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@armstrong2025

Boomer from the age of vacuum tubes, slide rules, and carbon paper. Lifelong Democrat/socialist/antifascist, military veteran, scientist, naturalist, and atheist. Dogs are my friends.

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Daily Cost of Trump’s Iran War Is Triple the Initially Reported Amount Initial reports indicated the war is costing the U.S. $1 billion a day.

Daily Cost of Trump’s Iran War Is Triple the Initially Reported Amount newrepublic.com/post/207579/... via @newrepublic.com

10.03.2026 21:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Pete Hegseth Outright Quotes Scripture in Iran War Briefing The Christian nationalist undertones of this war are getting even more obvious.

Pete Hegseth Outright Quotes Scripture in Iran War Briefing newrepublic.com/post/207564/... via @newrepublic.com

10.03.2026 21:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Trump Goes on Deranged Rant About Dead Soldiers Walking Around This is the man who’s led us into a new war with Iran.

Trump Goes on Deranged Rant About Dead Soldiers Walking Around newrepublic.com/post/207572/... via @newrepublic.com

10.03.2026 21:42 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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Trump Can’t Decide Whether the Iran War Is Still Going On The president seems to be at odds with both himself and his secretary of defense about the status of the conflict.

Schrodingers War
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

10.03.2026 21:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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How We’re All Now Paying the Price for the Myth of Trump’s Competence The administration’s war with Iran is setting a mountain of taxpayer dollars on fire every day—mostly because he doesn’t know what he’s doing.

The man is, whatever his other faults, just way in over his head. Maybe Democrats should say that more often. The fact that he’s costing taxpayers a billion dollars a day on a war most of them didn’t want may be a good place to start. trib.al/oQGYMWP

10.03.2026 14:48 👍 560 🔁 189 💬 38 📌 13

I see these TV drug commercials for "COPD", while the guy sits there hacking his guts out with his cigarettes and ashtray full of butts.
Back in the day we called that emphysema.
Please Don't Smoke!

10.03.2026 12:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A++++++ question there

10.03.2026 07:14 👍 4217 🔁 1009 💬 342 📌 67
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WAR will NOT make Pedophilia go away!

#Iran

#Epstein

#EpsteinFiles

10.03.2026 00:48 👍 7057 🔁 2567 💬 214 📌 89
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The worst cabinet in American history And it's not even close.

open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...

10.03.2026 10:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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🇺🇦 Ukraine will receive up to 35 PAC-3 Patriot interceptor missiles from European partners in the coming weeks, including missiles from Germany’s Bundeswehr, according to SPIEGEL.

10.03.2026 09:52 👍 69 🔁 13 💬 3 📌 0

🆘 AT RISK 🐶CHOCO PIE

His former foster sez: He's a total lovebug who wants nothing more than to be by your side-especially if you're handing out chest rubs. Taking a break from work? Great, he's already there, giving you those big eyes that say, "Is it cuddle o'clock yet?"

Repost to find a #foster

09.03.2026 15:04 👍 3 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1

When JD Vance gets bored with eyeliner, he can get some makeup tips from Roger Stone, Trump and drag queen Rudy Giuliani.

10.03.2026 01:57 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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He was the first to expose the real Trump. Now there's only one way to honor him. Remembering the great, truth-digging, shit-kicking Wayne Barrett.

Why will Trump not release the Epstein files?
He's dangerously unstable and starting wars to distract us.
He is moving away from NATO and towards Putin.
This book told the whole story long before Trump even started running for President.
Trump is a born liar and thief. #LockHimUp
shorturl.at/HOxQV

10.03.2026 03:05 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Here's some merch I purchased to help support Wild Hornets.

09.03.2026 22:34 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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🐾Just 35 lbs, 1-y/o Texas Toast came in a stray late Feb. Listed for being scared w/ tail tucked & doesn't want to leave her kennel. Social w/ familar staff, has been on a walk & had a gate greeting w/ helper dog. Likes treats. Caught kennel cough. Foster offer by 3/10: nycacc.app#/browse/248162

09.03.2026 19:13 👍 9 🔁 17 💬 0 📌 1

It's nice how a gas station can profit immensely by increasing the price by 30c/gal from one day to the next. All for the same gas that's been in their storage tanks for over a week.

09.03.2026 17:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Spreading crushed rock on farms could absorb 1 billion tonnes of CO2 Putting silicate rocks from mine waste on fields could improve crops and limit global warming, but some researchers question where all that rock is going to come from

Theoretically. And how much energy, including combustion of fossil fuels (which produce CO2) will it take to implement?
www.newscientist.com/article/2517...

09.03.2026 15:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Surely evil and corrupt, if not stupid.

09.03.2026 15:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Trump Is Risking a Global Stagflation Crisis With His Iran War The effect on oil and gas could be much, much larger than he thinks. And that shock will be passed on to every sector of the economy.

Trump Is Risking a Global Stagflation Crisis With His Iran War newrepublic.com/article/2074... via @newrepublic.com

09.03.2026 14:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Donald Trump Has Lit a Global Match Trump and his aides think the United States has global leverage that his predecessors refused to use. He seems to forget that other countries have leverage, too—and they’re intent on using it to stop ...

Donald Trump Has Lit a Global Match newrepublic.com/article/2072... via @newrepublic.com

09.03.2026 14:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The smell of shit The expression “American exceptionalism” has been on my mind lately as I witness the disintegration of what made the United States an exceptional nation.

open.substack.com/pub/stevesch...

09.03.2026 14:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades Since 2014, the planet has been warming by about 0.36°C per decade, according to an analysis of five temperature datasets, raising fears that climate tipping points could be crossed earlier than expec...

www.newscientist.com/article/2518...

09.03.2026 14:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Shift in the Gulf Stream could signal ocean current collapse Models show that as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation gets weaker, the Gulf Stream will drift northwards. There are signs that this is already happening, and a more abrupt shift could wa...

www.newscientist.com/article/2518...

09.03.2026 14:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Lindsey is a little weasel.

09.03.2026 13:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Lindsey’s diplomacy working wonders in UAE.

09.03.2026 12:13 👍 19642 🔁 6719 💬 805 📌 431

Why is he still breathing?

09.03.2026 13:21 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Canada Is at War ... With the United States Pete Hegseth took time out from the chaos of the Iran war to make an announcement that Donald Trump has renamed the region from Mexico to Greenland as “Greater North America.”

The United States is at War... With Canada
open.substack.com/pub/charliea...

09.03.2026 13:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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TAPPER: Do you think Stephen Miller should go?

TILLIS: Of course I do. He's a big problem in this administration and has been since the beginning

08.03.2026 13:11 👍 8775 🔁 2190 💬 448 📌 194

Trump has been a fraud, conman, and swindler his entire life. New Yorkers can vouch for that!

09.03.2026 12:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Inexcusable Incompetence Tens of thousands of civilians are stranded and at risk

open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

09.03.2026 12:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0