If you follow me, but aren't horrified/angered by Israel's campaign of slaughter and starvation in Gaza and ethnic cleansing in the West Bank, please explain.
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I'm RT-ing my response to someone yesterday.
Our government wasn't like this, even 30 yrs ago.
There's one main reason why it's this way.
It doesn't have to be.
Federally fund campaigns.
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What you're describing is a symptom, rather than a root cause.
An @npratc piece circa 1980 said big business was afraid voters would punish them if they donated too heavy-handedly and appeared to be buying the government they wanted. (Remember that PACs were a new thing.)
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This is playing with fire.
Minks and ferrets have such humanlike lung cells that they’re the standard for testing human flu transmission. (Cows aren’t!)
An H5N1 epidemic raging in a mink farm is basically the plot for Dr. Evil tries to spark a pandemic. Luck isn’t a plan.
Here’s something you should know about minks:
They have lungs and airways remarkably similar on a cellular level to those of people.
They’ve spread flus and infected humans before with COVID-19.
Right now, bird flu is spreading on a Utah farm filled with thousands of them… 🧵
ALT A close-up view of a white mink with red eyes and a pink nose baring its teeth and hissing, emerging from under a dark enclosure.
Our very sane and honorable president.
WARNING: STRONG LANGUAGE
President Trump escalated his invective against Norway, calling it a ‘shit house country’ and saying Norwegian immigrants are not welcome in the United States because the Nobel committee, based in the capital Oslo, has not awarded him a Peace Prize reut.rs/3U1joSt
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Trump has exempted 202 facilities in 39 states and Puerto Rico from clean-air regulations that were going into effect, including some of the worst industrial polluters. About 3.3 million people live near such a facility. @EricLiptonNYT @maxinejoselow nytimes.com/2026/10/24/clima…
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How about we tax the rich and lower the retirement age and pass universal healthcare and make homes and food affordable and end all wars? You know really make America great again.
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A reminder that it is now 311 days since the Epstein Files Transparency Act mandated full release of the Epstein Files—and they are still not released.
Never before in the history of humanity has someone refused to release facts that would exonerate them from credible accusations of rape, sex trafficking, and being a PDFile. Innocent people in power don't hide evidence proving their innocence—but guilty people do.
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Israel is rocked by a deal Netanyahu made with suspected rapist and pedophile Rabbi Yoram Abergil who leads a party he wants to drop out of the elections. In exchange, Abergil will get a deputy minister in the Prime Minister’s Office of his choice and will advance laws that he believes in. At the end of the video, you can hear Netanyahu agree to the terms. Pedophilia is part of the Israeli system.
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One of the most disheartening experiences of the last decade has been witnessing one legacy civil rights group after another debase itself for corporate money, and turn into a front group for corporate policies designed to undermine racial and economic justice.
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60 Minutes obtained the names of 63 people on a deportation flight from Texas to West Africa. Of the 19 people we reached who were sent to Ghana, 17 say Ghana then transported them against their will to their home countries — places U.S. immigration judges had ruled they should not be returned to.
A Department of Homeland Security lawyer told 60 Minutes he was not aware of cases in which Ghana had sent deportees home against their will. He also said he believes third-country removals have prevented crimes and made Americans safer. cbsn.ws/4yNhS4B
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BREAKING: Reports from Israeli media that IDF brass are refusing Netanyahu's order to launch attack on Iran saying there is no "urgent necessity" and concerned it would lead to full-scale war.
timesofisrael.com/in-unprece…
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So much for helping the working class: Trump's tariffs have pushed up the cost of consumer goods by ~2%, or an average of $1,100 this year per household. His war of choice with Iran will add another $1,000 to the average household’s costs by year’s end. trib.al/hAMn2qN
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Early this year, I visited Ingram, a TX town of ~1,900, to check out a tip.
The area was starting to recover from its worst flood in a century.
But as Latino workers drove to jobsites to help rebuild, the tipster said, a cop in a black Dodge Charger kept stopping them ... 🧵
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Zelenskyy: I offered the US three options if they want us to stop hitting Russian refineries:
1. Russia stops attacking our energy.
2. Open Starlink over Russian ballistic missile launch sites.
3. Give us Patriot missiles.
We got none. Instead, Starlink was restricted.
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AI model Claude bypassed a paywall and accessed publicly available US state of Georgia aggregate voter counts without human authorization, Anthropic said in a statement reut.rs/4Aeysvx
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Ken Paxton’s connection to Scott Sherman, who served a federal prison sentence for mortgage fraud, is the second revelation in recent weeks of the attorney general engaging with people who’d been charged with federal crimes.
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