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The sunk cost of shame and dehumanization and the the MAGA cult that perpetuates it. Psychological sickness. tiktok.com/t/ZP8s4NMSt/
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The moment the president of FIFA gave Trump that made-up "FIFA Peace Prize – Football Unites the World" gold medal back in December, I shuddered. I thought, "Trump's administration is going to make entry to the US for FIFA fans and teams a living hell." Unfortunately, I was right. This alert was sent out by Kaufman & Canoles P.C., the law firm handling FIFA international travel compliance. As expected, FIFA Hell America for fans and teams has begun. Now I'm waiting for the unjustified arrests. tinyurl.com/39b9f6sh
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Looks like someone isn't legally down with the idea of MMA cage fights on the White House lawn. "A lawsuit seeking to stop UFC Freedom 250, the UFC event to be held at the White House, was filed in federal court in Washington D.C. on June 6." msn.com/en-us/sports/mma_ufc…

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Ladies and gentlemen. Presenting the🍑🤡 of the United State of Delusion.
.@Timodc on Trump storming out of his interview with Kristen Welker: "It's unbelievable, honestly, that the American people could put this fucking ass clown in the White House."
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The Library of Alexandria created the first catalog of all human knowledge 2,300 years ago, and a team of fewer than 20 people just finished the modern version and made it free for the entire planet. It is called OpenAlex. The name is not an accident. The ancient library had the Pinakes, a catalog mapping every scroll, every author, every subject. When the library fell, the map of what humanity knew fell with it. For the last two decades, that map existed again, but it was locked up. Elsevier owns Scopus. Clarivate owns Web of Science. If your university could not afford the subscription, you could not see the structure of science itself. Entire countries were priced out of knowing what research existed. OpenAlex indexes 474 million scholarly works. Every author disambiguated. Every citation traced. Every institution and funder connected. It updates with roughly 50,000 new works every day. The whole thing is CC0. Not just free to search. Free to download, copy, sell, and build on. The API allows 100,000 requests a day without an account. The ancient library burned and the catalog was lost for two millennia. The new one cannot burn. Anyone can hold a copy. openalex.org
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I agree. Sadly, WHPC has become spineless. Their failure to defend abused reporters demonstrates pure cowardice. Worse, their refusal to cross dear leader is dereliction of duty. Surrendering their power to hold him accountable undermines the sanctity of the Free Press, without which democracy dies.
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Asymmetric warfare's a f-'ng bitch. The British learned that lesson 250 years ago. America's 250th birthday gift to itself are those lessons learned by the last Western hegemony. Before fall of empire. ... Yesterday, June 3rd, Kuwait International Airport. In retaliation for recent US attacks on Iranian military sites, Iran made their neighbors lives a bit more insecure and miserable. This attack was a message from Iran to the Gulf Nation States, "America cannot save you." 😑
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A message to all sane Republicans: He pardoned 1,600 violent criminals. You said nothing. He bulldozed the East Wing. You said nothing. He interfered with the release of the Epstein files. You said nothing. He took over the Kennedy Center and renamed it after himself. You said nothing. He accepted a $400 million airplane as a personal gift. You said nothing. He threatened Canada, Cuba, Denmark, Greenland, Venezuela, Colombia, and Brazil. You said nothing. He tariffed just about everyone but Russia, causing inflation and instability worldwide. You said nothing. He attacked a nation during mediated negotiations. You said nothing. His ill-conceived war killed 175 children on day one. You said nothing. He alienated and insulted our allies. You said nothing. His ICE Army terrorized and murdered U.S. citizens. You said nothing. He committed murder on the high seas. You said nothing. He co-opted the Justice Department and directed it to prosecute his political enemies. You said nothing. It’s time to start talking.
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On our nation's 250th birthday, maybe the Trump administration is a blessing in disguise. As Trump's endless river of quasi-criminal and criminal actions flow through the sieve of our Courts, judges are discovering weaknesses throughout our framework of justice that are exploitable by selfserving bad actors. Should we escape the Trump regieme, we need a couple of administrations strong enough to not merely patch the walls but tear out and replace outdated and exploitable sections of this county's base legal framework.
BREAKING: A federal judge is now signaling the Trump administration’s so-called “weaponization fund” may have emerged from collusive litigation and could potentially amount to fraud on the court. That is nuclear-level language from a judge. “Fraud on the court” is not normal criticism. It is reserved for situations where a court believes it may have been manipulated, misled, or used as part of a coordinated scheme. And the judge reportedly pointed to two giant red flags: - the massive $1.8 billion settlement amount - and concerns the opposing sides may not have actually been acting as true adversaries Translation? The court is openly questioning whether this lawsuit was partially engineered to create a taxpayer-funded political compensation machine. That is an absolutely extraordinary development.
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Dr. Steven Hassan is interviewing Dave Troy. Get in here and learn! x.com/i/broadcasts/1DxLddYAj…

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In 2020, I combed through the White House database of Trump speeches from events not prominent enough to be covered by the media. Back then, Trump's speeches were meandering, meaningless, jumbles of incomprehensible wilted word salad. What @jimstewartson posted today is far worse than Trump 2020.
1/3 You may see clips of Trump’s self-evident dementia, but the full effect requires stamina. Here is NINE MINUTES of Trump talking about his fountains in a Cabinet meeting. Try to read it. I dare you. “D.C. and D.C. is looking beautiful. The fountains are almost all open. We had 28 of them, and we have one in particular, a very long lake, we call it. They're reflecting lake between the Lincoln Monument. Nobody's ever seen anything like it. You take a look at between Lincoln and Washington. You have the longest, like 2,400 feet long. That's longer than the tallest building in the world, if you set it on your side. And it's almost 200 feet wide. And for-- actually, it was built in 1922. And from 1920 to '21, it really never worked. It always leaked. And it was a problem about things. And hundreds of millions was spent. The Biden administration and the Obama administration spent hundreds of millions of dollars trying to get it to work, and they failed. And we'll be spending-- you'll give me a number. But I think it's very low numbers, like in the number that we originally talked about. Where we cleaned it, we fumigated it, that we had 10 major truck dumpsters of garbage taken out. Can you believe it? Friend of mine came in. Very substantial person from Germany. Want to see the Washington Monument. I wanted to see the Lincoln Memorial. He said, I look, but that horrible reflecting pond is disgusting. It's filthy dirty and disgusting. I said, really, I drove down. I said, secret shares was taken dry. And we went down. I said, that's terrible. And for the most part, it didn't work. I mean, they wouldn't even have water in there. But when they did, it was just dirty, filthy water that leaked out. And we got to work on it. And they were supposed to cost almost 400, think of it, 400 million dollars, because it's like putting the skin on a skyscraper. But bigger, much bigger, many skyscrapers, you could almost say, other than for the world. So I think of it, the world's tallest skyscraper is shorter than 2,400 feet. So we went to work. And over the years, I built hundreds of pools. I built them every time I built them. I always like to build the Olympic size swimming pools. And I was very aware of swimming pool, what goes into making a swimming pool. It's not as simple as people think. You never wanted to leak. You want a beautiful surface. I said, you know, I have an idea, Doug. We sat down. I said, let's take that long thing where we're going to fix it with concrete, which leaks, concrete, all sorts of other materials that all leak and don't look good. They're gray. And swimming pool, I have a swimming pool right up the road. I built it 22 years ago. It's perfect. I said, does it ever leak, though? It's good contractors. I actually called it a couple of the contractors, got some ideas from them. And I gave it to Doug and Doug's done an unbelievable job. And so they were going to spend maybe 400 million dollars. I don't know. You never know with cost overruns and everything. But it was going to take years to build three years, four years. And we'll have it done before July 4th substantially, before July 4th. If we didn't have such a bad weather the last four or five days, it could have been almost done. We have to-- you can't do this substance in the rain. And what they did is they cleaned it. They took out, as I said, more than 10 dumpsters of garbage. Shovels, it was disgusting. Well, every corner, every corner, had massive amounts of-- I guess that's the way the tide goes. But at massive amounts of garbage, we then steamed clean it. We then sandblasted it. And then we pebble blasted. That's a bigger version of sand. We made the surface as good as it can be. Now we're now covering it with the most beautiful blue. Very thick, you think of it as a very sophisticated form of rubber. No leaks, no problems. And it's beautiful. It's called American Flag Blue that was the color we chose.”
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TONIGHT'S SPECIAL GUEST in New American Center's X space: Primary Election Updates with Astronaut Terry Virts. 🚀 Terry Virts went from flying F-16s and commanding the International Space Station to rocketing into politics as a “common-sense Democrat” in Texas. With 213 days in space, 3 spacewalks, 5,300 flight hours, a Guinness World Record for the fastest polar circumnavigation, and campaigns for both the U.S. Senate and Congress, Virts has built a career that spans aviation, space exploration, and public service.
TONIGHT - We’re watching multiple primary elections across the country w/astronaut Terry Virts @AstroTerry and the team at @NewAmCenter. Join us at 8pm ET! 🇺🇸 x.com/i/spaces/1lKQRvbglzYGE
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Trump's new Counterterrorism "strategy" guide is 16 pages long. 14 pages minus the cover and table of contents. 13 pages if you discount the Trump's self aggrandizing Introduction page. Trump's new Counterterrorism "strategy" guide is 13 pages long, reeks of hubris, intentional misdirection, and is wholly uninformative. It's as easy to read as the guy whose signature appears on the Introduction page.
The White House just dropped a new “counterterrorism strategy” that quietly expanded the definition of terrorist by lumping cartels, ISIS, "left-wing extremists"… and "anarchists" into the same “threat” category. The first page of text ends with the phrase: “We Will Find You and We Will Kill You.” That is printed above the president’s signature. The language in the document is broad and open-ended. Once political labels become national security threats, the target can change overnight. This is how mission creep starts: Today it’s cartels. Tomorrow it’s dissidents.
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Thank you for not pronouncing arch, "arc."
After Jesse Watters of Fox complained about my story on Trump’s ridiculous reflecting pool project, I decided to do a fuller report on many of the ways Trump is ruining DC. CRY MORE @JesseBWatters ! 😂 cc @WashProbs
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Affirmitive.
Sure. This will be airing during Donald Trump‘s golf tournament this weekend. On the golf channel. At his club.
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Blood and treasure for Trump's war of hubris.
The thing about war is, it’s not a one way street as Pete Hegseth would have you believe. Take a look at this report from the New York Times. As you can see, a series of satellite images were released showing damage at U.S. bases across the region, some of which killed American military personnel. The question is, do you believe the account of the Iranians or the ‘nothing to see here’ US account? It turns out the Iranian account is correct and the American response was to instruct satellite companies to remove the incriminating images. Just as Hegseth can’t bring himself to admit that they killed over a hundred elementary school girls on day one in an erroneous triple tap, he wants to hide the extensive damage caused by precision attacks by Iran on U.S. assets. We know time and again Trump has lied about Iran begging him to do a deal, and that as a result, billions have been made from market manipulation. Even now, he’s is claiming Iran wants a deal as fire is being exchanged in the Strait of Hormuz, exchanges that he yesterday described as ‘love taps’. In critical times of war it’s not a good look when enemy accounts of events are proved to be accurate while your own president and Secretary of Defense is found to be repeatedly lying. The cost of this conflict has been laughably estimated to be $25 billion when credible inside U.S. sources claim that over 50% of critical missile stocks have been depleted. The obvious question being, imagine what damage Iran could have done given the extensive ACTUAL damage the U.S. have tried to hide? The narrative is that Iran are days away from economic catastrophe, yet the CIA have reported that Iran could survive the U.S. blockade for up to three months. The whole U.S. narrative, just like the administration’s economic and foreign policy agenda is built on a lie, in a fantasy world that Trump expects us to join him, while it falls apart at the seams. It has been said time and again by military and foreign policy experts that this war of choice was a mistake. There has been no regime change or popular uprising. If anything the new Iranian leadership is more hardline than it was before. There was no imminent nuclear threat, that was just another in a litany of lies to justify what was an attempt to extort Iran and seize their oil as had happened in Venezuela. In his blinkered quest for glory and self enrichment, Trump assumed Iran was just another ‘shit hole country’ incapable of resisting the might of the U.S. military. He understood nothing of the Iranian decentralized command and control ‘mosaic strategy’. In his own words he did not think they would close the Strait of Hormuz or attack Gulf states. He simply expected Iran to capitulate, so Kushner and Witkoff could hand them his Qatari bank details for them to send him his cut of their oil sales. As things stand, he is out of options, the global South is creaking as their economies experience unnecessary distress, gas prices are at $4.50 and if he told the truth as opposed to lying, oil prices would likely be at $200 a barrel. The Strait of Hormuz is closed, the enriched uranium has not been removed. Iranian drone and missile stocks remain at over 50% with some estimates putting them at 70% and Trump is claiming victory, suggesting Iran has no cards. He’s living in a fantasy world having wasted billions and sacrificed American lives having inflicted irreparable damage to Gulf state alliances. The UAE has now left OPEC while China now describes the US as ‘A superpower with a limp’ In one stupid act, Trump has raised questions about U.S. military power when faced with an asymmetric kinetic response. Questions have arisen about US readiness when it comes to minesweepers and logistics capabilities as US sailors were shown to be rationing food. Nobody is doubting the ability of the U.S. military who performed exactly as expected. The problem is, they’re lions being led by donkeys. 🎥 TikTok - vm.tiktok.com/ZNRsDdUJ6/
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When Trump's moronic "whole civilization will die tonight" post on Truth Social dropped, every intelligence agency on the planet went on alert. Trump just threatened Iran with what sure sounds like nuclear annihilation, again. After dropping two atomic bombs on Japan, president Harry Truman broadcast to the world that if Japan refuses to “accept our terms, they may expect a rain of ruin from the air, the like of which has never been seen on this earth.” Much of America is numb to Trump's threats. But when the man in control of the world's second biggest nuclear arsenal threatens to end an entire civilization, the adults in governments everywhere pay attention. Yesterday, Trump made his threat again. "If there's no ceasefire, you're not going to have to know. You're just going have to look at one big glow coming out of Iran."
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When the world feels broken, un-Baroque it with Vivaldi!
This made my heart smile. I hope it makes your's smile as well! 🥰tiktok.com/t/ZP8p28Xcr/
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