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same cycleknitz from xitter but better @cycleknitz.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine

A glass of white wine and a fuchsia Nalgene bottle with about an inch of water in the foreground. Background: TV atop the fireplace showing CNN Erin Burnett Out Front - Trump on screen nattering about maybe-maybe-not bombing Iran

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same cycleknitz from xitter but better @cycleknitz.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Intersection of Nevada and Bijou, downtown Springs. (Photo credit: my son, who lives 2 blocks away)

No Kings protesters (and some cars stopped at a stoplight)

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same cycleknitz from xitter but better @cycleknitz.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Another golden columbine bloom from the same plant as below. The previous bloom (from a few days ago) either fell off or got et.

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same cycleknitz from xitter but better @cycleknitz.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Aquilegia chrysantha (golden columbine) from my back yard. Cousin of Aquilegia coerulia, the Rocky Mountain blue columbine.

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same cycleknitz from xitter but better @cycleknitz.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Florida's 3.8. Compare with the model rule, above.

RULE 4-3.8 SPECIAL RESPONSIBILITIES OF A PROSECUTOR
The prosecutor in a criminal case shall:
(a) refrain from prosecuting a charge that the prosecutor knows is not supported by
probable cause;
(b) not seek to obtain from an unrepresented accused a waiver of important pre-trial rights
such as a right to a preliminary hearing;
(c) make timely disclosure to the defense of all evidence or information known to the
prosecutor that tends to negate the guilt of the accused or mitigates the offense, and, in
connection with sentencing, disclose to the defense and to the tribunal all unprivileged mitigating
information known to the prosecutor, except when the prosecutor is relieved of this responsibility
by a protective order of the tribunal.

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same cycleknitz from xitter but better @cycleknitz.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

This was posted on what appears to be his LinkedIn two weeks ago:

Screenshot from LinkedIn page of Ben Schrader

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same cycleknitz from xitter but better @cycleknitz.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

"Inflation wasn't that bad" Um... That 2022 hike of 8% in particular wasn't great. Especially the 9.9% jump in food prices that year. That's what consumers (who are also voters) notice. And the White House and the campaign's economic messaging was completely tone-deaf.

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Between 2019 and 2024, the US experienced a cumulative price increase of 22.63% due to inflation, according to In 2013 Dollars. The average annual inflation rate during this period was 4.16%, with the inflation rate in 2019 at 1.76% and 2.9% in 2024.
Detailed Inflation Rates:
2019: 1.76%
2020: -0.58%
2021: 3.47%
2022: 8.0%
2023: 4.1%
2024: 2.9%

grocery inflation 2019 to 2024

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From 2019 to 2024, grocery prices in the US increased significantly, particularly in 2022, with a 9.9% rise in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for food, according to Statista. Food-at-home prices rose by 11.4% in 2022, the largest annual increase since 1979, according to Visual Capitalist. Overall, food prices have risen by 23.6% from 2020 to 2024, according to the USDA Economic Research Service.
Key Points:
2022 was the peak:
2022 saw the largest annual increase in food prices, reaching 9.9% for all food and 11.4% for food-at-home.
Factors driving inflation:
The pandemic, supply chain disruptions, and global events like the Russian invasion of Ukraine played a role in the rise of food prices.
Food-at-home vs. food-away-from-home:
While food-at-home prices saw significant increases, food-away-from-home prices also rose, although at a slightly lower rate in 2024.
Cooling down in 2023-2024:
Food price growth began to slow in 2023 and continued to do so in 2024, as wholesale food prices and other inflationary factors eased.
Specific item increases:
Certain items experienced significant price increases, such as eggs (54% increase from November 2020 to March 2024), milk (36%), and cereals (28%).
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The average price of food in the United States rose by 2.8% in the 12 months ending April, after posting an annual increase of 3% in March, according to the ...

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same cycleknitz from xitter but better @cycleknitz.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

He certainly *implied* it during the 2020 campaign. thehill.com/opinion/whit...

That “transition” line is important, because it’s one Biden himself used publicly and on the record. “I view myself as a transition candidate,” Biden said at an online fundraiser in April 2020. In March of that year, at a rally where his eventual VP pick Kamala Harris was by his side, he used similar language: “I view myself as a bridge, not as anything else.”

As we now know, that turned into a bridge to nowhere. By March 2021, Biden was saying something entirely different. “My plan is to run for reelection. That’s my expectation,” he said shortly after he was inaugurated.

So Biden never explicitly made a one-term promise during the campaign, but he certainly implied it with the language of “transition.”

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same cycleknitz from xitter but better @cycleknitz.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

I mean, I *live* in Colorado, two hours from Boulder, and I didn't even know about the attack until this morning because I was, well, doing Colorado things all weekend, and I ain't say shitty things about it. Have a wild iris (Wet Mountains, Custer County-Pueblo County border)

A purple wild iris in a high alpine field, 8500' altitude

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same cycleknitz from xitter but better @cycleknitz.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

:heads to Casper for that sweet sweet $2.36-2.63 gas:

Map in OP with Natrona County, WY, circled

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same cycleknitz from xitter but better @cycleknitz.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Neither have I. I once had a person walking directly in front of me, ignoring bell, "on your left," etc, until her walking partner pulled her aside, then she complained about bikes on the path. The path was clearly marked :

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same cycleknitz from xitter but better @cycleknitz.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Hm. As upset as some people seem to be about a book coming out, mayhap the authors are right over the target...

Black and white photo of airplane surrounded by flak

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same cycleknitz from xitter but better @cycleknitz.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

George. I know box wine is the Honorable Judge Jeannine's libation of choice, but I feel this would be more appropriate for a prosecutor

19 Crimes wine, Snoop Dogg CALI collection

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same cycleknitz from xitter but better @cycleknitz.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

There is a brew pub in my fair burg that has this sign on the restrooms. I want to see her pose next to it

Rest room sign:
FEMALE MALE
TRICERATOPS
WHATEVER
JUST WASH YOUR HANDS

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same cycleknitz from xitter but better @cycleknitz.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Well, there is historical evidence for preacher women in pre-Reformation Christianity 😉 as documented by historians who take the time to research the history of women in the church