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BREAKING: NYT Confirms Trump Is Supervising Kennedy Center Tarp Removal As His Agents Appear to Be Indicating It May Stay Up Indefinitely—Effectively Taking *Kennedy's* Name Off the Center As Well As Trump's in One of the Most Petty and Vindictive Acts Ever Taken By Any President
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USA Delta Force in casual attire protecting General Norman Schwarzkopf during the Gulf War, 1991
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They were Delta Operators on GEN Schwarzkopf's security detail during Operation DESERT STORM; Larry Steele, Norm Crawford, John Staterstad, and Bill Cronin. At the time they were all Operators assigned to Training, Evaluation, and Operational Research (TEOR), Delta.
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NEWS: DCA is currently on a ground stop and has been temporarily closed “for an event.” Planes set to land at DC’s airport have alerted their passengers. This comes after we at @MeidasTouch reported pilots are filing safety reports due to the lights from Trump’s UFC octagon.
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I I’ll never forgive people who voted for Trump. This is on them. The Lincoln Memorial is hallowed ground. Where our greatest president, who gave his life to end slavery, is commentated. Where the Gettysburg Address is written. We live as graffiti now.

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Matt Younkin Twin Beech 18 Approach & Bird Strike Everyone seemed to really enjoy my photo of Matt Younkin in his Twin Beech 18 at the Spirit of St. Louis Air Show & STEM Expo. I also captured some videos of similar approaches.
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On the return from Normandy I dropped into The King’s English in Terminal A at the Salt Lake airport and signed copies of THE FOURTH OPTION. There might be a few left! Not passing through Salt Lake but still want a signed book? Maybe for Father’s Day? Find them via the link: officialjackcarr.com/signed-…
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Omg lmao that was quick….algae is already filling up in Trump’s new and improved reflecting pool….as usual #ETTD

When the $14 million renovations of the Reflecting Pool were completed last week, President Trump praised its “beautiful, clean water.” Now, days after the pool was refilled, clumps of green algae have has been spotted throughout the water. wapo.st/49PJEE4
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He had the Right Stuff, even if he never made it to space.
"Nov 6, 1944: First time I saw a jet, I shot it down." ~ Gen. Chuck Yeager, USAF.
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🚨 SHAMEFUL ERASURE! This corrupt Trump administration ordered the Air Force to scrub the historic achievements of Retired Col. Nicole Malachowski — the FIRST female Thunderbird pilot in 2006! 🔥😡 Pete Hegseth's DEI purge is wiping out documented military history to feed fragile egos. Her legacy is NOT a political slogan — it's FACT! Stop the cover-up!
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How the world's most hated mercenaries risked their lives for a US Marine. Hundreds of enemy fighters had a US compound surrounded in Najaf, Iraq. RPGs and small arms fire poured in from every side. Holding the roof were 8 Blackwater contractors, a few foreign soldiers, and a US Marine who'd wandered in to fix a radio. The Marine hauled 150 pounds of ammo up four stories, took a round near his spine and shrapnel in one eye, but stayed in the fight. Enemy snipers hit two more of the defenders and soon they were down to single digits, and low on ammo. The military wasn't coming. So Blackwater scrambled its own helicopters, flying them into the gunfire to drop ammo and carry the wounded Marine out. "The Army wouldn't help," one of the pilots said, "so we got busy." Just days earlier, the world had met a different Blackwater. Four of its men had driven unarmored SUVs into Fallujah, where a mob ambushed them, dragged them from the wrecks, and set the bodies on fire. That night, Americans turned on their TVs and saw two of them strung up from a bridge, with an Iraqi crowd cheering below. Blackwater was a new kind of force. Hired guns, many former Special Forces, fighting a war they were no longer in uniform for. They answered to no army, and an occupation rule called "Order 17" made them almost untouchable in court. But that freedom had a dark side. A Blackwater convoy guarding US diplomats rolled into a busy Baghdad traffic circle and opened fire. When the shooting stopped, 14 unarmed Iraqis were dead, two of them boys aged nine and eleven. Four people were convicted, and years later President Trump pardoned them all. On the rooftop they kept a wounded Marine alive against a mob. In the traffic circle they were the reason a family never came home. To most people, Blackwater was one or the other, all bad or all good. Either way, they had a lasting impact on the role of private military contractors (PMCs) in war zones, and the lessons will be felt for years to come.
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EXCLUSIVE: A commercial airline pilot filed safety reports after nearly being blinded by lights from Donald Trump's UFC structure when flying into Washington, D.C.'s Reagan airport. My latest with @MeidasTouch: meidasnews.com/news/white-ho…
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I want to give you guys some facts about General Chappie James. He wasn’t a “DEI” hire—he was a complete badass that had to overcome MORE than any white pilot. Did 178 combat missions—that’s like 7 bomber tours on a B-17 in WWII. His medal count? Impeccable. 3 Distinguished Flying Crosses, 14 Air Medals, Two Legions of Merit, and a Defense Distinguished Service Medal. One of the original Tuskegee Airmen, the first four-star African American General. Hegseth couldn’t sniff the level of soldiering and warrior that was in Chappie’s DNA. God bless him. And Hegseth took down his picture from a hallway like a racist little child, which is what he is.
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🚨EXCLUSIVE: A commercial airline pilot tells MeidasTouch they filed FAA and NASA safety reports after lighting from Trump’s UFC event at the White House allegedly flooded their cockpit on approach to Reagan National. The pilot called it “10 times worse than any laser illumination event” they’d ever experienced. meidasnews.com/news/white-ho…
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After MUCH consider consideration I'm happy to announce that I'll be rejoining the @SANSInstitute!
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Just as the engineers said it would.
Algae resurfaces in reflecting pool after multimillion-dollar fixes dlvr.it/TT1BzL
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SERIOUS QUESTION: Do you ever really get overwhelmed by how our current reality is a genuine dystopian nightmare yet everyone still acts like it is completely normal ??
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There now appears to be close to 900 packages, in the Arch Linux User Repository (AUR) which contain malicious code (including keyloggers). Which means we are closing in on 1% of the entire AUR containing deliberately malicious code.
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