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Witness to American history, Eisenhower to Now. Architect, Book Collector, Bookbinder, Woodworker. Oxford comma fighter. Berkeley ‘79

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How many US soldiers died because of the intelligence Russia provided?

10.03.2026 22:28 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Russia told Trump it has not shared intelligence with Iran during war, Witkoff says U.S. officials have said Russia has given Iran information that could help its forces strike U.S. military assets in the Middle East, MS Now has reported.

How dumb is this jackass?

10.03.2026 22:21 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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Live Updates: Nearly 700,000 Flee Israeli Strikes in Lebanon

Hegseth: “We’re just blowing shit up.”

10.03.2026 17:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Oil sinks 11% as Trump predicts Middle East de-escalation — Reuters Oil ​prices plummeted by more than $10 a barrel on Tuesday after soaring to an almost four-year high in the previous session after U.S. President Donald ‌Trump predicted the war in the Middle East cou...

Trump is moving the markets with his mouth. What could possibly go wrong?

10.03.2026 16:49 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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‘A very dangerous person’: alarm as Pete Hegseth revels in carnage of Iran war Critics say brash, bombastic Fox News host out of his depth to guide US military through murky new Middle East conflict

He smells like Cosmopolitan.

10.03.2026 16:43 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Analysis: Trump launches the regime-change effort in Iran that he pledged to avoid | CNN Politics Among all Trump’s military actions, this one is the most contradictory. The president has explicitly pitted himself against regime change in the Middle East and argued for a focus that’s close to home...

Congress: “The devil that you know may be better than the devil that you don’t know.”

Trump: “Hold my beer.”

10.03.2026 13:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Yeah, that dog don’t hunt.

10.03.2026 02:50 👍 101 🔁 14 💬 10 📌 16
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Tennessee GOP Rep. Andy Ogles says Muslims ‘don’t belong’ in America The Tennessee Republican recently introduced legislation banning immigration from some Muslim-majority nations.

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” Right Andy?

09.03.2026 21:18 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Opinion | We Are Being Governed by Unserious People

Gift shop hats, costumes and Stephen Miller.

09.03.2026 12:04 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Because destruction is better than obliteration.

09.03.2026 02:50 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Economic Warning Signs Pile Up for Republicans Ahead of Midterms

Like Tariffs, War, Epstein and ICE aren’t enough?

08.03.2026 06:06 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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What the U.S. will look like. The Trump effect.

07.03.2026 19:56 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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CPAC Head Says Iranian Schoolgirls Are Better Dead Than “in a Burqa” Leading Republicans don’t seem to care about the bombing of a girls’ school in Iran.

Republican leadership.

07.03.2026 18:56 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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A self-fulfilling prophecy.

07.03.2026 16:24 👍 202 🔁 54 💬 18 📌 10
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Exclusive: Republican-led committee ramps up its Epstein probe The House Oversight Committee this week voted to subpoena Attorney General Pam Bondi.

If only. They won’t. Trump’s busy with his new toy. The military.

07.03.2026 13:21 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Trump Ousts Kristi Noem From DHS The Homeland Security secretary’s combative Senate hearing this week was a key factor, advisers said.

This saved American lives.

06.03.2026 21:42 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Wars Often Lose Public Support Over Time. Trump Started This One Without Much.

Trump: “It’s a ‘special’ military operation, not a war. Like Ukraine.”

06.03.2026 21:33 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Pentagon Hires DOGE Stooge to Run AI Efforts Amid Iran War The Pentagon’s new chief data officer used to be a part of Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency.”

Remind me why we need Pete, again?

06.03.2026 21:20 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Dow falls by more than 600 points as oil hits $90 and weak jobs data add to market anxiety | CNN Business US stocks were lower Friday, with the major indexes on track for weekly losses, as surging oil prices and weaker-than-expected jobs data added to concerns rippling through markets.

Iceberg off the starboard bow.

06.03.2026 21:08 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 2
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Iran conflict weighs on Ukraine The US requested Kyiv’s help in combatting Iran’s Shahed drones.

Zelenskyy: “I can help, but JD needs to say ‘thank you’ first.”

06.03.2026 16:22 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
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Trump all but declares Cuba will get the Iran treatment next President Donald Trump all but declared plans Thursday to repeat his Iran playbook in Cuba in the coming weeks.

Congress, make it stop.

06.03.2026 16:17 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Marjorie was getting almost normal. She’s back to leaking crazy again.

06.03.2026 15:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Trump Administration Live Updates: President Ousts Noem as Homeland Security Secretary

Trump’s breaking point was Kristi Noem starring in a $200 million ad campaign but not her department gunning down 2 American citizens? Seriously?

06.03.2026 02:49 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

No more Kristi Noem! Nice. But Markwayne Mullins? And what about Lewandowski?

05.03.2026 21:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

No more Kristi Noem! Nice. But Markwayne Mullins? And what about Lewandowski?

05.03.2026 18:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Live Updates: Europe Ramps Up Response as Iranian Crisis Spills Beyond Mideast

But, if Kamala Harris was elected, “she would have caused WWIII.”

If Iran hits a NATO member, we’re there and off to the races. Thank goodness we have a young, energetic, thoughtful, trustworthy, brave President and a Secretary of Defense that promised to quit drinking, leading the battle.

05.03.2026 16:26 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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CNN Host Says Trump’s ‘Panicked’ War Message ‘Speaks Volumes’ Christiane Amanpour thinks White House guidance on evacuating the Middle East shows the president has no idea what he’s doing.

Trumps life reads like a Roy Cohn novel. Get in a slimy situation, deny, obfuscate, flood the zone with many explanations, land on the one with the least resistance, delay, find new outrage, repeat process.

05.03.2026 16:13 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Spain's government denies cooperating with US operations in Mideast, contradicting White House Spain’s foreign minister has denied that the government has changed its position on supporting the U.S. military operations against Iran.

Get the feeling we can’t trust anything they say?

05.03.2026 14:58 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Ok, let’s see some I.D.

04.03.2026 16:18 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Trump raises the possibility of a ‘friendly takeover of Cuba’ coming out of talks with Havana President Donald Trump says the United States is talking with Cuba and raised the possibility of a “friendly takeover” of the island without explaining what that means.

Congress? Anytime now…

04.03.2026 14:04 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0