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The Cheerful Pessimist

@mlhild.bsky.social
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Retired HS Teacher, Greenhouse/Farmers’ Market Grower, Small Business Entrepreneur, Traveler, Advocate for Justice, Research Nerd. I’m a BLUE dot 🔵 in a hopelessly red state - GBR. 🚫 DMs

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 08/10/2026
It's Artificial Intelligence. It's Twitter. It's the Gulf of Mexico. It's Lake Ontario. It's the Department of Defense. It's the Kennedy Center.
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The Cheerful Pessimist @mlhild.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It’s so hard not to give up. Enough already. How many laws need to be broken before things change?
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Dan Osborn @osbornforne.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Our so-called "leaders" need to push back against data centers and Al companies. Congress shouldn't go home until we get an Al safety bill.
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🦋💔🇺🇸SEB🇺🇸💔🦋 @sebastiangarof5.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
When U.S. airspace was closed on 9/11, Canada took in hundreds of diverted flights and thousands of stranded passengers under Operation Yellow Ribbon, and later by sending troops to our war in Afghanistan. We have the best neighbors any country can have. Trump is a total idiot for what he’s doing. 🔄
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The Cheerful Pessimist @mlhild.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
A data center is being proposed across the road from my family farm in Nebraska. I own an organic garden & green house just half a mile from where it would be built. A meeting to decide on a moratorium is Tues morning. I’m getting ready to be there & have my voice heard.
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Michael Love @elkmovie.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I’m on a small-ship Alaska cruise with my son; our boat rescued a stranded vessel last night and apparently we did that after the Coast Guard radioed Mark Zuckerberg’s yacht - which was closer - and they repeatedly refused to respond. (There was near unanimous booing when the captain announced this)
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
The JCPOA, which Trump called "the worst deal ever," ONLY lifted nuclear-related sanctions on Iran. Sanctions for human rights violations, terrorism, and its missile program ALL remained. Trump is promising to end ALL SANCTIONS, even those imposed by international bodies. Victory for Iran.
The United States of America undertakes to terminate all types of sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran, including the United Nations Security Council resolutions.

IAEA Board of Governors resolutions, all unilateral US sanctions, primary and secondary in an agreed upon schedule as part of the final deal. The Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States of America acknowledge the critical importance of the sanctions termination issue above mentioned, and expressed their intentions to immediately address these issues in the negotiations in order to achieve mutual agreement on them.
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lewisnixon63.bsky.social @lewisnixon63.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
For anyone who thinks the mid terms are going to be a blue landslide, let this be a warning shot. They are going to spend unheard of amounts of money and do anything nefarious that is possible to stay in power.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Today would be a good day for Trump and everyone in his family to release their tax returns.
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Dennis Goris | Cartoons @dennisgoris.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Have you been injured? #slushfund
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19/05/2026
REED: How many taxpayers' returns were leaked by the IRS in the 2020 breach? BLANCHE: Excuse me? REED: 405,427. One of them was Donald Trump, correct? BLANCHE: Donald Trump and his family. REED: And Donald Trump was president at the time. So it was his IRS that allowed this breach of privacy
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Decoding Fox News @decodingfoxnews.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
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A Price Check on The Trump Admin - Year Two
A comprehensive look at how Donald J. Trump is tackling the affordability crisis
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God @thegodshow.com · 11/05/2026
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Trump's latest attack on me is as unhinged as ever. I wear his scorn as a badge of honor. If you want to help me in the fight for free and fair elections (and really piss off Trump), subscribe to Democracy Docket for free and share its content with everyone you know. Thanks. bit.ly/4qmEiFz
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The Cheerful Pessimist @mlhild.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Just got through the last 2 weeks of an open greenhouse & having 20 vendors out to the farm. Now time to focus on farmer’s markets. I haven’t been so focused on politics & I guess that’s good.
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A.J. @andynear70.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Gee,I'm wondering where the corrosive rhetoric comes from.
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Decoding Fox News @decodingfoxnews.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
I went through the 40-minute interview from CBS 60 Minutes and found everything the network cut from its 13-minute edit. The transcript is FREE for anyone to read. I didn't put a paywall on it on purpose so more people could read it. open.substack.com/pub/decoding...
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Trump's CBS 60 Minutes Interview: What Aired and What Was Cut
On Sunday April 26 President Donald J.
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The Cheerful Pessimist @mlhild.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Sadly, I think many people’s minds went to, “Is this another distraction staged by Trump?” Very sad this is the reality we are living through.
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The Cheerful Pessimist @mlhild.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Of course he had to say it was a record setting crowd tonight. What an imbecile!
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The Cheerful Pessimist @mlhild.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
All democrats did is punch back, and Virginia has a hella punch!
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Jay Lionel @jaylionel.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
It’s amazing really that being a child rapist, charity thief fraudster, adulterer and all round asshole wasn’t a red line. Gas prices and grocery prices are. Weird.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 17/04/2026
In his second administration, President Trump’s family members are expanding their business ventures, earning hundreds of millions of dollars and prompting fresh concerns about influence peddling and conflicts of interest. to.pbs.org/4tTfPdh
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Tracking the Trump family’s business deals and profits in his 2nd term
In his second administration, President Trump’s family members, including his son-in-law Jared Kushner, and sons Eric and Don Jr., are expanding their business ventures, earning hundreds of millions o...
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✊🏼🖇️zabbeth 🦋❌👑 @zabbeth.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
It is a profound irony when the nation under attack feels more empathy for the attacker's citizens than the attacking government itself.
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Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Trump’s war of choice will cause households to spend an extra $740 extra on gas this year. Meanwhile, Trump used his presidency to boost his net worth by $3 billion. www.forbes.com/sites/danale...
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Trump Jumps 118 Spots On The Forbes 400 List Thanks To Presidency
Donald Trump lost money during his first term. Out of office, he found a formula for profiting off politics—now he’s piling up billions.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/04/2026
Trump isn’t beating the antichrist allegations with these attacks on the pope
Pope Leo is WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy. He talks about “fear” of the Trump Administration, but doesn’t mention the FEAR that the Catholic Church, and all other Christian Organizations, had during COVID when they were arresting priests, ministers, and everybody else, for holding Church Services, even when going outside, and being ten and even twenty feet apart. I like his brother Louis much better than I like him, because Louis is all MAGA. He gets it, and Leo doesn’t! I don’t want a Pope who thinks it’s OK for Iran to have a Nuclear Weapon. I don’t want a Pope who thinks it’s terrible that America attacked Venezuela, a Country that was sending massive amounts of Drugs into the United States and, even worse, emptying their prisons, including murderers, drug dealers, and killers, into our Country. And I don’t want a Pope who criticizes the President of the United States because I’m doing exactly what I was elected, IN A LANDSLIDE, to do, setting Record Low Numbers in Crime, and creating the Greatest Stock Market in History. Leo should be thankful because, as everyone knows, he was a shocking surprise. He wasn’t on any list to be Pope, and was only put there by the Church because he was an American, and they thought that would be the best way to deal with President Donald J. Trump. If I wasn’t in the White House, Leo wouldn’t be in the Vatican. Unfortunately, Leo’s Weak on Crime, Weak on Nuclear Weapons, does not sit well with me, nor does the fact that he meets with Obama Sympathizers like David Axelrod, a LOSER from the Left, who is one of those who wanted churchgoers and clerics to be arrested. Leo should get his act together as Pope, use Common Sense, stop catering to the Radical Left, and focus on being a Great Pope, not a Politician. It’s hurting him very badly and, more importantly, it’s hurting the Catholic Church! President DONALD J. TRUMP
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
This tragedy of errors continues. Not one of the senior US negotiators was competent to the job. The US position was unrealistic. The process was fundamentally flawed.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 12/04/2026
Vance: No agreement reached. Iranians rejected all terms, incl ending the enrichment leading to a nuclear weapon. He spoke to DJT, Rubio, Hegseth and team consistently. "Iranians rejected out terms, so no deal has been reached" (..) We leave here having presented our last and best offer".
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LA Blue Dot in GA 🌊🐸 @namwella1961.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Megyn Kelly: “After 14 years inside Fox News, I’m exposing what viewers refuse to see—how the network morphed from news into a propaganda machine designed purely to cheerlead wars, worship Trump, and feed you manufactured rage instead of facts.” #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed #FoxNewsIsPropaganda
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Tom Joad™️ @theoriginaltomjoad.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
The population of Scottsbluff, Nebraska is 14,323. One hundred and eighty-six thousand is thirteen Scottsbluffs. I was careful for sixteen years while thirteen Scottsbluffs happened. open.substack.com/pub/joadt/p/...
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I Spent Sixteen Years Not Saying It
How the machine built to silence this conversation worked on a congressman from the Bronx, a senator from Missouri, and a liberal from Nebraska,and what it cost all of us that it did
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Trump’s safe space is turning into a scene of public humiliation. An analysis of more than 40,000 comments on his Truth Social posts by the New York Times found many of his supporters are disappointed with his second term. Only 25% of the comments were supportive. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/u...
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Trump pardoned 77 people that stole from Medicare. This flew under the radar. It appears that Trump is selling pardons, which is enough to send him away.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Obviously. I mean, it's a crew of four with one woman, one African American and one (gasp) Canadian. If the Trump people were involved, it'd be completely different.
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The Cheerful Pessimist @mlhild.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
I am ashamed of my city & the Union Pacific. What a disgrace.
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Nebraska Examiner @nebraskaexaminer.com · 31/03/2026
FROM THIS WEEKEND: About 17,000 federal-funded health clinics stand to lose a combined $32 billion over five years as more uninsured patients rely on them. From KFFHealthNews: nebraskaexaminer.com/2026/03/29/t...
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Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act darkens outlook for government-backed clinics • Nebraska Examiner
About 17,000 federally funded community health centers care for 1 in 7 Americans. They’re bracing for fallout from the law the president signed last year.
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Dittie @dittie.sheshed.rocks · 30/03/2026
If you live in Nebraska, you need to pay attention to this. Apparently the “Democrat“ candidate is not a Democrat at all, but a Trump supporting republican, who just a few months prior to registering to run, attended Republican-led training programs. #SheShed www.cnn.com/2026/03/30/p...
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
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LyndaGood @lyndagood.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Just a matter of time until Trump names Tiger Woods the Secretary of Transportation
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First Alert 6 @wowt6news.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Stocks fall and oil prices rise after Trump’s latest delay in the Iran war fails to raise much hope
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Stocks fall and oil prices rise after Trump’s latest delay in the Iran war fails to raise much hope
U.S. stocks are falling Friday as Wall Street stumbles toward the finish of a fifth straight losing week, which would be its longest such streak in nearly four years.
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The Cheerful Pessimist @mlhild.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Just completed my taxes. Not much changed between 2024 & 2025, but ended up with half the refund this year vs under the Biden administration. So much for the “beautiful” bill.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
The federal government is freckin' piggy bank for these people www.cnn.com/2026/03/25/p...
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Justice Department agrees to pay ex-Trump adviser Michael Flynn in settlement over wrongful prosecution lawsuit | CNN Politics
The Justice Department has reached a settlement with Michael Flynn, Donald Trump’s former national security adviser who sued the government for millions of dollars over what he alleged to be a wrongfu...
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Good trouble Sam @flywrangler.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
The GOP lies - and the lies are intentional. They know the lies will appear on Fox news and will be heard by Trump voters who don't question anything they hear. So propaganda and brainwashing the willfully ignorant trump voters. They make the choice to be ignorant and are happy that way
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
These need to be handed out at every No Kings rally on March 28. Millions of them.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/03/2026
I used to work for the government. In order to justify budgets, bad actors overspend at the end of the fiscal year. So the administration spent $93B on bullshit to justify massive Pentagon budget proposals, all while gutting health care and food assistance. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
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US military spent $9 million on crab legs and lobster in the months before Iran war
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth also authorized the $100,000 purchase of a Steinway & Sons grand piano for the Air Force chief of staff’s home, according to a watchdog report
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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Are federal officers really being assaulted? Or is the government lying to us about the numbers? You guessed it. They are lying. Call Congress at 202-224-3121 today and demand accountability. #ICELawlessness
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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Are we still looking for waste, fraud, and abuse? I think I found some.
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 09/03/2026
“What happened to me was a flagrant violation of my Constitutional rights.” Patty O’Keefe was violently detained for legally observing ICE activity in her neighborhood. She deserves accountability from the DHS.
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🦋 kris🌻⋆⋆⋆ @eviebauer727.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
How dare her!! 🧐🤨 "When people like Kamala Harris send our sons and daughters, our young people, to fight in stupid wars, it is the young generation that carries the burden of that. We're gonna stop sending our young people to far away lands. We are not the policemen of the world."
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 09/03/2026
Breaking News: New video adds to evidence that a U.S. missile likely hit an Iranian school where 175 people, many of them children, were reportedly killed.
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U.S. Tomahawk Hit Naval Base Beside Iranian School, Video Shows
The evidence contradicts President Trump’s claim that Iran was responsible for a strike at the school that killed 175 people, most of them children.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 08/03/2026
NEW: An inmate overheard guards talking about covering up Epstein’s death. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
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Prison guards discussed cover-up of Epstein’s death, inmate tells FBI
One officer said: “Dudes, you killed that dude.”
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