Aaron
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DC residents will never in a million years admit it but between stuff like this and the crackdown on crime, Trump has been DC’s best President in a generation.
Martin Austermuhle@maustermuhle
A watchful D.C. resident sent me a photo of something we haven’t seen in years; water flowing down the cascading fountain at Meridian Hill/Malcolm X Park. NPS started work on the long-dry fountain late last year, as part of a broader project to refurbish the park.
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@LoganDobson My friend was murdered in his apartment near Logan Circle a little over a month ago.
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@Pyth_of_Samos @2024dion I note the “minimum acceptable network” caption he has there: Does he have a map for a maximum feasible network image?
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@2024dion Ray Delahanty, aka CityNerd, proposes these city pairs as having sufficient populations & the distances close enough to build High Speed Rail in the U. . With freeways & airports at capacity, it just makes sense to use airports for longer flights. Traffic congestion is cost too.
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China's HSR buildout was obviously a huge driver of domestic growth. But would a high speed rail network in the United States have the same impact? We already have a mature and affordable interstate highway and passenger air network.
Mark R. Brown, AICP, CNU@CompletedStreet
China's High Speed Rail system overlaid on America. The countries are about the same size.
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does anyone else remember how after jan 6th until biden's inauguration the US was under the effective rule of a military junta led by gen mark milley? just me?
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@alanthefisher @conniekettel Well my question is do you think we can fix it?
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@conniekettel I have a more nuanced version that I'm releasing soon with a video actually, so I'll have an update
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The 200mi distance between DC and NY are practically the only real livable societies in the country so…yeah
Giacomo Volpe 🌹🤝🌐@_giacomo_volpe_
I would go to pretty much any length to not have to live in like 90% of this country
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@Doha1389960 Someone name it the F/A-47 and tell Trump it’s armed with the Discombobulater
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the space program when we’re not recruiting nazis, national parks, jazz….these are the only things that make me feel any sense of patriotism
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@PaulConnollyNI @JDMatrixWave @archer_rs Please don’t take him for the entirety of us Paul. This one is also particularly insane.
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@JDMatrixWave @archer_rs Good luck fighting China on your own. You’re going to need it
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@AirPowerNEW1 Respectfully, and in my lack of knowledge, the best I could find online is that they won’t be available for a least a year, is that true as far as you know and is that an acceptable timeframe? U also think this would encourage the pentagon to start hardening bases?
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Yes, losing one E-3 is 'bad'. But not losing crew and people at the base is 'good'. Great and remarkable actually. As I've noted, a few E-7's are on order and will be received soon. The USAF also literally sent a dozen E-3's to the boneyard in 2023/24.
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John Jackson@hissgoescobra
The E-3 AWACS has no clear replacement and a 40% mission-capable rate, so losing one is bad. The E-7 was cut from the 2026 Pentagon budget, by Hegseth, Congress wants to reinstate, the Air Force is pushing back. The E-3 & E-2 are all we got for now. airandspaceforces.com/air-force-secr…
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That won't buff out. Quite remarkable and fortunate that there are no reported fatalities at the base.
TheIntelFrog@TheIntelFrog
Photos have surfaced showing extensive damage to US Air Force E-3 Sentry #AE11EA 81-0005 following the drone and missile attack at Prince Sultan Air Base yesterday that also damaged several KC-135s.
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@DaoOfMorphy @MartinSkold2 China can no longer be described as not being a serious naval force. It is still not the best but it is getting serious.
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@MartinSkold2 Now imagine this position but the US has bases on Japan, Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines, Vietnam, Guam, and Okinawa. And is against a country with no serious naval forces.
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Think of the US naval position in the Pacific between Pearl Harbor and (give or take) the Coral Sea, where carriers were too precious to lose (and the Doolittle Raid had to be launched at dangerously long distance for this reason).
Now imagine this position -without- the prospect of rapid reinforcement via superior US shipbuilding and industry.
mattparlmer 🪐 🌷@mattparlmer
Confirmation of what many of us suspected, they did indeed drive the Lincoln out of untanked strike range with ballistic missiles Also sounds like we burnt nearly a whole complement of interceptors in while getting away from the way he’s talking about it
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@jameslineky @AlDefinitely Thanks for the explanation, do you have any books you might recommend for this topic?
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FDR was a Wilsonian progressive. Northeastern liberalism has always been rooted in Calvinistic morals-based social reform (abolition etc). They didn’t see a contradiction between the GOP as liberal and the GOP as the party of business. Hoover actually identified as liberal (and, years later, bemoaned the way progressives had begun monopolizing the word). Also parties were just very, very big tents back then. So some areas of the country were insanely elastic, with huge swings from one election to the next, while other areas with very strong ideological bases, like New England and the South, found there was enough room in each tent to maintain their partisan loyalties without having to abandon their ideologies.
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I get that New England was rock-ribbed Republican back then but it just looks so weird that the ostensibly most liberal region of the country was always the worst one for the most liberal president at least up to that point.
C stan@clintonite_stan
Weird how Roosevelt’s weakest region was the Northeast
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@einhander14 @0x_Priest You need to be smart enough to understand that it only takes one well-placed bomb to do serious damage to a power plant. I see that you do not allow such conditions.
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@0x_Priest Their perhaps 10 still functioning launchers that will get blown up the second they actually launch anything?
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We have specially designed graphite bombs that can disable/disrupt power without doing massive long-term damage to grid infrastructure. We used them in Desert Storm, Allied Force and Enduring Freedom. Damage is minimal; outages last 24 hours or so, but with no air cover to prevent re-attack, Trump can just keep pressing the "off" switch as long as he wants.
Open Source Intel@Osint613
BREAKING BREAKING 🔴🔴🔴 Trump: If Iran doesn’t FULLY OPEN, WITHOUT THREAT, the Strait of Hormuz, within 48 HOURS from this exact point in time, the United States of America will hit and obliterate their various POWER PLANTS, STARTING WITH THE BIGGEST ONE FIRST! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP
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@ColbyBadhwar Kindly could you explain why we used a 5000lb bomb against the Houthis?
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This is the 2nd known combat employment of the 5000lb GBU-72, or A5K Penetrator. The first was against the Houthis 2 years ago.
GBU-72 is a BLU-138 penetrating warhead with a KMU-556 JDAM Tail Kit Assembly. It is integrated for use on the F-15E & B-1.
235 have been procured to date, although I can't confirm that McAlester Army Ammunition Plant has completed them all.
The Air Force planned to order 175 more this year, and the current acquisition objective is 750.
U.S. Central Command@CENTCOM
Hours ago, U.S. forces successfully employed multiple 5,000-pound deep penetrator munitions on hardened Iranian missile sites along Iran’s coastline near the Strait of Hormuz. The Iranian anti-ship cruise missiles in these sites posed a risk to international shipping in the strait.
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@gambare21 @Parisire @HunterStires There is no way you believe, that for the sake of practicality and also public perception, that achieving this by dropping millions of pounds of bombs was the right way to go and not via diplomacy.
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@Parisire @HunterStires Enabling comity among Middle Eastern nations that had been adversaries. The Abraham Accords were the first manifestation of this desire/trend but now things can proceed at a better pace. This will result in a regional construct that challenges Europe, China, and globalists.
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Two things can be true at once: U.S. forces are performing brilliantly at the operational and tactical levels while U.S. political leaders are demonstrating remarkable incompetence and incoherence at the political and strategic levels. The latter may undo the gains of the former.
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@Impitoyable @schneider @Anne_Hidalgo Politicians almost always break your heart sooner or later if you put too much trust in them.
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@schneider @Anne_Hidalgo She played cynical politics at the expense of doing her job as mayor. She lost any vestige of support I once had for her. Not that it makes any difference now. 2/2
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The mayor of Paris @Anne_Hidalgo is my personal hero. She turned a global city with some of the most chaotic streets filled with cars into a paradise for pedestrians and cyclists. She did it not because it was politically easy (it wasn’t) but because it was the right thing to do.
Financial Times@FT
The city’s transition away from the car, though fantastically chaotic, has become a global role model, says Simon Kuper: ft.trib.al/PENku7n
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@nickmeals Which underscore the naivety of the 1942 invasion idea by the newcomers to the war.
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One of the things that you don't understand when young but are amazed by when older is the logistics of war. Some of the stuff we carried out in 43-45 is insane.
Amazing Maps@amazingmap
Operation PLUTO: The secret pipeline system that pumped fuel from Britain to Allied armies advancing across Europe in 1944–45
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@callumjstewart @nickmeals I would not have wanted to go to Britannia with Caesar.
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@MarysRoommate Jones Act
Employer Health Insurance Tax Exclusion
NEPA
NLRA Wagner Act
FDA 1962 Kefauver Amendments
Davis-Bacon Act
CON Laws
US Sugar Program
Ethanol Mandate
Copyright Term Extension Act
this is just legislation not court rulings to overturn
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Theres like 12 pieces of regulation to remove standing between us and another 200 years of american empire
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oh weird. as we hit 1000 targets a day theres alot less missiles being shot at us. and alot less interceptors needed. who could have predicted this? twitter experts assured me we were fucked
Marc Zell - מארק צל@GOPIsrael
A senior Israeli security official has just stated: The most significant accomplishment to date is the damage inflicted on Iran’s surface-to-surface (ballistic) missile force. Launch volumes have dropped, despite the regime’s designs—they’ve fired less than half the number from the opening day. Over the next 24 hours, strikes on both fixed and mobile SSM systems will intensify, and estimates indicate that the rate of missile launches at Israel will further decline. Me: We are undaunted and have full confidence in our intrepid soldiers and supporters outside and inside Iran. Kadima and Happy Purim!
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