Vicki Gunn
nettlesandroses.bsky.social
Vicki Gunn
@nettlesandroses.bsky.social
I teach permaculture gardening, preserving food healthily, and ethical foraging. How can we reduce our footprint & heal the land? Living on Kalapuya land. Check out my blog for recipes, essays, and classes: www.nettlesandrosespermaculture.com
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Fun fact: AG Pam Bondi, who approved Trump’s $400M jet gift from Qatar, was a paid lobbyist for Qatar, earning $115K a month.
May 12, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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It’s especially galling that AG Pam Bondi personally wrote the memo approving the gift of the Qatari airplane. Her last job was as a lobbyist for Qatar! efile.fara.gov/docs/6415-Ex...
May 11, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Harvard University: “We have informed the [Trump Administration] through our legal counsel that we will not accept their proposed agreement. The University will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights.”

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

view.hu.harvard.edu?qs=351b45ebf...
view.hu.harvard.edu
April 14, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Everything is breathtakingly stupid
April 14, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Just because it’s satire, doesn’t mean it’s not true.
April 8, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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War hero schools a chickenhawk.
April 9, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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Yup!
something I haven't seen yet: isn't a massive increase in the range of goods worth smuggling going to be a big boost to exactly the kind of cross-border organized crime the WH claims it wants to stop?
April 8, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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The website has crashed repeatedly in recent weeks with outages lasting anywhere from 20 minutes to almost a day. Even when the site is back online many customers have not been able to sign in to their accounts or have logged in only to find information missing
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Social Security website keeps crashing, as DOGE demands cuts to IT staff
The worsening problems come as Elon Musk’s DOGE team pushes for more cuts at the agency, including in the department that oversees the website.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 9, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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Trump just pardoned crypto firm BitMex for violating money laundering laws — making him potentially the first president in American history to pardon a corporation.

It's truly a new Golden Age for corporate crime.
April 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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🤣🤣🤣
April 3, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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You're being disrespectful. Take off that tuxedo and put on a suit or I'll double your tariffs.
April 3, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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On April 2nd, 4 US Army Soldiers died in a training accident in Lithuania. 🕊️

The Lithuania Govt. showed more respect than our own govt

Staff Sgt. Knutson-Collins, 28,
Michigan
Sgt. Duenez Jr., 25, Illinois
Sgt. Franco, 25, California.
Pfc. Taitano, 21,
Guam.

Much Respect 🙏🏻 🇺🇸
#SheShed
April 4, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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There are 33m companies in the USA. Only 21k employe 500 or more. And they only make up 23% of workers.

Trump and Elon are ignoring the more than 32m entrepreneurs that can't afford to build a new factory or pay tariffs or absorb cancelled contracts.
April 4, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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April 3, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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On behalf of all my Canadian friends and their lovely country
April 4, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Yep
March 28, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Trump ended funding to Voice of America and Radio Liberty, forcing both to stop broadcasting to countries that restrict press freedom. VOA began operations in 1942; RL started in 1951.

Why did Trump silence this voice against communism, fascism and oppression? Iran, Russia and China are thrilled.
March 16, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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More of this, please –
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
ICYMI-this is a must see: Representative John Larson (D) calling out Elon Musk and not holding back…
Well done! THANK YOU.
March 12, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Basically…
March 12, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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Kelly: When I was flying in combat over Iraq during the first Gulf War, I didn’t expect that there was a 10-year-old kid sitting in South Africa who would one day become the richest guy in the world and call me a traitor for doing my job. Now, he kind of acts like a 12-year-old kid
March 12, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Devastating news!

This basically guts the Department of Education .
March 11, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Department of Education lays off nearly half of workforce.

There it is folks.

What a sad day in American history.

thehill.com/homenews/edu...
thehill.com
March 11, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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March 11, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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The Agriculture Department has axed two programs that gave schools and food banks money to buy food from nearby farms and ranchers. Roughly $660 million that schools and child care facilities were counting on to purchase food has been canceled.

This will hurt both kids and small, local farmers.
USDA cancels $1B in local food purchasing for schools, food banks
States have been notified that they will not receive 2025 funding for schools to buy food from nearby farms.
www.politico.com
March 11, 2025 at 12:57 PM