the beauty of Remedios, but also of the colonels Aureliano Buendía, of whom I am one, perhaps the last. You will kill me, but I will survive in my town which is before yours, in the Americas. We are peoples of the winds, the mountains, the Caribbean Sea and of freedom. You do not like our freedom, okay. I do not shake hands with white slavers. I shake the

January 26, 2025 at 10:27 PM

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Senator Ron Wyden

@wyden.senate.gov

Americans voted for cheaper groceries. Less than a week on the job and Trump's already managed to get us into a trade war that will drive up the cost of coffee and be a gut-punch to American farmers and manufacturers, all because Colombia hurt his feelings.