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@ningkantida the clue was in the first two thirds of the title - with the final third being the clincher.

@manton certainly be better than today .. thank you

@manton late to this particular party - as part of the discover clean up - could we also create a way to separate mb users from ;the others’ in profiles. When you see someone with 250 followers that you don’t follow - but you ONLY want to follow MB users - you are forced to scroll through 250 records that are mostly NOT MB .. simply pushing MB users to the top would solve that as a first pass. Have raised this many times before - and generally it seems to be edge case john again - but I think would help the whole process for all.

My apologies - I got it wrong .. (my bold)

University of Michigan economist Justin Wolfers wrote: “The US & Chinese trade negotiators have negotiated a handshake agreement to seek signoff to agree that a previously-agreed agreement was still their agreed upon agreement. (That agreement is not an agreement but a framework for seeking future agreements).” He added: “Notice that not only are we not getting a better deal, we’re not even getting back to where we were at the start of the Administration.”

Rachel on a similar theme .. the orange clown only wins if we let him.

Truth Matters on Substack - Rachel Maddow is spot on. This is not about what Trump is doing, but rather what will the American people do in response to what he’s doing. He governs (if you can call it that) by consent. The big question is do the American people consent? It’s the answer to this question that needs to be answered.

@philpin.com I had not

@philpin.com You should write a strongly worded letter.

On a related note to 🖇️ this, two doors down a cafe is offering a new ‘special’ ..

“ ‘meat’ on ‘chips’ “

.. don’t ask for specifics.

@pixelpusher220 that’s a thought

As an extension to 🖇️ this and connected to 🖇️ this , there is this ….

Good evening. It’s great to be in Manchester and back in the UK. Welcome to The Land of Hope and Dreams Tour. The mighty E Street Band is here tonight to call upon the righteous power of art, of music, of rock and roll in dangerous times.

In my home, the America I love, the America I’ve written about that has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years, is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous administration.

Tonight, we ask all who believe in democracy and the best of our American experience to rise with us. Raise your voices against authoritarianism and let freedom ring.

Before “House of a Thousand Guitars”:

How we doing Manchester? All right?

The last check on power, after the checks and balances of government have failed, are the people, you and me. It’s in the union of people around a common set of values. Now that’s all that stands between democracy and authoritarianism.

So at the end of the day, all we’ve really got is each other.

Before “My City of Ruins”:

Now, there’s some very weird, strange and dangerous shit going on out there right now.

In America, they are persecuting people for using their right to free speech and voicing their dissent. This is happening now.

In America, the richest men are taking satisfaction in abandoning the world’s poorest children to sickness and death. This is happening now.

In my country, they’re taking sadistic pleasure in the pain that they inflict on loyal American workers, they’re rolling back historic Civil Rights legislation that led to a more just and plural society, they’re abandoning our great allies and siding with dictators against those struggling for their freedom.

They’re defunding American universities that won’t bow down to their ideological demands. They’re removing residents off American streets and, without due process of law, are deporting them to foreign detention centers and prisons. This is all happening now.

A majority of our elected representatives have failed to protect the American people from the abuses of an unfit president and a rogue government.

They have no concern or idea of what it means to be deeply American. The America that I’ve sung to you about for 50 years is real, and regardless of its faults, is a great country with a great people.

So we’ll survive this moment.

Now, I have hope because I believe in the truth of what the great American writer James Baldwin said. He said, in this world, there isn’t as much humanity as one would like. But there’s enough.

Let’s pray.

💬 The Boss