@BohuslavskaKate If it gives them an exit ramp, they can blame the Easter Bunny.
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Hegseth: "We're still dealing with the environment Joe Biden created—depleting our stockpiles and sending them to Ukraine instead of our own military. Every time we face a challenge, it traces back to 'Well, sent it to Ukraine.'"
It looks like they’re just going to blame Ukraine whenever anything goes wrong now, doesn’t it? It’s depressing to watch because while this administration will eventually leave office, a segment of Americans will keep hating Ukraine without even remembering why.
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@Mylovanov How tragic that Trump is making Bolton seem reasonable by comparison.
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Bolton: Trump doesn't know the value of what he's trading.
He'll give away something really important to get small item that benefits him in the short term. You're either in an alliance or you're not. Trump doesn't understand the alliance concept. 1/
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@AnnaRMatson I always liked Gabbard but she made a terrible decision to join Trump's cabinet in a relatively low profile position. No chance to shine like Rubio (at times) yet sullied by her proximity to a failed presidency. With luck, Trump will turns things around or she'll find an exit.
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Tulsi Gabbard is in a tough spot if she wants to run for president one day.
If she resigns from Trump’s admin, she will likely lose a primary. Primary elections are decided by the fringe of each party. The fringe right only cares about loyalty to President Trump above all logic and reason and stepping down will be seen as a betrayal.
If she stays, it will be difficult for her to win a general election where the moderates and the independents decide the election.
But at what point do you stop playing the game and focus on your own morals? Is it worth it to go against your ethics to maybe be president one day and change things at the top? Or is it worth it to step down, hold onto your ethics, and possibly end your political career?
I just know that I wouldn’t want to be in her shoes today.
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@PeteButtigieg Agreed, now if Pete could name one thing he accomplished as Sec. of Trans., I'll listen to more than 10s of his spiel.
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It’s amateur hour for the politicians at the Pentagon and White House in charge of this war.
This is not a video game. And there is absolutely no excuse for the Trump operation to dishonor this nation by raising campaign money off the images of our war dead.
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@AJEnglish I'm pretty sure this lady represents the typical Iranian woman, e.g. no popular uprising is going to happen.
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Video shows an Iranian woman recording a message to Americans, explaining the meaning behind 'Allahu Akbar' to deconstruct Islamophobic narratives of the term.
Moments into the recording, a supposed US-Israeli strike caused an explosion behind her.
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@TheTNHoller @AOC @BlueATLGeorgia Fine to increase taxes on people and corporations with plentiful discrectionary income. But in fact it's the middle class they will destroy. The rich are too smart, too well connected, and too few to bear the burden.
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WATCH: “The answer has to be a more progressive tax system. Give people the necessities of life for free — childcare, healthcare… the rich keep getting richer…”
Lloyd Blankfein, Senior Chair of Goldman Sachs, out here sounding like @AOC & Bernie 👀 🎯
(From @BlueATLGeorgia)
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@AutismCapital Years from now, Elon will explain that the general public needed regular doses of Hopium to endure the psychological pressure of the Great Reset.
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🚨 NEW: Elon explains Universal High Income and gets called out by Peter Diamandis 😂
ELON MUSK: “We’re going to have Universal High Income. We’ll basically just issue money to people. We’re going to have deflation. AI and robots are going to make so much stuff that they’ll run out of things to do for the humans. Money will stop being relevant at some point in the future.
DIAMANDIS: “So just as you’re becoming a multi trillionaire money starts to have less value?”
ELON: “Yeah pretty much.” 😂 😂 😂
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Elon Musk: It's easy to be a warmonger if you don't risk dying at the front lines. It's fucked up that people are having fancy dinners in Washington, D.C. while people are being slaughtered. That’s cruel and lacking in empathy.
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@PhilosophyOfPhy On the optimistic side, terrestial plants serve as a benign/beneficial restoring force (aqueous plants are more problematic). On the pessimistic side, the earth has experienced a wide range of climates, only a tiny fraction are compatible with modern society.
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This explanation of the 'greenhouse effect' in 1985 by Dr. Carl Sagan remains a landmark of science communication for its clarity and planetary perspective.
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@eye95 @DesireeAmerica4 @grok The rules of life, the dos and donts, must be made clear. People will modify their behavior to keep their jobs and avoid arrest but they have to know where the line is drawn. Who knew SC would call the FBI? And what if she had typed, "strangle" instead of "shoot"?
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.@grok, do we know the full content of the post? Folks have said that it contained the word shoot, but context is important.
Examples: “Shoot. That little bugger behaved so badly.” The word shoot is an expletive. Investigation would be pointless.
“I could just shoot that little bugger.” This would create reasonable suspicion, warranting a detention and investigation. Intent would be dispositive.
“If he ever does this again, I will literally shoot him.” That would be a prosecutable threat.
So, do we have the context?
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EVER WONDER WHAT HAPPENED TO THE TEACHER ARRESTED BY SNAPCHAT'S AI?
Because she jokingly typed the word "shoot" in a private snap to a friend, Snapchat flagged her account and sent the message directly to the FBI. The FBI then had a local sheriff's Deputy show up at her school.
Well, here is what eventually happened.
She was physically pulled out of her elementary school and taken straight to the Tazewell County Jail, where she was officially booked for disorderly conduct.
After interrogating her, the deputies actually admitted on the record that she made the comment purely out of "exasperation." They confirmed she had absolutely zero intent to harm anyone and was never a threat to the school.
But even though the cops admitted she wasn't a danger and no formal charges were ever filed, her career still took a massive hit. The school district superintendent sent a letter to parents terminating her entirely, stating she would not be allowed to return to finish her assignment.
If a regular person ruined someone's career with a false police report, they would be sued into oblivion. So when exactly does Snapchat get held accountable for this? 🤷🏼♀️
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@LindseyGrahamSC No surprise that the Kurds and Saudis are taking a wait-and-see approach to what might become an expensive quagmire, or an abort-and-run operation.
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The American Embassy is being evacuated in Riyadh because of sustained attacks by Iran against the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
It is my understanding the Kingdom refuses to use their capable military as a part of an effort to end the barbaric and terrorist Iranian regime who has terrorized the region and killed 7 Americans.
Question – why should America do a defense agreement with a country like the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia that is unwilling to join a fight of mutual interest?
Americans are dying and the U.S. is spending billions to dislodge the terrorist Iranian regime that threatens the region. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia seems to be issuing statements and doing things in the background that are marginally helpful, but unwilling to participate in military operations to end the reign of terror coming out of Iran. Hopefully Gulf Cooperation Council countries will get more involved as this fight is in their backyard. If you are not willing to use your military now, when are you willing to use it?
Hopefully this changes soon. If not, consequences will follow.
nytimes.com/2026/03/08/wor…
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@ggreenwald Probably the Iranian citizens who favor a secular society are in the minority.
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A huge crowd of Iranians assembles in Revolution Square in Tehran to express gratitude and love for Israel and the US, heralding them as liberators.
Oh, it's actually to commemorate the new Iranian leader and condemn attacks by two foreign states:
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@Rainmaker1973 I remember taking Drafting 101 at UI for an engineering degree. A fun class, learned about different perspectives.
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@RepNancyMace I support Mace in her efforts to bring wealthy pedos to trial but I believe AOC when she says the resolution was flawed and needs to be improved and reintroduced.
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Your phony outrage about protecting victims is as fraudulent as your girl-from-the-Bronx act.
You voted to protect the cover-up. You voted to shield predators. Your fake concern for victims’ privacy, which you cannot factually back up, doesn't change what you voted for.
Own it.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@AOC
The idea is good but the text itself was rushed and not thought through. It violated a lot of standard practices to protect survivors and due process: 1. It also released documents related to allegations found to be false or unsubstantiated, not just verified violations or settlements. So innocent people would get lumped in with violators. 2. To our knowledge, there was zero victim consent or consultation on this text. That is very different than with Epstein, where victims are centered and consulted at every step. Here, victims offered all their statements with the promise of protection and anonymity. The text gave them no way to have a voice in what information of theirs or their accounts they wanted public or keep private. That is important because… 3. Although there was a throwaway line about redacting victim names, I do believe full witness or victim statements would have been released. With the way employment at the House works (offices are small, time periods of staff employment are publicly disclosed, etc) it means that even with names redacted you can definitely track details in witness statements and use that to ID victims without their consent. And there was zero mechanism for victims themselves to assert their privacy. Originally we were supposed to debate the details of the text over two days but for some reason they rushed the vote so we couldn’t iron out any of these details to get this information properly disclosed in a way that guarantees victim safety. If the text was clean I think you’d get a lot more support. As a survivor, I know why the vast majority of women never report at all and a lot of those reasons, even if unintentionally or inadvertently, were included here. For me at least, guaranteeing the safety and agency of victims and survivors would get me to a YES.
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@Holden_Culotta TG should have never joined the ship of fools. She might recover though.
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“The whole MAGA movement was an epic sham.”
“There is no America First.”
“This is Israel First.”
This independent journalist just dropped a bombshell from inside Trump’s inner circle on Tim Dillon.
“It’s like an authoritarian dictatorship.”
“Tulsi Gabbard is the embodiment of what happened to the isolationist wing of the MAGA movement when this second Trump administration came to power.”
“These guys are completely sidelined.”
Jeremy Scahill’s reporting for Drop Site News will shock you:
“The other day, I was talking to Daniel Davis, who … was supposed to be one of Tulsi Gabbard’s deputies in this administration.”
“He still maintains contact with some people.”
“He said, there’s only a handful of sane people left in [Trump’s] inner circle when it comes to … national security or specifically, with this Iran war.”
“And that … it’s not welcome to sort of be giving contrary views.”
“You’re gonna be viewed as disloyal.”
“You could play clip after clip of Tulsi Gabbard explaining very articulately what’s wrong with these kinds of wars.”
“She has nothing to do with this stuff.”
“And if she’s allowed to speak publicly, she needs to toe the party line.”
“That’s the reality of this administration.”
“There is no isolationist wing of this administration.”
@TimJDillon @ryangrim @jeremyscahill
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American was told to soak her blueberries in salt water
Doing so would make larvae appear from inside the berries. It worked….
She says “They came out from the INSIDE of the berry — Be sure to soak your berries”
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@MichaelAlbertMD No one ever mentions Calories per $ -or- hours of preparation time for a made from scratch meal.
How many of us can afford to eat like a Kennedy?
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I’m sorry, but I disagree with this decision. We seem to operate under the assumption that physicians are responsible for fixing every aspect of society, which is unrealistic.
First, we already have trained professionals in nutrition—dietitians. Yet we consistently underpay them and fail to provide adequate access to their services. While physicians receiving 40 hours of nutrition education isn’t inherently a bad idea, delivering the behavioral interventions required to meaningfully change diet often takes hours of patient engagement. In the current system, many physicians are fortunate if they can spend 5–10 minutes with a patient a few times per year.
The problem is not that people are unaware they should eat more fruits and vegetables. The larger issue is that the food system itself heavily subsidizes and incentivizes highly processed foods. Structural changes to that system would likely have a far greater impact than physicians repeatedly telling patients to eat more fruits and vegetables.
At some point, we need to acknowledge the limits of what can realistically be addressed within a brief clinical encounter. It’s all so exhausting.
Secretary Kennedy@SecKennedy
.@EDSecMcMahon and I announced that, starting this fall, 53 medical schools across 31 states will deliver at least 40 hours of nutrition education during undergraduate medical training. This landmark reform will transform medical education, equip future physicians to prevent and treat chronic disease, and advance @POTUS’s commitment to end the chronic disease epidemic.
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@AOC Authoring flawed resolution that consciencious lawmakers decline is an old political tactic. I'm right-of-center but AOC is correct here. Good that Mace is going after corruption within the ruling class, but it should be done properly.
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Lady, your sloppy resolution would have doxxed victim statements that had identifying info.
It redacted names & NOTHING else. House empl. records can match statements to reverse ID names.
Take your job seriously. Fix your messy loopholes & I’d vote YES. You know that. Not hard!
Nancy Mace@NancyMace
🚨FRAUD ALERT🚨 AOC voted against releasing sexual harassment records of Members of Congress. But wants to lecture you on Epstein...
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@leadlagreport He and his friends were too busy refilling their portfolios with oil stocks, oil futures, and a few options. Business as usual.
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WHY THE FUCK DIDNT TRUMP REFILL THE STRATEGIC PETROLEUM RESERVES BEFORE ATTACKING IRAN
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