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'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it'----George Santayana From his work; Life of Reason, Reason in Common Sense 1905. William L. Shirer included the quote as an epigraph in his literary work The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich in 1959.

Trump to children: “And Biden used an autopen — he was so incapacitated that he couldn’t even sign himself.” What a morally deprived man. To use children for his verbal vengeance is just the lowest you can go.

(This transcript is from Carlson's website. It's a little rough, but the highlighted stuff is what Carlson said.)

Where we're at: One of Trump's most prominent backers, Tucker Carlson, is telling people around Trump to "figure out the codes" for the nuclear football, so Trump can't use it on Iran.

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Ronan Farrow’s New Yorker insight on Sam Altman is head and shoulders above anything that has appeared in any UK paper on the AI elite. It is ESSENTIAL reading. @NewYorker @RonanFarrow @andrewmarantz - this is the kind of journalism that changes perception utterly.

Australia's most-decorated living soldier, Ben Roberts-Smith, charged with five counts of war crimes bbc.in/48lOhEX

President Donald Trump is threatening that a “whole civilization will die tonight”

SNL UK is absolutely putting its American counterpart to shame dear lord

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BREAKING: Trump Says "A whole civilization will die tonight". This is literally a genocide. What the f-ck is wrong with him? I warned you all about this man.

Here’s a timeline of Trump’s quotes on the strait of Hormuz: “If necessary, the United States Navy will begin escorting tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, as soon as possible… to ensure the free flow of energy to the world.” “We will permanently eliminate any boat or ship attempting to mine the Hormuz Strait… They will be dealt with quickly and violently. BEWARE!” “We don’t need any help, actually.” “They should have been there.” “We’d like to have a little help.” “There’s no reason for us to do this… That’s not for us. That’ll be for France. That’ll be for whoever’s using the strait.” “Go get your own oil!” “It will reopen naturally.” “They can do it easily… We will be helpful, but they should take the lead.” “With a little more time, we can easily OPEN THE HORMUZ STRAIT, TAKE THE OIL, & MAKE A FORTUNE.” “Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell – JUST WATCH!” It’s almost as if he’s fuckin’ insane.

Bloomberg acknowledges that the US war on Iran is backfiring, undermining the petrodollar system that gives the US empire so much power. Gulf regimes are exporting significantly less oil, and they're not reinvesting those petrodollars in US assets. Meanwhile, many foreign central banks have been selling US Treasury securities (US government debt) to prevent their currencies from depreciating, leading to US bond yields rising markedly -- not falling, as they typically did in past crises, when investors engaged in a "flight to safety". The US financial sector is losing its perception of having "safe haven" status. This means that both key aspects of the petrodollar system are breaking: there are fewer oil exports in dollars (Iran wants oil to be traded in Chinese yuan), and there are fewer petrodollars recycled into US financial assets.

The focus on the rescue of a single downed US airman in Iran has buried the story of Pete Hegseth panic evacuating 1500 US sailors from Bahrain under Iranian counter-attack "They literally told them, 'Get what you can get in the backpack.’ You’ve got to go.” Empire in retreat.

I WOULD LIKE TO CONGRATULATE DONALD TRUMP ON POLLING VERY HIGH IN VENEZUELA. I HEAR HE'S ALSO POLLING HIGH IN RUSSIA, NORTH KOREA, HUNGARY, THE INTERNATIONAL GRIFTERS UNION, THE NIGERIAN PRINCE ASSOCIATION, THE MOB, KKK, AND EPSTEIN ISLAND.

Dr. Vin Gupta, a prominent physician and medical analyst, has now taken the unusual step of warning in public that President Trump is showing “all the signs of dementia,” pointing to a pattern of increasingly erratic posts, mangled sentences, and obvious word-finding struggles in his recent appearances and social media outbursts. In a blunt post on X, Gupta summed up what millions of viewers have watched unfold over months: erratic behavior, confusion, illogical trains of thought, and progressive decline that, in his view, can no longer be dismissed as mere personality quirks or harmless gaffes.

Turns out, he did come back with a comically swollen right hand. Looks like a water balloon with a terrible makeup job. H/T: @atrupar

Trump keeps disappearing at the first of the month. Will he come back with a new giant bruise on his hand?

And this ... Skybridge Capital co-founder and former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci alleged Friday that President Donald Trump‘s administration orchestrated a massive insider trading scheme tied to geopolitical announcements that yielded up to $400 million in illicit profits. The $400 Million Strike Moratorium In a recent video statement on X, Scaramucci detailed highly suspicious trading activity occurring just one hour before Trump announced a five-day moratorium on Iran strikes. According to Scaramucci, insiders purchased $1.5 billion in notional S&P E-mini futures contracts. This was about four to six times the normal market volume. This took place alongside a simultaneous purchase of $192 million in crude oil futures. “They made between $300 and $400 million dollars off those trades,” Scaramucci claimed. He further alleged that Trump fabricated a phone call with an Iranian official to justify the market-moving moratorium, noting that Iranian authorities denied the conversation ever took place. “These people are making hundreds upon hundreds of millions of dollars trading on information that only exists inside the most powerful office in the world,” Scaramucci said. “This isn’t politics anymore. This is a financial operation running out of the White House.”

On this day in 1969: a 25-year old grad student published a document about ARPANET. He stayed up all night quietly writing it in a bathroom so he wouldn’t wake people up where he was staying. It helped pave the way for the Internet.