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Claire Armstrong @soclairearmstrong.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

The anatomy of a Trump Lie. ONLY I CAN END THE WAR AND I’LL DO IT ON DAY ONE. ⤵️ Zelenskyy didn’t kiss my ass enough so I dunno… ⤵️ Well, it’s Biden’s war and it’s his fault Putin invaded Ukraine. ⤵️ I guess Ukraine can just go fuck themselves. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/w...

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Rubio Says U.S. to ‘Move On’ From Ukraine Peace Efforts if No Progress Soon (Gift Article)

“If it is not possible to end the war in Ukraine, we need to move on,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said as he departed meetings in Paris.

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Claire Armstrong @soclairearmstrong.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

The Trump Administration is just a Russian nesting doll of super villains.

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Claire Armstrong @soclairearmstrong.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Maybe Trump got tired of Elon calling the shots and did all this just to show him who's boss? It's just that with him, the stupidest reason is usually also correct.

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Claire Armstrong @soclairearmstrong.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

This is not economic policy. It is despotic.

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Claire Armstrong @soclairearmstrong.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

"Plainly: DOGE forced out the directors and staff of a nonexecutive agency, installed one of its own GSA staffers as president, and that person is now attempting to hand the institute’s $500 million headquarters over to the agency he came from, at zero cost." www.wired.com/story/doge-t...

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DOGE Is Trying to Gift Itself a $500 Million Building, Court Filings Show

The documents reveal a DOGE affiliate is attempting to transfer the headquarters of an independent think tank, the United States Institute of Peace, to the government at no cost.

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Claire Armstrong @soclairearmstrong.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

"In other words, the world is entering a new era of what Gates called "free intelligence" in an interview last month with Harvard University professor and happiness expert Arthur Brooks." Umm, yeah. We are living through the post-Do-Your-Own-Research/YouTube era and it's not working out well.

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Claire Armstrong @soclairearmstrong.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

The next generation of scientists and specialists are no longer being trained and the talent we already had has been fired, or are moving to jobs in countries where an undereducated minority isn't threatening and demeaning them becuase they heard something on a podcast once.

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Claire Armstrong @soclairearmstrong.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

“Stern decided to file a police report only after Tate & his younger brother, Tristan, left the U.S. for a weekend check-in with Romanian authorities.” www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/u...

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Claire Armstrong @soclairearmstrong.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

My self care for April will be to host a watch party when Pete Hegseth testifies before congress.

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Claire Armstrong @soclairearmstrong.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

I guarantee you the only person on that Signal text Trump is going to yell at will be J.D Vance for disagreeing with him.

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Claire Armstrong @soclairearmstrong.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

This letter is brilliant. PLEASE read.

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Claire Armstrong @soclairearmstrong.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Imagine spending 40 years of your life serving in congress only to be known as the man who ended the American experiment. You won't be missed, Mitch!

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Claire Armstrong @soclairearmstrong.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

But this is not what they're doing. They're gutting the government. Stripping it, incapacitating it and selling it for parts. In Elon, they found the only guy full of shit enough to out-Trump Trump, so while Trump sits around like a neutered greyhound, Elon runs around like he's all-powerful, not

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Claire Armstrong @soclairearmstrong.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

the anti-DEI right are really hiding behind the acronym becuase it is easier to get the low-information electorate behind cancelling something when they are not really certain what it means. We need to be calling it out at every opportunity. Diversity. Equity. Inclusion.

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Claire Armstrong @soclairearmstrong.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Elon moves as though he is all-powerful. In reality, he is a pawn. THEIR pawn. The guy they will blame once social security and medicare is cut aand the government collapses. They've been trying to do it for decaades. Now they have a power-hungry patsy to do their bidding. "ELON did it, not us!"

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Claire Armstrong @soclairearmstrong.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Vance's speech: "It was not just a collection of cheap shots in a culture war, while a real, life-and-death military war was largely ignored. It was a call to arms for the populist right to be able to seize power in Europe, and a promise that the “new sheriff in town” would help them to do so."

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Claire Armstrong @soclairearmstrong.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Republicans have been trying to get rid of Social Security and Medicare/caid for decades, but it’s political suicide. Elon is the ultimate patsy. Give him all this perceived power through fake departments and fake mandates and have him make all the cuts they’re too scared to make, then blame him.

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Claire Armstrong @soclairearmstrong.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

How pathetic to be the richest man in the world only because of your money.

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Claire Armstrong @soclairearmstrong.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I still can't believe the guy who said "they're eating the cats, they're eating the dogs" is president.

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Claire Armstrong @soclairearmstrong.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

A million things to say about the farce of a press conference last night, but I will note that Trump looks (and sounds).... neutered.

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Claire Armstrong @soclairearmstrong.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

They are rewriting the constitution to an audience that doesn’t have the fortitude (or desire) to fact check them. “But the lawyer on Fox said it”. And so it is, I guess…

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Claire Armstrong @soclairearmstrong.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Are we looking for waste and fraud? Or is DOGE propping up master Elon as a thank you for buying an election? @voteinorout.bsky.social

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Claire Armstrong @soclairearmstrong.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Theere's a hotel on my Midtown block housing migrants. It's an Econolodge. Sit tf down, Elon.

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Claire Armstrong @soclairearmstrong.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

We are creating a truly remarkable coalition of women in America who are ready to put in the work and ready to ACT to resist, fight and lead for positive change in our communities. Won’t you join us? open.substack.com/pub/clairear...

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Choice Words

A GatherHer Newsletter 2.9.25

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Claire Armstrong @soclairearmstrong.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

And now, a note from someone whose first google search on Nov 6 was “what is a tariff?” “He said tariffs would be on China, New Mexico and Canada not on American citizens” 🐆

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Claire Armstrong @soclairearmstrong.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

“For Twitter to deserve public trust it must be politically neutral, which effectively means upsetting the far right and the far left equally." -Elon Musk

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Claire Armstrong @soclairearmstrong.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Governing by executive order is not powerful. It does not make you strong. It is weak. It means you don’t have what it takes to govern by building consensus. By negotiating. Trump is a coward. And a wimp.

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Claire Armstrong @soclairearmstrong.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Strength is governing through consensus (or close to). Leadership is holding space for opinions different to your own, finding common ground and moving forward in the interests of the people. Trump is acting like a dictator because he is too weak and pathetic to be a president.

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Claire Armstrong @soclairearmstrong.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

A TRADE DEFICIT DOES NOT MEAN ANOTHER COUNTRY OWES US MONEY. A trade deficit means we import from that country than we export to it, and given the U.S is now an information economy, THIS MAKES TOTAL SENSE.

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Claire Armstrong @soclairearmstrong.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

"What the Trump administration wants — is to keep everything moving fast. Muzzle velocity, remember. If you’re always consumed by the next outrage, you can’t look closely at the last one. The impression of Trump’s power remains; the fact that he keeps stepping on rakes is missed" - #EzraKlein

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Claire Armstrong @soclairearmstrong.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Steve Bannon: "The opposition party is the media. And the media can only, because they’re dumb and they’re lazy, they can only focus on one thing at a time." … Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o...

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Opinion | Don’t Believe Him (Gift Article)

Look closely at the first two weeks of Donald Trump’s second term and you’ll see something very different than what he wants you to see.

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Claire Armstrong @soclairearmstrong.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

That you are here and you care is all you need to know you are ready to act.

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Claire Armstrong @soclairearmstrong.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Women in America readay to lead? Women ready to fight? Women ready to organize? This is for you. Join us. Welcome to GatherHer: @gatherherorg.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/clairear...