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just posting to pin, because this legit looks to be the plan (and they'll somehow also give ICE a bigger budget)
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Charles 🌞Sunshine🌞 Sprickman
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Charles 🌞Sunshine🌞 Sprickman
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Friendly local sysadmin/web guy ☜ Get out your lead-pipe pipe dreams ✴︎ Get out your ten-foot flags ✴︎ The insects are huge and the poison's all been used ✴︎
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Charles 🌞Sunshine🌞 Sprickman retweeted
This isn’t a small deal. Restaurant Depot is where most mom & pop restaurants go to buy inventory because Sysco is so expensive.
Restaurant Depot was privately owned. Sysco is owned by… you guessed it, BlackRock & Vanguard.
Now private equity can control pricing for food costs with zero competition. Just like they did with housing.
This should be an anti-trust violation, but we have politicians that work for Big Corp, not us.
Jonathan Maze@jonathanmaze
Notable deal in distribution this morning. Sysco is buying Restaurant Depot for $29 billion. Plans to expand RD more aggressively. It gives Sysco a huge entry into cash-and-carry and a large number of independent restaurant customers. restaurantbusinessonline.com/financing/sysc…
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Charles 🌞Sunshine🌞 Sprickman retweeted
A first look at an apparent tungsten pellet from the U.S. strikes on Lamerd, Feb. 28. PrSM is designed to detonate above target and disperse thousands of these pellets outward. Our analysis shows they killed at least 21 people, including girls who were at volleyball practice.
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Charles 🌞Sunshine🌞 Sprickman retweeted
Or: it wasn't a cartoon. It was a reasonable critique that liberals dismissed as extremist because it made them uncomfortable. The blinkering was yours, not theirs?
Luis Garicano 🇪🇺🇺🇦@lugaricano
Many of us, liberal Europeans, spent decades pushing back against the European extreme left's cartoon version of America ( it's all oil/ imperialism/getting rich at the expense of others) and then one dumb administration walks in and performs the caricature to perfection.
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Charles 🌞Sunshine🌞 Sprickman retweeted
Those informed on US-MidEast policy knew US policymakers valued Israeli lives far more than Palestinian lives. Yet, Biden giving an absolute blank check to Netanyahu no matter the carnage, killing, & destruction Israel caused was a shock. None of this was necessary, shameful!
Moshik Temkin@moshik_temkin
If the Biden/Harris administration had shut down the Israeli bombing of Gaza after 2-3 weeks back in October-November ‘23, which even Obama would have done, none of this would now be happening.
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Charles 🌞Sunshine🌞 Sprickman retweeted
Over 50,000 children in Gaza are now missing one limb or more.
Many have no parents.
Almost all have no homes.
Done by Israel with US weapons and the blessing/support of the EU.
Horrifying.
Unjustifiable.
They now move on to Lebanon, Iran and the West Bank.
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Charles 🌞Sunshine🌞 Sprickman retweeted
Didn’t know it’s Islam that’s currently occupying Palestine, parts of Lebanon, parts of Syria, all while fighting multiple wars on multiple fronts to illegally expand the borders of its country, which was carved up for it by Western colonialists a few decades ago.
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Charles 🌞Sunshine🌞 Sprickman retweeted
I have been told by Serious People that it is an unfair "purity test" to ask whether your politicians think this behavior — funded by your taxes — is genocidal
Prem Thakker@prem_thakker
The Israeli official and convicted terrorist who just yesterday declared his support for a military unit that assaulted a CNN crew & killed a 78-year-old Palestinian-American is now today drinking champagne to celebrate a new law to execute Palestinians.
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Charles 🌞Sunshine🌞 Sprickman retweeted
I dont think the average american has a clue the amount of pain and destruction their country has caused the rest of the world.
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Charles 🌞Sunshine🌞 Sprickman retweeted
People are rightly mocking this but this was also the entire basis of the “Hamas command center under al-Shifa hospital” that justified killing hundreds of patients. It was a 3D blender cartoon posted by Israel, then they occupied it and never produced a shred of evidence
Trey Yingst@TreyYingst
After killing Ali Shuaib, the IDF accused him of being part of Hezbollah’s Radwan forces, releasing a photo of the Al Manar reporter in military garb. “Unfortunately there isn’t really a picture of it, it was photoshopped,” the IDF told Fox News about the source of the photo.
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Charles 🌞Sunshine🌞 Sprickman retweeted
Economists have never had more power in governance and society than they have for the past few decades, which is why everything is going awesome!
Richard Hanania@RichardHanania
Tyler Cowen in his new book on why economists write about topics outside their area of expertise: “The dirty little secret is that what distinguishes economics as a field, right now, is a mix of higher standards, harder work, better math, and higher IQs.” This is clearly true.
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@EBluemountain1 @sanchezcastejon fuck off, you genocidal freak
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Mira @SanchezCastejon
Váyase a la mierda con sus acusaciones diarias, sesgadas y sin pruebas contra Israel. UNIFIL ni siquiera sabe de dónde vino el proyectil, pero usted ya culpa solo a Israel.
Hezbollah atacó primero y forma parte del gobierno libanés. Israel se defiende.
Estamos hasta las narices de su antisemitismo disfrazado de "preocupación" y de que use a Israel para tapar la corrupción de su gobierno.
Que le den por ese agujero.
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En la madrugada de ayer, se cruzó una nueva línea roja en el Líbano. Un casco azul de la ONU murió en este ataque y otros tres resultaron heridos.
España condena tajantemente estos hechos. Exige que se aclare el origen del proyectil. Y pide al gobierno de Israel que detenga las hostilidades.
Los ataques a las misiones de paz de la ONU son una agresión injustificable a toda la comunidad internacional.
Trasladamos también nuestras sinceras condolencias a la familia del soldado fallecido y a todo el personal de FINUL.
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Charles 🌞Sunshine🌞 Sprickman retweeted
Charles 🌞Sunshine🌞 Sprickman retweeted
Antony Blinken’s State Department said they would not sanction this unit that killed a 78-year-old Palestinian-American, because they trusted Israel to fix things.
2 year later, the unit assaults a CNN crew.
Blinken is now a board member at the Center for American Progress.
Prem Thakker@prem_thakker
Guys. This unit that Israel is "punishing"? In 2022, it bound, gagged, and blindfolded a 78-year-old Palestinian-American. He died in the cold. In 2024, Biden chose not to sanction it, because it "remediated" the case. Now, it assaulted a CNN crew. And it's getting "training."
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@montoya_test @abierkhatib ethnic supremacy is not a great look outside of israel...
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@abierkhatib One of us is equal to 1000 of you. So technically 3000 showed up.
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Charles 🌞Sunshine🌞 Sprickman retweeted
Why did this young man travel all the way from Connecticut to invade my family’s country? Who encouraged him to participate in such a horrible crime against Lebanon?
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@umichvoter they introduce things all the time that fail, especially things they don't actually support and it's on purpose.
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there's a GOP state house in Michigan right now....
And biggest majorities in 2022-2024 were 56-54 / 20-18, state Dem leadership doesn't like bills to be introduced to the floor if they don't have votes for passing to avoid embarrassing themselves
David Sirota@davidsirota
Dem politicians like @MalloryMcMorrow think good politics is promising voters they’ll do popular donor-challenging things in the future they refuse to do right now with the power they currently have. It’s deep cynicism designed to fool low-info voters in the attention economy.
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Charles 🌞Sunshine🌞 Sprickman retweeted
Breaking News: The U.S. will allow a Russian oil tanker to reach Cuba, letting critical fuel in after months of what amounted to a blockade. nyti.ms/4ddfEEw
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Charles 🌞Sunshine🌞 Sprickman retweeted
In January, Trump signed Executive Order 14380, placing harsh tariffs on any country caught "directly or indirectly" supplying oil to Cuba.
In February, when a Greek flagged tanker tried to bring 80,000 barrels from Colombia to Cuba, the US Coast Guard intercepted it, forcing the ship to sail to the Dominican Republic.
In March, when the US sought to stabilize oil prices after starting a war with Iran, OFAC issued waivers for Russian crude. As Russian tankers approached the island, the US placed Cuba on a tiny list of countries it said were *still* not allowed to buy Russian oil. Two ships which were en route changed course under pressure.
If we had actual journalists, instead of the brainless morons seen smiling and nodding below, they would have pointed this out to Rubio.
Department of State@StateDept
SECRETARY RUBIO: The reason why Cuba doesn’t have oil or fuel is because they want it for free. Cuba is a disaster because their economic system doesn't work.
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