Mary Quite Contrary
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Happily married. Proud Mom.
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Yes, the Project 2025 agenda that was wildly unpopular in every opinion poll during the campaign is 100% the policy blueprint of the Trump admin, which was obvious then to people who paid attention and obvious now to everyone else.
October 2, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Yes, the Project 2025 agenda that was wildly unpopular in every opinion poll during the campaign is 100% the policy blueprint of the Trump admin, which was obvious then to people who paid attention and obvious now to everyone else.
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MAGA: If you want to know what the rest of the world thinks of Donald Trump, here you go.
They think he's an idiot and a buffoon.
Because that's what he is.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
They think he's an idiot and a buffoon.
Because that's what he is.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
PM of Albania having a good laugh with President of Azerbaijan and Macron about Trump repeatedly claiming that he ended the war between their two countries which were not at war with each other.
October 2, 2025 at 2:16 PM
MAGA: If you want to know what the rest of the world thinks of Donald Trump, here you go.
They think he's an idiot and a buffoon.
Because that's what he is.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
They think he's an idiot and a buffoon.
Because that's what he is.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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“The cost of flying and lodging the military leaders will be in the millions.
“The event has also raised security concerns about having the top leadership in one place, and if the government shuts down, it could leave key personnel stranded from their units”
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
“The event has also raised security concerns about having the top leadership in one place, and if the government shuts down, it could leave key personnel stranded from their units”
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Trump to attend gathering of top generals, upending last-minute plans
President Trump will attend the unusual gathering of hundreds of generals summoned to Virginia on short notice by Pete Hegseth, adding new security concerns.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 28, 2025 at 2:54 PM
“The cost of flying and lodging the military leaders will be in the millions.
“The event has also raised security concerns about having the top leadership in one place, and if the government shuts down, it could leave key personnel stranded from their units”
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
“The event has also raised security concerns about having the top leadership in one place, and if the government shuts down, it could leave key personnel stranded from their units”
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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79. American citizen.
September 28, 2025 at 5:07 PM
79. American citizen.
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Debbie Harry & Kermit The Frog - Rainbow Connection
Today is Paul Williams' birthday! He wrote this one, wherein he asks a legitimate question: Why ARE there so many songs about rainbows?
#PaulWilliams #MusicBirthday #MusicSky #RainbowConnection #Kermit #DebbieHarry
youtu.be/h0Hd3uWKFKY?...
Today is Paul Williams' birthday! He wrote this one, wherein he asks a legitimate question: Why ARE there so many songs about rainbows?
#PaulWilliams #MusicBirthday #MusicSky #RainbowConnection #Kermit #DebbieHarry
youtu.be/h0Hd3uWKFKY?...
Debbie Harry & Kermit The Frog - Rainbow Connection
YouTube video by Rich Mullinax
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September 19, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Debbie Harry & Kermit The Frog - Rainbow Connection
Today is Paul Williams' birthday! He wrote this one, wherein he asks a legitimate question: Why ARE there so many songs about rainbows?
#PaulWilliams #MusicBirthday #MusicSky #RainbowConnection #Kermit #DebbieHarry
youtu.be/h0Hd3uWKFKY?...
Today is Paul Williams' birthday! He wrote this one, wherein he asks a legitimate question: Why ARE there so many songs about rainbows?
#PaulWilliams #MusicBirthday #MusicSky #RainbowConnection #Kermit #DebbieHarry
youtu.be/h0Hd3uWKFKY?...
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September 8, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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In any other administration (including Trump's first one), someone in the Pentagon would have said: "Mr. President, you cannot order the military to murder a bunch of people on a boat on the high seas."
Designating them "narco-terrorists" isn't a thing that lets you do that.
Designating them "narco-terrorists" isn't a thing that lets you do that.
September 8, 2025 at 3:09 AM
In any other administration (including Trump's first one), someone in the Pentagon would have said: "Mr. President, you cannot order the military to murder a bunch of people on a boat on the high seas."
Designating them "narco-terrorists" isn't a thing that lets you do that.
Designating them "narco-terrorists" isn't a thing that lets you do that.
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Trump complains about domestic violence arrests hurting his new “there is no crime in DC now” stats. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Trump claims crime is down to "virtually nothing" in DC & adds the crimes that are happening are "much lesser things. Things that take place in the home they call crime. You know, they'll do anything they can to find something. If a man has a little fight w/the wife they say 'this is a crime. See?'"
September 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Trump complains about domestic violence arrests hurting his new “there is no crime in DC now” stats. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Why doesn’t SCOTUS just dissolve itself, with a ruling that transfers all of its powers to the “unitary executive”?
Breaking news: President Trump can fire Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter, a Democrat on the Federal Trade Commission, while a lawsuit challenging her removal continues, Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. ruled.
Chief justice allows Trump to fire Federal Trade Commission member for now
The pause comes after an appeals court found last week that Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter could be reinstated to her job because the president had fired her “without cause” in violation of the statute creating the independent agency
wapo.st
September 8, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Why doesn’t SCOTUS just dissolve itself, with a ruling that transfers all of its powers to the “unitary executive”?
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SCOTUS majority rules Fourth Amendment was actually just a suggestion.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court — over the objection of Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson — allows the Trump administration’s racial profiling of people working certain types of jobs in its immigration raids during litigation.
![SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
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No. 25A169
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KRISTI NOEM, SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, ET AL. U. PEDRO
VASQUEZ PERDOMO, ET AL.
ON APPLICATION FOR STAY
[September 8, 2025]
The application for stay presented to JUSTICE KAGAN and by her referred to the Court is granted. The July 11, 2025 order entered by the United States District Court for the Central District of California, case No. 2:25-cv-5605, is stayed pending the disposition of the appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari, if such a writ is timely sought. Should certiorari be denied, this stay shall terminate automatically. In the event certiorari is granted, the stay shall terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of this Court.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreibxmw7us44keftyrwzd2w3ycrn2gd5pb24kqw3syazwrqjmkq2mym@jpeg)
September 8, 2025 at 4:06 PM
SCOTUS majority rules Fourth Amendment was actually just a suggestion.
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Nobody has ever told on himself more only to have so many people pretend they didn’t hear it.
Trump claims crime is down to "virtually nothing" in DC & adds the crimes that are happening are "much lesser things. Things that take place in the home they call crime. You know, they'll do anything they can to find something. If a man has a little fight w/the wife they say 'this is a crime. See?'"
September 8, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Nobody has ever told on himself more only to have so many people pretend they didn’t hear it.
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it’s great too that when district courts follow the law as written, one of the chuds on the Supreme Court pops up to scold them for not treating trump like a very special boy
I mean what on earth are district court judges supposed to do at this point other than get the message from SCOTUS to let Trump do whatever he wants to no matter what the law says.
September 8, 2025 at 4:27 PM
it’s great too that when district courts follow the law as written, one of the chuds on the Supreme Court pops up to scold them for not treating trump like a very special boy
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This has a very specific context: That Pam Bondi's DOJ refused to enforce an arrest warrant for Cory Mills after his girlfriend called the cops on him.
We should keep repeating that fact: Pam Bondi is letting a powerful white man engage in violence in part bc GOP Majority depends on her doing so
We should keep repeating that fact: Pam Bondi is letting a powerful white man engage in violence in part bc GOP Majority depends on her doing so
Trump: "Things that take place in the home they call crime....If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say this is a crime."
September 8, 2025 at 4:47 PM
This has a very specific context: That Pam Bondi's DOJ refused to enforce an arrest warrant for Cory Mills after his girlfriend called the cops on him.
We should keep repeating that fact: Pam Bondi is letting a powerful white man engage in violence in part bc GOP Majority depends on her doing so
We should keep repeating that fact: Pam Bondi is letting a powerful white man engage in violence in part bc GOP Majority depends on her doing so
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One of the most remarkable things of the last 9 months is how many Americans seem to believe the President is all powerful and Congress has no say.
Actually Congress has been ineffective by choice. It has immense power if it had the courage to use it.
Actually Congress has been ineffective by choice. It has immense power if it had the courage to use it.
September 7, 2025 at 9:49 AM
One of the most remarkable things of the last 9 months is how many Americans seem to believe the President is all powerful and Congress has no say.
Actually Congress has been ineffective by choice. It has immense power if it had the courage to use it.
Actually Congress has been ineffective by choice. It has immense power if it had the courage to use it.
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BARTLETT: Negative consequences from tariffs didn’t happen right away — “and WH lies convinced many .. that the economists were wrong. Now the chickens are coming home to roost ..”
September 5, 2025 at 6:08 PM
BARTLETT: Negative consequences from tariffs didn’t happen right away — “and WH lies convinced many .. that the economists were wrong. Now the chickens are coming home to roost ..”
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Venezuela has 3 F-16s and 20 or so Su-30s (comparable more to the F-15 iirc from a friend who knows fighter aircraft).
Ten F-35s is a response to narcotics trafficers in the same way chemotherapy is a response to the flu.
Ten F-35s is a response to narcotics trafficers in the same way chemotherapy is a response to the flu.
One of the few remaining serious journalists at Fox News asks a very good question about reports that Hegseth just had 10 *stealth fighters* deployed to Puerto Rico allegedly for "counter-narcotics."
September 5, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Venezuela has 3 F-16s and 20 or so Su-30s (comparable more to the F-15 iirc from a friend who knows fighter aircraft).
Ten F-35s is a response to narcotics trafficers in the same way chemotherapy is a response to the flu.
Ten F-35s is a response to narcotics trafficers in the same way chemotherapy is a response to the flu.
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In 7 months, Trump has taken the world's most powerful nation and turned it into a train wreck, inviting both our allies and our adversaries to reshape the world based on our irrelevance.
At least while alienating all of our allies, Trump has been instrumental in bringing others closer together.
September 1, 2025 at 11:55 AM
In 7 months, Trump has taken the world's most powerful nation and turned it into a train wreck, inviting both our allies and our adversaries to reshape the world based on our irrelevance.
Do people believe this BS?
The White House posts that the US has now taken in $8 Trillion in tariff revenue so far. Preposterous insane lies on an hourly basis.
September 1, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Do people believe this BS?
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Trump, wearing a “Trump was right about everything” hat (as one does when one isn’t cripplingly insecure): “The Q is how long do we stay?”
He says the people his Gestapo are arresting are “career criminals” (almost all aren’t) who are “born that way” (a racist idea)
He says the people his Gestapo are arresting are “career criminals” (almost all aren’t) who are “born that way” (a racist idea)
August 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Trump, wearing a “Trump was right about everything” hat (as one does when one isn’t cripplingly insecure): “The Q is how long do we stay?”
He says the people his Gestapo are arresting are “career criminals” (almost all aren’t) who are “born that way” (a racist idea)
He says the people his Gestapo are arresting are “career criminals” (almost all aren’t) who are “born that way” (a racist idea)
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The "president" is out of his mind.
REPORTER: Have you spoke to Vladimir Putin about the fact that a big US factory was hit in an airstrike in Ukraine?
TRUMP: I'm not happy about anything having to do with that war. I settled 7 wars, and actually if you think about pre-wars, add 3 more so it would be 10.
TRUMP: I'm not happy about anything having to do with that war. I settled 7 wars, and actually if you think about pre-wars, add 3 more so it would be 10.
August 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM
The "president" is out of his mind.
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Of course, @governorwalz.mn.gov nails it again with this gem! We miss you, coach!
May 21, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Of course, @governorwalz.mn.gov nails it again with this gem! We miss you, coach!
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There needs to be a spreading hands emoji for posts like this. This is so well said.
May 20, 2025 at 3:04 AM
There needs to be a spreading hands emoji for posts like this. This is so well said.