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Fleuron

@printersflower.bsky.social
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Trying to read more books again. Enjoys reading, learning, gardening, cooking, needlepoint, civics. Wears gardening gloves, after that last infection. she/her/hers

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Trump announces deal to import Russian diesel. Yet he imposed tariffs on China and India for importing fuel from Russia. 3 weeks ago signed law threatening 500% tariffs on India and China. Now facing midterm election defeat ... and Utter bankruptcy of Trump foreign, economic and other policies.
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Trump announces deal for Russian diesel as Zelensky calls it a 'gift to Putin'
Ukraine's president sharply criticised the move, calling it an "investment in war that must be ended, not prolonged".
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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
As the archbishop says, live streaming an execution is barbaric. There’s no other word for it.
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Fleuron @printersflower.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Selfishness and prejudice is my running theory. I find it difficult to speak to the relatives who voted for him.
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Fleuron @printersflower.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Demagoguery depicted in A Face in the Crowd
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Fleuron @printersflower.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
American conservatives voted for all of this.
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Fleuron @printersflower.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
very good
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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
If Biden had been wearing some weird device, reporters would have asked questions about it. But the White House press corps fears Trump, so they don’t ask about this or the spackle covering his bruised hands.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Ken Paxton on politicians disclosing their financial ties to corporations: “I don't see why it would help taxpayers to know that.”
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Fleuron @printersflower.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
He's really spreading himself thin, between AI, Iran, tariffs, and denialism over the 2020 election results
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Fleuron @printersflower.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Maybe she'll take Pete Hegseth's old job. www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
nbcnews.com
Karoline Leavitt, former White House press secretary, joins Fox News as contributor
The youngest White House press secretary in U.S. history left the job this summer to spend more time with her family.
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Fleuron @printersflower.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Sorry only that it was caught.
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Fleuron @printersflower.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It definitely sounds like something fascists would say.
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Fleuron @printersflower.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Okay, but I want to see it described in a documentary. Need to see it, actually.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 01/10/2026
Trump has been moving like some middle schooler carving his name into a desk with a pocket knife on the last day of school. trib.al/pmUt7FC
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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 28/09/2026
Trump is selling nuclear tech to Saudi Arabia despite reported US intelligence that the Saudis still want a bomb—while the Trumps have taken billions in bribes from the Saudis. This is Trump corruption at the expense of US national security. Stop the deal.
Saudi Arabia Open to Possibly Developing Nuclear Weapons
An intelligence assessment examined Saudi Arabia’s military ambitions as Congress reviews a new civilian nuclear deal between the U.S. and the kingdom
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 28/09/2026
U.S. President Donald Trump has justified the pending U.S. arms sale to Taiwan to Chinese President Xi Jinping by downplaying it as just one of many sales Washington makes around the world — even asking Xi if he’d be in the market for U.S. arms, Trump’s ambassador to China said.
bit.ly
Trump asked China's president if he wants to buy US arms, ambassador says
The U.S. ambassador to China says President Donald Trump asked Chinese President Xi Jinping if he wanted to buy weapons from the United States.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 27/09/2026
The Supreme Court’s willingness to use the 14th Amendment to emancipate white people from Black elected officials—but not to help Black people elect officials—signals its fundamentally racist priorities.
motherjones.com
Jim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts court.
The disaster the justices have unleashed has its roots in one of the darkest periods of our past.
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Fleuron @printersflower.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If American conservatives didn't like menace and malice, they wouldn't have voted for it. Three times. No wait, it's because he's "good for business." www.wired.com/2016/07/trum...
Donald's entrance to the 2016 RNC convention.
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Fleuron @printersflower.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I am not suggesting that American conservatives care, but now consider what they did to other nation's economies, by re-electing Donald Trump. Recklessness has economic consequences.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
theintercept.com
DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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Fleuron @printersflower.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They're "voting for the platform." Even if it's a platform of self-enriching crooks.
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Fleuron @printersflower.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Republicans "return home" to vote. Unless they actually stay home. However, many, of a certain age, are disciplined voters.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley has refused to rule out another run for the Senate in 2028. He’d be 101 at the end of that term.
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Fleuron @printersflower.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Is this media era equivalent to the United States' previous Gilded Age or is it worse than that one?
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Tim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“A few days ago, Michelle was informed — on a brief video call, by two corporate guys she did not know, who did not know her — that, effective in two weeks, her position would no longer exist…That’s how it is in newspapers these days.” - Dave Barry davebarry.substack.com/p/michelle
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Michelle
A tribute.
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Fleuron @printersflower.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
What she did on Jan. 6, 2021 was worse.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 21/09/2026
“My party is infiltrated by these people”: Karl Rove at #TAF26 on Republicans who traffic in conspiracies and bigotry. www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2HB...
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Fleuron @printersflower.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Imagine voting for Trump because he was going to be better for the U.S. economy than a U.S. President from the Democratic party. When are Republicans going to lose their reputation as being good for American businesses? apnews.com/article/gas-...
apnews.com
Rising gas prices frustrate voters. Trump says it's an 'inexpensive price to pay' for the Iran war
Voters across the nation say skyrocketing gas prices are causing financial hardships for their families.
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 19/09/2026
CNN, MS NOW, Politico denied access to White House grounds
lemonde.fr
CNN, MS NOW, Politico denied access to White House grounds
The three news outlets denounced the ban as a violation of the US constitution and vowed to keep reporting on the US government. They are expected to take the bans to court.
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Danny Page @danny.page · 17/09/2026
God bless @atherton.bsky.social for this succinct wisdom
Kelsey D. Atherton - tweet from 2019

Oh, you're experiencing a structural problem? Have you ever considered trying different personal choices instead?
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A.L. likely @alvildalikely.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Yes I put names on lists. I keep several lists: Cowardly Little Bitch Solstice cards Christmas cards Leave it to Karma Jumbo Cinnamon Roll call back Deserves to Lose an Eyebrow Better Looking than Jason Mamoa Hit with truck if you can get away with it
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Fleuron @printersflower.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Same as it ever was.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
JUST NOW: A confused, clearly not-there McConnell votes “AYE” after almost voting NO with Dems but getting *corrected* by handlers around him
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Fleuron @printersflower.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Philip Zimbardo's second wife, then girlfriend, who said, "I don't think this is ethical, honey" is still around, though. Where's Christina Maslach?
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Tara @taradeenihan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Sorry I can’t hear you over the sound of my late psychologist husband primal screaming from just behind the veil
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Clay Bennett, Chattanooga Times Free Press
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Fleuron @printersflower.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A wider-scope grift than a DC hotel. Visionaries for self-dealing.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Trump's foreign policy is not isolationist. On the contrary, his ideologues want to build an international empire run by far-right political movements who serve American crypto, mineral and tech companies, many with links to the president. Read more here: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
theatlantic.com
Empire of Grift
Far-right ideologues have transformed American foreign policy into a tool of private gain and antidemocratic reaction.
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bingmanc.bsky.social @bingmanc.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The only thing that has changed in my voting life is that Republican racists no longer use code words.
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026
lol there are a lot of people talking about AI who, frankly, shouldn't so here are people to listen to and then some: @timnitgebru.blacksky.app @alexhanna.bsky.social @rajiinio.bsky.social @ruha9.bsky.social @emilymbender.bsky.social @karenhao.bsky.social @dairinstitute.bsky.social
rollingstone.com
These Women Tried to Warn Us About AI
Rumman Chowdhury, Timnit Gebru, Safiya Noble, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, and Joy Buolamwini open up about their artificial intelligence fears
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Michael McKee @mckonomy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Perhaps what's more ridiculous than Trump's pledge to give every American $5000 is that some news organizations are reporting it as if it could happen.
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Fleuron @printersflower.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"What it does is name a third option beyond 'disgrace' and 'inspiration': that Fetterman’s conduct may be neither a personal failing nor a moral awakening, but a documented, and only partly modifiable consequence of surviving a stroke." archive.is/j9vR9#select...
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Can’t let people see how many women died from the new abortion laws before they vote
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Fleuron @printersflower.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This American political era: "I regret recommending Department of Energy be eliminated," Energy Sec nominee Rick Perry says www.cnbc.com/2017/01/19/i...
cnbc.com
I regret recommending Department of Energy be eliminated, Energy Sec nominee Rick Perry says
"My past statements, made over five years ago, about abolishing the Department of Energy do not reflect my current thinking," Rick Perry says.
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OBG @obg99.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Let's remind everyone that this is JD's home turf. Does he have anything to say?
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Kamala Harris @kamalaharris.com · 07/09/2026
I am horrified by yesterday's attack on Amy Acton in Ohio and grateful for the the actions of law enforcement and others who helped — including Dr. Acton herself, who stayed to help attend to the injured.
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Fleuron @printersflower.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The United States' company newspaper. Following the Wall Street Journal, of course.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
In a story that's built on questions of Giuliiani's credibility vs. Mamdani's, the New York Times should have pointed out that Giuliani has been disbarred in both Washington, DC, and New York.
nytimes.com
Giuliani Says Mamdani Should Skip 9/11 Memorial (Gift Article)
During an anti-Muslim diatribe, the former mayor called for Mr. Mamdani to skip the ceremonies. The mayor has said he is going.
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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
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