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@Bull15ChinaShop Bullocks

@JLimebrook @brettachapman It wasnt any of their land anyway. Why do Eskimo look asian. Oh the bearing straight

The Lakotas did not want their Sacred Mountain desecrated with these faces of foreign presidents who were all horrible for Native Americans and caused all the issues facing Indigenous nations today!

@PNW1122 @BeschlossDC A society that doubts its institutions will believe almost anything else.

@BeschlossDC And yet people still doubt them, shows where we are today

Angry, disgusted General Eisenhower during liberation of Buchenwald, today 1945--ordered that evidence of the Nazi atrocities be photographed to avoid their being doubted by later generations:

US intelligence indicates that China is preparing to deliver new air defense systems to Iran within the next few weeks -CNN Intelligence reports also show that China may have already sent MANPADS to Iran during the war -NYT

@too_wycked @ctmommy @realtimsharp I hate be the one to break the news…

@ctmommy @realtimsharp Boomers are dying. You don’t matter

Boomers hate Massie. Mainly because they were told to.

@DuerksenKen @SunsetOstriches @ZionistAF2 @brosen1501 @NickKristof Who cares?

@sigredderfla @SunsetOstriches @ZionistAF2 @brosen1501 @NickKristof lol. Mean Man muting annoying little simp robot.

I was thirty-something years old when Iranian students dragged me into a room and told me I wasn't going anywhere. Four hundred and forty-four days later, I walked out. I've spent the decades since trying to make sense of what happened — and what keeps happening — between our two countries. So don't talk to me about Iran like it's an abstraction. I lived inside that confrontation. I felt it. Which is why I'm not ready to write off this ceasefire, even though everything about it is maddening. Negotiations in Pakistan may produce nothing. The talks could collapse before they get started. I've seen American diplomacy with Iran fail more times than I can count, and usually for the same reasons — too much pride, too little patience, and Israel holding a match in the corner of the room. But here's what I know in my bones: another war won't break Iran. We just tried. It didn't work. Iran doesn't break — it absorbs, it adapts, and it waits. I watched that stubbornness up close for 444 days. What bothers me most isn't that Iran is winning this moment — it's that we handed it to them. Tehran's framework is running these negotiations. Iran still controls the Strait of Hormuz. Still collecting tolls. Trump looked at their proposal and called it workable. I never thought I'd see the day, but here we are. Iran wants everything on the table — sanctions, enrichment rights, American troops out, and a deal that covers what's happening in Lebanon and Gaza too. That's a lot to swallow. And Israel, which wasn't invited to this conversation, is already making clear it has no intention of being constrained by it. That's the part that worries me the most. Because if Israel keeps bombing and Washington can't or won't stop it, none of this holds. And yet — and I say this as someone who has every reason to distrust Tehran — I don't think we go back to all-out war. Not because anyone has suddenly gotten wise, but because the math doesn't work. A second round ends the same way. Iran still controls the Strait. The global economy still flinches when Tehran flexes. What we're heading toward isn't peace. It's something smaller and more precarious — two countries silently agreeing not to destroy each other today, with no paperwork and no guarantees. I know what it's like to survive on something that fragile. For 444 days, that's all I had.

@DuerksenKen @SunsetOstriches @ZionistAF2 @brosen1501 @NickKristof lol. Mean man to the rescue.

@sigredderfla @SunsetOstriches @ZionistAF2 @brosen1501 @NickKristof no its not

@SunsetOstriches @ZionistAF2 @brosen1501 @NickKristof Your first paragraph is bs.

@ZionistAF2 @brosen1501 @NickKristof October surprise. Reagan's people negotiated secretly with the the Iranians to delay hostages' release until his inauguration, making Carter look ineffectual. Reagan officials then went on to sell arms to Iran and divert the money to the Nicaraguan Contras. Very dirty all round.

@David_Charts2 @greggnunziata President Johnson? Keep going.

@greggnunziata Yes, Trump and Vance must step down.

The inability of otherwise sensible and decent people to say the simple truth, when our country is on the line, is heartbreaking.

@lilienfeld1 @greggnunziata If there is a direct or indirect exchange of money or favors to influence the granting of a pardon, it might be possible to prosecute for bribery and seize the money.

@greggnunziata Hard to do. There's no consensus to get an amendment through.

Abolish the pardon power.

This wonderful plasterwork ceiling is in fact a work of the 1950s, from the postwar rebuilding of the Charterhouse in London. Lots of traditionally trained architects and craftsmen were still alive in the 1950s, with the skills to restore war-damaged buildings to an extremely high standard. Few Londoners realise how much of the city they owe to them.

Beautiful Merovingian brooch of the ‘Lady of Quaregnon’, AD 660-670. Found during excavations ahead of construction works at the Grand Place, Quaregnon, Belgium, in 2008-2009. Gold, silver, copper-alloy, garnet, and glass. Diameter 5.6cm. 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology

@JimmyCarterJone @JLTPoetry @AnnCoulter Citizenship for freed slaves was the impetus for the 14th Amendment, but it created a general rule for national citizenship. Before the 14th Amendment, there was no constitutional definition of citizenship. It also nationalized civil rights and equal protection under law.

@JLTPoetry @AnnCoulter She's speaking in context, as in, freed slaves were the reason the amendment was written.

The 14th amendment was about freed slaves ONLY. The framers might have made that point with greater clarity, except our Constitution intentionally avoids referring to race or slavery, out of embarrassment. Instead, the framers used convoluted euphemisms, like “free Persons” and “all other Persons” or “Person held to Service or Labour.” Even the post-Civil War amendments—despite being all about slaves and slavery—go out of their way to minimize the subject, by, for example, guaranteeing “equal protection” to “any person within [a state’s] jurisdiction.” That’s the reason for the 14th Amendment’s strange locution: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” The odd phraseology wasn’t an IED meant to blow up in the country’s face a century later. The framers were expressing their discomfort with the “peculiar institution” that had been demanded by plantation owners in need of cheap labor. (Because, otherwise, “the crops would rot in the field”!) --TWO WONGS DON’T MAKE A RIGHT

@acesoth @greggnunziata @SpeakerJohnson You mean a three‑dollar bill, Ivan. Two‑dollar bills are actually legal tender.

@greggnunziata @SpeakerJohnson You know a great way to identify a fraud like Nunziata? He’s never uttered an ounce of criticism against a Democrat. He’s phonier than a two dollar bill

There are a lot of bad actors on the political scene, in both parties, but @SpeakerJohnson deserves special criticism. It's hard to think of a person who has so completely abdicated a crucial role, while spewing constant, corrosive, untruths.

@palmer5309 @AnnCoulter I know this.

@sigredderfla @AnnCoulter It's not a feeling of loyalty. You OWE it. You don't pledge it. When you were a babe who's army protected you? Who's police? Who's laws? You OWE allegiance. I don't care what you feel. It's what you OWE. And illegals kids OWE the US their sole Allegiance at birth.

This is a very smart argument - I hope John Sauer made it in his brief on anchor babies' alleged "citizenship." <> lawliberty.org/allegiance-bir…

@palmer5309 @AnnCoulter It’s absurd to base citizenship on feelings of loyalty. Legal jurisdiction can’t depend on unprovable emotional attachments. There are probably some foreigners with more faith in our constitution than some Americans.

@sigredderfla @AnnCoulter She's an idiot who didn't bother to look up the meaning of Allegiance under Common Law, which Howard and Trumbull were Common Law Attorneys. If she did she'd know illegals kids are in citizens if born here.

@EshaAA33 It's not a "decision for the president to make" since the passage of legislation that Marco Rubio introduced that prohibits the President from suspending, terminating, denouncing, or withdrawing the US from NATO without Congress.

🚨BREAKING: 100,000 U.S. troops and $60 billion a year defending Europe — and zero help on Hormuz. Time to bring them home. No more free rides.

Fall Creek Falls State Park, Tennessee.

@blue_man_chu @Acyn He didn't say which civilization.

@Acyn Lol here we go again with her bullshit Trump says "a whole civilization will die" Republicans: he didn't actually say "a whole civilization will die" stop your fear mongering!

Reporter: When the U.S. Invaded Iraq in 2003, George W Bush said in a message to the Iraqi people that the military campaign was directed against the lawless men who rule your country and not against you. Yesterday, the president threatened to destroy Iran's civilization, the entire civilization, not the Iranian government, but the Iranian civilization. The U.S. Has been a moral leader for most of its history by fighting wars against other governments, not against civilizations. How can the president claim that America can ever have the moral high ground if he's threatening to destroy civilizations? Leavitt: The president absolutely has the moral high ground… for you to suggest otherwise is insulting.

@realdanihgh @Davidjwells20 @errorinvalidx @AdamKinzinger Ome

@sigredderfla @Davidjwells20 @errorinvalidx @AdamKinzinger If you can’t say what they are then you’re full of shit.

Taking out power plants is only ok if it is to facilitate a full ground invasion. If it’s used as punishment, it’s a clear war crime. Trump has removed all doubt about the whys and is clearly ok with war crimes. The question is will the generals understand they have some responsibility for executing this?