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Sumner’s Thoughts & Opinions

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Living a contemplative life in the countryside with my wife, books, & dogs. Christian, praying for a better world ✝️ Opinions nobly offered to X’s lonely void.

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Sumner’s Thoughts & Opinions
Sumner’s Thoughts & Opinions@sumnerkphillips·
“The Son of Man will go just as it is written about him. But woe to that man whobetrays the Son of Man! It would be better for him if he had not been born.” ~Matthew 26:24
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Catholic Quotes
Catholic Quotes@CatholicQuote12·
On this day,Jesus prayed in the Garden before getting arrested ✝️
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Saint Adaugoijele ✝️
Saint Adaugoijele ✝️@JustAdaugoijele·
"DO THIS IN MEMORY OF ME "
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Life Truth Way
Life Truth Way@Life_truthway·
Last Supper #MaundyThursday He broke the bread knowing He’d be betrayed… still He loved. If you believe in that love,type Amen.
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Merriam-Webster
Merriam-Webster@MerriamWebster·
Godspeed. 'Speed' derives from the Old English 'spēd,' which referred to prosperity, good fortune, and success. It comes from 'God spede you,' which meant "God prosper you."
NASA@NASA

Liftoff. The Artemis II mission launched from @NASAKennedy at 6:35pm ET (2235 UTC), propelling four astronauts on a journey around the Moon. Artemis II will pave the way for future Moon landings, as well as the next giant leap — astronauts on Mars.

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NASA Artemis
NASA Artemis@NASAArtemis·
The translunar injection burn not only sets the Artemis II astronauts on the path to the Moon — it also puts the crew in a free return trajectory, which will allow them to use Moon's gravity to return to Earth.
Victor Glover@AstroVicGlover

Perspective: when we poll GO for translunar injection (TLI) and the engine(s) on the Orion Integrity service module propel us toward the moon, our actual destination is Earth. The ultimate destination of every human space flight.

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Italian Mike2
Italian Mike2@ItalysMike54·
Ralph Kramden warned her 😂🤣
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NASA Artemis
NASA Artemis@NASAArtemis·
Next stop: lunar flyby. The Orion spacecraft recently ignited its main engine on the service module for about six minutes to provide about 6,000 pounds of thrust. This maneuver sets the Artemis II astronauts on the path to the Moon.
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NASA
NASA@NASA·
It’s not a straight shot to the far side of the Moon! 🌕 Over approximately 10 days, the Artemis II astronauts will orbit Earth twice before looping around the far side of the Moon in a figure eight and returning home.
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ELON CLIPS
ELON CLIPS@ElonClipsX·
Elon Musk: We should preserve unique cultures worldwide. “There are great things in every culture. We don't want German culture to disappear. We don't want French culture to disappear. We don't want Korean culture, Japanese culture, or American culture to disappear, or any culture anywhere. This is why we should be cautious about a global melting pot: every place would become the same, with no unique cultures left, making the world worse. We need to preserve these national cultures for a better future. Most people agree we shouldn't let cultures disappear. Currently, with low birth rates, multiculturalism, and globalism, we're seeing the dilution and destruction and death of individual cultures—which is terrible for the future.” From: WELT Economic Summit August 3, 2025
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LHGrey™️
LHGrey™️@grey4626·
Rosemary, darling...sit the fuck down and allow me to explain. You prattle on about the B1 bridge in Karaj like it’s some decorative footpath for tourists, sneering that it “lacks military value” in a conflict without ground troops. Christ, the intellectual laziness is almost impressive. That bridge isn’t a footnote. It’s a goddamn choke point...the strategic vertebrae of Iran’s logistical spine...and your failure to grasp it doesn’t make it irrelevant; it just broadcasts how far out of your depth you are. A choke point, in the lethal lexicon of military science, is any critical node...bridge, pass, tunnel, rail junction, port, or highway nexus...where the enemy’s flow of men, materiel, fuel, components, or command is forced through a narrow aperture. Control it, deny it, or shatter it, and you don’t need boots on the ground to paralyze an entire theater. Sun Tzu didn’t need to spell it out; Clausewitz, Liddell Hart, and every post-1945 campaign from Korea to Desert Storm to the current Levant inferno did. It’s not about “troop movements” in some 1940s fantasy. It’s about logistics as the true center of gravity. In hybrid, stand-off, precision-strike warfare...the exact flavor of this 2026 meat grinder...choke points multiply the effect of every munition by an order of magnitude. That B1 colossus in Karaj isn’t “visible infrastructure” for spite. It’s the tallest, most trafficked arterial on one of Iran’s primary east-west highways, the lynchpin feeding Tehran’s industrial belly, the missile-assembly complexes around Karaj itself, and the drone and rocket resupply arteries snaking toward the western and southern fronts. Shatter it and you don’t stop “troops”...you starve the launchers. You force the IRGC to reroute through secondary roads that are already under persistent ISR, turning every convoy into a shooting gallery. You spike transit times from days to weeks, burn fuel they can’t afford, expose repair crews to follow-on strikes, and cascade delays into the entire kill-chain that keeps Shahab, Fateh, and Shahed platforms spitting. That’s not collateral. That’s effects-based targeting 101: turn the enemy’s own geography into a weapon against him. You warn of a “rally-around-the-flag” effect? Spare me the undergraduate seminar. Every competent campaign staff weighs that variable; the ones who win accept it as the cost of imposing cumulative systemic failure. Iran’s regime has been hemorrhaging legitimacy for years. Starving their war machine of seamless movement doesn’t “strengthen” them...it forces the mullahs to choose between feeding the front and feeding Tehran. History is littered with regimes that collapsed not from grand invasions but from the quiet strangulation of their internal lines of communication. Ask the Wehrmacht after the Rhine bridges fell. Ask Saddam after the Highway of Death became exactly that. So no, Rosemary, this wasn’t a tantrum against pretty scenery. It was a scalpel cut into the carotid of Iranian sustainment. The fact you can’t see the difference between a bridge and a billboard says everything about why armchair commentators should stick to hashtags and leave the operational art to those who’ve studied the red-on-blue maps instead of just retweeting them. Next time you want to lecture on military value, try opening a FM 3-0 or a RAND study instead of your feelings. Try to keep up, sweetheart. 💀🪖
Rosemary Kelanic@RKelanic

What could possibly be the military rationale for this. There isn’t one.

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Dr. Maalouf ‏
Dr. Maalouf ‏@realMaalouf·
No, it is NOT ‘racist’ to not want your country to become like this. It’s common sense!
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Open Source Intel
Open Source Intel@Osint613·
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon on the Iran conflict: "I would step back a little when you say it’s a war of choice. There was no imminent threat? They’ve been killing people around the world for 45-plus years. They funded Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, they have terrorist cells here. They were about to get ballistic missiles that can go almost 3,000 miles. They never gave up nuclear. I’m praying it ends well." - Axios
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Latest in space
Latest in space@latestinspace·
#BREAKING 🚨: Artemis II crew has begun their FINAL burn to leave Earth for lunar orbit WE'RE OFFICIALLY MOON BOUND 🚀
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C3@C_3C_3·
Almost all of America’s problems would be solved if we deported 50+ million illegals and locked up crooked politicians. Facts.
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Sassafrass84
Sassafrass84@Sassafrass_84·
They dont come for assimilation. They come to conquer. Deport them all.
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Dr. Maalouf ‏
Dr. Maalouf ‏@realMaalouf·
CANADA: Muslims were constantly gathering to ‘pray’ in front of churches in Montreal. Now, the Quebec government has officially banned street prayers, considering them an act of provocation. Do you agree?
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NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman
Nominal translunar injection burn complete. The Artemis II crew is officially on the way to the Moon. America is back in the business of sending astronauts to the Moon. This time, farther than ever before.
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Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧
Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧@TRobinsonNewEra·
DeSantis is calling for the immediate impeachment of Judge Tiffany Baker. She released a child rapist, whilst out on bail, he raped, tortured and killed a 5 year old little girl! All judges doing this should be charged as culpable!
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