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Read this. Think about this. George H.W. Bush's gracious handoff to Bill Clinton. It's beautiful.
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Tom Ashbrook
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Tom Ashbrook
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Award-winning Journalist. 16-Yr Host of NPR's "On Point.” Illinois farm kid, Asia hand, Alaska oilfields vet. Pro honest, humane democracy.
Berlin, Germany Bergabung Mart 2009
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Some things, once destroyed, cannot be brought back. Many unique ecosystems and species will be lost forever. This is irreversible environmental vandalism by Trump and the extractive interests that helped put him in office.
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April 1945: In the final days of World War II, the Führer obsesses over absurdly large monuments for his reimagined Berlin, focusing on an idealized future rather than the reality of his collapsing Reich.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Trump: “I am pleased to announce that TODAY my Administration officially filed the presentation and plans to the highly respected Commission of Fine Arts for what will be the GREATEST and MOST BEAUTIFUL Triumphal Arch, anywhere in the World. This will be a wonderful addition to the Washington D.C. area for all Americans to enjoy for many decades to come! President DONALD J. TRUMP”
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Iran is coming out of this far stronger. With Chinese weapons, Russian intelligence, control over the Straits of Hormuz, leverage over the Gulf States and assets unfrozen by the United States. A complete strategic disaster.
Bloomberg@business
US intelligence indicates that China is preparing to provide Iran with air defense systems in a matter of weeks, CNN reported. Beijing is expected to ship shoulder-fired, surface-to-air missiles known as Man-Portable Air Defense Systems. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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We’re about to pay Iran $6 billion to re-open the thing that was open before the war.
Art of the deal, baby.
Jennifer Jacobs@JenniferJJacobs
"A senior Iranian source said on Saturday the U.S. had agreed to release Iranian frozen assets held in Qatar and other foreign banks, welcoming the move as a sign of 'seriousness' in reaching a deal with Washington in talks in Islamabad. The source, who declined to be named due to the sensitivity of the matter, told Reuters that unfreezing the assets was 'directly linked to ensuring safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz,' which is expected to be a key issue in the talks." reuters.com/business/finan…
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Wow, that's extremely rare for a U.S. treaty ally.
South Korea's president, addressing Israel: "It’s disappointing that you don’t even once reflect on the criticisms from people around the world who are suffering and struggling due to your relentless anti-human rights and anti-international law actions."
He said this after posting this yesterday (x.com/Jaemyung_Lee/s…), a video of IDF soldiers throwing a young Palestinian off a rooftop and commenting that "there is no difference between this and the Japanese wartime sexual slavery issue we raise, the massacre of Jews, or wartime killings."
Israel's Foreign Ministry responded that his post was "unacceptable" but President Lee obviously - and courageously - chose to double down 👇
Also probably says a lot about where U.S.-South Korea relations are at right now.
이재명@Jaemyung_Lee
<끊임없는 반인권적 반국제법적 행동으로 고통받고 힘들어하는 전 세계인들의 지적을 한번쯤은 되돌아볼 만도 한데 실망입니다. 내가 아프면 타인도 그만큼 아픕니다. 나의 필요 때문에 누군가 고통받으면 미안한 것이 인지상정입니다. 아닌 밤중에 홍두깨라고 아무 잘못없는 우리 국민들께서 뜬금없이 겪고 있는 이 엄청난 고통과 국가적 어려움을 지켜보는 마음이 매우 불편합니다. 보편적 인권과 대한민국의 국익을 위해 할 수 있는 일을 더 열심히 찾아봐야겠습니다.> 이스라엘, ‘전시 살해=유대인 학살’ 李대통령 발언에 “용납 못해” v.daum.net/v/202604110641…
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Take a moment to fully appreciate what you are witnessing: the President of the United States is campaigning so aggressively for a pro-Russian autocrat that he has reached the point of effectively attempting to bribe the entire nation into re-electing said pro-Russian autocrat.
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Absolutely methodical take down of the many lies being used to justify the deconstruction of the US Forest Service, and to pave the way for turning the nation into a concrete jungle.
We're on pace to ravish the country into a wasteland, for the corporate profits of friends.
More Than Just Parks@MTJParks
@RoguePOTUSStaff We broke this story nine days ago. The White House called it "lies," the Deputy Secretary posted a seven-tweet rebuttal, and the Forest Service rewrote its own website to dispute our claims. Their own scientists' union already contradicted them. morethanjustparks.com/usfs-dismantli…
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That is the verified government account of a federal law enforcement agency with arrest and detention authority over 340 million people. Not a campaign. Not a personal page. A Christian cross on the official DHS handle is a textbook Establishment Clause violation. The first freedom in the First Amendment exists precisely to prevent this.
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If you hate Pope Leo because he is too “liberal”, I have some very bad news for you about Jesus.
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Gagging. Tear it down before it goes up. Please.
Simon Schama@simon_schama
Trump officials unveil designs for president’s controversial 250-foot arch wapo.st/4eeTIsY Grotesque, disrespectful triumphalism. The sobriety of mourning replaced by Trumpian chest-beating colossalism to match his loathsome ego. And done in comical Las Vegas faux-classicism.
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This would be absurd if it weren’t so tragic because Israel’s reasoning is laughable at this stage. Netanyahu is just carpet bombing a sovereign nation. Nobody but an ideologue would call this a counterterrorism campaign.
sarah@sahouraxo
BREAKING: Israel is now carpet bombing civilian homes in Nabatieh in South Lebanon — an ancient city older than most nations.
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I'm so sick of these guys; their ignorance of historic Christianity; their mind-killing habit of calling any concern with poverty "Marxism"; the Mammon-worship they call a religion.
Eric Metaxas@ericmetaxas
Marxist garbage, coming from the Pope. Perhaps he might mention how the CCP persecute Christians and crush dissent with murder and "organ harvesting". But that wouldn't play as well. Is he getting his talking points from Obama & Axelrod? YIKES.
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This video of Israel soldiers casually throwing what appears to be a Palestinian youth off from the roof of a building has shocked the world.
Look how comfortable they walk away after throwing the youth to his death.
As if they have done it 100s of times before.
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What a non-sensical statement by @PressSec . She has no understanding of NATO or how to work with Allies. The sad truth is that in this War, the US Congress was tested and they didn't even show up....that's who has failed.
Gandalv@Microinteracti1
Karoline Leavitt: “They were tested and they failed.” Here’s the thing about NATO that apparently needs explaining to the most powerful government on earth: it is not a taxi. You do not ring NATO. You do not place an order. You do not specify delivery within 72 hours and then stand in the Rose Garden bewildered that nothing has turned up. NATO is a collective defence alliance built on the radical concept that its members are, in fact, members, with votes and opinions and sovereign militaries they get to deploy according to their own national interests. This is written down. It has been written down since 1949. The documents are available in English. Nobody in this administration has read them. Let’s go back to Greenland for a moment, because this is apparently where the rot set in. Trump wanted Greenland. Just wanted it. Asked if he could have it. Was told no, it belongs to Denmark, which is a NATO ally, which means the whole thing was always going to be diplomatically awkward at best and catastrophically self-defeating at worst. His response was not to reflect on this. His response was to decide that NATO was a large problem. An alliance of thirty-two nations that has kept the peace in Europe for seventy-five years was, in his assessment, getting in the way of his property acquisition. This tells you everything you need to know about how the man thinks. And it tells you everything about who he hired to think alongside him. Every serious leader in history, every CEO worth the title, every general who ever won anything, has operated on the same basic principle: hire people smarter than yourself. Steve Jobs did it. Churchill did it. Every remotely competent executive who ever ran anything of consequence understood that your job is not to be the cleverest person in the building. Your job is to find the cleverest people in the building and then get out of their way. Surround yourself with people who will tell you when you’re wrong. Who know things you don’t. Who have read the documents.Trump inverted this entirely. A cabinet selected not for expertise but for loyalty. Not for knowledge but for the willingness to perform agreement. Pete Hegseth at Defence. A communications team that announces things with confidence at a ratio entirely disconnected from understanding. An administration where the qualification for the job was, essentially, never making the man at the top feel inadequate. The outcome of this philosophy is Karoline Leavitt at a podium reading four words as though she had just solved something. Delivered with the serene confidence of someone who has never had to sit in a room and actually work out what NATO is, how it functions, why it was built, or what the word collective means in the context of collective defence. They were tested and they failed. Europe is not shaking its fist. Europe is shaking its head. Slowly. Wearily. In the way you do when you’ve explained something seventeen times and the person across the table still hasn’t got it and you’ve finally accepted that they never will. The allies are building their own defence architecture now, with people in the room who have read the documents. They stopped waiting for Washington to grow into the role some time ago. And somewhere in all of this, Greenland is still Danish. Still will be tomorrow. NATO is still an alliance of sovereign nations who get to say no. Still will be next week. And the White House is still staffed by people who find both of these facts baffling. Some things don’t change just because you haven’t understood them. Stay connected, Follow Gandalv @Microinteracti1
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when you read this story you'll see that Pete Hegseth is not just a degenerate, peacocking juvenile. he's also a liar.
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this is the "stripping the copper wire" phase of looting and the residents are too stunned to do anything about it
Mike Nellis@MikeNellis
Shutting down the National Forest Service is fucking insane. What the hell is Donald Trump doing? They’re just stripping the US government for parts like some hedge fund assholes, and people are going to be killed when fire season starts.
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Truly a disaster
John Harwood@JohnJHarwood
the Republican Party has empowered an ignorant, amoral, mentally-unbalanced narcissist as president. it's been a disaster for America and the world - a Republican disaster my @zeteo_news column @johnjharwood/note/p-193696991?r=95c1q&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">substack.com/@johnjharwood/…
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“The Iran operation will last 12 hours”
“Ok it might extend to 4 days”
“The Iran operation will last 4 weeks”
“Ok it might last till November”
“Vote JD Vance to stop the war in Iran”
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