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Semi-retired journalist. Focus on Financial Independence but also post on Politics & the Arts. Seldom answer DMs. Canadian, eh, but would vote Blue if became 51st state. #FinSky #markets #USpol #CanadaSky #Cdnpoli #EconSky #stocks FindependenceHub.com
You, @jonchevreau.bsky.social, wrote about Donald Trump: "If he cheats at Golf what DOESN’T he cheat at?" Donald Trump never cheats at the progress reports that he sends to his Puppetmaster Putin. #Trump #PutinsPuppet #TheSiberianCandidate
@gottalaff.bsky.social I know. It's never happened before. They won't answer any appeal either. Not sure what's going on.
Hearings like this are a reminder that if you work for Donald Trump, you are a person of low character and have no integrity. There are no exceptions.
😮 Trump's nominees are the most pathetic men in the world 😮 During a hearing, Blumenthal made Trump nominees squirm by asking them who won the 2020 election -- a question they refuse to answer -- but then Schiff upped the ante by asking them *who won the 2016 election.* Here's a supercut:
No video, ever, in 52 days. The second photo has stripped metadata and shows Chao in the same inexpensive blouse paparazzi caught her in eleven days earlier. She flew to Beijing three days after he was hospitalized. A confirmed vacancy costs the seat two full months. Do the math yourself.
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Two Photographs in Fifty-Two Days On June 14, emergency services went to Mitch McConnell's home in Washington for an unresponsive person who had possibly suffered a heart attack and received CPR. His...
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Broad US indexes open in record territory #stocks www.marketwatch.com/livecoverage...
Stock Market Today: Dow and S&P 500 open in record territory, and Nasdaq is getting close even after selloffs in SpaceX and AMD shares after earnings; ADP jobs data misses expectations
Follow all the latest U.S. market action for Wednesday here to see if stocks can continue to set new records after the tech sector bounced sharply
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Y para finalizar el monográfico, Los martes, ni te cases ni te enTRUMPes, una última viñeta. #HumorparaZurd★s #StopDJTrump P.D. el próximo martes, más y mejor.
Another disaster from our incompetent Builder-in-Chief.
So it’s a “service fee,” not a toll. Trump let Bibi drag the US into this mess. The deal gives Tehran more leverage over the waterway than before the war. As analyst Ali Vaez puts it, Trump faces a choice between “an unwinnable war and an unpalatable peace.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...
Jeezus f**king Christ... In essence that ruling says that any time your side doesn't win an election, just ransack the capitol, and everything will be okay...
US judge grants DOJ request to dismiss January 6 cases against Oath Keepers
By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON, Aug 4 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Tuesday granted the U.S.
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A paramilitary group plotted to overthrow the Constitution then conducted a violent attack on America. They were convicted in court of seditious conspiracy, and jailed. Then the leader they aimed to illegally install got power and let them out, their records wiped clean. The Jan. 6 attackers won.
Judge Pained as He Grants Dismissal of Jan. 6 Charges Against Oath Keepers
The judge, Amit P. Mehta, blasted the administration’s request for a dismissal in the case, saying it bestowed “unearned grace” on the Oath Keepers defendants “by wiping their records clean.”
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This "diminishes the gravity of that day, denigrates the work of the prosecutors and law enforcement officers who secured these convictions, and excuses criminal acts that caused a centuries-long pillar of our democracy — the peaceful transfer of presidential power — to buckle," Judge Mehta
Judge Pained as He Grants Dismissal of Jan. 6 Charges Against Oath Keepers
The judge, Amit P. Mehta, blasted the administration’s request for a dismissal in the case, saying it bestowed “unearned grace” on the Oath Keepers defendants “by wiping their records clean.”
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Tributes for legendary CTV News anchor Lloyd Robertson are pouring in from politicians, journalists and viewers. Many of them reference his sign-off: “And that’s the kind of day it’s been.”
Lloyd Robertson tributes pour in from Mark Carney, fellow journalists
Robertson, 92, died on Tuesday, CTV News reported.
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US dollar to retain strength, yen intervention no game changer: Reuters poll reut.rs/45GId8g
US dollar to retain strength, yen intervention no game changer: Reuters poll
The U.S. dollar will hold firm in coming months before weakening later in the year, according to FX strategists surveyed by Reuters who also generated some of the weakest consensus Japanese yen forecasts since polling began in the early 1990s.
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Russian drone pursues Ukrainian vegetable vendor in attack described as 'safari: A recently released video has captured a harrowing moment in Ukraine's conflict, showing a Russian drone chasing a vegetable seller in a field. The civilian, identified as an elderly wom… https://ranked.news/1213167?u=b
2029???? seriously? there won't be any USA left by then if he's regime is allowed to continue until then. Look where we are after 18 months 😳
Awww….That idiot (aka Putain de Merde) in the White House missed the legal deadline for screwing up birthright citizenship. I liked the cartoon. I don’t care who boots him out of our country.
He suggested that talks would continue to finalise the terms. Speaking after meeting with the Board’s lead envoy to Gaza on Mon the prime minister said: “Trump thinks - or his team thinks - that they can get Hamas to disarm and demilitarize Gaza. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...
Trump’s Gaza peace plan in tatters after Netanyahu rejects terms for disarming Hamas
The US president had said that Israel was happy with the proposal but Netanyahu insisted it had not been signed off
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Nearly three-quarters of Cuba’s hotels have been closed and the island’s tourism sector has been brought to almost total paralysis by U.S. sanctions and fuel shortages, according to the government. www.scmp.com/news/world/a...
Cuba says nearly three-quarters of hotels have shut as travel plunges
Havana details scale of industry collapse for the first time amid severe economic crisis and energy blockade.
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Imagine being a US Senator pretending to care abt the child rape of the Epstein files; and then hiring Todd Blanche to help protect the rapists.
We don’t need his ego arch! apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump's arch could disrupt the historical significance of many of Washington's sites, report says
President Donald Trump's proposed 250-foot triumphal arch could disrupt the historical significance of many sites near its planned location.
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