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Jeff
@jepaco
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Chicago Katılım Eylül 2008
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This is wild. The @WhiteHouse plagiarized its reason for launching a war on Iran from @FDD, a cutout of Israeli intelligence. Side-by-side screenshots in the 🧵
Stephen McIntyre@ClimateAudit
The most definitive White House statement purporting to justify the Israel-US war on Iran was its March 2, 2026 statement entitled "The Iranian Regime's Decades of Terrorism against American Citizens". whitehouse.gov/articles/2026/… After a brief editorial opening, the article lists 44 incidents with a total of 992 US deaths. The source of the data wasn't given. Where did it come from? Unlike the Iraq war or the Russia collusion allegation, the reporting didn't come from an intelligence assessment, flawed or otherwise. It turns out that the list was plagiarized by the White House from a June 19, 2025 list (fdd.org/analysis/2025/…) prepared by a former AIPAC employee (Tzvi Kahn) for a think tank (FDD) founded "to provide education to enhance Israel's image in North America". The think tank's original identity was "EMET (Hebrew for 'truth')". The June 19, 2025 publication was literally on the eve of the first US bombing of Iran on June 21, 2025. In this thread, I'll compare each and every item in the White House statement to the corresponding item in the original list by the former AIPAC employee. The list is virtually identical. Any slight changes are always in the change of ratcheting up the underlying allegation.
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@hugh_canning Merriam-Webster says that the word "gas" as a liquid, generally, dates to 1779. "Petrol," used to mean gasoline, dates to 1895. But I don't know why the difference in US and British usage. I often say the British have a different word for everything 😂
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@jepaco It always perplexes me that petrol, a liquid, is called “gas” in America. Does anyone know why?
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Jimmy Carter made recommendations about reducing use of gas and was mocked ever after by the right wing. They have no self awareness, no concern whatsoever about hypocrisy, no sense of shame nor even common decency.
WGN TV News@WGNNews
GOP Senate candidate on rising gas prices: 'Maybe you take one less trip to Starbucks' wgntv.com/news/gop-senat…
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Shout out to Qatar for the worst return on a $400M bribe in history.
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Boston shouts out: Andris Nelsons is cheered by a packed house.
How wonderful
share.google/CLrtg40e6DMGTC…
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@colinb8 @BenjaminAppl I've now listened to this twice - it's awe inspiring! Thank you again.
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@jepaco @BenjaminAppl Perhaps a little atypical of Kurtág:
Márta & György Kurtág play Bach-transcriptions by Kurtág - Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit (Sonatina BWV 106) - Actus tragicus:
youtube.com/watch?v=Z8lTh5…
Another performance that I like, by DUO Stephanie and Saar:
youtube.com/watch?v=0wOlGJ…
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Sharing this *wonderful* piece on György Kurtág at age 100. I'm not familiar with Kurtág's works, but this piece has lit a fire of interest.
Of special note is the close professional relationship @BenjaminAppl has with the composer.
nytimes.com/2026/03/10/art…
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@hugh_canning @JakubiDawid No no, I use Google Translate.
But Chicago has the largest population of Polish people after Warsaw (about 900,000).
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@jepaco @JakubiDawid You read Polish! Is there no end to your accomplishments? 🇵🇱 👏👏👏
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Te obrączki stają się właśnie ważne także w Polsce!
Dziś NSA nakazał uznania pierwszego małżeństwa jednopłciowego w Polsce. Nasz kraj nie może dłużej ignorować faktu, że takie pary istnieją i należą im sie prawa. To dzień, na który czekaliśmy latami. Mąż i mąż, to brzmi dumnie!
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@hugh_canning The Myanmar visit was fascinating. It was many years ago, and they were so cut off from the world that everything had to be done in cash because they couldn't process any banking.
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@jepaco Myanmar is a place I’ve never visited 😰 and Montenegro 🤷🏻♂️
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Pay attention: MAGA Mary Miller admits that Project 2025 was a plan of retribution.
She then, like Trump, projects it onto someone else, because MAGA never understands that some people enter politics with a spirit of service and an intention of following the Constitution.
Mary Miller@Miller_Congress
Pay attention: JB Pritzker and the Democrats are openly laying the groundwork for political retribution against their opponents. We already saw it under Joe Biden. Next time, it will be worse. The American people have a duty to ensure this kind of tyranny NEVER takes power again.
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Just sent this out. The US campaign against Iran has revealed one major story which people are not acknowledging. For reasons of both internal US weakness and technological development, the US is showing it has almost no chance in a war against China in the Western Pacific.
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FUN FACT: According to the Adler Planetarium, "Chicagohenge" is described as the time "when nature and architecture harmoniously come together."
It occurs twice a year during the fall and spring equinox, Adler says, "and happens when the Sun directly lines up with Chicago's east-west facing streets."
Get outside Chicago. Capture the magic. Post pics if you got em!
#ChicagoHistory 🌞
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Today, 20th March, is the vernal equinox in the northern hemisphere; the first day of spring
It has been a long time coming but is very welcome!
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@hugh_canning That's Ireland, Montenegro, Myanmar, and Cyprus (where I saw "Othello's Tower" - to make it relatable to you 😈)
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@jepaco You’re a more exotic traveller than yours truly 😈🤣😂🤣
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@colinb8 @BenjaminAppl Thanks for this - I believe his Bach transcriptions were very important to him.
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100 asylum seekers have been wrongfully deported in violation of a court-approved settlement involving unaccompanied minors.
The only journalist at a federal hearing yesterday was @TPM_dk
EXCLUSIVE: Trump Admin Wrongfully Deported More Than 100... talkingpointsmemo.com/news/exclusive…
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