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Inveterate traveler, voracious reader, museum lover, amateur historian
@nbcnews.com featured me in its "Great Americans" series. The story reflects my passion for broadening Americans' perspectives through travel. As we celebrate our nation's 250th, one of the best ways to appreciate America is to understand the world beyond it. www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news...
Great Americans: A conversation with travel writer Rick Steves
Tom Llamas has the story of Rick Steves, who has inspired millions of Americans to travel abroad which he says makes America a better country.
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Despicable, another one of their despicable SOPs
404 Media@404media.co · yesterdaySCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:
"Jon Ossoff’s characterizations of Trump’s failures and betrayals are among the best of anyone...the Senator from Georgia deserves all the buzz he is getting." Agree with @simonwdc.bsky.social: Trump's cratering creates new kinds of opportunities for Dems: www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/more-bad-e...
More Bad Econ Data, Trump's Desperation Grows, Traveling With Natalie
We got a few new encouraging Senate polls in the past few days.....
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President Donald Trump's war against Iran is stretching the limits of U.S. aircraft carriers and leaving the western Pacific without one of the key American warships as China shows more signs of aggression. https://to.pbs.org/4xdocCg
U.S. pulls last aircraft carrier in Asia as Trump focuses on Iran and the Western Hemisphere
The USS George Washington is departing the Pacific and expected to replace the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Middle East amid growing concerns about mental health and supply issues aboard the long-deploy...
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For the first time since World War II, the country’s debt is actually larger than the economy itself. Driven by surging federal spending, the government has already borrowed almost $2 trillion in fiscal year 2026 and is on track to borrow even more before the year is over.
This year's budget deficit has almost reached $2 trillion. It's not over yet.
The U.S. has already surpassed its 2025 budget deficit with about a month and a half left to go in its fiscal year. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the government is on track to borrow m...
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❤️ libraries! Currently have 10 checkouts and 8 on hold
@optimisticsoap.bsky.social · last wk.Libraries make us a harder target for authoritarianism. Equal access to info, ideas, and space that doesn’t require a purchase to belong. Also: using the library means money stays in your community instead of streaming out to Amazon. 📚 What’s checked out on your card right now?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · last wk.SKY NEWS: “Trump says you’re a gift to the Republican Party.” @abdulelsayed.bsky.social: “I’m a gift to the state of Michigan, God-willing.” SKY NEWS: “He says you’re full of shit.” ABDUL: “At least I don’t let mine go in the middle of the Oval Office.” 🔥 🔥 👀
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekEforEphemeral The waves keep coming and eventually disappearing off the coast of The Gambia
James Cameron founded the America’s Black Holocaust Museum in Milwaukee Worth a visit
Equal Justice Initiative@eji.org · 2w agoOn this day in 1930, a white mob lynched two Black teenagers in Indiana and nearly lynched a third, 16-year-old James Cameron. Though the lynching was photographed, no one was ever held accountable.
A New Mexico court has ordered Meta to pay $567 million to address harms to young people from its platforms in the second phase of a landmark trial the social media giant lost in March.
Court orders Meta to pay $567 million to address kids' mental health and safety on its platforms
A New Mexico court has ordered Instagram and Facebook parent company Meta to pay $567 million to address harms to young people from its platforms.
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While Mike Collins has spent his entire time in Congress shitposting and creating memes on X, Ossoff has been working hard every day for his constituents - whether they are Democrats or Republicans.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekEforEphemeral I don’t remember exactly how long the flight from Quidi Vidi Brewery, NL, lasted, but not long
Trump tells his cultists in every speech, “we are respected all over the world like never before.” And most of them believe him. It should come as no surprise that the 10 states with the fewest number of people with passports per capita are all red states.
Hate to see their scores on maptap.gg
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Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3w agoAt least this time when the lazy bastards used AI to do their job they didn’t blow up a girls elementary school.
CNN: "The president's overall approval rating now stands at just 34%. That matches his career low following the January 6 insurrection."
"“You can’t get rid of 30 percent of your staff and expect to be functional,” says Traci DiMartini, the former IRS human capital officer who was one of the first high-ranking officials DOGE pushed out last year. “Things are starting to break.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The IRS is imploding.
The CEO says the agency is proving it's possible to have “less people and better results.”
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Emmett Till was born right here in Chicago on July 25, 1941. And it is with deep humility and great pride that I signed legislation this week at Roberts Temple to declare his birthday as the Illinois Day of Reflection and Remembrance of Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley.
They died serving our country. They should be honored, not erased. Lt. Tyler James Feehan, 25, of Hawaii Pvt. Isabella Gonzales, 19, of Texas Sgt. Angel Rampersad, 28, of New York Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton, 30, of North Carolina
The Pentagon removed the names of 4 servicemembers who died in Jordan from their official list of Iran war casualties. They explain that this is because "their deaths occurred after President Trump declared a cease-fire in the war in April." Free gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/u...
Number of U.S. Troop Deaths in Iran War Appears Lower on Pentagon Website (Gift Article)
Three military officials and a Pentagon spokesman gave conflicting explanations for why the number of Americans killed in the Iran war had changed.
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“.. The number of Amazon workers relying on the federal programs for the poor nearly tripled between February 2020 and September 2025 .. “.. And for the first time, ride-hailing and app-based food delivery companies .. ranked among the top three ..” $AMZN www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
