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Wait how do we know he didn't die of celiac disease
Charlie Kirk@charliekirk11
I dont understand how hard it is to remember not to put a bun on a burger. #gluttenfreeproblems
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Alex Bates
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Alex Bates
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29. awarded “Best dad” -my dog. all opinions expressed are solely mine
Pittsburgh, PA Katılım Temmuz 2009
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Mockler on Cost of Iran War:
So in New York, they did free school lunches for $300 million a year, put that against the $50 billion, which is a conservative estimate for this war. We could have funded this across the country. How about in Connecticut? They have paid family leave. It was $450 million a year. And it is $5 million to start up. Put that against the $50 billion. It is a no brainer. What about one more in New Mexico. It costs $1.5 billion for free college. We could do that 20 times over with the $50 billion that we've spent.
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so you’re telling me 5 min before trump announced a ceasefire, someone in his inner circle loaded up on a perfectly-timed trade (long stocks, short oil), walked away with billions, and then we the plebs are told $8 gas is just “the price of freedom” so just get less starbucks ???
unusual_whales@unusual_whales
BREAKING: Just five minutes before Trump's announcement to halt the attacks on Iran, massive trades reportedly hit the market. In one move, $1.5 billion in S&P 500 (ES) futures was bought while $192 million in oil (CL) futures was sold. These orders were 4–6x larger than anything else at the time. The trader seemingly made huge gains. Unusual.
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The breathtaking hypocrisy of this is off the charts. Trump’s ex-wife was killed too. But not by ISIS. She fell down the stairs at home. The day before she was to testify to his malfeasance. He buried her on his golf course. He was no longer with her at the time. He’d left her to shack up with his pregnant girlfriend. Who was donated to him by Jeffrey Epstein. When SHE gave birth he was sleeping with a Porn Star. But hey, Joe Kent remarried four and a half years after Isis killed the mother of his kids that he’d been raising alone…
HatsOff@HatsOffff
Trump when questioned on Joe Kent: “I’m not a fan of the guy... his wife was killed. He remarried fairly quickly”
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if they nuke us can they make sure to do it in the morning i don’t wanna work all fucking day just to come home and get nuked
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Remember way back in 2015, there was an exercise called Jade Helm 15, and the far right was convinced Obama was turning empty Walmarts into secret detention camps?
Maps, Facebook posts, panic about military takeovers. An ordinary special operations training exercise became a full-blown conspiracy. Nothing happened. No camps. No mass detentions. A big nothing-burger and we sane people knew nothing would happen.
Now, less than a decade later, actual billions are being spent on warehouse-style facilities for potential mass detention tied to "immigration enforcement."
And the same kooky people who once screamed about imaginary camps are either silent or cheering.
So when it was a made-up fear under a Democratic president, it was "tyranny."
When it’s a real policy under Trump, it’s suddenly “law and order.” It turns out the panic was never about government overreach. It was about who they wanted to be in charge of it.
The Washington Post@washingtonpost
Breaking news: ICE expects to spend $38.3 billion on its plan to acquire warehouses across the U.S. and retrofit them into immigrant detention centers that can hold tens of thousands of people, according to agency documents. wapo.st/4rdkbuF
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Trump tries justifying suing an agency that HE controls and which he's ordering his staff to issue a settlement to him on behalf of the agency he controls by claiming he's going to give it to charity.
For those with short memories, this is a guy who twice robbed a cancer charity and lied about donating his salary to charity his first term until the cadence got so loud that he donated the money...to a charity he controlled and could take a double deduction from.
The Bulwark@BulwarkOnline
Llamas: “Scott Bessent is the head of the IRS. Pam Bondi is the head of the DOJ. They're going to defend the IRS against you…Are you going to tell them to pay you? You're the boss.” Trump: “What I would do, tell them to pay me, but I'll give 100% of the money to charity. I don't want any of the money.”
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@jasrifootball @DMRussini @alec_lewis Hot take: I think millionaires should be able to witness their children be born
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𝗥𝗨𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗦: Former Vikings’ GM Kwesi Adofo Mensah took two weeks of paternity leave in 2023 after the birth of his first son, and many around the league were in disbelief that he did, per @DMRussini and @alec_lewis
“In an NFL culture where many players, coaches, and executives proudly acknowledge missing the births of their children, taking time away to care for a newborn and support a partner remains uncommon. Among some rival executives and coaches, it was met with disbelief.”
(H/T: @vikingzfanpage)
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I can’t fathom how weak one must be to look at Donald Trump and see strength, how stupid one must be to see wisdom, how corrupt one must be to see virtue. It says a lot of things about Americans collectively — none of them good — and the world will rightly never trust us again.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Trump: "Coal doesn't mind very cold weather, right? You're not allowed to say the word 'coal' with preceding by saying 'clean, beautiful coal.' It's not affected by bad weather. The windmills are are frozen. You know that, right? They don't turn. The windmills aren't turning."
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He’s not dropping “third term / fourth time” lines just to own the libs. The TV cheerleaders and sycophants want you to think it’s all trolling / hilarious banter.
It’s straight desensitization.
Say something outrageous once, people freak out.
Say it twice, they argue about whether it’s serious.
Say it three, four, ten times, suddenly half the crowd treats it like normal talk, even gospel.
That’s how you move the Overton window without anyone noticing till it’s already open.
Either way, they’re training the base to accept what used to be unthinkable.
Thoughts?
CALL TO ACTIVISM@CalltoActivism
🚨UNHINGED: Trump again repeats his bullshit claim about rigged elections. “We won twice. We gotta do it a 3rd time. Should we do it a 4th time?” That’s not a joke. That’s a wannabe dictator floating permanent power, repeating it again and again, hoping his cheering cult will help him rewrite history.
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I’ve said this before but: If a plane hit turbulence and the pilot panicked, aimed the nose to the ground and crashed, no one would say “Well, you try flying a plane in turbulence.” They would say “That is a bad pilot. That’s not how pilots should handle things.”
Jeff Dye@JeffDye
Do you know that ICE agents aren’t robots? They are HUMANS. Humans who are men and women doing a job that can be a very scary job. A job that has and always will be necessary. When they are put in a terribly scary position and they are already on edge TERRIBLE things happen that didn’t need to. NO ONE should be happy when terrible things happen. It’s sad. Life doesn’t happen in a slow motion video frame by frame to judge what SHOULD have happened. It happens quick. Kick the bees nest and the bees come. I’m greatly sad about all of this.
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Even if you take the conservative defense of each ICE killing, you’re left with “We haphazardly scaled up a poorly trained police force to storm into neighborhoods that voted against the president, where we antagonize the local population until someone resists arrest, and then we kill them,” which is morally horrendous on top of being an absurd way to do immigration policy.
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After all this is over, we need to pass a law that makes social media posts from official agency accounts like this subject to perjury. It is too destructive to the country to let them keep lying and lying and lying without any possible legal remedy.
Homeland Security@DHSgov
At 9:05 AM CT, as DHS law enforcement officers were conducting a targeted operation in Minneapolis against an illegal alien wanted for violent assault, an individual approached US Border Patrol officers with a 9 mm semi-automatic handgun, seen here. The officers attempted to disarm the suspect but the armed suspect violently resisted. More details on the armed struggle are forthcoming. Fearing for his life and the lives and safety of fellow officers, an agent fired defensive shots. Medics on scene immediately delivered medical aid to the subject but was pronounced dead at the scene. The suspect also had 2 magazines and no ID—this looks like a situation where an individual wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement. About 200 rioters arrived at the scene and began to obstruct and assault law enforcement on the scene, crowd control measures were deployed for the safety of the public and law enforcement. This situation is evolving, and more information is forthcoming.
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@MLFootball @TitleTalkTCL @MattCouture5 @jerrythornton @itmekaralee @PatsBuzz MAKE BILLIONAIRES UNCOMFORTABLE AGAIN
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NEWS: New England #Patriots billionaire owner Robert Kraft RIPPED New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
“It's sad to me that a man can get elected in the city of New York, the #1 city in America, with a lot of beliefs, and when I heard him come out and speak after he won, I thought he was going to be more of a unifier. I think he spoke out in a way that showed divisiveness”
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Not ONE armchair doctor in the media who diagnosed Biden with everything from Parkinson's to Alzheimer's has anything to say about this. Not one.
Matt McDermott@mattmfm
There was a time when clear physical and cognitive decline in a sitting U.S. President would trigger nonstop news headlines.
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Cool story, Meghan. Here’s the famous pool scene from Mister Rogers in 1969 when he wanted to send a clear message about segregation despite many adults expressing concern over him being “too political.”
Meghan McCain@MeghanMcCain
Wanna know one of the best things about Mr. Rogers growing up? I never knew anything about his political opinions. He just entertained kids. That's it.
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The United States will go down in history as the nation that imprisoned more of its own people than anywhere else on Earth but could not summon the courage to put one rich white man in prison, even to save itself as a nation or to preserve its position in the world.
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