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  • Piano*DadP Offline
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    Piano*Dad
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    #10

    If this is an accurate representation of the crowd, wow, just wow. The most massive parade dud ever!

    https://bsky.app/profile/briantylercohen.bsky.social/post/3lrlyroeylc2q

    Crazy economist who likes to write about higher education.

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    • wtgW Offline
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      wtg
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      #11

      At a $45M (or more) price tag, I wonder how much that works out to per person...

      edit: as far as accurate representation, it may have been earlier in the day before things got rolling...but I also read that people left pretty early and might not be sticking around for the fireworks.

      When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden - Minnie Aumônier

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      • C CHAS

        Planned to go to a morning protest due to the 108F predicted. My vision is remarkably better, but the eye still feels like a damaged soft boiled egg. Bob had to change his medication routine, which may cause a few rougher than usual days for him.
        We will stay home.

        rustyfingersR Offline
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        rustyfingers
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        @CHAS the important thing is to take care of yourselves. Good call.

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          #13

          Someone may or may not have reserved seats at the parade using Mitch McConnell's phone number.

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          • rustyfingersR Offline
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            rustyfingers
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            #14

            I was sorry to miss the protest. Our last show of the American Repertory Theatre subscription coincided with the timing of our town's protest. I saw on Bluesky that the size of it was about the same as the last 4 I did attend. We saw folks with No Kings signs in the restaurant after the show. There was a massive crowd in Boston.

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            • D Offline
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              Daniel.
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              #15

              God help me. I saw a very short clip of a small black tank rolling down the road.

              I can't unsee it!

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              • C Offline
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                CHAS
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                #16

                Trump mouthing words to "Happy Birthday" while band plays National Anthem.
                https://theonion.com/trump-mouths-lyrics-to-happy-birthday-while-national-anthem-plays/

                yes The Onion

                “I’m at an age when remembering something right away is as good as an orgasm.”—Gloria Steinem to Julia Louis-Dreyfus on Wiser Than Me

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                • Piano*DadP Offline
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                  #17

                  Even the Russians are trolling Trump over the parade.

                  I guess I'm not the only one who thought,

                  1. These troops never learned how to drill, or

                  2. They are utterly dispirited and contemptuous.

                  https://bsky.app/profile/smikooman.bsky.social/post/3lrnw6oynm22r

                  Crazy economist who likes to write about higher education.

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                    Steve Miller
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                    #18

                    😀😀😀

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                    • wtgW Offline
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                      wtg
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                      #19

                      Demonstration of drone capabilities:

                      https://x.com/ScooterCasterNY/status/1934399581233856745?ref=readtangle.com

                      Zelenskyy is still laughing....

                      When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden - Minnie Aumônier

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                      • wtgW Offline
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                        #20

                        Was the music for Saturday’s military parade in Washington, D.C. covertly programmed by the “No Kings” movement?

                        That’s the question some were asking on social media after the event, spearheaded by President Donald J. Trump, which featured the repeated playing of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s classic “Fortunate Son” — a song that virtually the entire world knows by now was written during the Vietnam era as a slam against wealthy draft dodgers. The assumption being made by at least a few tweeters was that this had to be some kind of deliberate trolling of the president by someone on the music selection team who just has it in for him. Because if you were going to make a top 10 list of songs that Trump should not want to have played at any of his events — but most of all not at a military-themed ceremony — “Fortunate Son” would certainly be No. 1.

                        https://www.aol.com/someone-trolling-trump-playing-creedence-200000519.html

                        When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden - Minnie Aumônier

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                        • rustyfingersR Offline
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                          Except that Trump has been playing Fortunate Son at rallies for years, despite a cease and desist from the artist. So he's unwittingly trolling himself

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                          • rustyfingersR rustyfingers

                            Except that Trump has been playing Fortunate Son at rallies for years, despite a cease and desist from the artist. So he's unwittingly trolling himself

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                            wtg
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                            #22

                            @rustyfingers Yea, the article talks about that. And how he gets away with playing the song anyway.

                            When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden - Minnie Aumônier

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                              Pedestrian killed by truck carrying a tank after the parade https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/06/17/army-tank-kills-dc-pedestrian-birthday-parade/84246151007/

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