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Lawrence of Arabica: “He’s one strong bean”

@fiddlemaker.bsky.social
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You’ll know me by the company I keep. Retired US Army Foreign Area Officer

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Lawrence of Arabica: “He’s one strong bean” @fiddlemaker.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Importing businesses are getting their tariff refunds. ARE YOU??
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Chicago Med: Natalie Manning - No Luck Yet?
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Lawrence of Arabica: “He’s one strong bean” @fiddlemaker.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
No Donald, it wasn’t a compliment. Dating back to 1892, "The Rhodes Colossus" is a famous satirisation of British imperialism, mocking Rhode's immense corporate greed. Cecil Rhodes believed white men should naturally dominate blacks.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Cognetti: We don’t want Joe Rogan or OAN talking about this district because we have a congressman who has become one of the most prolific stock traders—someone who dumped six figures’ worth of Medicaid provider stock a week before he trashed a trillion dollars of Medicaid.
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Dovewoman 💙 🇺🇦 💙 @dovewoman.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
One of the two National Guard members shot in a "targeted" ambush near the White House has died. Sarah Beckstrom, 20, was a member of West Virginia’s National Guard. She & Andrew Wolfe, 24, were attacked Wednesday near a DC Metro station. l.smartnews.com/p-6FxTVyak/2...
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National Guard member Sarah Beckstrom dies after DC shooting, Trump says (USA Today)
WASHINGTON, DC — One of the two National Guard members shot in what authorities described as a "targeted" ambush near the White House has died, President Don...
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
The last president who declared that anything he does is legal was Richard M. Nixon. And we all know how things worked out for him . . .
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Lawrence of Arabica: “He’s one strong bean” @fiddlemaker.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Makes as much sense as anything else. $2 billion reasons.
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Lawrence of Arabica: “He’s one strong bean” @fiddlemaker.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
It’s good to be the King.
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Lawrence of Arabica: “He’s one strong bean” @fiddlemaker.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Diplomacy by Keystone Cops. Or… “who’s on first?” qr.ae/pCMVG1
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Rubio is facing scrutiny after telling US senators that the 28-point plan is a Russian proposal passed along to Ukraine
The latest twist in Washington’s behind-the-scenes diplomacy has left senators looking like they just walked into a movie halfway through. During the Halifax International Security Forum, Secretary of...
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Lawrence of Arabica: “He’s one strong bean” @fiddlemaker.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
OPENING ACT FOR MARTIAL LAW?? As US military leaders prepare for Virginia meeting, agenda comes into focus - www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
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Lawrence of Arabica: “He’s one strong bean” @fiddlemaker.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Only instead of gold, Trumps items are cheese. Real American Cheese. Are we GREAT yet, or what?
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Lawrence of Arabica: “He’s one strong bean” @fiddlemaker.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
SCOTUS opened Pandora’s box.
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Lawrence of Arabica: “He’s one strong bean” @fiddlemaker.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Does he not understand only 36% of voting age adults still support Trump? Why should we treat Trump as “normal?” nypost.com/2025/09/26/m...
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Gayle King left stunned after ‘CBS Mornings’ co-host Tony Dokoupil torches Jimmy Kimmel on air
The on-air exchange followed Disney’s decision to bring “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” back on Tuesday.
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Lawrence of Arabica: “He’s one strong bean” @fiddlemaker.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
There’s definitely a decision-making process taking place. It’s a matter of “who whispered in his ear last” process.
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Lawrence of Arabica: “He’s one strong bean” @fiddlemaker.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
And sending another violin to Arizona next week for the Violin Makers Association International competition in October. #41 Completed this summer.
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Lawrence of Arabica: “He’s one strong bean” @fiddlemaker.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Received a third place for tone! I’ll take it! Certificate bottom left.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
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Frode Vanger 🇺🇸🇺🇦🎖️ @smokedoyster.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Why Comey and why now? Reason #1: Statute of limitations runs out Tuesday Reason #2: Epstein
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Frode Vanger 🇺🇸🇺🇦🎖️ @smokedoyster.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
“I’m innocent. Let’s have a trial”
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Frode Vanger 🇺🇸🇺🇦🎖️ @smokedoyster.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
TRUMP ABUSE OF POWER GOES FULL TILT "Career officials have largely been either pushed out or silenced and are not in meetings about major decisions about cases." www.thedailybeast.com/pam-bondis-o...
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Pam Bondi’s Own DOJ Staff Explode at Indicting James Comey: ‘Worst Abuse’
A former DOJ staffer said the department is “broken.”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.
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Frode Vanger 🇺🇸🇺🇦🎖️ @smokedoyster.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Just what we all suspected!!
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Frode Vanger 🇺🇸🇺🇦🎖️ @smokedoyster.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
EXILE?? Sitting next to Pres Erdogan of Turkey yesterday, Trump remarked the two “have been friends for a long time, even for the four years when I WAS IN EXILE unfairly, rigged elections. He [pointing at Erdogan] knows about rigged elections better than anybody…” www.instagram.com/reel/DPDXa1L...
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cnbctv18india on Instagram: "In an Oval Office meeting on Thursday (September 25) with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, U.S. President Donald Trump referenced …"
In an Oval Office meeting on Thursday (September 25) with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, U.S. President Donald Trump referenced “rigged elections,” saying he had been “in exile, unfairly” because of that, adding that Erdogan “knows about rigged elections better than anybody.”Trump said their friendship endured during that period, calling it a “test of friendship.”Erdogan's first visit to the White House in about six years comes at a time when Ankara is keen to take advantage of a U.S. administration eager to make deals in return for big-ticket arms and trade agreements.......#TRUMP #turkey #erdoğan #turkishpresident #presidenttrump #whitehouse #cnbctv18
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Lawrence of Arabica: “He’s one strong bean” @fiddlemaker.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Almost as popular as “you know who”
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a man in a suit and tie is giving a speech and says this is not going to end well
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
JUST NOW AT THE UN…
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Lawrence of Arabica: “He’s one strong bean” @fiddlemaker.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Poor Melania. It’s that time of year again. youtube.com/shorts/fsqsE...
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Melania Trump: “Who gives a f*** about Christmas?”🎄🫣
YouTube video by Occupy Democrats
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Lawrence of Arabica: “He’s one strong bean” @fiddlemaker.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Ok. Now I get it. Gold equals ROYALTY.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
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Lawrence of Arabica: “He’s one strong bean” @fiddlemaker.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
decide to try to appease Trump voters are making poor business decisions.”
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Lawrence of Arabica: “He’s one strong bean” @fiddlemaker.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
the polls in 2024. Figuring that number into Trump’s popularity shows that only about 32% of American adults voted for Trump in 2024, while 53% of adults currently disapprove of his performance in the White House, with 48% strongly opposed. So businesses that👇👇
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Lawrence of Arabica: “He’s one strong bean” @fiddlemaker.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
ONLY 32% of Americas adult population is reaching Trumps ears. He is WILDLY out of touch with America, and the real world. Heather Cox Richardson explains: “That is, while polls frequently measure how voters feel about the president, only about 64.1% of American adults eligible to vote went to👇👇
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Frode Vanger 🇺🇸🇺🇦🎖️ @smokedoyster.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Tonight is going to be interesting. www.irishstar.com/culture/ente...
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Jimmy Kimmel returning to air on Tuesday - but there's a catch
Jimmy Kimmel is set to return to the airwaves on Tuesday, September 27, after being pulled from the ABC schedule indefinitely, but there is one catch to his anticipated return
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Frode Vanger 🇺🇸🇺🇦🎖️ @smokedoyster.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
So far, it’s working.
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Frode Vanger 🇺🇸🇺🇦🎖️ @smokedoyster.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Trumps “stop work order” on wind farms built by Danish company has been thwarted in US Courts. www.threads.com/@mill.sni/po...
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Mille💫 (@mill.sni) on Threads
As a Dane, it hurts to see how the US has treated us. After we refused to let Them annex Greenland, they targeted our companies. Today, we had a Danish win. Our wind power company Ørsted just won in U...
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Lawrence of Arabica: “He’s one strong bean” @fiddlemaker.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Hey Donald EPSTEIN, RELEASE THE TRUMP FILES!! www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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Opinion | Trump‘s new anti-antifa panic is the start of something much more dangerous
The president signed an executive order Monday declaring antifa a “domestic terrorist organization.”
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Lawrence of Arabica: “He’s one strong bean” @fiddlemaker.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
www.irishstar.com/culture/ente...
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Jimmy Kimmel returning to air on Tuesday - but there's a catch
Jimmy Kimmel is set to return to the airwaves on Tuesday, September 27, after being pulled from the ABC schedule indefinitely, but there is one catch to his anticipated return
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Lawrence of Arabica: “He’s one strong bean” @fiddlemaker.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
www.irishstar.com/culture/ente...
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Jimmy Kimmel returning to air on Tuesday - but there's a catch
Jimmy Kimmel is set to return to the airwaves on Tuesday, September 27, after being pulled from the ABC schedule indefinitely, but there is one catch to his anticipated return
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Lawrence of Arabica: “He’s one strong bean” @fiddlemaker.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
NO, I DONT THINK SO. “European side had said in July that the $600 billion figure referred to private-sector European companies’ “intentions” to invest in the US over time rather than some sort of lump-sum EU handout to the Trump administration.” www.cnn.com/2025/08/22/p...
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Fact check: Trump and the case of the nonexistent $600 billion EU ‘gift’ | CNN Politics
Seventeen days ago, President Donald Trump made a dramatic claim in an interview on the business news channel CNBC. As part of his July trade agreement with the European Union, he said, the EU gave th...
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Lawrence of Arabica: “He’s one strong bean” @fiddlemaker.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
RUSDIA AND CHJBA WOLL LOVE THIS NEWS: The Trump administration plans to implement a 40% cut in the ODNI workforce and reduce the budget by over $700 million annually. Gabbard cited the ODNI as having grown “bloated and inefficient” over the past two decades www.benzinga.com/news/politic...
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Tulsi Gabbard Slashes 40% Of US Intelligence Workforce Citing 'Abuse Of Power' And 'Unauthorized Leaks'
Tulsi Gabbard, Director of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), announced a significant reduction in the workforce and budget of the office.
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Lawrence of Arabica: “He’s one strong bean” @fiddlemaker.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
I’m shocked, I tell you.
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Frode Vanger 🇺🇸🇺🇦🎖️ @smokedoyster.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
The AG Pam Bondi has the files. Trump could tell her to release the files. MAGA is not going to get the files. “They can’t handle the Truth.”
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a man in a suit and tie is screaming and says i want the truth
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Lawrence of Arabica: “He’s one strong bean” @fiddlemaker.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Recent interview of me by local TV. youtu.be/ky7aARJ2SKc?...
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Winston-Salem man makes musical instruments by hand
YouTube video by FOX8 WGHP
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Tom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
‘Wait - I’ll give each of you 20% off a Tesla’
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Lawrence of Arabica: “He’s one strong bean” @fiddlemaker.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Musk has inserted lines of code into all us government issued checks that simply round all payments down to the nearest dollar and all the vents are transferred to a new unnamed account with no visibility. All transactions under $1 are automatically disregarded as inconsequential and unreported.
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Frode Vanger 🇺🇸🇺🇦🎖️ @smokedoyster.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Trump questioned whether Denmark has any claim to Greenland. "Denmark's very far away, and really has nothing to do…A boat landed there 200 years ago or something? And they say they have rights to it. I don't know if that's true.” Our indigenous people say WTF ???? www.foxnews.com/world/greenl...
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Greenland government calls Trump's acquisition talks 'unacceptable'
Political leaders in Greenland on Friday denounced U.S. President Donald Trump's comments about his "desire for annexation and control" of the country "unacceptable."
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Frode Vanger 🇺🇸🇺🇦🎖️ @smokedoyster.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Trump questioned whether Denmark has any claim to Greenland. "You know, Denmark's very far away, and really has nothing to do. What happens? A boat landed there 200 years ago or something? And they say they have rights to it. I don't know if that's true.”
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Lawrence of Arabica: “He’s one strong bean” @fiddlemaker.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
But doesn’t Noem look all business like.
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Lawrence of Arabica: “He’s one strong bean” @fiddlemaker.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Oh the upside, there won’t be any lines.
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Lawrence of Arabica: “He’s one strong bean” @fiddlemaker.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Democrats keep expecting folks to see the logic, the rule of law, and the American way.
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buzz lightyear from toy story says " there seems to be no sign of intelligent life anywhere .. "
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
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Steve Carter @shieldaig.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Wind and rain and sunshine yesterday. All at the same time.
Rainbow over choppy sea.
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