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@Archivist1000

Grandma! Mom! Sister! Auntie! Politics wonk, feminist from WAY BACK! Lived in 11 countries &travelled the world, expat for 30+ yrs. @archivist1001.bsky.social

University of Houston Katılım Kasım 2009
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Archivist1000@Archivist1000·
@atrupar ' A top person' ' the best one ever' 'like nobody's ever seen' 'a tremendous ***. ' He covers up his ignorance with childish descriptions.
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Aaron Rupar@atrupar·
Q: Who is Steve Witkoff speaking with in Iran? TRUMP: A top person Q: Who is it? TRUMP: I can't. I don't want them to be killed
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Archivist1000@Archivist1000·
@Notwokenow What do EGGS have to do with Easter? You're buying into a 'tradition' as if it's part of a 'religion' EGGS are a symbol of fertility, just as Spring is a symbol of 'rebirth'
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Kentucky Girl@Notwokenow·
Cadbury has changed Easter to “This Season.” But they’re still profiting from selling Easter Eggs. Christianity is not shameful. It is not offensive. Not another dime should be spent on Cadbury products by any Christian. Anywhere. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
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Bradshaw@myabradshaw78·
Why doesn’t this panel ever discuss everywhere Carney goes a Brookfield deal is being made?? They pick apart Pierre like he’s the PM. So it really makes you wonder who has more power.
CTV Question Period@ctvqp

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre sat down for a lengthy interview with the biggest podcast in the world this week, The Joe Rogan Experience. How could it affect the Conservative leader's popularity in Canada? The Sunday Strategy Sessions tackles that question

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Archivist1000@Archivist1000·
Trump says "ICE can arrest illegals as the enter the country" at airports THAT'S RIDICULOUS: people go through IMMIGRATION at the airport, BEFORE they enter the actual airport space. They are NOT ILLEGAL if IMMIGRATION lets them in. @AnaCabrera
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Joe Cooprider
Joe Cooprider@joecooprider·
Reminder that Mueller indicted 26 Russians and 8 Americans for working together to interfere with the election. All 8 Americans were convicted in court, but 5 were pardoned by Trump.
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David Hume Kennerly@kennerly·
This is an extraordinary piece of writing. I started reading it and couldn’t stop, and neither should you. @Liz_Cheney @KerryKennedyRFK @mikebarnicle @kathleenparker @AdamKinzinger @gtconway3d @NormOrnstein @JohnJHarwood @BeschlossDC @SykesCharlie @ImprovAmbassadr @ccwhip
Gandalv@Microinteracti1

Robert Mueller died last night. He was 81 years old. He had a wife who loved him for sixty years. He had two daughters, one of whom he met for the first time in Hawaii, in 1969, on a few hours of military leave, before he got back on the plane and returned to Vietnam. He had grandchildren. He had a faith he practiced quietly, without performance. He had, in the way of men who have seen real things and survived them, a quality that is increasingly rare and increasingly mocked in the country he spent his life serving. He had integrity. And tonight the President of the United States said good! I have been sitting with that word for hours now. Good. One syllable. The thing you say when the coffee is hot or the traffic is moving. The thing a man who has never had to bury anyone, never had to sit in the specific silence of a room where someone is newly absent, reaches for when he wants the world to know he is satisfied. Good. The daughters are crying and the wife is alone in the house and good. I want to speak directly to the Americans reading this. Not the political Americans. Just the human ones. The ones who have lost a father. The ones who know what it is to be in that first hour, when you keep forgetting and then remembering again, when ordinary objects become unbearable, when the world outside the window seems obscene in its indifference. I want to ask you, simply, to hold that feeling for a moment, and then to understand that the man you elected looked at it and typed a single word. Good. This is not a country having a bad day. I need you to understand that. Countries have bad days. Elections go wrong. Leaders disappoint. Institutions bend. But there is a different thing, a rarer and more terrible thing, that happens when the moral center of a place simply gives way. Not dramatically. Not with a single catastrophic event. But quietly, in increments, until one evening a president celebrates the death of an old man whose family is still warm with grief, and enough people find it acceptable that it becomes the weather. Just the weather. That is what is happening. That is what has happened. The world knows. From Tokyo to Oslo, from London to Buenos Aires, people are not angry at America tonight. Anger would mean there was still something to fight for, some remaining faith to be betrayed. What I see, in the reactions from everywhere that is not here, is something older and sadder than anger. It is the look people get when they have waited a long time for someone they love to find their way back, and have finally understood that they are not coming. America is being grieved. Past tense, almost. The idea of it. The thing it represented to people who had nothing else to believe in, who came here with everything they owned in a single bag because they had heard, somehow, across an ocean, that this was the place where decency was written into the walls. That idea is not resting. It is not suspended. It is being buried, in real time, with 7,450 likes before dinner. And the church said nothing. Seventy million people have decided that this man, this specific man who has cheated everyone he has ever made a promise to, who has mocked the disabled and the dead and the grieving, who celebrated tonight while a family wept, is an instrument of God. The pastors who made that bargain did not just trade away their credibility. They traded away the thing that made them worth listening to in the first place. The cross they carry now is a costume. The faith they preach is a loyalty oath with scripture attached. When the history of American Christianity is written, this will be the chapter they skip at seminary. Now I want to talk about the men who stand next to him. Because this is the part that actually breaks my heart. JD Vance is not a bad man. I have to say that, because it is true, and because the truth matters even now, especially now. Marco Rubio is not a bad man. Lindsey Graham is not a bad man. They are idiots, but not bad, as in BAD! These are men with mothers who raised them and children who love them and friends who remember who they were before all of this. They are not monsters. Monsters are simple. Monsters do not cost you anything emotionally because there is nothing in them to mourn. These men are something more painful than monsters. They are men who knew better, and know better still, and will get up tomorrow and do it again. Every small compromise they made had a reason. Every moment they looked the other way had a justification that sounded, at the time, almost reasonable. And now they have arrived here, at a place where a president celebrates the death of an old man and they will find a way, on television, to say nothing that means anything, and they will go home to houses where children who carry their name are waiting, and they will say goodnight, and they will say nothing. Their oldest friends are watching. The ones who knew Rubio when he still believed in something. Who knew Graham when he said, out loud, on the record, that this exact man would destroy the Republican Party and deserve it. Who sat next to Vance and thought here is someone worth knowing. Those friends are not angry tonight. They moved through anger a long time ago. What they feel now is the quiet, irrecoverable sadness of watching someone disappear while still being present. Of watching a person they loved choose, again and again, to become less. That is what cowardice costs. Not the coward. The people who loved him. And in the comments tonight, the followers celebrate. People who ten years ago brought casseroles to grieving neighbours. Who stood in the rain at gravesides and meant the words they said. Who told their children that we do not speak ill of the dead because the dead were someone's beloved. Those people are tonight typing gleeful things about a man whose daughters are not yet done crying. And they feel clean doing it. Righteous. Because somewhere along the way the thing they were given in exchange for their decency was the feeling of belonging to something, and that feeling is very hard to give up even when you can no longer remember what you gave for it. When Trump is gone, they will still be here. Standing in the silence where the noise used to be. Without the permission the crowd gave them. Without the pastor who told them their cruelty was holy. They will be alone with what they said and what they cheered and what they chose to become, and there will be no one left to tell them it was righteous. That morning is coming. Robert Mueller flew across the Pacific on military leave to hold his newborn daughter for a few hours before returning to the war. He came home. He buried his dead with honour. He served presidents of both parties because he understood that the institution was larger than any one man. He told his grandchildren that a lie is the worst thing a person can do, that a reputation once lost cannot be recovered, and he lived that, every day, in the quiet and unglamorous way of people who actually believe what they say. He was the kind of American the world used to point to when it needed to believe the story was true. He died last night. His wife is alone in their house in Georgetown. His daughters are learning what the world is without him in it. And somewhere in the particular hush that falls over a family in the first hours of loss, the most powerful man and the biggest loser on earth sent a message to say he was glad. The world that loved what America was supposed to be is grieving tonight. Not for Robert Mueller only. For the country that produced him and then became this. For the distance between what was promised and what was delivered. For the suspicion, growing quieter and more certain with each passing month, that the America people believed in was always partly a story, and the story is over now, and there is nothing yet to replace it. That is all it needed to be. A man died. His family is broken open with grief. That is all it needed to be. Instead the President said good. And the country that once stood for something looked away 🇺🇸 Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

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Archivist1000@Archivist1000·
@gerardtbaker Trump's record of LYING and MAKING UP conversations with world leaders and "SIR ......" stories pretty much CONFIRM that he's lying, as usual.
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Archivist1000@Archivist1000·
@BarbaraBalCPC You really REALLY don't know what you're talking about. Stop embarrassing yourself
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Barbara Bal MBA
Barbara Bal MBA@BarbaraBalCPC·
😩 $100 to put gas in my tank and it’s not even full. Canada holds the world's third-largest oil reserves and is the world’s fourth largest oil producer yet somehow we’re not ‘energy independent’ enough to dodge these global spikes. 🤷‍♀️
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I cant believe that Canadians voted for the same party FOUR TIMES in a row that saw the largest decline in happiness in the history of Canada -- down 20 spots. Only sub-Saharan Africa saw similar declines. "but Poilievre said biological clock!"
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Archivist1000@Archivist1000·
@rose_E111 @RonFilipkowski You're describing Trump's own record of LYING about conversations with Leaders. Maybe FOX doesn't report the many DENIALS by people who Trump claims have 'said something' but .... he can't be trusted, he makes up 'stories' all the time.
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Rose.E@rose_E111·
But what you don’t understand is this: even if the Iranian regime engages in negotiations, it won’t admit it. For them, it would be seen as humiliation in front of their supporters,especially the more hardline base ,having to negotiate with a country they portray as an enemy. That’s the reality of this regime.
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Ron Filipkowski
Ron Filipkowski@RonFilipkowski·
Never in my life have I believed Iran state media over our own government. Until now. That’s not being “unpatriotic,” it’s having a brain that functions.
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Archivist1000@Archivist1000·
@Ibuytrashstocks @RonFilipkowski No it doesn't. Besides which Trump has a RECORD of lying and making up 'conversations' with other Leaders, which have been consistently denied. He makes up 'SIR ........' stories that are denied or unverifiable.
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Archivist1000@Archivist1000·
What FOX doesn't tell you
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John Smith
John Smith@yonkojohn·
Why do Canadians allow Politicians to steal and continue to reelect them allowing to steal even more?
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Archivist1000@Archivist1000·
@dubsndoo "Stupid" is thinking that the damage Trump has done is temporary AND that the US CONGRESS wasn't complicit in enabling him. The SYSTEM has failed, many have profited and the USA as it once was, is GONE
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terry l.@dubsndoo·
Vassey Kapelos trotted out Carney’s notion that Canada’s relationship with the USA is a *permanent rupture*. How stupid do you have to be to buy that? Trump is a once in a lifetime phenomena; America will always be America, and they will always be our best friend and ally.
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Archivist1000@Archivist1000·
@dubsndoo You seriously think the USA will ever be 'trusted' to the degree it once was ... after the world has seen how EASILY it was to make it become a threat to the world? Carney is right about that, and the rest of the world agrees. There's a reason he got a 5 minute standing Ovation
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Archivist1000@Archivist1000·
@GaryPetersonUSA another ridiculous, juvenile meme. Only a child would think that looks 'tough' Anyone else sees a clown, who THINKS he looks tough.
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