Pam Gillespie

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BREAKING: Upside side down French flag spotted outside the Alitos' summer residence

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It is spine tingling standing at Gors Fawr in anticipation of the sunrise. When you finally feel the warmth of the sun whilst birds are singing and cuckoo calling in the distance - life awakening on the longest day - it truly is a magical experience. 🏺#StandingStoneSunday More 1/

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'Sometimes things don't go, after all, from bad to worse' Thinking a lot about this poem today.

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"Look we can't write anything about Jim Jones shooting up that Congressional delegation in Guyana, because his followers just don't want to hear it, or at the very least it doesn't affect his cult popularity. But Jimmy Carter did say malaise, which we now cover for the 874th time." -- NYT, 1978

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"Irish nationalists Sinn Fein became Northern Ireland's largest party in the British parliament for the first time on Friday, capitalising on a poor election for its main unionist rival to cross another milestone in a campaign to end British rule." wild times www.reuters.com/world/uk/sin...

Sinn Fein largest Northern Ireland party in UK parliament for first timewww.reuters.com Irish nationalists Sinn Fein became Northern Ireland's largest party in the British parliament for the first time on Friday, capitalising on a poor election for its main unionist rival to cross another milestone in a campaign to end British rule.

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Stephen Miller now following Trump's lead and saying he has nothing to do with Project 2025. 1. His organization is on the Project 2025 advisory board. 2. He recorded a video as part of Project 2025 training tools 3. You can see Mandate for Leadership, the Project 2025 publication in the background

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You're never going to convince me that Joe Biden's age and mental fitness is a real issue compared to Donald Trump's age and mental fitness worthy of taking a political gamble of Chicxulub proportions. Sorry. I think it's is mostly GOP BS that would be replaced by other GOP BS.

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Read this, share this widely

I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:

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Watching the entire "should Biden step down" discussion play out completely among donors and insiders is an incredibly bleak illustration of how absent the working class base of the Democratic Party is from its power center. We can fix that. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-hole-a...

The Hole at the Heart of the Democratic Partywww.hamiltonnolan.com Labor needs to fill the vacuum. Or else.

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Just a reminder that Michelle Wolf nailed it at the White House Correspondents Dinner. NYT, I’m looking in your direction especially.

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NYT: Sure Godzilla is headed for New York, but why would we cover it? Everybody already knows Godzilla is a monster.

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I really don’t think most people realize just how hard the boot will come down if Trump and the Republicans win the election. Most people have never experienced the totalitarian surveillance state with the power to reach into their homes and minds at will they are telling us is their plan.

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We're science fiction writers. Of course we write stories about the consequences of technological innovations, and no one ever comprehends the story is about the consequences and not the technology

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my friend asked the other day how i planned to cover the growing fascism here and i said “i guess continue writing about it til i’m sent to prison? lol” it was a flip thing to say but it’s hard to imagine ever stopping. or fleeing. i’m feeling not quite patriotic, but protective of this country.

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apparently a single company controls 95 percent of the ice cream truck music box market. and all the songs on it are public domain!? thehustle.co/the-company-...

The company that has a monopoly on ice cream truck musicthehustle.co How a small, family-owned electronics company came to control 97% of the ice cream truck music market.

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The governors of a dozen Republican-led states — AL, AK, FL, GA, IA, MS, OK, SC, SD, TX, UT, WY — opted out of a new federal food assistance program, leaving about 9.5 million students without the aid this summer

Republican-led states are blocking summer food benefits for hungry familieswww.usatoday.com Money for food is especially tight for families in a dozen states where Republican lawmakers declined to accept federal food assistance.

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I have no idea the best path re Biden but I do know a solid week straight of “Biden Old” and “Rich Dems Worried” above-the-fold stories are *obscene* in the face of SCOTUS using the Constitution to wipe their asses purely in the service of reinstating a felon rapist as president. Crazy-making shit.

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For most of its history, America hasn’t been a democracy, by any meaningful definition of the term! This isn’t some It Can’t Happen Here shit, in a way, it’s already happened. It just may not have directly affected you.

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Just like none of the bold investigators backfilling Joe Biden's feeble debate performance with punchy anonymous quotes have ever figured out why Trump was rushed to Walter Reed, claimed he wanted a spur-of-the-moment weekend checkup, and a year later declared that he had NOT had a series of strokes

"Executive Time" fell out of the coverage of Donald Trump in the most incredible way. Nobody writing about his quest to become president again ever mentions the fact that he hated the job when he had it and he couldn't and wouldn't really do it!

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My favorite part of the West Wing fantasies about replacing Biden is the idea that there wouldn’t immediately be a new fatal flaw with whoever replaced him.

I don't take the age thing seriously. THEY PICK A LIE ABOUT EVERY DEM, and the press knows it's some BS but plays along. They know that the other guy is worse in every way, especially his brain. They turned being a war hero into a liability against a fortunate son draft dodger.

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TRUMP: I am going to drop daisy-cutter bombs on Seattle just cuz BIDEN: I'll have the Bob Salad — ha, COBB Salad, whoops. NYT: Biden's Gaffe Sends Shockwaves Through Democratic Party; Trump Pledges Infrastructure Changes to Northwest

what are we doing here? he accidentally said million instead of billion and then immediately knew it and corrected himself. he didn’t “flub a line” and then “make an effort to correct himself,” he did the speaking equivalent of a typo that you know you’ve made and instantly correct

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an entire movement of wicked people who celebrate wickedness

As a side note, this is John McEntee, Trump's Director of White House Personnel and the primary architect of Project 2025. On Tik Tok he said he gives counterfeit bills to homeless people so they will be arrested when they go to spend them.

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💥 Russians suspend traffic on Crimean Bridge, explosions rock Sevastopol

Russians suspend traffic on Crimean Bridge, explosions rock Sevastopolwww.pravda.com.ua The Russians once again suspended traffic on the Crimean (Kerch) Bridge on the night of 5-6 July, and social media reported the sounds of explosions in the city of Sevastopol.

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🔥 Russia claims Ukraine launched drone attack and caused fires at 2 oil depots – videos

Russia claims Ukraine launched drone attack and caused fires at 2 oil depots – videoswww.pravda.com.ua Russia’s Krasnodar Krai has claimed that Ukrainian drones have attacked three districts, resulting in damage to mobile phone towers and fires at two oil depots.

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Tiny bark beetles, namely the Ips engraver and southern pine varieties, have been killing millions of trees across Louisiana and Mississippi after a severe drought last year left forests and woods weakened and susceptible to the insect. Via Louisiana Illuminator

Bark beetle attack prompts Louisiana lawmakers to convene emergency...www.newsfromthestates.com Louisiana House lawmakers are convening an emergency panel to deal with widespread beetle attacks on pine trees across the state and the public safety concern posed by the problem. It’s not the Englis...

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Lt.-Gen Jennie Carignan named Canada’s first female chief of defence staff: Lt.-Gen. Carignan is a three-star general who has commanded troops in Iraq, served as chief of staff of army operations and held senior roles at National Defence headquarters

Lt.-Gen Jennie Carignan named Canada’s first female chief of defence staffwww.theglobeandmail.com Lt.-Gen. Carignan is a three-star general who has commanded troops in Iraq, served as chief of staff of army operations and held senior roles at National Defence headquarters

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The Riley Fire burning around the main entrance of Alaska's Denali National Park and Preserve, which broke out over the weekend and was measured at 388 acres as of Tuesday, prompted the National Park Service to shut down visitor access there and evacuate about 150 employees. Via @alaskabeacon.com

Denali and Fairbanks-area fires disrupt tourists and communities in...www.newsfromthestates.com A wildfire has forced the closure of one of Alaska’s top tourist destinations and a set of fires have poured smoke into the state’s second-largest city.

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The really bitter irony here is that SCOTUS is making the president a king while a Democrat is president. They aren't worried about it because they know Democrats won't accept Biden actually acting the way they are saying he can.

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In normal times, the Supreme Court would've smacked down claims of presidential immunity almost immediately, but we're not in normal times, and there's a reason why the conservative majority of Federalist Society bagmen waited until the last possible moment to provide this insane ruling.