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This dog is the light of my life lol

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"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship"
trying to use this quote to guide me through life. it's tough.

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When your parents decide to cancel you trip to SA for no reason... so upset rn

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I think I might have an actual obsession with sunsets...

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Currently adding this place to my bucket list

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Explore Cádiz holidays and discover the best time and places to visit.

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I think the best part of my week was going on a hike with my dog...kinda sad...kinda great

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speaks for itself...

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Even if you forget about the content of his actions - whether they strengthened or weakened the country - and focus only on how much he accomplished, it's a poor beginning. His supporters deserve to be disappointed, and his opponents should be cheered by how unsuccessful his agenda has been so far.

Before now, the weakest starts probably belonged to Bill Clinton and to John F. Kennedy. Partly as a result, neither of them ended up being as consequential presidents as, say, Lyndon B. Johnson, Ronald Reagan or Barack Obama. And yet Trump's first 100 days have been vastly weaker than Clinton's or Kennedy's:

Trump has made no significant progress on any major legislation. His health care bill is a zombie. His border wall is stalled. He's only now releasing basic principles of a tax plan. Even his executive order on immigration is tied up in the courts. By contrast, George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan had made substantial progress toward passing tax cuts, and Barack Obama had passed, among other things, a huge stimulus bill that also addressed education and climate policy.

Trump is far behind staffing his administration. Trump has made a mere 50 nominations to fill the top 553 positions of the executive branch, as of Friday. That's right: He hasn't even nominated anyone for 90 percent of its top jobs. The average president since 1989 had nominated twice as many, according to the Partnership for Public Service.

Part of the reason is a lack of execution: The administration has been slow to make nominations. And part of the reason is who is being nominated: A disproportionate number of affluent investors and business executives with many potential conflicts of interest that require vetting. Either way, the effects are real. The executive branch can't push through the president's priorities if it doesn't have his people in place.

The Trump administration is more nagged by scandal than any previous administration. No new administration has dealt with a potential scandal anywhere near as large or as distracting as the Russia investigation. It could recede over time, true. But it also could come to dominate the Trump presidency.

Trump has no clear foreign policy. Is he protectionist, as he appeared to be when starting a trade spat with Canada on Tuesday, or a globalist, as he appeared when backing off his criticism of China? Is he an isolationist, an interventionist or some alternative? No one seems to know, which confuses allies and does a favor for rivals who would welcome diminished American influence.

Trump is by far the least popular new president in the modern polling era. His approval rating is just 41 percent, according to FiveThirtyEight. All other elected presidents since Roosevelt have had an approval rating of at least 53 percent after 100 days. (Gerald Ford was at 45 percent.) Some, including Obama, Reagan and Johnson, have been above 60 percent.

Trump's low approval isn't only a reflection of his struggles. It also becomes a cause of further struggles. Members of Congress aren't afraid to buck an unpopular president, which helps explain the collapse of Trumpcare.

Obviously, Trump can claim some successes on his own terms. Most consequentially, he has named a Supreme Court justice who could serve for decades. Trump has also put in place some meaningful executive orders, on climate policy above all, and he has allied the federal government with the cause of white nationalism, as Jonathan Chait wrote.

Trump remains the most powerful person in the country, if not the world. It would be foolish for anyone to be complacent about what he can do. Yet by the modern standards of the office, he is a weak president off to a uniquely poor start.

It's worth considering one final point, too. So far, I've been judging him on his own terms. History, of course, will not. And I expect that a couple of his biggest so-called accomplishments - aggravating climate change and treating nonwhite citizens as less than fully American - are likely to be judged very harshly one day.

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Opinion | Donald Trump's First 100 Days: The Worst on Record

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Even if you forget about the content of his actions - whether they strengthened or weakened the country - and focus only on how much he accomplished, it's a poor beginning. His supporters deserve to be disappointed, and his opponents should be cheered by how unsuccessful his agenda has been so far.

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PSA: please don judge a book by its cover. This goes for books and people.

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Today marks two weeks before I get to go on my summer cultural immersion trip to South Africa!  So excited for all that I will see and learn.

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I can´t believe confederate memorial day is a real thing...

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State government offices are closed Monday in Mississippi and Alabama for Confederate Memorial Day.

Georgia used to mark the holiday, but removed the Confederate reference in 2015. Now, the last Monday in April there is simply called State Holiday.

Confederate Memorial Day in Mississippi and Alabama commemorates those who died during the Civil War while fighting for Southern states that tried to secede from the U.S. The Confederate military surrendered in April 1865.

South Carolina holds a Confederate Memorial Day in May to mark the day Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson died.

Mississippi said in its 1861 secession declaration that its decision to leave the United States was "thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery." Alabama said in its secession ordinance that it would join other states in "Southern Slaveholding Confederacy."

Lea Campbell of Ocean Springs is among the critics who say it's long past time for states to ditch Confederate Memorial Day.

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"The Confederacy was a government that was established to maintain the institution of slavery to maintain the social hierarchy of white supremacy," said Campbell, who is white and has helped organize rallies calling for Mississippi to remove the Confederate battle emblem that has been on the state flag since 1894. It is the last state flag in the nation to prominently feature the rebel emblem - a red field topped by a tilted blue cross dotted by 13 white stars.

Barry Cook, chaplain of a Sons of Confederate Veterans chapter in Jasper, Alabama, wrote last week on al.com that the average Southerner fought what he called "the War Between the States" because Yankees were trying to disrupt their lives.

Cook wrote that as Confederate Memorial Day approaches, "all we ask, in the immortal words of (Confederate) President Jefferson Davis, please just leave us alone. Let us honor the valor and bravery of our Southern heroes without intimidation and insult. Our ancestors fought, died and lost everything they had for a cause that to us is worth remembering and cherishing."

In Georgia, Republican state Rep. Tommy Benton unsuccessfully tried this year to revive the Confederate Memorial Day label for the final Monday in April. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that the Georgia NAACP called Benton's effort "pathetically divisive."
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Confederate Memorial Day is still celebrated in these states

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CLOSE State government offices are closed Monday in Mississippi and Alabama for Confederate Memorial Day. Georgia used to mark the holiday, but removed the Confederate reference in 2015. Now, the last Monday in April there is simply called State Holiday.