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Duane Ellis Behrens @duanebehrens.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Dear "president" Trump: Shut up, asshole.

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Duane Ellis Behrens @duanebehrens.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Our adopted Chesapeake Bay Retriever - Hank.

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Duane Ellis Behrens @duanebehrens.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

initiated by Trump, his co-President Elon Musk, and their so-called Department of Government Efficiency.

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Duane Ellis Behrens @duanebehrens.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Since Trump returned to the White House in January, the shortage of air traffic controllers has only grown. That’s due in no small part to wholesale firings as well as the coerced resignation and retirement of federal workers—including important FAA safety specialists

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Duane Ellis Behrens @duanebehrens.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

"Nobody does poping better than me." DJT

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Duane Ellis Behrens @duanebehrens.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Nice to see someone - anyone - standing up in support of the Constitution. Thank you.

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Duane Ellis Behrens @duanebehrens.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Your sentence would have read better if you'd placed a period after the penultimate "literacy," and removed the word "skills" entirely. Sorry.

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Duane Ellis Behrens @duanebehrens.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

How are those bone spurs treating you, Donny?

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Duane Ellis Behrens @duanebehrens.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Congratulations from nearby Ely, Minnesota!

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Duane Ellis Behrens @duanebehrens.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

It was never about "cost savings." It was always about disrupting and dismantling American society: www.msn.com/en-us/money/...

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MSN

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Duane Ellis Behrens @duanebehrens.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

So. . . they're arresting judges now. Not appealing verdicts. No. Arresting and placing in jail those whose verdicts they disagree with. It's an unprecedented attack on the judiciary.

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Duane Ellis Behrens @duanebehrens.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Jane, folding laundry on the couch. Hank sitting close by, staring at her. Jane: You looking for your ball? Hank stands and wags. Jane: Your ball is upstairs by the bed. Go up and get it! Hank bounds upstairs. In seconds, he trots back down with the ball in his mouth. Jane: Clever dog!

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Duane Ellis Behrens @duanebehrens.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

OOPS - Trump's first 100 days marked by incompetent screw ups and frantic walk-backs. Rachel Maddow (link above) nails it.

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Duane Ellis Behrens @duanebehrens.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Services will have to be cut further - much, much further - to offset the trillion-dollar tax break Trump wants to give his wealthiest donors. Oligarchy much?

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Duane Ellis Behrens @duanebehrens.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

"A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else." - John Burroughs

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Duane Ellis Behrens @duanebehrens.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Thank you for that. Apparently, then, being convicted of felony crimes seems to impede one's ability to travel internationally on matters of state.

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Duane Ellis Behrens @duanebehrens.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Thank you for that answer. I appreciate your knowledge and experience. Just one question because my memory is fuzzy: Were those trips he made to France, Germany, Poland, Belgium, Japan, China, South Korea, Vietnam and the Philippines made before or after he was convicted of 34 felony crimes?

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Duane Ellis Behrens @duanebehrens.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

I don't watch Fox "News," and I never will. But I'll admit to being slightly curious as to how they're reporting on their former employee's disastrous administration of our nation's defense department.

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Duane Ellis Behrens @duanebehrens.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Thanks, J Austin. I asked the question because I don't recall seeing reports of him visiting foreign heads-of-state since taking office. I wondered if that had to do with his criminal record.

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Duane Ellis Behrens @duanebehrens.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Someone help me out because I'm curious. Has DJT embarked on ANY official trips to Europe or Asia since taking office? I seem to remember that convicted felons are not allowed to visit foreign heads of state, but I could be wrong. Thanks in advance.

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Duane Ellis Behrens @duanebehrens.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Anyone know if Trump has made any oversea trips to any foreign nation since his installment into the U.S. presidency? Can convicted felons travel internationally? Thanks in advance.

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Duane Ellis Behrens @duanebehrens.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Did you mean "Because they bear false witness?" Sorry. Agree with your sentiment.

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Duane Ellis Behrens @duanebehrens.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role and the duty of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.

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Duane Ellis Behrens @duanebehrens.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

And just like that, the White House openly defied a unanimous ruling by the nation’s highest court.

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Duane Ellis Behrens @duanebehrens.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

“Of course, I’m not going to do it,” El Salvador President Nayib Bukele said when he was asked whether he would return Garcia. At his side, Trump sat smirking. Attorney General Pam Bondi joined in the cruel pantomime: “That’s up for El Salvador if they want to return him.”

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Duane Ellis Behrens @duanebehrens.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

On Monday, both Trump officials and the president of El Salvador said they could not return Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who was wrongfully deported and sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador.

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Duane Ellis Behrens @duanebehrens.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

April 15, 2025, 11:10 AM PDT By Charlie Sykes, MSNBC columnist Donald Trump just sent the Supreme Court an unambiguous message: You made your ruling. Now enforce it, because I’m not going to. That constitutional crisis we’ve expected, yet feared? It’s here.

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Duane Ellis Behrens @duanebehrens.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Reportedly, the "black thing under him" was an absorbent pad.

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Duane Ellis Behrens @duanebehrens.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

She looked at us and smiled. Jane and I both gave a little wave and smiled back, at both her and her caregiver. And we walked on. The memory of it keeps coming back in my head. A paradox, at once both beautiful and sad.

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Duane Ellis Behrens @duanebehrens.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

As we got closer, I could see she was clutching, intermittently stroking a stuffed toy. A doll.

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Duane Ellis Behrens @duanebehrens.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

It was our usual late-Sunday-morning stroll along the Esplanade in Redondo Beach. From afar, we watched a man coming toward us. He was pushing a wheelchair. Sitting in the wheelchair was an elderly woman - likely his mother.

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Duane Ellis Behrens @duanebehrens.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Canada responded by (1) meeting with European leaders, then, (2) quietly beginning a movement to sell off U.S. Treasury Bonds, which finances the U.S. government. In response, the Trump administration capitulated. Immediately.

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Duane Ellis Behrens @duanebehrens.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Um . . . ". . . people who ARE in his cult." Sorry.

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