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@joedirt401 @__Injaneb96

@__Injaneb96 So in other words ure rooting for the enemy to kill ur town people nice

As an Iranian watching this rescue mission unfold, I was praying the American pilot would make it out alive, not just for him, but so the Islamic Republic could not use him as a bargaining chip or claim some twisted “victory.” At the same time, I felt a deep envy. Your government sent elite special forces, million-dollar aircraft, and moved heaven and earth to bring one American home. No hesitation. No excuses. In Iran, the regime uses human shields and recruited child soldiers to clear minefields during the Iran-Iraq war. They treat their own people like disposable tools. They are now recruiting child soldiers as we speak. The Islamic Republic has zero regard for human life. That’s the brutal difference. One side risks everything to save their own. The other sacrifices their own to stay in power. This hits hard when you have lived under both realities.

@AhronBregman @MilesTaylorUSA Opinion Disregarded

@MilesTaylorUSA Your war is no longer against the Iranian regime, but against the Iranian people, Mr President.

Yes. He’s pledging war crimes. It’s time for the 25th.

Anyone who claims asylum and then travels back to the country they supposedly fled should be instantly and permanently disqualified. If the country is safe enough for a holiday, it is safe enough to stay in. It’s almost unbelievable that this even has to be said.

@ColinM48126070 @JamieMetzl Opinion Disregarded

@JamieMetzl Successful in what? Killing more schoolchildren? Bombing more residential buildings? Committing more war crimes? Which particular aspect do your funders tell you to like Jamie?

I am a Democrat and a lifelong human rights advocate. I very much hope America is as successful as possible in our war with Iran and that the Iranian regime will be neutered. I fully support our troops. Any Americans who think otherwise should be condemned.

I’m noticing a lot of foreigners who seem to not understand why we’d risk hundreds of lives, spend millions of dollars, and sacrifice several aircraft to rescue one guy. And the reason they don’t understand is also the reason people can’t be made American by a piece of paper.

@Arrogance_0024 Opinion Disregarded

Lose all this to rescue 1 pilot and call it your greatest military success of all time.

@JoJoFromJerz @ChrisMurphyCT @AkilahObviously You’ve never had a coherent thought in your life.

@ChrisMurphyCT @AkilahObviously I think he’s going to try to use nukes.

If I were in Trump's Cabinet, I would spend Easter calling constitutional lawyers about the 25th Amendment. This is completely, utterly unhinged. He's already killed thousands. He's going to kill thousands more.

@M_i_ahmard @EthanLevins2 Opinion Disregarded

@EthanLevins2 The US won't tell the truth about the actual number of casualties. They will try to save face 😂

$200M destroyed while rescuing a single pilot. They are hiding the U.S. casualties

@c_donners @DrewPavlou Opinion Disregarded

@DrewPavlou 40 years old ..wtf are you talking about ? This aircraft is 10-15 years old ....

Checking in on “Le Dying Empire” meme: The US lost one 40 year old fighter jet over the course of 12,000 combat sorties then immediately rescued the pilot in hostile territory - while simultaneously sending astronauts to the moon.

Bless him. It’s just tiring. When people ask me what it’s like to be deaf when I’ve worked hard to accomplish something, it’s hard not to turn on them. It’s hard to not say, are you so narrow minded or indoctrinated that this trait is all you see? We are whole human beings. Not just an identity politics trend. And it’s flat out bigoted to reduce us to one trait.

Ben Appel’s WSJ piece “I’m Gay, but That Doesn’t Make Me ‘Queer’” is excellent and necessary. @benappel bravely stating what so many of us feel. Our sexuality doesn’t require rejecting what’s normal and legitimate. It doesn’t force us to embrace “queer” ideology or become an identity insurgent. He nails it. Queer theory isn’t gay rights; it’s a misguided rejection of shared human values and reality itself. It’s rare to see this perspective from a gay male in mainstream media. Well done, Ben.

@GovPressOffice You spelled dementia wrong

RT if you miss having a President with empathy

@KATUNews But how could that policy change possibly have gone wrong?

Is Home Forward, Portland’s public housing agency, putting its tenants at risk? The agency lowered its threshold for crimes that were once grounds for eviction. Now, some are calling for changes, as our partners at Willamette Week first reported. katu.com/news/local/ive…

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Ana Kasparian on @PiersMorgan yesterday: “The Gaza Health Ministry historically has been accurate and very careful when publishing death toll, it’s always confirmed and underestimated.”

Did you know: all five of the US flags planted by the Apollo missions have been bleached white by the UV rays which means now the moon technically belong to France

@EdKrassen Wow. Racist much?

I wish Charlie Kirk was alive to see this: A black astronaut, Victor Glover, piloting the Artemis II. And doing it better than a White Dude could. RIP Charlie.

A newborn sperm whale can’t swim. It starts sinking the second it’s born. If nobody pushes it to the surface, it drowns in mile-deep water. On July 8, 2023, a sperm whale named Rounder went into labor off the coast of Dominica. Researchers from Project CETI, a $33 million AI initiative out of MIT, Harvard, and Northeastern that’s trying to decode whale language, happened to be there doing routine fieldwork. They had drones in the air and underwater microphones running. What they captured over the next six hours just got published in two papers, one in Science and one in Scientific Reports. Eleven whales gathered at the surface before Rounder even started delivering. Her mother, Lady Oracle, was there. So was her daughter Accra. Three generations in the water. But the wild part: half those whales belonged to a completely separate bloodline that normally keeps its distance from Rounder’s family. On a typical day, these two family lines split off to hunt in different areas and rarely cluster together. For the birth, they all converged before labor started. The unrelated family somehow knew it was coming. The delivery took 34 minutes. Sperm whale calves come out tail-first with their flukes still folded from the womb. They haven’t developed the oil-filled organ in their heads that helps adult whales float, so the moment they’re born, they’re dead weight in the ocean. Every adult whale in the group, related and unrelated, started taking turns pushing the calf up to breathe. They kept this rotation going for three hours. When a pod of pilot whales (known to be aggressive toward sperm whales) and a large group of Fraser’s dolphins showed up during delivery, the adults formed a wall around the newborn until the threat passed. The underwater audio is where it gets interesting. CETI’s microphones picked up the whales changing their vocal patterns during the birth. The click-based sounds they use to talk to each other shifted at specific moments, and vowel-like structures appeared in the recordings. This builds on what CETI found in 2024 when they ran machine learning on over 8,700 recorded whale calls and discovered sperm whale communication isn’t a basic 21-sound code. It’s a system of about 300 distinct sound combinations, with the whales adjusting rhythm and timing in real time, speeding up and slowing down the way a musician does mid-performance. A 2025 follow-up from UC Berkeley found these clicks also contain vowel patterns, something scientists had assumed only humans could produce. Sperm whales carry the largest brain of any animal on the planet. About 9 kg. Roughly six times heavier than yours. The evolutionary analysis in the new Science paper suggests this kind of cooperative birthing goes back over 36 million years, to the common ancestor of all toothed whales. The calf was spotted a year later, swimming with its family.

@truthbombprints @EliseStefanik @PamBondi This aged very well

@EliseStefanik And yet do-nothing @PamBondi hasn't made a single arrest.

🚨🚨🚨 This ActBlue investigation is among the biggest bombshell campaign finance corruption and actual foreign election interference stories in American politics. And it was all so publicly obvious, with many urging the media to look into this, but until recently, the media refused to cover it. A must read from (surprisingly!) @nytimes @ShaneGoldmacher @reidepstein “This presents a substantial risk for ActBlue,” the law firm, Covington & Burling, wrote in one of two memos expressing legal concerns. One memo raised the specter of a criminal investigation if prosecutors believed that ActBlue had tried to conceal facts about its efforts to prevent foreign contributions. Federal election law prohibits foreign citizens or people who are not permanent residents from donating directly to federal candidates or political action committees. Lying to or obstructing Congress is a crime. The memos instigated a meltdown at the highest levels of ActBlue, one of the Democratic Party’s most vital financial organs…. It can be alleged that ActBlue accepted and/or facilitated the acceptance of foreign-national contributions into American elections,” one memo states. “In addition, because ActBlue’s staff was aware that its system was not as robust as necessary, it could be alleged that these violations were ‘knowing and willful,’ a standard that both increases the penalties the F.E.C. might seek and gives the Justice Department jurisdiction for a potential criminal investigation.” 🚨🚨🚨🚨 nytimes.com/2026/04/02/us/…