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@GillianF

Governance, risk, compliance & ethics | MPhil Public Policy candidate | Ella's mum | Falkirk bairn | Cape Town 🇿🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿@gillnie.bsky.social

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Gill@GillianF·
@Knesix Lol so true, it was so tense
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FactPost@factpostnews·
Trump: We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things.
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Mercedes Schlapp
Mercedes Schlapp@mercedesschlapp·
President Trump plays chess, not checkers. And the results are showing in real time.
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Gill@GillianF·
@Anele Only significant because he denied he had any relationship with her. Another lesson in how your digital imprint is forever and always accessible to someone.
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Gill@GillianF·
@WhiteHouse Clear objectives since day one LOL
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The White House@WhiteHouse·
Clear objectives since day one.
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Gill@GillianF·
@aishahhasnie You mean like Ivana Trump? She wasn't a US citizen and she gave birth three times in the US. Lol.
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Aishah Hasnie
Aishah Hasnie@aishahhasnie·
I've seen birth tourism up close. It's a total abuse of the system. Think about it -- someone like me, who was not born in the U.S. but has lived here since I was a 6 years old, will never be able to run for President. But a child born here through birth tourism, then taken back and raised in their parents' country, never growing up with American values, somehow can. American citizenship is not an "insurance policy."
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Andrea Junker@Strandjunker·
Seems like a good day to remind everyone that Trump’s ex-wife Ivana wasn’t an American citizen until 1988. She gave birth to Don Junior in 1977, Ivanka in 1981, and Eric in 1984. — Let’s cancel their birthright citizenship first.
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Ron Filipkowski@RonFilipkowski·
Kristi Noem rigging the property appraiser’s exam while governor so her daughter could get her license, killing a puppy, & giving her boyfriend a powerful job in govt while cheating on her cross-dressing spouse is not that unusual on the spectrum of Republican politician behavior
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Gill@GillianF·
@jonkarl What’s up with all the ballrooms? Trump now has 3 proposed, each grander than the last: • Doonbeg: 320 seats, coastal country-club style • WH: 1,000 seats, chandeliers & gold • Presidential library: in a huge glass-and-gold tower with a Trump statue
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Jonathan Karl
Jonathan Karl@jonkarl·
And now Judge Richard Leon has ordered an immediate halt to the ballroom’s construction, saying it cannot proceed until Congress authorizes it. Leon began writes that the president as “the steward of the White House for future generations of First Families.” “He is not, however, the owner!”
Jonathan Karl@jonkarl

These are the latest renderings of the Trump ballroom. The President says it will be complete during 2028 — before he leaves office. He also says it will be paid for by donors, not taxpayers

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Louise Bagshawe 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇦🎗️
Who does the vetting in the Trump administration? How did a woman who very obviously knew all about her husband’s perversions get appointed to the cabinet when he was such an obvious blackmail target for Russia, China and Iran?
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Gill@GillianF·
@afneil Lol but can he keep it 🤔
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Andrew Neil
Andrew Neil@afneil·
I am told by White House sources that Trump is seriously considering taking Kharg Island.
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Jon Cardinelli
Jon Cardinelli@jon_cardinelli·
Stellenberg have beaten Grey College on the final day of the Noord Suid! The Jade Brigade beat Paarl Gim earlier this month and came within one play of beating Garsfontein on Friday. Win against Grey is huge. Paul Roos now the only one of the 'top dogs' who haven't lost in '26
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SaltyGoat@SaltyGoat17·
OUCH!!! Man liberals, that had to hurt!!
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Gill@GillianF·
@CutterPeat It's definitely not. There was a DNA test
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News24 🇿🇦@News24·
All-girls robotics team needs R1.18m to compete in Canada after earning national spot brnw.ch/21x1d2R
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Gill@GillianF·
@ProtectHRDs He did well to stay so calm. I was taught in the middle of a riot that if you stand still and face them, they quite often calm down.
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Rebecca English
Rebecca English@RE_DailyMail·
Sources have reacted to a request by @RoKhanna asking for him to meet privately with Epstein victims. The palace’s view is that with ongoing UK police investigations, Their Majesties will not be able to meet with survivors on this occasion in case it prejudices that work.
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Rebecca English@RE_DailyMail·
This is significant: The King does not plan to meet with survivors of Jeffrey Epstein when he travels to the United States next month - but has not ruled out a future meeting.
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Gill@GillianF·
@vlok_andre Not long. You'll be surprised at how effective a crow bar and spray paint can be, it will be a matter of days to obliterate him. Lol
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Dr. M.F. Khan
Dr. M.F. Khan@Dr_TheHistories·
"She got fired for making a typo. That typo made her $47 million." In 1956, Bette Nesmith Graham stood in her Dallas kitchen earning $300 a month as a single mother, raising her young son Michael alone, and facing a problem the entire business world refused to solve: IBM’s new electric typewriters made mistakes impossible to erase. One typo meant retyping an entire page. For secretaries across America—mostly women with no margin for error—this wasn’t just inconvenient; it was career‑threatening. Bette grabbed a blender, some white tempera paint, and decided she would fix it herself. She mixed the paint to match office stationery, thinned it until it flowed smoothly, and painted over her typing errors. The next morning she typed the correct letters directly on top. The mistake vanished. That kitchen experiment became Liquid Paper—a product that would quietly revolutionize offices worldwide and make her a multimillionaire. But the path there was anything but smooth. Bette Clair McMurray was born March 23, 1924, in Dallas, Texas. At seventeen she dropped out of high school. In 1942 she married Warren Nesmith, a soldier shipping out to World War II. While he fought overseas, she gave birth to Michael and supported them both as a secretary, attending night classes to earn her GED. The marriage ended in divorce in 1946. Suddenly Bette was solely responsible for a toddler. Money was desperately tight. Michael later remembered his mother crying over bills. She dreamed of being an artist, but art didn’t pay rent. So she focused on secretarial work, teaching herself shorthand and typing, applying for jobs she wasn’t qualified for, and learning as she went. By 1951 her relentless determination had earned her the position of executive secretary to W.W. Overton, chairman of Texas Bank and Trust—the highest position available to women at the bank. Then IBM introduced electric typewriters with carbon‑film ribbons. The machines typed faster, but errors were permanent. For Bette—who admitted she was never a great typist—the new technology felt like a death sentence. One afternoon she watched artists painting the bank’s holiday window display. When they made mistakes, they simply painted over them. Why couldn’t typists do the same? She went home and experimented: mixing white tempera paint in her kitchen blender, tinting it to match cream stationery, thinning it until it dried quickly without cracking. She brought a small bottle and a fine brush to work. When she made a typo, she painted over it, waited for it to dry, and typed the correction on top. Her boss never noticed. But other secretaries did. They saw Bette’s documents were flawless while theirs were covered in erasure marks and smudges. They begged for her “magic paint.” In 1956 she began bottling it as “Mistake Out,” selling about one hundred bottles a month to desperate colleagues. Demand exploded. She and Michael’s teenage friends filled nail‑polish bottles by hand in her garage every night, labeling them one by one. In 1958, The Secretary magazine called her product “the answer to a secretary’s prayers.” Five hundred orders poured in from across the country. Bette still worked full‑time at the bank while running Liquid Paper at night: filling orders, answering mail, refining formulas, shipping samples. The exhaustion caught up with her. One afternoon, signing a routine bank letter, she absentmindedly wrote “The Mistake Out Company” instead of “Texas Bank and Trust.” She was fired immediately. Losing her steady paycheck could have destroyed her. Instead, it freed her. She threw everything into the business. By 1964 Liquid Paper turned profitable; by 1975 it sold twenty‑five million bottles a year. Bette built it with values: on‑site childcare, employee library, retirement plans, a credit union. “The true value in business,” she said, “is never in the dollar, but in the benefit it brings to humankind.” © Women Stories #drthehistories
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