Diane Prentiss
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Diane Prentiss
@dapsbend
Love people, politics, books, my children and their offspring
Indiana, USA Entrou em Mayıs 2017
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@KhanSaba1278 In this time of division between our people that seems like you are being overly judgmental. Maybe that's the only time he can. Dies that really ruin your life?
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My neighbor was mowing their lawn around 6 P.M., and I know this might sound dramatic, but it honestly bothered me more than I expected.
I get that people have busy schedules, and sometimes yard work has to happen whenever there’s time. Not everyone can mow in the middle of the day, and I understand that.
But after a long week, that early evening time is when a lot of people are trying to eat dinner, relax, or finally enjoy a little quiet. So hearing a mower going for a while right outside can feel pretty frustrating.
I’m not saying people should never do yard work in the evening. I just think there’s a balance between taking care of your property and being mindful of the people living nearby.
Maybe I’m overthinking it, but I do feel like neighborhood courtesy matters, especially when it comes to noise.
Be honest, would mowing around dinner time bother you, or is 6 P.M. still a totally reasonable time?

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@JakeSherman @PunchbowlNews Jake you sure get a lot of abuse from maga nuts. But I think what you report is true. Johnson caves to T and Thune tries to move T to the centrist more reasonable side. I hope this dang bill never passes Senate
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Speaking of ....
@punchbowlnews AM this morning:
President Donald Trump has created lots of problems on Capitol Hill. And increasingly, he’s leaving Senate Majority Leader John Thune on the sidelines as he tries to solve them.
When Trump was looking to coordinate with Hill Republicans last week over the “anti-weaponization fund” standing in the way of the GOP’s $70 billion immigration enforcement package, he called Speaker Mike Johnson down to the White House — not Thune.
It happened this week, too. Johnson met with Trump on Tuesday at the White House amid the impasse over FISA Section 702. This situation was prompted by Trump’s appointment of Bill Pulte, an intel neophyte and MAGA warrior, to be acting director of national intelligence. Thune wasn’t there again.
punchbowl.news/archive/61026-…
Jake Sherman@JakeSherman
🚨BREAKING NEWS: SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON will return to the White House this morning to talk about FISA with President DONALD TRUMP. FISA Section 702 authority expires Friday. I just caught up with Johnson....lots of news....more soon. But -- yes -- text subscribers get it first.
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Europe Wins Again. Obviously.
Armenia went to the polls yesterday. And the results are exactly what you’d expect if you’d been paying attention for the past five years, rather than wallowing in Kremlin nostalgia like a damp sock.
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan declared victory on Monday, with his Civil Contract Party leading with 52.5% of the vote.  Armenia, a landlocked country the size of Belgium that Russia has spent decades treating as a vassal state, has looked at its options and made a decision that required roughly the same level of intellectual effort as choosing between a Michelin-starred restaurant and a skip fire.
They chose Europe.
This election was less a routine vote than a referendum on Pashinyan’s post-2020 course reducing dependence on Russia and moving toward an explicit European orientation. And Russia, naturally, did everything in its power to stop it. According to Reuters, citing Western intelligence officials, the election faced heavy Russian covert interference, including disinformation campaigns and a plan to transport Russian Armenians into Armenia to sway the vote. One analyst collective described it as one of the largest state-backed disinformation campaigns in modern European history. And Armenia still told them to get lost.
Putin had already warned Armenia it would face economic consequences for drifting westward, and introduced restrictions on Armenian agricultural exports in the weeks before the vote.  Threats, propaganda, economic blackmail. The full Russian toolkit. Result: irrelevant.
Now, Trump, Tucker Carlson and JD Vance would like you to believe that Russia represents some superior civilisational model. A proud, white, Christian fortress holding the line against the Muslim hordes supposedly swamping Europe. It is a compelling narrative, in the same way that flat earth theory is compelling if you ignore every single fact available to you.
Here is one such fact: between 10 and 15 percent of Russia’s own population is Muslim. Tatars, Bashkirs, Chechens, Ingush, Dagestanis. Millions of them. Russia is, by its own demographic reality, a multi-ethnic, multi-faith state with a larger Muslim population than most of Western Europe. But you’re not supposed to know that. It complicates the story.
Meanwhile, the Muslim share of the EU population sits at around 5 percent. But the Tucker Carlsons of the world need you frightened, so the numbers get quietly shuffled off stage.
So Armenia joins the queue. Behind Georgia, Ukraine, Moldova, and every Eastern European country that isn’t currently run by a Slovak who seems to have wandered in from a Moscow focus group. The pattern is not subtle. Every country that has actually experienced Russian influence in practice is sprinting in the opposite direction. The only nation currently moving toward Russia’s orbit is the United States, which managed to elect a man whose foreign policy instincts were apparently shaped by a property developer’s admiration for strongmen with good buildings.
The world watches America and hopes it finds its way back. Most people think it will. Eventually. The damage, however, is already considerable, and democracy, like a soufflé, does not always survive rough handling.
Armenia made its choice. The right one. Obviously.
Gandalv / @Microinteracti1
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@samstein Oh Sam, your sarcasm is showing. But I love sarcasm!
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@ccbrown02 @peterbakernyt @RobbieGramer Complaints from those who belittle the lack of reporting is stupid. If they report you slam the reporting as fake or TDS.
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@peterbakernyt @RobbieGramer Then please write more stories/investigative pieces on those that surround Trump. What the fuck is Susie Wiles doing? Why is Marco getting puff pieces versus ‘how to sell out’ articles. The corruption is insane. More investigative journalism please!
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At a time of war in the Middle East, the US has no ambassador in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Iraq or Kuwait. At a time of war in Europe, there is no US ambassador in Russia or Ukraine. Altogether some 115 of 195 ambassador posts are vacant. @RobbieGramer wsj.com/politics/polic…
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@JakeSherman Jake Im confused..what is going on with this? I need more detail please.
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🚨NEWS HERE
Brendan Pedersen@BrendanPedersen
News w/ @JakeSherman: Senate Banking Committee Chair Tim Scott (R-S.C.) had an in-person meeting and phone call with Speaker Johnson today, per sources Scott’s message: pass the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act unamended. The House … is prepping an amended bill for next week
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