DSKovatch
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DSKovatch
@DogsBreakfastAZ
Editor, reader, writer. Current events, history, biography, biology, biogeography, geology, all sciences really.
Tucson, Arizona, Earth, Katılım Şubat 2017
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Israeli analyst Ori Goldberg says Israel's far-right calls to escalate war in Lebanon are “absolutely nothing to do with security” or winning.
Goldberg added Israel is “not in it to win it” but to destroy, create facts on the ground and shore up Netanyahu’s political agenda.
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The administration plans to use claims that "China interfered in the 2020 election as a basis to declare a national emergency that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting.”
The premise, it almost goes without saying, is a total lie. trib.al/dD7xx4n
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The F-35 and Ford-class aircraft carriers are the kind of weapons that only people who didn’t have to pay for them could love. The generals and admirals who demanded these weapons systems will be long gone when their grandchildren are still paying the enormous debt incurred by them.
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The F-35 was supposed to be unkillable. That was the whole point.
Lockheed Martin spent thirty years and four hundred billion dollars, the most expensive weapons programme in human history, building an aircraft that the enemy simply could not see. Not on radar. Not on infrared. Not on anything. The F-35 was not just a fighter jet. It was a theological statement. America’s way of saying: we have moved beyond the reach of your missiles, your sensors, and your prayers.
Iran apparently didn’t get the memo.
Somewhere over Iranian airspace on March 19, 2026, an IRST system, infrared search and track, the kind of sensor your grandmother could probably explain, looked up, found the F-35, and locked on. Not because Iranian engineers are geniuses. Because the F-35, it turns out, is extremely hot. All that engine. All that thrust. All that carefully sculpted stealth geometry, and the bloody thing glows like a kettle.
The heat signature data Iran now holds is not just embarrassing. It is a gift that keeps giving. To Moscow. To Beijing. To every procurement ministry on the planet that has been quietly wondering whether to spend the money on systems designed to kill this aircraft. The answer, as of this week, is yes.
And here is the bit that should really worry the Pentagon. You can patch software. You can redesign coatings. You cannot reprogramme a pilot’s brain. Every F-35 driver who takes off from here on knows, actually knows, that someone down there might be able to see them. That changes everything about how they fly. Caution replaces aggression. Hesitation replaces instinct.
Four hundred billion dollars. And in the end, it was done in by a heat sensor.
Tremendous.
Gandalv / @Microinteracti1
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@ProfBillMcGuire It’s the kind of remark that exposes ignorance of science. It’s too bad BBC News made it.
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"Climate change is believed to have played a role in such hot spells as this"
FFS BBCNews
Belief has nothing to do with it. This is hard, scientific, fact
When will you get this right?
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
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@MoreBirths The global economy must bend to depopulation. What matters is a global population that does not exceed earthly limits of resources, perhaps 20% of the current population.
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What will depopulation do to the global economy?
It is already taking out the largest asset class in the entire world, Chinese real estate.
China is learning, as Japan already learned, that falling population means few home buyers, and an inevitable property market crash. 1/2
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We should know this. It’s Trump all the way. The cattle and dairy industries are among the most climate changing, polluting, and wasteful of all industries. Massive amounts of climate changing methane gas and feed lot sewage pollution of our waterways, and the water-wasting cattle feed industry, just to name three ways. The dairy and cattle industries have gotten a free pass. It’s time this came to an end.
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This rural ranching community is as pro-Trump as ever — even as gas prices soar alternet.org/trump-nebraska…
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@BulwarkOnline Trump won’t leave with a bang. He will slide beneath the waves as he’s beginning to do already. The question is, how much more damage can he do in maximum 32 months he has left?
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"This is not just the most corrupt presidency in American history, it is among the most corrupt regimes on earth." It turns out Americans don't actually like it.
lnk.thebulwark.com/4w66Jf0
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Israel killed ~25,000 children with US tax dollars. Stopping genocide is not anti-semitic.
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@IvankaTrumpRV2 We’ve all had enough of him. Why don’t you take him in, feed him, and change his diapers? He needs help.
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This man bears the weight of the world on his shoulders, but he fights for all of us — America First.
Please God, protect President Donald Trump J. Trump. 🙏 🕊️ 🤍
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🚨 do you understand what just happened to Itamar Ben-Gvir..
The far-right National Security Minister just got banned from France after taunting detained Gaza flotilla activists on camera.
This is the same man who:
•Was a teenage Kahanist with a long rap sheet for racism and terrorism
•Was deemed “too extreme” to serve in the IDF…
•Keeps a portrait of a terrorist in his home and has celebrated terrorist acts for years
Yet he was handed control of the police...
This week he filmed himself waving the Israeli flag and taunting zip-tied activists (including Europeans) who were forced to kneel in front of him as he called himself “the landlord.”
France’s response was immediate: full entry ban, calling his behavior “reprehensible.”
The most radical voice in the cabinet just kept getting more power and now the whole world knows his name.
ADAM@adamemedia1
BEN-GVIR BANNED FROM FRANCE The rest of Europe should follow suit. The entire Likud party should be banned. The entire colony should be sanctioned.
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My great friend @timburchett made it out to Arizona and he knows we need strong leadership at the state level after three years of the weak and ineffective Katie Hobbs.
I’ll miss him in Congress but it’s time to get Arizona back on track.
#GoBiggsOrGoHome
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VIDEO | 'I wonder if everyone in Lebanon understands that every time they have a delicious bite of seedless watermelon ... they should say thank you [to Israel]'
US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee told the people of Lebanon that they should be grateful for Israeli technological and agricultural innovations. Speaking at the Atlas Awards in Tel Aviv, Huckabee listed inventions like cell phones, USB drives, cherry tomatoes, and seedless watermelons, arguing that Lebanese citizens should cross the border to shake hands and thank Israelis rather than refusing to speak to them.
The remarks come amid an intense Israeli bombing campaign in Lebanon that local health officials state has killed over 3,000 people since March.
Huckabee, a staunch Christian Zionist, has previously affirmed his support for the concept of a "Greater Israel," stating it would be fine if Israel took over all of West Asia from the Nile to the Euphrates based on biblical texts.
The ambassador has additionally been a vocal proponent of the ongoing US-backed Israeli war against Iran, which has reached a strategic stalemate following Tehran's blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.
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@leachfortexas Then Adam Hoffman will announce as a GOP candidate for Congress.
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This is Adam Hoffman. He repeatedly raped a Texas boy — for nearly three years — dozens and dozens of times.
Tomorrow morning, May 25th 2026, he will be released from McLennan County Jail after spending just a few weeks there. He will not be required to register as a sex offender. And very soon he’ll be allowed to practice law again.
A real and dangerous predator — a present threat to Texas children — will be as free as you and me. A slap on his wrist and a spit in the face to his victim.
Why?! How?!
Because that’s the deal he made with Ken Paxton.
Vote accordingly.
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Trump promises to secure “the exact opposite” of Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran. So far that’s true — Obama imposed major limits on Iran’s nuclear program while the program has flourished under Trump. trib.al/Rqk1Llj
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@realannapaulina Trump is now just lasting out his final 31 months.
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EVERY American should be supporting POTUS during these PEACE negotiations ref Iran. He knows what he is doing.
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@JohnCleese Mike Johnson is both appallingly ignorant and a pathological liar.
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Is Johnson appallingly ignorant, or just a liar ?
Speaker Mike Johnson@SpeakerJohnson
President Trump is the ONLY one who could have gotten Iran — the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism — to the negotiating table. We are greatly encouraged to learn a PEACE DEAL in Iran is underway — and look forward to learning more about the specifics. Under President Trump’s leadership, our nation is stronger, more respected on the global stage, and safer than ever before.
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@AnnieForTruth “Double tap” is also known as ”bait-and-murder”. “Double tap” sounds innocuous. That’s America’s Secretary of Defense- bait and murder. Real soldiers don’t resort to murder.
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Rep. Seth Moulton, an Iraq war veteran, accused Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth of committing war crimes. Hegseth ordered U.S. forces to conduct “double tap” strikes on wounded boat survivors in the Caribbean that were no longer a threat, a direct violation of Geneva Conventions.
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@BillKristol Trump has virtually guaranteed lasting animosity between Iran, America, and Israel’s religious assailants. It certainly will outlast Trumps last 32 months in office.
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Trump exposes the wishfulness of his coming deal with Iran and his own hollowing out of the Abraham accords, with his statement "who knows, perhaps the Islamic Republic of Iran would like to join [the Abraham accords] as well!"
Barak Ravid@BarakRavid
🚨Trump on Truth Social: One of the worst deals ever made by our Country was the Iran Nuclear Deal, put forth and signed into existence by Barack Hussein Obama and the rank amateurs of the Obama Administration. It was a direct path to Iran developing a Nuclear Weapon. Not so with the transaction currently being negotiated with Iran by the Trump Administration - THE EXACT OPPOSITE, in fact! The negotiations are proceeding in an orderly and constructive manner, and I have informed my representatives not to rush into a deal in that time is on our side. The Blockade will remain in full force and effect until an agreement is reached, certified, and signed. Both sides must take their time and get it right. There can be no mistakes! Our relationship with Iran is becoming a much more professional and productive one. They must understand, however, that they cannot develop or procure a Nuclear Weapon or Bomb. I would like to thank, thus far, all of the countries of the Middle East for their support and cooperation, which will be further enhanced and strengthened by their joining the Nations of the historic Abraham Accords and, who knows, perhaps the Islamic Republic of Iran would like to join, as well! Thank you for your attention to this matter
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