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@lorbla

Recovering fundamentalist. She is too fond of books. Views are my own.

เข้าร่วม Nisan 2010
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Kim W. Chafee
Kim W. Chafee@RevKimWChafee·
Truly.
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Furkan Gözükara
Furkan Gözükara@FurkanGozukara·
Famous author Wajahat Ali completely destroys Pastor Doug Wilson on live TV. He exposes the Pentagon's religious extremism, calling out Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth as a cosplay crusader getting innocent civilians killed in an illegal and unwinnable war in Iran.
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Daniel Dale
Daniel Dale@ddale8·
Trump said Friday that the Strait of Hormuz situation was "over." It very obviously wasn't. Trump said Friday that Iran agreed "to never close the Strait of Hormuz again.” The next day, Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz again. Trump said yesterday that Vance isn't going to Pakistan for the talks. Officials quickly said Vance is going to Pakistan for the talks. Trump said this morning that Vance had left and would be there tonight Islamabad time. Officials quickly said Vance is actually leaving tomorrow. Trump said Iran has no military anymore and that "everything's gone." Iran continues to have a military with destructive capabilities. Trump said the pope issued a statement saying Iran can have a nuclear weapon. That never happened.   Trump said nobody expected Iran to retaliate against Gulf countries. That was widely expected. Trump said the only planes the US has really lost in the war have been to friendly fire. He said this at the same event at which he had spoken at length about what happened after Iran shot down a US plane. Story on the president's ever-growing number of false claims on big and small matters related to the war – and his triumphant claims about supposed Iranian concessions that we just can't assume are based in reality: cnn.com/2026/04/20/pol…
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bookworm@lorbla·
@NickCohen4 I always think of these lines when I think of Trump. "Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away."
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Nick Cohen
Nick Cohen@NickCohen4·
Shelley lines about George III in 1819 now apply to the President of the United States that was founded in a revolt against his rule
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Ninja Kibs
Ninja Kibs@IsmanameKibs·
@atrupar right. You sound unhinged and jealous of the greatest President of my lifetime.
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Aaron Rupar
Aaron Rupar@atrupar·
“It’s difficult to cover him in a way that conveys how unhinged he is. Journalists are trained to be like, ‘OK, what did he say that was newsworthy?’ So you convey that to your audience. But in reality, when you actually watch, you see he's full of hatred, lying constantly, and very incoherent.” thetimes.com/us/american-po…
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Rick Wilson
Rick Wilson@TheRickWilson·
A billion MAGA bots can screech for a hundred years and it won't change the fact that Bob Mueller was a better man by many orders of magnitude than Donald Trump ever dreamed of being.
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Bill Kristol
Bill Kristol@BillKristol·
Robert Swan Mueller III, 1944-2026. Patriot. “For how can you compete, Being honor bred, with one Who were it proved he lies Were neither shamed in his own Nor in his neighbors' eyes?” — Yeats
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paul bassett davies
paul bassett davies@thewritertype·
As a fun Comic Relief stunt to benefit sick and underprivileged kids maybe billionaires could pay their fucking taxes. #RedNoseDay
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Ilan Goldenberg
Ilan Goldenberg@ilangoldenberg·
Actually, the guy who was the point person for Iran at the White House and was fired by the Trump Administration after being Loomered wrote EXACTLY that warning 4 days before the war started. The article was titled “Why Iran Will Escalate.” But who needs experts… foreignaffairs.com/middle-east/wh…
Acyn@Acyn

Doocy: You said: they hit Qatar, Saudi Arabia UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait nobody expected that. We were shocked. Are you surprised that nobody briefed you ahead of time that that might be their retaliation? Trump: Nobody. Nobody. No no no no. The greatest experts—nobody thought they were going hit…

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richard bacon
richard bacon@richardpbacon·
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Anish Moonka@anishmoonka

That one neuron connects to about 7,000 others. Your brain has 86 billion of them. Do the math and you get somewhere around 100 trillion connections inside your head. More connections than stars in 1,500 galaxies. And each connection point is way more complicated than anyone expected. A Stanford lab found that every single connection contains about 1,000 tiny switches that can store memories and process information at the same time. So your brain is running roughly 100 quadrillion switches right now, while you read this sentence. The wild part is the power bill. Your brain runs on 20 watts. That’s less energy than the light in your fridge. The world’s fastest supercomputer needs 20 million watts to do the same amount of raw calculation. A million times more power for the same output. We’re still nowhere close to understanding how any of this works. In October 2024, a team of hundreds of scientists finished mapping every single connection in a fruit fly’s brain. Took six years and heavy AI help. That fly brain had 140,000 neurons. Yours has 86 billion. Google and Harvard also mapped a piece of human brain last year, a speck smaller than a grain of rice. That speck alone contained 150 million connections and took 1,400 terabytes to store. The lead scientist said mapping a full human brain at that detail would produce as much data as the entire world generates in a year. A tiny worm had its 302 brain cells mapped back in 1986. Almost 40 years later, scientists still can’t fully explain how that worm’s brain keeps it alive. Your brain has 86 billion of those cells, each one wired to thousands of others, each wire packed with a thousand switches, all of it humming along on less power than a lightbulb.

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Reed Galen
Reed Galen@reedgalen·
You can love your country and love your military and 100% believe that neither of them should be fighting undeclared wars with no strategy, objective, or end-date. Remember Vietnam? Remember Afghanistan? Remember Iraq?
Erick Erickson@EWErickson

Many on the Left and a growing number on the Right are rooting against the United States generally and in Iran specifically. The hate America crowd is growing, polluted by social media influencers getting rich off your outrage.

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Curt Mills
Curt Mills@CurtMills·
It took the US 20 years to replace the Taliban with the Taliban, but only 9 days to replace Khamenei with Khamenei
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Tara Setmayer 🌻 🇺🇸
Tara Setmayer 🌻 🇺🇸@TaraSetmayer·
Silver spooned draft dodger who’s called fallen soldiers “suckers and losers” continues to disrespect our military by wearing a branded hat during the dignified transfer of dead American service members. Trump is disgusting.
CNN@CNN

The families of the six US Army Reserve soldiers who were killed this week in Kuwait watched as their loved ones were brought home during a dignified transfer at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware on Saturday. cnn.it/4bw4QzS

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