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dpbsmith.bsky.social @dpbsmith.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Watch for discontinuation of the paper dollar bill. That will force use of dollar coins. And as they put Trump dollar coins into circulation, they might quietly withdraw all the other designs. Ending the penny plays into this by freeing up a coin compartment in cash registers.

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dpbsmith.bsky.social @dpbsmith.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I know it doesn't matter. But it should. These are not Presidential commemorative medals, they are circulating coins. (And it's a trivial detail, but where's Trump's name "inscribed below the portrait?")

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dpbsmith.bsky.social @dpbsmith.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

WHAT? "Mr. Carney said the United States also asked for concessions that would affect Canada’s culture and maintenance of protections for the French language." WHAT WERE THOSE? Canadian cherries mustn't say "cherries/cerises" on the package? Montreal must be renamed? www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/b...

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Trump’s Top Trade Representative Details Offer That Canada Rejected

In an interview, Jamieson Greer, President’s Trump’s trade representative, laid out details of what the United States offered to Canada before talks crumbled.

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dpbsmith.bsky.social @dpbsmith.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The US power grid, the whole thing, is dangerously vulnerable. Two fascinating/terrifying/important story in the weekends' New York Times. 1) The grid relies on giant transformers at every substation. It turns out that these giant transformers are individually custom-built by hand, it takes five

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dpbsmith.bsky.social @dpbsmith.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Stopped at a McDonald's because of desperate hunger, ordered my favorite--double quarter-pounder with cheese deluxe--and bit into it before realizing that by ordering "deluxe" I had ordered shredded iceberg lettuce. Too hungry not to eat it. The suspense mounts.

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dpbsmith.bsky.social @dpbsmith.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

It was a mistake called EMALS catapults "electromagnetic," since Trump is calling them "electric" and he thinks everything electric is woke. They should have called them "magnetic catapults" since he's on a thing about magnets and has been urging defense contractors to "do magnets."

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dpbsmith.bsky.social @dpbsmith.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

On 8/5/2026, Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg told munitions contractors to speed up production, saying "Years-long development cycles are not acceptable." I hope the contractors said "You won't give us a year, when YOU took six months to get around to asking us?" Why the heck didn't

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dpbsmith.bsky.social @dpbsmith.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

"Asked later what is different this time around, Trump replied, “I want to give them every last chance before decapitation.” Trump already decapitated Iran once. It didn't work. Why does he think it would work this time?

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dpbsmith.bsky.social @dpbsmith.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Why eleven icebreakers? Ten for actual service in the Arctic. One to be named Navy One and made into a floating White House. Gilded hull. Gold figurehead of Donald J. Trump, himself. Eighteen-hole golf course (real turf) on the top deck. Carrara marble columns somewhere. Poop deck.

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dpbsmith.bsky.social @dpbsmith.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

"Look, we have totally destroyed their military. They have some missiles left. They have some drones left."--Donald Trump, 6/9/2026. "On July 17, two U.S. service members in Jordan were killed in action as CENTCOM and partner forces defended against Iranian ballistic missile and drone attacks."

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dpbsmith.bsky.social @dpbsmith.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I don't know what made these marks on the bottom of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. But I know what didn't make them. They were not made by a "sharp knife," a "razor," or a "box cutter." You don't need to be a forensics expert to tell that.

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dpbsmith.bsky.social @dpbsmith.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Trump, 1/21/2026 he said that the Greenland agreement brokered by NATO is a deal "everyone is happy with.... It's a deal that people jumped at, really fantastic for the USA, gets everything we wanted, including especially real national security and international security."

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dpbsmith.bsky.social @dpbsmith.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

A bit of a downer, but three of our most familiar patriotic songs--"America, the Beautiful," by Katherine Lee Bates; "God Bless America," by Irving Berlin; and "This Land is Your Land," by Woody Guthrie--ALL celebrate the our bicoastal "manifest destiny." "From sea to shining sea;" "From the

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dpbsmith.bsky.social @dpbsmith.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Donald Trump, 2020, on the risk of fireworks starting wildfires at Mt. Rushmore: "I said, what can burn? It's stone. You know, it's stone."

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dpbsmith.bsky.social @dpbsmith.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Trump recently claimed that "They took some form of knife or blade, and put a 250 foot long gash into the beautiful facade" of the reflecting pool. As the WSJ commented, "It wasn't immediately clear what the president meant by this." (What is the "façade" of pool?) But I had a feeling of déjà vu.

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dpbsmith.bsky.social @dpbsmith.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Donald Trump said an agreement would be signed today. I didn't believe him. I was wrong about that. That's all.

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dpbsmith.bsky.social @dpbsmith.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

"Iran’s promise is in the first paragraph of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.... Asked for clarification about the matter, including what commitment Iran might have made to Mr. Trump, a White House spokesperson had nothing to add to the president’s remarks." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/u...

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dpbsmith.bsky.social @dpbsmith.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Every darn time Blue Bell changes its flavor lineup, Yahoo! treats it as "news" and Google News picks it up. That seems very wrong.

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dpbsmith.bsky.social @dpbsmith.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Data centers should be required to generate their own electricity on site, and to discharge all their waste energy by radiation from the site. This would not solve all the environmental problems long-term, but it would at least solve the social inequity problems.

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dpbsmith.bsky.social @dpbsmith.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Funny, when a news story wants a quick visual identification of "the White House," they only use file photos, never actual pictures of the White House today. I guess there's no angle from which the UFC arena arches don't show.

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dpbsmith.bsky.social @dpbsmith.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Reflections in the windows of an elementary school in Massachusetts.

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dpbsmith.bsky.social @dpbsmith.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Donald Trump is proposing to cancel the America250 concert series after six of the nine acts books have withdrawn. He calls the entertainers selected by the Donald Trump Organization "overpriced" and "boring". The three that still want to perform are learning how Trump rewards loyalty.

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dpbsmith.bsky.social @dpbsmith.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Apart from the stupidity of bragging that the length of a pool is more than the height of a building, apart from bragging about the size of a pool he had nothing to do with building...it is not "bigger" than any but smaller skyscrapers.

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dpbsmith.bsky.social @dpbsmith.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

This is so unspeakably stupid it's hard to know where to begin. But let's begin here. The length of the reflecting pool is nothing special, and is less than the height of the Burj Khalifa.

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dpbsmith.bsky.social @dpbsmith.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Donald Trump, May 24th: "The Enriched Uranium (Nuclear Dust!) will be ... destroyed ... with the Atomic Energy Commission, or its equivalent, being witness..." The Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)? Abolished so long ago most Americans have probably never heard of it. Does he think it still exists,

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dpbsmith.bsky.social @dpbsmith.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Cue Bob Newhart voice: "US strikes cloud peace deal? Well, I guess they might at that."

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dpbsmith.bsky.social @dpbsmith.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Byron Allen is described as a "former standup comedian," but his last standup performance seems to have been at age 18 in 1979, over forty years ago. Here it is, and I've set the link to start at a particularly risible knee-slapper: youtu.be/FGnui6uUpI4?...

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Byron Allen Makes History As The Youngest Stand-Up Comedian to Appear on The Tonight Show

YouTube video by Johnny Carson

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dpbsmith.bsky.social @dpbsmith.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Donald Trump on the Strait of Hormuz, 5/21/2026: “We want it free. We don’t want tolls. It’s international. It’s an international waterway." Also Donald Trump: 4/6/2026 “What about us charging tolls? I’d rather do that than let [Iran] have them. Why shouldn’t we? We’re the winner. We won.”

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dpbsmith.bsky.social @dpbsmith.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

OMG Matt Levine, in his Bloomberg column, nailed it: "Lots of very smart people have had high-minded ideas about intergalactic travel for centuries, but perhaps it will turn out that a critical step in getting there is building an app to generate short-form pornographic video on demand."

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dpbsmith.bsky.social @dpbsmith.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

One-month anniversary. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

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dpbsmith.bsky.social @dpbsmith.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I don't want to single out any particular post or photos, but daily BlueSky convinces me of one great fundamental truth: It is very hard to take a good picture of food.

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dpbsmith.bsky.social @dpbsmith.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I would like to see ONE comment made by ANYBODY before 2016 who said that they found the Reflecting Pool disappointing because it wasn't blue enough.

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dpbsmith.bsky.social @dpbsmith.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Welcome to Massachusetts! (Actually, to spoil the joke, Lynde Street is one way, and only allows you to leave the intersection, so it has no stop sign. Only the other four do).

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dpbsmith.bsky.social @dpbsmith.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Donald Trump called the press "the enemy of the American People." (If built) will he make the White House ballroom available to the White House Correspondents' Association for their dinner? Will he make all his big public appearances in the ballroom instead of places like the Butler Show Grounds?

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dpbsmith.bsky.social @dpbsmith.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I'm perfectly fine with beefing up the security of the underground bunker in the White House. But that was never mentioned in the original arguments for a ballroom, the rhetoric was that "for 150 years" every President has wanted a better event space etc. etc. But I don't understand the security

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dpbsmith.bsky.social @dpbsmith.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

"If you go and buy a steak, it's still pretty expensive. But if you buy the cheaper cuts, it's great meat, and it is very, very affordable or liver, or all these alternatives. Chuck Roast."--RFK Jr. "Great meat," says the man who LITERALLY eats roadkill. Is $12.99 a pound "very, very" affordable?

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dpbsmith.bsky.social @dpbsmith.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Finally read "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd," by Agatha Christie. Spoilers ahead. I just can't believe the whole dictaphone subplot because a) I don't believe a 1926 dictaphone would have been loud enough or realistic enough to fool people into thinking it was a live voice,

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dpbsmith.bsky.social @dpbsmith.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Spotted in a local hospital. Not unrelated. John G. Trump was Donald's uncle, the MIT prof from whom Donald believes he inherited his genius IQ.

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dpbsmith.bsky.social @dpbsmith.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

I am getting so tired of Trump saying Iran has "agreed to everything" and the Iranians saying "no we haven't." And Trump saying Iran has agreed to transfer all their enriched uranium and Iran say "it will not be transferred anywhere under any circumstances."

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dpbsmith.bsky.social @dpbsmith.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Trump's remarks on the Jesus picture only make sense if you assume TWO things. First, that he heard and misunderstood a remark, possibly by Karoline Leavitt, that it was "a doctored picture." Second, and this is my point, that he DID NOT REMEMBER THE IMAGE. If you simply could not remember anything

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dpbsmith.bsky.social @dpbsmith.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

This is a "hidden objects" picture puzzle. It shows a Red Cross doctor. How quickly can you find all of the following? 1) Ten American Red Cross symbols 2) A stethoscope 3) An ambulance 4) A gurney 5) A rubber mallet 6) A splint 7) A bandage 8) The doctor's name embroidered on the crisp white scrub

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dpbsmith.bsky.social @dpbsmith.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

He's well past King. Well past Emperor. He said in April 2025, before the conclave, who was his first choice for pope, and he said “I’d like to be Pope. That would be my number one choice.” And published in image of himself as Pope. Well, he's gone past that, now. He sees himself as Jesus.

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dpbsmith.bsky.social @dpbsmith.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Sunday morning, 4/12/2026, Trump posts "Effective immediately, the United States Navy, the Finest in the World, will begin the process of BLOCKADING any and all Ships trying to enter, or leave, the Strait of Hormuz." Sunday evening, CENTCOM says no, they won't.

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dpbsmith.bsky.social @dpbsmith.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

"It is such an honor to realize and say that almost everyone I Endorse WINS, and wins by a lot..." Donald J. Trump, March 4th, 2026.

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dpbsmith.bsky.social @dpbsmith.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Karoline Leavitt, 3/8: Reporter: "Iranian state media is saying that Iran has now closed off the Strait of Hormuz..." Leavitt: "...what they're saying publicly is different privately... these reports publicly are false.." Trump, 3/9: “Iran is doing a very poor job, dishonorable some

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dpbsmith.bsky.social @dpbsmith.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

If Trump wants to "take the oil," why destroy the island with all the pipelines and pumps he needs in order to do that?

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dpbsmith.bsky.social @dpbsmith.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

"The United States imports almost no oil through the Hormuz Strait and won’t be taking any in the future. We don’t need it. We haven’t needed it, and we don’t need it…." Trump is going to commit an act of unspeakable cruelty on the ordinary people of Iran because of a strait we don't even need.

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dpbsmith.bsky.social @dpbsmith.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Donald Trump: "we are the number one producer of oil," "The United States imports almost no oil through the Hormuz Strait and won’t be taking any in the future. We don’t need it," "So to those countries that can’t get fuel...I have a suggestion. No. 1, buy oil from the United States of America.

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dpbsmith.bsky.social @dpbsmith.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

I don't have any information on where Donald Trump is. But a number of lazy news story are saying the White House "denied" that he's a Walter Reed. No, the White House's response is a classic example of a "non-denial denial:"

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