Expat New Orleanian in Belgium who likes to read. Posting about lots of things, including the Balkans, Gabon, Timor-Leste, and Uganda.
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Rufus Polk retweeted
Dans la série Seinfeld, un personnage reçoit par erreur des plaques d'immatriculation personnalisées portant l'inscription « ASSMAN », qu'il finit par accepter malgré lui ( lien humoristique avec la proctologie) #Trump
Rufus Polk retweeted
First lady Melania Trump on Saturday announced a multimillion-dollar partnership between Louisiana State University and her "Fostering the Future" program to provide scholarships for LSU students who came through the foster care system. to.pbs.org/4AjJYpf
Rufus Polk retweeted
'the whispering sound of the cool colonnade' (Cowper)
Poplars are popular with poets because they sussurate with every breeze💛
Their flattened petiole (leaf stalk) flutters in the lightest winds. A beautiful movement which optimises light penetration for the tree💛#SundayYellow
Rufus Polk retweeted
Putin's strategy is to terrorize the men, women and children of Ukraine and slaughter them. This includes raping their girls and women. Yet, Trump still adores Putin and wants to be like him. What does this tell us about Trump?!
Rufus Polk retweeted
You've heard of 'Mockintosh'.
Meet 'Slopintosh'. Seen earlier on a widely followed Facebook group. This abominable confection purporting to be The Glasgow School of Art with its architect.
Perhaps we're mistaken and Peter Sellers starred in a film about terrible buildings?
Rufus Polk retweeted
Wow. A little background on those MS affidavit votes.
My campaign and others complained about this for months. This should’ve been a national story. Thank God @MSTODAYnews reported it and we and others were able to try to reach these voters.
Local journalism matters!
Rufus Polk retweeted
If you would’ve told me that an iteration of something I said in September of 2025 (and continued to expand upon) would be a punchline on SNL 14 months later, I wouldn’t have believed you…
Congratulations, Senator-elect @jamestalarico 🤘🏾
Rufus Polk retweeted
I think MAGA attends a required class to train them to keep talking no matter what. They all do it.
Rufus Polk retweeted
He interrupted. Like they always do. Thought he could talk over her, steamroll her time, dismiss her authority. But Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett didn’t raise her voice. Didn’t match his energy. Didn’t need to. She just stopped, looked at him,
Rufus Polk retweeted
Stephen Miller, whose immigrant family benefited from the compassion in America’s past immigration system when they fled Belarus to escape anti-Jewish violence (those who remained were slaughtered in the Holocaust) - is demanding cruelty in America’s present immigration system.
Rufus Polk retweeted
As a woman, you can do all the work to promote patriarchy/white men, it will still go unrecognized and unrewarded.
motherjones.com/politics/202…
