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@allenanalysis And you let him continue with this..... shame on you.....

🚨 BREAKING: Trump awarded a no-bid federal contract to a company that worked on the swimming pool at one of his golf clubs. The project: painting the bottom of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool blue. The original cost: $1.8 million. The current cost: $13.1 million and rising. The contractor is Atlantic Industrial Coatings, they have never held a federal contract before. Trump’s National Park Service invoked an “unusual and compelling urgency” exception to bypass competitive bidding, citing the July 4 anniversary. Trump said it himself in the Oval Office: “I have some really good pool builders.” The Interior Department added $6.2 million to the contract; including a 20 percent profit margin for the contractor. A union safety leader told The Guardian the rushed timeline is exposing workers to “hazardous” chemicals. This is not the only one. The same administration awarded a separate no-bid contract for the Lafayette Park fountains. The Biden estimate in 2022 was $3.3 million. Trump’s no-bid version: $17.4 million.

They betrayed those in Afghanistan who trusted them. They betrayed Ukraine by withdrawing support, even though they had guaranteed the inviolability of its borders. They betrayed Denmark, their longtime ally, by demanding Greenland from them. They betrayed Taiwan by calling it “a small and distant island” while in China, increasing the risk of a Chinese attack. Now they are withdrawing their troops from Romania and Poland, leaving Eastern Europe on its own. We will manage on our own, because for centuries we have known one thing: if you want to rely on something, rely on yourself. But these betrayals will forever strip the United States of its role as a superpower. What kind of superpower does not keep its word? In our part of the world, a new superpower must rise to take America’s place: Europe.

@MasudGh Litt av problemet med at man ikke sier i fra, er at da blir man selv angrepet. Om man er litt til høyre politisk, så angriper de som er til venstre, og motsatt. Ytringsfriheten i Norge avtagende, på mange måter. Dette gjelder begge sider.

Det er på tide å våkne, Norge 🇳🇴 Jeg er utrolig glad i Norge, og på 17. mai har vi verdens beste nasjonaldagsfeiring med barnetog. Vi feirer Grunnloven vår, som allerede i 1814 la grunnlaget for demokrati og ytringsfrihet. Vi lever i en tid der det står dårlig til med demokratiene i verden. Bare 7 prosent av verdens befolkning lever i liberale demokratier, sånn som oss. Vi i Norge er heller ikke immune mot utviklingen ellers i verden. I Norge ser vi at netthets florerer i samfunnet. Nesten halvparten av oss politikere har opplevd trusler og hets. Det skremmer folk fra å bruke ytringsfriheten og bidrar til polarisering og mistillit. Det ødelegger det som er limet mellom oss: Tilliten. La oss ikke glemme at grunnlovsfedrene allerede i 1814 skrev noe så radikalt som ytringsfrihet inn i Grunnloven. De forsto at uenighet er viktig for demokratiet vårt. La oss slå ring om ytringsfrihet og en ordentlig debattkultur, der vi viser hverandre respekt og tar et kraftig oppgjør med hets og trusler. Vi trenger flere som Ken, som sier ifra når de ser noen som oppfører seg dårlig på nett. Jeg har et ansvar. Du har et ansvar. Vi har et ansvar!

@JayinKyiv #TrumpisaCunt

Could you imagine the international uproar if Ukraine spent 15 hours sending 1500 missiles and drones into population centers all over Russia, mainly into apartment buildings, killing 15 people, including children? Russia just did this, and no one cares, especially the White House.

@frontlinekit Please send it to Moscow!

russia fired 56 missiles during the night, and also launched 675 attack drones. But guess what? Now we have missiles too, now we have long range drones too, and soon russia will feel every last one we have, russia will pay. Revenge will be served hot this time 🔥🔥🔥

@BohuslavskaKate But, it's a good start anyway 😃

In Moscow a fire broke out on the grounds of the Kremlin 👀🔥 However, this is not the Kremlin in central Moscow. This is Izmailovo Kremlin, located on the outskirts.

@airmainengineer Panic attack, obviously

Can you guess what they are doing?✈️

@elonmusk Sounds like the Epstein island.....

@JROlsen77 @truhole Ssssh..... ikke stopp de! Psykologer trenger også kunder. Psykisk lidelse kommer i mange former og fasonger! 😃

En av de dummeste konspirasjonsteoriene som finnes er at fly sprayer oss med skadelige kjemikalier. Det man ser på himmelen er bare vanndamp som produseres når oljebasert drivstoff forbrennes,så ikke farlig. 🤣 @truhole

@RpsAgainstTrump Can't they just ask all Americans to drink bleach? Or eat cake....?

Last year, HHS Secretary RFK Jr. fired all full-time employees in the CDC’s cruise ship sanitation program, gutting the agency’s ability to investigate outbreaks and inspect ships. Now, after a deadly virus outbreak aboard the Dutch cruise ship MV Hondius left three passengers dead, U.S. officials are monitoring possible infections in multiple states as the CDC no longer has a full-time cruise ship sanitation team. Great job, everyone.

@jurgen_nauditt Source?

@gardlm @politinordland Kan du anbefale tjeneste/leverandør? Spør for en venn....

Hei @politinordland, det er bare å ringe hvis dere lurer på noe

@ItsTheEnforcer Source?

🚨BREAKING: Russia has launched drones into the airspace of NATO member Latvia. It appears an oil storage facility was struck. It's not currently known how many drones entered in total.

@anishmoonka In Norway, we use the calendar for schedule.....

In 1944, a Swiss engineer named Hans Hilfiker designed a clock for train stations. Sixty-eight years later, Apple put it on the iPad without asking. Switzerland sent them a $22 million bill. Apple paid. The clock has a red second hand that sweeps the dial in 58.5 seconds, then pauses for a beat at the top of the minute. It waits for an electric signal from one master clock somewhere in the country before jumping forward. Every clock at every station shows the same second. This kind of obsession runs through every Swiss train ride. Two crews drilled through 35 miles of solid Alps from opposite ends to build the Gotthard Base Tunnel. After 17 years and $12 billion, they met in the middle, 3 inches off. Vertically, the misalignment was under half an inch. It is the longest train tunnel on Earth, and the deepest, with up to 1.4 miles of rock overhead. Nine workers died building it. Switzerland has more train track per square mile than any country in Europe. Nearly three times more than the European average. The Swiss ride more trains per person than anyone in the world except Japan. The average is 1,500 miles a year. Punctuality runs on its own scale. Last year, 94 out of every 100 Swiss trains arrived on time. And in Switzerland, "on time" means "within 3 minutes of the schedule." Germany gives trains 6 minutes. France and Italy give 5. Use Germany's gentler rule, and 99 out of 100 Swiss long-distance trains arrived on time. Germany itself manages 62. The trains have been fully electric for decades. Since January 2025, all of that electricity comes from clean energy, mostly from eight hydroelectric plants the railway owns. A long-distance Swiss train carries one passenger 60 miles on about half the electricity an electric car would use. Scenery like that takes work. It takes a country that spends $18 billion on its trains in four years, powers them with Alpine water, drills 35 miles through solid mountain, and treats a 3-minute delay as a national failure. The view out the window is what's left over.

@Keir_Starmer @Emanuel_Macron_ @SecGenNATO @kajakallas Why do you allow this?

@saintjavelin No.

Should Ukraine agree to a ceasefire on May 9 if Russia is already violating it now?

@ZelenskyyUa It would be nice to see Ukrainian drones in formation over the red square..... 😃

After yesterday’s savage strikes against our cities and communities – Dnipro, Zaporizhzhia, Kramatorsk, and others – the Russian army continued active hostilities and terrorist shelling throughout this day as well. Russia’s choice is an obvious spurning of a ceasefire and of saving lives. Assaults continue across all key sections of the front, and since the start of this day alone, the Russian army has already carried out nearly 30 assaults. More than 20 air strikes using over 70 aerial bombs have been recorded just overnight and this morning. Throughout the night, the Russian army also launched strikes with various types of drones. In particular, Ukraine’s Defense Forces neutralized nearly 90 attack drones alone. There were also missile strikes. In total, as of 10 a.m., the Russian army had committed 1,820 violations of the ceasefire regime – shelling, attempted assaults, air strikes, and the use of drones. I am grateful to our warriors for defending Ukrainian positions. Ukraine clearly stated that it would act in kind, taking into account Russia’s persistent appeals through the media and social networks asking for a ceasefire during the Moscow parade. It is obvious to any reasonable person that a full-scale war and the daily murdering of people are a bad time for public “celebrations.” Russia must end the war it is currently waging. Even with the internet shut down and communications blocked, it is perfectly clear to most Russians that their leadership can come out of the bunker and choose peace. The Russian side has our diplomatic proposals, and the only thing needed is Russia’s willingness to move toward real peace. As of today, we can confirm that the Russian side has disrupted the ceasefire regime. Based on the evening reports from our military and intelligence, we will decide on our further actions. Glory to Ukraine!

@gibraltarfx @Object_Zero_ Concrete, producing every day. Been there, done that 😀

@Object_Zero_ Are those legs concrete or steel ? Is it still in use ?

Big problems require big solutions. 30 years ago this week the Troll-A platform was towed out of Stavangerfjord and 120 miles across the North Sea to its final installation site. It remains the largest object ever moved by humans. It weighed 1.2 million tons It was 1,550 feet tall If you want to build big things, if you have big ambitions, then you build things at sea. This is just obvious. Some of us have experience building and operating submarines, pipelines, platforms, power cables, ships, floating installations, things that people struggle to imagine. We can build things on the seabed, in the water column, on the surface, towering above the surface, even 3 miles below the seabed we build things there too. We have been doing it for a long time. We are good at it. Above a certain scale it is far easier to build and operate things at sea than it is on land. Building on land is slow and bitty and people moan about it, building at sea is big, heavy and fast. Nobody can stop you.

@PanzerJo Så venter man bare på at det skal være over, atter en gang.

@PanzerJo Det er desverre alt for vanlig å bare "gå videre". Men man må jo det, på sin måte. Problemene kommer ofte for at mange ikke forstår. Eller klarer å sette seg inn i hvordan det var. Og dermed blir det vanskeligere og vanskeligere å prate om det.

“Slutten og begynnelsen”, fri gjengivelse. Etter hver krig må noen rydde opp. Noen må skyve ruinene til side, slik at veiene kan åpnes igjen, slik at vogner med døde kan forsvinne, slik at støv kan legge seg. Noen må hente det som ikke eksploderte, begrave likene, og sørge for at det som ikke lenger har navn, blir borte fra synet. De som vet noe om det, kommer ikke alltid tilbake for å forklare. Det finnes kameraer som blir igjen og ser på tomme hus, på vegger som ikke lenger har rom, på ting som ingen lenger eier. Og etterpå kommer de som vet litt mindre, og de som later som de ikke vet. De som går rundt og sier at det snart vil være normalt igjen. Men det er alltid noen som må begynne på det vanskelige arbeidet: å late som det som skjedde, er bak oss. Wisława Szymborska 😞