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Mark Affleck

@flick131.bsky.social
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USAF RET (24 yrs), Cornhusker at heart, NC by choice. Married animal wrangler: 3 dogs, 6 cats, 3 guinea pigs & a turtle. 66 & just getting started!

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Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Trump is malignant narcissist so he’ll love the attention
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Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The SecWar who had to swear off booze to get confirmed just put the ketamine guy in charge of the future of warfare. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Hegseth puts the future of warfare in the hands of major Maga donors
Installing tech billionaires Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey to Pentago defense board raises conflict-of-interest concerns
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Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Fair point about Texas, Kathy. I should’ve said North Carolina was another test kitchen. Same rotten recipe, different oven. Now they’re taking the franchise nationwide.
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Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Glad everyone finally noticed North Carolina. We were the test kitchen for gerrymandering while national Democrats misplaced the smoke alarm. Rouzer hasn’t held a town hall since 2017. Why face voters when you can pick them?
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Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Kansas hasn’t elected a Democratic senator since 1932. Now Emerson has the Republican down 2 and Hamilton winning independents 42% to 27%. Congratulations, MAGA. You made a Republican Senate seat in KANSAS competitive. Truly historic incompetence.
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Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
LMAO at least he’s honest
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Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
LMAO. Trump and fiscal restraint? That’s like hiring an arsonist to inspect your smoke detectors. Republicans cut taxes, run up the tab, then discover debt when Democrats take office. And the WSJ acts shocked the clown car has no brakes. Who still buys this crap? www.wsj.com/economy/trum...
wsj.com
The Moves That Backfired on Trump and Drove Interest Rates and Inflation Higher
The president’s own agenda has helped undermine promises to fix the economy and get the deficit under control.
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Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Apparently the GOP ordered peace, lower inflation, cheaper borrowing, consumer confidence and economic optimism with guaranteed delivery by November 3. Somebody better check the tracking number. 😂
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Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Trickle down morals from the Trump Era begets the rot
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Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Please be patient. Trickle down economics takes time. First the champagne glasses fill, then the yachts, then the offshore accounts. If anything reaches your grocery budget, please notify management. There’s been a leak. 🥂
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Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Hmmm Vietnam: Casualty and progress figures were shaped for public consumption, as the Pentagon Papers later documented. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
washingtonpost.com
Pentagon quietly adds dozens to tally of troops wounded amid Iran war
With the addition of 29 U.S. sailors and eight Marines, the total number of personnel wounded since the start of hostilities has risen to 861, a Pentagon database shows.
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Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Trump invented a potash crisis, got fact-checked by a dictator, and the real fertilizer crisis was caused by his war. Chaos Chaos Chaos www.reuters.com/world/americ...
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Trump says US will keep buying Canadian potash, Belarus would sell at lower price
US President Donald Trump, asked ‌on Tuesday about a potential deal to purchase potash from Belarus, said the US ​would continue buying from Canada ​but Belarus would like to sell ⁠at a lower price.
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Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Heres a project to fix Reliable drinking water is a serious problem in parts of West Virginia, especially southern coal communities such as McDowell County. Aging pipes and failing systems have left some communities under prolonged boil-water advisories, with residents buying or hauling water.
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Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Man Falls, Creates Hilarious Table Mess
ALT: Man Falls, Creates Hilarious Table Mess
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Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Your right your sorry
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Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Trump is Putin’s Bitch Trump's Treasury signed a paper in March letting Putin sell his oil again. Then we bombed Iran. Iran shut the shipping lane. Saudi pipeline blew. Europe gets no oil next month. Trump lit the match. Putin sells the gas. financialpost.com/commodities/...
financialpost.com
Saudis tell European refiners they’ll get no crude next month
Saudi Aramco told at least two oil refining customers in Europe that they will be allocated no crude oil next month. Read more.
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Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Trump said Iran's nuclear program was "obliterated" in June 2025. Then came a second war Feb 28. Sept 2 IAEA report: inspectors still can't reach bombed sites, and 440 kg of 60% uranium, enough for 10 bombs if weaponized, whereabouts unclear. Two wars. Zero verification. That's a failure.
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Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Trump: "If the Republicans win, you win with us and you get $5,000." Legal, because 18 USC 597 only bans paying for an individual's vote not conditioning payment on who wins. Fix is one paragraph: extend 597 to offers conditioned on an electoral outcome. Carve out ordinary policy promises.
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Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
1 billion dollars
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Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
All I want for Christmas: One line in the House rules package. Opening day. Every member shall hold one open, in-person town hall per month in district. My Representative hasn't held one since 2017.
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Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The thing that gets lost in the “rational actor” framing is that it treats the seat as the objective the oath as constraint to manage around. It’s backwards. oath is the objective; the seat is just the instrument for keeping it. politicalwire.com/2026/09/06/r...
politicalwire.com
Republicans Find There Is No Escape From Trump
"In the White House Rose Garden last week, President Trump gathered some of the most politically endangered House Republicans for a dinner where he promised to make himself the face of the party’s uph...
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Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Citizen united destroyed that line it’s “We the Rich people”
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Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
But Walter Issacson said
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Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
There’s always more the rot is deep
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Weirdscience Chet
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Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The only real news left is youtube channels Legacy cable Media except Fox will break completely soon The CEOs will lean on the lawyers the lawyers will force the company to tip toe around his criminal activities to come www.yahoo.com/news/politic...
yahoo.com
Trump calls for 'punishment' of NBC reporter
President Donald Trump on Sunday threatened a prominent NBC broadcast journalist with possible punishment by US media regulators as the Republican expressed disappointment with coverage of his candida...
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Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Karoline Leavitt said it was “unfortunate” LMAO It’s criminal bitch www.latimes.com/world-nation...
latimes.com
Former White House teleprompter operator ordered to turn over profits, pay fine over insider trading
A former White House teleprompter operator accused of using inside knowledge to make bets on the prediction market Kalshi has been ordered to turn over more than $100,000 in profits and pay a $65,000 ...
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Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Another melt down and a gift to democrats come election day He’s throwing spaghetti at the wall “Après moi, le déluge” “After me, the flood.” Attributed to Louis XV of France, on the eve of the Revolution.
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A Night To Remember Movie: Titanic Sinking Scene
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Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Trump shut the door on 120,000+ cleared refugees, then reopened it for one group paid double. The “white genocide” excuse traces straight to his South African-born allies Elon Musk and David Sacks. Not asylum. A whites-only lane built for the boys back home. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
washingtonpost.com
White South Africans could get $4,500 in aid if they come to U.S. as refugees
The assistance, which helps pay for basic needs such as housing and food, would nearly double under a new policy.
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Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
“First Lady Melania Trump is increasingly concerned about the president’s safety.” Please. She couldn’t care less. She knows that if he’s gone, the protection and power disappear and the knives come out for her and Barron. This is self-preservation, not devotion. www.dailymail.com/news/article...
dailymail.com
Insiders reveal full scale of Trump assassination panic
Hours after revelations about his secret flight from the NATO summit in Turkey went public, the president shrugged off reports that detailed the lengths that Secret Service took to keep him safe.
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Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Meta’s stock rose 4.4% in pre-market trading on the news. When investors cheer the day you settle a landmark child-safety case, that tells you they read it as a bill Meta can easily absorb, not a wound. www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
politico.com
Meta agrees to pay $17B, adopt kids’ safety features to resolve states’ lawsuits
The tentative agreement is a massive concession from the tech giant.
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Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I’ll head to DC and stand in front of the bulldozer
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Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I would said ask your mommy bitch she knows www.mediaite.com/media/tv/fox...
mediaite.com
Fox News Interview Takes Bizarre Turn When Abdul El-Sayed Asks Jesse Watters, ‘Are You Circumcised?’
Fox News host Jesse Watters’ interview with Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed took an unexpected turn Monday when a clash over gender-affirming care for minors resulted in the Democrat asking t...
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Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Tell that to Trump voters MAGA has been fed a pack of lies about the left since the 70s To them it’s us against them With Trump it’s a cult now
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Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Shucks She sure does like sweet tea and our troops though
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Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Attiah was fired for “gross misconduct.” Now an arbitrator says the Post wrongfully fired her and owes back pay. Bezos wasn’t defending standards. He was appeasing Trump to protect from a weaponized government. Billionaire cowardice dressed up as journalism. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...
nytimes.com
Washington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist Karen Attiah
An arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing.
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Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Bessent says he’ll punish Iran hard with money rules and maybe China too. But China’s boss visits next month you don’t smack a guest before dinner. So Real details drop 2pm today. Watch oil: if he doesn’t hit China, the scare fades and oil drops. www.cnn.com/2026/08/24/w...
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US-Iran war latest: Iran’s currency drops to record low against dollar as US set to unveil ‘economic D-Day’ | CNN
Iran’s currency has dropped to a record low against the dollar, as the US moves to tighten the economic screws on Tehran. Follow for live updates.
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Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The Washington Post calls Trump just 1.6 pounds shy of obese by accepting the White House’s laughable 238-pound claim. That isn’t scrutiny. It’s a puff piece disguised as journalism, protecting access and power. We see you, Bezos. Shameful. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
washingtonpost.com
Doctors say Trump’s weight poses a significant health risk
The president has gained about 20 pounds since his campaign, according to his statements and those of aides.
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Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
TACO WATCH: Trump “declares” the Strait of Hormuz US territory by posting a map. Reality: it’s Iranian/Omani waters, protected by international law. A strait isn’t annexed by tweet. Iran called him a “deluded man.” Map ≠ control. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/...
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Can Trump really make Strait of Hormuz a US territory?
US president has yet another outlandish threat for Iran, with no end to war in sight.
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Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The FBI has 1 hour+ of secret videos showing how they hid names in the Epstein files. Whistleblowers say they were told to flag & remove TRUMP’S name. A new law says HAND THEM OVER. They won’t. What are they hiding? Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7at...
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LIVE: FBI CONFESSES to HIDING Epstein Info in MY Lawsuit!!
YouTube video by MeidasTouch
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Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Like others, I winced when I first heard Senator Jon Ossoff She winced it’s stating the obvious something journalists refuse to do until the public knows more than the NYT Maggie knows it yet the lead isn’t this www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/o...
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Opinion | Natalie’s Magnificent Obsession
This human printer runs — but not out of ink.
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Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
It’s the Court signaling how much deference it’ll give sweeping “total authority” claims. Set that tone on a building, and the same posture is waiting when the claim is about something far graver. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
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Supreme Court chief justice allows work on Trump’s $400M White House ballroom to continue for now
The temporary order comes hours before lower-court rulings would have forced a halt to aboveground construction.
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Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
It’s in the prenup
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Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Trump policy tanked the dollar. Big deficits, tariff chaos, leaning on the Fed, and open cheerleading for a weaker greenback—then acting shocked when it falls. The dollar didn’t slip. It was pushed. Cause, meet effect. 🇺🇸📉 finance.yahoo.com/markets/curr...
finance.yahoo.com
Dollar Risks Becoming Biggest Loser From Bessent’s Bond Buying
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s bold intervention to stem a potentially damaging rise in US borrowing costs has some investors saying the dollar will ultimately pay the price.
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Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The bond market is voting no confidence in Trump. A buyers’ strike on long US debt as the 30-yr hits 2007 highs because reckless tax cuts, inflationary tariffs, and open assaults on Fed independence torched America’s credibility. buyback? A band-aid on a bullet wound. www.cnbc.com/2026/08/20/b...
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Treasury yields rebound, wiping out the decline following Bessent's intervention
Bond yields edged higher after pulling back sharply during Wednesday's session.
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Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
SATIRE: Natalie Harp’s blue dress has hit the auction block. Pre-owned, deeply discounted and featuring one mysterious white “paint” stain. Seller says no questions, no returns and absolutely no DNA testing. History doesn’t repeat itself. Apparently, it lists on eBay. 😂
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Mark Affleck @flick131.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Republicans will convert an election about authoritarianism into a referendum on socialism, open borders, and Hamas claireberlinski.substack.com/p/the-most-d...
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The Most Dangerous Woman in the World
The Democrats have learned nothing, and forgotten nothing.
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