@EthicalHoopz @TimBontemps U cant have half the league trying to lose in the last half of the season
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Carter Semple
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Carter Semple
@LesZards
American Wizard Fan living in France.
Haute-Savoie Katılım Temmuz 2025
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@TimBontemps WE DO NOT FUCKING CARE ABOUT TANKING MAN
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Adam Silver on tanking: “We are going to fix this — full stop.”
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@NickKristof Eh it will change the next day, he is just hoping it will calm down markets.
Seems like ground troops are on the way
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President Trump proposes declaring victory and retreating. That's better than seizing islands, but it has to be accompanied by negotiations with Iran and some new deal to open up the Strait of Hormuz. Otherwise, Trump will simply have stirred a hornet's nest, enriched Russia, hurt Europe and Asia -- and then moved on.
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Space Quest I: The Sarien Encounter celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. Congratulations, Roger!
Released in 1986, it was the first of six games in the Space Quest franchise, centered around the bumbling space "hero" Roger Wilco, who keeps getting entangled in intergalactic plots.
Like most Sierra adventure games, Space Quest was unforgiving - you'd die quickly if you weren't careful, and sometimes you simply had to figure things out through trial and error. I never found that frustrating (even though others often criticize it); it only made reaching the next screen more rewarding.
In my opinion, Space Quest (together with Leisure Suit Larry) was the funniest series in the Sierra universe, packed with inside jokes and a great sense of humor (ZZ Top at the end of the video clip is just one example). Roger really was one of a kind!
Just don't push that bu... ah, too late!
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@JulienHoez Close in Marseille. Though I am confused, did only like 58,000 people vote in a city of 900,000?
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French #Municipales2026 so far:
-Rachida Dati (24.9%) is trailing behind the socialist Emmanuel Grégoire (36.5%)
-Edouard Philippe (43.8%) has outperformed polls
-Renaissance has, so far, won 100 mayoral contests
-Far-right/ Rassemblement National appear to be underperforming
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Submersible Ultra-Large Crude Oil Blockade Runner, raising seed at 10bn post money
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@FENTCOM Wow. You found assholes on the internet and then turned it into a narrative against half the country.
People say the cracking journalism of the legacy media of the last years is dead... But they didn't count on heroes like you to keep it alive.
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FENTCOM Update
The French soldier ADC Arnaud Frion killed last night in Iraq, had participated in the rescue and evacuation of U.S. Special Forces who had fallen into a deadly ambush in Tongo Tongo, Niger, in 2017 (4 KIA, 2 WIA).
MAGA repays the favor by mocking his death.
U.S. Fentanyl Command@FENTCOM
FENTCOM Update A French soldier died in a NATO base in Iraq. Here's what the patriotic MAGA supporters of Our Greatest Ally and Mr President have to say about the Frenchman who died for the cause:
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@AlexLuck9 I'm well ahead of the curve (I looked it up 3 days ago)
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ive seen my team suffer the biggest comeback loss in nba history
ive seen my franchise star tear his achilles
ive seen my team win 18 games and get the 6th pick
my team hasnt won 50 games or a conference finals appearance since the 70s
this is one of my worst moments as a fan
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@MattModderno excellent. Also, though I want to give Brian Keefe a chance next year (as I think he deserves it and is a deecent coach)....would you pull the trigger on hiring Rod Strickland if he gets far in the tourney with LIU? (though I suppose he is already 60 years old)
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Jahadi White & I are going live at 1245 today to discuss Trae Young's Wizards debut, Will Riley being a rising star, & Julian Reese's big game.
🔗 is 👇
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@jonfavs I assume the majority of the online posters are not even from Maine
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I can't remember the last time there was such a giant disconnect over a candidate between online (mostly BlueSky) Dems and Democratic voters.
And it's not like Maine voters don't know about the tattoo or other controversies -- Platner gets asked about it all the time. They just listen to and accept his answer instead of unquestionably QTing outlets with a clear ideological agenda.
All I'd say is - try listening to the guy. He sat down for our interview wearing an Anti-Fascist Knitting Club t-shirt, talked about how his first community organizing project was fighting an anti-trans school board takeover, and got emotional discussing the horrors of war. If he's a Nazi, he's really fucking bad at it.
If you don't like his policy positions or don't think he's electable, vote for Mills. I like her too. But if you're gonna accuse him of being a Nazi, at least try to find a single thing he's actually said or a view he's expressed that in any way aligns with far right (or even just right-wing) political views.
Maine Politics@ME_Politics_
Pan Atlantics 68th Omnibus Poll shows Graham Platner leading Janet Mills by 7pts 🟣Platner: 46% (+9) 🟢Mills: 39% (-8) Undecided: 11% (-3) (Change since December) This poll comes on the heels of the recent UNH poll showing Platner up by 38pts #MEpolitics
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@iwasnevrhere_ How on Earth is the Industrial based so « hollowed out » when we spend so many hundreds of billions of dollars on the every thing every year. Where the hell does the money go?
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The Pentagon has burned through so many missiles in the Iran exchange that Trump is dragging Lockheed and Raytheon CEOs into the White House like a failing factory boss demanding overtime. The military admits the Iran strike consumed more long-range munitions than 4 years of Ukraine.
Trump is posting fantasies about “unlimited supply” while Raytheon can barely promise to “eventually” reach 1,000 Tomahawks a year and the Pentagon only budgeted 57 for 2026.
The industrial base is so hollowed out they’re threatening contractors with punishment if they don’t ramp up, even though the system physically can’t produce at wartime tempo.
America just showed the world that one regional confrontation with Iran drained decades of planning assumptions.
Thomas Keith@iwasnevrhere_
The empire fired off its arsenal trying to intimidate Iran, and all it achieved was exposing the hollow core of American power. A superpower doesn’t scramble for a bailout because a regional state answered back. A superpower doesn’t call defense CEOs to the White House like panicked paramedics around a dying patient. This is what strategic exhaustion looks like. Tehran absorbs the blows and responds with precision. Washington burns through decades of stockpiles in 72 hours and then passes the hat around Capitol Hill. The mask is slipping.
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@elliotlief @brhodes Why, because angry Bibi convinced Trump to get America into a catastrophique war of choice?
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Donald Trump is so weak that he couldn't tell Bibi Netanyahu no, so now we are at war.
Rapid Response 47@RapidResponse47
.@SecRubio: "The president made the very wise decision—we knew that there was going to be an Israeli action, we knew that that would precipitate an attack against American forces, and we knew that if we didn’t preemptively go after them before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties."
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@ajaax75 @brhodes x.com/BulwarkOnline/…
They are Fairly explicit in saying « Israel was going to attack so we had to too »
The Bulwark@BulwarkOnline
Mike Johnson: “This was a defensive measure…If Israel fired upon Iran and took action against Iran to take out the missiles, then [Iran] would have immediately retaliated against U.S. personnel and assets."
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You are mentally ill Ben. Rubio never said that Israeli strikes were the reason for the operation itself. He said they were the reason for the timing of the operation, not the justification for it. That explanation came in the second part of his speech, and it had nothing to do with Israel’s actions.
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@theredrange @NotWoofers Which plans have the US successfully “accomplished “ as of late?
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@LesZards @NotWoofers Because the US has been accomplishing all of its plans so far without any involvement whatsoever from any European “allies.”
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This will take a bit to arrive on station. War may well be over by then. But clearly the French are not happy about their base getting hit.
Faytuks News@Faytuks
BREAKING: The French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle is heading for the Eastern Mediterranean due to the war in the Middle East, according to BFMTV bfmtv.com/international/…
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@Dystop1anFvtvre @SaysSimulation I assume another problème with these weapons is that their very sophistication greatly retards rate of production.
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@SaysSimulation This is not just a US problem, the entire West (except for maybe South Korea) has allowed its defense industrial base to atrophy to the point where it’s barely capable of replacing training and maintenance stocks.
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"U.S. Races to Accomplish Iran Mission Before Munitions Run Out" That is a headline on the current front page of the WSJ (link later).
Reality has not been suspended. For years, I and others have been warning about the US not having the manufacturing capability to quickly
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