Carol Armen 🗽⚖️📜

Lobbying should be made illegal.

AI Lobbyists Are Flying Congressional Staffers Around the Country on Luxury Trips The Innovative Future Collective, packed with corporate lobbyists for AI industry giants like OpenAI and Andreessen Horowitz, has been paying for House and Senate staff trips to San Francisco, Los Ang...

AI Lobbyists Are Flying Congressional Staffers Around the Country on Luxury Trips

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A newborn's death likely linked to the mom drinking raw milk while pregnant Health officials in New Mexico have said a newborn baby died from a listeria infection likely linked to the child's mother drinking raw milk during pregnancy.

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Imagine a world where Americans were smarter and didn’t applaud when reactionary idiot Ronald Reagan made a show out of removing the solar panels Jimmy Carter had installed on the White House. We wouldn’t now have to worry about affording to fill gas tanks next month.

Good. Ukraine's the global experts at this point.

Ukrainian trainers will prepare Germany's army ahead of a 2029 NATO defense readiness target, German army chief Freuding told Reuters. The initial contingent numbers in the mid-double digits, covering artillery, drones, and engineering. #Europe

Lords a-leaving: Britain is ejecting hereditary nobles from Parliament after 700 years Britain is ending the centuries-old tradition of hereditary aristocrats sitting in Parliament’s House of Lords.

That answers my question about whether the hereditary nobility were still there, which arose as I watched Industry.

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What does one do with millions of dollars of crab and lobster tail??? Is he stocking up to poison people who are allergic to shellfish?

And then he'll create a Nobel War Prize to award himself.

He’s going to declare victory and leave.

This is why the US engaging in a regime change operation is almost always a bad idea, but particularly under this administration.

Taking his ball and going home now will create another insurgency in the Middle East.

AT THIS POINT, PAYING FEELS LIKE BANKROLLING CRIMINALS.

No money to forgive student loans? Explain why basic universal income isn’t possible. Justification for no national healthcare coverage? Tell it to me like I process slow.

Pentagon blocks photographers from Hegseth's briefings on the Iran war The Pentagon has not permitted photographers to cover Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's last two briefings on the war in Iran, and hasn't explained the change in longstanding policy.

This is absolutely disgusting. Hegseth is no doubt lying to the pet press members who will pass the lies on to their Trump-deluded followers. Meanwhile, we'll get the truth from real news media. Next, they'll be baffled as to why gas prices have gone up.

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Live updates: Iran’s ship attacks worsen economic concerns as countries tap oil reserves Iran attacked commercial ships across the Persian Gulf and targeted Dubai International Airport, escalating a campaign of squeezing the oil-rich region as global energy concerns mounted.

Donnie is such a stable genius.

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Iran must have some very long range missiles. Along with their invisible nuclear arms stockpile. "Us" isn't the same as saying something of ours in the area.

“Jared Kushner told me Iran was going to attack us.” — Senile Satan

I don't do YouTube for news. Sorry.

Where would Iran get Tomahawk missiles? The thing about narcissistic personality disordered people is that as they age, their pathological lying becomes more nonsensical.

trump just told the world that Iran somehow fired U.S. Tomahawk missiles at a girls’ school.

It’s either staggering incompetence or a blatant lie about a potential war crime.

I wrote about why this could finally topple his presidency. Read it here:
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Upholding Liberal Education Love of the world, not meaningless tests, must be the heart of liberal education.

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A proud American tradition. Like Halliburton.

Also known as "using insider knowledge for war profiteering."

Legless zombies. Oh my.

I heard the audio. He said it.
Lord. What have y'all done.

SEVEN. That’s how many strikes hit near the Iranian girls’ school.

Video shows a tomahawk missile hitting a building next to the school. The kind of “precision” you get when an incompetent administration runs a war on outdated intelligence.

Don’t look away —we should all see the deadly destruction

New Research Details 'Human and Economic Toll' of US Abortion Bans | Common Dreams A Monday report from the Center for Reproductive Rights features various profiles demonstrating "the human and economic toll" of US abortion bans.

"The Price of Safety: Stories of Abortions Denied, Careers Disrupted, and States Left Behind" details the human and economic toll of abortion bans. The anthology uses stories from patients, doctors, business leaders, and others to show the real-world consequences of abortion bans.

Young kids missed the pandemic's school disruptions. Their reading scores are still behind Young students are still struggling to bounce back academically from the pandemic, even though many were babies at the time.

Or it could be that English classes are a joke compared to STEM-focused math classes.

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In a time of war with Iran, Americans unite in aggravation over sticker shock at the gas pump It seems that a country divided on many fronts is finding common ground at the gas pumps. There, the cost of the Iran war is hitting Americans squarely in the wallet and aggravating people across the ...

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Trump pushes GOP on voting bill, demanding an end to most mail balloting President Donald Trump says he won’t sign any other legislation into law until Congress passes a strict proof-of-citizenship voting bill that he says also must end Americans’ ability to vote by mail.

Here in PA, we've already done our annual sign-up for mail-in ballots. Seems like Trump is so good at stealing elections, mail-in ballots shouldn't concern him. Plus states decide their own elections protocols. Elections include state elections, not just federal. Duh.

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Live updates: Hegseth says today will be the 'most intense day of strikes inside Iran' Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said “today will be yet again our most intense day of strikes inside Iran" at a Pentagon news briefing Tuesday as Iran targets Israel and Gulf countries.

English is apparently not Hegseth's native language: "yet again" and "most intense" obviously contradict each other. Trump of course is an unsteadily walking contradiction: get out of Syria and Afghanista, try for the Nobel Peace Prize, attack the Middle East w/o reason.

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