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@SchMieke @PaulDereume @McFaul You can add Netanyahu to that list.

@McFaul Immoral. This war is wrong, countries are entitled to tell the US to not use their bases for this illegal, insane war. There has to be a point where this insanity stops. Whether it's Putin or trump, two old disgusting guys, who think they can just kill people endlessly.

Even if you did not support Trumps decision to launch of war of choice against Iran (like me), restricting the use of US airbases in NATO countries imprudently damages NATO unity. Yes, Trumps threats to invade/annex NATO countries does too. But 2 wrongs don’t make a right.

@NathanJRobinson Trump refused to declare war so as to avoid congressional oversight. Maybe he can go over to Iran and explain the difference to the new regime.

Let's be clear at the outset: If Iran holds a US pilot, that person is a prisoner of war, not a "hostage." The terminology matters and we should insist that the media use the correct language for the situation.

@mercoglianos Or - just stick with me here - Trump should have never started a needless, ill-advised war regardless of what Netanyahu demanded.

Okay, this is 5 weeks too late. The US should have had war risk coverage in place on Day 1 when the issue was the lack of sufficient money in the pot. Ships have already obtained war risk through commercial means. The issue is the lack of security in and around the Strait.

I thought destroying America would take a genius. Turns out one conman and millions of dumbasses will suffice.

@MaFrt1 @Arrogance_0024 His biggest offense was that he was installed during Biden's presidency.

@Arrogance_0024 He would oversee the training, organization, and equipping of all Army forces. So Hegseth in his Sept meeting with all the generals and military leaders did go on and on about fitness of the military. So guess he did not come up to Hegseth's standards?

Army Chief of Staff fired: THIS IS VERY BIG. Firing the Army Chief now, and replacing him with a loyalist, is preparation for orders the previous leadership might have slow-walked or resisted. When you fire a service chief mid-war with no stated cause, the real reason is almost certainly doctrinal disagreement — how the war is being fought. It should be noted that the US started bombing Iranian civilian infrastructure today (Iran's largest bridge). A career infantry officer like George, who ran the Army's transformation initiative, would have serious institutional opinions about the feasibility and cost of a ground operation in Iran. If he was pushing back — even through internal channels — that's exactly the kind of friction Hegseth would remove. The likely replacement is Gen. Christopher LaNeve, formerly Hegseth's own military aide — meaning Hegseth is installing a loyalist at the top of the Army during active combat operations against Iran. Hegseth has now fired over a dozen senior military officers, including Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. C.Q. Brown, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti, Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Gen. James Slife, and the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse. Bottom line: This is escalatory. The civilian leadership is systematically removing any institutional brake on military options — this is what the entire purge has been building toward. The George ouster happening simultaneously with Trump's "stone ages" speech is not coincidence. Expect the next two weeks to be the most kinetically intense phase of the war so far.

@GaryVilla19 @Arrogance_0024 The current Congress will never impeach him - the spineless cowards are too afraid of invoking his ire and risking that he would back an opponent in the next primary.

How so? These military leaders serve at the pleasure of the president. They can quit and retire if they disagree with the civilians over them. That’s how our republic is set up. I don’t see their names on the ballot! If Trump screws up we can impeach and remove him, until then, next general up!

@MLSconstitution @AlCappuccinoIT So it's someone else's fault and he's just a poor, gullible old man?

@AlCappuccinoIT Trump is seduced by bad people

Telling the American people that you can’t fund their healthcare and daycare on the same day that you send a rocket to the moon sure is some smooth messaging.

@JDVance @01Adam12 @DrOzCMS @USAttyEssayli How much are they going to have to contribute to Trump's pet projects in order to get a pardon like he's granted to so many other welfare fraudsters?

Our task force isn’t wasting any time cracking down on fraud. This morning in the LA area, federal law enforcement is taking down fraudsters who stole $50M+ from Americans by defrauding our healthcare and hospice systems. Thanks to @DrOzCMS and @USAttyEssayli for their work.

These kids weren’t born this way. We did this to them. We handed them devices during the darkest days of the pandemic and told them it was “education.” We normalized constant connectivity as “engagement.” And now we are shocked that they cannot sit through a 50 to 90-minute class without phantom vibrations pulsing in their pockets. I am begging you, please, for the love of God and these kids, let us return to what actually worked. Give them paper textbooks again. Real books with spines that crack when you open them, pages that smell like 1997, margins where they can scribble their thoughts and doodles in pencil. Let them underline, circle, argue in the white space. Let them feel the weight of knowledge in their hands instead of the weightless scroll of a screen. Hand them pencils, actual wooden pencils, and watch their handwriting slow down long enough for their brains to catch up. The research is clear, but more than that, my daily experience is undeniable… when the screens go away, something in them wakes up. They remember more. They argue more passionately. They sit longer with hard ideas. They endure. And for the love of everything holy in education, institute a complete, bell-to-bell ban on cell phones. Not “in your bag on silent.” Not “face down on the desk.” Not “only for emergencies.” Banned. Collected at the door, locked away until the final bell. Because every single time that tiny rectangle vibrates in a pocket, it rips another thread from the fragile fabric of their attention. We are not preparing them for the “real world” by letting them live in their pockets; we are training them to be terrible humans, distracted, shallow, unable to listen, unable to wait, unable to be present. They deserve better. They deserve to be here, fully, with us. I am not anti-technology. I am pro-child. I am pro-future. And right now our students are being robbed of the ability to think deeply, to read deeply, to feel deeply. Their eyes are tired. Their spirits are restless. Their minds are starving for something real in a world that keeps feeding them pixels. Please. Let us give them back the classroom they deserve. Let us give them paper, pencils, and the quiet dignity of undivided attention. Let us save them from the very devices we once thought would save them. Because if we don’t act now, we won’t just lose their focus. We will lose them.

@sporkfriendly @andrew3695555 @allenanalysis Trump hates anyone who doesn't fawn on him, flatter him, or is in a position to be of benefit to him - regardless of their nationality.

@andrew3695555 @allenanalysis Trump fucking hatess americans.

The President of Iran just published an open letter on X addressed directly to the American people. 860,000 views. 20,000 likes. 6,500 retweets. Read it carefully — not for what it says. For what it doesn’t say.

@allenanalysis Trump has made his priorities clear and none of them serve the interests of everyday Americans.

🚨Trump today: “We can’t take care of daycare. We’re a big country. We’re fighting wars. It’s not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things.” The United States has spent: $21 billion on the Iran war in 30 days. $100 million on Trump’s golf tab this term. $200 billion requested for Pentagon weapons. $8 trillion on wars since September 11th. But daycare is not possible. Medicare is not possible. Medicaid — which covers 72 million Americans including children, seniors, and people with disabilities — is not possible.

In 1930, rural Virginia, a Black girl born into sharecropping poverty wasn't supposed to leave the tobacco fields. But Gladys Mae Brown had other plans.... Her hands picked crops. Her mind solved equations no one asked her to solve. Her parents, despite barely scraping by, made a choice that defied every expectation placed on them. They kept her in school. She became valedictorian at a segregated high school with torn textbooks and broken windows. She earned a scholarship to Virginia State College in an era when being Black, female, and intellectually brilliant meant the world tried to crush you three different ways. In 1956, she walked through the doors of the Naval Proving Ground in Dahlgren as the second Black woman they'd ever hired. Four Black employees. Hundreds of white men. Most didn't think she'd survive the week. They were catastrophically wrong. Gladys calculated weapons trajectories by hand. Complex differential equations that consumed hours of meticulous work. Her accuracy became legendary. When computers arrived, she didn't resist the future. She learned Fortran. She mastered programming languages. She transformed weeks of calculations into hours. Then came Seasat in the 1970s. The first satellite studying Earth's oceans from orbit. She became project manager. But her true contribution remained hidden in the mathematics. For GPS to function, you need Earth's exact shape. Not close. Exact. Earth isn't a smooth sphere. It's an asymmetrical, gravity-distorted, irregular mass of mountains and ocean trenches. Gladys spent years constructing mathematical models describing every deviation, every curve, every gravitational anomaly of our planet's true form. She analyzed satellite data. She built geoid models. Tedious, invisible, revolutionary work. That mathematics became the foundation of GPS. Every navigation app. Every emergency rescue. Every autonomous vehicle. Every precision farming system. Her equations make it possible. Forty-two years at Dahlgren. Retirement in 1998. GPS fully operational worldwide. Billions of users. Almost nobody knew her name. She raised three children. Earned her PhD at seventy after surviving a stroke. Lived quietly. Until 2018, when someone at a sorority event read her biography aloud. The room went silent. The story exploded. At eighty-eight, Gladys West was inducted into the Air Force Space and Missile Pioneers Hall of Fame. The world finally learned her name. She mapped the entire planet. Then everyone forgot. Until they remembered. Gladys West worked alongside her husband Ira West, who was also a mathematician at the Naval Proving Ground. They met at Dahlgren and built both a family and parallel careers in an environment that actively discriminated against them. After retirement, she didn't stop. She earned her PhD from Virginia Tech at age 70, proving that intellectual curiosity doesn't have an expiration date. The GPS system relies on something called the geoid, a mathematical model of Earth's shape that accounts for gravitational variations. Gladys West's calculations helped create these models by analyzing millions of data points from satellite altimetry. Without accurate geoid models, GPS coordinates would be off by hundreds of meters, making the technology essentially useless. Her story remained hidden partly because classified military work doesn't generate headlines. Many pioneers of satellite and navigation technology worked in obscurity for national security reasons. The sorority member who recognized her contribution was reading through Alpha Kappa Alpha biographies when she noticed the GPS connection and brought it to public attention. © Women Stories #drthehistories

@mmpadellan April Fools Day to you, too! 🤣

TWEEPS: After a great deal of soul searching, I can no longer bring myself to oppose the incredible achievements, intellect, and compassion of President Trump. I know I may lose some followers for this, but at some point you have to acknowledge unmatched leadership and vision when you see it, even if it’s unpopular. Yes, there of many of you with whom I have previously disagreed, but I now see that January 6th was a fully justified freedom of speech. And it actually is good that we have a President who takes the time to enrich himself and his friends at the expense of hard working Americans. April Fools... that fucker is insane and unfit.

If the 14th amendment was only meant to protect the “babies of slaves” then the 2nd Amendment is only meant to protect the right to own a musket.

Great to know that DHS is so very grateful to our Marines. When one adds this to 1) the many ways in which veterans’ benefits have been cut, 2) resources at veteran medical care facilities have been slashed, & 3) new & difficult requirements have been introduced that make it much harder for veterans to get medication & certain medical treatment covered, it’s tough not to conclude that administration truly values those willing to make the ultimate sacrifice for this country. Imagine if the administration didn’t value our service members as much as it did. It might be willing to put them in harm’s way with little thought or planning & against the advice of senior officers in the military…

@TruthMatters825 @RepMikeLevin Trump took those specific documents for a reason, then tried to hide them, lied repeatedly that he didn't have them or they had been returned, and tried to get others to lie on his behalf. Why was he so intent on obtaining and keeping them?

More people need to be talking about this. Remember the classified documents case Trump made disappear the second he took office? The one he was facing 40 felony counts for? The one where a judge he appointed buried the Special Counsel’s report? Well, Washington Republicans handed Congress documents last week to clear his name, and it backfired. BADLY. Because those documents contained evidence that Trump was showing passengers on his private plane some of the most CLASSIFIED secrets in existence — material so sensitive that only SIX people in the entire U.S. government had clearance to see it. This isn’t over. axios.com/2026/03/25/tru…

@WordWanderer @KSil855363 @RepMikeLevin He also had them moved multiple times in an attempt to hide them from the FBI and tried to convince people to lie about their existence / location.

@KSil855363 @RepMikeLevin She had a handful that were classified after the fact. Trump had hundreds in a ballroom and bathroom and refused to return them under a subpoena

@KSil855363 @RepMikeLevin Information Clinton sent through the unsecured server was classified at the time; that designation was applied afterwards. Unlike Trump, who was very much aware he was removing classified documents. (He later tried to claim he could unclassify them just by thinking it.)

@RepMikeLevin Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was storing and sending classified information from an unsecure server at home, a serious breach of the law. Democrats allege Trump had some classified documents at home, which seems picayune in comparison.

@mjfree @grok Also per Grok: Visible improvement: By 4–8 weeks, the surface is usually closed, though the area may still look pink, slightly indented, or irregular.

@grok But it was healed in less than a week. Perfectly. He wore gauze for a couple days and it was healed.

Hey @Grok - How did Donald Trump's ear grow back so quickly after being shot? My doctor says ears don't grow back like that. Can you do some quick research and let me know. Thanks! MJF