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Btw, I created this new account because my almost 20-yo account was instantly suspended by Elmo Muck for saying I was going to bring tomatoes to Trump's perp walk Fuck Trump to hell Fuck Elon Musk further

Trump is shutting down the nation's premier honeybee research lab even as a massive bee die-off unfolds. As usual, it is illegal to do this without approval from Congress, but Trump is doing it anyway.

This hurts both the military and academia.

EVERY. ADDITIONAL. MINUTE. THAT. DONALD. TRUMP. REMAINS. IN. OFFICE. IS. A. NATIONAL. AND. GLOBAL. SECURITY. THREAT.

Donald Trump is not a political genius or a genius of any kind. He ran for president out of pure narcissism and accidentally tapped into a thick, rich vein of American stupid.

Polish physician Eugene Lazowski, working with fellow doctor Stanisław Matulewicz, carried out one of the most ingenious acts of medical resistance in Nazi‑occupied Poland. In the early 1940s, Matulewicz discovered that injecting patients with killed (non‑infectious) typhus bacteria would trigger a false‑positive on German typhus tests without causing illness. Lazowski realized this could be used to protect Jewish families and Polish civilians in the town of Rozwadów, where deportations and forced labor were escalating. Quietly and systematically, the two doctors began administering these harmless injections to people at risk, especially Jews, who were forbidden from receiving medical care and could only be treated secretly through Lazowski’s backyard fence. As the number of “typhus cases” grew, German authorities panicked. Terrified of the disease, which had devastated armies in World War I, they declared the area an epidemic zone and imposed quarantine rather than entering the community or deporting its residents. For two years, this fabricated outbreak shielded roughly 8,000 people from roundups and transport to concentration camps. When German inspectors finally visited, Lazowski staged the sickrooms carefully, and the inspectors, fearful and eager to leave, confirmed the epidemic without discovering the ruse. After the war, Lazowski emigrated to the United States, and his story remained largely unknown until he published his memoir in the 1990s. His operation stands as one of the most remarkable examples of life‑saving deception during the Holocaust. Lazowski’s operation is also incomplete without noting how it ended and why it stayed hidden for decades. In 1944, as the Germans began retreating and suspicion grew, he narrowly escaped arrest and fled with his family, leaving the “epidemic zone” behind just before the ruse might have been uncovered. After the war, he practiced medicine in Poland but avoided discussing his actions because the communist government discouraged stories that highlighted independent resistance or aid to Jews outside state‑approved narratives. Only after emigrating to the United States did he begin sharing the full account, eventually publishing his memoir in the 1990s. Survivors from Rozwadów later confirmed how his fabricated outbreak had shielded their community, turning what looked like a small medical trick into one of the most quietly consequential rescue efforts of the Holocaust. © Reddit #drthehistories

US Senate to vote on resolution to curb Trump's Iran war powers reut.rs/4t7ICLi reut.rs/4t7ICLi

Now you know why in my writing I refer to Todd Blanche as “Trump personal lawyer Todd Blanche” It’s factually inaccurate to describe him as the AG—or, formerly, DAG—because those terms have actual definitions, and Blanche has never come within 1,000 country miles of meeting them

@AmoneyResists @JDVance

There is a plant that grows in #Namibia desert that has been alive since before the Ottoman Empire existed. It has a few leaves. They grow for a thousand years, sometimes two thousand, splitting and fraying in the wind, but they never fall off and they are never replaced. The plant drinks fog. It survives in a place where almost nothing else can. Charles Darwin called it the most wonderful plant ever brought to this country. Its name is Welwitschia mirabilis, and it only grows here. Think about what that plant has watched. It was already old when the Portuguese sailed past this coast in the 1480s and decided it wasn’t worth landing. It was middle-aged when the Herero migrated down from the great lakes. It was a sapling when Rome fell. And it is still here. Still drinking fog. Still watching.

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1. Distraction from the Epstein files. and 2. Billions in Middle Eastern deals for Jared Kushner (Trump’s son-in-law).

@MarineTraffic @emptywheel But are the vessels each paying $2 million tribute to Iran before they pass?

Vessel movements resume in the Strait of Hormuz following ceasefire announcement Early signs of vessel activity are emerging in the Strait of Hormuz following a ceasefire announcement, which includes a temporary reopening of the strategic waterway to allow for negotiations. According to #MarineTraffic data, hundreds of vessels remain in the region, including 426 tankers, 34 LPG carriers, and 19 LNG vessels, many of which had been effectively stranded during the disruption. Initial movements are now being recorded. The Greek-owned bulk carrier NJ Earth crossed the Strait at 08:44 UTC, while the Liberia-flagged Daytona Beach transited earlier at 06:59 UTC, shortly after departing Bandar Abbas at 05:28 UTC.

The truth is that if democracy is to survive this era, we can no longer treat independent media as optional. It is essential, and we must do everything we can to help it thrive and grow — quickly. democracydocket.com/opinion/democr…

@RpsAgainstTrump If other nations allow Trump to do this, they will deserve the damage he's going to do

Trump tells ABC News there’ll be a joint U.S.–Iran venture charging tolls on ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz: “We’re thinking of doing it as a joint venture. It’s a way of securing it, also securing it from lots of other people. It’s a beautiful thing” Unbelievable

"Trump’s war has been a defeat and a warning. Recovering from this defeat will be a long-term challenge. But the warning is this: thirty-three more months of an increasingly reckless and unhinged Trump in control poses too great a risk." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark…

“I love u sir.” An intervention from a cult recovery specialist indeed is in order.

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THE FALL by John Gray Donald Trump's self-described "little excursion" in Iran has proved to be a march to disaster. His "major combat operation" has shifted from aiming to block Iran achieving a nuclear capability that was supposedly "obliterated" last June to unblocking the Strait of Hormuz and restoring the situation that existed before the operation began. Whatever the objective may be, the pre-war status quo is irretrievable. Trump cannot declare victory and walk away without surrendering the vital shipping conduit to Iran. With its proven capacity to wreak havoc on the world economy, a bombed-out military-theocratic dictatorship has begun the final unravelling of US imperial power. In the Middle East, the war has undercut the financial foundations of US hegemony. However the war ends, the result will be the re-emergence of Iran as a major power. As the arbiter of passage through Hormuz, Iran has become the deciding force in the global oil economy. If Trump opts to "finish the job" and launches a ground operation, the US will be dragged into a debacle larger than Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq combined. While Nato may linger on in name, the transatlantic alliance is operationally defunct. America is returning to its pre-1914 trajectory as a civilisation separate from Europe. In the UK, the default position is to wait out the storm until sanity returns to Washington. Why Putin or Xi Jinping should exhibit similar patience is not explained. Could there be a better time for them to act? Ramping up hybrid warfare in under-defended Europe will give Putin leverage in any peace deal in Ukraine. With Trump having shifted military assets from the Asia-Pacific to the Middle East and running down munitions, Xi may be able to absorb Taiwan without firing a shot. This is not simply a case of the lessons of history being ignored. Trump's war looks more like an example of what Sigmund Freud described as repetition compulsion – an unconscious process in which the mind acts out what it cannot properly remember. A creature of the moment as he may be, Trump seems driven by an impulse to reimagine the past and reassert American – and his own – greatness. When an infantile fantasy of omnipotence comes up against unyielding realities, the response is inchoate rage. Psychopathology may be more illuminating than geopolitics at this point. In a more profound sense than is commonly recognised, Donald Trump does not know what he is doing. His little excursion is a point of no return in America's retreat as a global power. Cover art by Cracked Hat

If you ask him about the little girls he murdered, he might not come to your fancy dinner.