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Historyland@HistorylandHQ·
Statue of Liberty towering over Paris just before it was disassembled and shipped to New York, 1886.
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ChrisO_wiki@ChrisO_wiki·
13/ The deployments made it clear that any attempt to seize Greenland would have consequences of the utmost seriousness, including shattering NATO, destroying the relationship between Europe and the US, and causing significant loss of life to US forces.
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ChrisO_wiki@ChrisO_wiki·
3/ The Danish and French governments worked together to create a northern European coalition to defend Greenland from the United States. Under the cover of a pre-planned defence exercise, Greenland's defences were bolstered to raise the costs of any US invasion attempt.
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100YearsAgoNews@100YearsAgoNews·
Dec. 10, 1925: In a transparent attempt to grab an easy season-ending win, the National Football League’s Chicago Cardinals play a hastily arranged game against the Milwaukee Badgers. The Badgers obligingly fill their team with high school players, and the Cardinals win 59-0.
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Circe@vocalcry·
Everything is perfectly clear. Iran could not be allowed to get a nuclear weapon, which they have been months away from developing for well over a decade. Also, Trump is the only president who could have kept us out of war with Iran, as he himself repeatedly told us. So we destroyed their nuclear capabilities, which Tulsi said they didn't have, in 2025. Then we attacked them last month because Israel was going to attack them because they were months away from developing a nuclear weapon since we destroyed their nuclear capabilities, and that would lead Iran to attack American bases. Iran has never posed a threat to the United States, but we had to attack them first, not because of Israel, but because they posed an imminent threat to the United States. Fortunately, we have won the war, which was not a war but a special operation, in Iran now several times in the last two weeks. It is basically over but might not be over for some time because we already won. We also don't need anyone to help open the Strait of Hormuz, which we knew they would close, which is why we didn't prepare, and we now need allies to help open. What are you guys not understanding?
Karoline Leavitt@PressSec

There are many false claims in this letter but let me address one specifically: that "Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation."   This is the same false claim that Democrats and some in the liberal media have been repeating over and over.   As President Trump has clearly and explicitly stated, he had strong and compelling evidence that Iran was going to attack the United States first.   This evidence was compiled from many sources and factors. President Trump would never make the decision to deploy military assets against a foreign adversary in a vacuum.   Iran is the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism. The Iranian regime is evil. It proudly killed Americans, waged war against our country, and openly threatened us all the way up to the launch of Operation Epic Fury.   Iran was aggressively expanding their short-range ballistic missiles to combine with their naval assets to give themselves immunity – meaning they would have a degree of a capabilities that would give them immunity to hold us and the rest of the world hostage.   The regime aimed to use those ballistic missiles as a shield to continue achieving their ultimate goal – nuclear weapons.   The President, through his top negotiators, gave the regime every single possible opportunity to abandon this unacceptable course by permanently giving up their nuclear ambitions in exchange for sanctions relief, free nuclear fuel, and potential economic partnerships with our country.   But they would not say yes to peace because obtaining nuclear weapons was their fundamental goal.   President Trump ultimately made the determination that a joint attack with Israel would greatly reduce the risk to American lives that would come from a first strike by the terrorist Iranian regime and address this imminent threat to America’s national security interests.   All of this led to President Trump arriving at the determination that this military operation was necessary for U.S. national security, which is why he launched the massively successful Operation Epic Fury. The Commander-in-Chief determines what does and does not constitute a threat, because he is the one constitutionally empowered to do so - and because the American people went to the ballot box and entrusted him and him alone to make such final judgments. And finally, the absurd allegation that President Trump made this decision based on the influence of others, even foreign countries, is both insulting and laughable. President Trump has been remarkably consistent and has said for DECADES that Iran can NEVER possess a nuclear weapon. As someone who actually witnesses President Trump’s decision-making process on a daily basis, I can attest to the fact that he is always looking to do what’s in the best interest of the United States of America — period. America First.

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Damon Linker
Damon Linker@DamonLinker·
Learning so much from this rigorous, thoughtful policy debate on the right.
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Dilan Esper
Dilan Esper@dilanesper·
the fact that we managed a geopolitical situation for 47 years is strong evidence that it was, in fact, a manageable situation
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Dominic Pino
Dominic Pino@DominicJPino·
The five counties BART serves have seen a surge in government spending while the population of the region has stagnated.
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Murtaza Hussain
Murtaza Hussain@MazMHussain·
The Gulf Arab states may double down on their relationship with the U.S. and Israel after the war; not because its ideal but because there is already tremendous sunk costs in that arrangement. Tel Aviv and Washington launched the war without their support and then the U.S. evacuated its bases in the region to avoid casualties while leaving GCC cities to be pummeled by missiles and drones and the Strait of Hormuz blocked with no plan to reopen it. This is less of an alliance at this point than a murder-suicide pact but who knows if there is vision enough to alter it. Ironically the one security arrangement that has seemed to work is the Saudi-Pakistan one as Iran has refrained from targeting Riyadh heavily due to the possibility of a second front opening with Islamabad.
Timour Azhari@timourazhari

Iran/Arab Gulf states require -a “serious review" of ties after the US-Israeli war on Iran, limiting the power of external actors, Tehran's ambassador to Saudi Arabia told me @reuters Also - Denies Iran behind attacks on Saudi oil assets - Says contact w/ Saudi ongoing

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Jim Russell
Jim Russell@ProducerCities·
What the US map should really look like: "The researchers then used an algorithm to identify the best boundaries to 50 economic communities. That’s how they created the map below, showing what our 50 states might look like if they were redrawn today based on economic connections"
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Ethan Mollick
Ethan Mollick@emollick·
Paper on data center water use makes two points 1) National data center water use in 2030 will remain “modest” compared to total public water supply (1.8%–3.7%) or agriculture (0.6%–1.2%) 2) For some localities, serving peak demand could be a big deal & require new infrastructure
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Scott Lincicome
Scott Lincicome@scottlincicome·
Then there are the tariffs. As of today, every new home in America comes with a hefty "tariff surcharge" - totaling thousands of dollars - due to an array of taxes on imported construction materials and home appliances. /3
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