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'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it'----George Santayana From his work; Life of Reason, Reason in Common Sense 1905. William L. Shirer included the quote as an epigraph in his literary work The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich in 1959.

Trump: "We are obliterating their country, and they just don't want to say 'uncle.' But they will. And if they don't, they'll have no bridges, no power plants, no anything. I won't go further because there are other things that are worse than those two, and we might have -- well, if I had my choice, what would I like to do? Take the oil Unfortunately, the American people would like to see us come home."

Hey @netflix, I’m a Canadian Armed forces member currently deployed overseas and I can’t use MY OWN account because of your stupid “Anti Sharing” policies unless I change my deployed location to my “home”. meaning my family can’t use my account while their father is deployed.

Austria bans US military planes from its airspace thehill.com/policy/interna…

Today is Tartan Day! The day was first celebrated in 1987 in Nova Scotia and has been celebrated nationally since 2010. Canada's Official Tartan was designed in 1964 by David Weiser. Here are the official (and unofficial) tartans of Canada's provinces and territories. 🧵1/16

Newfoundland and Labrador: The tartan was designed by Samuel Wilansky, a store owner in St. John's, in 1955. It was adopted in 1973. The white, gold and yellow come from the province's official anthem. Green is for forests, white for snow and brown for the Iron Isle. 🧵12/16

The overwhelming majority of Americans (polls show over 80%) oppose the deportation of people like this woman. In every previous administration, including Trump's first, this woman would not have been a priority for enforcement. What are we doing here? This is wrong.

A U.S. Army staff sergeant and his wife arrived at his base in Louisiana last week, expecting to begin their life together as newlyweds. ICE has arrested and caged her instead. She was brought to the USA as a toddler. These people should be citizens.

@TrendPolCa So Trump was early 80 years old before he finally learned elementary school history? Sounds about right.

FT Exclusive: A broker for the US defence secretary attempted to make a big investment in major defence companies in the weeks leading up to the US-Israeli attack on Iran, according to three people familiar with the matter. ft.trib.al/HIiu9Tx

Nancy Cartwright does her 7 Simpsons characters in under 40 seconds Effortlessly cool photos: bit.ly/4cFoZT1

These are popping up at gas pumps

Tony Gonzales asked a staffer for nude photos more than 12 times in 3 days during his 2020 congressional campaign, persisting each time she demurred. "I know what I want and I won't stop until I get it," the future Congressman said at one point. expressnews.com/politics/artic…

You can’t make this up 🤣

You won't hear a better 55-second description of MAGA and Trump than this: in terms of the perspective of any minimally honest MAGA supporter:

Trump. Not normal. Immature. Dangerous as head of US Armed Forces.

Trump: I called up France, Macron, whose wife treats him extremely badly and he’s still recovering from the right to the jaw. And I say, “Emmanuel, we’d love to have some help in the Gulf”

The US is currently at war in a foreign country. The Pentagon has conducted 1 press briefing in the last 18 days.

⛔️He is really in a bad shape, right side weakness is a sign of a recent stroke ‼️ ⛔️He is unfit to continue ‼️

Emerging evidence suggests that U.S. operations south of Isfahan (marked in red on the map) were unrelated to any pilot rescue mission. The downed American pilot was reportedly located in southwest Iran, near Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province (marked in blue on the map), not central Iran. Instead, this appears to have been a failed heliborne insertion aimed at locating uranium within Iran. The recent dismissal of seasoned U.S. generals may not be coincidental; it may reflect internal resistance to such high-risk operations. Given Iran’s increasingly effective air defense, and the apparent failure of this mission, the viability of future heliborne incursions deep into Iranian territory is now in serious doubt and may ultimately be abandoned.

Firing top U.S. generals is not routine; rather it signals resistance inside the military to a ground invasion of Iran. When seasoned commanders are sidelined, it suggests the push for escalation is political, not strategic. History is clear: Ignore the counsel of experienced generals, and failure may follow!