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Baa Baa Brighouse

Calling all those who signed up for the Baa Baa Brighouse Agatha Christie Book Club - Murder On The Orient Express - it's time for the big reveal!

Introducing 'Murder On The Orient Express', a 100g skein of hand dyed Aran Tweed Wool. There are two skeins in each box.

Included in the box is a copy of the HarperCollins hardback edition of the book, a postcard, a pin badge and a bookmark.

Boxes are already on their way. Happy knitting!

Picture shows two skeins of yarn, one behind the other, in shades of navy blue, lilac, gold and white. Behind the yarn, stood on its end is a hardback copy of Agatha Christie's Murder On The Orient Express. The book is navy blue with, gold text on the front and a white, lilac and gold and navy patterned border. In front of the yarn, from left to right, is a postcard, a pin badge and a silver bookmark.
Picture shows two skeins of yarn, one behind the other, in shades of navy blue, lilac, gold and white.
Picture shows an open A4 box containing two skeins of yarn in shades of blue, lilac, gold and white. Park of a book in the same colours can also be seen. The rest of the contents is obscured by the sides of the box.
Picture shows a closed A4 box tied with gold ribbon.
#yarn#knitting#crochet
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skua

@TalktoBeverley

I'm puzzled by the use of the wrap.
And have seen such in #Christie's artworks and when #Canberra's #MrFluffy loose-fill-asbestos insulated houses were being demolished.

Local weather where I've lived is so mild that wraps are very rarely used for weather protection.

And authorities here go to great lengths to avoid alarming publicity. And speak of restoration of historic buildings when asbestos removal is the goal. My question is cynical as much as their speech is.

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RememberUsAlways

"lock her up" - a quick #history

"‘Guilty!’

The delegates responded with a resounding: “Guilty!”

“We don’t disqualify Hillary #Clinton to be the president of the United States,” #Christie said. “The facts of her life and career disqualify her.”

Clinton’s campaign quickly responded to Christie’s speech."

#newsrewind
#trump
#guilty
#republicans
#2016election
#election2024
#2024Election

cnn.com/2016/07/19/politics/do

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SherBeareth

#ThatDamnedChristie

#Christie stated that he would not be voting for #Biden, and that Trump is “wholly #unfit to be president of the United States, in every way you can think of.” He could have stopped there but then he commented that Biden is past his “sell-by date,” and that he didn’t believe Biden is up for another term. He also voiced his dismay over the fact that team Biden hasn’t reach out to him.

msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinio

MSNBC · Why Chris Christie’s spiteful Biden comments are so dangerousBy Susan Del Percio
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(((Jann Gobble)))🏳️‍🌈

Y'all, "spills" used to be put on the mantlepiece in a container simply because you used them to light the fires nightly. Yes, they were useful. Yes, they were on purpose. No, #Christie didn't mess up by having #Poirot notice them!

And finally, the murderer didn't burn them cos AT THE TIME no fire was burning in the grate. Remember WHEN the note was torn into spills.

Also, as Poirot said: "there were only five short minutes in which he could have taken it"

#TheMysteriousAffairAtStyles
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Chuck Darwin

How GOP Megadonor #Jeffrey #Yass Can Clean Up on #TikTok’s Forced Sale

The Pennsylvania billionaire has former TikTok detractors backing off a ban, but he’ll be sitting pretty if a US takeover happens. 

A top Republican donor, Yass publicly discouraged Trump from running in the 2024 election. Yass initially supported Florida Governor Ron #DeSantis before spreading his bets between Vivek #Ramaswamy, Chris #Christie, and Tim #Scott.

But as Trump once again steamrolled his primary competitors, Yass reached out and ♦️asked him to speak at a retreat for a powerful right-wing business PAC♦️, the #Club #for #Growth, which has pulled in $61 million in donations from Yass since 2010.

The Club for Growth also happens to be employing former Trump adviser Kellyanne #Conway to lobby on behalf of TikTok on Capitol Hill.

The retreat seemed to go exactly as planned.

Trump praised Yass as “fantastic,” and he emerged as a critic of a TikTok ban. “If you get rid of TikTok, #Facebook and #Zuckerschmuck will double their business,” Trump posted last week on Truth Social.

“I don’t want Facebook, who cheated in the last Election, doing better. They are a true Enemy of the People!”

Yass, meanwhile, is now a certified Trump crony.

The 68-year-old is the richest man in Pennsylvania, with an estimated fortune of about $28 billion derived from options trading and venture-capital investments
—including a sizable interest in TikTok.

Local politicos and activist groups have long faced off against Yass and his bottomless war chest in fights over education, social welfare, and unions.

Arielle Klagsbrun, deputy campaign director at the Action Center on Race & the Economy ( #ACRE ), described Yass as a “next generation #Koch brother…someone who is rigging the rules to privatize our schools while also not paying his fair share of taxes.”

“His disdain for teachers’ unions, in particular, is profound,” said Klagsbrun, characterizing Yass’s influence as “corporate #authoritarianism in our democracy.”

ACRE is pressing Pennsylvania elected officials to refuse to take money from Yass in the 2024 cycle.
thenation.com/article/society/

The Nation · How GOP Megadonor Jeffrey Yass Can Clean Up on TikTok’s Forced SaleThe Pennsylvania billionaire has former TikTok detractors backing off a ban, but he'll be sitting pretty if a US takeover happens. 
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