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USA promised to defend Afghans if they helped us against Taliban—then Trump backed out.
USA Promised to help Kurdish allies in Syria—then Trump backed out.
USA promised to defend Ukraine if it gave up its nukes—now Trump is backing out.
Trump has further turned the world against us. We are not safer.
Bringing this highly requested feature to #Mastodon and the fediverse is not as trivial as some might think, but quote posts are coming. Here is our latest write-up about our progress:
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/02/bringing-quote-posts-to-mastodon/
After deciding to write about Bluesky and its recent meteoric growth, I wrote down the headline above, and then I went to look at what I had written in the past about Bluesky while I was at the Columbia Journalism Review (where I was the chief digital writer until recently)
We only got a glimpse of a partial eclipse here in Portland, OR. But the clouds thinned out just enough, for only a few minutes, letting me grab a very lucky shot of it.
The best I could do with the cloud cover in #Portland.