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Carl Lindemann @expatcarl.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Trump's team is so sloppy! There's a misspelling in the new initiative. Fixed it!

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

The first steam-powered passenger rail trip was on 27th Sept 1825 (200th bday is nuanced - regular passenger steam slightly later). Here's transport carbon footprint today - Eurostar easily cleanest cos fully electrified. I hope the next 200 yrs has even more (electric) trains! With lower prices...

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Carl Lindemann @expatcarl.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

"Best friends forever"? Trump doesn't have friends. His relationships are strictly transactional. So the obvious question is - what were the nature of the transactions he so cherished Epstein for? What was it that the sex trafficer traded in that Trump made such an investment to receive?

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Carl Lindemann @expatcarl.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Trump and Epstein were friends? He served a purpose for Trump. What purpose? "Anybody that tells you they’re friends with Donald Trump is misjudging the relationship. He has no friends. You might interact with him, but he’s so transactional that you’re actually not his friend." - Anthony Scaramucci

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Carl Lindemann @expatcarl.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Don't worry! Next time, there will be no warnings. Oh, and since that might make people upset, there will be no reporting about it either.

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Carl Lindemann @expatcarl.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Time to excommunicate JD along with the rightwing Catholic cabal on SCOTUS.

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Carl Lindemann @expatcarl.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Please note that Trump will NOT be seeking his usual retribution for this "disloyalty." The one free "no" vote was gifted to Collins to support her reelection bid next year. She is indebted now for that and eager to please.

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Carl Lindemann @expatcarl.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Watch for is the lack of threats of retribution from Trump. They gifted this to Collins to help her reelection bid next year. She is eternally grateful and eager to repay her debt.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 02/07/2025

Explain the Big Ugly budget bill to me like I’m five… Seriously, this demo is a must see—anyone can understand it. Share it with family and friends. #VoteNo

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Exactly. Few know Collins’ MO better.

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Carl Lindemann @expatcarl.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

"Usha Vance represents a new era of political spouses—intelligent, relatable, and unafraid to embrace both tradition and modernity." Guess they never heard of Eleanor Roosevelt. Are they suggesting that Melanoma is neither intelligent nor relatable?

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Carl Lindemann @expatcarl.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

I have no doubt about the possibilities for healthy interfaith relationships. The question is - what is the guidestar for people who make changes in what for most are unwaivering, fundamental and foundational convictions?

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Carl Lindemann @expatcarl.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Then, this interfaith couple in Washington DC. Usha Vance, "onetime Democrat and the daughter of immigrants," is now "living a radically different life." She's a Hindu who, among other things, supported her spouse's conversion to Catholicism. Where will their changing convictions take them - and us?

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Usha Vance’s New Life in Trump’s Washington

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Carl Lindemann @expatcarl.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Two different portraits of diversity in the USA. First, Rama Duwaji, the lesser-known spouse of Zohran Mamdani. This newlywed Muslim couple is now the toast of NYC. They are the embodiment of progressive sensibilities in the emerging generation determined to live their values. 1/2

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Mamdani’s Wife, Absent for Much of Campaign, Is Thrust Into Spotlight

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Carl Lindemann @expatcarl.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

When this is all over and done with, this character is sure to seek clemency in the truth and reconciliation commission to restore our national integrity. But there is no way to redeem him.

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Carl Lindemann @expatcarl.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

But buried beneath the fold... 4/4

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Carl Lindemann @expatcarl.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Part of some master plan! 3/4

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Carl Lindemann @expatcarl.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

The cheerleading in the New York Times is absurd. Trump! Brilliant! Carefully calculated! 1/4

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Carl Lindemann @expatcarl.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Easy to grab hostages in the USA. Just dress up as ICE bodysnatchers.

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Carl Lindemann @expatcarl.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Orwellian spin - war is peace: "...a reactive approach in the Middle East can now be transformed into a proactive vision: one that curbs Iran’s malign ambitions and efforts, stabilizes Gaza and lays the foundation for a new Middle Eastern order built on security, integration and peaceful relations."

nytimes.com

Opinion | Why Israel Had to Act

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 22/06/2025

AOC: “It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.”

The President's disastrous decision to bomb Iran without authorization is a grave violation of the Constitution and Congressional War Powers.
He has impulsively risked launching a war that may ensnare us for generations.
It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.

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Carl Lindemann @expatcarl.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Theater of the absurd. The bogus gravitas of the supposed deep deliberation to come to some sort of thoughtful decision... Does anyone really buy that this thoughtless, feckless person and the crew of know-nothings around him are capable of such decision-making? thehill.com/homenews/adm...

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Carl Lindemann @expatcarl.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Sorry...had to blur some faces

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Carl Lindemann @expatcarl.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

#NoKings in Cape Town! A gathering of extraordinary, committed Americans ready to defend the constitution. The whole world is watching!!! #democratsabroad #notyrants #nokingsinamerica

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Carl Lindemann @expatcarl.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

My latest: "Fellow liberal democracies should not stand by idly while the country that was once the standard-bearer for their movement falls into tyranny. When is intervention appropriate, and how to go about it?"

dailymaverick.co.za

Democracies must hang together to temper autocratic Donald Trump

Democracies around the globe must demand free and fair elections in the US and deliver consequences if Trump overturns the constitution to hold on to power.

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Carl Lindemann @expatcarl.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Paywall. That bites, like bedbugs. Please don't post if there's no access. It only underscores the issues with your billionaire owner.

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@Boom-WhatsGoingOn.bsky.social @boom-whatsgoingon.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

I can’t speak for anyone else, but this analogy of “Lady Liberty’ held captive, is exactly how I feel about this presidency & administration and what their attempting to do with our rights and freedoms… The New Yorker captured the feelings perfectly… One word, UNACCEPTABLE!

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Carl Lindemann @expatcarl.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

When the EFF say "Kill the Boer," it's the equivalent of the Occupiers' "Eat the Rich!" Here, the "Boer" (literally "farmer") are the wealthy (i.e. landowners). Sure, there's a historic association with Afrikaners. It is provocative! But they're not saying "kill the white people" as is claimed. 3/3

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Carl Lindemann @expatcarl.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Setting aside Malema's personal qualities as a populist firebrand, the EFF is avowedly anti-racist, anti-sexist - their focus is economic inequity. In the USA, the are pretty much what the Occupy Movement would have become if it had grown past its anarchic roots to form a legit 3rd party. 2/3

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Carl Lindemann @expatcarl.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Some cultural translation needed to understand the most shocking video shown in the Oval Office to catch the South African delegation off-guard. The sight of Economic Freedom Fighter (EFF) comrade Julius Malema shouting "Kill the Boer!" seems a clear-cut case of inciting racial violence. BUT 1/3

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Our trade deal so far is no tariffs on Rolls Royces and Bentleys and our refugee policy is white South Africans only.

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Carl Lindemann @expatcarl.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Don't they know the formula for success in Trump 2.0? Bring RFK Jr and MTG on board, then launch a memecoin to give insiders a piece of the action.

nytimes.com

Elizabeth Holmes’s Partner Has a New Blood-Testing Start-Up

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Carl Lindemann @expatcarl.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Had another go at this - how does this "climate comedy" hold up amidst realities more absurd than satire?

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Don't Look Up - Wikipedia

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Noah Barkin @noahbarkin.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Rubio publicly criticizing an ally for cracking down on right-wing extremism. And Germany hitting back. We are in a new world

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Carl Lindemann @expatcarl.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

GOP = Gringos y Otros Pendejos.

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Carl Lindemann @expatcarl.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

@bestese34.bsky.social's extraordinary exchange over the doctored image - was it some confusion on Trump's part? Perhaps the finest scene in Star Trek TNG speaks to that. Patrick Stewart captures the significance of this moment (with plot twist) that transcends the confines of the series.

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THERE ARE...4..LIGHTS!!!!

YouTube video by Mike Johnson

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Carl Lindemann @expatcarl.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

@nytimes.com makes you wade pages deep before getting a clear statement of what's with the US surrender monkeys: "Ukraine is ready to negotiate — but not to surrender. There will be no agreement that hands Russia the stronger foundations it needs to regroup and return with greater violence.”

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Trump Pressures Ukraine to Accept a Peace Plan That Sharply Favors Russia (Gift Article)

The U.S. proposal would freeze territory along the current front lines of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, which Ukraine has rejected.

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