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Democrat Emily Gregory has won a special election for a Florida State House seat. (via AP) The district includes Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club, and is typically a Republican-leaning area.

JUST IN - Germany's Volkswagen will reach an agreement with the Israeli "Iron Dome" manufacturer to switch from the automotive business to the missile defense business — FT

Libya negotiated. Let's be precise about what happened to Libya. In 2003, Muammar Gaddafi made a strategic decision to abandon his weapons programs, open his country to international inspectors, and normalize relations with the West. He paid reparations for Lockerbie. He dismantled his nuclear program. He cooperated with Western intelligence against Al-Qaeda. He did everything that was asked of him. He negotiated. He complied. He normalized. In 2011, NATO bombed Libya for seven months. His own military turned against him with Western backing. He was captured in a drainage pipe. A mob sodomized him with a bayonet while Western officials watched via satellite feed. Hillary Clinton laughed about it on camera. "We came, we saw, he died." The man who gave up his deterrent in exchange for promises of security and normalization died in a drainage pipe while the people who made him those promises laughed at the footage of him being sodomized with a bayonet. And Libya, which had the highest GDP per capita in Africa, free healthcare, free education, housing subsidies, and a functioning welfare state, became a failed state with open slave markets within three years. This is what negotiated security guarantees look like. This is the documented outcome. Not a fringe case. Not a misunderstanding. The most complete, unambiguous illustration possible of what your weapons are worth the moment you give them up. The lesson is not complicated. The only deterrent is a deterrent you still possess. The moment you negotiate it away, you have nothing left to negotiate with.

🚨BREAKING: Horrifying moments as the Israeli army bombs a tent among densely packed tents of displaced families on Al-Baraka Street, south of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, resulting in casualties.

Here’s the thing. We are going to HATE the next democratic president. Because they’re going to have to spend 4 years fixing our incredibly broken govt while figuring out how to restore our economy while mending nearly all our international relationships. All while addressing a country that’s basically insolvent. We got pilfered by the current administration so there’s entire systems that got wiped out while contractors and corporations got bloated off our tax dollars via special favors for and from Trump. This is going to mean higher taxes across the board and massive sacrifices just to get us back to neutral. Trump stole and gave away billions while wrecking every institution he could get his hands on. It’s going to hurt to fix them all and regain what we lost. This will all be while a restored justice dept prosecutes dozens of people in the Trump administration for massive corruption. It’s going to get very messy. I honestly don’t know how they’ll be able to do it and be able to win a second term. The majority of the country won’t understand why it’s necessary for their/our future.

At least 3 congressional Republicans—including chairs of House and Senate Armed Services—are hinting strongly that a ground operation in Iran is planned and could potentially be underway soon

Former U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken: There’s no hierarchy of trauma — the trauma in Israel, the trauma among Palestinians, the same.

Why aren't "big tent" liberals talking about trying to pick up the 75% of independents who oppose genocide in exchange for the 8% of Dems who support it? Seems like a great trade.

These three nations voted against the resolution proposed by Ghana’s President Mahama at the UN General Assembly to classify slavery and the transatlantic slave trade as "the most serious crimes against humanity."