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Rich Gardner@rlgardner190.bsky.social |
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Navy vet (PN3 1991-2001), Democrat, antiwar, supports Ukraine, History buff, like the "Avengers" movies and "Legends of Tomorrow" TV show.. Pictured is the USS LaSalle (AGF-3), I spent from late 1996 to late 1998 on there.
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Rich Gardner
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Got a hive mind request for y'all here. It's about carrying a camp/beach chair through a crowd. I've added illustrations.
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Rich Gardner
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... broken right now at a time when the Supreme Court just granted the president extraordinary powers. Very odd. Facebook considered the C&L piece to be against their community standards! Wonder why.
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Rich Gardner
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Bad news: the editors (not the reporters who are just trying to do their jobs) are in a feeding frenzy right now, trying to find "Dems in Disarray, Bad for Biden" stories because clicks and eyeballs. The political press is essentially...
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Rich Gardner
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First the good news, the NY Times ran a really stupid piece urging people not to vote. This encourages authoritarianism. They've obviously realized how foolish and anti-democratic it was and have removed it. Good for them!
www.dailykos.com/stories/2024...
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Karen K. Ho
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I feel bad for the journalists inside the NYT, the WSJ and Washington Post trying to do excellent work in spite of leadership decisions and terrible op-eds that undermine those ongoing efforts
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Rich Gardner
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Whew! GOOD!!! People are discovering this thoroughly evil and horrendous plan! No thanks to our mainstream media, of course, which is too busy talking about how old Biden is!
www.salon.com/2024/07/05/p...
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Rich Gardner
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The American Revolution was one nation breaking free of another. Most revolutions are messier and bloodier than that as they are fights within populations. The blogger does NOT want the other type of revolution to break out in America!
www.dailykos.com/stories/2024...
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Rich Gardner
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If the decision from the Supreme Court on presidential immunity has a parallel, it’s from the beginning of the Jim Crow era. The Cruikshank decision had a lot of baffling points where the Justice clearly ignored critical aspects of the case.
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Rich Gardner
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One good thing is that people are realizing that if Biden steps aside, it’s Harris who will take over.
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Rich Gardner
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Editor of TPM assesses where the Democratic Party is right now. Biden is conducting an interview with ABC News and folks will be watching for “senior moments.”
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Rich Gardner
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/3 “Vladimir Putin is counting on wearing down Ukraine on the battlefield and outlasting the West’s resolve to provide support.“
Lengthy letter published urging Ukraine not to join NATO. The blogger doubts the US military is in such terrible shape.
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Rich Gardner
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/2 ...draws a parallel between July 4th in the US and Ukraine’s own struggle for independence. More US aid on the way! Chasiv Yar is just empty shells of buildings. Russians launching “meat waves,” sometimes up to a dozen a day. Unfortunately, this often results in a slow, steady advance.
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Rich Gardner
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Viktor Orbán due to check in with his boss, Vladimir Putin. Russia is now sending drones to Kyiv. Putin claims he was tricked near Kyiv, so he resents Ukraine for that. Putin is asking for peace, on his terms of course (troops continue to occupy all of the land they ave taken, etc). Zelenskyy...
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Victory .aka Agent 99 🤭
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Rich Gardner
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Okay, took these pictures back in May and FINALLY got inspired to finish my photoessay! Happy Fourth of July, y'all!
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Rich Gardner
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😂
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Rich Gardner
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Oh, noooo!!!
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Silverman on Security
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This👇🏼!!!!!!
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Rich Gardner
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Something for lovers of peace to keep in mind is that Trump's Project 2025 also plans for an enormous increase in nuclear weapons. thebulletin.org/2024/07/trum...
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Rich Gardner
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Hurricane Beryl, that hit Grenadine Island on July 1, had ominous characteristics. “Beryl far exceeded that threshold, jumping from tropical storm strength, at 70 mph, to major hurricane strength, at 130 mph, in 24 hours.”
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Rich Gardner
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Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts makes cryptic comment. Is it a threat? Heritage Foundation used to be a respectable organization.
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Rich Gardner
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Candace Owens baffles her husband by reading about flat-earth theory. She claims that she’s agnostic on the question of whether the Earth is round or flat because hey, science is a conspiracy anyway. Blogger says she’s actually advocating “MAGA Crackpot theory.”
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Rich Gardner
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Our editor looks closely at the behavior of the NY Times.
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Rich Gardner
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/3 A command post and HIMARS rockets hit with Russian missiles.
Explosion in US General Dynamics plant.
Finland suffering damaged infrastructure.
A Russian defector damages his ship and steals information useful to Ukraine.
balloon-juice.com/2024/07/03/w...
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Rich Gardner
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/2 ... is hit, with the shopping mall suffering damage. Zelenskyy poses a series of very good questions to an interviewer about a cease-fire. “Happy Anti-Aircraft Missile Troops Day!” More US aid to Ukraine. Eastern part of Ukrainian city of Chasiv Yar utterly demolished.
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Rich Gardner
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Short film clip on a 21-year old Senior Mortar Gunner. Ukraine is STILL waiting for the go-ahead to bomb the airfields where planes take off that launch guided bombs! Guided bombs are now twice as powerful as before. The city of Dnipro...
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Rich Gardner
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TPM just put out a piece on the NY Times and how they get hyper-focused on things like "But Her Emails" and "boy, Biden sure is old," so this story will be a half-day blip at best. BOY, would I like to be wrong on that!
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Rich Gardner
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Has that guy ever sung anything I might have ever heard of? No one has ever mentioned "He sang..."
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Rich Gardner
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... would have been immune from prosecution. Democracy in the US has been very severely wounded and might not survive the next year or two.
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Rich Gardner
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It was found by the court that President Nixon used his presidential powers to give illegitimate orders to federal agencies in his war against democracy. According to the Supreme Courts' July 1st ruling, Nixon's actions...
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Rich Gardner
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As Julia Ioffe has pointed out, she's seen this sort of message discipline and public unity...in her native Russia! What's interesting is that he describes a one-sided problem that only applies to one party and uses that to condemn BOTH parties!
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Rich Gardner
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...food insecurity, clearly, the time has arrived to make a settlement.
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Rich Gardner
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Israel reports fighting in “central” Gaza, territory that’s already been conquered. The IDF plans to thoroughly mop up the remaining Hamas fighters with an operation that will last many more months. With the population of Gaza suffering...
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Rich Gardner
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Rudy Giuliani is now disbarred in New York! He’s lost his license to practice law there.
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Rich Gardner
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Yeah, arguing that the fake electors constitutes an official act of any sort seems WAY out any plausible definition of any real “official” act to me. But this is the mess that the Supreme Court has given us!
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Rich Gardner
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For taking casualties back for identification and burial.
Zelenskyy discusses Viktor Orbán’s visit to Ukraine.
US supplying lots of air defense goods.
For there to be peace, Ukraine must...
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Rich Gardner
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We didn’t even make it to our 248th anniversary as a democracy. If he president is an unrestrained autocrat, then the United States is no longer a democracy. It will clearly take awhile for this to sink in.
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Rich Gardner
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Why, Speaker Johnson is shocked! Shocked, I tell you!, that "we’d ever have a president who is 'prone to this kind of crazy criminal activity.'" I swear, these people must stand in front of a mirror, practicing these lines without breaking into a guffaw!
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Rich Gardner
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It would almost be preferable to get Justice Alito's "eff y'all" attitude rather than the trolling and obviously dishonest pretense of concern of Chief Justice Roberts.
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"We have entered an uncertain new era. The door is now wide open to the kinds of fascism and authoritarianism we spent much of the 20th century and hundreds of thousands of American lives combatting overseas."
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Rich Gardner
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... which troops had withdrawn, declaring Hamas defeated there. Hamas has not been defeated there.”
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyah took comfort from Biden’s lousy debate performance on Thursday night. Are Israelis playing whack-a-mole in Norther Gaza? “The Israeli military is now involved in a land invasion of North Gaza, from...
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Rich Gardner
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/3 Ukrainian missile attack near Sevastopol.
Ukraine’s 72nd Mechanized has been successfully holding Vulhedar fo over two years.
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/2 ...of artillery taken out in June. Paul Manafort plays a serious role in new book called “Foreign Agents.” Kanye West is apparently in Moscow. “Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will visit Kyiv on Tuesday,”
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Rich Gardner
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Obituary for a British combat medic. Russians shelled a wheat field, setting it ablaze. Fortunately, the fire was quickly extinguished. “The Ukrainians are averaging five kills on Russian aircraft per month in 2024.” Russian air defense systems did even worse. 59 systems just in June! 1415 pieces...
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Rich Gardner
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In 1977, former President Nixon declared “When the president does it, that means it is not illegal.” For about a half century, the US has regarded that position as ridiculous, until today.
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Rich Gardner
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Hmm. It appears the public doesn’t agree with the press that Biden is a lost cause. Biden campaign did a record fundraising, “$26 million from grassroots donations,” $33 million in all.
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Rich Gardner
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... on denying aid to Ukraine. That very clearly involved government action.
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Rich Gardner
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The Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity says “official acts” are all legitimate. But if that’s the case, what about the phrase “high crimes and misdemeanors”? Clearly, that includes official acts. Trump was impeached...
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Rich Gardner
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Biden comments on latest Supreme Court ruling. The ruling on presidential immunity does violence to the Rule of Law. It’s up to the people to decide now that the Supreme Court has failed them.
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