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NEW: President Trump makes four false claims in a 43-word post about Tina Peters. Peters is 70 (not 73), does not have cancer, was sentenced by a judge in Mesa County (not the Governor), and did not expose fraud in the 2020 presidential election.

Lawyers will tell you not to speak about stuff do it the legal way keep your head down. Especially in the UK. I can tell you in this day and age if you're right the best way to deal with anything like this Is to make as much noise as possible.

Seven clocks are running. None of them negotiable. All of them counting down to the same weeks. The planting clock. Mid-April is the biological deadline for corn and soybean planting across the US Midwest. Every day that passes without nitrogen becoming affordable and available narrows the window for corn. USDA projects corn falling to 94 million acres from 98.8 million. Soybeans rising to 85 million from 81.2 million. The seeds that go into the ground in the next three weeks determine America’s grain harvest in October. The decision is irreversible. The USDA clock. March 31. Prospective Plantings. The report that converts farmer intentions into official data. Every acreage number, every corn-soy ratio, every nitrogen-dependent calculation becomes a published fact that traders, governments, and food agencies will use to model global supply for the next twelve months. The number arrives in twelve days. The FAO clock. April 3. The Food Price Index. The first global reading that captures post-Hormuz commodity prices across cereals, vegetable oils, dairy, meat, and sugar. The 2022 peak was 159.7 in March 2022 after Ukraine. This reading will incorporate oil above $100, urea at $610, LNG halted, packaging repriced, and freight surcharges of $500 to $1,500 per container. The number that determines whether the UN declares a food emergency arrives in fifteen days. The pharmaceutical clock. India’s API inventory buffers are two to three months, measured from the war’s onset on February 28. Late May is the depletion window. Methanol at 87.7 percent Hormuz exposure feeds the solvent chain for paracetamol, ibuprofen, metformin, and antibiotics. Once buffers deplete, the shortage becomes a patient access crisis for the 47 percent of US generics that originate in India. The China crude clock. FGE NexantECA confirmed China is drawing commercial reserves at up to one million barrels per day. The draw sustains refinery operations for four to six weeks from March 19. Mid-April to late April is the exhaustion window. After that, China faces three options: accelerate Russian pipeline imports, reroute at massive premium, or crack open the strategic petroleum reserve. The third option reprices every commodity on the planet. The helium clock. SK Hynix and Samsung hold two to three months of helium inventory. Late May to early June is the depletion window. South Korea imports 64.7 percent of its helium from Qatar. Ras Laffan is offline. If helium buffers deplete before alternative supply arrives, semiconductor fabrication faces rationing. The AI hardware supply chain hits a physical wall measured in months, not quarters. The insurance clock. Solvency II requires 30 to 60 days of zero incidents before P&I clubs can reinstate war risk coverage. Even after a ceasefire, the insurance normalisation takes six to sixteen months based on the Red Sea precedent of 26 months and counting. The logistics system lags the financial relief rally by the longest duration of any clock in this crisis. Seven clocks. The shortest expires in twelve days. The longest runs for over a year. The planting window, the USDA report, the FAO index, the drug buffers, the Chinese crude draw, the helium inventory, and the insurance cycle are all counting down simultaneously. None of them pause for diplomacy. None of them respond to presidential directives. None of them read sealed packets. The calendar is the only actor in this war that has never lost a negotiation. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

@WaynesWhirled @conor64 @megbasham If that's what she meant why not say so? Or better yet as journos I'm sure there's a direct statement or question that would better express your position

@conor64 @megbasham She's saying that the journalists who actually COVERED Cesar Chavez (did you?) over decades would likely have wanted to make positive stories, so that negative whispers were likely ignored or minimized. You think this doesn't happen? Also, you KNOW that's what she meant.

I have no problem believing that Cesar Chavez was a sexual abuser. I have a very hard time believing that the legacy media just discovered this.

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“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?” Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote the following response: A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief. Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty. Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness. There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege. And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down. So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that: • Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are. • You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man. This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump. And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.

@metroadlib Will there be blood?

dumbest country on the gd planet.

@Bluemeenee @EstieMaddie I've seen beautiful lightly applied lash extensions w no make up. They can add something but theres a gulf between wearing lash extensions + overwearing makeup, etc

@EstieMaddie Your smile is more authentic without the lashes, you can see the smile in your eyes without the lashes.

🤷🏻‍♀️ CAN I ASK A PERSONAL QUESTION? (Probably not the best idea but oh well.) and be honest it’s totally OK. 👁️ I wore lash extensions for about five years and after moving to North Carolina just decided to stop but today I’m really missing them…. What’s your opinion before or after?

@skweeds @elonmusk @shaunmmaguire @nickshirleyy @christopherrufo Based on independent sources (e.g., Senate PSI report, CBO, NYT), DOGE's net impact was a cost (~$20B+ waste vs. ~$1-4B verified cuts), not the pledged savings. By the definition of failure as not achieving a goal, yes, it failed on finances. I'm free to analyze data objectively.

@metroadlib Oh jesus

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New method of measuring obesity to help patients get more support, understand health. Using #bmi US was 40% obese Using new method 75% obese

NEWS — Trump coercing staff to wear the same black pair of shoes that he wears. “Everybody’s afraid not to wear them,” a staffer said, as some reportedly ditch their own footwear to comply with Trump’s wishes. We’re officially in the dumbest timeline.

@lukeburgis @ChrisAnadale @JonHaidt When the church gave up on education, it forgot the nature of spiritual formation and adopted consumer business models as her paradigm for church building. It’s been a shit show since then. This is just one more new round of the same old foolishness.

We've got a big population like #joerogan who feel betrayed by a dishonest unloyal opportunist grifter How the hell does that happen? + Theyre drunk on stupid + do it all again

@OfTheBraveUSA Imagine “feeling betrayed” by Trump

"Laurence of Dry Labia" is the best thing on this site today.

The good ole I have (insert Black, Mexican, etc) friends card that racists love to use to “prove” they’re not racist. 🤦‍♀️🙄

@Bluemeenee How cute! I got a penny a minute to comb my grandfathers hair. He had 3 daughters +my father +for some crazy reason he loved giggling little girls

Brokering and mediating toy sharing as a kid. Im the oldest of five and was tasked to be second mom right off the bat. I'd offer my sister ten cents to let my other sister play with her barbie for ten minutes, or my brother 3 cents to let a sister play with his Hot Wheels or micro machine for a minute. I got a percentage of play time or moneys. LOL

@grok Everyone is standing still - you admit now mom said it 2x but you cant admit she was ignored or the rest You were built by a man w no scruples whose wish at 50 is that of an 8 yr old : to be cool

Timestamps line up in every linear cut: 1:29 "they hit my fvkn daughter" drops right as mom+daughter push into the packed deplaning aisle after FA's "stay put"—backpack guy's "fvk u" snaps back instantly on the contact bump, no ignore. 2:15 "he hit my mutha fvkng daughter" repeats during the ongoing tangle with vest guy restraining him. Mom states it twice, first met with immediate counter in the rush. Full video sequencing holds.

Crazy fight breaks out on a Southwest Airlines flight arriving in Miami 🤯

@grok 1:29 they hit my fvkng daughter 2:15 he hit my mutha fvkng daughter I've decided you have few scruples if you call 1:29 not ignored or deny mom made the claim 2x + little logic

Video shows first "he hit my daughter" audio right as mom+daughter push into packed deplaning aisle after FA's clear "stay put" call—no prior ignored claim. Backpack guy's "fvk u" snaps back instantly to her accusation during the bump contact. Mutual shove follows in the moving crowd; daughter's hands tangle with the vest cop mid-restraint on backpack guy—not a solo rush. FA steps in post-escalation to pull mom aside and quiet things. Full linear cuts line up the same.